May 4, 2009
History Professor Steven Estes to Travel to Eastern Europe for Fulbright Scholarship
History Professor Steven Estes will travel to Eastern Europe in July 2010, as part of a Fulbright Senior Lecturing Fellowship, to offer perspective on divisions in politics and the story of the American civil rights moment.
Estes will be teaching American history at the University of Efurt in the state of Thuringia, a state that part of East Germany before reunification two decades ago.
One will focus on the history of the American South, that will encourage undergraduate students to think about the ways past political and cultural divisions affect contemporary politics, both in the U.S. and Germany. The second class, part of the Masters of Arts program, examines the American civil rights movement and will connect the story of America's struggle with discrimination to international debates about human rights.
Posted by wasp at May 4, 2009 9:34 AM