Our PhD candidates Oren Okhovat and Catherine Stiefel were awarded CLAS Dissertation Fellowships for this year. Okhovat won the Charles Vincent and Heidi Cole McLaughlin Fellowship to work on his dissertation, which examines seventeenth-century network constructed by the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam to connect their various Dutch Atlantic settlements under the supervision of Prof. Nina Caputo. Stiefel won the Threadgill Dissertation Fellowship to complete her thesis with Prof. Elizabeth Dale.