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Salem State professor awarded Fulbright

Dr. Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello has recently been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the spring 2010 academic semester. Dr. Duclos-Orsello, an assistant professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and coordinator of the American studies concentration at Salem State College, will use her fellowship to teach American studies at the University of Luxembourg. Among her particular areas of interest are U.S. cultural history, gender issues, immigrants, ethnicity in literature and history, social justice, cultural geography, and civic engagement.

Each year, the Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad, where they lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. The program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Salem State, established in 1854 as Salem Normal School, is a comprehensive, publicly supported institution of higher learning located approximately 15 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts. The college enrolls over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students representing 27 states and 65 nations, and is one of the largest state colleges in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.