In her dissertation, Contested Borders: German Colonial Discourse and the Case of the Eastern Territories, Kristin Kopp, a Ph.D. candidate in German, develops a model of what she calls “colonial adjacency” to address the complex negotiations of race and space that locate an astounding anxiety at the German/ Polish border. This is to argue that the field of German colonial studies must adjust its conceptual models to include–along with acquisitions in Africa–the Prussian annexation of Polish territories. Kopp returns to Berkeley to take up her Townsend Fellowship after a year of archival research in Germany and Poland.