Fulbright Winner Michael LaRosa is conducting research for a new project on the history of the Peace Corps in Colombia
Two Faculty, One Graduate Win Fulbrights
John Kaltner, an associate professor of religious studies, has won a Fulbright faculty research grant, and Michael LaRosa, an associate professor of history, is the recipient of a Fulbright faculty research/teaching grant. Kenneth Lukas '02 is the recipient of a Fulbright grant for study abroad.
Kaltner's award will take him to Israel, where he will be affiliated with Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva from January to June 2003. Kaltner is part of an editorial team that is working on a revision of The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, a five-volume work from Brill Academic Publishers. Kaltner is the editor of Hebrew and Arabic comparative lexicography for this project. All the other members of the team are at Ben-Gurion University.
Kaltner has taught at Rhodes since 1996.
LaRosa's award is his fourth since 1993, and second since joining the Rhodes faculty in 1995.
Since June, LaRosa has been teaching in a six-month appointment at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, a private Jesuit university in Bogota, Colombia, where he has taught intermittently since 1993.
While in Colombia, LaRosa is also conducting research for a new project on the history of the Peace Corps in that country. He will visit archives and towns where Peace Corps volunteers have worked, conduct oral history interviews and take photographs.
Fulbright faculty research and teaching grants are administered by the Council on International Exchange of Scholars in Washington, DC.
Lukas, who received a bachelor of arts degree in international studies in May, will study from September to July 2003 at the Free University in Berlin. He plans to take international studies-related courses with a focus on the European Union countries' relationships with China.
During summer 2000, Lukas completed an internship with the U.S. State Department in the Office of German-Austrian-Swiss Affairs.
The U.S. Department of State is the principal administrator of the worldwide Fulbright Program.
