Fulbright US Student Program Edition
Andrew Aldercotte is a doctoral candidate in ecology and evolution in the Winfree lab at Rutgers University. His research has focused on the role of plant-insect interactions in shaping forest communities, emphasizing pollination mutualisms and bees. He is particularly interested in understanding the ecology of pollination and pollinators in forests and how they vary across.. Read More.
Austin Kraft is an independent researcher in linguistics, dedicating ten months to research before pursuing an advanced degree in Fall 2023. Austin analyzes how syntax (sentence structure) and semantics (language meaning) vary across languages. He works with community members to document their languages and accounts for underlying patterns, which can help to enrich cross-linguistic syntactic.. Read More.
Laura Brubaker-Wittman is a doctoral candidate in the biological anthropology program at Boston University. Her doctoral research focuses on the human-nonhuman primate interface by using the mixed methodology of ethnoprimatology, incorporating theories and techniques from cultural and biological anthropology. Specifically, her work asks questions about how orangutans and humans interact and co-exist in landscapes shaped.. Read More.
Evan Silver is a multidisciplinary playwright and theatre director from Chicago. As a 2019 Fulbright US Student Researcher, he is spending ten months in Yogyakarta to undertake research on the role of myth in Javanese performance, which will culminate in the development of new theatrical work in collaboration with local artists and practitioners. He is affiliated.. Read More.
Margaret (Maggie) Exton is a 2019 Fulbright US Student Researcher studying the 2018 Sulawesi Tsunami event that struck the city of Palu. Collaborating with Dr. Hamzah Latief at the Institut Teknologi Bandung, she is conducting a case study of the event focusing on the soil instability and scour that occurred as a result of the tsunami… Read More.
Anna Holmquist is a PhD candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. As a 2019-2020 US Student Fulbright Researcher, she is working with Universitas Tadulako and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) on a project titled, “Ancient processes versus environmental change in shaping spider communities of.. Read More.
Under the Fulbright US Student Research Grant, Mackenzie Bowden is spending nine months conducting research titled “Analyzing Rural Utilization Potential of Alternative Feedstocks for Anaerobic Digestion.” During this time, she will collect and analyze social and technical data from sites in West Java, Bali, and West Timor. Prior to the start of her research, Mackenzie.. Read More.
Nick Macalle is a recent graduate of Warren Wilson College, a farm school in Southern Appalachia, where he studied ecological forestry with a focus on agroforestry. As a 2019 Fulbright US Student Researcher, he is collaborating with Dr. Risma Illa Maulany at the University of Hasanuddin in Makassar, South Sulawesi. Their research collaboration addresses the.. Read More.
Colleen Alena O’Brien is a 2019-2020 Fulbright US Student Researcher, working on a project to document, describe and analyze Bahasa Gorontalo, the language of Gorontalo province in Sulawesi, Indonesia. With support from Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, she will record traditional stories, poems, songs, and conversations in the Gorontalo language and analyze the grammatical system. Prior to.. Read More.
Angela (Angie) Achorn is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University. Under her Fulbright US Student Research Grant, she is examining the relationships between scrotal coloration, parasite infections, testosterone, and mating behaviors in crested macaques as per her dissertation project titled, “A Novel Approach to Testing the Hamilton Zuk.. Read More.
