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The sequence of events lined up perfectly. In July, Charlotte Carstens ’16 finished up a five-month fellowship at the German Bundestag in Berlin just in time to begin a two-year master’s program in German and European studies at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.
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Hamilton College offers students the opportunity to study over 10 languages from Chinese and Spanish to Arabic and Japanese. While most of the learning takes place inside the classroom, foreign language enthusiasts have ample opportunity to brush up on their language and culture skills within the community.
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Allison Zuckerman ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. A history and German studies major at Hamilton, she studied at the University of Munich in 2016-17.
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Deasia Hawkins ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. She studied abroad in Germany during the 2016-17 academic year and says she “looks forward to returning and immersing myself once again in the culture and history Germany has to offer.”
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Roger Paas ’67 recently completed his multi-volume edition “The German Political Broadsheet, 1600-1700” with the release of Volume 14 (index volume). Published by Harrassowitz Verlag in Wiesbaden, Germany, Paas’ work reproduces over 5,000 broadsheets (early newspapers) produced during the European warfare of the 17th century.
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Back in the U.S. barely long enough to shake the jet lag, Allison Zuckerman ’18 already missed Munich, where she studied for 10 months, focusing on German history, culture and language.
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Frank Bergmann, lecturer in German and Russian, published “The Creation of the World and Other Business: Archetype and the Rhythm of Decorum” in the autumn 2016 issue of The Arthur Miller Journal.
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In high school Gabe Rivas ’16 studied industrial design for two years, and at Hamilton he created his own design-related major, but he made sure to build in time to take German.
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There are times when Reed Johnson ’18 reaches for the correct words in German and is surprised by what he can produce. He can’t yet translate all his thoughts but he’s well on the way.
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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.