The U.S. Department of State and mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, have announced musical artists Imagine Dragons, Rita Ora and Steve Aoki will help review and nominate candidates for the 2013-2014 Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship.
The Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship is a special opportunity for up to four U.S. students each year to pursue projects around an aspect of international contemporary or popular music as a force for cultural change or expression. Fellows also pursue research in other music-related fields, including music and social activism, music in learning, music and the community, and musical performance.
Applications for the 2013-2014 Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship are currently open and will close March 1, 2013. For more information on how to apply to the program, please visit http://us.fulbrightonline.org/fulbright-mtvu-awards.
The 2012-2013 Fulbright-mtvU Fellows are currently conducting research projects of their own design around an aspect of international musical culture in Kosovo, India, Barbados, and Botswana. The four 2012 Fellows include: Albulena Shabani, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; Jeff Roy, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Los Angeles; Katherine Cloutier, a Ph.D. student at Michigan State University; and Sebastian Modak, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. The participants were chosen through a multi-tiered, merit-based selection process beginning with field and discipline merit reviews by U.S. and foreign academic leaders and area experts, with final selection by the Presidentially-appointed Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Each has been sharing her or his experiences with peers via video reports, blogs and podcasts on mtvU and http://www.fulbright.mtvU.com.
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