US Fulbright Awardees 2011-2012

Dr. Rosemary V. Barnett is Associate Professor in the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences at the University of Florida.  She will be based at NUI Galway where she will lecture and research in the area of ‘Increasing Rural Youth Assets for Long-term Well Being, School and Community Connectedness’.

Miss Dominique Brooke Dodge holds a BA Honours in Scottish Music from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland where she studied harp and song. Ms. Brooke Dodge will participate in the Masters in Irish Traditional Music Performance at the University of Limerick.

Dr. Tom Chaffin is Research Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He will be based at University College Cork where he will lecture on and research Frederick Douglass’s 1845-46 four-month tour of Ireland.

Ms. Vanessa B. Cruz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of North Florida. She will be based at the National College of Art and Design where she will lecture within the focus of Media Arts and carry out research for her next film/installation with the working title ‘Ruin’.

Miss Anna Delia Cunningham holds a BS in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College. Ms. Cunningham will be based at Trinity College Dublin where she will be researching the area of ‘Synergism and NMR Studies on Pyrrolobenzoxazepine Compounds as Anticancer Drugs’.

Dr. Michael Detamore is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas. He will be based in the National University of Ireland, Galway where he will lecture and research in the area of ‘Combining technologies to build a better biomaterial for TMJ tissue regeneration’.

Dr. Douglas Egerton is a Professor at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York. He will be based at University College Dublin where he will lecture on American Political History and will work on a forthcoming publication for Bloomsbury press ‘Black Reconstruction: America’s Democratic Moment.’

Dr. Jill Simone Gross is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Affairs at Cuny – Hunter College, New York. Dr. Gross, will spend six months, based in three countries studying the impact of policy, programs, rights and settlement location on migrant political inclusion; ‘Diversity, Place and Political Inclusion: Exploring Migrant Political Participation in London, Dublin and Amsterdam’.

Michael Falk is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Falk will be based at Dublin City University where he will engage in collaborative research and lecture on the topology, algebra, geometry and combinatorics of complex hyperplane arrangements.

Dr. Gurram Gopal holds the Theophil W. Mueller Endowed Chair and is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Center for Business and Economics at Elmhurst College, Illinois.  Dr. Gopal will be based at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology where he will lecture in Marketing and Supply Chain Management and will carry out research in the area of ‘Collaborative Innovations in the Design and Delivery of Business Courses for the 21st Century’.

Dr. Kathryn Laity is Associate Professor and Coordinator in the Department of Arts and Humanities at the College of St Rose, Albany, New York.  Dr. Laity will be based at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies and National University of Ireland Galway where she will lecture and undertake research in the area of ‘Writers in motion’.

Dr. Keith Kintigh is an archaeologist and Professor in Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change. He will be based in University College Dublin where he will give a focused graduate seminar and carry out research in the area of ‘Identifying Productive Contexts for Digital Humanities’.

Ms. Suzanne McBride is an Associate Professor in the School of Media Arts and Associate Chair of the Journalism Department at Columbia College Chicago. She will be based in the Dublin Institute of Technology where she will lecture and carry out research in the area ‘Finding Common Ground in Civic Journalism Projects in the Inner City’.

Dr. William F McComas is a Professor and holder of the Parks Family Endowed Professorship in Science Education at the University of Arkansas. He will be based in Dublin City University and will lecture and conduct research in the impact of the philosophy of science on science teaching with a focus on "Enhancing Student Learning by Blending Enquiry Instruction and the Nature of Science in the Laboratory Environment’

Dr. Timothy Meagher is Associate Professor of History and Head of the University Archives at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC. He will be based at Dublin City University where he will lecture and teach courses in Irish American and American immigration and ethnic history. He will carry out research in the area of ‘The Irish Roots of Irish American Politics’.

Mr. Michael Murphy is a Professor of filmmaking in the School of Media Arts at the University of Montana. He will be based at University College Cork where he will teach workshops in media based performance and directing and will carry out research in the area of Liminality, the Void, and Media: Through the Looking Glass with “Krapp’s Last Tape”.

Dr. Joan Phillips is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Relations and Instructor in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Oklahoma. She will be based in the Athlone Institute of Technology where she will lecture on integrating creative therapies theory and practice to that of social and child care management students.  Dr. Phillips will also carry out research in the area of excellence in the creative arts therapies through curriculum and collaboration.

Dr. Brian Reed is Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland. Dr. Reed will be based at the Dublin Institute of Technology where he will lecture, collaborate and undertake research in the area of ‘Improving Group/Project based Learning and the First-Year Engineering Experience’.

Dr. Mark Shaurette is Assistant Professor in the Department of Building Construction Management at Purdue University, Indiana. He will be based at the Dublin Institute of Technology where he will teach and carry out research in the area of ‘Identifying Educational Opportunities to Promote Energy Conserving Retrofit of Existing Structures’.