Cruikshank Named Senior Fulbright Specialist
Contact: Peg Cruikshank, (207) 581-1228; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
ORONO, Maine — Margaret “Peg” Cruikshank, lecturer in women’s studies and faculty associate of the Center on Aging, has been awarded a senior specialist Fulbright grant for fall 2007.
Cruikshank will conduct aging research on Canadian women at the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She also will conduct seminars, give public lecturers and mentor junior faculty.
Cruikshank has written many articles and two books on aging, including Learning to be Old: gender, culture, and aging (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) and Fierce with Reality: an anthology of literature on aging (Just Write Books, Topsham, 2007).
A Corea, Maine resident, she has been a member of the University of Maine faculty since 1997, and taught previously at City College of San Francisco.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 60 years of existence, thousands of American faculty and professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.
The Fulbright Scholar Program website (www.cies.org) has additional information about its programs and scholarships.