Help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and learn how to make Tamales with the Modern Languages Department! All are welcome.

Interested in a meaningful overseas experience? 

Consider the U.S. Fulbright Program!

With Special Guests

This program is designed to give students, alumni, faculty, artists, and other professionals opportunities to pursue independent research, graduate study or English teaching experience in over 155 nations worldwide. The application cycle for the 2024-2025 U.S. Fulbright competition is now open!
 
Join us for an info session to learn about the Fulbright Scholar Program or the Fulbright U.S. Student program, how to apply, and begin brainstorming host country and project ideas with NH Fulbright Association members, Faculty mentors and Fulbright alumni, and meet  Anselmian Fulbright Award Recipients, who will discuss their experiences with the grant-writing process and answer questions!

Additional Location Info: 3rd Floor Living Learning Commons (LLC)
 
Session 1: Fulbright Scholar Program 

10:30-11:30 a.m. - for Faculty, Staff and Alumni
 
Guest speaker: Catherine Johnston Matto

Application and Selection Lead for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar program at the Institute of International Education (IIE). Catherine manages the application system for applicants and peer reviewers, as well as the peer review and selection processes. She joined IIE and the Fulbright Scholar Program in 2009, and has also served as the Regional Lead for South and Central Asia. Previously, Catherine worked at the George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, where she worked closely with faculty and students to recruit for and administer professional graduate and doctoral degree programs. A native Vermonter, Catherine’s interest in international education was sparked by a gap year in Mumbai, India as a Rotary International Youth Exchange student. Catherine holds a B.A. in international relations from Syracuse University and studied abroad in Strasbourg, France. She holds an M.A. in international education from the George Washington University.
*Catherine will be joining us via zoom from the IIE/Fulbright Offices in Washington, D.C.
 
 
Session 2: U.S. Student Fulbright Program

11:30-12:30pm - for Current Students and recently-graduated Alumni
 
Guest speaker: Willem A deVries

Willem DeVries, emeritus philosophy professor, University of New Hampshire. Member of the NH Fulbright Association. Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer University Vienna, 2005; Fulbright Doctoral fellow Fulbright Commission Germany, 1976-1977, senior research fellow 1982-1983, National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, 1994-1995. Member American Association of University Professors, American Philosophy Association, Society Philosophy and Psychology, N. American Kant Society. Author of Hegel’s Theory of Mental Activity (Cornell U.P. 1988) and Wilfrid Sellars (Routledge, 2005) Author of Hegel’s Theory of Mental Activity (Cornell U.P. 1988) and Wilfrid Sellars (Routledge, 2005). 
*Willem will also be joining us via zoom from Hradec Kralove in the Czech Republic where he is currently conducting research. 
 

What is a U.S. Student Fulbright Grant?

It allows for individually designed study/research or an English Teaching Assistantship. You can propose a project and/or study plan that will take place during one academic year in a country outside the U.S.
 
It provides support for study/research/teaching in a single country. (Limited opportunities exist for traveling to more than one country.) You can meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences.
 
It facilitates cultural exchange. Through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in daily tasks, you can gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think.
 
 It promotes mutual understanding. Through engagement in the community, you can interact with your hosts on a one-to-one basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity, and intellectual freedom.
 
Complete eligibility details are at http://us.fulbrightonline.org/about/eligibility
  
 
See Alumni Fulbright Stories:
 
Rebecca Jordan ’14,English Major, Fulbright ETA Grant to Germany.
 
Meaghan Wilson ’20, Spanish and Sociology Major, Fulbright ETA Grant to Peru
 
 
For more information, contact:
 
SAC Fulbright Program Advisor
Prof. Kimberly Kersey-Asbury (Fine Arts) Fulbright Recipient to Botswana
 
SAC Fulbright Campus Committee Members:
Prof. Sara Smits-Keeney (Sociology)
Prof. Bede Bidlack (Theology) Fulbright Recipient to Taiwan
Prof. Loretta Brady (Psychology) Fulbright Recipient to Cypress
Prof. Dina Frutos-Bencze (Economics & Business) Fulbright Recipient to the Czech Republic
Prof. Paddy Favazza (Education) Fulbright Recipient to Romania
Jane Bjerklie-Barry (Director, Office of International Programs)
Melissa DeLury ’10 (Alumni/Guest Member) Fulbright Recipient to India

SAC Fulbright Program Advising:
https://www.anselm.edu/academics/fulbright-program

The Department of Fine Arts & Office of Residential Life and Education present: "A NH Artist/Educator Exhibition" Featuring Ceramics & Mixed Media Works by: Ben Putnam, Chris Archer, and Rachel Montroy

Location: LLC Galleries, Living Learning Commons

Schedule:

GALLERY TALKS: 4:45pm, beginning on LLC 3rd floor

PANEL DISCUSSION & RECEPTION: 5:30-7:00pm, LLC Meeting Room "The Role of Ceramics in Education"

About the artists and panelists:

Curator and coordinator of the exhibition and panel is Prof. Kimberly Kersey-Asbury of Fine Arts Dept., a mixed media artist who incorporates ceramics into her studio work and teaching. Prof. Kersey-Asbury has worked alongside community members in the Monadnock Region, the MAxT Makerspace, as well as with accomplished artist/educators, such as these, to help found the new MAxT Ceramic Center in Dublin, NH, after the sudden loss of a decades-old community arts center. Thanks to a groundswell of volunteers, interest, donations and a NH Art Council Grant, the new center offers both introductory and master-class level experiences in clay, and highlights the continued relevance of an age-old medium.

Rachel Montroy teaches ceramics here at Saint Anselm and works with the New Hampshire League of Craftsmen, is exhibiting examples of her whimsical felt and ceramic mixed media sculpture on the 3rd floor of LLC.

Chris Archer teaches ceramics at New England College and leads workshops up and down the East Coast. He is a dynamic ceramic artist with a stunning display on the 2nd floor of LLC.

Ben Putnam teaches art at Conval high school in Peterborough NH, is a gifted educator, speaker and outside-the-box ceramic/mixed media artist. His unexpected mixed media and clay work can be seen on the 1st floor of LLC.

Prof. Kelly Demers, chair of education at Saint Anselm College, teaches courses on multicultural education and the integration of arts and creativity in the elementary classroom. Her research interests include the role that the arts play in teacher thinking and pedagogical practice. She received her doctorate from Boston College, masters from Lesley University and a Bachelors of Music from New England Conservatory. She was also a public school teacher for seven years.