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Mar. 21, 2005 Volume 29, Issue 28 |
Fulbright veteran now earns elite honor
A nationally recognized Mississippi State humanities scholar is among only 31 U.S. educators receiving a major 2005 honor from the Fulbright Scholars program.
Dr. Nancy D. Hargrove, a Giles Distinguished Professor of English, recently was named a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the international education exchange program. The designation is among the most prestigious awarded by the organization that Congress established in 1946 to enhance mutual understanding among nations of the world.
Hargrove will hold the Fulbright-University of Vienna Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Cultural Studies for the 2005-06 school year. She will teach three upper- and graduate-level courses in American literature, the field in which she has received national attention.
Hargrove is no stranger to the program, having been named a Fulbright Fellow on four previous occasions—once as a student and three times since joining the MSU faculty in 1970.
She holds an undergraduate degree from Agnes Scott College, a master’s from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate from the University of South Carolina.