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“It was the first time I talked about my work to the people I’d written about.”—Bates anthropologist Loring “Danny” Danforth, on the emotional experience of delivering a paper in 2003 to his research subjects: child refugees from the Greek Civil War of the 1940s. Funded by a Bates Phillips Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, Danforth is studying the lifelong identity stamped upon the refugees by a war-torn childhood.