Alumnus John Garratt to study in Berlin on DAAD grant

John Garratt '09, a history major and German studies minor, has been accepted by the German Academic Exchange Serivce (DAAD) to study in Germany on a long-term graduate research fellowship.

John Garratt '09
Garratt will work  for an academic year with historian Sebastian Conrad at the Free University of Berlin, who specializes in transnational history.

Garratt is enrolled in the doctoral program at George Washington University. In 2011, he conducted archival research in the Bundesarchiv-Lichterfelde in Berlin, investigating Protestant-Catholic tensions in the German colony of Togoland in the early 1900s.