Fulbright-Undergraduate Student

CLASS undergraduate Bianca Salinas is one of only 18 students in the U.S. this year to receive a Fulbright U.S. Student Program study/research award, which she will use to complete a master’s degree in translation in Paris, France, starting in the fall 2018 semester. The competitive national fellowship will cover all her expenses during her two years of study at the Sorbonne or Université Paris-Diderot. Read more

Fulbright Recipient- Doctoral Student

Carolann Madden, doctoral student in the Department of English, has been selected for a Fulbright award to Ireland for Fall 2018 to conduct archival research toward the critical portion of the dissertation.

Fulbright Recipient-Faculty

Dr. Paul Guajardo, associate professor in the Department of English, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant for Teaching and Research. Dr. Guajardo, will teach, conduct research in American Literature at the University of Ghana in Accra for the fall 2018 and spring 2019 academic year.

Fulbright Recipient-Faculty

Dr. José Ángel Hernández, associate professor in the Department of History, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant to conduct research, learn Tagalog, and work with scholars at The University of San Carlos in Cebu City, Philippines for his third book "Comparative Colonizations on a Global Scale." This is Professor Hernandez's third Fulbright award.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Recipient of the 2018 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty in Women’s Studies

Dr. Rachel Afi Quinn, assistant professor Comparative Cultural Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies is the recipient of the 2018 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Dr. Quinn will use the year-long fellowship to revise her first book manuscript, Dominican-Dominicana: Visualizing Contemporary Dominican Women’s Lives in Santo Domingo.