Fellowships & Scholarships

Cameron Behal graduated in 2011 with majors in international relations and Spanish, prior to working in South Korea for two years with the Fulbright Scholarship. Subsequent to Fulbright, Cameron served in the Marine Corps as Scout Sniper Platoon Commander and later Intelligence Officer at 2d Battalion, 6th Marines. He has recently transitioned out of the… [Read More]

My identity came a bit unraveled in Spain. It was my first year outside the role of “student”. It was the first time I felt painfully inarticulate and confronted by the kind of striking aloneness that happens when you are a stranger in a new country. I spent an embarrassing amount of time alone, furtively eating… [Read More]

Becoming a Fulbright scholar handed me the world in a way I had never imagined. Places that I had only known on maps or classroom globes became cities I knew like the back of my hand. My favorite coffee shop was not the Starbucks up the road but a corner café in Southeast Berlin. I… [Read More]

Austin College fosters an environment which asks students to push their boundaries in an attempt to be more open-minded, well-rounded and accepting. This ‘beyond the classroom’ type initiative helped mold me to educate, share, learn and grow; eventually leading to one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life: Fulbright Korea. From the lifetime friends… [Read More]

Austin College taught me to think about my community and how I could affect change to make society more equitable. My Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to Colombia taught me to think about my global community and the impact I could have on it. Without AC, Fulbright never would have been on my radar. Between my JanTerm in Cuba… [Read More]

My experience as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) was incredibly rewarding, allowed me to continue learning about other cultures, and helped affirm my desire to pursue a career as a mental health therapist. As a student at Austin College, I studied psychology and Spanish. I went on JanTerms to Argentina and Spain, and took… [Read More]

Phyllis Goode graduated in 2016 with majors in International Relations and EALC-Chinese. While a student at AC, Phyllis was the recipient of a GO Fellowship to do research in Taiwan on Sirayan cultural preservation efforts and a Sumner Foundation Scholarship for her work in political science.  She spent the 2014-2015 school year abroad in China… [Read More]

Shelby Turner graduated in 2015 with a double major in Japanese and Chinese.  She spent her senior year engaged in an honors project, a translation of Taiwanese author Zhu Tianwen’s short story, “Little Bi’s Story,” which she is currently revising for publication.  Shelby is currently living in Tokyo as a participant in the JET program.

Brittany Subialdea graduated in 2017 with a double major in EALC-Japanese and Computer Science.  She studied abroad in Japan in Spring 2016, supported by the prestigious Boren Scholarship.  Brittany is currently in a Ph.D. program in computer science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.