International Fellowships are awarded for full-time study or research to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Fellowships support graduate or postgraduate studies at accredited institutions. Recipients are selected for academic achievement and demonstrated commitment to women and girls. The overwhelming majority return to their home countries to become leaders in their fields as heads of state, university professors, community activists, world-renowned artists, and scientists.
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Originally designed to provide Latin American women with opportunities for graduate and postgraduate study in the United States, the International Fellowships program awarded its first fellowship in 1917 to Virginia Alvarez-Hussey, who studied medicine at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and then returned to Venezuela, where she became a specialist in the treatment of leprosy.
AAUW expanded the International Fellowships program in 1945 to provide higher education opportunities to European women from countries devastated by Nazi domination during World War II. The program now includes women from around the world, and International Fellowships have been awarded to over 3,000 women representing 135 countries.
International Fellows include Marina Nunez del Prado (1940), who became one of Bolivia's premiere artists. Her most famous work, Mother and Child, is part of the permanent collection at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
The 2009-2010 International Fellows strive to make a difference in the world through diverse fields. They are working in microfinance, malaria research, sustainable development, international human rights law, curriculum design, microbiology, and other diverse fields.
AAUW would like to thank the following 2009-10 International Fellowship appointed and guest panelists: Marcia Feuerstein (VA), chair, architecture; Victoria Arana (DC) literature; Shivaun Archer (NY), engineering; Elisa Barney Smith (ID), engineering; Barbara Beliveau (MD), economics; Roberley Ann Bell (NY), art and art history; Sujeeta Bhatt (DC), psychology; Maria Bottazzi (DC), biological sciences; Jinx Campbell (MS), molecular and marine biology; Christine Chin (DC), political science and political economy; Nell Gabiam (DC), anthropology; Virginia Gibson (ME), business/MIS; Suzan Harkness (DC), political science; Tracey Holloway (WI), engineering; Philicia Jefferson (DC); psychology; JoAnne D. Joyner (DC); Nursing/Health Sciences; Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc (MD), biochemistry and chemistry; Yoon-Joo Lee (IN), communications; Lisa T. Moon (DC), psychology; Sona Pancholy (MD), law; Rosemarie Park (MN), education; Rocio Quispe-Agnoli (MI); literature/language; Mihaela Robila (NY), psychology/sociology; Ronit Seter (DC), musicology; Selena Mendy Singleton (MD), law; Barbara Soniat (DC); social work/global aging; Marlyn Tadros (RI), political science; Alla Tovares (DC), linguistics; Frances Vavrus (MN), education; Ivana Vucenik (MD), biomedical sciences; Amita Vyas (DC), health sciences; Kimberly Walker (MD), microbiology/immunology; and Zeena Zakharia (NY), education.
