Above: Mark Thurner has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grants to study and conduct research overseas this year.
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TWITTERCLAS Faculty Member uses Fulbright Grant for Teaching, Research
Mark Thurner, an associate professor of history and anthropology, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grants to study and conduct research overseas this year. Currently in Peru researching the country’s museums, he will also lead a graduate seminar at Lima’s San Marcos University on history and memory.
Thurner is one of three University of Florida recipients of about 800 U.S. faculty and professionals that the Fulbright Program sends to universities around the world. The program also makes it possible for about 800 international faculty and professionals to study in American universities and contribute to U.S. research projects.
“The Fulbright scholars program has never been more relevant to the University of Florida,” UF Provost Joseph Glover said. “Participants in the program provide us with a remarkably enhanced global perspective that strengthens our ability to do research and teach on this campus.”
In addition to sending three scholars abroad, UF is hosting six Fulbright scholars from other countries, five of whom are serving within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
- Viktor Cerny of the Czech Republic is a courtesy associate professor in UF’s anthropology department. He is studying DNA to trace early human migration between Africa and South Arabia.
- Petr Rumpel, also of the Czech Republic, is the head of the department of social geography and regional development at Ostrava University. Rumpel is conducting research with geography professor Grant Thrall at UF.
- Nasr Hassan, of Egypt, is a lecturer at Assiut University. Hassan’s research is in botany.
- Anastasia Kalyuta is a senior researcher at the Russian Museum of Ethnography in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She is conducting research in UF’s anthropology department.
- Maria Castro is a senior teaching assistant at the University
of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She is researching in UF’s chemistry department.
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Lindsey Robinson
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Joe Glover, jglover@aa.ufl.edu, 352-392-2404
Photo
Museo Tumbas de Reales de Sipan, Peru - Bruno Girin, Flickr.
