Willem Witteveen Memorial Fellowship 2017 awarded to Rakhshan Rizwan

Rakhshan Rizwan (Comparative Literature) is currently completing a PhD - under supervision of Dr Barnita Bagchi and Prof. Ann Rigney - on Anglophone Kashmiri Bildungsromane at Utrecht University as a form of human rights advocacy.

During the period of the fellowship, Rakhshan Rizwan will continue working on her PhD thesis, while participating in the academic life of both Tilburg Law School and the Tilburg School of Humanities, and deliver a guest lecture.

Willem Witteveen Fellowship

Tilburg University has established the annual Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities in order to commemorate the life and work of Willem Witteveen, who died in the disaster with flight MH17 in Ukraine in July of 2014. The fellowship aims to enable a junior scholar (PhD or postdoc level) to further develop his or her research in the area of ‘Law and Humanities’ during a three-month visit to Tilburg Law School.