Caroline Fish

2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Grantee

Hometown

Tucson, AZ

Major

History

College

College of Liberal Arts

 

Caroline Fish was awarded a 2022 Open Study award by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to conduct independent research in Spain. As part of this illustrious program, Caroline will join a cohort of approximately 2,000 other awardees for the 2022 Academic Year. Operating in over 160 countries, the Fulbright program provides exceptional students with opportunities to teach English, do research, or earn graduate degrees abroad.

As a PhD student in history, Caroline will be conducting archival research in Madrid, Toledo, and Valladolid, where she will investigate the diplomatic activities and roles of the wives of Spanish ambassadors during the seventeenth century. These “ambassadresses” played key but as-of-yet underappreciated roles in international diplomacy at the time, something Caroline seeks to redress with her dissertation, which examines the activity of these women at the royal courts of London, Paris, and Vienna. This will not be Caroline’s first time in Spain. As an undergraduate, she studied abroad in Salamanca, where she honed her language skills as well as her commitment to intercultural exchange, both of which will be key during her Fulbright grant.

After returning from Spain, Caroline will continue to work on her dissertation, a project that she considers having implications for the past as well as the present. In shining light on ambitious and intelligent women on the current margins of history, Caroline seeks to establish her own identity and create room for others—not in the margins, but in the main text of life.