Holy Cross Student Earns Prestigious Fulbright Award

WORCESTER, Mass. – Anna Vannucci, a senior at the College of the Holy Cross, has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach in Turkey.

A psychology major with a Women’s and Gender Studies concentration from Enfield, Conn., Vannucci will conduct research on how women use soccer to negotiate a social identity, and teach English to children.

At Holy Cross, Vannucci is on the executive board of Women’s Forum, where she serves as publicity director and participates in its many events; a member of the NEED (Nutrition, Exercise, and Eating Disorder Program) Peer Educators; and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She has participated in the Appalachia Service Project and was a teaching assistant for an introductory psychology course at Holy Cross. Last year, she studied abroad at St. Edmund Hall at Oxford University.

She is in the College Honors Program and currently writing her thesis titled, “You Are What You Eat: Embodying Gender and Morality in Eating.”

Vannucci is interested in going to graduate school for clinical psychology with a particular focus on how various cultures influence all aspects of people’s psychological development.

Each year about 1,000 college students are awarded grants through the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship program in international educational exchange. Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. Since the program’s inception in 1946, more than 250,000 participants — chosen for their leadership potential — have had the opportunity to observe each other’s political, economic and cultural institutions.