Molly Roza, a Roseville native who performed in area community theater productions, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship to Austria to pursue studies in modern history.
Roza attended Sierra College and graduated this spring from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Ga, where she majored in history and minored in German. She is now in Vienna where she will pursue a doctorate at the University of Vienna, said her father. John Roza, a Roseville chiropractor. Molly Roza is the eldest of five children, all of whom have been home schooled, said her father.
Her Fulbright project is titled "Beyond the Rubble: Women in Postwar Vienna, an Oral History." She will interview older Austrian women about their lives, focusing on their experiences during Vienna's 10-year Allied occupation.
She also will teach English at a Viennese "gymnasium," or university preparatory high school
Her father said she is fluent in Spanish and German. Her goal is to become a college history professor.
The Fulbright Program is an international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Recipients are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields
Growing up, Roza performed with the Magic Circle Theatre in Roseville and the Chautauqua Playhouse in Carmichael. Her father said she also is an accomplished seamstress who has worked in costume design.
She continued to combine her love of history and theater arts at Agnes Scott College, where she received the Brookings Award, granted to a student who has made a profound impact on the school's theater department, and the Inez Norton Edwards Award for outstanding scholarship and collaborative work with a history professor.
-- Cathy Locke
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