Students accept 24 Fulbrights and 4 Fulbright-Hays grants for 2003-04

Twenty-four government-funded Fulbright grants for research or study abroad and four Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation research fellowships abroad for 2003-04 have been awarded to, and accepted by, Cornell students.

The Fulbright U.S. student program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and administered through the Institute of International Education. The Fulbright-Hays program is administered by the U.S. Department of Education.

The Cornell students who have received and accepted Fulbright grants for 2003-04 -- followed by class year or degree program, academic major or area of interest, project title and country of study -- are as follows:

Christopher Angevine, B.A. '03, economic development, "The Dolphin Project and Its Politicoeconomic Effects on the Countries of the Arabian Gulf," Qatar.

Jessica Bauman, B.A. '03, German studies, "German-Jewish Memories of Education, 1890-1933, and Supplemental Coursework," Germany.

Sergio Chavez, doctoral candidate, sociology, "The (Legal) Border Worker: The Making of a (Trans)national Citizen on the U.S.-Mexican Boundary," Mexico.

Steven Culman, M.S. candidate, agriculture, "Effects of Solarization on Fungal and Nematode Communities in Nepal," Nepal.

Virginia Doellgast, doctoral candidate, business management, "Changing Human Resource Practices in Call Center Cities: A Comparative Study of the U.S. and Germany," Germany.

Michael Garcia, M.A. candidate, English, "American Literature in Indonesia," Indonesia.

Kelvin Gorospe, B.S. '03, medical sciences, "Infectious Disease Treatments Used by the Dumagat People of the Philippines," Philippines.

Brandon Jackson, B.A. '03, teaching assistant, "Teaching English as a Foreign Language," South Korea.

David Kim, B.A.'03, piano, "Music in Berlin," Germany.

Daniel Lebbin, doctoral candidate, ecology, "Structure and Conservation of Peruvian Bird Communities," Peru.

Jonathan Manders, J.D. candidate, German and European law, M.LL.P. degree from Humboldt-Universitaet, Germany.

Margaret Marczewski, B.S. '03, modern history, "Polish Memory of Zegota," Poland.

Aaron Moore, doctoral candidate, East Asian/Australian history, "Ideologies of Cooperativism and Imperial Modernity in Japan, 1937-1945," Japan.

Michelle Moyd, doctoral candidate, African history, "The Making of a Military Culture: Hybridity and Community in Askari Communities of German East Africa," Tanzania.

Teresa Park, M.Ph. candidate, anthropology, "Possibilities at the Haja Center: Youth Culture and Education in South Korea," South Korea.

Philip Sapirstein, doctoral candidate, archaeology, "Manufacture of the First Roof Tiles in Archaic Greece," Greece.

Carol Schwendener, M.S. '03, agriculture, "Access to Markets by Small-Scale Agroforestry Producers near Manaus, Brazil," Brazil.

Casey Servais, M.A. '03, doctoral candidate, Germanic languages and literature, "Natural Law and National Socialism," Germany.

Amanda Snellinger, M.A. candidate, anthropology, "Nepali Civic Identity: Formal and Hidden Curricula in Education," Nepal.

Alicia Swords, doctoral candidate, sociology, "Learning with a Social Movement Network in Southern Mexico: Sharing Development Alternatives," Mexico.

Alison Tumilowicz, doctoral candidate, public health, "Growth Differentials in Guatemala: Unpacking the Significance of Ethnicity," Guatemala.

Jesse Veverka, graduate student, engineering, "Multiple Robot Control," South Korea.

Duane Wardally, M.A. candidate, public administration, "Swiss Immigration Policy and New Foreign Sources of Labor," Switzerland.

Carla Winston, B.A. '03, international relations, "The Interaction of Security and Human Rights in Conflict Situations," Switzerland.

The Cornell doctoral students who have received and accepted Fulbright-Hays grants for 2003-04 -- along with graduate field, project title and country of study -- are:

Matthew Ferchen, government, "Informality and Urban Governance: The Transformation of State-Society Relations in Contemporary China," People's Republic of China. Ferchen also was awarded a Fulbright grant in 2003-04 but chose to accept the Fulbright-Hays grant instead.

Tyrell Haberkorn, anthropology, "Interrogating the Spaces of Knowing: Challenges to the Thai State Since October 1973," Thailand.

Doreen Lee, anthropology, "The Politics of Representation: A Comparative Study of the Reformasi Movements in Indonesia and Malaysia," Indonesia.

Anastasia K. Riehl, linguistics, "Prenasalized Consonants in Austronesian Languages," Indonesia and Vanuatu.

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