Graduate students win Fulbright-Hays fellowships

Chicago students continue to garner record-breaking numbers of Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowships, which the U.S. Department of Education awards annually. For the 20th consecutive year, Chicago students have won more Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowships than any other U.S. educational institution. This year, 18 of 32 Chicago applicants have received fellowships as of this printing. Last year, 28 of 42 students received the fellowships, and in 2004, 23 of 34 students were recipients of the awards.

The dissertation fellowships are for study in non-Western countries and cover periods of six to 12 months. The following students, who are 2006 fellowship recipients, are named with their areas of study and the countries to which they will travel to conduct their research.

Mary Andronis, Linguistics, Ecuador
Betsey Brada, Anthropology, Botswana
Lara Braff, Anthropology, Mexico
Erik Brodnax, Anthropology, Senegal
Grace Chae, History, Korea
Kris Ercums, Art History, China
Peter Graif, Anthropology, Nepal
Richard Grainer, History, Czech Republic
Azande Mangeango, Anthropology, Sudan, Uganda, England
Sarah Osten, History, Mexico
Gustavo Rivera, Anthropology, Brazil
Rachel Rossner, Art History, Croatia, Montenegro, France
Tien-Ann Shih, Anthropology, Peru, Spain
Benjamin Smith, Human Development, Bolivia
Mamiko Suzuki, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Japan
Peggy Wang, Art History, China
Rihan Yeh, Anthropology, Mexico
Julia Young, History, Mexico