Program Summary:
The Fulbright Scholar Program sends more than 1,200 U.S. scholars and professionals each year to teach or conduct research in more than 125 countries and every region of the world. Fulbright Scholars have taught classes, helped with curriculum development, set up new programs, and engaged in collaborative work with colleagues around the world. They return to their campuses with new perspectives on their field, new materials for comparative courses, and fresh ideas for curriculum development.
Dr. Anne Richards will discuss her personal Fulbright experience and how it has contributed to her career. The presentation will include pictures of her grant experience as well as examples of the institutional impact the Fulbright Scholar Program has had on her campus. A series of publications on the Fulbright Scholar Program for US and visiting academics and professionals will be provided.
Anne R. Richards is Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, where she teaches professional communication and gender studies and is active in the university's peace studies minor. In 2008, she and co-editor Carol David published the anthology Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Composition and Communication (Parlor Press). Dr. Richards has published three articles on alternative rhetorics in Technical Communication Quarterly; the most recent article concerns the rhetoric of sound in new media. With Adrienne Lamberti, she is about to publish Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication, for Baywood's Technical Communication Series. With Iraj Omidvar, she is editing Muslims in American Popular Culture, a collection forthcoming with Praeger. She and Omidvar are also completing, for Syracuse University Press, a collection of travel writing by Easterners who have visited the West. In 2006-2007, Richards and Omidvar served as Fulbright Teaching Fellows in Tunisia.
Dr. Anne Richards is a participant in the Fulbright Ambassador Program. This program identifies, trains, and engages a select group of Fulbright scholar alumni to serve as representatives for the Fulbright program at campus workshops and academic conferences across the United States. For more than 60 years, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), a division of the Institute of International Education, has served as the collaborating agency for the U.S. Department of State in administering the Fulbright Scholar Program. The worldwide success and stellar reputation of the Fulbright Scholars Program has been built on the talent, commitment and professionalism of scholars who have served as Fulbright Scholars at universities and research institutions in more than 125 countries.
About the Fulbright Scholar Program:
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to "increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries." With this goal as a starting point, the Fulbright Program has provided almost 300,000 participants—chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential — with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.
Opportunities available to U.S. faculty and professionals through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program include:
The Core Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees teach and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
The Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program comprises approximately forty distinguished lecturing, distinguished research and distinguished lecturing/research awards ranging from three to 12 months. Candidates should be eminent scholars and have a significant publication and teaching record.
The Fulbright Specialists Program (FSP) promotes linkages between U.S. academics and professionals and their counterparts at universities abroad. The program is designed to award grants to qualified U.S. faculty and professionals, in select disciplines, to engage in short-term collaborative 2 to 6 week projects at higher education institutions in over 100 countries worldwide.
The Fulbright International Education Administrators Program is designed to introduce participants to the society, culture and higher education systems of these countries through campus visits, meetings with foreign colleagues and government officials, attendance at cultural events and briefings on education.
The German Studies Seminar is an annual two-week seminar which covers wide areas of contemporary Germany with program portions in Berlin and other cities in eastern and western Germany. Each year the seminar is dedicated to a special topic.
American and visiting scholars can participate in the New Century Scholars Program, which serves as a platform for scholars to engage in debate and dialogue on the many challenges of the 21st century.
Non-US scholars are eligible for the Core Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program, which brings 800 faculty and professionals from around the world to the United States for advanced research and university lecturing, and the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program.
