Roberta Meloni
Title: Ph.D. Candidate
Email: rmeloni@ksu.edu
Affiliation: Kansas State University
Brief Description
Roberta Meloni is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Kansas State University. She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 2019 to conduct her Ph.D. in the United States. Since then, Roberta has expanded her research interests specializing in American-East Asian relations, the history of technology, and radio studies. She has been awarded the Shirley A. Martin Scholarship, the Cora Stewart Wilcoxon Graduate Fellowship, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Research Grant to carry out her research in the United States. Her dissertation examines the interplay between radio and U.S. foreign policy in American-East Asian relations during the Cold War.
Area of interests: American-East Asian relations; History of Technology; Radio Studies