Complex sentence: While a student at the University of Chicago, Dunham took leave and went to the Carribean to study dance and ethnography, she later returned to the University to graduate and began pursuit of a PhD in anthropology.
Split into simpler sentences: While a student at the University of Chicago, Dunham took leave and went to the Carribean to study dance and ethnography. She later returned to the university to graduate and began pursuit of a PhD in anthropology.