Roger Friedland

Stuart Streichler

Three UC Santa Barbara faculty members are among the 800 men and women nationwide who have been awarded grants through the Fulbright Scholar Program for the 2004-2005 academic year to study or lecture abroad. Under the program, an equal number of outstanding international scholars have been selected to teach and conduct research at United States colleges and universities.

Roger O. Friedland, professor of religious studies, is at the University of Rome to conduct research on his project, titled “Remembering the Holocaust in Rome: The Jewish Question in Italian Political Culture, 1945-2000.”

Stuart Alan Streichler, visiting assistant professor in the Law and Society Program, will spend the academic year at the Tohoku University in Japan lecturing students on American law and politics.

Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong, associate professor of sociology, will conduct research at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on “The New Hong Kong Entrepreneur: Changes in Chinese Entrepreneurship and Business Organizations.”

Coming to UCSB this academic year are four scholars. They are Fawzya Abdullah M. AbuKhalid, a sociologist from Saudi Arabia; Abderrahmene Ben Mohamed Bouraoui, a pharmacologist from Tunisia; Beatriz Lora Maroto, a chemist from Spain, and Irina Zhulamanova, an independent consultant scholar from Kazakhstan.

The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 58 years of existence, the Fulbright Program has sponsored more than 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, university faculty, and professionals in studies abroad.