Fulbright grants send professors to Norway, Latvia

Professors Harvey Jacobs and David Trubek have been awarded Fulbright senior specialist grants, giving them an opportunity to travel, lecture and collaborate with their peers abroad.

Jacobs, a professor with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, will be based at the Department of Landuse and Landscape Planning at the Agricultural University of Norway, outside of Oslo. A former director of the UW–Madison Land Tenure Center, his work on land ownership, social structure, economic development, political organization and environmental sustainability is internationally known.

Trubek, Voss-Bascom Professor and director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, will travel to the Riga Graduate School of Law in Latvia. A former dean of international students, Trubek specializes in international economic law and has won several major prizes for his research and teaching. He is currently on leave.

Shorter in duration than the Fulbright Scholar program, senior specialists are awarded two- to six-week grants to support curricular and faculty development at academic institutions in 140 countries around the world. Recipients participate in a handful of institutional development activities, including teacher training, assessing and developing educational materials, and leading seminars and workshops.

The program is sponsored by the U.S. State Department and designed to increase mutual understanding between Americans and people of other countries.

In addition, 24 UW–Madison students have received major student awards for international study. The grants, for 2002-03, are Fulbright Institute of International Education Grants for Graduate Study and Research Abroad, and Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program grants.

Nineteen UW–Madison students or graduates are recipients of the Fulbright IIE Grants for Graduate Study and Research Abroad. The students, their areas of study and the countries in which they will study are: Hillary Anderson, medicine, Sweden; Daniel Diaz, sociology, Venezuela; Erin Ehmen, theology/religion, India; Ryan Galt, environmental geography, Costa Rica; James Isaac, teaching assistantship, Germany; Lisa Kenney, economic development, Thailand; Matthew Lange, German literature, Germany; Brendan Luecke, environmental studies, Russia, Mike Messner, psychology, Italy; John Moraitis, musicology, Austria; Mike Niedermeyer, social work, Brazil; Kevin O’Connor, computer science, Switzerland; Sasha Pack, history, Spain; Devah Pager, sociology, France; John Riordan, history, Uzbekistan; Carl-Gustav Scott, history, Sweden; Joshua Steuwer, teaching assistant, Germany; Marcus Weaver-Hightower, education, Australia; Ian Wendt, history, the Netherlands.

Five UW–Madison students are recipients of Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program awards. The students, their areas of study and the countries in which they will study are: Rachel De Motts, African politics, South Africa; Libbie Freed, African history, Central African Republic and Cameroon; Eric Haanstad, anthropology, Thailand; Lawrence Markowitz, political science, Uzbekistan; Gary Marquardt, African history, Namibia.