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FLAS Fellowships
Every year the Center awards between eight and twelve Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships (FLAS) to UW undergraduate,
graduate, and professional students whose studies have a transnational and/or comparative focus. Typically, CGS receives between
90-125 applications from students for these coveted fellowships. We are proud to share with you selected reports from the 2009-10
academic year fellows.
2009-10 Academic Year FLAS Fellows report on their year of study
I am a PhD candidate in the department of English
Language and Literature. My dissertation will be a
comparative study of film, fiction, and poetry, and
draw from American, Russian, and Western and
Eastern European works. With the FLAS for Russian
this academic year (2009-2010), I was able to focus
on the Russian language (greatly facilitating my
reading ability), and broaden my exposure to Russian literature and
film. In addition, I had the chance to work with professors outside of
my department; contact with those working in a different field enriched
my approach to scholarship, and will hopefully prove very generative in
terms of thinking about my topics and texts.
Nicole Burgund – English, Russian
With a partial year FLAS I was able to enhance my advanced Arabic
skills. I use Arabic in my clinical research on public health issues in
Kuwait.
Charles Cange – Interdisciplinary Studies, Arabic
As a doctoral student of Middle Eastern studies, I
have been fortunate to have received the support
of a Hebrew FLAS fellowship to help me advance
my language skills for widening the scope of
my research. I currently research the system of
multicultural education in Israel to understand the
challenges, complexities, and potentialities of this
type of education to Arab and Jewish students, with particular focus on
history curriculum. To have a strong grasp of Hebrew is crucial for me
news and notes
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
MASTER OF ARTS
Gunnar Abramson, Brittany Beaulieu, Ming-Chun Chen, Catherine G. Claiborn,
Cameron Clark, Kiera R. Clarke, Jacob K. Faleschini, Mary E. Hawkins, Angela
Halonen-Webb, Ahmet A. Karagulle, Jae Hee Lee, Gan-Yin Liu, Yaya Ly, Ariel E.
Macpherson, Baron Mbala Nsenda, Erin K. McCoy, Gabriela Michan Rodriguez,
Erin T. Murphy, Meng-huai Peng, Jenna Serghini, Shane Updike, Linda Uyeda,
Todd Williams
BACHELOR OF ARTS
China
Stephanie Marie Persson, Timothy Mkay Quijano, Nathan Westley Snyder
Communications
Alyssa Michelle Goldberg, Daphne Hui-Hua Hazlehurst, Tiffany Lynne Martin,
Kaitlyn Alexandra Sweeting
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to understand historical narratives and textbooks. Both the year and
summer fellowships are pushing me toward a higher fluency level that is
extremely valuable for my research to be as strong and comprehensive
as possible.
Deena Faruki – Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew
As a student at the Jackson School of International Studies and Evans
School of Public Affairs, my academic focus is the history and cultural
policy of the Balkans region, specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH),
Croatia, Serbia, and Macedonia. In particular, I am
exploring the evolution of public museums and
monuments in the former Yugoslavia, and how,
through the commemoration of historical events,
these become powerful actors in presenting a
political point of view that resists hegemony and
asserts new national traditions in nascent postsocialist
states. Thanks to the FLAS fellowship from the Global Studies
center, I was able to dedicate 2010-11 to studying Bosnian/Croatian/
Serbian and build on that knowledge over this past summer while
studying in Serbia. The FLAS experience has enabled me to reach a
language proficiency level appropriate to review pertinent literature and
news sources. Without this proficiency and knowledge of the region’s
cultural context, my comparative research goals would be impossible to
reach.
Sofia E. Harwell – International Studies and Public Affairs, Bosnian/
Croatian/Serbian
CONGRATULATIONS 2009-2010 GRADUATES!
Development
Aftin Ali Abdi, Catherine Rose Bugayong (Honors), Taryn Elizabeth Elledge,
Damara Anne Hadzariga, Gelsey Colin Hughes, Aubrey Ann Jenkins, Rosa
Aiyana Louise Lehman, Samson Xiaoxi Lim, Jose Maria Lozano, Isar Dorothy
Mahanian, Alison Maureen O’Leary, Clare Frances Ortblad, Meleah Lani Paull,
Rachel Anne Proefke (Honors), Matthew Alan Reed (Honors), Brian Andrew
Steyer, Jamie Marié Stroble, Charity Rose Thielen, Aaron Tilley, Eli Wallace
Williams, Zakaria Omar Yousuf
East Asia
Callista Aileen Bevans, James Michael Connelly, Tamara Lilinoe Patton, Justin
David Rohrer
Environmental Studies
Ariel Ann Deardorff, Justin Thomas Henning, Sophie Ann Kimura,
Brent David Waller