Cornell's 2021-22 Fulbrighters
The Einaudi Center congratulates Cornell's 2021–22 Fulbright winners: four Fulbright Hays doctoral awardees and seven students and recent alumni selected for U.S. Student Program awards.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Program
Four Cornell PhD candidates received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowships. These prestigious awards cover travel, living, and research expenses for six to 12 months for the students and their families. All awardees conduct their research in languages other than English.
Claire Cororaton, History
Phillipines
Dissertation: Emplotting Freedom: Public Property, Agrarian Development, and Self-Determination in the Philippines 1880-1930
Clare Cororaton explores the political and economic history of the Philippines, particularly the intersection and interactions of Spanish and U.S. empires in the Philippines in the late 18th century to early 19th century.
Sudan Kariuki, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Kenya
Dissertation: Deforestation Impacts on Coastal Forest Geochemistry
Sudan Kariuki is an applied biogeochemist. Her research focuses on the ways in which human management and disturbance influence ecosystem function. In particular, she focuses on patterns in plant and soil mediated nutrient cycling.
Ben Mirin, Natural Resources & the Environment
Indonesia
Dissertation: Designing and Piloting Environmental Education Programs About Traded Songbirds in Indonesia
Ben Mirin focuses on songbird competitions, in which birds are trapped and sold to sing for human amusement. His research uses bioacoustic and cultural data to investigate how birds win singing competitions based on human and natural definitions of vocal fitness.
Connor Rechtzigel, Anthropology
Indonesia
Dissertation: Making and Marketing Halal Tourism in Lombok, Indonesia
Connor Rechtzigel’s research explores the different set of actors, mechanisms and motivations in halal tourism development. His research hopes to shed light on the workings of Indonesia’s religious bureaucracy, and contribute to scholarship on the anthropology of religion, religious bureaucracy and statecraft, and social studies of business.
Fulbright U.S. Student Program
Cornell Celebrates Bumper Crop of Fulbright Students (May 2022): Read about Clara Rice's research in Zambia and Amanda Cronin's English teaching in Argentina!
Savanna Lim '21, Urban and Regional Studies
Turkey
English Teaching Assistant Fellowship
Savanna Lim is teaching English in Turkey, one of the few countries where ETAs teach at the university level. She is helping to build up the English Second Language Program at Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University in Alanaya, Antalya.
Clara Rice '21, Health Care Policy
Zambia
Fulbright U.S. Student Research Fellowship
Clara Rice is conducting an independent research project about the impact of COVID-19 and associated changes in supply and aid on the sexual and reproductive health care system. Read about Clara's Fulbright work.
Amanda Cronin '21, Environmental Science
Argentina
English Teaching Assistant Fellowship
Amanda Cronin is teaching English in Argentina. At Cornell, her studies centered on environmental science and social sciences. Read about Amanda's Fulbright work.
Juliana Silva '18, Communications
Taiwan
English Teaching Assistant Fellowship
Juliana Silva is teaching English in Taiwan. She is developing an English language course for two elementary schools.
Additional 2021–22 Awardees
- Daniel Friedman (Austria)
- Kara Guse (Cambodia)
- Priscilla Eiyeon Kim (Netherlands)