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Philip Kaisary, an Assistant Professor at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV Law School, has received a to enable him to research at Vanderbilt University on one of the most prestigious and selective scholarship programmes operating worldwide.

As a participant, Philip Kaisary has been selected to carry out his research project on the Haitian slave revolution of 1791–1804 and the interpretative archive it generated in the antebellum United States. Philip’s project will aim to provide a more complete critical picture of how constitutionalism, nationality, and citizenship figured in the jigsaw puzzle of Haitian, American, and Atlantic politics in this period, exploring how the birth of the world’s first black republic generated an enduring ideological inheritance and blazed a radical trail long into the 19th century Atlantic world.

Commenting on receiving the award, Philip said:

I am delighted to have been selected as a 2015–16 Fulbright Scholar. I am thoroughly looking forward to working alongside and learning from Vanderbilt’s wonderful legal and cultural historians of the Atlantic world. I feel incredibly fortunate to have been offered this opportunity to develop as a researcher and a writer while I learn more about the way in which the story of Haitian independence impacted upon the discourses of free black men and women in the 19^th century United States. And, of course, I am also looking forward to a year in Nashville!”