- Royce Fellowship
Caitlin
Whelan
Concentration
Anthropology
Award Year
2006
The Music Narratives Project: Exploring the Social Context and Meaning of Merasi Folk Music
Faculty Sponsor: Lina Fruzzetti
Caitlin co-founded the Merasi School with a community of marginalized lower caste musicians in northwestern India. As part of their awareness raising efforts, Whelan also co-directed a tour of adult Merasi musicians here in the US.
Caitie works in the US House of Representatives with a portfolio that includes foreign affairs and development aid. Whelan’s Royce Fellowship helped her to develop a powerful guiding compass that gives her a clearer sense of what she wants to do with her - as Mary Oliver would say - 'one wild and precious life.'