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DAAD University Summer Course Grant Alumna Sophia Angele-Kuehn

Sophia Angele-Kuehn was born in Manhattan, New York, and has family roots in Baden-Württemberg and Berlin, Germany. She is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Connecticut College in New London, majoring in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in German Studies. Her Honors Thesis will be a memoir that also reflects on the narrative tradition of immigrants’ children who write in order to understand their ancestral roots. The idea was first inspired by her studies in a DAAD-funded University Summer Course at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg during the Summer of 2018.

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Barnard College Group Study Visit

With the support of a DAAD Group Study Visit Grant, Professor Joan Snitzer from Barnard College took some of her students on an art history and visual arts tour around the German capital.

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DAAD Grantee Brent McDonnell

Brent McDonnell is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Originally from New York, he received his Bachelor’s degree from Fordham University in 2014, double-majoring in Political Science and Italian Language and Literature, before completing a Master’s degree in the German and European Studies program at Georgetown in 2016. His current research project focuses on the far-right in Italy and West Germany from the late 1960s into the early 1980s.

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DAAD University Summer Course Grant Alumnus Varol Kahveci

Varol Kahveci was born in Turkey in a city called Konya, in the middle of Central Anatolia - Rumi-lovers probably already know the area! He spent three years in Istanbul and one year in England to complete his Bachelor's in Western Languages and Literatures. After completing his Master's at Dartmouth College in Comparative Literature, he began working on his Ph.D. in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University in New York.

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DAAD Young Ambassador Hannah Peter

Hannah Peter grew up in Southern Ontario, Canada, and is currently attending Brock University. She is studying Women’s and Gender Studies, with minors in Intercultural Studies and German. Her hobbies include reading, swimming and photography. She is hoping to spend more time taking photos this year and visit friends in cities across the world, such as Toronto (Canada), Verona (Italy) and Mannheim (Germany). She encourages anyone and everyone who is willing to step out of their comfort zone to go to Germany, explore its beautiful cities and nature, and experience its amazing and friendly people.

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DAAD Young Ambassador Leslie Hernandez

Leslie Hernandez is a current 4th year student at University of California, Santa Barbara, double majoring in Global Studies and German. She is Latina-American, born and raised in Orange County, California and half Mexican and half Salvadoran. Studying abroad has given her perspective on why it is important to be in touch with one’s own culture even while exploring others and as a DAAD Young Ambassador, she hopes to support other students seeking international opportunities in Germany.

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DAAD Photo Contest Second Prize Winner Mareike Lange

Mareike Lange is a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She has a Bachelor’s in Education (Erziehungswissenschaft) and Sociology from the University of Potsdam in Germany. Her Master’s thesis is titled: "Die männliche Herrschaft und die weibliche Lebensführung: Der vergeschlechtlichte Habitus in Arthur Schnitzlers Frau Berta Garlan“. Her research interests include intellectual history, social history and theory and gender studies, focusing on the writings of the Frankfurt School, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx, and Pierre Bourdieu.

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DAAD Photo Contest Winner Kaitlin Young

Kaitlin Young is a rising senior at the University of North Texas, majoring in German with minors in Linguistics and English. She is thrilled to interact with the DAAD this upcoming year and promote study abroad to other students as a DAAD Young Ambassador. Kaitlin plans to apply to teach English abroad, pursue graduate studies, and eventually teach German at the university level. In her free time, Kaitlin likes to bake, read, and fold paper airplanes that don’t go very far.

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DAAD EMGIP Alumnus Chris Clark

Chris Clark is a recent graduate of Vassar College who moved to New York City after completing the Emigre Memorial German Internship Program (EMGIP) in Berlin. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Chris currently works in Times Square in the field of urban place management. Chris is also a political activist who is passionate about combating catastrophic climate change, wealth inequality and nationalism.

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DAAD Language Assistant Dominik Winkel

Dominik Winkel is currently a Language Assistant at the University of Washington. After finishing high school in Bonn, Dominik continued with his studies at the University of Bonn. Throughout this time, he volunteered as language instructor and advisor for teenage refugees in the city. He also had the opportunity to work and study abroad four times, before receiving his Master’s degree. He has worked in Chongqing (China) and Seattle (USA) as language instructor and project manager for the last two years. In June 2019, he will return to Bonn to continue his professional and academic pursuits.

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