Fulbright US Scholar Program Edition

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.

Dr. Jaeshil Kim is a linguistics professor at Liberty University and a Fulbright scholar at Universitas Airlangga in Surabaya, East Java. Her teaching interests encompass syntax and morphology, introduction to linguistics, linguistics for language teachers, and second language acquisition. Jaeshil’s research focuses on referentiality and plurality in classifier languages, the syntax and semantics of classifiers,.. Read More.

Dr. Ioana Mihaila is a full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at California State Polytechnic University Pomona and a Fulbright Scholar at the Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her teaching interests include real and complex analysis, topology, and combinatorics. She is interested in problem-solving and mathematical competitions. Ioana received her PhD.. Read More.