The Council for International Exchange of Scholars honored four University professors as Fulbright Scholars this year to encourage international educational exchange. The University also is hosting a Fulbright Scholar from Jordan.
Each Fulbright Scholar receives a grant ranging from $10,000 to $40,000.
The University's Fulbrights include Herman Schwartz, an associate professor of government and foreign affairs, and English Prof. Stephen Arata. Schwartz visited the University of Calgary in Canada to research the interactions between the global economy and the welfare state. Arata traveled to North Eastern Hill University in India to lecture on literature.
Arata said he was skeptical only at first about the value of his teaching to Indian students. Soon the students "were really interested in hearing about [late Victorian novels] from the perspective of someone who came from the culture that produced them," he added.
Arata said he plans to incorporate his new knowledge of Indian culture into a course he is eager to teach at the University on Indian literature in English.
The United States Fulbright Foundation, which raises funding for the Fulbright Scholarship Program, seeks to encourage the sharing of knowledge among international cultures, Schwartz said.
Professors who wish to go overseas must submit an application to the Council for review. Universities that wish to receive foreign professors also must submit an application to the Council, which is charged with distributing the United States Fulbright Foundation's money. All nations that wish to participate in the Fulbright program must donate money to the Foundation, Schwartz said.
Of this year's five Fulbright Scholars associated with the University, only one is a foreign professor visiting Grounds. Biology Prof. Temimi Samih from the University of Jordan came to Charlottesville to research nitrogen fixation in legumes. The remaining two scholars, Government Profs. Scott MacGregor and James Savage, both are still out of the country and were unavailable to comment on their work.
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