UW English Professor Receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Morocco

The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board recently announced that University of Wyoming English Professor Caroline McCracken-Flesher, the director of UW’s Center for Global Studies, has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award.

She will complete a project at Morocco’s Cadi Ayyad University that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within education.

“My role as a Fulbright Specialist focuses on preparing Moroccan students to apply to American universities and to succeed in the U.S. classroom,” McCracken-Flesher says. “It is always a delight to work with students, especially as they launch out into new worlds. And, of course, every student who visits us in the U.S. connects with our students and helps open the world to them.

“Serving at Cadi Ayyad actually closes the circle for Wyoming, as I have been privileged to study with Moroccan colleagues and to host some of them here. Now, Wyoming goes to Cadi Ayyad!”

McCracken-Flesher is one of over 400 U.S. citizens who share expertise with host institutions abroad through the Fulbright Specialist Program each year. Recipients of Fulbright Specialist awards are selected based on academic and professional achievement, demonstrated leadership in their field and their potential to foster long-term cooperation between institutions in the U.S. and abroad.

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 U.S. and the people of other countries. The 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, the Fulbright Program has given more than 400,000 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. These individuals address critical global issues in all disciplines while building relationships, knowledge and leadership in support of the long-term interests of the U.S.

Fulbright alumni have achieved distinction in many fields, including 60 who have been awarded the Nobel Prize, 88 who have received Pulitzer Prizes and 39 who have served as a head of state or government.

For more information about the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State, visit http://eca.state.gov/fulbright, call the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Press Office at (202) 632-6452 or e-mail ECA-Press@state.gov.