Fulbright Global Scholar Award

Meet the Global Award Scholars

Fulbright Scholars represent a diverse and dynamic network of academics and professionals. Learn more about how they are actively working to foster mutual understanding between the United States and partner nations, sharing knowledge across communities and improving lives around the world.

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2024-2025 Global Award Scholars

Image Ben Bobowski Home Institution: National Park Service Host Countries: Costa Rica and Poland  Field: Public Administration  Project Title: Indigenous Food Security & Micro-peace: Innovations to Long-term Food Access in Protected Areas

Image Sarah Bowen  Home Institution: North Carolina State University  Host Countries: Spain and Colombia  Field: Rural Sociology  Project Title: Decolonizing Geographical Indications to Benefit Producers and Communities in the Global South

Image Margaret Bublitz  Home Institution: Lifespan Hospitals  Host Countries: United Kingdom and New Zealand  Field: Psychology  Project Title: Reducing Perinatal Mental Illness by Building Global Partnerships

Image John Bussey Home Institution: The Wall Street Journal Host Countries: Bulgaria, Chile, and Taiwan Field: Journalism  Project Title: The Transition to Democracy from Authoritarianism: Lessons for Today's Politics

Image Lauren Hallett  Home Institution: University of Oregon Host Countries: Argentina, Spain, and Australia  Field: Ecology  Project Title: Understanding and Managing Grassland Plant Diversity in a Variable and Changing World

Image TL Hill Home Institution: Temple University  Host Countries: Australia and Finland Field: Business Management  Project Title: Impact Measurement and Stakeholder Governance of Community-University Research Collaboratives

Image Curtis Kent  Home Institution: Brigham Young University  Host Countries: Mexico and Slovenia  Field: Mathematics: Topology  Project Title: Low-dimensional Wild Topology and Big Mapping Class Groups

Image Dennis Kivlighan Home Institution: University of Maryland, College Park  Host Countries: Italy and Taiwan  Field: Mental Health Counseling  Project Title: Group Composition Effects in Emotional Regulation Groups Addressing Adolescent Mental Health

Image Elisa Konofagou Home Institution: Colombia University  Host Countries: France and Japan  Field: Acoustics  Project Title: High-resolution Imaging of Breast Tumors and Skull Tissue Using Ultrasound

Image David MacFarlane  Home Institution: Michigan State University  Host Countries: Mexico and Italy  Field: Forestry  Project Title: Cross-cultural Collaborations for Advancing the Science of Climate-smart Forestry

Image Andrew McElrone  Home Institution: U.S. Department of Agriculture Host Countries: Australia and Chile Field: Agriculture  Project Title: Collaborative Water-tech Solutions for Drought- and Heat-stressed Agriculture

Image K. Kayon Morgan  Home Institution: University of Hartford  Host Countries: South Africa and Jamaica  Field: Education  Project Title: Raw, Unbridled Expressions: Black Critical Narratives as Methodology

Image Angela Salmon  Home Institution: Florida International University  Host Countries: Colombia, Poland, and Greece Field: Early Childhood Education   Project Title: Digital Storytelling to Empower Vulnerable Children and Parents Cope with Complex Challenges

Image Samantha Siedlecki  Home Institution: University of Connecticut  Host Countries: Italy and South Africa  Field: Oceanography  Project Title: Building Local Community and Capacity in Coastal Alkalinity and Carbon Cycling at a Global Scale

2023-2024 Global Award Scholars

Image Rashida Braggs Home Institution: Williams College Host Countries: France and Canada Field: Jazz Studies Project Title: Amber in the City of Light: Performing Black Women’s Jazz Migrations (1969-2019)

Image David Craig Home Institution: University of Southern California Host Countries: Chile, Thailand, and Israel Field: Communications Project Title: BORDER WARS: Platform Nationalism in the Digital Periphery

Image Elena Deanda-Camacho Home Institution: Washington College Host Countries: Spain, Mexico, and Germany Field: Romance Languages and Literature  Project Title: Afro Spanish America, the Forbidden, and the Centering of the Margins

Image Meagan Driver Home Institution: Michigan State University Host Countries: Austria, Argentina, and Greece Field: Applied Linguistics  Project Title: Designing Participatory, Critical Linguistic Landscape Materials for the Foreign Language Classroom

Image Steven Fassnacht Home Institution: Colorado State University Host Countries: Spain and Chile Field: Environmental Sciences Project Title: Vanishing into Thin Air: Defining the Uncertain Role of Sublimation in Semi-Arid Mountains

Image Randall Filer Home Institution: Hunter College, The City University of New York Host Countries: Georgia, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan  Field: Policy Economics  Project Title: Support for Research Integration of Young Central Asian Economists

Image Jacqueline Fox Home Institution: University of South Carolina, Columbia Host Countries: Australia and the United Kingdom Field: Health Law Project Title: The True Cost of Health Care

Image Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky  Home Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara Host Countries: Pakistan and Turkey Field: Modern History Project Title: Global Hijra: Muslim Refugee Migration Since 1850

Image Moncef Krarti Home Institution: University of Colorado Boulder Host Countries: Australia and Saudi Arabia  Field: Architectural Engineering  Project Title: Assessment of Adoption Challenges for Sustainable Technologies for the Built Environment

Image Karl Krupp Home Institution: University of Arizona Host Countries: Sweden and India  Field: Global Policy Project Title: Aging Policies in 2 Cities with Contrasting Infrastructure Towards Transnational Knowledge Exchange

Image Kimberley Lakes Home Institution: University of California, Riverside Host Countries: Ireland and South Africa Field: Clinical Child Psychology  Project Title: Innovative and Inclusive Intervention Paradigms for Children with Disabilities in Diverse Contexts

Image Allison Matulli Home Institution: Florida International University Host Countries: Colombia, Italy, and Trinidad and Tobago  Field: Law Project Title: Speech Rights, and Empowering Ethnically Diverse Youth to Know Their Rights In One World, Your Voice

Image Tobi Nagel Home Institution: Phages for Global Health Host Countries: Malaysia, Kenya, and Uganda  Field: Global Health Project Title: Combating Antibiotic Resistance - Knowledge Sharing to Inform Regulatory Decisions on Phages

Image Nancy Ann Neudauer Home Institution: Pacific University Host Countries: New Zealand and South Africa  Field: Mathematics  Project Title: Connecting Far Corners of the World Through Matroids and Creating a Network of Women in Mathematics

Image Tim Oakes Home Institution: University of Colorado Boulder Host Countries: Singapore and Norway Field: Geography Project Title: The Hinterlands of Global China: Infrastructures of Life Beyond the Urban

Image Judith Pace Home Institution: University of San Francisco  Host Countries: South Africa and Bosnia and Herzegovina  Field: Teaching Methodology  Project Title: Helping Educators Teach Controversial Issues in Societies with Deep-Seated Conflict

Image Sheree Pagsuyoin Home Institution: University of Massachusetts, Lowell Host Countries: Philippines, Belgium, and South Korea Field: Environmental Engineering Project Title: Wastewater-based Epidemiology in Urban Settings: Challenges and Opportunities for Implementation

Image Caitlyn Placek Home Institution: Ball State University Host Countries: Netherlands, Canada, and the United Kingdom  Field: Cultural Anthropology  Project Title: The Impact of Cultural Models of Addiction and Motherhood: A Cross-Cultural Study

Image Christina Sun Home Institution: University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus Host Countries: Botswana and Taiwan Field: Public Health Project Title: Assessing the Intractability of Health Disparities among LGBTQ+ Populations in Taiwan and Botswana

Image Blanca Patricia Tovar Home Institution: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York Host Countries: Spain and Mexico  Field: Latin America & Caribbean History Project Title: Transoceanic Women: Colonial Voyagers Connecting Spain, Mexico and the Philippines

Image Oscar Vazquez Home Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Host Countries: Spain and Mexico  Field: Art History Project Title: Copying the Body: The Practice, Politics, and Labor of Life Drawing in Academies of Art, 1780-1900

Image Brian Walker Home Institution: Fairfield University Host Countries: New Zealand, South Africa, and Chile  Field: Environmental Sciences  Project Title: Penguins and Microplastics – a Global Collaboration on Research Techniques and Population Education

 

2022-2023 Global Award Scholars

Image Eliyana Adler  Home Institution: The Pennsylvania State University  Host Countries: Poland and Argentina  Field: History and Jewish Studies  Project Title: Yizkor Book: The Evolution of Memory and Commemoration of Polish Jewish Communities

Image Gail A. Bulman Home Institution: Syracuse University Host Countries: Argentina, Peru, and Spain Field: Latin American and Spanish Theater, Literature, and Culture Project Title: The Artistic, Social, and Economic Impact of the Microteatro Transnational Theater Network

Image Jon Keune Home Institution: Michigan State University Host Countries: Taiwan, Japan, and the United Kingdom Field: Religious Studies Project Title: Transnational Buddhism and Dalit Migration

Image Brian Norris  Home Institution: Lincoln University of Missouri   Host Countries: Colombia and Mozambique  Field: Comparative Politics  Project Title: Lessons of Post-Conflict Societies: Rural Local Government Effectiveness in Colombia and Mozambique

Image Jami Leibowitz Home Institution: East Carolina University   Host Countries: Indonesia, Namibia, and Kazakhstan Field: International Education  Project Title: Building Capacity for Virtual Exchange

Image Manoj A. Thomas Home Institution: The University of Sydney Host Countries: Ecuador and Uganda Field: Information Systems / Information Technology Project Title: Acting on Knowledge Needs in Continuing Medical Education in Two Developing Countries

Image Michael Putman Home Institution: University of North Carolina at Charlotte Host Countries: Finland, South Africa, and Germany Field: Teacher Education Project Title: Examining the Field Experience to Build Professional Knowledge Amidst a Pandemic

Image Stephanie Kampf  Home Institution: Colorado State University  Host Countries: Spain, Chile, and Argentina Field: Hydrology Project Title: Snow, Fire, and Streams: Compound Impacts of Snow Loss and Wildfire on Streams in Mountain Regions

Image Phillip A. Hough Home Institution: Florida Atlantic University Host Countries: Colombia, Kenya, and Vietnam Field: Sociology Project Title: Riding the Global Coffee Rollercoaster: Farmer Households & Development in Colombia

Image Ellen Lesperance Home Institution: Independent Artist  Host Countries: Italy, United Kingdom, and Australia Field: Fine Arts Project Title: Peace Women Knitwear: Greenham Common and Beyond

Image Corina L. Petrescu  Home Institution: The University of Mississippi Host Countries: Romania and Israel  Field: Transnational Jewish Studies  Project Title: Multiculturalism Embodied: Yankev Shternberg and the Yiddish Stage

Image Jeanie Bukowski Home Institution: Bradley University  Host Countries: Portugal and Costa Rica  Field: International Relations/Natural Resources Management & Policy Project Title: Evaluating Sustainability of Social-ecological Systems (SES): A Comparison of Protected Areas in Costa Rica and Portugal

Image Fausto Sarmiento  Home Institution: University of Georgia    Host Countries: Austria, Japan, and Chile   Field: Transdisciplinary Montology   Project Title: Integrative Montology: Bridging Altitudes, Longitudes and Latitudes

Image Noah Coburn Home Institution: Bennington College Host Countries: Germany, Kosovo, and Vietnam Field: Cultural Anthropology  Project Title: How We Learn from the War in Afghanistan: Teaching of Conflict in Post-Conflict Settings

2021-2022 Global Award Scholars

Image Alex Peh Home Institution: State University of New York College, New Paltz Host Countries: Burma and Greece  Field: Piano  Project Title: Sandaya and Rebetiko: Piano Styles of the East

Image Alexandra Golby Home Institution: Harvard University  Host Countries: Morocco and Rwanda  Field: Biomedical Technology Project Title: Cross-disciplinary Collaborations for Developing Affordable and Robust Medical Technologies

Image Andrew Heckert Home Institution: Appalachian State University Host Countries: Poland and South Africa  Field: Paleontology  Project Title: Tiny Triassic Fossils That Address Big Evolutionary Topics—South African and Polish Fossils Compared

Image Brian Pappas Home Institution: Eastern Michigan University Host Countries: Denmark, Greece, and Japan  Field: Dispute Resolution  Project Title: Narrative Inquiry of Academic Administrators' Approaches to Conflict Following Mediation Training

Image Cara Djonko-Moore Home Institution: Rhodes College Host Countries: Canada and Finland  Field: Teacher Training  Project Title: Exploring Multicultural Teacher Education From Cross Cultural Perspectives

Image Clifford Bob  Home Institution: Duquesne University Host Countries: Brazil, India, and South Africa  Field: Comparative Politics  Project Title: COVID-19's Effects on Transnational Civil Society Partnerships in Brazil, India, and South Africa

Image Diana Aga  Home Institution: University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Host Countries: the Philippines and Portugal  Field: Analytical Chemistry  Project Title: Impact of Environmental Pollution on the Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment

Image Hakim Williams  Home Institution: Gettysburg College Host Countries: Ghana and Jamaica  Field: Non-Formal Education  Project Title: Decolonial Peace & Justice Education: A Transatlantic Study of Four Black Youth-based Organizations

Image Jessica Taft      Home Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz Host Countries: Peru and the United Kingdom  Field: Cultural Sociology  Project Title: International Children’s Rights Institutions and the Influence of Children’s Activism

Image Jiquan Chen Home Institution: Michigan State University Host Countries: Australia and Germany  Field: East Asia, Pacific & Australian Studies Project Title: Building an MSU-Europe-Australia Network for Global Change Science

Image Pearl Gluck  Home Institution: Pennsylvania State University-University Park Campus Host Countries: Israel and Poland  Field: Film Directing  Project Title: Little Miss Hasid: The Revolutionary World of the Bais Yaakov Movement

Image Qinhong Hu Home Institution: The University of Texas at Arlington Host Countries: Australia, Finland, and France  Field: Petroleum Geology Project Title: Global and Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Energy and Environmental Geosciences

Image Sara Gilmer Host Institution: United States Department of Justice Host Countries: Canada and the United Kingdom  Field: Public Policy Analysis  Project Title: An Analysis of Standards of Care for Survivors of Human Trafficking

Image Susan Appe Home Institution: State University of New York at Albany Host Countries: Colombia, Mexico, and India  Field: International Development  Project Title: The Nexus of Migration and Philanthropy: The Role of Diaspora Philanthropy

Image Susan Brooks  Home Institution: Drexel University Host Countries: Israel and New Zealand  Field: Dispute Resolution Project Title: Re-envisioning Restorative Justice as Relational Justice Through a Culturally Sensitive Lens

Image Volodymyr Tarabara Home Institution: Michigan State University Host Countries: Georgia, France, and Singapore  Field: Environmental Engineering  Project Title: Protecting Essential Workers: Environmental Forensics for Ensuring microbial Safety of the Workplace

Image William Miles  Home Institution: Northeastern University Host Countries: India, Israel, and Morocco  Field: Comparative Politics  Project Title: Wooing Home Diasporas: Post-Pandemic Challenges in India, Israel, and Morocco

2020-2021 Global Award Scholars

Image Yaroslava Bebenchuk Home Institution: Suffolk County Community College Host Countries: Singapore and Romania Field: Performing Arts Project Title: Theatre of Today: Looking Ahead at the Way Architectural Design, Programming, Technology, New Audiences and the Evolution of Our Communities Will Shape the Theatres and Theatrical Experience of the Future.

Image Betül Başaran  Home Institution: St. Mary’s College of Maryland  Host Countries: United Kingdom and India Field: History Project Title: Niloufer: A Turkish Princess in India and Her Journey from Exile to Pioneer for Women's Empowerment During the First Half of the 20th Century

Image Matthew S. Bramble  Home Institution: Children’s National Medical Center Host Countries: Philippines and South Africa Field: Genetics Project Title: Mobile Diagnosis of Inborn Genetic Syndromes: Expanding User Friendly Genetic Diagnostic Tools in Low and Middle Income Countries

Image Nikki Dryden  Home Institution: Independent Scholar Host Countries: Canada and United Kingdom Field: Human Rights Project Title: Athlete Human Rights: Creating Effective Remedy in Sport Dispute

Image Guadalupe Escobar   Home Institution: University of Nevada, Reno Host Countries: Philippines and Mexico Field: Literature Project Title: Dreaming Aloud: Reflections on Child Migration

Image Mary E. Gallagher  Home Institution: University of Ann Arbor Host Countries: Germany, South Korea, and Japan Field: Labor and Industrial Relations Project Title: Disaggregating the China Shock: Understanding China's Impact on Globalization

Image Diana Garvin Home Institution: University of Oregon Host Countries: Brazil and Italy Field: Italian Studies Project Title: The Coffee Triangle: Transnational Coffee and Caffe Culture under Italian Fascism

Image Sarah Gendron  Home Institution: Marquette University Host Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, and Australia  Field: Human Rights Project Title: Gender-based Violence Against Women by Security Forces and in Conflict Settings

Image Roselyn Hsueh  Home Institution: Temple University Host Countries: Mexico, Taiwan, and India Field: Political Science Project Title: Diverging Globalizations: National and Sectoral Market Pathways to Development in the BRICS

Image Kimberly Ilosvay Home Institution: University of Portland Host Countries: United Kingdom and Ecuador Field: Education Project Title: Interculturality and Internationalization: Building Local and Global Partnerships

Image Farida Jalalzai Home Institution: Oklahoma State University Host Countries: Iceland, New Zealand, and Poland Field: Political Science  Project Title: Women Presidents and Prime Ministers: A Virtuous Circle of Women’s Leadership?

Image Alan Jay Kaufman  Home Institution: University of Maryland, College Park Host Countries: Namibia and Australia  Field: Geology Project Title: When Life Got Hard: An Environmental Driver for the Origin of Seashells

Image Eric Kurlander Home Institution: Stetson University Host Countries: France, Poland, and Israel Field: History Project Title: Before the Final Solution: A Global History of the Nazi 'Jewish Question', 1919-1941

Image Carleen Maitland Home Institution: Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus Host Countries: Uganda and Panama Field: Information Sciences Project Title: Digital Platform Design and Implications for Refugee Crisis Response

Image Ana Marjanovic-Shane  Home Institution: University of Delaware Host Countries: Serbia, Israel, and Norway Field: Education Project Title: Open Education for the Students’ Critical and Creative Agency: Social, Cultural and Institutional Conditions and Limits of the Open Education

Image Avi Meyerstein  Home Institution: Alliance for Middle East Peace Host Countries: United Kingdom and Israel Field: Political Science Project Title: Multiplying Change: Amplifying and Scaling Up the Israeli & Palestinian Peacebuilders

Image Jennifer Powers  Home Institution: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities  Host Countries: Australia, Brazil, and Cambodia Field: Environmental Sciences Project Title: Laying the Foundation for a Comprehensive Synthesis of Tropical Dry Forests

Image Sonia Rocca Home Institution: Independent Scholar Host Countries: Kazakhstan, Japan, and Uruguay Field: Language Teaching Project Title: Language Teachers as Researchers: A Project in Mobile Language Learning and Teaching

Image Lucy HG Solomon  Home Institution: California State University, San Marcos Host Countries: Norway, Brazil, and Peru Field: Visual and Performing Arts Project Title: A Pan-Microbiological Portrait of the Arctic, the Andes, and the Amazon

Image Aimee Tallian Home Institution: Independent Scholar Host Countries: Mongolia, Norway, and Sweden Field: Biology Project Title: Foraging in a Landscape of Risk: The Predatory Behavior of Large Carnivores

Image I. India Thusi Home Institution: California Western School of Law Host Countries: Sweden and New Zealand Field: Anthropology Project Title: Policing Sex:  The Impact of (De)criminalization on the Policing of Sex Work

Image YuYe J. Tong  Home Institution: Georgetown University Host Countries: Denmark and New Zealand Field: Chemistry Project Title: An Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Carbon Dioxide Electro-Reduction on Atomic-Precise Noble Metal Clusters

Image Asim Zia Home Institution: University of Vermont Host Countries: Ecuador, Israel, and Pakistan Field: Public Policy Project Title: Securing Clean Water in Transboundary Indus, Jordan and Amazon Basins Through Science and Environmental Diplomacy

2019-2020 Global Award Scholars

Toni Barstis Home Institution: Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana Host Countries: Nepal, Ghana Discipline: Analytical Chemistry Project Title: PADs Project: Screening for Low Quality Medicines in Nepal and Ghana	Nigel Boyle Home Institution: Pitzer College Host Countries: Vietnam, Pakistan, Germany Discipline: Liberal Arts and Sciences Project Title: The Global Liberal Arts College: Mission, Pedagogy and Innovation at Habib University, Fulbright University Vietnam and Leuphana University
Laura Brown Home Institution: University of New Mexico Host Countries: Portugal, Canada Discipline: Public Health Project Title: An Opioid Addiction Treatment "Tale of Two (and then Three) Cities":  A Comparative Examination of Porto, Portugal, Vancouver, Canada, and Santa Fe, New Mexico	Chien-Fei Chen Home Institution: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Host Countries: United Kingdom, China Discipline: Sociology Project Title: When East Meets West: An Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Research on Energy Justice and Renewable Technology Adoption for Future Smart Communities
Vicki Collet Home Institution: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Host Countries: Japan, Ireland Discipline: Education Project Title: Lesson Study and Culturally Responsive Instruction: A Multi-Country Examination of Teachers’ Professional Learning	David Corina Home Institution: University of California, Davis Host Countries: United Kingdom, Qatar, Hong Kong Discipline: Neurobiology of Language, Linguistics of ASL and Other Sign Languages Project Title: Parental Decisions Regarding Language Intervention in Children with Cochlear Implants
Silvia Dorado-Banacloche Home Institution:  University of Rhode Island and University of Massachusetts, Boston Host Countries:  South Africa and Argentina Discipline:  Entrepreneurial Management Project Title: Warwick Junction and La Salada. Harbors of entrepreneurial dynamism or employment of last resort?	Beth Ferholt Home Institution: Brooklyn College, The City University of New York Host Countries: Japan, Sweden Discipline: Education Project Title: The Aesthetics of Play: A Cross-Cultural Study of Playworlds in Japan and Sweden
Randall Harlow Home Institution: University of Northern Iowa Host Countries: Netherlands, Canada Discipline: Music Project Title: Global Hyperorgan: An Intercontinental Creative Space for Bridging Cultures Through Acoustic Music	Anita Kishore Home Institution: Stanford University Host Countries: Netherlands, Australia, India Discipline: Medical Sciences, Child Psychiatry Project Title: Mentorship Matters: Building an International Collaborative Mentorship Network in Child Psychiatry
Mark Lehrer Home Institution:  Suffolk University, Boston Host Countries:  Israel, Germany Discipline:  Management (Business Administration) Project Title:  Media Tech Hubs in Jerusalem and Potsdam: Towards a Learning Alliance	Lauren Lieberman Home Institution:  The College at Brockport Host Countries:  Ghana, Ireland, Brazil Discipline:  Adapted Physical Education (Inclusive Education, Teaching Children with Visual Impairments or Deafblindness) Project Title: Promoting Camp Abilities: An educational sports camp for children who are visually impaired, blind or Deafblind around the globe
Elisabeth Micheli Home Institution: Dwight Center for Conservation Science at Pepperwood Host Countries: Spain, Chile, Australia Discipline: Environmental Sciences Project Title: Advancing Climate-Smart Conservation Land Networks in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems	John Mortensen Home Institution: Cedarville University Host Countries: United Kingdom, Lithuania, Canada Discipline: Music Project Title: Historic Improvisation for Today's Musician
Kevin Murphy Home Institution:  Washington State University Host Countries:  Ecuador, Malawi Discipline: Agriculture Project Title: Quinoa: Production, Nutrition, and Outreach in Ecuador and Malawi	Sharon Nicholson Project Title: The Impact of the Benguela Jet on Coastal Fog and African Rainfall Home Institution: EOAS, Florida State University Host Countries: Namibia, France, Germany Discipline: Meteorology
Linda Nie Home Institution: Purdue University Host Countries: Germany, South Korea Discipline: Nuclear Physics Project Title: Synchrotron Micro-x-ray Fluorescence Technology in Health Sciences	Ryan O’Hayre Home Institution: Colorado School of Mines Host Countries: Norway, Australia Discipline: Materials Science Project Title: Storing Energy for a Rainy Day: Combining Recent Developments in Electrolysis and Fuel Cells to Store and Produce Electricity at Lower Cost than Batteries
Diane Pataki Home Institution: University of Utah Host Countries:  Australia, Israel Discipline:  Urban Ecology Project Title: The socioecohydrology of cultivated urban forests: A global study of water limited cities	David Purpura Home Institution: Purdue University Host Countries: Belgium, South Africa Discipline: Education Project Title: Language Foundations of Early Mathematics Learning: Learning and Applying Knowledge Across Multiple Cultural and Language Contexts
Lance Rake Home Institution: University of Kansas Host Countries: Australia, Nepal Discipline: Design Project Title: Reimagining the Future of Mobility with a Sustainable Bamboo Bicycle	Elizabeth Ransom Home Institution:  The Pennsylvania State University Host Countries:  Australia, Namibia Discipline:  Sociology Project Title: Beef Production and Food Security in the Arid and Semi-Arid Environments of Namibia and Australia in the Context of Climate Change
Ellie Schainker Home Institution:  Emory University Host Countries:  Israel, Lithuania Discipline:  History Project Title: Rites of Empire: Jewish Religious Reforms in Imperial Russia, 1850-1917

2018-2019 Global Award Scholars

Marjorie Aelion Home Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Host Countries: Australia, Greece, Mexico Discipline: Environmental Sciences Project Title: The Chemistry and Distribution of Metals in the Environment, and their Associations with Negative Human Health Outcomes	Tasha Beretvas Home Institution: University of Texas at Austin Host Countries: Belgium, Canada, Spain Discipline: Social Sciences Project Title: Addressing Methodological Complexities in Meta-Analysis of Single-Case and Group-Comparison Design Data Using a Bayesian Framework
Matthew Bowker Home Institution: Northern Arizona University Host Countries: Mexico, Iceland Discipline: Biology Project Title: CrustNET: A Global Research Network Devoted to a Unified Understanding of the “Living Skin” of the Earth	Robert Bringle Home Institution: Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Host Countries: Netherlands, Spain, Singapore Discipline: Education Project Title: Enhancing Institutionalization of Service Learning at Key Institutions in Asia and Europe
Karida Brown Home Institution: University of California, Los Angeles Host Countries: Australia, South Africa Discipline: Sociology Project Title: The Subaltern School	Judith Byfield Home Institution: Cornell University Host Countries: United Kingdom, Nigeria Discipline: History Project Title: Curry Goat and Gari: West Indian Women in 20th Century Lagosian Society
Lisa Covert Home Institution: College of Charleston Host Countries: France, Peru Discipline: History Project Title: International Visions, Local Implications: Cultural Patrimony Policies in Mexico and Peru in the 1970s	Robert Dawson Home Institution: Stanford University Host Countries: Italy, Israel, Greece Discipline: Arts Project Title: Migrants and Libraries
Michael Falk Home Institution: Northern Arizona University Host Countries: France, New Zealand Discipline: Mathematics Project Title: Hyperplane Arrangements, Artin Groups, and Matroids	Mary Fernández-Giménez Home Institution: Colorado State University Host Countries: Morocco, Spain, Mongolia Discipline: Environmental Sciences Project Title: Co-Creating Knowledge for Action with Mobile Pastoralists in Spain, Morocco, and Mongolia
Harcourt Fuller Home Institution: Georgia State University Host Countries: Jamaica, United Kingdom Discipline: History Project Title: Queen-Mother Nanny of the Maroons: The Trans-National History, Legend and Legacy of a Jamaican National Heroine	Isabel Hawkins Home Institution: Exploratorium Host Countries: New Zealand, Guatemala, Peru Discipline: Astronomy Project Title: The Pleiades in Polynesia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes: Cross-Cultural Connections and the Science of Ancestral Timekeeping
Sharon Horne Home Institution: University of Massachusetts, Boston Host Countries: Colombia, South Africa, Philippines Discipline: Psychology Project Title: The Role of Psychology Guidelines on Mental Health Access and Treatment of Sexually and Gender Diverse Individuals	Eufemia Jacob Home Institution: University of California, Los Angeles Host Countries: Philippines, Turkey Discipline: Nursing Project Title: Research in International Child Health
Nikolai Kalugin Home Institution: New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology Host Countries: United Kingdom, Chile Discipline: Materials Science Project Title: Oxidation, Optical Functionalization, and Localized Electron States in 2D Materials	Keliann LaConte Home Institution: Space Science Institute Host Countries: Australia, United Kingdom Discipline: Education Project Title: Bridging Innovations in STEM and the Library Profession for the Public Good
Steven Liebling Home Institution: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus Host Countries: Spain, Argentina, Canada Discipline: Physics Project Title: Theoretical Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Era	Zora Longworth Home Institution: University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Host Countries: Serbia, Guatemala, Australia Discipline: Nutrition Project Title: New Approaches for Improving Cancer Outcomes
Laura Meyerson Home Institution: University of Rhode Island Host Countries: South Arica, Argentina, Czech Republic Discipline: Environmental Sciences Project Title: A Global Approach to Predicting the Effects of a Changing Environment	Erica Saphire Home Institution: The Scripps Research Institute Host Countries: Germany, United Kingdom, South Africa Discipline: Virology Project Title: Understanding Viral Proteins at the Macromolecular and Cellular Level
John Swanson Home Institution: University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Host Countries: Ukraine, Israel, Hungary Discipline: History Project Title: Identity Crises in the Borderlands: The People and their Communities in Lili Jacob's Auschwitz Album	Dasan Thamattoor Home Institution: Colby College Host Countries: Japan, Czech Republic, Singapore Discipline: Chemistry Project Title: A Globally Integrated Research and Teaching Collaboration on Reactive Intermediates
Rosemary Wakeman Home Institution: Fordham University Host Countries: India, China, United Kingdom Discipline: History Project Title: Global Crossroads: Bombay, London, Shanghai	Elizabeth Wishnick Home Institution: Montclair State University Host Countries: China, Kazakhstan, Russia Discipline: Political Science Project Title: Is China a Good Neighbor? Resource Risks in China's Foreign Relations
Amanda Wooden Home Institution: Bucknell University Host Countries: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia Discipline: Political Science Project Title: Social Meaning of Eurasian Waters in the Climate Era

2017-2018 Global Award Scholars

Denise Saint Arnault Home Institution: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Host Countries: Brazil, Romania Discipline: Nursing Project Title: Mixed Method Comparative Study of Culture and Help Seeking after Gender Based Violence	Heidi Asbjornsen Home Institution: University of New Hampshire Host Countries: Ecuador, Belgium, Peru Discipline: Environmental Sciences Project Title: Sustaining Water Resources in Andean-Amazon Watersheds Under a Changing Climate: Linking Science, Policy and Communication
Frederick Asher Home Institution: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Host Countries:Singapore, India, Oman Discipline: Art History Project Title: India and the World: The Visual Culture of Indian Ocean Trade to 1500	Janet Bauer Home Institution: Trinity College Host Countries: Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, Germany Discipline: Anthropology Project Title: Social Geographies of Islam in Diaspora
Gregory Beaucage Home Institution: University of Cincinnati Host Countries: South Africa, United Kingdom, Ethiopia Discipline: Materials Science Project Title: Ethiopian Startup Incubator	Bruce Berglund Home Institution: Calvin College Host Countries: Czech Republic, Korea, Canada Discipline: History Project Title: History of Global Ice Hockey
Cathy Campbell Home Institution: University of Virginia Host Countries: South Africa, Thailand Discipline: Nursing Project Title: Palliative Care Practices and Competencies in Community Health Workers in South Africa and Thailand	Karen Chapple Home Institution: University of California, Berkeley Host Countries: United Kingdom, Colombia, Spain Discipline: Urban Studies Project Title: Towards Smarter, More Inclusive Cities: The Urban Displacement Project 2.0
Meenakshi Chhabra Home Institution: Lesley University Host Countries: India, United Kingdom, South Africa Discipline: Education Project Title: History Education of Events of Violence: A Comparative Study Between Ireland, India and South Africa	Malika Coletta Home Institution: Chicago Youth Symhony Orchestras Host Countries: Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, United Kingdom Discipline: Music Project Title: The Global Steelpan Education Movement: A Study in the Development, Pedagogy and Sustainability of Youth Steel Band Programs
Alan Daly Home Institution: University of California, San Diego Host Countries: New Zealand, South Africa Discipline: Education Project Title: The Social Side of the Educational Change: A Multi-Country Examination of Social Networks in Schools	Louise Davies Home Institution: Dartmouth College Host Countries: Japan, United Kingdom Discipline: Medical Sciences Project Title: Cancer Overdiagnosis: Investigating Best Practices to Manage Overdiagnosis while Communicating the Health Benefits to Patients, Providers and the Public
James Davis Home Institution: University of Richmond Host Countries: Germany, France, Canada Discipline: Mathematics Project Title: Difference Sets and Boolean Functions	Batsheva Dreisinger Home Institution: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Host Countries: Rwanda, South Africa, Chile Discipline: Literature Project Title: From Revenge to Repair
Barbara Engebretsen Home Institution: Wayne State College Host Countries: Ethiopia, Nepal Discipline: Physiology Project Title: The HEARTS Initiative: Engaging Student Health Clubs to Address Hypertension in Ethiopia, Nepal and Nebraska	Stuart Kandell Home Institution: University of California, Berkeley Host Countries: Japan, Germany Discipline: Arts Project Title: The Impact of Arts Participation on the Lives of Older Adults and Their Communities
Laurie Lopez Charles Home Institution: Our Lady of the Lake University Host Countries: Sri Lanka, Kosovo Discipline: Psychology Project Title: Scaling Up Family Mental Health and Psychosocial Support After War: Challenges to Psychosocial Intervention in Two Post-Conflict Countries	Gertraud Maskarinec Home Institution: University of Hawaii, Manoa Host Countries: Iceland, Japan, United Kingdom Discipline: Medical Sciences Project Title: The Relation of Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, and Breast Cancer in Caucasian and Asian Women Denise Saint Arnault Home Institution: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Host Countries: Brazil, Romania Discipline: Nursing Project Title: Mixed Method Comparative Study of Culture and Help Seeking after Gender Based Violence
Susan Sharfstein Home Institution: State University of New York-Institute of Technology Host Countries: Ireland, Australia Discipline: Engineering Project Title: Optimizing Recombinant Protein Production in Cultured Mammalian Cells	Lori Spies Home Institution: Baylor University Host Countries: Zambia, India, Vietnam Discipline: Nursing Project Title: A Multinational Collaborative Initiative to Develop Country Specific Nurse Implemented Hypertension Interventions
Demian Willette Home Institution: Loyola Marymount University Host Countries: Philippines, Ecuador, Thailand Discipline: Biology Project Title: Leveraging Actionable Science to Aid Policy Decisions to Combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Across the Pacific Region	Deborah Young Home Institution: Naropa University Host Countries: Costa Rica, Nepal, West Bank Discipline: Education Project Title: Education in On-Going Emergency Settings in Early Childhood: Three Countries, Three Perspectives

2016-2017 Global Award Scholars

Marco Castaldi Home Institution: City College of New York, The City University of New York Host Countries: France, Italy Discipline: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Development and Valorization of Waste Residual Materials for Environmental Applications	Joelle Dietrick Home Institution: Florida State University Host Countries: Germany, Chile, Hong Kong Discipline: Intermedia/Multimedia Project Title: Cargomobilities: Seaport Infrastructure in Hamburg, Valparaíso and Hong Kong
Abraham Engeda Home Institution: Michigan State University Host Countries: China, Ethiopia Discipline: Mechanical Engineering Project Title: Hydropower: Low Impact Hydropower Turbine Design-Development-Investigation and Concept Verification Followed by Implementation	Michael Greenfield Home Institution: University of Rhode Island Host Countries: Denmark, Netherlands Discipline: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Simulating Bitumen on the Molecular Level: Collaborations to improve modeling of "real world" materials
Kimberly Hoang Home Institution: University of Chicago Host Countries: Vietnam, Burma (Myanmar) Discipline: Regional Studies Project Title: Capital Brokers in Emerging Markets	Gregory Kirk Home Institution: Johns Hopkins University Host Countries: Barbados, South Africa, Netherlands Discipline: Epidemiology Project Title: Enhancing Investigator and Research Capacity Globally to Address the Double Burden of HIV and Non-Communicable Diseases
Terry Konn Home Institution: Brookdale Community College Host Countries: Ghana, Rwanda Discipline: Health Services/Allied Health & Sciences Project Title: Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Preparing for Future Medical Imaging Practice	Margaret Lanzetta Home Institution: Independent Scholar Host Countries: India, Singapore, Thailand Discipline: Arts Project Title: Mixed Waters: Indian Trade Textiles; The Confluence of Color, Pattern and Cultural References Embodied in Cloth in India, Singapore and Thailand
Rachel Lopez Home Institution: Drexel University Host Countries: Guatemala, Spain Discipline: International Law Project Title: The Complementarity of Transitional Justice Mechanisms	Brian Meacham Home Institution: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Host Countries: Sweden, Spain, Japan Discipline: Engineering, Other Project Title: Understanding and Advancing Performance-Based Building Regulatory Systems
Joshua Newell Home Institution: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Host Countries: Japan, China, Russia Discipline: Geography, E. Europe & USSR Project Title: Environmental Governance of Global Wood Commodity Chains: From the Forests of Siberia to the Apartments of Kanto via the Factories of Manchuria	Andrea Orzoff Home Institution: New Mexico State University Host Countries: Germany, Mexico, Peru Discipline: History Project Title: Music in Flight: Exiles, Refugees, Fugitives, and the Politics of Music in Latin America, 1933-1960
Hugh Safford Home Institution: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region Host Countries: Spain, Portugal, France Discipline: Ecology Project Title: Using Mediterranean Advances in Postfire Ecosystem Restoration to Inform and Improve California Restoration Policy and Practice	Greta Schiller Home Institution: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and History, University of Munich Host Countries: Spain, India, Australia Discipline: Film Production Project Title: Earth Repair: Ecological Restoration on Three Continents
Adam Seligman Home Institution: Boston University Host Countries: Japan, Israel Discipline: Cultural Sociology Project Title: Living with Difference	Keya Sen Home Institution: University of Washington Bothell Host Countries: India, Bangladesh, China Discipline: Microbiology Project Title: Are Crows Nuisance to Public Health or Can They Have a Positive Contribution to Society: Molecular investigation of the pathogen campylobacter carried by crows
Valerie Soe Home Institution: San Francisco State University Host Countries: Taiwan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom Discipline: Intermedia/Multimedia Project Title: Love Boat: Taiwan documentary film project	Kirilka Stavreva Home Institution: Cornell College Host Countries: United Kingdom, Italy Discipline: English Literature Project Title: The Merchant of Venice" on the Global Stage
Richard Taylor Home Institution: Marquette University Host Countries: Turkey, Italy Discipline: Philosophy, Miscellaneous Project Title: Aquinas and "the Arabs": the Kalam fi mahd al-khair (Liber de causis)