Two Middlebury College faculty receive
Fulbright Scholar grants for 2005-06
MIDDLEBURY, Vt.—Associate Professor Jeffrey Cason and Scholar in Residence Walker Connor, both members of the political science department at Middlebury College, are 2005-2006 recipients of Fulbright Scholar Program grants. Established in 1946 by Senator J. William Fulbright, the Fulbright Scholar Program proposes to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. The Fulbright Scholar grants are awarded annually so that grantees can lecture and conduct research abroad in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. Cason and Walker were selected from among 850 faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to more than 150 countries.
Cason, on academic leave from Middlebury, is currently in Florianopolis, Brazil, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where he is researching and lecturing on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), with a focus on Brazil and the United States. He will remain in Brazil until June 2006.
Connor, an authority on nationalism who coined the term "ethnonationlism" to define a politicized group affiliation based on inherent traits of its members, is in Canada, studying at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, studying the literature of ethnonationalism, through January 2006.
According to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), the organization that administers the Fulbright Scholar program, colleges and universities are increasingly challenged to internationalize their campuses by developing and strengthening international programs. The contributions of visiting and returning U.S. Fulbright scholars are instrumental in achieving these goals.
— Blair Kloman