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Two years ago, Marymount University Professor Dr. Kathleen Garces-Foley<\/a> was preparing to leave the U.S. and live in Hungary for a semester, with plans to study and teach at the University of Szeged<\/a> on the second Fulbright Award of her academic career. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted those plans and led to the cancellation of her award.<\/p>\n

But now, after waiting through yet another application process, she\u2019s on her way to Hungary after all. Dr. Garces-Foley was selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar<\/a> once again and has been granted a four-month award to Budapest, where she will be hosted by the Department of American Studies at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University<\/a>, the top-rated university in Hungary founded in 1635. There, the Religious Studies<\/a> professor will study the changing religious landscape in Hungary and teach two courses \u2013 one undergraduate and one graduate \u2013 on religion and American culture.<\/p>\n

Dr. Garces-Foley\u2019s first Fulbright Award was in 2014, which took her to the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was in Slovenia with my family, we traveled to Budapest on vacation for a week and we just loved it,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt was just an amazing city \u2013 the history there, the architecture, the multiculturalism of the city, all of it. We immediately said, \u2018this is where we\u2019re going for our next Fulbright,\u2019 so it\u2019s great that it\u2019s finally working out! I really love learning about new cultures, and it\u2019s a much more enriching experience to stay not just for a week as a tourist but be able to live there for four months and get a better sense of what life is like in Hungary.\u201d<\/p>\n

An expert in a variety of religious topics, Dr. Garces-Foley holds particular areas of research interest in the effects of immigration, ethnicity and racial diversity on religious life. She expects to explore these issues in-depth in Hungary, a country with a Christian majority that has seen an anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim form of populism grow in stature over recent years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis populist movement calls back to a previous era when Hungarian society was more homogenous \u2013 everyone was White, everyone was Christian. And while this political movement is in the majority, there are others who want to see a more multicultural society emerge and the conflict has raised tensions,\u201d Dr. Garces-Foley said. \u201cOf course, there are parallels between how this is playing out in Hungary and what we have seen here in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the last few years at Marymount, Dr. Garces-Foley has immersed herself in a similar research topic, playing a leading role in a nationwide study on \u201cThe Landscape Study of Chaplaincy and Campus Ministry in the United States.\u201d<\/a> Alongside a team of co-investigators, she has investigated how religion on college campuses has been transformed over the last decade.<\/p>\n

Dr. Garces-Foley isn\u2019t the first Marymount professor to travel to Hungary through a Fulbright Award. During the Fall 2021 semester, Dr. Adam Kovach<\/a> \u2013 a professor of Philosophy<\/a> at MU \u2013 was a visiting professor at Sz\u00e9chenyi Istv\u00e1n University (SZE) <\/a>in Gy\u0151r, a city in northwest Hungary. After the COVID-19 pandemic delayed his travel, he began his long-awaited experience this past fall<\/a>, and taught Introduction to Philosophy and Philosophy of Art courses to SZE students.<\/p>\n

Fulbright is a prestigious award funded by the U.S. government with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy and intercultural competence between the U.S. and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills. Marymount\u2019s Center for Global Engagement (CGE)<\/a> works with both faculty and staff who are interested in applying for Fulbright grants. Click here<\/a> for more information about the Fulbright Student Program, or click here<\/a> for more details on Fulbright Scholar opportunities.<\/p>\n

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  Two years ago, Marymount University Professor Dr. Kathleen Garces-Foley was preparing to leave the U.S. and live in Hungary for a semester, with plans to study and teach at the University of Szeged on the second Fulbright Award of her academic career. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted those plans and led to the cancellation […]<\/p>\n

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