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English graduate student wins dissertation fellowship

Kim Compoc, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has been selected to receive the prestigious American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellowship for academic year 2016-17. Founded in 1881, AAUW is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research.

The $20,000 award will go a long way toward assisting Compoc to achieve her academic and professional goals. Her research interests include Filipina-American studies, literature and colonialism, and feminist theory and American empire. Her dissertation title is “(Im)perfect Allies: Decolonizing Hawai’i from a Filipino Perspective.”

Before starting graduate school, Compoc was active in a number of community-based organizations, including Maui Filipino Working Group, Talking Stories and Mediation Services of Maui.

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