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Communication Professor Wins Fulbright Lectureship in Poland

Robert Westerfelhaus, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the College of Charleston, has been awarded a Fulbright Lectureship for 2009-2010 at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Poland.

Westerfelhaus will teach several courses at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University over nine months, beginning in September 2009. His courses will emphasize film, media, and American popular culture. Westerfelhaus expects to work with the university’s Instytut Anglistyki, or English Institute.

“The Fulbright Lectureship is one of the greatest honors a faculty member can earn,” said Brian McGee, chair of the Department of Communication. “This international recognition is given only to faculty with a superior record of teaching and research. His faculty colleagues congratulate Robert Westerfelhaus on this tremendous achievement.”

The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, in cooperation with other countries around the world. As noted at http://fulbright.state.gov, Fulbright award recipients participate in the “U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program.”

Maria Curie-Sklodowska University offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees to over 34,000 students. The university is one of six universities located in Lublin, a city first settled in the sixth century CE.

"I look forward to representing the College of Charleston as a Fulbright Scholar, and to sharing my research and teaching interests with students at one of Poland's premiere universities," said Westerfelhaus.

Westerfelhaus has been a strong advocate of international education at the College of Charleston. With Celeste Lacroix, also an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Westerfelhaus has led departmental students in summer study-abroad programs in Austria, Germany, and Italy for the past four years.

Westerfelhaus is the second scholar in the Department of Communication to earn a Fulbright award. Joyce Barrett, an adjunct faculty member in the department, was a Fulbright scholar in 2008, when she lectured at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.

 

 

 

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