Department Events and News

Alumnae/Student News

CLASS OF 2025

Katherine Durow (German and International Studies, 2025) received a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Austria (also awarded to Germany). In 2025, Katie received the Berle Memorial Prize in German Literature. In Summer 2024, Katie completed an internship at the Innovation Akademie in Freiburg, Germany.

Xiaoyin (Miracle) Liu (German and Psychology, 2025) is pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology at Auburn University.

Lilly Pfister (Biology and German, 2025) is working as a technical assistant at the Cancer Research Center of Heidelberg University in Germany.

Nuha Mohammed (Chemistry and German, 2025) is pursuing a PhD in Chemistry at Cornell University. In 2025, she received the Berle Memorial Prize in German Literature, In Spring 2023 and 2024, Nuha was a recipient of the German Society of Pennsylvania’s Study Scholarship. In Summer 2023, Nuha completed an internship at the Innovation Akademie in Freiburg, Germany.

Colleen Sarver (Comparative Literature and German, 2025), enrolled in the M.Ed. program the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Abigail Koppisch (German, 2025) made a documentary as her Senior Project on family history during the Holocaust.

April Chernila (History, minors in German and Museum Studies, 2025) completed an internship with the Jewish Museum in New York in Summer 2024 and is applying to graduate programs in Library Science.

Ella Evans (History of Art, minors in German and Museum Studies, 2025) received a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange scholarship for Young Professionals for a museum-based internship in Germany and study at a German university.

CLASS OF 2024

Hanna de Lorenzi (German and History, 2024) received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany.

Yier Jin (German, minor in Mathematics, 2024) received a US Teaching Assistantship through Fulbright Austria. In 2023, Yier received the Judy Loomis Gould Scholarship for Summer Study Abroad.

Norah Brady (Anthropology, minors in Creative Writing and German, 2024) was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany for Academic Year 2024- 2025.

Anna Moravec (Chemistry, minor in German, 2024) currently works in Thermo-Fisher Scientific.

Aliya Stubenbord (International Studies, minors in Visual Studies and German, 2024) completed an internship in Summer 2023 with the German-American soccer team, Berlin Thunder. In 2022, Aliya was a Social Media Intern with the Migration Resource Center.

CLASS OF 2023

Alex Furgeson (German and Anthropology, 2023) received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany and is the recipient of the Berle Memorial Prize in German Literature. In 2022, Alex received a University Summer Course Grant from the DAAD to take a German for academic writing course. Alex was also invited to present at the Undergraduate forum at the German Studies Association Meeting in Houston, TX. Alex is currently pursuing a Masters in Education at the University of Pennsylvania and teaching earth and environmental sciences at a high school in Philadelphia.

Jenny Jiang (German and Psychology, minor in Health Studies, 2023) will be attending Cornell University in the Fall to pursue a Masters in Health Administration.

Camryn Teranes (German and English, 2023) received a US Teaching Assistantship through Fulbright Austria and is the recipient of the Hester Ann Corner Essay Prize.

CLASS OF 2022

Hannah Appelhans (German and Classics, minor in Comparative Literature, 2022) received the Hannah Holborn Gray Fellowship over Summer 2021 to explore cultural influences on translations of Horace’s Odes into German. Hannah was also a recipient of the German Society of Pennsylvania’s Study Scholarship for AY 2021-2022.

Emily Shein (German and Philosophy, 2022) received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany for Academic Year 2022-2023 and started a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Chicago in Fall 2023. In Summer 2021, Emily worked as an archival research assistant for the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles.

Gemma van Nice (German and Linguistics, 2022) received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany for Academic Year 2022-2023, and was accepted to the Masters in Translation at Kent State University. Gemma also received a Hannah Holborn Gray Fellowship in Summer 2021 to explore German linguistics.

Ellison Warmath (German, minor in History, 2022) is pursuing a Masters in Library Sciences and a Masters in History at the University of Maryland.

Sara Demczysn (Biology, minor in German, 2022) is a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.

CLASS OF 2021

Kirsten Bernhardt (German and History of Art, minor in East Asian Languages & Cultures, 2021) was the recipient of the Hester Ann Corner Prize in 2020 for her essay on Arthur Schnitzler's Fräulein Else: “Hysterie und Sexualität: die Rolle der Tochter und die Fragmentierung der weiblichen Identität.” Kirsten will be working as a language teacher abroad before pursuing a Master's degree in Korean Art History.

Stephanie Strevey (German and English, 2021) received the Hester Ann Corner Senior Thesis Award in 2021 for her thesis: „Dämonen“-diagnose: Behinderung, Sexismus und Antisemitismus in der mittelalterlichen Monster-Mythologie Nordeuropas. In 2022, Stephanie received the Berle Memorial Prize in German Literature.

Nora Cahill (Economics, minor in German, 2021) pursued a Masters at Harvard Kennedy School and is currently a Bloomberg Harvard City Hall Fellow in Iowa City.

Katja Giemanns (minor in German, 2021) is currently a Web Designer at Wilderness Therapy.

CLASS OF 2020

Jocelyn Dunkley (Computer Science and German, 2020) was selected to participate in the National Science Foundation-funded International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program in Summer 2019, and worked at the Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media Lab at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.

Anna Kyle (German and Mathematics, 2020) published the essay “The Passive White Woman: Frieda von Buelow’s Construct of Imperial Feminism in her Colonial Novel Tropenkoller (1896) in The Macksey Journal. Anna is also pursuing a Masters in Education at the University of Michigan.

Lily Jewell (Anthropology at Bryn Mawr, minor in German).

CLASS OF 2019

Isabell Gerbig (German and East Asian Languages & Cultures, 2019) enrolled in a Masters in Interkulturelle Kommunikation at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.

Linghan Mei (German and Biology, 2019) enrolled in a Masters in Bioengineering program at SEAS at the University of Pennsylvania.

Shan Huang (Mathematics and Sociology, minor in German, 2019) enrolled in a Masters in Statistics from Cornell, and is currently working at a consultancy firm.

Patty Sanchez Montejo (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, minor in German, 2019).

CLASS OF 2018

Dionne Agawu (German, 2018) enrolled in a Master in German Studies at California State University, Long Beach and received a Teaching Assistantship through Fulbright Austria.

Xiaoran Yuan (Psychology, German minor, 2018).

CLASS OF 2017

Maxine Morganna Mackenzie Wicks (German & Independent Major in Creative Writing, 2017).

Shuyu Meng (Music at Haverford, minor in German, 2017).