EUGENE,
Ore. -- (July 7, 2009) -- Eight University of Oregon students have received
U.S. Student Program Fulbright awards for international study or research
during the 2009-10 academic year. This is the largest number of UO student
Fulbright recipients in the last 15 years. A total of 185 UO students have
received the award.
The
recipients are Amanda Cornwall, Beth Dehn, Jill Jakimetz, Andrew King, Thomas
Nail, Ingrid Nelson, Jan Verberkmoes and Jordan Wooley.
Andrew King, a doctoral candidate in the
department of history received an award for his project, "Cultures of Wolf
Hunting and Environmental Thought in Early Modern Saxony." King will conduct
research in the archives of Sachsiche Hauptstaatsarchiv in Dresden, Germany and
will work with faculty from the Technische Universitat Dresden starting this
September.
Thomas Nail, a philosophy doctoral
candidate, was awarded a Fulbright to conduct research in Montréal and Toronto
as a visiting scholar at the Center of Excellence for Research on Immigration
and Settlement (CERIS). Drawing on the political philosophy of French
philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, his research will focus on the
political organization and theoretical innovations of Canada's diverse and
burgeoning immigrant rights movement.
Ingrid Nelson's grant will support her
doctoral dissertation research in geography. Her project, "Gender Equity
and Rural Sustainable Development in Zambezia, Mozambique," examines a
groundbreaking new family law passed in 2004, which may significantly shift
land and natural resource tenure access and ownership for rural men and women
in Mozambique. Nelson will spend 10 months in Maputo and Quelimane, completing
the majority of her research in rural communities.
Beth Dehn, a recent master's graduate of
the UO's interdisciplinary folklore program, received an English Teaching
Assistant Fulbright award to teach in Uruguay. She will spend eight months in
Montevideo and will also complete an internship at a museum.
Recent
UO graduates, Jordan Wooley and Jan Verberkmoes, also received English Teaching Assistant awards. Wooley
received a bachelor's degree in German and business administration and Verberkmoes
received a bachelor's in German and English. Both will spend next year in
Germany.
Amanda Cornwall received an English Teaching
Assistant grant for Hungary but declined the award.
For
more than 60 years, Fulbright student grants have aimed to increase mutual
understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchange, while
serving as a catalyst for long-term leadership development. Fulbright full
grants generally provide funding for round-trip travel, maintenance for one
academic year, health and accident coverage, and full or partial tuition.
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