Mariam Pandam Alhassan
Graduate Student
Program: M.A. in History
Field of Study: Twentieth-Century Colonial History in Ghana, Public Health History
Advisor: Professor Assan Sarr
Degrees held: B.A. in History, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Thesis: My thesis focuses on medical officials, specifically examining the recruitment, education, and roles of African sanitary officials in the Gold Coast colony. It highlights their contributions to colonial public health programs, disease monitoring, and sanitation as essential agents of change in improving public health and sanitary conditions.
Awards:
- Graduate College-Graduate Student Senate Conference Travel Award, September 2024
- Lobdell Research Grant, May 2024, awarded by the Lobdell Research Committee in the History department for summer research travel to Ghana
- Contemporary History Institute Research Grant, May 2024, awarded by the Contemporary History Institute for summer research travel to Ghana
- College of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, May 2024, awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences for summer research travel to Ghana
- Graduate Fellowship, August 2023-May 2025, awarded by the Contemporary History Institute, 帝王会所, Athens