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Thomas E Bernard, US Scholar Award, Loughborough University
With a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Thomas Bernard took a turn toward occupational health with his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. After a brief stop at the US Bureau of Mines, he worked at the Westinghouse Research and Development Centre. At Westinghouse, Tom refined his interest in occupational heat stress. Twenty-two years ago he moved to the University of South Florida College of Public Health and is now Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. Tom continues his research in heat stress and occupational ergonomics. As a Fulbright Scholar, Tom will work with Professors George Haventh and Ken Parsons on models of heat exchange through clothing and update ISO standards on heat stress. He will also participate in scientific exchange with UK professional organisations. As a side interest, Tom plans to explore pubs across the UK.
Scott Boltwood, US Scholar Award, Queen's University, Belfast
Scott Boltwood received his BA from Cornell University and his PhD from the University of Virginia in English. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Emory and Henry College, where he teaches courses in both the history of Irish literature and Twentieth-Century Anglophone literature. His first book, Brian Friel, Ireland, and the North (Cambridge 2007), sought to map out how the Troubles in Northern Ireland resonate through the work of this major Irish playwright. As a Fulbright Scholar at Queen's University, Belfast, Scott will research the history of the Ulster Group Theatre, which was Ireland's most influential acting company throughout the 1940s and 1950s. This work will focus on how this company's plays staged the region's sectarian tensions, and in association with his project, the Lagan Press has agreed to publish several volumes of Group plays, almost all of which have not been in print for over 50 years. When not in theatre archives, Scott loves to explore tidal pools with his wife and three children, practice aikido and cook.
Marianne Boruch, Scotland Visiting Professorship at the University of Edinburgh
Marianne Boruch was born in Chicago and was educated in parochial schools before attending University of Illinois, Urbana, later earning an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts. Her books of poetry include the recent The Book of Hours and Grace, Fallen from, two essay collections, Poetry's Old Air and In the Blue Pharmacy, and a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler. She's held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, been a resident at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and an artist-in-residence at Isle Royale, America's most isolated National Park. She teaches at Purdue University where she developed and directed the MFA programme, and at the low-residency Programme for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is doggedly learning to recognise birdsong, and her terrible pen and ink watercolours amuse certain people. She lives with her husband in West Lafayette, Indiana, where they raised their son. As a Fulbright Scholar, she will be teaching and working on her 8th poetry collection, Cadaver, Speak, at the University of Edinburgh.
Ethel Brooks, University of the Arts, London Distinguished Chair Award
Ethel Brooks was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, and is an Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University. Brooks is the author of Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) which received the award for Outstanding Book for 2010 from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the co-editor (with Dorothy Hodgson) of the special issue of WSQ on Activisms. She has contributed articles to a number of academic journals, including Nevi Sara Kali and International Working Class History, as well as book chapters in Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective, Eds. Daniel A Bender and Richard Greenwald, (Routledge, 2003) and Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas, Eds. Judith Gerson and Diane L Wolf (Duke University Press, 2007). Brooks was a fellow at the Jack and Anita Hess Seminar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011. She is currently working on two book projects: Disrupting the Nation: Land Tenure, Productivity and the Possibilities of a Romani Post-Coloniality, and (Mis)Recognitions and (Un)Acknowledgements: Visualities, Productivities and the Contours of Romani Feminism, both of which focus on political economy and cultural production and the increasing violence against Romani (Gypsy) citizens worldwide. Her op-eds on the expulsion of Romani people in various European countries have recently appeared in The Guardian. As the Fulbright Chair, she will carry out research on her project Visual Practices, Cultural Production and the Right to the City: Romani Gypsies as Cosmopolitan Others, which will explore Romani histories of the city through the prism of struggles over urban space, land tenure and cultural production in London and its surrounding areas.
J Brian Cassel, King's College, London Scholar Award
J Brian Cassel is senior analyst at the Massey Cancer Centre of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where he has faculty appointments in Life Sciences and the School of Medicine. He received his BS (Elizabethtown College) and his PhD (City University of New York) in Psychology. Brian teaches courses on healthcare ethics and science-and-religion studies, and his research focuses on the clinical and financial outcomes of cancer services and palliative care programmes; his analyses of the outcomes of palliative care have been published in journal articles, chapters, and in the Wall Street Journal. He is a member of the Palliative Care Leadership Center at VCU, training teams from hospitals across the US in establishing and sustaining palliative care programmes. As the Fulbright-King’s College London Scholar, Brian will be working with Dr Irene Higginson and others at KCL’s Cicely Saunders Institute on a collaborative research project, Economic measurement of end-of-life care in the UK and the US. 
James Costantino, Fulbright Distinguished Teacher Award
James Constantino was born in New York City and attended Hofstra University on a scholarship where he studied Business Computer Information Systems. He began teaching Accounting and Computer Technology at Edward R Murrow High School in 1998. He earned his MS in School Guidance at Long Island University in 2000, and has been a guidance counselor since 2003. He introduced his guidance staff to small group counseling and has presented at many school and regional staff development sessions on topics ranging from bullying to suicide prevention. James has lived in Italy and Argentina, where he studied Art History and Spanish, respectively. His interests include reading, traveling, playing volleyball and interacting with people from other cultures. He plans to study mentoring and counseling methodologies during his Fulbright stay in the UK. 
Melinda Luisa de Jesús, US Scholar Award, University of York
Melinda Luisa de Jesús is Chair of Diversity Studies and Associate Professor of Diversity Studies and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. She writes and teaches about Filipino/American cultural production, youth and popular culture, feminist/gender studies and comparative American ethnic studies. She edited Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory, the first anthology of Filipina/American feminisms (Routledge 2005). Her writing has appeared in Approaches to Teaching Multicultural Comics; Ethnic Literary Traditions in Children’s Literature; Challenging Homophobia; Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism; Radical Teacher; The Journal of Asian American Studies; and Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth Century American Girls’ Culture. She is a mezzo-soprano, a mom, an Aquarian and a big Hello Kitty fan. Elliot Cowan is her Mr Darcy. During her Fulbright year Melinda will teach a graduate course entitled Global Girl Cultures and will convene a conference on Girls' Studies at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York.
Claire Farago, University of York Award in the History of Art
Claire Farago is Professor of Renaissance Art at the University of Colorado-Boulder and has authored numerous books and articles on Leonardo da Vinci and art theory from the Early Modern period to the present. She is contributing editor of Reframing the Renaissance (1995), among the first studies to advocate a shift of emphasis in art history toward the study of cultural interaction. Past recipient of an NEH Fellowship, a Getty Research Institute Fellowship, and recently MacGeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne, she just completed a book with husband and collaborator Donald Preziosi, entitled Art Is Not What You Think It Is (forthcoming). As a Fulbright Scholar at the University of York, she will examine Leonardo’s Treatise as the product of artisanal knowledge practices that operated in collaborative environments. She plans to develop her study of artisanal epistemologies further in a cross-cultural context, drawing upon fieldwork conducted in Australia for her last book.
Stefan A Frisch, Cardiff University Scholar Award
Stefan Frisch is an Associate Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. Stefan received his PhD in Linguistics from Northwestern University in 1996. His research focuses on the mental representation of language, in particular in the storage and processing of language sound structure in the brain. As an undergraduate, Stefan was a National Merit Scholar and studied Mathematics. The switch in his interests from Mathematics to Linguistics occurred during graduate school where he became interested in applying mathematical and statistical modelling to language. As a Fulbright-Cardiff University Scholar, Stefan will conduct research in the Psychology department in collaboration with Dr Todd Bailey and Professor Ulrike Hahn on the mental organisation of complex words.
Leslie Gaston, University of York Scholar Award
Leslie Gaston is an Assistant Professor of Recording Arts at the University of Colorado Denver (UCD). She holds an AS in Audio Technology and a BA in Telecommunications from Indiana University. She earned an MS in Recording Arts from UCD in 2003. She has worked for National Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Post Modern Company. In 2000, she earned a regional Edward R Murrow award. She is currently the Chair of the Audio Engineering Society’s Colorado Section. Professor Gaston’s research to date includes work with Dolby Laboratories and Gates Planetarium in Denver. Most recently, she studied the link between audio quality and its impact on perceived video performance. As a Fulbright Scholar at the University of York, Professor Gaston intends to study the potential of Blu-ray audio discs as a delivery format for various types of high quality music recordings, especially those that are in surround sound.
Julie Alice Huson, Fulbright Distinguished Teacher Award
Julie Alice Huson received a BA and teaching qualification from San Francisco State University. Her teaching experience focuses on exploring American history in the secondary school. She earned an MS from Dominican University in California, in 2007, and wrote a thesis examining text in history curriculum and its limited accessibility by young readers. She has written curriculum for the Education Outreach Department at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. In 2009 she was appointed to the Advisory Committee for California’s History-Social Studies Framework, and helped oversee its revision. Ms Huson has undertaken research in Virginia and North Carolina. She shares her findings and curriculum with educators and teaching candidates. Awarded the Golden Bell for Excellence in Teaching in 2005, she worked from 2006 to 2009 with the University of California History Social Studies Teacher Research Group to develop and test academic literacy strategies. She will be in the UK as a Distinguished Fulbright Teacher in spring 2012, studying the colonial period of emigration from Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries to North America, and the relationship between the two nations up to and through the War of Independence.
Bill E Lawson, University of Liverpool Scholar Award
Bill E Lawson grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. His area of academic specialisation is African American Philosophy with an emphasis in Social and Political Philosophy. His published works include Between Slavery and Freedom (1992) with Howard McGary, Pragmatism and the Problem of Race (2004) edited with Donald Koch, Faces of Environmental Racism, Second Edition, (2001) edited with Laura Westra, and articles on jazz, the urban underclass, John Locke and Frederick Douglass. He has taught at Spelman College, University of Delaware, and Michigan State University. Bill is a Viet Nam War Vet married to Renée Sanders-Lawson. He enjoys discussing jazz, digital media and politics with his son, William. He is also learning to play the acoustic bass. As a Fulbright Scholar, he intends to study John Locke’s views on forced labour and the writings of Frederick Douglass on Art at the University of Liverpool.
Juliana Maantay, Scotland Visiting Professorship at the Glasgow Urban Lab
Juliana Maantay was born in New York City, and has had a life-long interest in the urban environment. She considers herself very fortunate to have a job that allows her to combine this fascination with urban culture, history and the built environment with her passion for social justice issues. Dr Maantay is Professor of Urban and Environmental Geography at City University of New York and Director of the Geographical Information Science (GISc) Programme. Her research interests include using GISc for spatial analyses of environmental health justice issues; the impacts of land use and the built environment on health; urban hazards and risk assessment; and community-based participatory research. Dr Maantay earned a BSc from Cornell University, a Master of Urban Planning (MUP) from New York University, an MA in Geography/GISc from Hunter College/CUNY, and an MPhil and PhD in Urban Environmental Geography from Rutgers University. As the Fulbright-Glasgow Urban Lab Distinguished Chair, she will explore issues of urban planning, policy, environmental health justice and the built environment, using New York City and Glasgow as case study cities. 
Lee McMillion, US Police Research Award, London Metropolitan Police
Lee McMillion was born and raised in southern California. He became a police officer for the Los Angeles Police Department in 1988. Since 1996, he has worked within the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team at three different ranks. He is currently a SWAT sergeant. He completed all of his formal education while working as a field police officer. His BA is in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations and International Security. In 2002, he completed the Master of Public Administration at the University of Southern California with honours. As a Fulbright Police Research Scholar he will be imbedded with law enforcement entities in the UK that have counter-terrorism responsibilities. He will be researching each unit’s structure, personnel selection process, tactics and training, as well as preventative measures and response protocols that are employed on any variety of incidents – particularly those with international terrorism overtures. 
Jack A Puleo, US Scholar Award, University of Plymouth
Jack Puleo was born and raised in southern California and graduated cum laude from Humboldt State University with a BS in Oceanography and BA in Mathematics. He completed his MSc in Oceanography at Oregon State University. He then worked as a Research Oceanographer for the Naval Research Laboratory before completing a PhD in Coastal Engineering from the University of Florida. He is presently an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware where he studies coastal sediment transport and remote sensing techniques for quantifying environmental processes. Jack is a dedicated advisor and teacher of undergraduate and graduate civil engineering students having recently won three teaching awards. Jack’s other interests include hiking, biking and fishing. As a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Plymouth, he will work with the Coastal Processes Research Group on several large coastal field experiments. He will use a miniaturised sensor that his research group has designed in an effort to quantify sediment transport in the highly–concentrated layer near the bed. 
Liam Riordan, US Scholar Award, University of Glasgow
Liam Riordan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maine. While a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Glasgow in spring 2012 he will teach an Honours course on the early American republic and participate in its School of Humanities’ active graduate programme in early American history. He will also conduct archival research for a project that seeks to integrate three disparate areas of scholarship about the Scottish Atlantic (in the Chesapeake, the British West Indies, and British North America, ie, Canada) from 1760 to 1820. His wife and two sons will join him in Glasgow. Professor Riordan’s first book, Many Identities, One Nation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), examined multiculturalism in the Philadelphia region from 1770 to 1830. He co-edited The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era (University of Toronto Press, 2011). He is currently completing a comparative biography about five loyalists who lived all around the Atlantic World as a result of their opposition to the American Revolution.
Frank Rusciano, University of Ulster Policy Studies Scholar Award
Frank Rusciano was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and is presently Professor of Political Science and Director of Global Studies at Rider University. He has a BA from Cornell University and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. He is a three-time Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, a former Guest Professor at the University of Mainz, and a participant in the Oxford Round Table in the UK. He has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Kettering Foundation and the National Science Foundation. His books include Isolation and Paradox: Defining the Public in Modern Political Analysis (Greenwood, 1989); World Opinion and the Emerging International Order (Praeger, 1998), which one critic described as ‘the best book yet on the impact of the global flow of information on people's perceptions, beliefs, and values’; and Global Rage after the Cold War (Palgrave, 2006). He has contributed several chapters to books and his articles have appeared in such journals as the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Comparative Politics, Western Political Quarterly, The Southeastern Political Review, Political Research Quarterly, and New Global Studies. His research interests include public and world opinion, conflict theories and political communication.
Doug Spaniol, US Scholar Award, University of York
Doug Spaniol is Professor of Music at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he teaches bassoon and other music courses. A leading bassoon pedagogue, he is the author/editor of The New Weissenborn Method for Bassoon (Hal Leonard, 2010), is Instructor of Bassoon at the internationally renowned Interlochen Arts Camp and serves as a Yamaha Artist/Clinician. While at Butler, he has served as Vice-Chair of the Faculty Senate, Director of Graduate Studies in Music, Assistant Chair of the School of Music, as well as Bassoon Chair of the International Double Reed Society’s Gillet-Fox Competition. In 1992 he studied bassoon with William Waterhouse at the Royal Northern College of Music and also holds degrees from the University of Illinois and Ohio State University. As a Fulbright Scholar he will teach at the University of York and continue his work restoring the pedagogical bassoon works of Julius Weissenborn.
Jeffrey Thomson, Queen's University, Belfast Creative Writing Scholar Award
Jeffrey Thomson is the author of four collections of poems, including Birdwatching in Wartime, winner of the 2010 Maine Book Award, and Renovation. He also co-edited an anthology of emerging poets: From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Arts Commission, and was named the 2008 Individual Arts Fellow in the Literary Arts by the Maine Arts Commission. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maine, Farmington. As a Fulbright Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre of Queen’s University Belfast, he will be working on a new collection of poems engaging his ancestor’s emigration experience from Scotland and Northern Ireland and recording emerging Irish poets for the website, From the Fishouse.
Zev Trachtenberg, Queen's University Belfast Governance, Public Policy and Social Research Award
Zev Trachtenberg is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. He received his PhD in 1988 from Columbia University, where he examined the ways Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political theory rests on an understanding of the contribution of culture to citizenship. While continuing to work on Rousseau, he has also pursued an interest in environmental political theory. As a Fulbright Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast he will explore one way Rousseau brings environmental and political themes together, specifically in his account of republican citizenship, which Zev will argue anticipates a present-day vision of ‘green republicanism’. He sees this exploration as part of a larger project or showing how Rousseau can be read as providing a political theory of the human habitation of the natural world. Zev gains some first-hand experience of the political dimension of habitation through his service on the City of Norman Planning Commission.
Herbert ‘Chip’ Tucker, University of Leeds Distinguished Chair Award
Herbert 'Chip' Tucker was educated at Amherst and Yale, and has taught at Northwestern, Michigan and Virginia, where he holds the John C Coleman Chair in English. The three books he has written concern Romantic and Victorian poetry, the four volumes he has edited range further afield in literary genre and critical purview and his many articles and reviews further still. For a decade he has been Associate Editor of New Literary History, a journal of theory and interpretation. While he is not a digital humanist, some of his friends are, and they have helped create an open-source web site where users can learn to scan traditionally metered verse. As the Fulbright-Leeds Distinguished Chair he will be teaching, lecturing, reading and writing towards a book on charm, taken both as a linguistically challenging dimension of modern social life and as a submerged feature of literary (especially poetic) experience. He and his wife Betsy mean to do some hiking too.
Connie Voisine, Queen's University, Belfast Anglophone Irish Writing Scholar Award
Connie Voisine is the author of Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, published by University of Chicago Press in 2008, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her first book, Cathedral of the North, won the Associated Writing Programme’s Award in Poetry and was published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2001. Her work was recently featured at The Lab at Belmar, a museum show pairing prehistoric stone tools with poems. Educated at Yale University, University of California at Irvine and University of Utah, Voisine directs the creative writing programme at New Mexico State University and also coordinates La Sociedad para las Artes, its outreach organisation. During her time as a Fulbright Scholar, at the Queen’s University Belfast Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre, she looks forward to furthering her research of contemporary Anglo-Irish poetry.
Robert M Wachter, US Scholar Award, Imperial College, London
Robert Wachter MD is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he directs the 50-physician Division of Hospital Medicine. Author of over 200 articles and 6 books, he coined the term ‘hospitalist’ in 1996, and is generally considered the ‘father’ of the hospitalist field, the fastest growing specialty in the history of modern medicine. In the safety and quality arenas, he edits the US federal government’s two leading websites on safety and has written two bestselling books on the subject. Dr Wachter has discussed patient safety on Good Morning America, PBS’s NewsHour and Morning Edition and CBS Sunday Morning, and been quoted in virtually every major newspaper and newsmagazine in the US. In 2004, he received the John M Eisenberg Award, the nation’s top honour in patient safety. In 2010, Modern Healthcare magazine named him the 10th most influential physician-executive in the US and one of the 100 most powerful people in healthcare. He is chair-elect of the American Board of Internal Medicine and has served on the healthcare advisory boards of several companies, including Google. His blog, www.wachtersworld.org, is one of the most popular healthcare blogs in the US. As a Fulbright Scholar he will study patient safety with Professor Charles Vincent’s group at Imperial College, London.
J Evan Ward, University of Exeter Scholar Award
J Evan Ward was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and earned his PhD from the University of Delaware in Marine Biology/Biochemistry. During his graduate years he received a fellowship from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the College's E Sam Fitz Award for greatest aptitude for professional development in marine studies. After completing two post-doctoral fellowships in Canada, he spent several years as an Assistant Professor at Salisbury University in Maryland before taking a position in the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut. As a Professor of Marine Sciences, Evan has been the recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award and a Fulbright Award (2004). He has published over 60 scientific papers and book chapters, currently serves on the Editorial Board of several scientific journals and directs the Marine Biodynamics Laboratory and Connecticut's Oceans and Human Health training consortium. As a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Exeter, Evan will be teaching and conducting research on the impacts of nanomaterials on marine animals.