Ithaca College faculty member receives Fulbright Award

An expert on issues of race and public policy in America has been granted a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to teach on that subject in the central European nation of Slovenia.Donathan Brown, associate professor in the Ithaca College Department of Communication Studies, will spend the spring 2017 semester at the University of Maribor.
 
Brown will help the university develop a curriculum around race and American politics as well as give public lectures on campus and throughout the country. For many years part of Yugoslavia, Slovenia gained its independence in 1991. Maribor is the nation’s second-largest university.
 
“The Departments of English and American Studies, in which I will be teaching, offer students three study programs at the B.A. and M.A. levels that draw from interdisciplinary and international content that includes rhetoric, argumentation and debate,” said Brown. “My Fulbright is intended to help them fill a gap when it comes to offering courses pertaining to the interplay between race, American politics and law.”
 
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to build relations between the people of the United States and the people of other countries that are needed to solve global challenges.
 
Brown’s research is focused on the intersection of race, rhetoric and public policy, particularly pertaining to African Americans and Latinos. He is the coauthor of the books “Voting Rights Under Fire: The Continuing Struggle for People of Color” and “When Race and Policy Collide: Contemporary Immigration Debates.”