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DAAD Young Ambassador Nam Nguyen

Nam Nguyen is currently a senior at Washington State University (Pullman, WA) pursuing degrees in International Business and Marketing. Nam stands out as the first and only student in WSU’s 129-year history to study abroad on all seven continents. He is also a McNair Scholar, Carson Fellow, Frank Fellow, as well as a NUFP Fellow with NASPA, the national professional association for student affairs professionals, and a DAAD Young Ambassador. Nam was recently awarded the Region V Undergraduate Rising Star Award from NASPA and the Global Student Leadership Award from Diversity Abroad.

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DAAD Visiting Professor Svea Braeunert

Svea Braeunert is a DAAD Visiting Associate Professor in German Studies and Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, literature, and film, media theory and visual culture, concepts of memory, trauma, and deferred action, and gender studies. She is the author of Gespenstergeschichten: Der linke Terrorismus der RAF und die Künste (2015), and co-author and co-curator of To See Without Being Seen: Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare (2016).

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DAAD Visiting Professor Christian Martin

Christian Martin is the Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Kiel, Germany. He currently holds the Max Weber Chair in German and European Studies at New York University. He has studied political science at the University of Konstanz and holds a doctorate from there (2002). Christian has published on the effects of globalization for electoral participation, on the incentive to adopt more proportional voting systems in a highly globalized environment, and, most recently, on the substitution of policy instruments in processes of international policy diffusion. Most recently, Christian has published a paper on "Electoral Participation and Right Wing Authoritarian Success – Evidence from the 2017 Federal Elections in Germany" (forthcoming in Politische Vierteljahresschrift).

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Meet DAAD Alumna Susanne Thelen

Susanne Thelen is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Technology Chemnitz and a member of the State Executive Board of the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate. She worked as a Retail Business Management Assistant, studied Business Administration and Marketing (BA), and holds a Master’s in Politics and Communications from the University of Trier. In winter 2018, Ms. Thelen participated in the DAAD-AICGS Research Fellowship Program and was based at AICGS in Washington, DC.

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DAAD North America Photo Contest Winner Brooklyn Hortenstine

Brooklyn currently studies German at Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, TN) in hopes of becoming a teacher. From her very first trip abroad, her life has been transformed. Especially after her experience in Germany, she now serves both as an advocate for international friendships and for disabled people who may want to go abroad, as a wheelchair user herself. Her biggest hope for the future is that she can continue to spread her appreciation for the culture and inspire others while doing so.

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Meet DAAD Alumna Hanife Schulte

Hanife Schulte is a doctoral candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University. Prior to Tufts, she received M.A. degrees in Theatre from Ankara University and Emerson College. She explores how theatre as performance responds to cultural, political, and social issues.

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Meet DAAD Alumna Saskia Schälicke

Saskia received a Bachelor in Geography and French from the Humboldt-Universität at Berlin. During her undergraduate degree she spent one year as an exchange student in Montreal with a DAAD scholarship. After completing her Master’s in Physical Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin she returned to Canada where she now works as an Education Abroad Advisor at the University of Calgary. Since 2016 she is part of the DAAD Alumni Board Canada.

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Stephani Richards-Wilson - DAAD Alumna

Dr. Richards-Wilson is the Director of Graduate Business Programs at Alverno College where she holds a tenure-track faculty position. She has been awarded several fellowships including two from DAAD.

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Christina Gerhardt - DAAD Alumna

Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii. She has held visiting appointments at the Freie Universität, Harvard University, Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley. She has been awarded grants by many funding organisations, including DAAD.

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DAAD Young Ambassador Jemma Hwang

Jemma Hwang is a DAAD Young Ambassador, currently studying German and Bioengineering at the University of Georgia (UGA). She studied abroad in Germany for one year; first in Bonn and then in Karlsruhe. As a DAAD Young Ambassador, she helps promote study abroad in Germany on her home campus and supports DAAD at events such as most recently the Diversity Abroad conference and its Global Student Leadership Summit.

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