Ines A. Murzaku, Ph.D. wins Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant

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Friday, July 10, 2009
by: Miriam Lyons Frolow, M.P.A

Ines Angeli Murzaku, Ph.D., associate professor of Religious Studies and the University Honors Program, wins a prestigious J. William Fulbright Senior Specialist grant at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Sociology Department.She will be in Slovenia in November 2009.

Professor Murzaku has been invited to present lectures and lead graduate seminars focusing on the role of Religion in Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism and Inter-religion Dialogue.The focus of the lectures will be to understand more fully, from a religious perspective, the place of religion in human society, especially in a post-Communist European milieu; to establish how religion has shaped European identity; and to explore if religions and inter-religious dialogue can influence area politics. The Sociology Program at the University of Ljubljana is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary program of study, chaired by Professor Ales Crnic, a specialist in religion, civilizations and new religious movements. The University of Ljubljana is located in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, a relatively large Central-European city with over 300,000 inhabitants. The university boasts a rich educational tradition, with more than 63,000 graduate and postgraduate students, 4,000 faculty employed in the 22 faculties, three arts academies and one university college. The university was founded in 1919 on the basis of centuries of educational tradition, remaining the only Slovenian University for half a century.

The Fulbright Specialists Program (FSP) promotes linkages between U.S. academics and professionals and their counterparts at universities abroad. The program is designed to award grants to highly qualified U.S. faculty and professionals in select disciplines in order to engage in short-term collaborative projects at higher education institutions in over 100 countries worldwide.

This is the second Fulbright Award that Professor Murzaku has won in the last three years. Her first Fulbright Award in 2006 gave Professor Murzaku the opportunity to research in Italy. She conducted research in “Magna Grecia,” Calabria, Sicilia, and Rome. The results of her investigations and archival research were published in her most recent book: Returning Home to Rome? The Monks of Grottaferrata in Albania (2009).

For more information please contact:
Ines Angeli Murzaku, Ph.D.
(973) 275-5845
Ines.murzaku@shu.edu

Source: http://www.shu.edu/news/article/174653

State Department International Religious Freedom Report 2009 - Slovenia

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and other laws and policies contributed to the generally free practice of religion. The Government generally respected religious freedom in practice. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom by the Government during the reporting period.

Ines A. Murzaku, Ph.D. wins Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant

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