On Campus: Professor wins Fulbright chair
Christopher Kilmartin will head to Austria early next year on a Fulbright scholarship. As Distinguished Chair in Gender Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, the UMW professor of psychology will teach three courses in spring 2007: “American Masculinity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”; “Gender-based Violence: Origins, Consequences, and Remedies”; and “Theoretical Approaches to Gender.”
Kilmartin, a licensed clinical psychologist, is a nationally recognized expert on the prevention of sexual assault and sexual harassment on college campuses. He co-wrote The Pain Behind the Mask: Overcoming Masculine Depression; he wrote The Masculine Self and Sexual Assault in Context: Teaching College Men About Gender, a manual based on his consulting experiences. Kilmartin participated as a consultant in the U.S. Department of Education’s 2001 Meeting on Violence Prevention in Higher Education. He also is the author and performer of solo theatrical works Crimes Against Nature and the forthcoming Guy Fi: The Fictions that Rule Men’s Lives.
The Fulbright Scholar Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, is an international exchange program that allows students, scholars and professionals to pursue international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools.
The Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program is among the most prestigious in the Fulbright Scholar Program, according to the program Web site. The U.S. Congress began the Fulbright Scholar Program in 1946 to “enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.” It is the largest program of its kind, and it has sponsored nearly 265,000 scholars.
The University of Klagenfurt is 145 miles southwest of Vienna, Austria, and about 70 miles northeast of Trieste, Italy, and the Adriatic Sea.