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June 2009 > Students > Honors
Two GSE Doctoral Students Earn Fulbrights
Willow Sussex
Diana Arya Diana Arya and Willow Sussex, two GSE doctoral candidates, have been awarded 2009–10 Fulbright Fellowships to further their studies in two European countries.
Arya, a Language, Literacy, Society & Culture student, will be working on a science education project that spans seven different European countries. Arya was invited to apply for the Fulbright after she and her husband, Andy Maul (QME ’08), met with professors in the education department at the University of Oslo in Norway last summer.
“I will be putting my dissertation to good use,” says the recent Outstanding GSI winner. “My Oslo colleagues are very interested in applying my work on science texts for middle school students to their program.”
Meanwhile, Maul was invited to apply for a post doctoral position that would involve him supporting University of Oslo’s masters program in statistics as well as various education research projects there.
Sussex, a Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation doctoral candidate, won her Fulbright award to carry out her thesis field work in Spain. Her project, entitled “The Impact of Immigration on Teachers Work in Spain,” will focus on immigration and education in Spain, interviewing teachers and policymakers, along with school-based field work in two cities (Barcelona and either Granada or Madrid).
“I'm interested in language issues and implementation of multicultural education policies,” says Sussex, “especially those focused on improving how teachers serve immigrant children.” Spain is one of the newest European countries experiencing greater “in-migration” of various groups, according to Sussex. “The nation's contemporary tolerance of different languages and even provincial autonomy makes it a great place to study how immigration may spur changes in teachers' work across differing school contexts.”
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