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CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS
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NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
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9 Boren Scholarships 8 Fulbright Scholarships 7 Gilman Scholarships 7 Critical Language Scholarships 4 Teaching Assistantships in France 3 Bridging Japan Scholarships
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Students studied abroad
ASIA The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures partnered with the Kanagawa Prefectural Private Secondary Schools Association in Japan to bring undergraduate students from the University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland, Baltimore to Japan for an internship program. Students served as assistant language teachers, helped coach debate teams and experienced Japanese culture through homestays.
Garrett Yocklin ’19, romance languages and linguistics, studied Persian in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, through a critical language scholarship.
CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA Researchers and students at the Maryland Language Science Center’s field station in Patzún, Guatemala (in background), used their knowledge of local indigenous languages to partner with Wuqu’ Kawoq, a Mayan health care organization, to support the thousands of local people displaced by the Volcán de Fuego’s eruption in June 2018.
AFRICA Ari Rickman ’18, history and government and politics, will spend the year in Maputo, Mozambique, as a Boren Scholar studying Portuguese and electoral reform in emerging democracies.
NORTH AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST Kalyn Cai ’17, American studies, studied Arabic in Ibri, Oman through a critical language scholarship. EUROPE Most U.S. scholarship on the African diaspora relies on primary and secondary sources in English. Supported by a three-year-grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Associate Professor of English Zita Nunes is expanding access to the black press in multiple languages, beginning with a digital, bilingual edition of “Correio de Africa” [The Africa Mail] (shown in background), a Portuguese-language newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal from 1921-1924.
Joshua Klein, a Ph.D. student in history, researched the changing idea of “Europe” in mid-20th century German political culture through a 2017-18 Fulbright for research in Germany.
