Professor of geology, geography and environmental studies Johnathan Bascom and political science professor Corwin Smidt have landed prestigious 2011 Fulbright Awards.
Bascom will spend his second Fulbright sojourn (Bascom was also awarded a Fulbright in 2004) partnering with Ethiopian geographers at Bahir Dar University on Lake Tana. He will teach, guest lecture for the Masters and BA programs in geography, and facilitate authoring a new geography of that country. The text will serve as a basic reference for secondary school teachers throughout the country, who teach the geography of Ethiopia to more than 500,000 students every year.
Smidt will be stationed at the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands. The focus of his Fulbright will be on writing a book that traces changing political and theological perspectives of American clergy over the last 20 years. The work will draw on surveys he conducted in 1989, 2001 and 2009 with clergy from seven denominations: the Assemblies of God, Southern Baptist, Christian Reformed, Reformed Church of America, Presbyterian USA, Disciples of Christ and United Methodist Church.
The Fulbright Scholars Program, administered by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is an international educational exchange created in 1946 to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. The program awards 800 grants to scholars annually.
Since 1998, a dozen Calvin professors have received Fulbright awards.
For more info on Bascom and Smidt's Fulbright awards, see the full story: http://www.calvin.edu/news/archive/two-fulbrights-two-continents
Contact Bascom at 616-526-7053. Contact Smidt at 616-526-6233.
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