{"id":8049,"date":"2022-02-28T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2022-02-28T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:11:22","slug":"ewu-mcnair-scholar-madelyn-brown-accepted-to-university-of-georgia-phd-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-madelyn-brown-accepted-to-university-of-georgia-phd-program\/","title":{"rendered":"EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown Accepted to University of Georgia PhD Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8050\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/02\/Madelyn-Brown_UGA.jpg\" alt=\"Madelyn Brown accepted by the University of Georgia PhD Program in History\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/02\/Madelyn-Brown_UGA.jpg 750w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/02\/Madelyn-Brown_UGA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/02\/Madelyn-Brown_UGA-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown! <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/cohorts\/20182019cohort\/madelyn-brown\/\">Madelyn<\/a>\u00a0has been accepted to the University of Georgia&#8217;s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences doctoral program in the Department of History. Madelyn was awarded full funding in the form of a Teaching Assistantship, with the\u00a0University committed to renewing this award for a maximum of six years in the doctoral program. Recipients are selected through a competitive process, and assistantships are awarded only to the most qualified individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Madelyn is a scholar of Indigenous History. In EWU\u2019s McNair program, she worked on her 2019 summer research project with Lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/simhaykin-jack-295080158\/\">SimHayKin S. Jack<\/a>, a\u00a0Clinical Cultural Specialist at Colville Confederated Tribes and PhD Candidate at University of California, Davis\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwu.edu\/latino-latin-american\/new-director-llas-dr-christina-torres-garc%C3%ADa\">Dr. Christina Torres Garcia<\/a>, now Assistant Professor and Director of the Latino, Latin American Studies Program at Central Washington University. Madelyn\u2019s research focused on the the historic Eurocentric discrimination against [Indigenous] Traditional Ecological Knowledge and its benefits in forest and wildfire management, proposing that that these care techniques, specifically the acceptance of fire as a viable influence in forest health, should be taken into consideration when utilizing preventative measures against human-caused events. While a student at EWU, Madelyn\u00a0was the recipient of the 2018 Gingolyx Village Government scholarship for academic excellence and a member of both the Native American Student Association and Phi Alpha Theta. Madelyn is currently completing her Masters in History at the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>The EWU McNair staff are delighted to hear about Madelyn\u2019s ongoing achievements and we know she will make an impact in her field. <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/cohorts\/20182019cohort\/madelyn-brown\/\">Click here to read more about Madelyn and her research.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown! Madelyn\u00a0has been accepted to the University of Georgia&#8217;s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences doctoral program in the Department of History. Madelyn was awarded full funding in the form of a Teaching Assistantship, with the\u00a0University committed to renewing this award for a maximum of six years in the &#8230; <a title=\"EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown Accepted to University of Georgia PhD Program\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-madelyn-brown-accepted-to-university-of-georgia-phd-program\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown Accepted to University of Georgia PhD Program\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30010,"featured_media":8050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,448,9,11,19,240,23,28,127,34,340],"tags":[159,177,154,134,176,104,178,458],"class_list":["post-8049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-2019-cohort","category-2021-22-grad-school-acceptances","category-acceptances-awards","category-alumni","category-ewu-mcnair-phds","category-history","category-madelyn-brown","category-news","category-research","category-scholars","category-scholarships","tag-acceptances","tag-dr-christina-garcia-torres","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-history","tag-phd","tag-simhaykin-s-jack","tag-university-of-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8051,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions\/8051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}