Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award Goes to Poli Sci Professor

Howard Tolley, professor of political science, received a unique distinction during the fall of 2003 when he held the Fulbright Scholar Program’s Thomas Jefferson Distinguished Chair. Distinguished chair lecturing and research awards are considered among the most prestigious in the program since only 37 are made in 13 countries.

Tolley spent the majority of his time at Nijmegen University in the Netherlands, where his lectures addressed “Pax Americana, Homeland Security, and the Rule of Law” from his dual perspective as a political scientist and legal scholar of international human rights and the U.S. Constitution. In addition to lectures on morality, law, and politics in U.S. foreign policy, he taught a course that examined recent homeland security and counter-terrorism measures. His Nijmegen foreign policy students participated in a transatlantic teleconference with UC political science majors to discuss his Teaching Human Rights Online exercise, "A Just War? President Clinton’s Response to Kosovo," on his

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He also delivered 17 Fulbright guest lectures at Dutch universities in Leiden, Tilburg, and Utrecht and in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Iceland, and Austria, where he spoke at the National University of Ireland, Essex University, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Iceland, and the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.

Tolley’s preparation for the lectures and a related book project was supported by a UC Taft Fund Summer 2003 Research Fellowship.