Fulbright Scotland Visiting Professor January - June 2014

Professor Karen Beckwith, Flora Stone Mather Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, has been appointed as the next Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. She will be in Edinburgh for six months from January 2014 and will be a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

Professor Beckwith will be working on her research project: "What's New? Institutional Transformation and Women's Political Representation" and collaborating with colleagues in the School of Social and Political Science.

The visit is organised by the US-UK Fulbright Commission, which is part of the worldwide Fulbright Program.

Previous holders of the Fulbright Professorship at the University of Edinburgh:

Marianne Boruch, Professor of English at Purdue University
(January - June 2012)

Mark Macgowan, Professor of Social Work, Florida International University
(September 2012 - February 2013)