Watson Fellowships (40)
2023 –
Adaja Cooper
Power, Preservation, and
Activism in Art
The United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, Senegal
2022 –
Ilana Svartz
Compulsory Voting and the
Culture of Civic Engagement
Australia, Singapore, Luxembourg, Bolivia
2021 –
Savannah Wiegel
Healing Words: Building
Community Health through Narrative Medicine
Ireland, Switzerland, Japan, Guatemala,
Argentina
2020- Claire Fleming
Enhanced Livelihood: Seeking International Workplace Practice
Uganda, Kenya, India, and Colombia
2020- Mackenzie Gearin
From Persecution to Refuge: Grassroots Peacebuilding in Displacement
Colombia, Kenya, Uganda, and Sri Lanka
2019 - Allison Monroe
Building Agency through Bioliteracy: Modern Insect Conservation
Madagascar, South Africa, and Costa Rica
2016 – Jessa Thurman
From Extermination to Appreciation: Ethnoentomology and
Connecting to the World through Insects.
Australia, Thailand, Brazil, Peru, and the United Kingdom
2015 – Audrey Morrow
Coast-to-coast In Search of Equity
Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Guatamala
2014 – Alison Harrington
Partnering with Fungi to Improve the Human Landscape through Transformative Decomposition
Thailand, Cambodia, South Africa, Namibia, Ecuador, Costa Rica
2014 – McKenna Raney
Uncovering Emotional Connections in Human-Equine Partnerships
Argentina, France, Iceland, Ireland, South Africa, Kyrgyzstan, Australia
2013 – Maia Yang
Sharing in their Stories: Microfinance from the Female Perspective
Bangladesh, Vietnam, Rwanda, Peru
2012 – Wyatt (Dillon) Blankenship
A Detour by Way of the Beehive: Traditional Apiculture in a Changing World
United Kingdom, Tanzania, Egypt, India, Russia
2012 – Laura Podd
Extraordinary Bodies: Perceptions of Disability in the Developing World
Romania, Thailand, El Salvador
2010 – Nathan Thomas
Educational Prosperity: Cultural Education in Four Metropolitan Schools
India, South Africa, Australia, Finland
2009 – Trenton (T.C.) Elliott
Beliefs and Biomedicine: Investigating Culture and Health in the Tropics
Brazil, Vietnam, Tanzania
2009 – Benjamin Lownik
A Revolutionary Vehicle: How Bicycles Transform Lives Throughout the World
Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom, France, Germany, South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, China, Hungary
2007 – Sabrinah (Ariane) Christie
Female Beauty and Body Alteration
Jamaica, China, England, Mexico
2006 – Tori Sutherland
A Study of Women's Health Care in Four Developing Nations
El Salvador, India, Botswana, Senegal
2004 – Sarah Jacobson
Heritage Management and the Search for National and Ethnic Identity
England, Spain, Mexico, Peru, the Ukraine
2002 – Elizabeth “Liza” Mueller
When Development Reaches the Beach: Sea Turtles and Ecotourism
Brazil, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Seychelles, Greece, Mexico
2001 – Kendall Collier
The Unlikely Leader: Leadership Styles of Empowered Women
Argentina, South Africa, India, Nepal, Vanuatu
2001 – David Scott Cunningham
The Acadian Legacy: Exploring the State of Modern Descendents of the Acadians
Canada, France, St. Dominigue, Martinique, Falkland Islands
2001 – Katy Montgomery
Spirituality and Sustainability in Ecovillages Around the World
Australia, India, Italy, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark
2000 – David Doyle
Dance as Expression & Therapy
United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Japan
1998 – Karen Steelman
A Study of Conservation and Museum Display
United Kingdom, Australia, Chile and Costa Rica
1997 – Sarah King
An Exploration of Quilting and Quilting Societies
Western Europe, Australia and Japan
1996 – Misty Leigh Williams (awarded but not pursued)
Treating Cancer and Its Victims
Australia, Great Britain, Thailand, India
1994 – Gustavo H. Zajac
The New Europe: Impact on Jewish Communities
Western Europe, Russia, Israel, Hungary
1993 – Wendy R. Anderson
Empowering the Female Voice
Palestine, Russia, China
1992 – John A. “Jay” Ball
Socialism with a Human Face: Political Cultures in Transition
Tanzania, Czechoslovakia
1992 – Dabney D. Hailey
Effects of Major Political Shifts on Public Art
Spain, Germany, Poland, Russia
1991 – Bruce W. Martin
Changes in the Society and Landscape of England from Thomas Hardy to the Twentieth Century
Great Britain
1991 – Julie A. Nolte Owen
Religious Phenomena and Marian Pilgrimages
Yugoslavia, France, Ireland, Egypt
1990 – Tim McKenna
Environmental Problems and Policies
New Zealand
1990 – Anna Cheiron Barnes
Strategies for Women’s Development
Kenya, Liberia, Jamaica
1989 – Jaleh Mansouri
Archaeological Excavations of Roman Ruins
England, West Germany, France, Italy
1988 – Daniel Harton Spatz, Jr.
A Documentary Study of Cultural Change
Zaire, India
1987 – Annette M. Stroud
Study of Islamic Culture
Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Pakistan, Malaysia
1986 – Amy E. Raymond
Prehistoric Gynocentric Religious Images
Greece, England, Turkey, Crete
1985 – George F. Sawaya
Studying Tropical Diseases
United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, West Africa
Fulbright Scholarships (39)
2021 – Elizabeth
Jones, Study/Research Grant to the UK (History/Holocaust Studies)
2017 –
Jessa Thurman, Study/Research Grant to Australia (Agriculture)
2016 –
Megan Hull, ETA to Germany
2016 – Justin
Murdock, ETA to Uruguay
2016 –
Grace Oxley, ETA to India
2016 –
Rachel Zweig, Study/Research Grant to Spain (Chemistry)
2014 –
Sara Hales, ETA to Italy
2014 –
Nicholas Drake, Study/Research Grant to China (History; declined)
2013 –
Anna Broadwell-Gulde, ETA to Brazil
2013 –
Josephine Reece, ETA to South Korea
2012 –
Dan Gibbens-Rickman, ETA to Austria
2012 –
Elizabeth Pond, ETA to South Africa
2012 –
Morgan Shelburne, ETA to Indonesia
2011 –
Jayce Hafner, Study/Research Grant to Trinidad and Tobago (Interdisciplinary
Studies)
2011 –
Lana Allen, ETA to Malaysia (declined)
2011 –
Gina Gordon, ETA to South Korea
2011 –
Dietlinde Heilmayr, ETA to Austria
2011 –
Colleen Mayo, ETA to South Korea
2011 –
Tyler Schroeder, ETA to Germany
2010 –
Blake Smith, Study/Research Grant to France (History)
2010 –
Lauren Bartshe, ETA to Germany
2009 –
Rachel DeCuir, ETA to Thailand
2009 –
Jessica Rood, ETA to Germany
2007 –
Andy McCormick, ETA to South Korea
2007 – John
Porter, ETA to France
2007 – Matthew
Ormsbee, ETA to Germany
2006 –
Matt Stinson, ETA to Germany
1999 –
Russell Roberson, Study/Research Grant, New Zealand (Biology)
1999 –
Jonathan Whitlock, Study/Research Grant to Germany (Biology)
1997 –
Jennifer Wethington, ETA to Austria
1997 –
Emily Johnson, Study/Research Grant to Finland (Women’s Studies)
1997 –
Heather Watson, Study/Research Grant to Germany (History)
1994 –
Brad Spear, Study/Research Grant to Austria (Germanic Languages &
Literature)
1992 –
Richard Swafford, Study/Research Grant to Austria (Germanic Languages &
Literature)
1984 –
Ronnie Pelton, Study/Research Grant to Austria (Chemistry)
1965 –
Bruce Whitton, Research/Study Grant to West Germany (Economics)
1964 –
Ernest Maner, Study/Research Grant to France (Religion and Theology)
1964 – Joe
Hackler, Study/Research Grant to West Germany (Philosophy)
1951 –
Elise Ware, Study/Research Grant to France (North American Studies)
Fulbright Summer Scholarships
2015 – Emily Hardick, Summer Institute at Bristol, "Slavery and the Atlantic Heritage"
Goldwater Scholars (34)
2020 — Rebecca Parham
2019 — Sarah Nicholson and Kate Sanders
2017 – Honorable Mention: Megan Cassingham, William “Billy” Gardner, Claire Turkal
2016 – Sydney Fobare (Karthik Garimella, Honorable Mention)
2015 – Jake Higgins (Jessa Thurman and Grant Zurcher, Honorable Mention)
2014 – Stephen Kyle Wilshusen, Honorable Mention
2013 – Macrina Butler, Kaleigh Clary, Vincent Gammill, and Konstantin Gruenwald
2012 – Erik Urban (Calvin Cochran and Kristen Finch, Honorable Mention)
2011 – Annie Greenaway, Colin Hoy, and Sarah Thompson (Erik Istre, Honorable Mention)
2010 – Sarah Thompson, Honorable Mention
2009 – Emily Marie Harris and William James Porter III (Laura Anne Johnson and Daniel Christopher Totten, Honorable Mention)
2008 – Kelly A. Zalocusky (Bethanie Rachele Edwards, Luke Adam Erickson, and Adam M. Jacobs, Honorable Mention)
2007 – Erica A. Siebrasse
2004 – Christina Barnes
2003 – Peter Horn
2002 – Jared Williams
2001 – Brian Alford
2000 – Andrew Colin Blair and Ben M. Goodwin
1998 – Russell S. Roberson
1997 – Todd M. Tinsley
1996 – James A. Cole and Gary W. Russell
1995 – K. Russell DePriest and Jennifer Powell
1994 – Sheryl L. Davis
1993 – Lars K. Seme
1991 – Omer L. Shedd
1990 – Renee S. Holmes
1989 – Thomas E. Huston
Udall Scholars
2012 – Emily Deitchler (Elizabeth Elmore, Honorable Mention)
Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
1997 – Jennifer Powell (molecular genetics at the University of California, Berkeley)
Council of Independent Colleges' American Graduate Fellow
2008 – Jennifer Tate (English Literature at Washington University)
Austrian Ministry of Education and Women's Affairs U.S. Teaching Assistantship (2)
2015 – Kyle Wicks
2012 – Dan Gibbens-Rickman
Truman Scholars (3)
2011 – Annie Greenaway
2001 – Kerri Maxwell
1992 – David McCoy
Jack Kent Cooke Scholars (2) (scholarship has been discontinued)
2006 – Katie Hamilton
2004 – Kerri Maxwell
Rhodes Scholars (6)
2001 – Ben Goodwin
1960 – Warren Miles
1950 – Charles Hamilton
1918 – E.H. Stephenson
1916 – James H. Bishop
1910 – Claud D. Nelson
Rotary International Scholars (7)
2019- Rachel Zweig
2008 – Kim Barratt
2007 – Katie Allison Pratt
2001 – Maureen McClung
1999 – Shawn Johnson
1993 – Robert Thompson
1983 – P. Allen Smith
French Government Teaching Assistantship in English (3)
2017 – Emily Hardick
2012 – Heather McPherson
2008 – Lindsay Fuller (declined)
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship (9)
2023 – Dominic Stevens, Taiwan
2021 – Ashtyn Bell, Austria
2021 – June Baumann, France (declined)
2019 – Wendell Casey, China
2014 – Joshua Hall to study in Brussels, Belgium
2014 – Brittany Hearn to study in Poland
2011 – Ashley Lynn, Heilongjiang, China
2010 – Caitlin Mulkern, Spain
2008 – Harmony Hudson, Ghana
USA Today All-USA College Academic Second Team
2009 – Erica Siebrasse (created Ridin' Dirty with Science, a fun science summer camp for elementary school children)
Marshall Scholarship (2)
2016 – Sean Alexander
1965 – James A. Means
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
1965 – Dr. James A Means
Critical Language Scholars (2)
2015 – Colleen Kremer
2014 – Cameron Meek
Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program (2
2024 – Bergen Franklin
2020 – Connor Griffin and Tristian Norman (deferred to 2021)
2019 - John Tran, Hueseng Xiong, Jazmin Calixto, Adrienne McGooden, and Alex Berner