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3/22/10

SLU Professor Alan Draper Awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Professor of Government Alan L. Draper has been appointed a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, providing him the opportunity to conduct research and teach at the University of Innsbruck in Austria during the spring 2011 semester.

Draper will conduct research on immigrants forming "ethnic niches," which then are used as a springboard for assimilation and social mobility. It is related to his recent research comparing the immigrant experience in the United States and Europe. At the University of Innsbruck, Draper will teach two courses, American Politics and U.S. and Europe: Contrasts and Complements.

The Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program annually comprises approximately 40 distinguished lecturing, distinguished research and distinguished lecturing/research awards ranging from three to 12 months. Awards in the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program are viewed as among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program. Candidates, according to the Fulbright Commission, "should be eminent scholars and have a significant publication and teaching record."

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to "increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries."

Draper is co-author of the 2007 book The Good Society: An Introduction to Comparative Politics and author of A Rope of Sand: The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, 1955-68; Conflict of Interests: Labor and the Civil Rights Movement; and The Politics of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Government. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds two master's degrees and the Ph.D. from Columbia. Draper won St. Lawrence's J. Calvin Keene Award in 1996.

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