8-13-08

Dr. Michael Roskin, who recently retired as professor of political science from Lycoming College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach international relations at the University of Macau in China from September through January, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Roskin, who taught at Lycoming for 36 years, is one of the approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright Scholar Program. This marks the second time he has received the prestigious award. Beginning in October 1971, he spent nine months as a Fulbright Advanced Teaching Fellow at the University of Toulouse in France.

Prior to beginning his teaching career at Lycoming in 1972, Roskin was an editor with the Associated Press and a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency. In 1991, he was recognized with Lycoming’s Constance Cupp Plankenhorn Award for Teaching Excellence. From 1991-94, Roskin took a leave from the College to serve as a visiting professor of foreign policy in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.

Roskin is the author of numerous books on international relations. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a master’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from the American University in Washington, D.C.

Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program has served as America’s flagship international educational exchange program. It is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Operating in more than 150 countries, the Fulbright Program has exchanged approximately 273,500 people – 102,900 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 170,600 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States.

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