Penn’s Class of 2018 includes 19 Fulbright Award recipients: 17 undergraduates, two graduate students and seven PhD candidates.

The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Penn’s applicants are supported by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF).

Study/Research Grants:

Kevin Berry, a PhD candidate in architectural history in the School of Design, will conduct research in Germany.

Petra Creamer, a PhD candidate in art and archaeology of the Mediterranean world, will pursue research in Germany.

Lacy Feigh, a PhD candidate in history, will conduct research in Ethiopia.

Alisa Feldman, SAS’18, will be conducting an ethnographic study on in vitro fertilization and infertility in Israel.

Amber Henry, a PhD student in anthropology and Africana studies, will conduct her research in Colombia.

Ari Lewis, SAS’18, will be pursuing her master’s degree in international film business at the University of Exeter and the London Film School.

Brian J. Liu, SAS’18, will research China’s soft power campaign in Africa.

Meghana Nallajerla, SAS’18, will conduct research on intergenerational trauma among Tamil families who survived civil war in Sri Lanka.

Kristina Nielsen, a PhD candidate in anthropology, will pursue research in India.

Kristen Pearson, SAS’18, will analyze archaeological textiles in Mongolia from an anthropological perspective, using macro- and microscopic textile evidence to better understand the society and ecology of mobile pastoralists in ancient Inner Asia.

Sara Ray, a PhD candidate in history and the sociology of science, will conduct her research in the Netherlands.

Kate Sohn, SAS’18, will travel to South Korea to conduct research on understanding the diverse experiences of Korean breast-cancer survivors as they make the transition from patient to survivor.

Drew Starling, SAS’13 and a PhD candidate in history, will conduct research in France.

Sharonya Vadakattu, SAS’18, WH’18, will analyze a home-visitation pilot program in São Paulo that seeks to improve child neurodevelopment and holistic maternal-child health.

Christopher Yao, SAS’17, will earn a master’s degree from Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and will study epidemiology and etiology of cleft lip and palate birth defects in China.

English Teaching Assistant Grants and the countries to which they are headed:

Joshua Jordan, SAS’18—India

Jodi Marcus, SAS’18—India

Amanda Nart, SAS’18—Colombia

Farah Otero-Amad, SAS’18—Argentina

Haley Rugh, SAS’18—Germany

Reece Sisto, SAS’18—Colombia

Julia Slater, SAS’17, GSE’18—Mexico

Karis Stephen, SAS’18—Malaysia

Sarah Tang, SAS’18—Malaysia

David Thai, SAS’18—Vietnam

Shirin Vetry, SAS’18—Colombia