Fulbright Awards

Case Western Reserve University strongly supports faculty and student participation in the Fulbright Program. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program, designed to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.”

With this goal as a starting point, the core Fulbright Scholar Program provides nearly 500 teaching, research, or combination teaching and research awards in more than 135 countries around the world. Participants are chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential and receive an opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

Case Western Reserve is proud to have numerous faculty who have earned Fulbright awards throughout the years. 

You can click on the information you would like to view here:

• Past Case Western Reserve Faculty Fulbright Award Recipients
• Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
• Fulbright Student Program

Apply for the Fulbright Scholar Program

Details of the Fulbright Scholar awards including eligibility guidelines and application information is available here.

For assistance and questions regarding the Fulbright Scholar Program, contact the Fulbright Campus Liaison, Dr. Chris Sippel, in the Center for International Affairs.

Fulbright Scholar Program Catalog of Awards

CWRU Faculty Fulbright Award Recipients

2022-2023

Cami Ross, assistant director of education abroad, traveled to Japan as part of the Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) Award program, which fully funds professionals to participate in intensive two-week seminars to learn about study abroad programs in other countries.    

Rakesh Kumar Niraj, associate professor of marketing design & innovation, Weatherhead School of Management spent 10 months abroad in Mauritius, a small island country in the Indian Ocean. Building on his work in the Master of Business Analytics and Intelligence program at CWRU, Niraj spent his time in Mauritius working with faculty at the University of Technology, Mauritius’ School of Business, Management and Finance to help establish a similar program and conduct research.

2021-2022

Deborah Lindell, professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant to Kenya to work with the Turkana Basin Institute and Turkana University College. Her project is titled "Advancing Nursing Education in Northwest Kenya" and is focused on developing an upgrade Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Turkana University College as well as offering continuing nursing professional development sessions and learning about higher education in Kenya.

2019-2020

Celeste Alfes, associate professor and director of the Center for Nursing Education, Simulation, and Innovation in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant for teaching and research with the University of L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. Her appointment included teaching and research surrounding the topics of simulation and critical care transport; advising 6 PhD post-doctoral students in their research; submitting 5 co-authored collaborative manuscripts for publication; setting up an MOU between the University of L’Aquila and CWRU to offer faculty and doctoral student exchanges; participating in planning the International Council of Nurses Qualitative Research Conference in Rome in June of 2020 and a MIS4Tel Simulation Conference in L’Aquila in June of 2020.

Cheryl Toman, professor of French, Ruth Mulhauser Professor, chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences was selected to participate in the Fulbright U.S.-Germany International Education Administrators Program in Fall 2019. The program allows U.S. international education professionals and senior higher education officials to create empowering connections with the societal, cultural and higher education systems of other countries.

Rekha Srinivasan, the James Stephen Swinehart PhD Professorial Teaching Fellow in Chemistry and senior instructor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Award. The grant is for teaching and research in India and her field of study is Education. Her host institution is the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Project Title: Active Learning Pedagogy in India’s STEMM Classrooms: Empowering Students, Instructors, and Institutions.

Fehmida Kapadia, adjunct professor for the Master of Engineering Management program in the Weatherhead School of Management, has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to teach Entrepreneurship in Health Sciences at the Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL) in Florianópolis, Brazil in fall 2019. Her project involves work with the Innovation and Entrepreneurship lab (iLAB), the Center for Sustainable Development - Greens, and other learning and innovation environments of UNISUL. 

2018-2019

Avidan Cover, professor of Law and director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy the School of Law, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach at the Nairobi Law School and conduct research in Kenya from January to June of 2019. Project Title: The Kenyan Judiciary, National Security, and Judicial Review.

Mary Erdmans, professor in the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, received a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research in Poland from January to June of 2019. Her research involves collecting interviews with return migrants and conducting archival research at the European Solidarity Center. Project Title: Oral Histories of Polish Return Solidarity Refugees.

2017-2018

Damaris Puñales-Alpízar, associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant for research in Russia to work in the libraries archives in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. Her project's aim is to delve on the socialist literature translated into Spanish that circulated in Cuba from the 60s to the 90s, to elucidate the peripheral and central role that such literature had on the formation of a Cuban literary polysystem, and also to define what mechanisms and policies were behind those translations. Project Title: Flow and Circulation of Socialist Literature in Cuba: The Geo-Politics of Translation.

Michael Goldberg, assistant professor in the Department of Design and Innovation, Weatherhead School of Management, was awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant with Asociación Canaria de Startups, Empresas de Base Tecnológica e Inversores Ángeles (Emerge), a startup organization in the Canary Islands of Spain in June 2018. His project focuses on strengthening the Canary Islands' entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Amy Zhang, associate professor in the School of Medicine and Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, received a Fulbright Scholar award to conduct research in China from May 2018 to July 2019. Project Title: Assessing Depression in Chinese Cancer Patients

2016–2017

Darin Croft, professor in the Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, received a Fulbright Scholar award for research and lecturing at the National University of La Plata in Argentina from August to November 2016. Project Title: The Evolution of South American Mammal Communities Following the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum; The Remarkable Diversity of Living Mammals.

Brian Grimberg, assistant professor in the Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine, received a Fulbright Scholar award to conduct research on a malaria-detection device he helped develop, and teach at Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru during the course of two summers, from June 2018 through September 2019.

Katherine Krynak, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant for research at Indoamerican Technical University in Quito, Ecuador from March to June of 2017. Project Title: Effects of Introduced Trout on Glassfrogs of Ecuador and the Relationship to Amphibian Disease Susceptibility.

2015–2016

Mark Hans, professor and chairman of the Department of Orthodontics, School of Dental Medicine, received a Fulbright Specialist Award to work with faculty at the University of Athens in Greece to establish a new Cleft Lip and Palate Center from mid-November to early December 2015. 

Edward Sivak, MD, professor in the School of Medicine, received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Aalto University in Finland where he was hosted by the School of Business for a collaboration focused on comparing the cost of healthcare in Finland to the U.S. 

2014–2015

Michael Goldberg, assistant professor in the Department of Design and Innovation, Weatherhead School of Management, was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the Polytechnic in Windhoek, Namibia, for the summer of 2015. Topic: entrepreneurship.

2013–2014

Menachem Shoham, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a Fulbright lecture and research grant to Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, for June-July 2013. Topic: agriculture.

Daniel Lacks, professor of chemical engineering in the Case School of Engineering, was awarded a Fulbright lecture and research grant to the American Center in Yangon, Burma for July – August 2013. Project Title: Engineering Education.

2012–2013

Brian Gran, associate professor in the Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences and School of Law, was awarded a Fulbright lecture and research grant to Reykjavik University in Reykjavik, Iceland, for January–April 2013. Project Title: Law and Children’s Rights in Private Settings.

Jeffrey Halpern, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case School of Engineering, was awarded a Fulbright research grant to Technion- Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, for February 2013–October 2014. Project Title: Affinity-Based Nanosensor for Cancer Detection via Volatile Organic Compounds.

Walter Lambrecht, professor in the Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a Fulbright research grant to the Peter Gruenberg Institute in Juelich, Germany for July – December 2012. Project Title: Electronic Structure of Defects in Semiconductors.

2011–2012

Elliot Posner, associate professor of political science, was awarded a European Union Affairs Research Program Fulbright Scholarship for the spring semester of 2012. He was in Paris for the 2011–12 academic year working on his project, The European Union, Regulatory Cooperation and International Finance.

Marilyn Lotas, associate professor and associate dean for undergraduate programs at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, was a Fulbright Scholar at the Alice Ramez Chagoury School of Nursing at the Lebanese American University of Beirut (LAU) in Lebanon.

Michael Goldberg, assistant visiting professor in the Weatherhead School of Management, received a Fulbright award to teach entrepreneurial finance at Vietnam’s National Economics University in Hanoi.

Anna Mandalakas, associate professor at the School of Medicine, spent 11 months in Tygerberg, South Africa, in collaboration with Stellenbosch University. She studied the benefits of isoniazid preventive therapy on children infected with tuberculosis.

2010–2011

Charles Rosenblatt, professor of physics and macromolecular science, spent the fall 2010 semester at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (University Paris VI) in France and conducted research focusing primarily on how an interface between two immiscible fluids becomes unstable and their subsequent complex flow.

2009–2010

Kathryn Lavelle, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, received a Fulbright for January–April 2010 to the University of Toronto for her research, Legislating for International Organizations: Democratic Constituencies and the Bretton Woods International Financial Institution.

2008–2009

Ronald Blanton, professor in the Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine, had a lecturing/research fellowship May–July 2009 to the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. Topic: Genetic epidemiology, Aedes Aegypti Gene Flow Mapping.

2007–2008

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, was awarded a Fulbright lecture and research grant to conduct and teach research at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. Her program is titled “Expanding Nursing Scholarship for the Discipline.”

Louise McKinney, Law professor, was awarded a Fulbright lecture and research grant. McKinney worked in southern Africa with the University of Botswana's law department on "Enhancing Clinical Education and Access to Justice in Botswana."

2006–2007

Steven Feldman, associate professor of management policy, received a distinguished lectureship to teach about international business ethics at Shanghai International Studies University.

Cheryl Toman, assistant professor of French and Francophone studies, received a lecturing/research grant to focus on Comparative Visions of Feminine Experience, "Women, Identity and Activism: Identifying Connections and Respecting Differences," at Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.

2005–2006

Insoo Hyun, Korea, Philosophy

William Stanley, Italy, Medical Sciences

Christopher Cullis, South Africa, Biological Sciences

2004–2005

John Grabowski, Turkey, History

Martha Woodmansee, Brazil, Language

2003–2004

Vesna Kutlesic, Serbia and Montenegro, Psychology

2002–2003

Vesna Kutlesic, Serbia and Montenegro, Psychology

Paul Laux, Portugal, Business Administration

Hiram Chodosh, India, Law

1999–2000

Sana Loue, Romania, Medical Sciences

1998–1999

Sana Loue, Romania, Medical Sciences

Louise McKinney, Kenya, Law

1997–1998

Robert Williams, South Africa

Kenneth Ledford, Germany, History

Nahida Gordon, West Bank, Medical Sciences

1996–1997

Doris Modly, Hungary, Medical Sciences

John Grabowski, Turkey, History

1993–1994

William Marling, Hungary, Medical Sciences

1992–1993

Janice Reiff, Germany, History

Michelle Facos, Sweden, Art History

1991–1992

Steven Feldman, Austria, Business Administration

Chaim Sukenik, Israel, Material Science and Engineering

1990–1991

Steven Feldman, Austria, Business Administration

Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program

The Worldwide Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program brings visiting scholars and professionals from abroad to lecture at U.S. colleges and universities for one semester or one academic year.

Case Western Reserve and the Center for International Affairs can provide support to faculty and departments who want to host a scholar.

The Council on the International Exchange of Scholars facilitates the visiting scholar program. For more information on the program, visit cies.org/programs.

Fulbright Student Awards

Case Western Reserve students who are interested in pursuing a Fulbright award can apply as undergraduate senior or graduate student. For more information about this program, visit the Office of Undergraduate Studies website.