Hillsboro native wins Fullbright scholarship

Hillsboro native and Kansas State University senior Jakob Hanschu received the 2019-2020 Fulbright scholarship to study critical theory and politics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

Hanschu studied geography and anthropology at Kansas State, receiving the Huber Self Geography Scholarship and Patricia J. O’Brien Scholarship in Archaeology.

In addition to the Fulbright, he was a Rhodes scholarship finalist, He also earned first place at the 2018 Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association of Geographers Undergraduate Paper Competition and received an Undergraduate Student Poster Award from the Society for American Archaeology/Institute for Field Research.