fulbright scholars

Colle

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MACEE

Colleen O’Neal grew up in New Orleans and lives in New York City. She is an assistantprofessor and child clinical psychologist at the NYU Child Study Center, in the NYU School of Medicine where she teaches NYU students and conducts research and clinical interventions with low-income children. On the side, she has a family with three young children and loves coaching kids’ soccer in Brooklyn. She got her B.A. from Cornell University in Psychology, an M.S. from Auburn University in Family and Child Development, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University in Brooklyn, and a Post-Doctorate in Mental Health Statistics from NYU. Her research focuses on protective and risk factors for the development ofchildhood depression and aggression among low-income, minority families. She translates such research findings into mental health programs involving school-based parent groups, children groups, and teacher training in the management of child mental health problems. Funding for Dr. O’Neal’s research has come from an NIMH Predoctoral Award, an NIMH Postdoctoral Training Fellowship in Mental Health Statistics, an NIMH Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services Fellowship, and a NARSAD Young Investigator award.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. O’Neal will conduct research on the prevention of mental health problems among underserved, low-income children in Malaysia. She will do so bypartnering with Malaysian mental health programs to prevent childhood anxiety and depression. She hopes to work closely with mental health providers, children, and families to develop a sustainable intervention that feels culturally-relevant and effective to them. Then, she will assess the impact of the intervention on the children and families. She will also teach and train clinical psychology students at HELP University with the goal ofcontributing to the development of more clinical interventionists in Malaysia.

E-mail : [email protected] : 012-279 8062

Colleen O’NealSeptember 2010 - June 2011

(HELP University)

Sean

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MACEE

Dr. Sean Foley is an Assistant Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University (USA) and will be a Fulbright research scholar at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia starting in September 2010. While at ISTAC, Foley will study the influence of Arabs and Islamic modernism onMalaysian Islam between 1875 and 1935. Foley specializes in the Middle East and religious and political trends in the broader Islamic world. Previously, he taught atGeorgetown University, where he earned an M.A. in Arab Studies in 2000 and a Ph.D. in History in 2005. In 2002 and 2003, he held Fulbright fellowships at Damascus University (Syria) and Istanbul University (Turkey).

Foley speaks Arabic and has delivered papers to international conferences anduniversities in Barbados, Canada, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Foley has also contributed to US and global media on issues relating to Islamic affairs. He has published widely on Islamic history, Sufism, Persian Gulf politics, and Muslims in American history. His first book, The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam (http://www.rienner.com/title/The_Arab_Gulf_States_Beyond_Oil_and_Islam), was published by Lynne Rienner Press in March 2010. His website is www.seanfoley.org.


Sean FoleySeptember 2010 - July 2011

(ISTAC)

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MACEE

I am a Fulbright Student Scholar affiliated with ASWARA (Akademi Seni Budaya & Warisan Kebangsaan) for 10 months, beginning in July 2010. I graduated on full academic scholarship from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Theatre and Visual Communication. While in university, I spent a semester living in New York, working with a theatre company and attending classes at The Juilliard School; I also received grants to study international theatrical traditions in Bulgaria as a member of the Rhodopi International Theatre Collective. I have acted in productions everywhere from New York to New Orleans and have served as director, lighting designer and graphic designer for many more. Most recently, I directed a modernadaptation of Shakespeare’s Trolius and Cressida performed in an outdooramphitheatre.

Fulbright Project: "Contemporizing Malaysian Traditional Theatre"

At ASWARA, I will be studying traditional Malaysian theatrical traditions such as wayung kulit, bangsawan, randai and mak yung. Using this understanding of theatrical forms, I will be working with area theatre groups to create work in collaboration. The last three months of my grant period will be dedicated to creating an original piece of theatre that fuses Malaysian and Western theatrical traditions, techniques and stories. I hope to perform this piece in both KL and the U.S. I am extremely excited about the opportunity to study both traditional and contemporary elements of performing arts in Malaysia.


Jacqueline BradleyJuly 2010 - April 2011

(ASWARA)

Mar

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MACEE

Meg Perry is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina and a 2008 graduate of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania with the major in Biology. Meg has a diverse background in ecological field research including studies of plant physiology in Panama, breeding ecology of migratory songbirds in Alaska, and morphology and conservation of the Diamondback Terrapin in New Jersey. She has also worked in forestry, sustainable agriculture, and most recently, as a teacher of science and math to 9th graders.

Meg’s Fulbright work centers on the highly endangered Southern River Terrapin, Batagur affinis (pictured above). She lives in Kampung Mangkok, Setiu, Terengganu and works in association with the Turtle Conservation Centre there participating in TCC’s ongoing Southern River Terrapin research as well as helping with their turtle conservation outreach programs throughout Terengganu. Her individual research focuses on the impact on B. affinis habitat of human activities near rivers. She hopes to further the development of cooperative relationships between local stakeholders and TCC, and to collect baseline data that can inform effective preservation of B. affinis habitat long term.


Margaret PerryAugust 2010 - May 2011

(TCC)

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MACEE

I am a Fulbright Visiting Scholar currently affiliated with the Institute of Biology at University Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I am on development leave from my permanent position as an Associate Professor in the Honors College and Department of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, USA.

Fulbright Project: ‘Ecological and Environmental Education in Malaysia’

Project Summary - Knowledge about the environment is important for sustainabledevelopment and conservation of natural resources. Ideally, nations will have both (1) ecologically knowledgeable scientists and (2) an environmentally literate general public. In this Literature / Research project, I propose to spend an academic year (10 months) in Malaysia focusing on both of these issues. As a lecturer, I propose to teach ecology courses in the undergraduate program in Ecology and Biodiversity at the University of Malaya. This term I will be teaching ‘Special Topics in Ecology and Biodiversity’. My research goal is to collaborate with Malaysian scholars to produce a ‘Malaysia Collection’ on the Encyclopedia of the Earth (http://www.eoearth.org/). This collection will serve as a reliable and accessible source of information about the natural history, ecology and environmental issues ofMalaysia that can be used by people in Malaysia and abroad.


Mark McGinleyJune 2010 - April 2011

(University Malaya)

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MACEE

Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, Michael Feldman graduated from Rice University in 2010 with majors in Political Science and Asian Studies. He is a 2008 National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Scholar, for which he studied in Shanghai, China during the 2008-2009 academic year. In the summer of 2008, he assisted Dr. Richard Weitz of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Future Security Strategies with research on Southeast Asian regional security issues. He has also worked at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy inHouston, the U.S. Department of Commerce in Sydney, Australia, and the Shanghai office of Vinson & Elkins, an international law firm specializing in energy. He has traveled extensively on six continents and speaks proficient Mandarin.

Michael’s Fulbright project deals with the nexus of security and trade issues within theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Based at the Department of International and Strategic Studies at the University of Malaya, Michael will investigate Malaysianperceptions of ASEAN in promoting political stability, economic progress, and mutual defense in the region. The first component of his research will focus explicitly on ASEAN’s ability to respond to modern security threats and the attitudes and policies of the Malaysian government on regional security collaboration. The second component centers on ASEAN’s future as a trade-promoting institution, exemplified by the formation of a Free Trade Area in 1992. The ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement, implemented in January, has furthertransformed regional trade into a security issue, creating the world’s largest free trade zone and strengthening China’s neomercantilist behavior in Southeast Asia. Michael hopes to conduct an informed study by engaging with local academics and government leaders.Additionally, he plans to participate in seminars on ASEAN studies at the Asia-EuropeInstitute on the University of Malaya campus.


MichaelFeldman

September 2010 - June 2011(University Malaya)

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MACEE

Michael Vishnevetsky graduated from Yale College in 2010 with the major in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. In Spring 2008, he participated in a student expedition, led by Professor Scott Strobel, to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. Small plant samples were collected and returned to Yale, where novel symbiotic microbes were isolated, and their biomedical/agricultural promise assessed using various bioassays. With funding from the Beckman Scholars Program, he conducted work from Summer 2008 to Spring 2010 in the labs of Scott Strobel and John Carlson at Yale. In this time, he identified several fungi that produce gaseous compounds strongly repelling fruit flies, and proceeded to determine the identity of some of these compounds using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. Though this project parallels the work he will do in Malaysia, his other training in molecular biology and phylogenetics will be quite useful as well.

Michael’s Fulbright research is in many ways an extension of his work in the states, as he hopes to collect small plant samples from different ecosystems in Sarawak, and then to isolate symbiotic microbes from within these plants in the laboratories of SarawakBiodiversity Centre (SBC). Using a selective technique, he will attempt to isolate new fungi that produce potent antimicrobial gases. Once such organisms are isolated, Michael will work together with graduate students both at SBC and at SwinburneUniversity of Technology (Sarawak Campus) in order to develop the organisms into an anti-pest treatment for the agricultural industry. Moreover, he will be involved in the efforts of SBC’s traditional knowledge program, which documents and preserves the knowledge of ethnobotanical customs practiced by the many communities living deep in the rainforest. Michael will be living close to Sarawak Biodiversity Centre, which is just outside of the city of Kuching.


MichaelVishnevetsky

August 2010 - May 2011(SBC)

Sand

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MACEE

I am a Fulbright Visiting Scholar affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) for one semester beginning in July 2010. I taught for 28 years in the Communications Department at the University of South Carolina Aiken (USCA) before retiring as a Distinguished Professor Emerita. During my tenure at USCA, I received the South Carolina Governor's Distinguished Professor Award and USCA’s Teaching Excellence Award. Since retiring, I have been a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, Hungary, published two books and taught part-time.

Fulbright Project: "Teaching Principles, Skills, and Theories in Human Communication"

I have received a Fulbright lecturing award and will be teaching courses in "Interpersonal Communication" and "Communication Theories" to undergraduates at UNIMAS. I will also give seminars to students in the Communication Studies Programme on different aspects of intercultural communication and a lecture to faculty members on trends in communication research and studies. In addition, I will review the curriculum of the Communication Studies Programme and mentor young academics in their research and writing. I look forward to this opportunity to be both a teacher and a student as I learn about the Malaysianeducational system and about Malaysian cultures and how they blend to form a vibrantsociety.


Sandra HochelJune 2010 - November 2010

(UNIMAS)

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