Milena Jesenská Fellows

2005–2006

Sarah Wildman
Senior Correspondent for American Prospect, Washington, DC
Abroad at Home: Muslims and Jews in Modern Europe

2006–2007

Julie Denesha
Photojournalist, Alexandria, VA
Outcasts: The Roma of Slovakia

Aleksandra Starr
NPR correspondent, contributor to Slate, New York, NY
Reconfiguring European Identity: Immigration in Austria, Ireland, and Spain

Meline Toumani
Freelance journalist, contributor to the New York Times, the Nation, Salon.com, n+1, and more, New York, NY
Reform and Backlash in Turkey, and the Role of the European Union

2007–2008

Cynthia Haven
Freelance literary and cultural journalist, Palo Alto, CA
Poland’s Literary Legacy—the 20th Century and Beyond

Lisa Trei
Public Affairs Manager, Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation
David Versus Goliath: Estonia Faces Russia as it Marks 90 Years of Statehood and Survival

2008–2009

Ashley Ahearn
Producer/reporter, Public Radio International, Somerville, MA
The European Greenbelt: From Iron Curtain to Green Corridor

Catharine Richert
Reporter, Congressional Quarterly, Washington, DC
When it Comes to Biofuels, the European Union is Going Through Some Growing Pains

Carlin Romano
Literary Critic, the Philadelphia Inquirer; Critic-at-Large, the Chronicle of Higher Education; Lecturer of Media Theory and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
European Intellectuals and Anti-Americanism

Milena Jesenská (1896–1944) was an outstanding journalist and mediator between the Czech and the German cultures in Bohemia as well as an astute political commentator. She was detained in the Nazi concentration camp in Ravensbrück for her political involvement and resistance, where she died in 1944. She is widely known for her famous correspondence with Franz Kafka.