{"id":15030,"date":"2018-07-24T00:36:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T00:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/23\/students-receive-fulbright-fellowships-other-awards-for-postgraduate-work-and-study\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:53:08","slug":"students-receive-fulbright-fellowships-other-awards-for-postgraduate-work-and-study","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/23\/students-receive-fulbright-fellowships-other-awards-for-postgraduate-work-and-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Students receive Fulbright fellowships, other awards for postgraduate work and study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><body><\/p>\n<p>Three Clark University doctoral candidates and two recent graduates received prestigious fellowships from the <a href=\"https:\/\/us.fulbrightonline.org\/about\/history\">Fulbright U.S. Student Program<\/a> and other programs to fund their postgraduate research, teaching,&nbsp;and study abroad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4700\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018-janae-davis_-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"2018-janae-davis_-3\" width=\"267\" height=\"178\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janae Davis, doctoral candidate in geography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;At Clark we have a long-standing success in receiving Fulbright fellowships and other competitive awards. It reflects our tremendous strengths in graduate and undergraduate education, and the quality of students who come to Clark,&rdquo; said Yuko Aoyama, associate provost and dean of research and graduate studies. &ldquo;It makes me exceedingly proud to have these students who seek out international experiences.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Janae Davis&nbsp;and Benjamin Fash, both doctoral candidates in <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/graduate\/prospective-students\/\">geography<\/a>, and Hasnaa Mokhtar, a doctoral candidate in international development and social change (a self-designed program), received Fulbright research awards.&nbsp;The Fulbright Program aims to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4701\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018-ben-fash-fulbright-1.jpg\" alt=\"2018-ben-fash-fulbright\" width=\"218\" height=\"273\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin Fash, doctoral candidate in geography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Davis&rsquo; Fulbright award funds research for her dissertation that&nbsp;examines the racialized division of labor associated with Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) that&nbsp;promote ecotourism in the southern Kalahari Desert of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Fash&rsquo;s Fulbright award funds his dissertation research in western Honduras, where he will work with the Environmentalist Coalition of Cop&aacute;n and use video to research community economies experimenting with alternatives to the prevailing development model. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsfgrfp.org\/\">National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship<\/a> will fund his research, dissertation writing, and film editing for six months after his Fulbright funding expires.<\/p>\n<p>Mokhtar received a Fulbright award to fund her research in Kuwait City with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abolish153.org\/\">Abolish Article 153<\/a>, a movement to abolish an archaic colonial law that sanctions violence against women. Mokhtar will also provide resources and support for women survivors of violence. Committed to social justice and women&rsquo;s issues, Mokhtar has published about injustices facing Saudi women; she was named one of &ldquo;8 Muslim Journalists to Follow&rdquo; by the online magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nylon.com\/\">Nylon.com<\/a>&nbsp;for her article published on <a href=\"http:\/\/muslimgirl.com\/\">MuslimGirl.com<\/a>&nbsp;after the November 2015 Paris terror attacks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4702\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4702 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018-hasnaa-mokhtar-3-300x200-2.jpg\" alt=\"2018-hasnaa-mokhtar-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hasnaa Mokhtar, doctoral candidate in international development and social change<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two recent graduates have received funding for postgraduate study.<\/p>\n<p>Nik Wagner &#8217;18, who majored in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/major-or-minor-economics\">economics<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/minor-in-german-studies\">German studies<\/a>&nbsp;(self-designed),&nbsp;has been awarded a U.S. Teaching Assistantship in Austria for the 2018-19 academic year; the assistantship is&nbsp;coordinated by the Fulbright Program. Wagner will teach business and science to students in Perg, Upper Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Anika Kreckel &#8217;18, who majored in economics,&nbsp;has&nbsp;been awarded a DAAD Study Scholarship to pursue a&nbsp;master&#8217;s degree in Germany. She will attend Leipzig University this fall to study sustainable development. The DAAD is the German Academic Exchange Service.<\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Clark University doctoral candidates and two recent graduates received prestigious fellowships from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and other programs to fund their postgraduate research, teaching,&nbsp;and study abroad. &ldquo;At Clark we have a long-standing success in receiving Fulbright fellowships and other competitive awards. 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