Fw: H-ASIA: Attention U.S. Colleagues: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral and Faculty Research Awards Programs Cancelled (comment)

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 2:51 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Attention U.S. Colleagues: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral and
Faculty Research Awards Programs Cancelled (comment)

> H-ASIA
> May 21, 2011
>
> Comment on the cancellation of Title VI funded programs
> ************************************************************************
> From: Anthony D'Costa <promothesdcosta@gmail.com>
>
> This is very unfortunate. I was a recipient of a Faculty Research Abroad
> fellowship in 1992. This was the only Fulbright award that a non-American
> citizen was eligible for. I have benefited tremendously from such an
> award
> in terms of research publications on the Indian auto industry and Japanese
> industrial practices in India through field research in India and Japan.
> Through this fellowship I have also contributed to the intellectual
> interest
> in the political economy of changing Indian industries. Elimination of
> the
> Fulbright Program is short sighted despite the alleged short-term
> financial
> gains that might accrue in these times of belt tightening. More
> importantly
> the long-term damage to the intellectual growth of US-based young scholars
> is likley to be substantial. American scholars, including me, need to
> ensure that the Fulbright programs are reinstated immediately or else we
> will be witness to the gradual withering of interdisciplinary
> international
> studies in the social sciences and history. .
>
> Yours, Anthony
>
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Anthony P. D'Costa
> Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director
> Asia Research Centre
> Copenhagen Business School
> Dalgas Have 15
> DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> Ph: +45 3815 2572
>
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