EWS Alum Simon Gerst '19 Selected for Fulbright Program
Simon Gerst (EWS '19), a senior triple-major in Jewish Studies, German, and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, has been selected for a Fulbright award to study in Kyrgyzstan for the 2024-2025 academic year.
While in Kyrgyzstan, Simon will undertake research on a project entitled “No One is Forgotten: Rediscovering Kyrgyzstan’s Lost Jewish Émigrés.” He will be a visiting scholar at the Central Asian Studies Institute at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek.