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Fulbright trip to Germany for Cal State L.A. professor
Dark to
explore ‘Nation-State and European Identity’
LOS ANGELES
–
Taylor Dark III, a professor of political science at
California State University, Los Angeles, has recently been selected
for a 2012 Fulbright German Studies Seminar award by the J.
William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
A Pasadena
resident, Dark will travel from Berlin, Germany, to Brussels, Belgium,
in the summer to participate in this year’s seminar, “Nation-State and
European Identity,” conducted by the Fulbright Commission.
“I’m excited
about this opportunity to study how Europeans are grappling with
struggles over both national identity and the rise of a common European
identity,” said Dark. “With the current crisis over the future of the
Euro, this is a particularly appropriate time to consider the process of
European integration, as well as resistance to it.”
The seminar
will provide Dark and other scholars a first-hand look into how
Germany’s political, economic and cultural systems deal with
contemporary issues. According to the Fulbright Commission, the
engagement in substantive dialogue with political, academic, scientific,
journalistic and cultural leaders in Germany can strengthen research and
teaching for U.S. scholars.
An expert on
labor unions in national politics, Dark is knowledgeable in the areas of
the U.S. presidency, Congress, party politics, and federal elections. He
authored numerous articles on labor unions in American politics, and
national electoral politics (especially the Democratic Party). He
published The Unions and Democrats: An Enduring Alliance, with
Cornell University Press, 2001. Previously, he was associate professor
and associate dean in the Graduate School of American Studies at
Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in political
science from UC Berkeley.
From a
letter by Tom Healy, chair of the Fulbright Board, to Professor Dark, it
stated: “Your selection for a Fulbright award is, in itself, an
achievement for which you can be justly proud. … As a representative of
your country in Germany, you will help fulfill the principal purpose of
the Fulbright Program, which is to increase mutual understanding between
the people of the United States and the people of more than 150
countries that currently participate in the Fulbright Program.”
The
Fulbright Program has provided almost 300,000 participants—chosen for
their academic merit and leadership potential—academic opportunities in
other countries. For more about the Fulbright scholarship to Germany, go
to
http://www.cies.org/GSS
or
http://www.fulbright.de/togermany/grants/german-studies-seminar/german-studies-seminar-2012/.
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