Grants and Scholarships

Fulbright U.S. Student Program

The Ohio State University graduate students who received Fulbright U.S. Student Program funding to conduct research or teach English in other countries.


Ellen Danford (master's student, Environmental Sciences Graduate Program), the Chile Science Initiative Research Award in Chile for “Establishing the Codling Moth Parasitoid, Mastrus Ridens, with the Help of Native Plants.”

Hayley Dunlop (medical student, College of Medicine, a Fulbright research grant to study “Where Values Meet Practice: Abortion Attitudes and Training in Spanish Medical Education” in Spain.

Karis Neufeld (PhD student, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences), a Fulbright research award to examine “Ethnicity and Nationalism in Cameroon.”

Nancy Pellegrino (master's student, Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Graduate Program), English Teaching Assistantship, Romania

Justin Salgado (PhD student, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences), the Fulbright-Garcia Robles All Disciplines Research Award, Mexico to study “AIDS on the Margins: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in El Paso and Cd. Juárez, 1987-2000.”

Selina Vickery (medical student, College of Medicine), Fulbright Queen Mary University of London Award, United Kingdom.


Natalie Romeri-Lewis (PhD student, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences), for “Participatory, Representative, Impactful Truth-Seeking: Colombia, a Model for the World?” Research, Colombia.

Craig Shapiro (PhD student, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences), for “ Cultivating Resilience: How Ancient Agricultural Systems Sustain an Island” Research, Samoa.


Timothy Clott (PhD student, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences), for "Inclusive Language Policy and Identity in Morocco" Research, Morocco

Emily Hardick (PhD student, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences), for "Speciation to Animation: State-Sponsored Performance and National Culture in Congo" Research, Belgium

Aaron Skinner (Master's student, School of Environment and Natural Resources, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences), for "To Move or Not to Move? Silvopasture’s Role in Facilitating Natal and Breeding Dispersal" Research, Colombia

Jasmine Stork (PhD student, Department of Comparative Studies, College of Arts and Sciences), English Teaching Assistantship, Poland


William Balla-Johnson (PhD student, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences), for "TO BE or not to BE: The Sociolinguistics of the Disappearing Catalan Perfect Auxiliary" Research, Spain


Kasi Burnett (PhD student, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, College of Arts and Sciences), for "Differently-Abled Natures: “Ability” in German Literature and Culture 1900’s-Present " Research, Germany

Mark Kolat (PhD student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences), English Teaching Assistantship, Peru


Jonathan Capps (Master's student, Department of Art, College of Arts and Sciences), for "Articulating Finnish Glass Culture through Collaborative Art and Design" Research, Finland

Christopher Kinley (PhD student, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences), for "Under Their Watchful Eyes: The Experience and Commemoration of War in Epirus, 1912-1921" Research, Greece

Megan Lobert (Master's student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences), English Teaching Assistantship, Spain

Joshua Truett (PhD student, Department of Theatre, Film and Media Arts, College of Arts and Sciences), for "Muxes, Velas and Zapotec Style: Festival Performance and Indigenous Counterpublics" Research, Mexico


Katherine Fitzgerald (PhD student, Department of Comparative Studies, College of Arts and Sciences), for "Tradition-Bearing Mothers: Women as Propagators of Culture in Rural Qinghai" Research, China

Rahwa Hassen (Master's student, College of Public Health), for "Mental Illness, Culture, and Service Utilization in Ethiopia" Research, Ethiopia

Marisa Lally (Master's student, Department of Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology), English Teaching Assistantship, Colombia

Kelly Yotebieng (PhD student, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences), for "Enduring Hardship: An ethnography of resilience among refugees in Yaoundé" Research, Cameroon