Calvin Adds Another Fulbright!

Summary: Calvin College professor of history Jim Bratt joins two colleagues and his son as the fourth Fulbright honoree this year.

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In mid-May one more Fulbright honoree was added to Calvin's ranks, bringing the total for spring 2009 from three to four.

Calvin professor of history Jim Bratt has been selected to fill the Fulbright-Dow Distinguished Research Chair at the Roosevelt Study Center (RSC) in the Netherlands for spring 2010 where he will finish a book on Dutch theologian, politician and scholar Abraham Kuyper.

The RSC, a research institute conference center and library on modern American history, takes its name from three famous Americans with Dutch roots - Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt - and is located in Middelburg in a 12th-century abbey.

Bratt, whose son Eric Bratt will be a Fulbright student scholar next year in China can't wait to head overseas, particularly to Zeeland where his grandfather was born.

"In 1985," he said, "I received a Fulbright and went to the Netherlands, to Amsterdam, where I began to look at Kuyper and his influence in the Netherlands. This Fulbright brings my work full circle. I'm thrilled to be going back."

The other two Fulbright scholarships were awarded to Calvin College professors Janel Curry and David Hoekema.

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Received on Thu May 14 15:12:52 2009