Four Georgetown Professors Receive Fulbright Scholar Awards
Washington, D.C. -- The United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board recently announced that Georgetown University faculty members Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Jeffrey Peck, Joanne Rappaport and Veronica Salles-Reese have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture and conduct research overseas for the 2006-2007 academic year.
(Media-Newswire.com) - “I congratulate these four faculty members on this opportunity to pursue research interests abroad,” said Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia. “This prestigious recognition highlights the work our scholars regularly pursue to foster mutual understanding and contribute to development of knowledge around the globe.”
Menkel-Meadow, Peck, Rappaport and Salles-Reese are four of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad for the 2006-2007 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. Prominent U.S. Fulbright Scholar alumni include 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.
Georgetown University Law Center Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow received a Fulbright Scholar Award for work in Chile during the 2007 spring semester. An international expert on alternative dispute resolution, civil procedure and legal ethics, Menkel-Meadow holds the A.B. Chettle, Jr. Chair in Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure at Georgetown Law. While in Chile, she will lecture and do research on the use of dispute resolution practices as Chile pursues significant law reform efforts in areas ranging from commercial law to family relations and democratic governance. She will be affiliated with Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago and the Autonomous University of the South in Temuco.
Jeffrey Peck is professor in Georgetown’s Communication, Culture and Technology Program and Senior Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies ( AICGS ). Peck will spend October 2006 through February 2007 at Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany where he is affiliated with the Departments of Cultural Studies and Theology ( Program, Religion and Politics ). He is also involved in building the new Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies at Humboldt. Aside from these duties and teaching, he is doing research on the relationship of Jewish Studies in Germany to evolving Jewish identities. During 1990-1991, he was a Fulbright Professor at the Free University, Berlin, and in the summer of 1994, he taught at the Humboldt University. Peck’s research focuses on questions of national and minority identities, particularly German-Jewish life since unification and contemporary responses to the Holocaust in a transatlantic context.
Joanne Rappaport, an anthropologist with a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Georgetown University, will spend the spring 2007 semester at National University of Colombia in Bogota, Colombia studying race and mestizaje, or mixing of races, in early colonial Bogota. Her interests include ethnicity, historical anthropology, new social movements, literacy, race, and Andean ethnography and ethnohistory. Her most recent book is Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Dialogue in Colombia ( Duke University Press 2005 ).
Veronica Salles-Reese is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and also serves as director of the Latin American Studies certificate program and director of the Quito Summer Program at Georgetown. An expert in Latin American literature, Salles-Reese will spend the fall 2006 semester at Javeriana University in Bogota teaching colonial narratives and researching the construction of a Jesuit cosmopolitan community through their epistolar tradition. Her research interests include colonial Latin America, the Andean region, cultural hybridization and daily life in colonial Peru. She is the author of From Viracocha to the Virgin of Copacabana: History of the Representation of the Sacred ( University of Texas Press, 1997 ), she is the editor of Colonial Latin America: A Multidisciplinary Approach ( 1998 ), and also the editor of Remembering the Past, Retrieving the Future. New Interdisciplinary approches to the study of Colonial Latin America ( 2005 ) and numerous journal articles. In addition to these faculty members, 11 foreign scholars were awarded 2006-2007 Visiting Fulbright Scholar grants to research or lecture at Georgetown University from countries abroad including China, Spain, New Zealand, Japan, Russia, Argentina, Egypt, and Australia.
The Fulbright Program, established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, aims to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world. Sponsored by the U.S Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the program has exchanged over a quarter of a million people and currently operates in more than 150 countries. The Fulbright Scholar Program is managed by the Council for International Exchanges of Scholars ( CIES ), a private, nonprofit organization. For additional information on the Fulbright Scholar Program, visit www.cies.org.
About Georgetown University
Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in America, founded in 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll. Georgetown today is a major student-centered, international, research university offering respected undergraduate, graduate and professional programs on its three campuses in Washington, DC. For more information about Georgetown University, visit www.georgetown.edu.
Contact: Andrea E Sarubbi 202-687-4328 aes54@georgetown.edu
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