Fellowships & Scholarships

Kareem Watson ’16, a public policy major at Hamilton, has received the Humanity In Action Fellowship for travel to Berlin this summer. He is the first Hamilton student to receive this award. The fellowship recognizes commitment to social justice and future promise for community leadership. Humanity in Action is an international educational organization headquartered in New York City.

Mei Lin Pratt ’16 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia. Pratt, a philosophy major at Hamilton, studied at the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. during her junior year.  

Amrika Sieunarine ’16 has been awarded Hamilton’s Bristol Fellowship for her project “Women and Poverty: Uncommon Perspectives on an All Too Common Struggle.”

Gaela Dennison-Leonard ’16 has been named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow for 2016-17. Her project “Robes for the Modern Woman: Monastic Women and Community Strength” will take her to India, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia.

Gabriel Rivas ’16 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. Rivas, an interdisciplinary studies major, studied at Universitat Tübingen in Germany during his junior year.

Ben Wesley’s ’16 lifelong interest in cars combined with intense curiosity about the world will serve him well when he travels to four countries as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow for 2016-17. Wesley’s project “What Moves Us: Exploring the Reflection of Culture in Car Enthusiasm” will take him to Brazil, Japan, South Africa and Germany.

Charlotte Carstens ’16 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. Carstens, a German studies and world politics major, studied in Tübingen, Germany, during her junior year.

Eunice Lee ’16 has been awarded a 2016-17 Fulbright U.S. student grant to the European Union (EU).  She will research the EU’s food quality policy and how origin and quality regulations affect small farming communities. Lee is an environmental studies and French major and will be based at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research in Toulouse, France, throughout her research. She studied in France during her junior year.

Justin Long ’16 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Thailand. Long, a linguistics interdisciplinary studies major, studied in Ecuador during his junior year.

Evelyn Torsher ’17 has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Arabic in Amman, Jordan.  She also received a CLS in 2015 and studied in Morocco.