Four international research projects – ranging from Bangladesh to Chile, Brazil and South Africa – will be supported by U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship awards to Cornell via the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

The students and their research topics are: Mariana Giusti, political science, “Failure to Represent - Social Networks and Party Building in the Andes”; Kasia Paprocki, development sociology, “Big Shrimp, Rising Waters - Development, Dispossession and Resistance in Bangladesh”; Catherine Reyes-Housholder, political science, “Presidentas and Women's Representation in Brazil and Chile”; and Brian Rutledge, African history, “Black Sightseers and Print Media in Urban South Africa.”

The Fulbright-Hays program provides grants to colleges and universities for dissertation research on modern languages, area studies and development-related topics. The program is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents who plan to pursue a teaching career.

Said Gilbert Levine, advisor to the Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays programs at Cornell and a professor emeritus of biological and environmental engineering: “We are very proud of these talented students and the fact that the caliber of Cornell graduate students is such that we consistently rank among the top 10 U.S. universities in the number of Fulbright-Hays DDRA awards we receive. This year, Cornell is receiving the fourth-highest fellowship amount.”