Arts and Sciences Fulbright Scholars
2010-2011 Arts and Sciences Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays Scholars
Two faculty members from The College of Arts and Sciences have been selected as recipients of Fulbright fellowships and four doctoral candidates from Arts and Sciences have been awarded the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Award.
U.S. Fulbright Scholars
Fulbright Scholar Programs offer U.S. faculty, administrators and professionals grants to lecture, do research or participate in seminars. Recipients are selected by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, which administers the program for the U.S. Department of State. Arts and Sciences recipients are:
Craig Jenkins, (Sociology), for "Conflict Dynamics and International Security" at International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway, July 2010 - March 2011.
Robert J. McMahon (History), for "The Pearl Harbor Attack and the Origins of the Pacific War: Contested Memories in the U.S. and Japan" at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, July 2010- August 2011.
Fulbright-Hays Recipients
The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Award provides support for advanced graduate students studying modern foreign languages and area studies. Arts and Sciences recipients are:
Benjamin Gatling, Department of Near Easter Languages and Cultures, will conduct research for his dissertation in Tajikistan for 12 months examining the topic of Poetry, Power, and Pedagogy: Sufi Ritual in Tajikistan.
Catalina Hunt, Department of History, will travel to Turkey and Romania for ten months to conduct her dissertation research on the Changing Identities at the Fringes of the Late Ottoman Empire: The Turks & Tatars of Dobruca, 1839-1914.
Cameron Jones, Department of History, will conduct research for six months in Peru and six months in Spain examining the role of frontier missions as a critical component of Spain's imperial enterprise.
Ian Lanzillotti, Department of History, will travel to Russia for nine months to research the role of states in forging national consciousness, governance and security in multiethnic and multiconfessional states, and the legacies of colonialism and empire.