Fulbright Scholars
The Fulbright Scholar Program is administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. About 1,200 US scholars receive awards each year. College and university faculty and administrators, as well as professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars, and others, are eligible.
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UT Faculty and Staff
Interested in applying for the Fulbright Scholar program? We can provide advising, application review, and other support.
UT Departments
UT faculty or departments interested in hosting a visiting, non-U.S. scholar can connect with our office for support in learning how.
Non-U.S. Scholars
Are you a non-U.S. scholar interested in visiting UT Knoxville through Fulbright? We can connect you with the right resources.
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Our team is here to support you whether you are a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, faculty member looking for opportunities abroad or a visiting, non-U.S. scholar hoping to make UT your destination.
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Fulbright US Student Program
UT undergraduates, alumni (pre-PhD completion), or graduate students interested in the Fulbright US Student Program should contact the Fulbright Program Advisor (FPA), Dr. Meredith Malburne-Wade, at [email protected] or visit the Office of Undergraduate Research.
Past Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awardees
2024-25 Academic Year
Micah Beck
Computer Science
Mariam Thalos
Philosophy
2022-23 Academic Year
Orou Gaoue
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Catherine Luther
Journalism
Neelam Poudyal
Forestry
Adam Taylor
Forestry
Kimberly Wolbers
Teacher education
2021-22 Academic Year
Melissa Cardon
Business
David Fox
Architecture
Ruben Madriz Villanueva
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
Research: Understanding Insect Endemism in Southern Patagonia
Host Institution: Instituto Antartico Chileno, Chile
Kelli Wood
Art History
2019-20 Academic Year
Isabel Munoz
Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Research: Where do they go? Urban Development, Displacement and (Im)mobilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Host Institution: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lois Presser
Department of Sociology
Research: Narrative Criminology: Theory and Methods
Host: University of Tampere, Finland
Chien-fei Chen
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research: When East Meets West: An Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Research on Energy Justice and Renewable Technology Adoption for Future Smart Communities
Host: China University of Geosciences, China
2018-19 Academic Year
Denita Hadziabdic
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
Research: Conservation of Indigenous Species Native to West Africa
Host: University of Ghana
Seong-Hoon Cho
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Research: Payments for Forest Carbon Storage that Optimize Risk-Reward Trade-Offs Under Climate Uncertainty in South Korea
Host: Korea University, Korea
Loneka Wilkinson
Department of Music Education
Research: A Study of Coco de Roda in Pernambuco, Brazil
Host: Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Steven Oberman
College of Law
Research: Learning Effective American Trial Advocacy Skills and Overview of the Constitutional Rights of Citizens Accused of Crimes
Host: The University of Latvia, Latvia
2017-18 Academic Year
Tricia Redeker Hepner
Department of Anthropology
Research: New Eritrean Refugees, Human Rights, and the Politics of Refugee Migration
Host: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Elizabeth Teston
School of Interior Design
Research: Romania: An Interior Urbanism of Space, Politics and Culture
Host: Ion Mincu University of Architecture, Romania
Mark Hulsether
Department of Religious and American Studies
Research: Listening for More: Spirituality and Cultural Critique in American Popular Music
Host: University of Albert, Canada
2016-17 Academic Year
Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences
Research: Information and Communication Technologies: Impact on Scholarly Communication
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Host: Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Micah Beck
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research: Advancing ITC Development Using Logistical Networking
Host: Strathmore University, Kenya
Sarah Eldridge
Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
Research: The Ins and Outs of Reading: Psychological Interiority and Travel in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Host: Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Songning Zhang
Department of Kinesiology, Recreation and Sport Studies
Research: Biomechanical Assessment of Lower Limbs Related to Functional Training in Osteoarthritis Patients
Host: National University of Rosario, Colombia
Krista Wiegand
Political Science
Research: Strategic Selection: Philippine Arbitration Against China in the South China Sea
Host: University of the Philippines–Diliman, Philippines
2015-16 Academic Year
J. Patrick Biddix
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership
Research: How college students learn, individually and within groups; the use of mobile technology inside and outside of the classroom
Concordia University, Canada
Joseph Bozell
Professor, UT’s Center for Renewable Carbon
Research: Catalyst design for sustainable production of chemicals and fuels from renewable feedstock
Ghent University, Belgium
Brad Collett
Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences
Lecturing: Low impact development as opportunities for a society in transition
University of Ljubjana, Slovenia
Darcy Denae
Associate Instructor, Department of Journalism and Electronic Media
Research: Female on the Frontline: Women Freelancers and News Production in Conflict Coverage
The Sunday Times, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Brendan McConville
Associate Professor, Music Theory and Composition
Lecturing and Research: Recent American compositional and analytical trends; collection of sound samples from locations of inspiration to the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio
Pescara, Italy
Marcy Souza
Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Fulbright Specialist Program
Andres Bello University, Santiago, Chile
2014-15 Academic Year
Barton, Benjamin
Professor, College of Law
Lecturing: Comparative law; comparative judicial behavior, highlighting the use of economics, psychology, and economic analysis to study judicial incentives
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Cohen-Vrignaud, Gerard
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Lecturing: Orientalism in literature and translation theory and practice
Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
Jalata, Asafa
Professor, Department of Sociology
Lecturing and Research: The evolution of democracy in Botswana; the sociology of development
University of Botswana, Botswana
Krawczel, Peter
Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science
Research: Effects of establishing a dairy welfare assessment program
University of Osijek, Croatia
Su, Chunlei
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research: Molecular epidemiology and population genetics of toxoplasmosis
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013-14 Academic Year
Costen, Wanda
Associate Professor, Department of Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism
Lecturing and Research: Gender inequality in the Jamaican workplace: Uncovering the mechanisms limiting women’s workforce engagement & career mobility
University of the West Indies at Mona
September 2013–June 2014
Eldridge, Melanie
Research Associate, Environmental Sciences
Research: Molecular and Computational Analysis of Ecohazards of Nanotoxicological Materials
State University of Campinas, Brazil
May-August 2014
Frey, Richard
Professor and Director, Department of Sociology
Lecturing and Research: Pesticide Use Under Export-Focused Agricultural Production in Vietnam: Regulation, Risk Awareness, and Safety Practices
Vietnam National University, Vietnam
September 2013–June 2014
Klenk, Rebecca
Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Programs in Asian Studies, Global Studies and Women’s Studies
Lecturing: Anthropological Approaches to Gender, Development and Education in India and the United States
University of Delhi, India
January–June 2014
Young, Timothy
Professor, Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries
Lecturing and Research: Assessing Value-Added Bio-Based Products and Bioenergy in Austria for Effective Strategies in the USA
Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
September 2013–January 2014
2012-13 Academic Year
Commander, Michelle
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Lecturing and Research: Afro-Atlantic Speculative Fictions: Flight, Mythmaking, and the African Fantastic
University of Ghana
September 2012–May 2013
Fox, David
Professor, College of Architecture & Design
Lecturing and Research:
Krakow Polytechnic, Poland
January 2013–June 2013
Lowe, Sarah
Professor, School of Art
Lecturing and Research:
University of Oslo, Norway
September 2011–June 2012
Swan, Sam
Professor, School of Journalism and Electronic Media
Lecturing:
University of Zagreb, Croatia
December 2012
2011-12 Academic Year
Chaffin, James Thomas Jr.
Research Professor, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturing and Research: Giant’s Causeway: Frederic Douglass’s Irish Odyssey and the Shaping of American Freedom
University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
January–February 2012
Freeberg, Todd M.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturing: Animal Communication
Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia
February–June 2012
McKanders, Karla Mari
Associate Professor, Clinical Legal Education Department, College of Law
Lecturing: Comparative International Refugee Law and Practice
Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco
September 2011–June 2012
Phillips, Allison Denise
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Research: The Philosophical Farmer: Learned Knowledge and the Problem of Agricultural Productivity in Germany, 1750-1870
University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
January–June 2012
Davis, Cindy
Associate professor, College of Social Work, was named a senior Fulbright specialist. She spent June 25, 2012, through July 24, 2012, at two institutions in the Malaysian region of the Island of Borneo in the South China Sea.
Swan, Sam
Professor, School of Journalism and Electronic Media, was selected in the summer 2012 and asked to teach a two-week workshop on TV news reporting at the University of Zagreb in Croatia in December 2012.
2010-11 Academic Year
Feild, Taylor
Assitant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Gellert, Paul
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Lecturing and Research:
Paramadina University, Indonesia
August 2010–June 2011
Hodges, Donald G.
James R. Cox Professor, Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management
Lecturing:
University of Ljubljana and the Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Keffer, David
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Director of the Sustainable Technology through Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (STAIR) program Research: Lecturing and Research:
Yonsei University, Korea
August 20
Past Fulbright Visiting Scholar Awardees
2023-24 Academic Year
Mari Hatavara
Literature, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Research: Literature
Host Institution: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Lucia Molina
Biology, Patagonian Andes Forest Research and Extension Center, Argentina
Research: Mycology
Host Institution: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2022-23 Academic Year
Cecilia Accoroni
Agriculture, Instituto Superior Del Parque España, Rosario, Argentina
Research: Food Science
Host Institution: Department of Food Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paul Egwuonwu Dim
Engineering, Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria
Research: Chemical Engineering
Host Institution: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tomas Karlik
Journalism, Czech TV, Czech Republic
Research: Media
Host Institution: School of Journalism and Electronic Media, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Gisela Ariana Marcoppido
Social Work, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Research: Family and Community Services
Host Institution: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2021-22 Academic Year
Leonardo Henrique Gil Azevedo
Animal Taxonomy and Systematics, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Research: Phylogeny, Taxonomy and Biogeography of Gigantodax (Insecta, Diptera, Simuliidae)
Host Institution: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Lukasz Ryszard Kurpaska
Material Science, National Center for Nuclear Research, Poland
Research: Complex Alloys: Development of Novel High Entropy Alloys for Nuclear Energy Applications
Host Institution: Department of Materials Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2019-20 Academic Year
Majed Mohammadali Y Albokari
Chemistry, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia
Research: Exploring Halophilic Bacteria of Sabkhas in Saudi Arabia
Host: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Carlos Mario Zuluaga Dominguez
Food Technology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Research: Effect of the Incorporation of Dietary Fiber Extracted from Pseudocereals in Bakery Products on Acrylamide Formation and Physical-Chemical Parameters
Host: Food Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Uram Anibal Sosa Aguirre
Mathematics, Universidad Icesi, Colombia
Research: Gaining Insight Into the 3D Geophysical Structure of Colombia by Using Seismic and Gravity Data
Host: Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2018-19 Academic Year
Ondrej Novak
Nuclear Engineering, Czech Technical University In Prague, Czech Republic
Research: Fast Transient Simulation by NESTLE Code for Enhancement of Safety of Nuclear Power Plants
Host: Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Wei Chee Wong
Biotechnology, Advanced Agriecological Research SDN. BHD, Malaysia
Research: Population Genetics and Spatial Structure of Basal Stem Rot of Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis), Caused by Devastating Pathogen Ganoderma Boninense
Host: Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Maria Soledad Orellano
Microbiology, National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina
Research: Chitosan Nanoparticles as a Therapeutic Agent for Bovine Mastitis Treatment: Nanoparticle-Host-Pathogen Interaction
Host: Department of Animal Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2017-18 Academic Year
Dmytro Zaitsev
Computer Science, International Humanitarian University, Ukraine
Research: Compositional Analysis of Fluid Stochastic Petri Nets
Host: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Mariana Bernstein
Veterinary Science, La Plata National University, Argentina
Research: Analysis of the Population Structure and Virulence Markers of Toxoplasma Gondii Isolates in Animals and Humans in Argentina
Host: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Edwin Atabay
Veterinary Medicine, Philippine Carabao Center, Philippines
Research: Development of Management Strategies for Detection and Reducing Embryonic loss in Dairy Buffaloes/Livestocks
Host: University of Tennessee, Knoxville