Angela Brobson ’23 Receives Fulbright U.S. Student Program Award

Written by Chris Worthy

Angela Brobson ’23 (Nisbet Scholar) is ready for a whirlwind year.

She is among the fewer than 2,000 recent college graduates, graduate students and early career professionals who received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award for the 2026-2027 school year. Brobson will serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Germany.

Brobson, who is from Spartanburg, earned a Bachelor of Arts in German Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, along with a minor in Data Science. She took on every challenge during her time at Converse University, accumulating a long resume, including participating in the Nisbet Honors Program, serving as Student Government Association President, playing soccer and participating in Model NATO and Model Arab League.

“I also presented at regional and national conferences, and I won an award with one of my presentations at a regional conference,” she said.

That experience led to her current role as a fraud analyst, but this fall, she takes a new, exciting step and adds yet another rarity to her resume. Brobson will pack her bags and reach for her dream of combining her varied interests in one life changing experience.

Stretching Her Skills

“I enjoy the analytical side of math, and my mom is German,” she said. “I’m very excited because, well, I don’t know what school I’m going to yet.”

Brobson will learn the details over the summer, but she knows it will be in a German state that is near her mother’s family. She will serve in a classroom as an assistant to a primary English teacher, offering students insight into her life in the United States.

“My senior seminar for my German class was about famine in the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, so I will see where the Brothers Grimm lived, where they worked, where the forests are that might have inspired those tales.”

Angela Brobson ’23

“I applied for this because I wanted to use both of my majors, but also, I will really enjoy it. What I want to do when I come back is possibly go back to school and be a policy analyst. This will help me do a bunch of day-to-day things in a country where I’m not as familiar with the governmental structure, to see how those impacts are.”

And she already has plans to bring a bit of her Converse University experience along.

“I’m going to visit the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Trail,” she said. “My senior seminar for my German class was about famine in the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, so I will see where the Brothers Grimm lived, where they worked, where the forests are that might have inspired those tales.”

Well Prepared to Lead

Brobson said her time at Converse University helped prepare her for this next challenge, and she even received support and encouragement as she applied for the Fulbright Program.

“There were a lot of opportunities for transferable skills, because they really encourage you to get involved with campus life…”

Angela Brobson ’23

“There were a lot of opportunities for transferable skills, because they really encourage you to get involved with campus life, whether that’s through student government or professors saying, ‘You should take advantage of this math conference or be a Girls Who Code facilitator,’” she said. “When it came to applying for this, I was able to ask questions of professors…as well as fellow alumni.”

This next chapter promises to be a fairy tale all its own.

“I’m excited to see the museums, excited to collaborate with teaching the students,” Brobson said. “One of the things that I want to do is work on communication with the students, because everyone is talking about AI, but the thing that doesn’t go away is how important communication is between people.”