Fulbright US Scholar Program Edition
Dr Rachel Rinaldo is conducting a research project on women and work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia as a Fulbright US Scholar. Her research period is from October 2022 through early August 2023. She was previously a Fulbright-Hays awardee in 2002-2003 for her dissertation research on women’s activism. Based in Yogyakarta, Dr.. Read More.
Geoff Dougherty is a Fulbright US Senior Scholar at Diponegoro University (UNDIP), with visits to Airlangga University (UNAIR) and Sepuluh November Institute of Technology (ITS) in Surabaya. Through these engagements, he assessed and developed image processing curricula and educational materials, delivered seminars and workshops on image processing and pattern recognition, and conducted training on writing.. Read More.
Cynthia Twyford Fowler is conducting a research project entitled “Linking Environmental Change with Freshwater Ecology: An Ethnography of Water in Indonesia’s Arid Southeast.” Nusa Cendana University is hosting the project with professor of anthropology Dr Blajan Konradus, as the counterpart. Cynthia is serving as a Fulbright US Scholar from August 2022 through January 2023. Cynthia’s.. Read More.
Patricia Gail Patrick (Trish) is conducting a research project entitled “Sumatran Traditional Healers: Leaders of Conservation Knowledge and Ecological Understanding,” hosted by the Bengkulu University (UNIB) under the 2022 Fulbright US Scholar Program. Her research period is from October 2022 to April 2023. This is her second Fulbright. She was completing a similar project in.. Read More.
As a Fulbright US scholar, Dr Samad Chakour is teaching at Medan Tourism Polytechnic. In addition to building cultural bridges between Indonesia and the US, through teaching Indonesian students about the US culture, language, business, and entrepreneurial mindset, Samad is working hard to inspire a young generation of entrepreneurs and hospitality-minded students to pursue both.. Read More.
Whitney Bauman is an associate professor of religious studies at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He is also co-founder and co-director of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge, a non-profit based in Berlin, Germany, that holds public discussions over social and ecological issues related to globalization and climate change. His areas of research interest fall under the.. Read More.
Lev Horodyskyj is teaching hybrid geosciences, public policy and diplomacy courses to students at Universitas Khairun in Ternate from February through August 2020 under US Fulbright Scholar program. During these courses, in addition to learning fundamental geoscience concepts, students will have the opportunity to negotiate and debate international policies linked with those concepts with students.. Read More.
Patricia Gail Patrick (Trish) is conducting a research project entitled “An Exploration of Indonesian (Bengkulu) Traditional Healer (Battra) Knowledge and Biology Education Student Knowledge and Their Sense of Conservation” hosted by the Universitas Bengkulu under the 2019 Fulbright US Scholar Program. Her research period is from October 2019 to April 2020. She is working with.. Read More.
Russell Barlow is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Under the Fulbright US Scholar Program (2019–2020), Russell is documenting, describing, and analyzing the Suwawa language of Gorontalo province in Sulawesi, Indonesia… Read More.
As a US Fulbright Scholar, Joe Figel is joining Indonesian scientists in an effort to assess the status of the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) population in Aceh’s Ulu Masen ecosystem. In partnership with Universitas Syiah Kuala in Banda Aceh, he is also investigating site-specific determinants of human-tiger conflict and researches subsequent mitigation strategies to.. Read More.
