Contact the Office of Fellowships
The Office of Fellowships is located in Loyola 100.
Main Office: (206) 296-5740
Staff
Luke Green
, Director
Luke earned his B.A. in English Literature from Indiana University and an M.A. in Psychology from Seattle University. He has served for seven years in Seattle University’s Office of Fellowships, first as the program coordinator and now as director. In this role, he assists SU students and alumni find and apply for academic scholarships and grants. Luke is an executive board member of the National Association of Fellowships Advisors and is chair of the NAFA International Study Tour committee. Luke’s professional and academic interests center on interpersonal and group dynamics, the role of narrative in understanding, and the ways in which humanistic psychological theory can be applied in the context of developmental advising.
greenl@seattleu.edu
(206) 296-2517
Caitlin Blomquist, Graduate Assistant
Caitlin is a graduate student in the Student Development Administration program at Seattle University. She received her B.A. in Psychology and minor in Spanish from the University of Puget Sound, where she worked as a writing advisor. Prior to graduate school, she served with AmeriCorps and worked for a public relations firm and the University of Washington Department of Radiology.
blomqui1@seattleu.edu
(206) 296-6025
Faculty Representatives
Serena Cosgrove, Fulbright 
Program
Dr. Cosgrove is an
anthropologist and sociologist whose research brings attention to the amazing
achievements of women nonprofit leaders in the global south. Her recent
book, Leadership from the Margins: Women and Civil Society Organizations in
Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador (Rutgers 2010), focuses on women’s nonprofit
leadership in Latin America. She has started carrying out similar
research in Zambia (2011) and Ghana (2012). Dr. Cosgrove got a Fulbright
fellowship to carry out her dissertation research in El Salvador in 1996-1997
and will be going back to Zambia this next year as a Fulbright Specialist.
cosgrovs@seattleu.edu
John Carter, Math/Science/Engineering Fellowships
John is an Associate Professor of Mathematics. His teaching interests include Differential Equations, Calculus, and courses with significant applied mathematics content. Working with a team of outstanding undergraduates and colleagues from around the world, Dr. Carter studies how waves propagate in the deep ocean and how tsunamis evolve as they approach a coastline. This area of research is especially exciting right now due to the immense current interest generated by the recent tsunamis.
carterj1@seattleu.edu
(206) 296-5956
Mary Beth Falkner, Boren (NSEP) and Gilman Scholarships
Mary Beth is an Education Abroad Specialist. She guides the discernment process for students seeking to identify SU, SU-Approved or Non-SU programs that best meet their goals, needs, and preparation. In concert with Faculty Directors and Liaisons, Mary Beth coordinates application and selection processes for SU programs. She organizes orientation and re-entry programming and serves as the primary point-person for students currently abroad. Previously Mary Beth served as the Study Abroad Coordinator and Interim Director of International Programs at Saint Martin's University. She studied abroad in Costa Rica and holds a B.A. in Global Studies and Spanish from Providence College.
falknerm@seattleu.edu
(206) 296-2532
Bridget Hiedemann, Truman Scholarship
Bridget is an Associate Professor of Economics. She teaches a variety of statistics courses as well as economics of gender and the family. Her scholarly work focuses primarily on decision making within families. Recent work on families' provision of formal and informal care for the elderly is forthcoming in The International Economic Review. From 2005-2007, she served as the Patricia Wismer Professor of Gender and Diversity Studies. In this role, she organized an interdisciplinary conference entitled "Intersections of Race and Gender: (Re) Imagining the Family." In her free time, Dr. Hiedemann enjoys tennis and open water swimming.
bgh@seattleu.edu
(206) 296-2803
Tanya Hayes, Udall 
Scholarship
Dr. Hayes is an Assistant Professor of Environmental
Studies, Institute of Public Service, Public Affairs. She teaches undergraduate
courses in environmental studies, public affairs and Masters' courses in public
administration. Her research examines the institutional and socioeconomic
aspects of environmental change and sustainable ecosystem management. She
has spent several years in Latin America living and working with peasant
farmers and indigenous peoples on soil conservation and forest
management. Currently, Dr. Hayes is assessing the impacts of
incentive-based programs for forest conservation on private lands in the East
Andes, Colombia.
hayest@seattleu.edu
(206) 296-5485
Kate Koppelman, U.K. Fellowships
Dr. Koppelman is an Associate Professor of English, Film
Studies, Medieval Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. Her teaching and research
explore moments of textual, cultural, and historical anxiety—moments of
“unknowing” or uncertainty regarding individual, national, or religious
identities. She is particularly interested in the culture of the Middle Ages
for what it can teach us about our own efforts to negotiate between and among
various external (and sometimes internal) expectations.
koppelk@seattleu.edu
(206) 296-5476
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