Jennifer Gauthier awarded third Fulbright Scholar grant

Thanks to a Fulbright Scholar grant—her third–Jennifer Gauthier spent the fall semester in Romania teaching mass media.

Gauthier, Randolph’s Charles A. Dana Professor of Media and Culture, taught American mass media at Transilvania University of Brasov between October and January.

“It’s a great opportunity to teach somewhere new,” Gauthier said earlier this fall. “And it’s actually really great for me right now. Things change so fast in American media that I feel like I need to reinvent the way I teach my classes at Randolph. This has given me an opportunity to look at American media from the outside and rethink how I want to teach it.” 

She also gave public lectures at the university in Brasov about Native American cinema and American monuments. 

In addition to her teaching duties, Gauthier has learned more about Romanian history and culture, visiting the medieval Saxon towns Sibiu and Sigisoara, royal castles in Sinaia, and fortified churches in Prejmer, Harman, and Viscri.

She said she’s looking forward to sharing some comparative cross-cultural insights with the Randolph community when she returns. 

The experience in Romania marks the latest chapter in a long relationship between Gauthier and the Fulbright Program.

Her first Fulbright Scholar award in 2000 helped fund the research for her PhD dissertation at the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Canadian Studies. Her second award in 2011 funded her research on First Nations cinema at the National Film Board of Canada.

Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has given awards to more than 400,000 people—including 62 Nobel Laureates, 93 Pulitzer Prize winners, 82 MacArthur Fellows, 44 heads of state or government, and thousands of leaders across private, public, and nonprofit sectors. 

Scholars are faculty, researchers, administrators, and established professionals teaching or conducting research in affiliation with institutes abroad. 

Fulbright is a program of the United States Department of State, implemented by the Institute of International Education. 

For more information, visit https://fulbrightprogram.org.