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Three at UA Awarded Fulbrights
It's Rable by a Length

Three UA faculty/staff members have recently been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants. Dr. Richard Lomax, professor of education and applied statistics, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to lecture at Tallinn Pedagogical University in Estonia during the 2003-2004 academic year. He will be teaching quantitative research methods, both introductory and multivariate statistics, in the department of psychology in Tallinn.

Dr. Marilyn Emplaincourt, associate director of Capstone International Programs, was awarded a Fulbright International Education Administrators Award to Korea, June 1-14, 2003. The recipient of numerous professional scholarships, she was an international education Fulbright delegate to Japan in 1986 and to Germany in 1990. In 1987, she was awarded a Malone Fellowship to Tunisia and was a Malone delegation leader to Jordan in 1988. She was a member of the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Seminar in Yugoslavia in 1989 and Pakistan in 1994.

Dr. Subha Chakraborti, professor of statistics, received an award and will conduct research at the University of Pretoria in South Africa during the spring 2004 semester. Chakraborti has published over 30 articles in a variety of journals. His research has been supported by grants from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Philips Corp.

These UA faculty/staff members are three of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2003-2004 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs sponsors the Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange activity.

It's Rable by a Length

Dr. George C. Rable

UA history professor Dr. George C. Rable, the Charles G. Summersell Professor of Southern History, has done what thoroughbred racehorse Funny Cide could not -- win a Triple Crown in competition. Rable was recently honored as the 2002 Jefferson Davis Award winner for outstanding narrative on the period of the Confederacy for his book, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!

Rable became only the second writer to ever win both the Jefferson Davis Award, presented by the Museum of the Confederacy, and the prestigious Lincoln Prize, awarded earlier by Gettysburg College (see related article from March 3 Dialog.

Previously this season, Rable won the Douglas Southall Freeman Award from the Military Order of the Stars and Bars. All three of Rable's recent jaunts to the winner's circle were for his book, published by the University of North Carolina Press, detailing the military, political, and social impact of the worst military defeat that Abraham Lincoln's Union armies suffered during the Civil War.

Rable nosed out Robert J. Bonner's "Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South," published by Princeton University Press, and Gordon Rhea's "Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26 -- June 3, 1864," published by Louisiana State University Press, for the Jefferson Davis Award.

Rable joined the UA faculty in 1998. He earned his doctoral and master's degrees from Louisiana State University and his bachelor's degree from Bluffton College.

Rable's previous books also include "The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics," and "But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction." He is currently researching the role of religion in the Civil War.