Two Holy Cross Faculty Members Receive Fulbright Awards to Fund Research in Japan, Vietnam

WORCESTER, Mass. – Two members of the faculty at the College of the Holy Cross have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants during the 2006-2007 academic year.

Mark E. Lincicome, associate professor of history, will pursue his new research project, “Peripheral Visions: Imagining Asia in Japan and Australia, 1853-1933” at Rikkyo University, Tokyo. Lincicome, who specializes in early modern and modern Japanese history and culture, also received a Japan Foundation Short Term Research Fellowship for this same project. Next month, he will travel to Deakin University, in Melbourne, Australia, to examine archives there as part of the same project, with funding coming from a 2005 Arthur J. O’Leary Faculty Recognition Award he received from Holy Cross. He lives in Holden.

Karen Turner, professor of history, will pursue her research and work on her documentary film, “The Things We Carry: Vietnamese Women Veterans in Voice and Memory,” at the Vietnam National University in Hanoi. Turner specializes in law and human rights in Asia as well as comparative law and women and war. Widely published, she has also produced and directed the documentary film, Hidden Warriors: Voices from the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Turner was instrumental in the development of the Asian Studies program at Holy Cross, and is the recipient of several academic awards and honors, including being named the Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J., Professor of Humanities (2002-2005). She lives in Worcester.

Lincicome and Turner are two of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Recipients are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.

Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program is America’s flagship international educational exchange program and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The program operates in more than 150 countries worldwide.