Penn’s 2020-2021 Fulbright Award recipients include a total of 16 Penn recent graduates and current students.

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

Fulbright Study/Research Grants:

• Christine Olagun-Samuel (SAS’20) will investigate approaches to mitigate the impact of former apartheid policies on current health inequities in South Africa.
• Stephanie Petrella (SAS’17) will examine the role of the business elite in Ukraine’s economic policymaking.
• Adam Sax (GAS PhD candidate) will work with Professor Vivian Liska at the Institute of Jewish Studies in Antwerp, Belgium, on his research into “the elegiac and the abyssal” in the work of the post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan.
• Raka Sen (GAS PhD candidate) will study how climate change adaptation in the Indian and Bangladeshi Sundarbans is fundamentally reshaping gender roles in the region.
• Adithya Sriram (SEAS/COL’20) will conduct biophysics research in Germany.
• Samuel Tullman (SAS’17) will spend this time in Northeastern Brazil, studying changes in the nervous systems of people taking the psychedelically-active brew of Amazonian traditions known widely as Ayahuasca.

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Grant (ETA):

• Abby Cacho (SAS’17, GSE’20), Malaysia
• Faith Cho (SAS’20), South Korea
• Serena Hajjar (SAS’20), Russia
• Henry Hoffman (SAS’20), Spain
• Natalia Lindsey (SAS’20), Spain
• James Nassur (SAS’19), Jordan
• Ton Nguyen (SAS’20), Indonesia
• Mark Perfect (SAS’18), Germany
• Aiden Reiter (W/SAS’20), Laos
• Arryonna Santos (SAS’20), Brazil