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New  U.S. grantees with director of the Fulbright Commission in the CR Hana Ripkova (right) at the residence. Photo Jakub Tesař

New U.S. Fulbright Grantees Begin to Teach and Work at Czech Schools

September 24, 2009 

On September 16, Chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Prague Mary Thompson-Jones welcomed to the Czech Republic twelve new U.S. Fulbright grantees for the academic year 2009-2010. 

American professors, researchers, students and teachers will teach, conduct research or study at Czech universities and secondary schools for one semester or for the whole academic year.  Five of them will stay in Prague, three in Brno, and one in each of the four towns: Chrudim, Lipník nad Bečvou, Prachatice and Frenštát pod Radhoštem.

Research projects of the new U.S. Fulbright grantees target various topics such as the persecution of Bohemian and Moravian Jews between 1938-1943, confiscation of cultural property during the Communist era, or campaigns and elections.

List of U.S. Fulbright grantees in the Czech Republic for academic year 2009-2010 can be accessed on http://www.fulbright.cz/download/grantees-us.pdf.