Anamaria Karrels Receives U.S. State Department Fellowship

2015 May 11

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation named University of Dayton senior human rights and international studies double major Anamaria Karrels a recipient of a 2015 Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship.

Administered for the U.S. Department of State by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the fellowships develop students whose academic backgrounds are of interest to the State Department and who are dedicated to representing America's interests abroad.

Selected in their junior year, Pickering undergraduate fellows receive financial support towards tuition and other expenses during their senior year of college and first year of graduate study.

Fellows participate in one domestic and one overseas internship. Upon the completion of their master's degree, they commit to five years of service as a foreign service officer.

The mission of a U.S. diplomat in the foreign service is to promote peace, support prosperity, and protect American citizens while advancing the interests of the U.S. abroad.

The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program is named in honor of one of the most distinguished American diplomats of the latter half of the 20th century. Ambassador Pickering holds the rank of career ambassador, the highest rank in the U.S. foreign service. He served as ambassador to Nigeria, El Salvador, Israel, India and the Russian Federation, finishing his career in the foreign service as under secretary of state for political affairs.