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Four IU Bloomington professors selected as Fulbright Scholars
March 8, 2000
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Four professors at Indiana University have been awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholar grants to teach or conduct research abroad.
Selected by the presidentially appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board were Michael J. Curtin, associate professor of communication and culture; Kevin T. Glowacki, assistant professor of classical studies; Steven L. Raymer, assistant professor of journalism; and Robert A. Shakespeare, associate professor of theatre and drama.
The IU professors join approximately 750 other scholars and professionals from across the United States who will travel to more than 100 countries, where they will work in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
"In an interview with a prospective faculty member many years ago, then-President Herman Wells commented that 'the campus of the university is not just in Bloomington, or even in the state of Indiana, but stretches around the world.' Indiana University's Fulbright scholars add a new dimension of truth to that statement," said IU President Myles Brand. "Both here and abroad, they promote the important messages of mutual understanding, scholarly excellence, and dedication to the educational enterprise. We wish them a productive and exciting term of study and our heartiest congratulations on this well deserved honor."
Curtin, a member of the IU faculty since 1990, is studying at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan, where he is researching the globalization of the Chinese film and television industries.
In addition to teaching in the Department of Communication and Culture, Curtin is a faculty member in IU's American Studies Program. He also served as director of Cultural Studies, an interdisciplinary program at IU, from 1994 to 1999. He previously was a visiting scholar in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Curtin is author of Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics (Rutgers University Press, 1995) and Packaging Reality: The Influence of Fictional Forms on the Early Development of Television Documentary, 1955-1965 (Journalism Monographs 137, February 1993). He also is co-editor of Making and Selling Culture (Wesleyan University Press, 1996) and The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict (American Film Institute, Film Readers series, 1997).
He holds a doctorate in communication arts and a master of arts degree in communication arts, both from the University of Wisconsin, and a bachelor of arts degree in history from Brown University.
Glowacki, a member of the IU faculty since 1993, is studying at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, where he is continuing research on terra cotta figurines gathered from the north slope of the Athenian Acropolis in 1931-39. He has been actively involved in archaeological fieldwork, having worked at the site of Kavousi in eastern Crete since 1987. His research interests are in Greek art and archaeology, Greek sculpture, topography and the monuments of Athens, the Aegean Bronze and Iron Ages, and mythological representation in art.
His publications include "A New Fragment of the Erechtheion Frieze" (Hesperia 64, 1995), "The Acropolis of Athens Before 566 B.C." (Stephanos, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), "Cooking & Dining in LM IIIC Vronda, Kavousi" (8th International Congress of Cretan Studies, forthcoming), and "Household Analysis in Dark Age Crete" (in Crete 2000, forthcoming).
He serves on the governing board of the Archaeological Institute of America and on the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He holds doctoral and master of arts degrees from Bryn Mawr College and bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from Loyola University of Chicago.
Raymer, a member of the IU faculty since 1995, is teaching photojournalism practice and ethics at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A National Geographic magazine staff photographer for more than two decades, he teaches photojournalism and international news gathering in the IU School of Journalism. He also is on the faculty of IU's Russian and East European Institute.
Raymer earned bachelor of science and master of arts degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and studied Soviet and Russian affairs at Stanford University as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow. As an Army public affairs officer from 1967 to 1969, he escorted correspondents covering the Vietnam War.
Raymer joined the staff of National Geographic in 1972, launching a career that has taken him to more than 80 countries. Ranging from famines in Bangladesh and Ethiopia to the collapse of the Soviet Union, his photographs have illustrated some 30 National Geographic articles and numerous books published by the National Geographic Society. He was author and photographer of a book about St. Petersburg, Russia, for CNN/Turner Publishing, and the photographer for another book, Land of the Ascending Dragon: Rediscovering Vietnam (Hastings House Publishers, 1997).
He has been named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association and received a citation for excellence in foreign reporting from the Overseas Press Club. Four times he has won first prize in the White House News Photographers' Association photo contest.
Shakespeare, a member of the IU faculty since 1985, is in Helsinki, Finland, lecturing and studying how to integrate advanced computer visualization into the instruction and practice of scenography at the University of Art and Design and the new LUME facility (Center for Media Research and Development).
He also is director of the IU Theatre Computer Visualization Center and head of the MFA Lighting Design program at IU, and principal designer with Shakespeare Lighting Design. Shakespeare uses photo-accurate lighting simulation resources in his design process and continues to develop and teach innovative visualization, collaboration and interface techniques through the center. He is co-author of Rendering with Radiance: The Art and Science of Lighting Visualization (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998).
Shakespeare has over 170 stage lighting design credits in drama, opera and dance. After training in Canada, he returned to his home country of England in 1973 and became resident lighting designer at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company. In 1978, he took residence at the University of Massachusetts. He came to IU in 1985.
He has had semester residencies at the Banff Center for the Performing Arts and the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts. His architectural lighting design consulting projects have included several major buildings in Hong Kong as well as the Lantau Fixed Crossing, now the world's third-largest suspension bridge. Other designs include the spire and facade of NationsBank for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the concept for a dramatically lighted bridge in Thailand.
The U.S. Congress created the Fulbright Program in 1946 to foster mutual understanding through educational and cultural exchanges. Sen. J. William Fulbright, sponsor of the legislation, saw it as a step toward building an alternative to armed conflict. Today, the Fulbright Program is the U.S. government's premier scholarship program.
Grants are awarded to American students, teachers and scholars to study, teach, lecture and conduct research abroad and to foreign nationals to engage in similar activities in the United States. Individuals are selected on the basis of academic or professional qualifications and potential, plus ability and willingness to share ideas and experiences with people of diverse cultures.
The program is sponsored and funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, with additional funding coming from participating governments and host institutions in the United States and abroad. The Council for International Exchange of Scholars is a private, nonprofit organization that manages the scholar exchanges.
More information about the Fulbright Scholars program is available on the Web at http://www.iie.org/cies/
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)