Congratulations to Auden Finch, who will spend 2023-2024 as a Fulbright Fellow at the Department of Yiddish Culture, Language, and Literature at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany! This prestigious fellowship will allow Auden to build on his impressive work in CHID and the Interdisciplinary Honors Program, including a 15-credit CHID honors thesis on representations of human relations with natural landscape in Moyshe Kulbak’s Soviet-Yiddish novel Zelmenyaner. Auden's thesis was advised by Professor Sasha Senderovich of the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department. In 2022, Auden received the Outstanding Student in Jewish Studies Award from the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.
You can read more about Auden's academic research and professional plans in the Fulbright awards announcement from the Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards. Congrats, Auden!