Seven students and alumni from the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) are among ten award recipients from Syracuse University through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The program funds a range of awards that include English teaching assistantships (ETA) and study/research grants in over 140 countries. All of this year’s Syracuse recipients received teaching assistantships.

2023 A&S recipients:

Sarah Bennett ’20, G’22, a philosophy and psychology alumna in A&S and master’s of social work alumna in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, will teach English at a Polish university and plans to support refugee aid initiatives. She also plans to work with creative writing communities.

Laura Bueno ’22, a modern foreign languages alumna, will teach in Germany.

Nish Chowdhury, a senior international relations and anthropology major in A&S | Maxwell, will teach in Spain.

Sarah Dolbier ’22, a German language, literatures and cultures alumna in A&S, sociology alumna in A&S | Maxwell, citizenship and civic engagement alumna in Maxwell, and former member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, will teach in Germany.

Alyeska Reimer, a senior Spanish language, literature and cultures major in A&S and theater management major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will travel to Mexico to teach English and engage in a supplementary volunteer project involving theater. She hopes to volunteer with a branch of Microteatro, which she has been researching with Gail Bulman, associate professor of languages, literatures and linguistics in A&S and a Fulbright Global Scholar.

Camran Shealy, a senior political science major in A&S | Maxwell and public relations major in the Newhouse School, will teach at the American Space in Valencia, Spain.

Kimberly Stuart G’23, a graduate student in creative writing in A&S, will teach English language at a secondary school in the Czech Republic for the 2023-24 school year.

Students interested in applying to the Fulbright program should contact the Center for Fellowship and Scholarship Advising at 315.443.2759 or cfsa@syr.edu.

Interested students should open an application on the Fulbright portal by June 1. The campus deadline for the 2023-24 application cycle is Sept. 12.

Read more about this year’s recipients in the SU News article written by Kelly Rodoski.