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July 24, 2003
Rebecca L. Torstrick, associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University South Bend, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and do research at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva, Israel, during the 2003-2004 academic year.
The announcement was made by the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Torstrick will teach the course, “The Public Sphere in the Middle East,” for the Middle Eastern Studies program at Ben Gurion University one semester and use the other semester to conduct pilot research on visions of the future among the Jewish and Palestinian residents of Acre, a city in northern Israel. She will leave on Sept. 3.
“This is a great opportunity” to be there as the peace process continues with the new initiative, she said. The research will be very interesting at this juncture. “The peace process may continue or fall apart,” she added.
During the project, Torstrick will work to link students from South Bend to Israel through the Internet and create a webpage for the campus.
She studied relationships between Palestinians and Jews in the city of Acre for two years from 1987 to 1989, at the beginning of the first Palestinian uprising, and then again in 1990 and 1998. Her book on the tensions and relationships, “The Limits of Coexistence: Identity Politics in Israel,” was published in 2000.
Torstrick 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 program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
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