Amy Kuiken presented a paper at the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society 2019 Conference in Nashville, Indiana. The paper was titled, “A Pedagogy of Guilt: A Freirean Critique of a Hegemonic Ethos in the Foreign Language Classroom.” Amy is working her way...
Nancy Bartley was among the featured speakers at the 2019 annual conference of the Fulbright Association, “Connecting Minds and Hearts for Global Change”, taking place in Washington, DC on October 24-26, 2019. Fulbrighter Nancy Bartley has shares in two Pulitzer...
Dr. Nancy J. Scannell, Associate Professor of Business Administration, was invited to serve as a Fulbright Specialist at Irkutsk State University (ISU) in Russia. Thanks to her hard work and support, a select cohort of students from ISU distinguished themselves by...
Laura Geier continues to perform music from Bulgaria, Romania & Moldova. She recently performed a set of music with colleague, Igor Iachimciuc, at the World Village Festival in Boise,...
During the past 12 months, Dr. Edward A. Friedman has been active as a Board member of the American University in Bulgaria, as well as teaching a course on Nuclear Energy and Society at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ where he is an Emeritus Professor...
George Miaoulis co-authored a publication on Netnography as a marketing research tool in the fashion industry in Southeast Europe for the International Journal of Market Research. The article explores the evolving opportunities that online communities present to...
Jesse Scinto has been busy with many activities in the past year, here’s a list of some of them: Articles “Blues Without Borders,” Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange Newsletter (3/2019) “The Camera Never Lies” Toastmaster magazine (8/2019)...
Elizabeth Bews completed her MA in archaeology from Cornell University in December 2018. The title of her thesis is: “After Accession: EU Funding and Archaeological Practice in Bulgaria.” She was also accepted to present a paper at the Archaeological Institute of...
Daniel Keifer received a Boren Scholarship in 2019 to study in Kazakhstan. The Boren Fellowship is funding his studies at Nazarbayev University, as an exchange student in Eurasian Studies and Advanced Russian. It is also facilitating the research for his Master’s...
Dr. Diane Wawrejko had the following essays, articles, and presentations in 2018-2019: “Daniel Nagrin’s Man of Action: Dancing Jewish through a Photographic Lens.” Published photo essay with five shots by photographer Marcus Blechman. Association for Jewish...