UNM hosts four visiting Fulbright Scholars
Three University of New Mexico faculty have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants during the 2005-06 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Additionally, UNM hosts four Fulbright Scholars.
Elizabeth Hutchison, associate professor, Department of History, will lecture on “Gender History in the Americas: Building Ties to Spain,” at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain during the fall semester.
James and Connie Thorson, emeriti professors in the Department of English and the University Libraries, respectively, are lecturing on American Culture: Libraries, Higher Education and American Studies, at Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, Minsk, Belarus.
Vicenc Acuna Salazar, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, at the University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, will conduct research on Effects of Pulse Events at Different Spatial Scales on Arid Land Stream Ecosystems.
Marcin Maria Kilarski, assistant professor, Department of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, will conduct research on Formal Approaches to Nominal Classification Systems.
Premysl Macha, assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic, will research Indigenous Nationalism as a New Political Ideology: The Dynamics of Indigenous Nationalism in the Americas.
Helene Wallaert, associate research scholar, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, will lecture and research on Building Social Interaction, Constructing Cultural Ties and Developing Style: Pottery Making and Apprenticeship Strategies in a Group of New Mexico Pueblos.
The group is among approximately 850 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 150 countries for the 2005-06 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 59 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. They are among more than 265,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields. Among thousands of prominent U.S. Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics; James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and Nobel Laureate in Medicine; Rita Dove, Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.