Fulbright Grantees for 2010-11

The Slovak Fulbright Commission has just announced the grantees for the coming academic year:
http://www.fulbright.sk/documents/FulbrightGrantees2010-2011_005.pdf

One American professor received an award for research and four for lecturing (the type of Fulbright I had in 2007-08). Eight American recent college graduates received year-long appointments as English Teaching Assistants. (I have been suggesting this program to my students at Cal State.)

Five Slovak professors will come to the US as researchers, affiliated with universities here, as will three Slovak graduate students.

I'm sure everyone will have the experience of a lifetime, and wish them all the best.

The deadline for U.S. scholars to apply for a Fulbright for 2011-12 has just passed. The next deadline is August 1, 2011, for the 2012-2013 academic year. Complete information is here: http://www.cies.org/

I'm not eligible to apply again until five years after my first Fulbright, but I am seriously thinking of pursuing the Senior Specialist program as soon as I am eligible again.

New book on Slovakia

Let me put in a plug for a new book: Slovakia On the Road to Independence, by Paul Hacker. I found it a fascinating history of the pre- and post-Communist history of the country, by a career U.S. diplomat who knows the country very well. He asked me for pictures I had taken of the Bratislava U.S. Embassy, and I am very pleased that one appears on p. 81 of the book.

Here's a link to the publisher's page at Penn State University Press
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03623-6.html


This is the cover image of the book.