Call for applications: Fulbright Travel & Specialist Awards
Call for applications - Fulbright Travel and Specialist Awards
Fulbright New Zealand invites applications for its final round of NZ-US exchange awards for 2012. The following awards are available for short-term exchanges to the United States of America by New Zealand academics, artists or professionals:
Fulbright New
Zealand Travel Awards
These awards, valued at up
to NZ$5,000, are for New Zealand academics, artists or
professionals to visit the US for 12 to 90 days in order to
present their work to American audiences. Approximately
twelve awards are offered each year. Recent grantees have
included academic experts in artistic research, outdoor
education, occupational therapy and ethnographic filmmaking,
who will present their work at conferences, lectures and
film festivals in the US.
www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/travel
Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Travel
Awards in Indigenous Development
These awards,
valued at up to NZ$5,000, are for New Zealand academics,
artists or professionals to visit the US for 12 to 90 days
in order to present their work on a theme of indigenous
development to American audiences. A small number of awards
are granted each year. Recent grantees include Te Kawehau
Hoskins from the University of Auckland, who presented her
research into indigenous rights at the Native American and
Indigenous Studies Association’s 2012 annual meeting in
Connecticut.
www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/fulbright-npmtravel
In addition, New Zealand institutions are
invited to apply to host visiting American academics,
artists or professionals on short-term exchanges to New
Zealand:
Fulbright
Specialist Awards
These awards, valued at up to
US$11,700, are for New Zealand academic institutions to host
US academics, artists or professionals for two to six week
programmes of lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences or
symposiums. Up to six awards are granted each year. Recent
recipients of awards to host visiting Fulbright Specialists
include Lincoln University, who are currently hosting
pesticide expert Katherine Horak from the US Department of
Agriculture, and the University of Canterbury, who will soon
host language revitalisation consultant George Ann Gregory
from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzinstitution/specialist
Applications for each of these awards close at 5:00pm on 1 November 2012. See www.fulbright.org.nz/awards