Post-graduate student receives $25,000 fellowship to "up tha punx" in Europe

Noah Eber-Schmid, a graduate of Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., recently received a $25,000 Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study punk culture in Europe. He will spend a year visiting various countries; interviewing punks and studying European punk ideology, for a project titled "The Kids Are Alright? Punk Subcultures as Community and Movement".

During my Fellowship year I will study punk subcultures throughout Scandinavia, Central Europe, and Western Europe, focusing on aspects of philosophy, community, and music. I will endeavor to understand how punk has developed as a movement of community, the culture of punk, and the role punk has played on local, national, and international levels across Europe. I will immerse myself in the world's largest and most active punk scenes, to learn the philosophies of ethics, identity, and belief that bind punk and punks together into a community and movement beyond music.

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