Kathleen Marie Adams Receives Fulbright Specialist Program Award

CHICAGO – February 22, 2024

Kathleen Marie Adams, PhD, professor emerita of anthropology at Loyola University Chicago, has received the Fulbright Specialist Program award from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship.  

Adams is one of over 400 U.S. citizens who share expertise with host institutions abroad through the Fulbright Specialist Program each year. The award will support her time at one of Indonesia’s premier universities, the University of Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, helping forge a graduate program stream that emphasizes critical tourism studies, anthropology, museums, and heritage.  

Previously, she had a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct approximately 20 months of dissertation research in Indonesia in 1984-85 and has been conducting research, publishing articles and writing books on tourism, arts, nation-building and inter-ethnic relations in Indonesia for most of her career.  

 “The goal of this project is to ultimately train scholars in strategies for channeling tourism to better meet the needs and desires of local communities,” said Adams. “I will be working closely with Indonesian colleagues to craft both an undergraduate and graduate field of study.” 

Throughout her career, Adam’s primary areas of research have been the anthropology of tourism, heritage and the politics of identity, ethnographic arts, and museum studies. She has shared her expertise by teaching Loyola classes on these topics and seminars on globalization, contemporary Southeast Asia, and the anthropology of art. Adams is also a recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences’ distinguished Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence, recognizing exemplary teaching and scholarship working hand-in-hand to deepen knowledge and transform lives.   

“Congratulations to Dr. Adams on earning another prestigious award from the Fulbright Program,” said Peter J. Schraeder, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “A Fulbright award is one of the most prestigious academic awards that an internationally oriented scholar can receive, serving as a testament to Dr. Adams’ research and teaching success throughout her career and her many contributions to the field of anthropology at the local, national, and international levels.” 

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