<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/issues/smithsonian-fellowship-supports-book-project.html" dsn="news"><item_date>09/24/2010 12:00:00 AM</item_date><category_header/><title>Smithsonian fellowship supports book project</title><subheader/><description/><author/><photographer> </photographer><image><img src="" width="900" height="676" alt=""/></image><taxonomy-story-type/><taxonomy-cultural-story-category/><taxonomy-news-sections/><taxonomy-college-department>College of Health and Public Service</taxonomy-college-department><taxonomy-tags/><type>story</type><categories/><relationships/><main-content>
    
    
    Jennifer Way, associate professor of art history, received a Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Fellow award at the Smithsonian American Art Museum to support research for her book project, Politics of the Handmade: The Significance of Southeast Asian Handicraft for America, ca. 1955-1961.
One of 18 new fellows, she is researching the political and cultural significance of making and circulating handicrafts as part of U.S.-Vietnam relations from the time the French left Vietnam to the start of the war.
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