Two Luther alumni receive Fulbright scholarships

Luther College alumnae Rachel Barclay and Bianca Lutchen have each been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to Germany for the 2012-13 academic year.

Barclay, a 2011 Luther graduate from Sparta, Wisconsin, has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to support her graduate study project in art history.  She is currently serving an internship with the Provenance Research Initiative at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.  She will study and conduct research with scholars at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich who are leading German efforts to establish ownership history of art objects that changed ownership under suspicious circumstances or were subject to unlawful appropriation under National Socialism between 1933-45.

Lutchen, a 2012 graduate of Luther from Northfield, Minnesdota. has been awarded a Fulbright teaching assistantship in Germany.  She will research the ramifications for national identity that resulted from the reunification of the former East and West Germany.  Her teaching experience will be at the Rudolf-Koch-Schule in Offenbach, Germany.

Barclay and Lutchen are among the 1,700 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for the 2012-2013 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.  

Rachel Barclay

Bianca Lutchen