Political Science Professor Marie Gottschalk Wins 2009-10 Fulbright Scholarship

Marie Gottschalk, Professor of Political Science, has been awarded a 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholarship.

Gottschalk researches the welfare state and mass incarceration in America. She received a short-term grant to travel to Japan to lecture at the Nagoya American Studies Seminar for two weeks this past summer.

The Fulbright Scholar Program is sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and managed by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. The purpose is to increase understanding between Americans and people of other countries.

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Petryna focuses on the socio-political nature of science, how populations are enrolled in experimental knowledge-production, and what becomes of citizenship and ethics in the process.

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