Congratulations to Christopher Leslie, Instructor of Liberal Studies and New Media and Co-Advisor, Science and Technology Studies, for receiving a Fulbright Award to Postdam, Germany. Christopher will be teaching in the American Studies program at Postdam University for the 2008-09 school year.
The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship program in international educational exchange. Since the program’s inception in 1946, approximately 279,500 participants — chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential — have had the opportunity to exchange ideas and to contribute to finding solutions to shared issues. Read the official press release after the jump.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: 21 May 2008
Polytechnic University Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Award
Dr. Christopher Leslie, instructor of humanities and new media at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn NY, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Universität Potsdam, Germany, during the 2008-2009 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
As part of Potsdam’s American Studies Program, Dr. Leslie will teach courses about American literature, internet culture, and science fiction. Born and raised in Fredonia, NY, Dr. Leslie is a graduate of Fredonia High School (1987) and the SUNY College at Fredonia (1991). He took his doctorate in English from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2007.
Dr. Leslie is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. Since its inception, the Fulbright Program has exchanged approximately 273,500 people - 102,900 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 170,600 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States. The Program operates in over 150 countries worldwide.
Fulbright recipients are among over 30,000 individuals participating in U.S. Department of State exchange programs each year. For more than forty years, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has supported programs that seek to promote mutual understanding and respect between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright Scholar Program is administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
For further information about the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, please visit our website at http://exchanges.state.gov or contact Heidi Manley, Office of Academic Exchange Programs, telephone (202) 453-8534, or e-mail academic@state.gov.
Dr. Leslie may be contacted by telephone at (718) 260-3130 or e-mail to cleslie@poly.edu. His website is available at http://faculty.poly.edu/~cleslie.