Alexia Huffman
Krista Sande-Kerback
Christopher McMullen-Laird
Ariel Stern-Markovitz
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This fall, four students who couldn't be more different will all be heading
to the same place: Germany. Dartmouth '05s Ariel Stern-Markovitz, Christopher
McMullen-Laird, Alexia Huffman and Krista Sande-Kerback have each received
either a Fulbright
Scholarship or its German equivalent, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauch Dienst (DAAD),
which will support them in a year of study in their field at a German
university.
Well-known in American academic circles, the Fulbright Scholarship relies on
a combination of funding from the U.S. State Department and foreign governments
to support American scholars abroad. For Fulbright applicants who intend to
study in Germany, there is also the opportunity to apply for a DAAD, which
provides the same funding as a Fulbright but is funded exclusively by the
German government. Of the four Dartmouth students who will study in Germany
next year, Sande-Kerback and Huffman received Fulbrights, McMullen-Laird
received a DAAD and Stern-Markovitz was awarded both a Fulbright and a DAAD,
although she will be accepting only the DAAD.
Stern-Markovitz, an economics major from Cleveland, Oh., will spend her time
in Germany researching public health, financial indicators and the effect of
reunification on the former East Germany. She is interested primarily in the
effect of macroeconomic shocks and is completing her thesis on macroeconomic
shocks to the U.S. economy in the early 1980s. When not focusing on economics,
Stern-Markovitz captains the college's figure skating team, the 2005
Intercollegiate Team Champions.
McMullen-Laird has an unconventional story. Growing up, he and his family
traveled all over the world, leaving him without an obvious hometown. At
Dartmouth, his passion for opera and conducting prompted him to apply to be a
Senior Fellow. Instead of taking classes or choosing a major, he conducted
(literally) his own project on the last year of Mozart's life, including
hiring, conducting and recording performances of Mozart's final works. In
Germany, he will expand his work on Mozart at the Franz Liszt Academy
in Weimar into a study of Mozart and his contemporary, fellow composer Johann
Adolf Hasse.
Huffman, a German
Studies major from Santa Cruz, Ca., is interested in German history.
Specifically, she will spend her year abroad comparing the American
approach to reeducating German World War II POWs to the British approach. The
daughter of a German immigrant, Huffman says her family connection first drew
her to German history. She plans to enter a Ph.D. program in history at Georgetown University upon her return
from Germany.
Sande-Kerback, a geography
major from Chatham, N.J., received a teaching Fulbright which means that her
time in Hamburg will be split between teaching English to high school students
and conducting her own research on Turkish immigration and identity in Germany.
Sande-Kerback is also minoring in German and is a self-designed minor in gender
and public policies. Following her year in Hamburg, she plans to accept a
deferred position with Opera Solutions, a consulting firm in New York.
By GENEVIEVE HAAS
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