Destination: Spain (Take Two)

In addition to the grant funded by the Junta de Andalucía, I received notice a few weeks back that I won Florida State University’s International Semester Dissertation Research Fellowship (ISDRF) for the spring 2011 and summer 2011 semesters. Needless to say, I’m quite excited about the research possibilities in Spain. My vision and hard work have been, in a way, legitimized by winning this award. While it feels good, I am not unaware that hard work is at hand. I’ll need to rummage through the annals of eighteenth-century Spain and piece the data together. Ultimately, the final product will be the measure of success.