Awards and Honors
Theater arts professor receives Fulbright
Scholar award for research in Peru
By Scott Rappaport
Assistant theater arts professor Alma Martinez has been awarded
a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research and lecture at
La Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru in Lima during the
2006-07 academic year. Martinez will work with Grupo Cultural
Yuyachkani, one of the oldest and most important popular theater
companies in Latin America. She will also lecture on the subject
of the interconnectivity of Teatro Chicano in the U.S. and the
New Popular Theatre (Nuevo Teatro Popular) in Latin America.
Alma Martinez
Photo: Susan Rothchild
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Martinez is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals
who will travel abroad to some 140 countries during 2006-07
through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under
legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright
of Arkansas, the program aims to build mutual understanding
between the people of the United States and other countries.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the
basis of academic or professional achievement and because they
have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their
fields. Among the thousands of prominent Fulbright Scholar alumni
are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner,
CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett,
CEO of Intel Corporation.
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