MS SC599

Commends Reginald "Reggie" Patterson of Louisville, Mississippi as the only American student awarded a 2013-2014 French Graduate Writing Fellowship from the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.

Patterson is a Romance Studies doctoral student at Duke University and Oberlin College undergraduate, becoming the first to receive this fellowship in that field (previous winners primarily studied Anthropology and Archaeology).

Fellowship provides monthly stipend and office space at the museum for dissertation completion from October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014, with return to Duke for doctorate degree conferral on May 11, 2014.

Patterson is an accomplished violinist and violist who plans to perform violin concertos and research 18th-century Afro-French composer Boulogne Chevalier De Saint Georges at the museum.

Resolution directs the concurrent resolution be presented to Patterson and made available to the Capitol Press Corps.