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Eight members of the Class of 2007 and five alumni have received Fulbright and Deutscher Adadmischer Austach Dient (DAAD)
awards to pursue advanced studies.
Fulbright and DAAD winners, from left: Samuel Lipkin '07, Celia Kujala '07,
Katherine Amato '07, William Stork '07 (DAAD), Ezra Tzfadya '07, and Nadia
Khamis '07. Not pictured are Hans Stege '07 and Benjamin Taylor '07. (Photo by
Sarah Memmi)
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Fulbright Scholars
Katherine Amato, a biology major, will travel to southeastern Mexico
to study the role of howler monkeys in rainforest dynamics, and how that role
is affected by forest degradation due to human activity. She plans to compare
monkey foraging behavior across two sites, Los Tuxtlas Biological Station and
Palenque National Park, and hopes her findings will help develop improved
conservation strategies within local communities.
Nadia Khamis, a French studies and history double major,
will take graduate classes at Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, focusing
on issues relating to migration, particularly those facing immigrant women from
the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia). She will also volunteer with the
nongovernmental organization, Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores nor
Submissive), which works within Maghreb communities to improve the situation of
women through educational programs and in community centers that support and
strengthen Maghreb women who face rising violence, Islamic fundamentalism, and
gender discrimination.
Celia Kujala, an economics major, will go to Helsinki,
Finland, to study the effect of education on health outcomes, using the
"two-tracked" (academic and vocational) schooling system as the basis for her
study. Kujala will also study economics and Finnish at the University of
Helsinki and will continue her figure skating—she is a member of Dartmouth's
national champion figure skating team—during the long Finnish winter.
Samuel Lipkin, a psychology major planning a career in
education, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach
at a high school in Indonesia. Lipkin will examine how Islam interacts with
traditional Indonesian beliefs.
Hans Stege, a Russian major and government minor, will go
to Ukraine to pursue a comparative politics study of the Ukrainian version of
semi-presidentialism in the wake of the 2005 Orange Revolution.
Benjamin Taylor, a history major with a minor in
philosophy, will study social philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Universität in Frankfurt, Germany. Specifically, he will examine the
intersection of new communications technology, advertising, and a social theory
based on free discourse and consensus, under the mentorship of Axel Honneth,
current director of the university's Institut für Sozialforschung.
Ezra Tzfadya, who is completing a double major in Arabic
and Islamic studies and German studies with a minor in Jewish studies, will go
to the Free University of Berlin, where he will take advanced seminars in
Arabic literature and intellectual history, and beginning Farsi. He will
complete an independent project that examines how pre-World War II
German-Jewish intellectuals perceived Jewish-Islamic assimilation in Medieval
Spain, and undertake a part-time foreign policy internship.
DAAD Recipients
William Stork, a double major in biology and history, will
work at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, in the
lab of Ian Baldwin '80. Stork's project will use a wild tobacco plant,
Nicotiana attenuata, and its larval herbivore predator, the tobacco hornworm or
Manduca sexta, to study the genetic nature of plant chemical defenses.
Five Dartmouth alumni have won Fulbright and DAAD awards: Anne
Bellows '06 will travel to Mali on a Fulbright to pursue her research
in political science; Erin Claire Cage '05 will use her
Fulbright in France to study 18th-century French cultural history;
Theresa Hughes ’04 has been granted a DAAD scholarship to
study in Germany; Brett Martin '04 will go to Italy on a
Fulbright to study the effects of globalization on the Italian textile and
fashion industries; and Jesse Sweet '98 has been awarded a
Fulbright to undertake a film project in India.
The Fulbright program provides funding that allows students, faculty, and
other professionals to pursue research and study around the world. Established
in 1946 by the U.S. Congress to promote mutual understanding between the people
of the United States and the people of other countries, the Foundation receives
its funding through the U.S. State Department and from participating
governments and host institutions in foreign countries.
Students who intend to study at German universities can apply for a DAAD
scholarship, which provides the same funding as a Fulbright but is supported
exclusively by the German government.
By REBECCA BAILEY
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