Elizabeth Dyer was awarded the Bernadotte Schmitt Research Grant from the American Historical Association and a New Media Grant from Penn. The AHA funds are supporting a visit to London and Oxford to research film and theatre in colonial Kenya; the Penn funds are to enable Elizabeth to work in Nairobi to recover film and video coverage of historic dramatic performances, and to convert them to digital formats for viewing and preservation. All this in connection with her dissertation, "Play on Words: Masked Politics and Misdirection in the History of Kenyan Theatre, 1940-1992."
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