"The Franklin Research Grant was crucial in making my research trip to Belgium possible.  Without it, I would never have had the opportunity to expand my research on the mulatto children, and to finish an article (Interracial Unions, Mixed Identities: Mulatto Children in the Belgian Congo, 1890-1960) that is currently being considered for publication."   Dr. Tshimanga-Kashama, a member of the history department at the University of Nevada, Reno, focuses his research on a significant but relatively unstudied aspect of colonial history, that of Afro-European children in the Belgian Congo and their impact on discourses of race, identity, gender, and colonialism.  (Franklin Grant)