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| Cal State L.A. Faculty Member Los Angeles, CA Â Los Angeles-90042 resident Yehudi Webster, associate professor of sociology at California State University, Los Angeles, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Lodz University, Poland, during the 2003-2004 academic year. According to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Webster will teach courses on race and ethnicity in American society, violence in American society, and multicultural education in the Department of American Studies and Mass Media. Webster is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2003-2004 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the programÂs purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. The Fulbright ProgramÂAmericaÂs flagship international educational exchange activityÂis sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Webster, who joined the Cal State L.A. faculty in 1984, received a M.S. in political economy from Warsaw University, Poland, M.A. in Soviet studies from the University of London, England, and Ph.D. in sociology from Warwick University, England. His interests and specializations include philosophy, reasoning in social sciences, critical thinking, and gender, racial, ethnic, class and human perspectives on society. He has delivered numerous keynote addresses and conducted workshops both nationally and internationally in these areas, and is the author of Against the Multicultural Agenda: A Critical Thinking Alternative (1997) and The Racialization of America (1992).
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