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FELLOWSHIPS RECORD 2006 - 2007
As of June 13, 2007

FULBRIGHT SUCCESS RATE

30 APPLICANTS
19 FINALISTS = 63% of Applicants (~2 out of 3)
14 FELLOWS = 47% of Applicants (~1 in 2)

or 74% of Finalists
+ 3 FRENCH GOV. TEACHING FELLOWS
Nationally, 23% of Applicants (5,641) were selected as Fellows (1,322) or about 1 in 4, which means the Smith success rate is more than double the national average.

SUMMARY

63 FELLOWSHIP HONORS

6 Blumberg Traveling Fellows

2 Boren Scholars

2 Critical Language Enhancement Awards (CLEA)

2 Critical Language Undergraduate Scholars

2 DAAD Fellows

DAAD Undergraduate Scholar

2 École Normale Superiéure Fellows

Freeman Asia Fellow

3 French Government Teaching Fellows

14 Fulbright Fellows

2 Goldwater Scholars 

Insight Collaborative Fellow

Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Scholar

Killam Fellow

11 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar

Wollitzer Scholar

3 Fulbright Alternates

Beinecke Finalist

2 Fulbright Finalists

3 Calkins Awards

FELLOWS

6 Blumberg Traveling Fellows

Florence Mentor Frederica Anichini
Erin Giffin 08
Zoe Mindell 08

Geneva Mentor Jonathan Gosnell
Min Ji Kim 08
Hilary Wolfendale 08

Hamburg Mentor Joseph McVeigh
Lili Mundle 08

Paris Mentor Helene Visentin
Nancy Dunn AC

2 Boren Scholars
Junior Year Abroad

Adrienne Lee 09, Russia
Mentor: Katherine Halvorsen
Recommenders: David Cohen, Joanne Corbin, Catherine Woronzoff-Dashkoff

Amy Zeng 09, China
Mentor: Howard Gold
Recommenders: Steven Goldstein, Gregory White, Ling Zhao

2 Critical Language Enhancement Awards (CLEA)
U.S. Department of State Program

Azmi Ahmad 07, Arabic, Cairo, Egypt

Adrienne Lee 09, Russian, St. Petersburg, Russia

Mentor: Catherine Woronzoff-Dashkoff

2 Critical Language Undergraduate Scholars
U.S. Department of State Program

Alyson Faller 09, Russian, St. Petersburg, Russia

Mentor: Catherine Woronzoff-Dashkoff

Elizabeth Guthrie 09, Arabic, Tunis, Tunisia

2 DAAD Fellows
To Germany
Mentor: Judith Keyler-Mayer

MacKenzie Brigham 07
Recommenders: Daniel Horowitz, Kevin Rosario

Keara Harman 07
Recommenders: Gertraud Gutzmann, Jocelyne Kolb

DAAD Undergraduate Scholar

Lyudmyla Kovalenko 09

Mentor: Stefan Bodnarenko

Recommender: Jocelyne Kolb

2 École Normale Superiéure Fellows
Premiere French university, in Paris

Mentor: Ann Leone

Consultant: Martine Gantrel-Ford

Sarah-Neel Smith 07
Magdalena Zopf  07

Freeman Asia Fellow
Tran Vo 08, Japan, $5000

3 French Government Teaching Fellows

Mentor: Nicolas Russell

Sara Conneighton 07, Versailles

Allison Schein 07, Versailles

Mentor: Janie Vanpee

Katarina Baker 05, Paris

14 Fulbright Fellows
8 seniors, 6 alumnae

Azmi Ahmad 07
Egypt, International Relations
“Egyptian International Trade Relations with the United States and China”
Mentor: Gregory White
Recommender: Gregory White

Krystal Banzon 07
Philippines, Theater Studies
“Postcolonial Filipino Theater as a Space for Transnational Understanding”
Mentor: Ellen Kaplan
Recommender: Ellen Kaplan

Aria Cabot 06
Italy, Teaching English
“English Teaching Assistantship and Literary Research and After-School Program Volunteer”
Mentor: Giovanna Bellesia
Recommenders: Federica Anichini, Giovanna Bellesia

Hannah Clancy 06

Germany, Teaching English
Mentor: Gertraud Gutzmann
Recommenders: Jane Bryden, Gertraud Gutzmann, Ruth Solie
Consultant: Jocelyne Kolb

Julie Goshe 07
Taiwan, Teaching English
Mentor: Suzanne Zhang-Gottschang
Recommenders: Benita Jackson, Peter Pufall
Consultants: Susan Etheredge, Lucy Mule

Josine Greenblatt 07
Germany, History
“Meridian Circle Astronomy: Hamburg Observatory’s Connection to Global Navigation”
Mentor: Joel Westerdale
Recommenders: James Lowenthal, Joseph McVeigh
Consultants: Suzan Edwards, Jocelyne Kolb, James Lowenthal, Joseph McVeigh

Rebecca Heeb 07
Korea, Teaching English
Mentor: Floyd Cheung
Recommenders: Deirdre Sabina Knight, Ling Zhao
Consultants: Jennifer Jung-Kim, Suk Massey, Suzanne Zhang-Gottschang

Catherine Housholder 07
Uruguay, Teaching English
“Teaching as Means to Understand Uruguay”
Mentor: Marina Kaplan
Recommenders: Ginetta Candelario, Velma Garcia, Ann Zulawski
Consultants: Velma Garcia, Ann Zulawski

Kathleen Klaus 07
Malawi, Political Science
“The Consequences of Casual Labor on Food Security”
Mentor: Elliot Fratkin
Recommenders: David Newbury, Gregory White
Consultants: Catharine Newbury, David Newbury, Gregory White

Michaela LeBlanc 07
Germany, Teaching English
Mentor: Joel Westerdale
Recommenders: Ernest Benz, Howard Gold, Alice Hearst
Consultants: Ernest Benz, Howard Gold, Gertraud Gutzmann, Alice Hearst, Judith Keyler-Mayer

Kristen Sobeck 06
Switzerland, Economics
“Educational Choices of Swiss Women”
Mentor: Janie Vanpee
Recommenders: Robert Buchele, Sam Intrator
Consultants: Rick Fantasia, Christiane Metral, Ardith Spence

Sebrina Somers 99
China, Public Health
“Environmental Health of Ethnic Minority Homes in Yunnan Province”
Mentor: Steven Goldstein
Recommender: Steven Goldstein

Briana St. John 06
Germany, Teaching English
Mentor: Gertraud Gutzmann
Recommenders: Susan Etheredge, Gertraud Gutzmann, Alan Rudnitsky
Consultants: Jocelyne Kolb, Alan Rudnitsky

Samantha Wiratunga 03
Kenya, Ethnomusicology
“Refugee Revival Through Music”
Mentor: Donald Andrew

2 Goldwater Scholars 

Merilie Reynolds 08
Ph.D. in Geology. Water resources.

Maya Wei-Haas 09
Ph.D. in Geochemistry. Anthropogenic impact on ground water chemistry and biogeochemical cycles.

Insight Collaborative Fellow
Eve de la Mothe Karoubi 06
Study and promote conflict management theory and skills. Make humanitarian contributions locally and internationally. Engage in self-development. $25,000

Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Scholar

Lara Miller AC'09

Killam Fellow
to Canada
Ariela House 09
Université de Montréal
Mentor: Ernest Benz
Recommender: Gregory White

11 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows
Advisor: Randy Bartlett

Monica Harris AC
Donielle Hatcher 09
Wendy Roman 09
Maya Wei-Haas 09
Emily Yen 09

Amanda Boone 08
Lizmarie Lopez 08
Elan McCollum 08
Malaika Smith-Lowe 08
Jocelyn Thomas 08
Ebonie Tillmon 08

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar
Elenore Liana Snow, School for Social Work master’s candidate
($26,000) Studying Human Rights in Africa at Makerere University, Uganda, 2007-08. Will be trying also to connect with child soldiers and volunteer with an NGO.

Wollitzer Scholar
Sandy Yu 08
Council on International Educational Exchange Peter Wollitzer Scholarship for Study in Asia, at the CIEE Siem Reap Summer Program.

ALTERNATES
Short Listed

3 Fulbright Alternates

MacKenzie Brigham 07
Germany, Cultural and Intellectual History
“German Mail Art Practices from 1975-1990”
Mentor: Joel Westerdale
Recommenders: Daniel Horowitz, Kevin Rosario
Consultants: Daniel Horowitz, Judith Keyler-Mayer,

Kristen Nelson 07
Mali, Sociology
“Metis Status Before and After Independence”
Mentor: Nancy Whittier
Recommenders: Ginetta Candelario, Susan Van Dyne, Nancy Whittier
Consultants: Elliot Fratkin, Gregory White, Vanessa Adel

Gwendolyn Rayner 06
Netherlands, Art and Architectural History
“Woman Painters and Printmakers of the Golden Age”
Mentor: Dwight Pogue
Recommenders: Barbara Kellum, Dwight Pogue, Marilyn Rhie
Consultant: Henk van Os

FINALISTS 

Beinecke Finalist
Laila Plamondon 08
Mentor: Justina Gregory
Recommenders: Jane Bryden, Bill Peterson, Jill de Villiers

2 Fulbright Finalists

Monet Brewerton 07
Turkey, Teaching English
Mentor: Sharon Seelig
Recommenders: Justin Cammy, Floyd Cheung, Donna Divine
Consultants: Floyd Cheung, Donna Divine, Suleiman Mourad

Astrid Larson 03
Italy, Communications
“The New Multicultural Voice: Immigrant Journalism in Italy”
Mentor: Giovanna Bellesia
Recommenders: Giovanna Bellesia, Nalini Bhushan

AWARDS 

3 Calkins Awards

Mentor: Helene Visentin
Nicole Costa 08, France
Jennifer Daley 08, France

Mentor: Frederica Anichini
Aliyah Shanti 08, Italy

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