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Jillian Bejerke, France

Jillian Bjerke, aÌýdoctoral student in history, will conduct dissertation research on the 13th-century lordship of Champagne, France, and the Iberian kingdom of Navarre. She plans to examine administrative records, such as collections of letters and financial accounts, to uncover innovative mechanisms the court-kings used to successfully govern both regionsÌýdespite cultural, linguistic and geographic distance. Bejerke will spend most of her time in Paris and Troyes, France.

Danielle Garrison, France

Danielle Garrison, an aerial dancer working on a master's degree at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, will be a resident artist at La Grainerie, studying within Le Lido in Toulouse, France. She will expand her performance and choreographic aerial abilities as she collaborates with French Cirque and media artists. Garrison plans to develop her thesis concert, which will investigate transcultural and interpersonal grief by telling multicultural aerial performance stories. She also aims to redefine the aerial performance aesthetic in the U.S.

Sierra Gladfelter, India

Sierra Gladfelter is finishing a master's degree in geography. Her climate research will take place in New Delhi and across Uttarakhand, India. She will survey traditional adaptive strategies that mountain villages actively use to cope with climate-induced disasters. As she documents traditional and locally-mobilized adaptive strategies, she hopes to give local voices agency in situations where external interventions are proposed. Her idea is to create a living database that integrates local knowledge on climate change into decision-making, not only in India, but globally.

Maggie Rosenau, Germany

Maggie Rosenau, a PhD student in German language and literature, plans to conduct library and archival research in Erlangen, Germany, for her dissertation on postwar avant-garde art and poetry. She is especially interested in the concrete poetry of Eugen Gomringer and Dieter Roth, as well asÌýwhat she calls the visual articulation of silence, which she sees as a repository of historical, social and political information.

Michael Rush, Chile

Michael Rush is completing a master's degree in environmental engineering. His Fulbright to the Chilean Patagonia will allow him to apply hydrologic and chemical models to mountain watersheds to predict how climate change will affect local water yield and stream quality. He hopes to organize community outreach to share the model predictions with stakeholders and decision-makers who can help communities adapt and prepare.

Haley Stein, Spain

Haley Stein is a recent Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder graduate with a degrees in molecular, cellular and developmental biology; chemistry;Ìýand linguistics. She currently works in a lab, studying gene function. In Granada, Spain, she plans to work with a professor to conductÌýediting of metabolic genes in fungal strains. These fungi offer a potential solution to the pervasive problem of soil and water contamination from coal and oil processing.

Lisa Powers, Mexico

Lisa Powers is a recent graduate with a degree in linguistics and French. At a secondary school in Mexico, she willÌýhelp teach English and American culture. Powers will use her time in Mexico to increase her knowledge of Mexican culture so she can be a more culturally sensitive educator in the U.S. when she returns. She plans to volunteer at a local school or nonprofit to aid with data management and program evaluation, skills she's honedÌýprofessionally at the Colorado Education Initiative where she has been working.

Dillon Webster, Spain

Dillon Webster is completing a master's degree in religious studies and history, as well as in Jewish studies. His project, a study of the socio-cultural connections of the Crown of Aragon's Jewish cultureÌýbrokers in the 13th century, will take place in Barcelona, Spain. One of the important tasks in his research is to understand who the Jewish diplomats were, how they navigated both Christian and Muslim societies, and how they influenced the policy-making process of the time. His Fulbright work will contribute to a future doctoral degree.

Eben Yonnetti, India

Eben Yonnetti is . His Fulbright will take him to the Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. His project will study how Tibetan Buddhist teachings and practices are mobilized to support environmental stewardship projects in response to climate change. His research will contribute to understandings of how religious traditions move across time and space in a process of reinterpretation, drawingÌýon traditional teachings and practices in order to respond to contemporary issues.

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