January 1998
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Fulbright Grants Send Three to Europe in 1997-98
Three UMass Boston faculty members have been awarded Fulbright grants to lecture and conduct research in Europe for the 1997-98 academic year.
Professor Louise Smith of the English Department spent the fall semester lecturing in the American Studies program at the University of Trier in Germany. In November, however, the entire system of 80 German universities went on strike. The reason? Appropriations are down for universities as part of the government's effort to send as much money and resources as possible for the redevelopment of its eastern half, the former German Democratic Republic.
Smith has completed a manuscript and travelled to view antiquities in Germany, Luxembourg, and elsewhere in Europe. She will return to UMass Boston in February.
Anthropology Professor Timothy Sieber travelled to Lisbon, Portugal at the end of December to lecture in the American Studies Graduate Program of the Open University of Lisbon. He will teach a seminar on "Social and Cultural Perspectives on the Contemporary United States," and collaborate with the University's American Studies Research Center and the graduate program in Intercultural Relations.
Sieber will also be conducting research on the current redevelopment of Lisbon's urban waterfront, which includes the site of the upcoming EXPO '98 Lisbon World Fair. He is especially interested in ways that Portuguese culture and history are reinterpreted in the new developments, through historical preservation, architecture, design, tourism programs, and heritage celebrations. He stays in Lisbon until July as an "Invited Scientist" with the European Union's PRAXIS XXI Program and funding from the Portuguese National Council of Scientific and Technological Research.