2007-08 U.S. Fulbright Grantees to Norway

24 American graduate students, lecturers, and researcher scholars have received Fulbright grants to Norway for the 2007-08 academic year.

2007-08 U.S. Fulbright Grantees to Norway

Lecturers and Research Scholars

Dr. Eric C. BROWN

Category: Lecturer
Period of grant: 2007-08
Norwegian Affiliation: University of Bergen, Department of English
Purpose of grant: Dr. Brown will be teaching American literature, including a team-taught course in American studies and a course on environmental literature, in the department of English at the University of Bergen.
Most recent US affiliation: Associate Professor, University of Maine--Farmington

Dr. Ronald Scot BYRNES

Category: Lecturer/Research scholar
Period of grant: February - April 2008
Norwegian Affiliation: Hedmark University College
Purpose of grant: Dr. Byrnes will study globalization and lecture and run workshops for undergraduate and graduate Hedmark University students in the didatics of social and political science program.
Most recent US affiliation: Associate Professor, Pacific Lutheran University

Dr. Christian DAVENPORT

Category: Research scholar
Period of grant: Sept. 2007 - June 2008
Norwegian Affiliation: Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO),
Purpose of grant: Dr. Davenport will conduct research on how lower-level conflict behavior escalates to civil war.
Most recent US affiliation: Associate Professor, University of Maryland--College Park

Dr. Sharman HALEY

Category: Research scholar
Period of grant: Aug. - Nov. 2007
Norwegian Affiliation: University of Stavanger
Purpose of grant: Dr. Haley is working on three projects this fall: 1. a book on Arctic Oil and Gas with colleagues at UiS, and planning a new project proposal; 2. collaborating with two dozen researchers in eight countries to build a circum-Arctic data base of indicator variables on human dimensions of global change. Dr. Haley's contribution to this data base includes oil and gas activities, mining activities, and marine transportation. 3. using that data to prepare case study research on local employment effects of individual oil and gas and mining projects in the Barents Sea region, and analyzing institutional factors that differentiate local employment outcomes.
Most recent US affiliation: Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage

Dr. Baron KELLY

Category: Lecturer/Research scholar
Period of grant: Jan.-June 2008
Norwegian Affiliation: University of Oslo, IMER (Integration Migration and Ethnic Relations Center)
Purpose of grant: Dr. Kelly will travel to Norway for a residency in the city of Bergen, where he will carry out research at the International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) Center of the University of Bergen. The aim of the center is increase research-based knowledge about international migration, and Dr. Kelly will carry out pioneering work dealing with ethnic groups in Scandinavia and their involvement in the arts. He will also help develop a theatre piece in Oslo to contribute to the 2008 year of multiculturalism in Norway.
Most recent US affiliation: Assistant Professor, Chapman University

Ms. Abbey SCHNEIDER

Category: Lecturer
Period of grant: 2007-08
Norwegian Affiliation: Ministry of Education and Research
Purpose of grant: Ms. Schneider will conduct seminars in American Studies for lower secondary school teachers and students ( Roving Scholar for the Lower Secondary Schools)
Most recent US affiliation: Program Director, Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching & Service, Georgetown University

Dr. Jonathan Todd SILVERMAN

Category: Lecturer
Period of grant: 2007-08
Norwegian Affiliation: Ministry of Education and Research
Purpose of grant: Mr. Silverman will conduct seminars in American Studies for upper secondari school teachers and students ( Roving Scholar for the Upper Secondary Schools)
Most recent US affiliation: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Dr. Linda STROMEI

Category: Lecturer/Research scholar
Period of grant: 2007-08
Norwegian Affiliation: University of Stavanger, Stavanger,
Purpose of grant: Dr. Stromei will be working at the University of Stavanger on both a teaching and research project. She will implement and evaluate a university wide mentoring program, using her trademarked AMIGOS program, translate all documents and instruments into Norwegian and train the university personnel to continue the program administration and data collection and analysis. Dr. Stromei will also design and teach a course on Diversity in the Service Industry, and provide mentoring to Ph.D. students at the business school.
Most recent US affiliation: Founder, T&T Project Educate

Professor Patricia Anne WILLIAMS

Category: Lecturer/Research scholar
Period of grant: Jan. - April 2008
Norwegian Affiliation: Berge Art Academy
Purpose of grant: For her combined research and lecturing fellowship, Professor Williams plans to engage in jacquard weaving research on structure, color and finishing processes using Norwegian wools, working with equipment at Digital Weaving Norway in Honefoss. She will also lecture, conduct a workshop and participate in the Future Textile project at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Professor Williams also plans to interact, through lecture and/or workshop, with students and faculty in the Textile Area of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Most recent US affiliation: Professor, Eastern Michigan University

Graduate Students

Ms. Allison BAILEY

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: UNIS
Purpose of grant: Ms. Bailey will study plant-animal interactions and the use of plants as retrospective climateindicators at UNIS Svalbard.
Most recent US affiliation: Pomona College

Ms. Whitney BLANCHARD

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: SINTEF, Department for Marine Environmental Technology
Purpose of grant: SINTEF’s Marine Environmental Technology Group conducts experimental, monitoring, and modeling studies of oil and chemicals released into the environment. While in Trondheim Ms Blanchard will be conducting research with modelers from the Marine Environmental Technology Groups developing numerical models of the fate and transport of oil in ice. She will also be taking several courses in the civil and marine engineering program at NTNU. This work contributes to her first year as a PhD student in civil engineering at the University of New Hampshire.
Most recent US affiliation: University of New Hampshire

Ms. Kirsten FRISTAD

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: University of Oslo, Physics of Geological Processes, PGP
Purpose of grant: Ms. Fristad’s time will be split between the University of Oslo and the UniversityCentre in Svalbard (UNIS) where courses in geomorphology and remote sensing will supplement my research. Her research utilizes satellite data and field mapping to study the link between environmental parameters and habitability at Mars analogue sites in Svalbard. This research stems from previous work with the Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition (AMASE).
Most recent US affiliation: Macalaster College

Ms. Erin FUTTERER

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: Norwegian Academy of Music
Purpose of grant: Ms. Futterer will study horn performance with Professor Frøydis Ree Wekre.
Most recent US affiliation: Northwestern University

Ms. Jennifer FYLLINGNESS

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: Finnmark University College, Faculty of business and social work
Purpose of grant: Ms. Fyllingness will be doing research on tourism and cultural commoditization in the Arctic and will be affiliated with Finnmark University College in Alta. Her main study seeks to understand how cultural commoditization affects host residents in an effort to develop policies that can maintain a positive experience for both the residents and the tourists.
Most recent US affiliation: Seattle University

Ms. Laura GERBER

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: University of Bergen, Department of Chemistry
Purpose of grant: Ms. Gerber will be studying organometallic chemistry of lanthanide metals, which are elements that have not yet been very well studied. She will be studying their basic chemistry as well as testing their ability as catalysts. This type of compound is also an important type of model compound for understanding Ziegler-Natta catalysis. This is a widely used polymerization process, but still, over 40 years after its discovery, the details of the process are not very well understood.
Most recent US affiliation: Brandeis University, MA

Ms. Anna HENNINGSGAARD

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: University of Oslo, Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon
Purpose of grant: Ms. Henningsgaard will study American influences on Norwegian production of new media.
Most recent US affiliation: Vassar College

Ms. Kristin HOELTING

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: University of Bergen, Department of Biology
Purpose of grant: Ms. Hoelting will be studying the culture and ecology of salmon restoration efforts in Norway. She is interested in how people in coastal communities and throughout Norway conceive of wild salmon several decades after the closure of commercial fisheries, along with interactions between aquaculture and wild salmon. She will also investigate what restoration efforts are currently underway, and the federal policies and regulations that influence these efforts.
Most recent US affiliation: Harvard University.

Mr. Matthew HOFFMAN

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: NTNU
Purpose of grant: Mr. Hoffman’s research examines the ability of common property regimes to maintain the non-commodity benefits of agricultural landscapes (public goods such as scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, etc.). The early part of his stay will be spent in Trondheim studying Norwegian property rights and traditions, as well as the language. Mid-winter he will visit farming communities where common property is important; and his last 4-5 months will be spent conducting one or more in-depth case studies.
Most recent US affiliation: Cornell University

Ms. Elizabeth JENSEN

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: University of Tromsø, Department of Computer Science
Purpose of grant: Ms. Jensen will be studying distributed systems and robotics in the Computer Science department at the University of Tromsø. In particular, she will be designing and implementing a set of partially autonomous robots with a link to a centralized distributed system for additional computing power. She will then test the robots on a variety of tasks, and compare her results to those of a centralized system where the robots have no autonomy. When the robots are completely controlled by a central system, they have to maintain contact at all times, which is not feasible in many situations where robots would be useful. By giving the robots partial autonomy, they can accomplish different tasks. Ms. Jensen’s project will focus on the kinds of tasks for which each set of robots is best suited.
Most recent US affiliation: St. Olaf College

Mr. Jeffrey LUGOWE

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: FAFO/University of Oslo,
Purpose of grant: Mr. Lugowe will be looking closely at the latest group of migrant workers to land in Norway: Poles. In collaboration with Fafo (Institute for Applied Social Science), he will be interviewing Polish construction workers and their families and studying the conditions under which they live and work. On top of this, Mr. Lugowe will be taking classes on migration and labor markets at the University of Oslo and studying Norwegian.
Most recent US affiliation: Brown University

Ms. Morgana MATUS

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: SUM
Purpose of grant: Ms. Matus’ project will examine the way that religion, myth and their influences on culture translate into environmental stewardship practices.
Most recent US affiliation: Pitzer College, California

Mr. Todd OLIN

Category: Graduate student - UMN/NTNU Exchange
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: NTNU
Purpose of grant: This research project reviews energy production technology and policy in Norway and proposes a comprehensive public and private energy policy for the United States. The resulting report first examines the present and future potential of many energy producing technologies. It then evaluates them under the four main American energy consumption sectors. The report then describes immediate and future action that can be taken to achieve economic, environmental, public health, and national security goals.
Most recent US affiliation: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Ms. Lauren OSEN

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: University of Oslo, Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
Purpose of grant: Ms. Osen will be studying Norway's newest and internationally unprecedented gender quotas in the private business sector. These quotas provide that companies not abiding with 40% gender representation on their boards by 2008 will be dissolved from the Norwegian stock market. Ms. Osen is interested in the history, effects and public opinion of this law.
Most recent US affiliation: University of Chicago

Ms. Elizabeth WILEY

Category: Graduate student
Period of grant: 2007-08 Academic Year
Norwegian Affiliation: Oslo University College, Faculty for Business, Public Administration, and Social Work
Purpose of grant: Ms. Wiley will study the design and availability of long-term care services in Norway. Through a combination of coursework and independent research, she will examine the ways in which the Norwegian health care system balances community and institutional care options for individuals with long-term care needs.
Most recent US affiliation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor