Winter / Cohen Student Fellows Program
The Winter / Cohen Student Fellows Program at the Brueggeman Center is indebted to the Winter / Cohen family that has provided the endowment that supports it. It has evolved over the years into its current form which is one of the really unique opportunities at Xavier University. In truth there is no single purpose. The fellowship has no set curriculum or format other than the fact that each fellow creates their own project and takes on the responsibility for its completion.
These projects are as unique as each individual fellow, ranging from research projects to photo-journalistic essays, to creative writing projects. Our job is to challenge them to discover new issues and new potentials in themselves. They face many types of challenges during their tenure. They are challenged both by participation in Center activities and by interaction with each other. But perhaps the most significant challenge comes in the fact that all the projects involve travel to a foreign country. Fellows make these journeys, usually by themselves, without the comforts of the typical university study abroad programs.
Fellows have traveled to Africa, South America, Europe and Asia, living and working in situations as varied as an AIDS high school in Kibera (the largest squatter settlement in Africa) to the World Trade Center in Geneva. Through these immersion experiences they are changed and the paths upon which their lives have been set are altered in significant ways. The hope is that the fellowships might provide students with an opportunity for intellectual, moral and spiritual self-discovery which will impact them for the rest of their lives.
Fall 2013/Spring 2014
- Kayla Boehner/Philosophy Politics & the Public/Africa/Healthcare in Developing African Countries
- Jonathan Burgei/Biology/Kangaroo Island, Australia - Island Speciation
- Maggie Cooley/Nursing/India - How Social Determinants Affect Overall Health in the Slum Cities
- Spencer Liechty/Political Science/Morocco, Jordan or Turkey - Islam and Democracy
- Kevin Perkins/Environmental Science/West Africa - EcoHealth in West Africa
- Rebecca Seipel/History/France and/or Africa - Refugee Resettlement
- Rachel Snodgrass/Occupational Therapy/England - Occupational Deprivation in Prisons
Fall 07 / Spring 08
- Brett Simmons
- Brian Cantwell
- Debbie Westman
- Jennifer Komos
- Kate Holley
- Katy Baldwin
- Mary Ansbro
- Nazly Mamedova
Spring 2007
- Christian Michael Lowry
- Jasper Tolarba
- Julia Nell Alexander
- Keyur Parikh
- Steve Plachinski
Fall 2006
- Brandon Sipes
- Briana Hansen
- Kathleen Margaret Cole
- Kristin Horstman
- Michael Loban
Fall 2005
- Kateri Kosta
- Matt Bigelow
- Natalie Fair-Albright
- Paul Coloma
- Sarah Scheibe
Spring 2005
- Bill Schwarz
- Clare Herlighy
- Kevin Fitzgerald
- Mary Anne Bressler
- Michael Gravelle