Eight UO students given Fulbright awards

This group represents the largest number of UO recipients in 15 years

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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Heidi Hiaasen, media relations coordinator, heidih@uoregon.edu, 541-346-3606

Source: Kathy Poole, UO Fulbright Program adviser, 541-346-1212, kpoole@uoregon.edu

Links: Fulbright U.S. Student Program: www.us.fulbrightonline.org

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