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Nine current and former Florida State University students have been awarded scholarships through the prestigious Fulbright U.S. student program.
Winners include graduate and undergraduate students and represent a range of majors and research areas. Five will carry out teaching assistantships while the remaining four will conduct research. They will continue that work in: Taiwan, Bulgaria, Scotland, Brazil, Spain and its Canary Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and one student will divide his time between Greece and Trkiye.
Jesse Wieland, associate director of the Office of National Fellowships (ONF) at FSU, said the Fulbright application process is particularly rigorous.
This year\’s Fulbright award winners have spent many months and, in some cases, years developing their research projects and preparing their application materials, he said. These students truly represent academic excellence and what is achievable for FSU students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Wieland added that the hope from her office is that FSU\’s Fulbright winners will inspire other students to dream big and embark on the application process. ONF assistant director Bonnie Garcia-Gloeckner echoed Wieland.
Undergraduates, graduate students and recent graduates interested in applying to the current Fulbright cycle should contact our office now, he said. The first campus deadline is June 7, and we would welcome the opportunity to work with recent students and alumni on their applications.
For more information, visit FSU\’s Office of National Fellowships.
Rachel Harbin Blankenship
Memphis, Tennessee
Master\’s student
Greater: Art therapy
Fulbright type: Fulbright/University of Stirling Award for Health, Welfare and Sport
Destination: Stirling, Scotland, UK
Fulbright job: Sports psychology
Denisha Campbell
Chicago, Illinois
PhD student
Greater: Communication sciences and disorders
Fulbright type: English language teaching assistant
Destination: Uruguay
Fulbright job: Interest in literacy practices
Miguel Gonzalez
Miami, Florida
Elderly
Greater: International business
Fulbright type: English language teaching assistant
Destination: Brazil
Fulbright job: In addition to teaching English, I will create and host multicultural activities on my designated university campus and also work with local LGBT organizations to promote LGBT rights and public health for all.
Arria Hauldin
Cooper City, Florida
Graduated 2020
Greater: Anthropology
Fulbright type: English language teaching assistant
Destination: Uzbekistan
Fulbright job: Teaching English at the university level
Mia Hernández
Miramare, Florida
Graduated in 2022
Greater: Double degree in English and Psychology
Fulbright type: English language teaching assistant
Destination: Canary Islands, Spain
Fulbright job: I will be leading a podcast project to spotlight the diverse refugee aid organizations in the Canary Islands, working to provide visibility and connect locals and non-locals to community resources.
Caitlin Mims
Fort Walton Beach, Florida
PhD student
Greater: Art history
Fulbright type: Greece-Türkiye Joint Research Award
Destination: Greece and Trkiye
Fulbright job: Research Byzantine amulets held in collections in Greece and Trkiye to understand the ways in which amulets slipped between the boundaries of magic and religion.
Rachel Neale
Crystal River, FL
Master\’s student
Greater: Slavic studies
Fulbright type: Research
Destination: Bulgaria
Fulbright job: Study of the Bulgarian language, research into oral-traditional Bulgarian epics to investigate the roles of Slavic women in societies within the Ottoman sphere of influence, translation of Bulgarian epic songs.
Michael Perez
Miami, Florida
Graduated in 2023
Greater: Double major in international business and economics
Fulbright type: English language teaching assistant
Destination: Spain
Fulbright job: Teaching English in a high school and helping with Global Classrooms and Model United Nations.
Tessa Santner
Niceville, Florida
Graduated 2021
Greater: Masters in East Asian Language and Culture, Graduated in 2021
Fulbright type: Master\’s Degree Program Award: National Kaohsiung Normal University
Destination: Taiwan
Fulbright job: Teaching Chinese as a second foreign language
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