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History, Political Science Professors Named U.S. Fulbright Scholars
History professor John Cumbler and political science professor Ronald Vogel have been awarded 2007-08 U.S. Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture and research at foreign universities.
Cumbler’s appointment is as a Fulbright distinguished chair, considered among the most prestigious awards in the program as it is intended for a senior scholar with a significant publication and teaching record.
Cumbler will have the John Adams chair in American history and will teach at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands January to May 2008. He will teach a graduate seminar on U.S. environmental history and a senior seminar on race in the United States.
Cumbler was awarded the university’s distinguished teaching award in 2002. He has written six books on U.S. environmental and economic history, including the recently published “From Abolition to Rights for All.”
Vogel, whose term began in September, will lecture and conduct research at the University of Hong Kong through July 2008. His topic is “Devolution and New Regionalism in Hong Kong: The Pearl River Delta Region in Comparative Perspective.”
Vogel, who also is on UofL’s urban and public affairs faculty, will return to become political science department chair. His four books on urban politics include “Political Change in the Metropolis.” He had a Fulbright senior research award to work in Tokyo in 1997-98 and a Fulbright group projects abroad program award to study African urbanization in 1993.
The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, a private nonprofit organization, manages the Fulbright scholar exchange for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.
For more information, contact Cumbler at 502-852-6817 or cumbler@louisville.edu or Vogel at ron.vogel@louisville.edu or check www.cies.org