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Fulbright Grants awarded to five Eagles

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Five American University students and alumni have received Fulbright Grants, an extraordinary accomplishment for a school of AU’s size.

Here’s a look at the winners.

• Eve Bratman, doctoral-level student, School of International Service. Bratman will spend an academic year in the Terra do Meio region of Brazil, conducting research on civil society activists with differing agendas.
  
• Samuel Colon, doctoral-level student, College of Arts and Science. Colon will work in Mexico, conducting dissertation field research on fair trade coffee production in the Mixe District of the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca. His project will test one of fair trade’s central premises: the notion that organic, sustainable coffee production improves living conditions and promotes equitable development even for smaller, poorer communities.
  
• Luke Dodds, alumnus (BA), School of International Service and University Honors. Dodds will be a full-time teaching assistant (TA) in a Taiwan elementary or middle school, where he will assist a local English teacher. As a TA, he also will assist local teachers with their understanding of American culture and help with the editing or writing of English teaching materials. Dodds currently studies at Beijing Language and Culture University, where he is taking part in a pilot program to incorporate native English-speaking teachers into the Beijing public school system.
  
• Laura Kurland, master’s degree-level student, School of International Service. Kurland’s research will take her to rural Puno, Peru’s third poorest department, where she will assess the response of indigenous populations to President Alejandro Toledo’s plans to redistribute political and economic power to regional and local levels of government.
  
• Nina Peacock, alumnus (BA), School of International Service and University Honors. Peacock has won a special Fulbright that allows recipients supranational governance within the European Union. Her work will take her to London where she will complete an MSc in European studies at the London School of Economics. While there she will explore the effectiveness of the European Union’s approaches in inducing reforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Peacock is now completing a year in Lille on another nationally competitive fellowship, a French Government Teaching Assistantship in English.