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Graduates of the German Department have found employment in a variety of fields, including law, the State Department, international relations, business and German language and literature.
- David Hancock, '00, (DePere, WI) is a graduate student at George Washington University, the Elliott School of International Affairs, in the Security Policy Studies M.A. program in Washington, D.C.
- Greg Renden, '99, (Auburn, AL) works in Washington, D.C. for Senator Kent Conrad, the junior Senator from North Dakota.
- Christy Szitta, '99, (Bryant, WI) is a law student on a Beinecke Fellowship at the University of Minnesota .
- Rachel Diephouse, '98, is attending graduate school in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Allan Thoen, '98, graduated from Law School at the University of Pennsylvania and applied to the Minnesota Bar.
- Amy Schroeder, '96, finished her law degree at the University of Minnesota Law School.
- Katherine Branding, '96 (Arlington Heights, IL) studied public policy with a focus on international policy at Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, and plans to attend law school to work on European Union policy/law.
- Martha Hollister Rosenquist '94 (Mounds View, MN) completed a Master's of Theology at Harvard Divinity School and is employed by Fortress Press, working with manuscripts in Greek and Hebrew.
- Daina Jauntirans '93 (Evanston, IL) taught English in St. Viet, Austria, completed a master's at the Monterey (California) Institute of International Studies, and worked as a translator in Mainz, Germany. She is now a freelance translator in Illinois.
- James Brat, '91, practices commercial real estate law in Los Angeles at the firm Pircher, Nichols and Meeks.
- Margaret (Rummel) Engelmann '91, lives and works in Munich as a freelance teacher for English and German, mainly for adults in the corporate sector. She passed the Goethe Institute's Grosses Deutsches Sprachdiplom, and received a Master of Education from Harvard in 1997.
- Matthew J. DiMagno, '89, completed medical school at the University of Minnesota and residency in internal medicine at the University of Michigan.
- Lynn Christensen Randazzo, '86, teaches for the Inver Grove Heights School District, Minnesota.
- Ann Hamre, '84, went on to study at Harvard University's JFK School of Government and is now a researcher/writer for the DFL Senate Majority Research Unit.
- Robin Murie, '75, is Program Coordinator for the University of Minnesota's ESL Program for Refugees.
- Douglas Strandness, '74, is president of Dunbar Strandness, Inc, in St. Paul, Mn, a property management, asset management, and property investment firm.
- Bonnie Watkins '73 (Pemberville, OH) is the author, with Nina Rothchild, of In the Company of Women: Voices from the Women's Movement, published in 1996, with a foreward by Gloria Steinem.
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Since 1971,
56 students in the German Department have received the prestigious Fulbright
award to study for one year at a German university. Macalester is one
of two institutions of comparable size in the country with such a high
level of success, a fact attributable to the quality of student Macalester
attracts as well as the careful advising Macalester's Fulbright applicants
receive from faculty members.
The following are recent winners of Fulbright Fellowships:
* Matthew Abts, '00, (Toledo, OH) received a Fulbright Fellowship for a year's project in Frankfurt, "School Integration and the Upward Mobility of Turks." He is currently a student at the University of Minnesota Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, working on a Masters of Public Policy Degree.
* Sarah Noel Aerni '99 (Cincinnati, OH) studied the causality between increased trade and increased income inequality at the University of Freiburg and then began work at the Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (Human Development) in Berlin. She was an economics major with a German minor.
* Devon Idstrom '98 (Maple Grove, MN), a German and geography major, studied the development of counterculture neighborhoods in Berlin since reunification, especially the neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg. She works as a Financial and Program Analyst for the U.S. Treasury Department, following completion of a Master's Degree in Housing and Community Development. Her thesis continued the work she began in Berlin as a Fulbright Scholar.
* Aaron Schlaphoff '98 (Sherburn, MN), who majored in political science and took German through the intermediate level, studied at the University of Cologne. His project focused on the politics of media and global information.
* Amy Griffin '97 (St. Anthony, MN), who majored in geography, spent a year studying the use of geographical information systems in land use planning during the integration of the European Community.
* Ann LaTour '97 (Shakopee, MN) did research on the philosophy of German educator Rudolf Steiner and the Waldorf schools as a Fulbright fellow in Stuttgart, Germany; she returned to a teaching job in the United States.
* Rod Williams '92 (Fort Thomas, KY), with majors in German and geography, did a comparison of the cities of Erlangen in West Germany and Jena in East Germany, both of them university towns and industrial centers. In the planning stages of Rod's study, Germany was still divided.