Fulbright Awardees

2023-2024 Recipients

Deepa Das Acevedo, Associate Professor  |  UA News Press Release School of Law Dr. Deepa Das Acevedo received a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship and will travel to Bengaluru, India, where she will be a visiting faculty member at the National Law School of India University. She will teach and conduct fieldwork starting in January 2024.

 

Cory Callahan, Associate Professor  |  UA News Press Release College of Education Dr. Cory Callahan received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to collaborate with the faculty of education at the University of Prishtina in Kosovo. Callahan will teach undergraduate and graduate students in social studies methods courses, help develop a teacher education program that centers round civic education, and research wise-practices for promoting Civic Competence for International and Global Education.

 

Ellen Csikai, Professor  |  UA News Press Release School of Social Work Dr. Ellen Csikai received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and will travel to Murcia, Spain, to teach and conduct research at the Universidad de Murcia. She will teach in the areas of health and gerontology, specifically in palliative and end-of-life care in courses at all social work program levels, post-masters training, across campus and the community. Her research is expected to have implications for social work and gerontological practice as well as in policy advocacy to improve the lives of caregivers of seriously ill older adults in both the U.S. and Spain.

Prasad Gogineni, Professor  |  UA News Press Release College of Engineering Dr. Prasad Gogineni received a Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship Award and will travel to Kanpur, India, where he will conduct research to design and develop airborne sensors for large-scale characterization of snow and ice in the Himalayas in collaboration with faculty and students at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur. The project will also involve collaboration with the Indian National Center for Polar and Oceans Research. Gogineni will travel to India in August.

 

Bryan Koronkiewicz, Associate Professor  |  UA News Press Release College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Bryan Koronkiewicz received a Fulbright Scholar Award and will travel to Murcia, Spain, to teach and research linguistics at the Universidad de Murcia. He will teach two graduate courses and assist with supervising graduate students on the use of linguistic methods in their research projects. His proposed research project is an experimental study on intra-sentential Spanish-English code-switching, the linguistic phenomenon that occurs when bilinguals mix elements from both of their languages in the same utterance.

Eric Weisbard, Professor  |  UA News Press Release College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Eric Weisbard received the Fulbright-Uppsala University Distinguished Scholar in American Studies and will travel to Uppsala, Sweden, where he will teach and research at Uppsala University. His courses will introduce Swedish undergraduates and graduate students to American studies as a field and to popular music studies as a part of American studies.

2022-2023 Recipients

Cory Callahan, Associate Professor  |  UA News Press Release College of Education Dr. Cory Callahan received a Fulbright Specialist Award and recently completed a trip to Prishtinë, Kosovo, to collaborate on the development of a teacher education program that centers around civic education.

 

Y. John Kim, Associate Professor  |  UA News Press Release College of Engineering Dr. Y. John Kim was selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar. Kim will visit the Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, or iBET, at NOVA University in Lisbon, Portugal. He will collaborate with Professor Paula Marques Alves, chief executive officer of iBET, on a joint project on advanced biomanufacturing of tumor organoids, which are miniaturized tissue-like three-dimensional structures that better recapitulate physiological features.

 

George Daniels, Associate Professor  |  UA News Press Release College of Communication & Information Sciences Dr. George Daniels will participate in the pilot cohort of the Global Challenges Teaching Award through the US-UK Fulbright Commission and American Council on Education; a virtual international exchange using the Collaborative Online International Learning, or COIL, method of teaching.

2021-2022 Recipients

Leigh Terry, Assistant Professor |  UA News Press Release College of Engineering Dr. Terry traveled to Barranquilla, Colombia to work with the faculty at the Universidad del Norte on research and teaching projects related to water quality.

 

Andrew Raffo Dewar, Professor  |  UA News Press Release New College and School of Music Dr. Dewar visited the Antonio Nariño University in Bogotá, Colombia where he gave two public seminars on experimental music and intermedia arts, discussing both the history of those art forms and his own creative research in those fields. He also won a Fulbright Scholar award.

2020-2021 Recipients

Subhabrata Chakraborti, Professor | UA News Press Release Culverhouse College of Business, department of information systems, statistics and management science Dr. Chakraborti visited the Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil, which was hosted by the production engineering department. His visit involved research, teaching and mentoring.

Glenn Tootle, Associate Professor  | UA News Press Release College of Engineering, department of civil, construction and environmental engineering Dr. Tootle visited the University of Trento, Italy. He taught courses in paleohydrology and hydroclimatology, focusing on Alpine watersheds in the region.

Peter Brummund, Associate Professor | UA News Press Release Culverhouse College of Business, department of economics, finance and legal studies Dr. Brummund visited Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. He taught two classes and worked on a research project examining the effect of immigration on the negotiation over wages between employers and employees.

2019-2020 Recipients

Anwarul Haque, Associate Professor  | UA News Press Release College of Engineering, department of aerospace engineering and mechanics College of Engineering, Center for Advanced Vehicle Technology Dr. Haque visited the Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain, as a lecturer in solid materials. His research presentation was on composite materials.

Edward Sazonov, Professor  | UA News Press Release College of Engineering, department of electrical and computer engineering Dr. Sazonov visited University of Newcastle, Australia. His research centered on sensor-driven assessment of infant feeding: Can technology quantify the differences in feeding patterns?

Kevin H. Shaughnessy, Professor  | UA News Press Release College of Arts & Sciences, department of chemistry and biochemistry Dr. Shaughnessy visited the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. His lecture and research topic was on the mechanistic study of boron-iodine bond activation by palladium in close-boron clusters.

Fran Oneal, Instructor  | UA News Press Release Capstone International Center Dr. Oneal visited The American University in Cairo, Egypt to guest lecture in political science topics.

 

Norma Cuellar, Professor  | UA News Press Release Capstone College of Nursing Dr. Cuellar worked with the faculty at Universidad Maria Auxiliadora, Peru in Public and Global Health research.

2018-2019 Recipients

Steven Jones, Professor | UA News Press Release College of Engineering, Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering Dr. Jones visited the Namibian University of Science and Technology, as a lecturer and researcher. His project was entitled: Improving Transportation Safety in Namibia through Human-Centered Research and Education.

 

Angela Benson, Associate Professor | UA News Press Release College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Technology Studies Dr. Benson visited the University of Namibia, as a lecturer and researcher. Her project was entitled: The Role of Culture in Technology-Mediated Learning Spaces.

 

Catherine Roach, Professor | UA News Press Release College of Arts and Sciences, New College Dr. Roach visited the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece to study within the discipline of American (US) Studies.

2017-2018 Recipients 

Samantha Hansen, Associate Professor  | UA News Press Release College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Geological Sciences Dr. Hansen visited the National Observatory of Athens in Greece as a researcher. Her project was entitled: High-Resolution Imaging of Mantle Structure for Improved Geologic Hazard Assessment Along the Western Hellenic Subduction Zone.

 

Gregory Starr, Associate Professor   | UA News Press Release College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences Dr. Starr visited the National Institute for Agricultural Research – Montpelier in France as a researcher. His project was titled: Food Security and Human Populations Growth: Trading Water for Carbon to Increase Food Production for the 21st Century.

2016-2017 Recipients

Randall Schumacker, Professor  | UA News Press Release College of Education, Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methods, and Counseling Dr. Schumacker visited the University of Macao as a lecturer and researcher. His project was entitled: Latent Class Techniques Using Education Data.

 

Pamela Payne-Foster, Professor  | UA News Press Release College of Community Health Sciences Dr. Payne-Foster visited Cadi Ayyad University in Morrocco as a specialist to study within the discipline of Public and Global Health.