WELLESLEY COLLEGE CLASS OF 1993
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Five members of the Wellesley College Class of 1993 have
been awarded major fellowships and awards from the Thomas J.
Watson Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Fulbright
Foundation.
Laura Henry and Karima Robinson have each won a Thomas J.
Watson Fellowship for graduate study and foreign travel.
Henry, a Political Science and History major, will study
environmental action and political change in Russia,
Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. She plans
to attend graduate school in Russian studies.
Robinson, who is an English and Africana Studies major,
will travel to Jamaica and Zimbabwe to study theater as a
tool for cultural identity in those countries. She plans to
study for a Master's degree in film and screen writing.
Anita Leah Pettway, an English major, has won a Mellon
Fellowship in Humanistic Studies to support her first year
of graduate study in American Literature. She will enter a
Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University and may pursue a
teaching career.
Anyika Nia Allen, a Political Science and Philosophy
major, has been awarded a Fulbright Foundation Grant to
study indigenous women's groups in Kenya and their role in
national development. She plans to attend graduate school at
New York University where she will study philosophy and law.
Alison Michelle Dye, a German Studies major, has received
both a Padagogischer Austauschdienst Teaching Assistantship
for Germany and a supporting Fulbright Foundation Travel
Grant. She will teach English to high school students in the
Brandenburg district near Berlin.
In addition, Lisa Marie Kaunelis, a Davis scholar and
Sociology major, has been named an alternate for a Fulbright
Foundation Grant to Germany.
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