The selection committee for the J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship is pleased to announce that Van Nguyen-Marshall has been awarded the Fellowship for 1998-99. Ms. Nguyen-Marshall is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, where she obtained her MA degree in history. Her field of study is Vietnamese history. Her PhD dissertation "Poverty and Poverty Relief in Northern Vietnam (1883-1945)" will focus on the perceptions of poverty and practices of poverty relief during the period of French colonialism in Vietnam's history. Ms. Nguyen-Marshall hopes to make teaching and researching Southeast Asian history her life's career.

The J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial fellowship was established by CAUT to honour the memory of the first executive secretary of the association.The $5,000 fellowship is available to Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada who are working towards a doctoral degree at a Canadian university.