Seven Barnard Women Offered Fulbright Grants
Seven Barnard women--three graduating seniors and four recent alumnae--were offered prestigious Fulbright grants to study abroad during the 2006-2007 academic year. Six accepted the award, and they will be traveling to Austria, China, New Zealand, Italy, Bolivia, and Germany to study everything from medieval manuscripts to contemporary art initiatives and a recent political conflict over water.
The graduating seniors who accepted the award
are Hannah Elmer, a Medieval and Renaissance Studies major
who will study in Austria, and Dana Greenfield, a double major
in anthropology and biology who will study in New Zealand.
Specifically, Elmer will be studying two Middle High German
poems of the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, while also teaching
English at an Austrian school and studying other Middle High
German literature at the University of Vienna. After her Fulbright
year, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Germanic languages and
linguistics. Greenfield will do a comparative socio-cultural
study of intersex infants in New Zealand and the United States.
After her Fulbright year, which will begin in February 2007,
she plans to go on to graduate school in medicine or anthropology.
Among the alumnae winners are Lynn Huang '03, an English major who will do a project on Chinese dance history in Beijing; Sarah Hines '02, a history major who will study the Bolivian water conflict in Cochabamba; and Ellen Fisher '05, a double major in German and political science who will study in Germany.
The Fulbright program was established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress to "increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries." Each year, the program offers grants to U.S. students, teachers, professionals, and scholars to study, teach, lecture, and conduct research in more than 150 countries.
06/08/06
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