Grants and Scholarships
EUWC Memorial Graduate Research Fellowship
Hayley C. Roy
Hayley C. Roy is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of History. Her research interests include the history of imperialism and colonialism, especially in the German context, and healthcare history, particularly the history of nursing. Roy’s dissertation, “Wild Sisters: Volunteer Nurses in German Overseas Colonies (1884-1914),” focuses on women from Germany who traveled to newly German colonies in Africa and the Pacific to pursue nursing work at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the three decades of the study, nursing in the colonies transformed from a missionary-adjacent religious calling to a specialized occupational field primarily for unmarried women. Due in part to the relatively short tenure of German overseas colonialism, nursing theory and practice created through the colonial encounter reverberated into the metropole. The project argues that the particular needs of the colonial healthcare landscape therefore set the course for nurse training as we recognize it at present. It thereby elucidates the intersection of imperialism, healthcare, and women’s labor opportunities around 1900.
Roy’s research has been supported by multiple grants and fellowships, including a research stay at the Free University of Berlin for the 2024-2025 academic year funded by the German-American Fulbright Commission. Her doctoral project has received recognition and support through the Central European History Society, the American Association for the History of Nursing, the Cushwa Centre of the University of Notre Dame, the DAAD Alumni Association, the Laney Graduate School, and the Emory University Department of History. During the fall of 2026, she held the inaugural visiting doctoral fellowship at the University of Muenster’s Centre for Empire Studies. For the 2026-2027 academic year she is a Dissertation Completion Fellow at Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
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EUWC Rollins School of Public Health Scholarship
Doussou Toure
Doussou Toure is an MPH candidate at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health in the Department of Global Health, with a certificate in maternal and child health. She focuses her research and work on implementation science, policy, and community-centered interventions based in maternal and child health nationally and globally. Her work and research center on the various intersections within the field, including identity, institutions, policy, and culture, and how these factors impact access to and the quality of care. Her goal is to complete her doctorate and enter the maternal and child health leadership space as an implementation scientist.
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EUWC Arts Scholarship
Carmen Weishan Herold
Carmen Weishan Herold (she/her), an Atlanta native, is a senior double majoring in Film and Media and English & Creative Writing. Her work as a filmmaker explores character-driven stories that highlight self-discovery and freedom of expression. During her time at Emory, she has developed experience across multiple areas of film production, including directing, script supervision, and assistant camera positions, contributing to a variety of student and independent film projects. Two of which screened publicly for Atlanta Film Society's The 100 Feet of Film Project and Atlanta Shortsfest. Her academic interests include film history, race and gender within media, queerness, and fandom studies. Her most current project, BloomRiot, is a coming-of-age honors thesis short film about four Black teenage girls who form a punk rock band in Atlanta. Through her work, she seeks to center underrepresented narratives and their intersections in alternative identities through music and film.