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Fulbright Scholars Work In Vietnam, Peru

Three members of the SMU community are continuing their work overseas after receiving grants from the U.S. Department of State’s prestigious Fulbright Program.

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Xuan-Thao Nguyen

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Amanda Aland

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Kylie Quave

Three members of the SMU community are continuing their work overseas after receiving grants from the U.S. Department of State’s prestigious Fulbright Program.

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen of SMU’s Dedman School of Law received a Fulbright Scholar grant to develop curriculum for a major in intellectual property law at the Vietnam National University Faculty of Law in Hanoi. She left for Vietnam in January and will remain there through June.

Amanda Aland, a Ph.D. student in archaeology in Dedman College, received a Fulbright U.S. Student fellowship for archaeological fieldwork and research in Peru. Her 10-month fellowship started in March.

Another Ph.D. student in archaeology, Kylie Quave, also will carry out archaeological fieldwork and research in Peru thanks to a Fulbright U.S. Student fellowship, which will begin in August and continue through June 2010.

Nguyen, who joined Dedman Law School in 2003, teaches and researches intellectual property, the Internet, commercial law and taxation. Administrators at the Vietnamese law school asked her to develop the curriculum to expand her impact beyond teaching occasional classes there. “When I leave, they will teach the students using the curriculum I have developed,” Nguyen says. “I”ve been working on a book for them to use.”

Aland returned to a site on Peru’s northern coast called Santa Rita B, where she spent several months last year excavating with the support of a National Science Foundation grant and SMU’s Institute for the Study of Earth and Man.

There, she and students under her direction unearthed evidence – pottery and architecture – showing the influence of the Incas on the region’s Chimú Empire in the 15th century. Aland hopes to learn the extent of the Incas’ influence on the Chimú people through further excavation and laboratory analysis of her findings.

Quave’s project in Cusco and Lima, Peru, will consist of archaeological excavations and archival research on the Inca Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries, focusing on the impact of imperial economic policies.

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