Six University students have been given a passport to study in a foreign country next year — courtesy of Fulbright.
Seniors Johnna Brazier, Karen Emmerich, Seth Katz, Alex Klipper, Ben Runkle and Joyce Tsai have been awarded grants that will cover the cost of a year's study and research abroad, according to Associate Dean of the College Nancy Kanach.
Emmerich, a comparative literature major, will pursue a master's degree in modern Greek literature at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. Though the Fulbright fellowship provides funding for only one year, Emmerich said she plans to continue her study for a second year. She said she is interested primarily in contemporary female writers and the politics of feminist writing.
Emmerich said that while she was surprised to receive the grant, she had been planning to study in Greece regardless of the success of her Fulbright application. "It's great to know that I have funding, but it was something that I had planned on doing anyway," she said.
Runkle, an environmental engineering major, said he felt honored and excited to receive the grant, which he will use to research water resources in Mauritius, an island off the coast of Madagascar.
He said his interest in Mauritius was piqued by his experience in South Africa, where he studied at the University of Cape Town during the fall of his junior year. "I talked to people who were from [Mauritius], and they recommended the island as a really interesting place," he said.
Runkle, who plans to study water resources in graduate school, said he applied for the Fulbright because he wanted to return to Africa and was looking for a way to do a one-year program before getting a job or starting graduate school. "It was a way to get back to the same region without doing the same thing," he said.
Tsai, who will be studying art theory and history at the Hochschule der Kunste school of art in Berlin, said she was surprised and overjoyed to receive the award. "I'm still kind of in the disbelief mode," she said.
A history major, Tsai will spend her time in Germany examining the relationship between art and politics in 1920s Berlin.
Tsai said studying abroad in Berlin during the spring of her junior year was a major factor in her decision to apply for the Fulbright in Germany. "I fell in love with the city, and I wanted to get back there," she said. "It was a godsend to get the funding for it."
Katz, who applied to study in Spain, does not yet know in what city he will be studying. "For my proposal, I wanted to be in Madrid, but they haven't gotten back to me," he said.
He added, however, he was pleased just to receive a grant. "You always need a little bit of luck for anything special like that," he said. "Really, wherever they put me will be just fine."
A politics major, Katz will study the way fascism affected the working class in the 10-year period after the Spanish Civil War. Katz said his work will involve interviewing people who lived under fascism.
"The best way to learn about what it was like to live under a political regime is to talk to people who lived through it," he said.
Klipper will be studying in the Netherlands, while Brazier will spend her year in China.
Fulbright grants for study in Central and South America have not yet been awarded, Kanach said.
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