Two Pepperdine Professors Receive Fulbright Research Grants
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Two Pepperdine University faculty members have received research grants through the
core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, which offers teaching and research awards to
U.S. faculty and professionals in over 125 countries.
Robert Lloyd, Pepperdine’s Blanche E. Seaver Professor of International Studies and
Languages, will teach international relations at a university in New Delhi, India,
and conduct research on “formulas and processes related to democracy, security, and
terrorism.”
Lloyd is an Academic Fellow with Brandeis University Schusterman Center’s Summer Institute
for Israel Studies and the Foundation for
Defense of Democracies. Through the International Republican Institute, Lloyd has
observed presidential elections in Nigeria and Liberia, and for the U.S. Department
of State and the United Nations during Mozambique’s first multiparty elections following
its civil war. He consults with Freedom House on democratization and good governance,
and contributes to its “Countries at the Crossroads” project.
Eric Hamilton, professor of education at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology,
will conduct research in learning sciences in Kenya and possibly Uganda. He will colead
workshops in media and model-making for teachers and students. Supported by the African
Regional Program, these workshops contribute to mathematics and science learning,
complex reasoning development, intergenerational and international computer- supported
collaboration, and the formation of curriculum.
Hamilton conducts research through support from the U.S. National Science Foundation
and the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences.
Learn more about the new Fulbright research grants.