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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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DAAD Language Assistant Anna-Sophie Berges

Anna-Sophie Berges is a DAAD Language Assistant at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches German as Foreign Language. She completed her teaching degree for secondary level school at the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany, in spring 2018. Shortly afterwards, she received a scholarship from the DAAD for the Language Assistant Program. Anna-Sophie has devoted herself to the field of teaching German as a Foreign Language and she has gained variegated insights into these academic pursuits.

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DAAD Study Scholarship Alum David Rice

David Rice is a writer and animator based in New York, who spent a year studying in Berlin with the support of a DAAD Study Scholarship grant. His interests cluster around horror, noir, and the grotesque. He published his first novel, A Room in Dodge City, when we first interviewed him in 2017, and his second, Angel House, is out now.

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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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