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Allister receives Fulbright Scholar grant

By Peter Hill '08
November 17, 2007

Professor of English Mark Allister has received a Fulbright Scholar grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The grant will allow him to lecture at the University of Bucharest, Romania during the 2007-2008 academic year.

The Fulbright Scholars Program is designed to offer international research and teaching opportunities to professors and other accomplished professionals.

Each year, the program sends 800 scholars from the United States to 140 countries across the world. In return, the same number of international scholars is offered similar opportunities in the United States. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.

Allister will lecture in the University of Bucharest's American Studies Centre. Part of the university's Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the center coordinates lectures, scholarship and research in American culture, as well as the university's undergraduate and master's degree programs in American Studies.

According to the university's web site, "The American Studies Centre entertains connections with the Fulbright Foundation and the Romanian Association of American Studies with a view of organizing academic exchanges with American studies programs in the U.S. and across Europe."

Receiving the grant will allow Allister to travel in Europe for the first time.

"Romania interests me in particular because it's a developing country by European standards," he says.

Contact Kari VanDerVeen at 507-786-3970 or vanderve@stolaf.edu.