Congratulations to Dr. William deJong Lambert (Professor, History) who has been awarded a 2024 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. Dr. deJong Lambert will spend part of 2024/2025 academic year during his fellowship leave in Brazil where he will teach a graduate course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre.
Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious and competitive fellowships that provide unique opportunities for scholars to teach and conduct research abroad. Fulbright scholars also play a critical role in U.S. public diplomacy, establishing long-term relationships between people and nations. Alumni of the Fulbright Program include 62 Nobel Laureates, 82 Pulitzer Prize winner, 80 MacArthur Fellows, and thousands of leaders and world-renowned experts in academia and many other fields across the private, public, and non-profit sectors.
– Fulbright Program
Dr. deJong Lambert is a Historian of Science whose research focuses on evolution and heredity. In 2009 and 2012 he organized the first-ever workshops devoted to the history of Lysenkoism, and has since gone on to publish widely on the evolutionary synthesis of genetics and natural selection. His current research focuses on the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky and the history of Brazilian genetics.
He teaches HIS 10 History of the Modern World and FYS First Year Seminar at BCC.
