Gerda Henkel Fellowship awarded to Birkbeck doctoral student at Museum of the Great War in France
Ken Daimaru, a doctoral student in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology has been awarded a Gerda Henkel Fellowship at the International Center for Research of the Historial de la Grande Guerre (Museum of the Great War, 1914-1918) in Peronne, France for 2014-15. Ken is supervised by Prof Naoko Shimazu at Birkbeck and Prof Annette Becker under a special arrangement made by the cotutelle agreement between Birkbeck and Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre. His topic is ‘The Japanese Medical Corps and International Observers at the Russo-Japanese War: Perception and Representation of the Injured and the Sick from the War and their After, 1904-1914’. This is a prestigious international fellowship awarded to doctoral students working on the First World War or a subject directly related to the conflict.