Zahariadis and Henager Receive Fulbright Awards

Dr. Nikolaos Zahariadis, Mertie Buckman Chair and professor of international studies, received a competitive Fulbright Specialist Award to lecture and conduct research on COVID-19 public health measures in Europe at the University of Macedonia located in Thessaloniki, Greece. A native of Greece, Zahariadis has published extensively in the areas of European public policy, comparative political economy, foreign aid, and nationalism and security in Southeastern Europe. He is also an editor of International Review of Public Policy, which is dedicated to advancing knowledge about public policy in different sectors, countries, and regions of the world.

A member of the Rhodes faculty since 2016, Zahariadis was a Fulbright Special- ist in 2018 and presented several lectures at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy, on European economics and American foreign policy, while exploring scholarly collaborations. In 2009, while teaching at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Zahariadis received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to participate in a German studies seminar in Berlin during the 2009-2010 academic year.

Dr. Eric Henager, associate professor of Spanish, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2023-2024 for Ecuador. He will teach at the Universidad del Azuay in Cuenca, Ecuador, from September to December 2023, and will carry out a research project on contact phenomena in Spanish-language writing and performance.

McCarthy and Skoog

Presented Clarence Day Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Research

Dr. David McCarthy and Dr. William Skoog were presented Rhodes College’s highest faculty honors for teaching and research at the college’s annual Awards Convocation, held on campus April 28.

McCarthy, professor and chair of art and art history, received the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching. Skoog, professor of music and director of choral studies, received the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity. The awards, first given in 1981, were established by businessman and Rhodes honorary degree recipient Clarence Day and are provided by the Day Foundation.

Recently, Henager was named an ACS Mellon Academic Leadership Fellow to serve as associate dean of global initiatives in Rhodes’ Office of Academic Affairs, and will start the associate dean role when he returns to Rhodes in January 2024.

A member of the Rhodes faculty since 1995 and a member of the Rhodes Class of 1989, Henager has designed and directed more than 20 summer intensive programs in Spain, México, Argentina, and Ecuador. He has served as chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures as well as chair of Latin American and Latinx Studies. He has worked tirelessly to diversify the Rhodes curriculum and engage students in projects that will have a direct impact on the local community.