NASHVILLE, Tenn. – An international student adviser and a professor from Vanderbilt University were awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for the 2006-07 academic year, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Marci Angevine, an international student adviser, and William Franke, associate professor of comparative literature and Italian, are among 800 faculty and professionals from the United States who won Fulbright Scholarships to travel abroad to lecture or do research. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program‘s purpose is to build mutual understanding between people of the United States and the rest of the world.
Franke will lecture at the University of Salzburg in Austria on “Apophatic Theology as a Key to Opening Intercultural Dialogue Today” from March to July of 2007. Angevine spent June and July of 2006 in Japan, participating in a seminar by the U.S.-Japan International Education Administrators Program.
In addition, two Fulbright Scholars from overseas are visiting Vanderbilt this year. They are Anca Maria Campian and Saule Nurkenova.
Campian, a European Studies scholar at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, will be at Vanderbilt through March researching “The Pragmatism and the European Political Philosophy.” Nurkenova, head of the English department at East-Kazakhstan State University in Kazakhstan, is researching “Leadership in a Changing Environment” at Vanderbilt through May.
Fulbright recipients are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement as well as demonstrated leadership in their fields. The Fulbright program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.
The program operates in more than 150 countries worldwide.
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