{"620290":{"#nid":"620290","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mario Bianchini Awarded Fulbright Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/mario-bianchini\u0022\u003EMario Bianchini\u003C\/a\u003E, a doctoral candidate in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of History and Sociology (HSOC)\u003C\/a\u003E, has been awarded a prestigious \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/us.fulbrightonline.org\/\u0022\u003EFulbright Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E to conduct research in Germany on his dissertation entitled \u0026ldquo;Modeling a Technological Future: Culture and Technological Imagination in East Germany, 1945-1990.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe will be affiliated with Germany\u0026rsquo;s leading research center on East Germany, the Potsdam Center for Contemporary Research. Bianchini is the recipient of numerous other awards including a DAAD Fellowship in 2017-18 when he launched research for his dissertation, and a Linda Hall Fellowship in 2019-20.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Mario is a gifted student. Not only is he fluent in German, but he is a fluid writer who has a talent for engaging the reader with his historical imagination while refocusing our view of the history of technology in East Germany by adding a strong cultural dimension,\u0026rdquo; says HSOC Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/macrakis\u0022\u003EKristie Macrakis\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to many presentations at conferences about his work, Bianchini\u0026rsquo;s modified masters paper research \u0026ldquo;Soldiers of Theory: German Economists and the Cold War\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;will be published in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGerman Studies Review\u003C\/em\u003E, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFulbright is the world\u0026rsquo;s largest and most diverse international educational exchange program.\u0026nbsp;Fulbright alumni include 59 Nobel Laureates, 82 Pulitzer Prize winners, 72 MacArthur Fellows, 16 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, and thousands of leaders across the private, public and non-profit sectors. Since its inception in 1946, more than 390,000 \u0026ldquo;Fulbrighters\u0026rdquo; have participated in the Program\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHSOC is a unit of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ethe Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/mario-bianchini\u0022\u003EMario Bianchini\u003C\/a\u003E, a doctoral candidate in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of History and Sociology (HSOC)\u003C\/a\u003E, has been awarded a prestigious \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/us.fulbrightonline.org\/\u0022\u003EFulbright Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E to conduct research in Germany on his dissertation entitled \u0026ldquo;Modeling a Technological Future: Culture and Technological Imagination in East Germany, 1945-1990.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Bianchini is a doctoral candidate in the School of History and Sociology."}],"uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-04-10 17:52:21","changed_gmt":"2019-04-10 20:22:28","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"589762":{"id":"589762","type":"image","title":"Mario Bianchini","body":null,"created":"1491328263","gmt_created":"2017-04-04 17:51:03","changed":"1491328263","gmt_changed":"2017-04-04 17:51:03","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224699","name":"download.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/download_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/download_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14571,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/download_2.jpg?itok=4NzCS0I-"}}},"media_ids":["589762"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"180890","name":"Mario Bianchini"},{"id":"849","name":"Fulbright Fellowship"},{"id":"147521","name":"HSOC"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}