Penn Fulbrighters for 2019-20

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COL '19
Avon Lake, OH

Fjora Arapi will use her Fulbright Award to conduct research in Albania in the Fall of 2019. Fjora is majoring in international relations and Modern Middle East Studies. She has been involved with the International Affairs Association and the United Nations Model United Nations Conference during her time at Penn and is currently a member of Penn Hype Dance Crew. Arapi was also a 2018 recipient of the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Arabic as a part of her studies on the Middle East. Arapi plans to pursue a law degree in immigration or human rights law and engage in immigrant advocacy in the future.

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LPS '15
Pittsburgh, PA

Anna Carapellotti will begin her Fulbright Research in the Netherlands in September 2019. Anna graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science with a neuroscience concentration. Prior to studying at Penn, Anna was a professional ballet dancer. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast as a Thouron Scholar, and her research is focused on evaluating dance-based interventions for people with Parkinson’s disease. During her Fulbright year in the Netherlands, Anna will explore the lived experience of dancing with Parkinson’s through a range of qualitative methods under the supervision of prof. dr. Tineke Abma at Amsterdam UMC, VU University Medical Centre.

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SAS '19
Buffalo, NY

As a Fulbright Researcher in Ukraine, Wilson Fisher will study photography made in the wake of the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution. He will do so in association with a mix of public and private universities and institutions, including Mystetskyi Arsenal, IZOLYATSIA, and the Zenko Foundation. Wilson will graduate this year with majors in History of Art and Economics.  Throughout his time at Penn, he has committed himself to reportage and community building. He has done so as Founding Editor of Mugshot, Founder and Lead Photographer of 33 to 40, as a Senior Photographer at the Daily Pennsylvanian, and as a Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships-supported Independent Researcher of Scandinavian New Media. He currently serves as Chair of the Professional Development and Outreach Committee on the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Student Advisory Board, a Research Peer Advisor at the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, and as Coordinator of Refrigerator Residency, a postcard exchange and curatorial platform sponsored by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.Upon returning to the U.S., he plans to continue working with and for contemporary artists.

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SAS/GAS '19
Manlius, NY

Tiberiu Mihaila will use his Fulbright Award to conduct research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Berlin, Germany, where he will be using and developing optical nanoscopy methods to answer fundamental questions about protein aggregation. Tiberu is a senior in the Vagelos Molecular Life Sciences Program who loves discovering the intricate mechanisms that make life work (or fail). His favorite thing is spending time in the Petersson lab in the Department of Chemistry and the Lee lab at the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research where he is working on a couple projects in order to help understand aberrant protein folding in neurodegenerative diseases. He is also a huge fan of bread, coffee, and pastries as well as of politics and of intense conversation. Upon returning to the U.S., he will continue doing what he loves, as he will begin an MD/PhD program.

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GAS
Yorba Linda, CA

Bryan Norton will be a visiting researcher in the German department at Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Bryan is a PhD student in the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at UPenn. His research analyzes intersections between philosophy, literature, media studies, and the history of science and technology. Before coming to Penn, Norton studied Philosophy and English at California State University, Fullerton, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2014. In 2015-2016, Norton held a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) graduate fellowship at the Universität zu Köln.

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GAS
Philadelphia, PA

Helen Stuhr-Rommereim has been awarded a Fulbright to conduct archival research in Russia, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, on the personal documentary materials of the authors central to her project in the 2019-2020 academic year. Helen is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature & Literary Theory Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Helen's dissertation focuses on Nikolai Chernyshevsky and the literary raznochintsy in the context of realist prose under Alexander II. Her project investigates both the social history of raznochintsy literary authors - a new contingent on the cultural scene in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the 1860s - and the unique modes of realist representation their works manifest.

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Wharton '19
Fremont, CA

Savi Joshi will begin a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia in September 2019. Savi Joshi is passionate about building inclusive communities and making education accessible. Through her studies in Wharton and work at the Wharton Small Business Development Center, she is understanding the fundamental drivers of successful organizations and startups to relay those skills back to the field of education. Prior to her work in Malaysia, Savi will be teaching sixth grade Math and Literature back home in the Bay Area. In Malaysia, Savi will teach English and dance to secondary school students and hopes to work with Malaysian nonprofits that support female entrepreneurs and after-school education for young refugees.

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SAS '18
Marlton, NJ

Aharon Lahijani will begin his Fulbright ETA fellowship in Brazil in September 2019. Aharon graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2018 with a B.A. in International Relations and a minor in Middle Eastern Studies. For three years, Aharon has worked as a researcher and project lead at the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program where he studied the impact of political, social, and economic trends on civil societies in the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America. His main areas of interest are the impact of civil society development on public corruption and the relationship between water scarcity and conflict. In 2018, Aharon was awarded a Kathryn Davis Peace Fellowship to study Portuguese at Middlebury College.

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SAS '19
International Falls, MN

Candace Morff will begin her Fulbright ETA fellowship in Germany in September 2019. After spending a semester abroad at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2018, she is excited to see another side of German culture as an English teaching assistant in rural Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . At Penn, Candace has held a variety of teaching and mentoring positions, including being a mentor in the Riepe Mentors Residential Program, a peer mentor at PENNCAP, and a fellow in the Moelis Access Science program at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. She is also an active member of the University of Pennsylvania Band, and served as low brass section leader.