SU's Kotlowski Selected for Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Australia

SALISBURY, MD---Among the honors for faculty from the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright program, the position of “distinguished chair” is perhaps the most coveted.

Dr. Dean Kotlowski Salisbury University professor of history, will hold the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian National University in 2022.

No stranger to the Fulbright program, Kotlowski has served three times as a Fulbright Scholar abroad.

“It’s something that I do to make progress on my research, improve my teaching and share my scholarly expertise with audiences beyond the United States,” said Kotlowski.

As a distinguished chair, he will undertake a lecture tour across Australia discussing U.S. politics, the presidency, Indigenous rights and more. He also will research his latest book project, a comparison of Indigenous policy in the U.S. and Australia during the 20th century.

Australia is one of the most competitive countries for Fulbright applications and distinguished chairs, “viewed as among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program,” according to the Department of State’s website.

Kotlowski’s previous Fulbrights have taken him to Europe and Asia. 

In 2016, he spent a semester as a Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria. 

In 2008, he served as a Fulbright Visiting Professor of American Studies at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. 

His most recent appointment, in 2020, was the Fulbright Professional Scholarship in American-Australian Alliance Studies in Australia.

Beyond his Fulbright experiences, Kotlowski has lectured in 23 countries and nationwide via C-SPAN, and has served as an expert on presidential history for National Public Radio, the New York Times and more.

In 2018, he was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury as the historian specialist on the U.S. Mint’s Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, with a feature in Coin World magazine. He also served as one of the four internationally renowned historians selected by the National Archives to assist with restructuring of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

Kotlowski is the author of more than 40 scholarly articles and chapters and of the critically acclaimed books Nixon’s Civil Rights: Politics, Principle and Policy (Harvard University Press) and Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR (Indiana University Press), for which he appeared in the 2013 documentary Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust. He also edited The European Union: From Jean Monnet to the Euro (Ohio University Press).

For more information call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU website at www.salisbury.edu.