Patrice M. Dabrowski is an independent scholar of history who earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1999. During her six-month fellowship (October 2008–March 2009), Dabrowski will work on the topic “Discovering the Carpathians: Episodes in Imagining and Reshaping Alpine Borderland Regions.” The project is a study of transnational history that combines tourism and preservationism, geography and ethnography, politics and culture. Dabrowski will examine the “discovery” of three distinct regions of the Carpathian mountains (including territories found in present-day Poland and Ukraine) over the last two centuries, and the concomitant development of tourism in these multiethnic yet “backward” borderland alpine territories.