Devin Grammon

Devin Grammon, a doctoral student from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, received the prestigious 2015-2016 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Grammon will travel to Cusco January – December 2016 to research "Intercultural competence: Dialect Features and Global Education" in Cusco, Peru. He will be affiliated with Centro Tinku, a cultural center and language school, and the National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot. During his year of ethnographic fieldwork in Cusco, Grammon will be a participant observer among students, instructors and others in volunteering and service-learning endeavors that are combined with foreign language study. He will investigate how participants’ use of languages and local dialect features relate to social relationships and participants’ beliefs about how language relates to their social worlds.

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program provides opportunities for doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States.


The Office of International Affairs administers the Fulbright-Hays program for Ohio State. Grant competitions are held annually. Doctoral candidates interested in applying for the award should contact Fulbright-Hays program director Joanna Kukielka-Blaser.