Fulbright opens opportunities

Distinguished Fulbright scholars from the United States will visit Casuarina campus this month to provide advice on the scholarships available to Territorians for study, research and professional exchange in the USA.

A Fulbright Scholarship Information Session will be held, followed by the Fulbright Distinguished Chair Public Lecture to be presented by Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Competence Professor Yolanda Moses. The lecture is titled “Universities and Colleges as Sites of Global Citizenship”.’

Professor Moses is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Vice-Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Excellence at the University of California, Riverside.

Her research focuses on the broad question of the origins of social inequality in complex societies through the use of comparative ethnographic and survey methods.

She has explored gender and class disparities in the Caribbean, East Africa and in the United States and, more recently, her research has focused on issues of diversity and change in universities and colleges in the United States, India, Europe and South Africa.

The lecture on Casuarina campus will be held on Tuesday 23 May from 4pm to 5pm in Building Red 6, level 1, room 01. All welcome.