Susan Douglas Roberts, professor of dance at TCU and artistic director of wild goose chase dance, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Guatemala at the Universidad Rafael Landívar during June of this year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

 

She will work in the URL’s Instituto de Danza e Investigación del Movimiento with emerging choreographers as they learn to fine-tune their artistry, and with young educators who are adding teaching to their performing careers. She will also re-stage a solo, So Long Ago, made in 2010.

 

Susan is one of more than 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. Created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, the Specialists Program provides short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post secondary, academic institutions around the world. This is her second Fulbright Specialists award. The first was completed in Fall 2008 at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan.

 

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 U.S. faculty and professionals have taught, studied or conducted research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. Over 285,000 emerging leaders in their professional fields have received Fulbright awards, including individuals who later became heads of government, Nobel Prize winners, and leaders in education, business, journalism, the arts and other fields.