Funnel 40/2, Inhalt - Fulbright-Kommission

The Council for International Exchange
of Scholars has accepted Dr. rer. pol. Hella
Hoppe, MA, as one of this year’s New
Century Scholars. Nominated by the German-American
Commission, Hoppe will
join a group of approximately 30 international
scholars in the United States where
they will engage in collaborative research on
this year’s topic: “Toward Equality: The
Global Empowerment of Women.”
Hoppe is a political economist and currently
a visiting researcher at the German
Friedrich Ebert Foundation in New York.
Prior to her current position, she was Assistant
Professor (C1) at the Institute of Political
Science for Comparative/International
Political Economy, Multimedia and
Gender Studies at the University of Mün-
ster, where she taught courses in International
Political Economy, Human Security,
Globalization of the World Economy,
and Feminist Economics.
In 2001 and 2002 Hoppe served as a
research associate in the secretariat of the
Enquete-Commission “Globalization of
the World Economy: Challenges and
Responses” of the German Parliament,
where she contributed to the final report
especially in the areas of labor markets,
social standards, and gender justice. From
1996 to 2001, she worked as a research
assistant at the Institute of Macroeconomics
at the University of Aachen. For her dissertation
on feminist economics she
received the Friedrich-Wilhelm Award given
to the best dissertations at the Univer-
DEPARTMENTS 13
Current Grantee Justin Chen Wins Miller Award for Student Journalists
Justin Chen, a 2003 graduate of Yale
University and current Fulbright Enterprise
Scholar at the Friedrich Alexander
University Erlangen-Nuremberg, was the
first recipient of the David W. Miller
Award for Student Journalists. The award,
granted by the Chronicle of Higher Education,
is intended to “identify and recognize
future generations of reporters who show
the same journalistic promise as Mr.
Miller,” a senior writer at The Chronicle
who was killed by a drunk driver in 2002.
Chen received the award for two arti-
cles he wrote for the Yale Herald. “Under
scrutiny: privacy on campus” explores the
ways in which federal legislation passed
after the September 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks has affected the privacy of both
international and domestic students in the
United States. “Gilmore controversy reaches
new heights” describes the issues of
hate speech versus free speech that arose
after one Yale professor published an article
criticizing American foreign policy.
Both articles are available on the Herald
website: www.yaleherald.com.
Dr. Hella Hoppe Named New Century Scholar 2004-2005
Chen, who has been accepted to Yale
Medical School for Autumn 2004, is currently
researching the autoimmune disease
lupus at the University of Erlangen’s
Department of Rheumatology. He hopes
ultimately to pursue a career in public or
international health policy.
Over 300 undergraduate students
applied for the award that Chen eventually
won. For more information on applying
for the 2004 award, see The Chronicle
website: chronicle.com.
sity of Aachen. Her
main research areas
are globalization of
the world economy,
labor markets, and
feminist economics.
The Fulbright New
Century Scholars Program
was founded in
2001 to “extend the
mission and outreach” of the Fulbright
Program, according to the Council for
International Exchange of Scholars, which
administers the program. It brings together
25-30 international scholars and professionals,
“who will work together to seek
solutions to issues and concerns that affect
all humankind.”
THE FUNNEL • VOLUME 40 • NUMBER 2 • SUMMER 2004