2016, 2019 & 2023 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Institutional Awards for St. Philip's College
2016, Richard & Yvonne Naylor
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2019, Derick & Dot Wilson
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2023, Vladimer Narsia
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Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program
The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program assists U.S. higher education institutions in expanding programs of academic exchange, by supporting non-U.S. scholars through grants for teaching at institutions that might not have a strong international component and/or serve minority audiences. Both the U.S. institution and the scholar grantee benefit from this experience. I was the "Principal Contact for Academic Arrangements for the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence," which means that I headed the large team that wrote the grant and coordinated the stay of our scholars.
In 2016, St. Philip's College hosted Richard and Yvonne Naylor from the Corrymeela Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland.
In 2019, St. Philip's College hosted Derick and Dot Wilson from the Corrymeela Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland.
In 2023, St. Philip's College hosted Vladimer Narsia from the Canon Law Centre at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.
The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program assists U.S. higher education institutions in expanding programs of academic exchange, by supporting non-U.S. scholars through grants for teaching at institutions that might not have a strong international component and/or serve minority audiences. Both the U.S. institution and the scholar grantee benefit from this experience. I was the "Principal Contact for Academic Arrangements for the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence," which means that I headed the large team that wrote the grant and coordinated the stay of our scholars.
In 2016, St. Philip's College hosted Richard and Yvonne Naylor from the Corrymeela Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland.
In 2019, St. Philip's College hosted Derick and Dot Wilson from the Corrymeela Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland.
In 2023, St. Philip's College hosted Vladimer Narsia from the Canon Law Centre at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.
2013 United States Institute of Peace Grant
2013 Global Human Security Lecture Series
& Poetry as a Pathway to Peace with Pádraig Ó Tuama
With a grant from the Public Education for Peacebuilding Support initiative of the United States Institute of Peace, students from St. Mary's University and Northwest Vista College were able to hear renown poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama during two special events in November 2013.
Ó Tuama traveled from the Corrymeela Centre, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation community. His work there deals with how Northern Ireland moved from a conflict to a post-conflict society, and the role that the arts in general and poetry in particular played in that movement. Ó Tuama’s work centers around themes of language, power, conflict and religion.
On Wednesday, 13 November 2013, he presented “Poetry as a Pathway to Peace” with San Antonio poet Cyra Dumitru.
On Thursday, 14 November 2013, he delivered the annual Global Human Security Lecture, with a paper titled “Sorry for Your Troubles: Reflections on Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland.”
& Poetry as a Pathway to Peace with Pádraig Ó Tuama
With a grant from the Public Education for Peacebuilding Support initiative of the United States Institute of Peace, students from St. Mary's University and Northwest Vista College were able to hear renown poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama during two special events in November 2013.
Ó Tuama traveled from the Corrymeela Centre, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation community. His work there deals with how Northern Ireland moved from a conflict to a post-conflict society, and the role that the arts in general and poetry in particular played in that movement. Ó Tuama’s work centers around themes of language, power, conflict and religion.
On Wednesday, 13 November 2013, he presented “Poetry as a Pathway to Peace” with San Antonio poet Cyra Dumitru.
On Thursday, 14 November 2013, he delivered the annual Global Human Security Lecture, with a paper titled “Sorry for Your Troubles: Reflections on Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland.”
2013 United States Institute of Peace Grant
The grant supported the 2013 Peace and Conflict Studies Summer Workshop at St. Mary's University and Northwest Vista College.
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2013 Peace & Conflict Studies Summer Workshop
For four days in June 2013, students from St. Mary's University and Northwest Vista College participated in an experiential learning workshop about international peace and conflict transformation. The theme of this summer's workshop is drug related violence along the border of the United States and Mexico. There were expert speakers on the subject of the drug cartels, such as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Resident Agent in Charge of the border between San Diego and Tijuana, the busiest land border crossing in the world. There were also two speakers, Matthew Scrimgeour and Aaron Gordon, from the Corrymeela Peace & Reconciliation Centre in Northern Ireland. The speakers came to discuss how Northern Ireland moved from a conflict to a post-conflict society, even when many thought that the violence there was not simply intransigent, but actually unsolvable. The two discussed the role of the Corrymeela Centre before, during and after the thirty year period of violence from 1969 to the signing of the peace treaty on Good Friday of 1998. |
Aaron Gordon (left) and Matthew Scrimgeour, from the Corrymeela Peace & Reconciliation Centre in Northern Ireland.
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2012 Lilly Fellows Program in the Humanities & Arts Grant
The grant supported the 2012 Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers at the Corrymeela Peace Centre.
2012 Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar for College & University Teachers
Representing Corrymeela, I was an applicant with Dr. John Pinheiro of Aquinas College, and we wrote a successful application for a $56,000 Lilly Fellows Program Grant.
The award funded "Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: Theory and Practice" which was the courses we developed and delivered as the 2012 Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers.
The seminar was guided by Pádraig Ó Tuama, and held at the Corrymeela Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland during July 2012.
