Fulbright College Faculty Development Committee Names 2015 Awardees

Fulbright College Faculty Development Committee Names 2015 Awardees
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Faculty Development Committee in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences has named the winners of the Cambridge Fellowships, Summer Research Stipends and Dissertation Research Awards. The committee chooses recipients annually for these three honors.

Two graduate assistants in the Department of English were given Dissertation Research Awards. Sara Nicholson and Rachael Price will each use the $5,000 grant to travel to archives to conduct research for their dissertations.

Four faculty members were awarded Summer Research Stipends. Kathleen Comfort, associate professor in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Geffrey Davis, assistant professor in the Department of English; Brandon Jackson, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice; and Ellen Leen-Feldner, associate professor in the Department of Psychological Science will each receive $5,000 to further their research.

Associate professors Andrew Raich in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Shauna Morimoto in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice serve as visiting fellows at Wolfson College and Lucy Cavendish College, respectively, at the University of Cambridge in England for the 2015-16 academic year.

The visiting fellow program gives tenure-track faculty the opportunity to join the vibrant academic community at the University of Cambridge, which celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2009. Visiting scholars are typically engaged in teaching and/or research at the university or in a recognized research establishment while in Cambridge.

The partnership between Fulbright College at the University of Arkansas and Wolfson College and Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge began in 1988. Since that time, faculty members from 14 of Fulbright College's 19 departments have been chosen as fellows. Participating departments include anthropology, art, biological sciences, chemistry and biochemistry, communication, English, geosciences, history, journalism, mathematical sciences, music, philosophy, sociology and criminal justice, and world languages, literatures and cultures.

Contacts

Darinda Sharp, director of communications
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-3712, dsharp@uark.edu

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