Lynton Lees, PhD candidate at Columbia, has been named as of the 2021 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellows. The NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship is awarded to doctoral researchers conducting research into the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. Lynton’s dissertation explores the political history of education, liberal democracy, and citizenship in the late British empire, examining how education across the British world was shaped by a growing sense of democracy’s fragility and contingency in the interwar and postwar period. She will join a cohort of education researchers from a variety of disciplines in a series of fellows’ retreats in Washington DC as she writes her dissertation during the 2021/2022 academic year. For full details about the 2021 Fellows, see the fellowship info here.