Fulbright US Scholar Program Edition
Dr. Christopher J. Miller is a senior lecturer in music at Cornell University, where he directs the gamelan ensemble and steel band and teaches courses on the music of Indonesia and East Asia. He started his academic career studying music composition at the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. At.. Read More.
Dr. John Mischler is an associate professor of environmental sciences, sustainability, and environmental education at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana. He is teaching at Universitas Nusa Cendana in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, for his Fulbright US Scholar Teaching Award. Dr. Mischler focuses on experiential learning, specifically place-based education within an environmental context. He has published.. Read More.
Sunny Lie Owens is an associate professor of communication at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research interests include culture and communication, the relationship between religious communication and ethnic identity, and cross-cultural perceptions of love and dating. Her work has appeared in publications such.. Read More.
Loyce L. Arthur, an emeritus associate professor at the University of Iowa, received a Fulbright grant to teach at Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Denpasar. She has designed costumes for over 100 productions over the course of her career. She is fascinated with costumes, masks, and puppets far beyond a traditional theater stage. She was the.. Read More.
Dr. Jared Whitehead is a professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University who specializes in applied mathematics pertaining to geophysical applications. He has worked on improving the numerical modelling of the earth’s climate, developing rigorous bounding methods for statistical quantities in turbulent transport, and more recently novel approaches to inverse problems in data assimilation and.. Read More.
Dr. Yuri Mansury’s Fulbright project, “Transforming Slash-and-Burn Practices to Sustainable Farming in Central and East Java,” considers how attitudes, peer influences, and poverty affect farming methods in Javanese forest villages. Taking as goals (1) the identification of eco-friendly alternatives and (2) assessing the potential for these alternatives to improve villagers’ economic conditions, Dr. Mansury employs.. Read More.
As a US Fulbright Scholar, Dr Rebecca Young is researching indigenous pre-Christian spirituality and religious beliefs in the Papua highlands. The research project lasts from September 2024 to May 2025. This project focuses on the beliefs and faith practices of the people of the Papua highlands prior to the arrival of missionaries in the 1950s.. Read More.
Dr. Zhiqiang John Zhai is a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the site director of the US National Science Foundation Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST) Center. He has a unique and integrated background in architecture and engineering, with a.. Read More.
Dr. Don DeGraaf is the former senior director of educational programs at the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and is a Fulbright Scholar at the Universitas Pelita Harapan in Tangerang, Indonesia, where he is teaching and presenting on experiential education. Prior to his work in higher education, Don served as a US Peace.. Read More.
Dr. Andy McGraw is an associate professor and chair of music at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He is the author of “Radical Traditions: Reimagining Culture in Balinese Experimental Music” (Oxford 2013) and “Music as Ethics” (Oxford 2023). He has co-edited two volumes on Indonesian music: “Performing Indonesia with Sumarsam” (Smithsonian 2014) and “Sounding.. Read More.
