The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Edmund ‘Ted’ Hamann of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Dept. of Teaching, Learning, & Teacher Education has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Mexico in anthropology for the fall semester of 2019. Hamann will both study and teach at the Tijuana campus of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional as part of a project called “Building Capacity to Meet the Needs of Transnational Students in Mexican Schools,” which will also involve the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, the Colegio de la Frontera, Baja California’s office for the Programa Binacional de Educación Migrante (PROBEM), and several Southern California-based US institutions of higher education.
Hamann is one of over 800 U.S. citizens who will teach, conduct research, and/or provide expertise abroad during for the 2019-2020 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement as well as record of service and demonstrated leadership in their respective fields. An anthropologist of education, for more than 20 years Hamann has studied school responsiveness in both the US and Mexico to students who previously attended schools in the other country. Roughly 60,000 of the 600,000 students in Mexican schools with prior experience in US schools attend school in Baja California.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide.
Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has given more than 380,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists, and scientists the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. This is the first time Dr. Hamann will participate in a Fulbright exchange.
Fulbrighters address critical global in all disciplines, while building relationships, knowledge, and leadership in support of the long-term interests of the United States. Fulbright alumni have achieved distinction in many fields, including 59 who have been awarded the Nobel Prize, 82 who have received Pulitzer Prizes, and 37 who have served as a head of state or government.
For further information about the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State, please visit http://eca.state.gov/fulbright or contact the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Press Office by telephone 202-632-6452 or e-mail ECA-Press@state.gov.