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Release
UAlbany Faculty Receive
Fulbright Grants
Contact: Lisa James Goldsberry (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (November 24, 2004) - Three University
at Albany faculty have been named Fulbright
Scholars and will join an accomplished group
of higher-education faculty and professionals
who will travel abroad to 140 countries for
the 2004-05 academic year through the Fulbright
Scholar Program.
Anthony Augustine Deblasi, a professor of East
Asian studies, will research �Purifying Communities:
Monastic Reform in Premodern China� at the Chinese
Academy of Social Science in Beijing from January
to July 2005.
Richard F. Hamm of the history department will
use the grant for a distinguished lectureship
on �American History Through Legal History�
at the University of Erfurt in Germany from
September 2004 through July 2005.
�Environment and Culture in Urban Contexts�
is the topic of geography and planning Professor
Christopher John Smith�s research at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong from August 2004 to
August 2005.
The Fulbright Scholar Program, America�s flagship
international educational exchange activity,
is sponsored by the United State Department
of State. Award recipients are chosen on the
basis of academic or professional achievement
and because they have demonstrated extraordinary
leadership potential in their fields.
Established in 1946 under legislation introduced
by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of
Arkansas, the program�s purpose is to build
mutual understanding between the people of the
United States and other countries. Over its
58 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty
and professionals have studied, taught or done
research abroad and thousands of their counterparts
from other countries have engaged in similar
activities in the United States. Prominent U.S.
Fulbright Scholar alumni include James Watson,
co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and Craig
Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.
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