Fulbright Almanac 1964-2014
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ALMANAC 1964–2014 CELEBRATING 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF FULBRIGHT PROGRAM FULBRIGHT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF SERBIA Belgrade, 2014 Editor: Prof. dr Slavisa Orlovic Secretary: Igor Dolovic Fulbright Alumni Association of Serbia 2 Content Introduction............................................................................................................................. 5 Fulbright grantees according year and home institutions......................................7 Home institutions................................................................................................................ 39 Host institutions ...................................................................................................................49 Fulbright................................................................................................................................. 5 7 Serbia................................................................................................................................ 60 Montenegro ................................................................................................................ 138 Ron Brown........................................................................................................................... 145 Serbia .............................................................................................................................146 Hubert H. Humphrey.......................................................................................................153 JFDP........................................................................................................................................ 159 Serbia............................................................................................................................. 160 Montenegro................................................................................................................. 170 3 4 Introduction In 2014 Fulbright Alumni Association of Serbia celebrates the 50th anniversary of Fulbright program in Serbia and former Yugoslavia. Ever since 1964, when Arkansas senator (1945 – 1974 in office) and President of International Relations Committee - James William Fulbright (1905 - 1995), initiated Fulbright program of international cooperation in the field of education, program participants and scholarships grantees have a reason to be proud. Today this program is present in over 155 countries, and over 8.000 scholarships are awarded each year. The fact that 53 former Fulbright scholarship grantees are Nobel Prize winners and 79 former Fulbright scholarship grantees are Pulitzer Prize winners, confirms the reputation of this program. In former Yugoslavia, which Serbia was a part of, from 1964 - 2014, over 3.000 scholarships were awarded. In recent years, Fulbright Alumni Association of Serbia includes other scholarship programs supported by the United States Government, such as: Ron Brown established in 1994 (in 1996 this program was named after the U.S.A. Commerce secretary), Hubert H. Humphrey, which was established in 1978 and named after the senator and U.S.A. Vice-president and GDP program (The Junior Faculty Development Program) established in 1994. Despite certain differences between these programs, their common goal is development of the international cooperation in fields of education, ideas and experience exchange, spreading values of human rights, democracy, dialog and tolerance. Or as the respected senator James William Fulbright said: “Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations.” Members and participants in these programs enjoy various benefits. During their study visits, academic specializations and research studies in the U.S.A., academic, cultural and economic diplomacy connects U.S.A. with participants and their home countries. This is an investment in education and science as well. The advantage of learning from more developed countries is, among else, the confirmation that education is the most valuable investment. In 2013, Government of the Republic of Serbia decided to support the 5 Fulbright program by giving certain amount of money to it. This is especially important because gained knowledge and experience acquired in the U.S.A. is implemented in scholarship users’ home countries. These programs are not unilateral but bilateral in nature. Large number of Serbian institutions (universities, faculties, institutes, hospitals and companies) have also hosted over 700 scholarship grantees coming from the U.S.A. to Serbia. Some of the users of the Fulbright, as well as the other aforementioned programs, are numerous distinguished people in Serbia, such as members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Vojin Sulovic, Tibor Varadi, Vojislav Stanovcic); Rectors of the University (Fuada Stankovic, Dejan Popovic, Marija Bogdanovic, Vladimir Bumbasirevic); artists (Svetlana Bojkovic, Vida Ognjenovic, Olja Ivanjicki, Slobodan Sijan, Biljana Srbljanovic); and Deans of faculties, Governors, Ministers and a number of professors and researchers. The purpose of this updated Almanac is to gather, sort and process data on scholarship grantees. This represents a testimony of the beginnings, dynamics and development of the aforementioned programs. Available data on people, their fields of research and study and awarded scholarships serve as a contribution to better insight into education, science and culture development in Serbia. Belgrade, November 20th 2014. Prof. dr Slavisa Orlovic President of the Fulbright Alumni Association of Serbia Since 2012. until 2014.