Martin A. Geer, clinical professor of law at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's William S. Boyd School of Law, and Michael John Sullivan, professor of finance at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for the 2004-2005 academic year by the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Geer and Sullivan are two of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2004-2005 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.
Geer will lecture on international human rights and clinical law at the Indian Law Society Law College in Pune, India.
Sullivan will conduct an empirical study on the determinants of the capital structure of Philippine firms at De la Salle University in Manila, Philippines.
Geer came to the Boyd School of Law from Syracuse University, where he was a professor of law and director of the Public Interest Law Firm Clinic. Prior to that he was a Reginald Heber Smith Community Law Fellow for two years and engaged in private practice for many years with a focus on federal civil rights and criminal defense. He has also engaged in judicial and clinical law teacher training in Russia, India, Brazil, and Argentina.
Sullivan received his Ph.D. in finance from Florida State University in 1989 and has published numerous academic articles related to corporate governance. His work has appeared in the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Financial Review, and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. This is Sullivan's second Fulbright Scholar Award.
The Fulbright Program is America's flagship international educational exchange activity. Over its 58 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught or conducted research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts have engaged in similar activities in the United States.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.
