Historian Gets Fulbright
January 2008
History professor Bruce Kuklick was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholar grant. During the spring semester, he will be writing a textbook on American political history entitled One Nation Under God in Middelburg, Netherlands. Kucklick will hold the Fulbright-Dow Distinguished Research Chair of the Roosevelt Study Center, a research institute, conference center and library on 20th-century American history. The center is named after members of the Roosevelt family whose ancestors emigrated from Zeeland, Netherlands, in the 17th century.
Kuklick, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, has broad interests in the political, diplomatic, and cultural and intellectual history of the United States. He is the author of nine books, including one on baseball: To Every Thing a Season. His latest book is Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennen to Kissinger. He is at work on a biography called Black Philosopher: William Fontaine and the Worlds of the Negro Scholar and a book on the history of philosophy with the working title Historical Knowledge. Kuklick has been a member of Penn’s history department since 1972 and a former department chair. He was elected to the American Philosophical society in 2004.
Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has been the U.S. government’s flagship program in international education exchange. The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State, administers the Fulbright Scholar Program. Each year, about 800 U.S. faculty and professionals receive Fulbright Scholar awards to lecture, take part in seminars and conduct research abroad in more than 140 countries. A similar number of foreign scholars receive Fulbrights and come to the United States. This year, Penn will host 10 Fulbright Visiting Scholars.