Scholar awarded Fulbright to teach in Argentina

Summary:

Flinn Scholar Renata Keller ('00) was one of 15 awarded a Fulbright teaching assistantship to Argentina, where she will work with a university professor of English language for eight months. This is the first year the Fulbright has given the TA awards for Argentina.

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ASU Flinn Scholar Renata Keller (2000) was just awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistant Scholarship to Argentina one of 15 persons to earn that honor. There, she will assist the professor of an English language class as a native speaker at a university outside Buenos Aires. She will serve eight months, from May to November 2006.

"It's exciting because this is the first year the Fulbright has done this program in Argentina," Keller said of the award.

After conducting six months of independent field research in Chile during her senior year, Keller graduated summa cum laude from the ASU Honors College with dual BAs in history and Spanish last winter. Keller says that during two brief trips across the Andes while in Chile, she "fell in love with Argentina." An avid dancer salsa, tango, and ballroom dancer as well as an historian, Keller hopes to "learn to dance the tango in its birthplace." After returning from Argentina, Keller will pursue a PhD. in Latin American history at the University of Texas-Austin.