INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
NEWSLETTER
2009 - 2010
http://www.southalabama.edu/internationalstudies
I.S. WELCOMES:
New students:
Kristin Bourassa
Jordan Wright
Jenny Bruegge
Patricia Carter
Elizabeth Dean
Randy Decuir
Kelsey Dutton
Russell Fort
Cameron Gibson
Emma Lemieux
Stephanie Lance
Cyrill Neuser
Elizabeth McDonald
Jarrod Paz
Britney Robertson
Paul Porter
Victor Solley
Aubrey Stewart
Melissa Sterling
AND CONGRATULATES:
CAMPUS EVENTS
 INTERNATIONAL FILM SERIES Hosted by
the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures:
http://www.usouthal.edu/languages/activities.html
 MODEL UN Contact Hanne Anderson for
more information:
haa301@jaguar1.usouthal.edu)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.
php?gid=2208743232
Graduates:
Alana M. Gates
Caroline E. Lyons
Aaron Lovvorn Harris
Brooke S. Hider
Mariano Ruiz
Rachel Warner
Shelley E. Turner
David H. Altmayer
Sean M. Dorcik
Ruben A. Rodarte
John Mize
J. Sansovich, Jr.
William T. Sweeney
 STUDY ABROAD Contact the Office of
International Education for opportunities,
procedures and scholarships:
http://www.southalabama.edu/oie/abroad.html
 FIND I.S. ON FACEBOOK for updates on
campus events and other program information.
Type “International Studies Majors.”
I.S. FEATURED FACULTY
Thanks
to
a
nine-month
Fulbright Lecturing Grant, Dr.
Zohair
Husain,
Associate
Professor of the Department
of
Political
Science
and
Criminal Justice, has been teaching in the Faculty of
Economics and Political Science at Cairo University in Egypt.
In addition to his courses, he has participated in several
THE CALDWELL ENDOWMENT
educational field trips, written two papers about Egyptian
culture, visited several tourist locations including the White
Friends and family of Dr. and Mrs. Caldwell established
Desert and the Pyramids of Giza, and he has been learning
this scholarship in 1994 to help USA students gain
Arabic while making life-long Egyptian friends.

international training by participating in a study abroad
Learn more about the various Fulbright Awards:
program.
http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html
“I
used
scholarship
I.S. ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
the
Caldwell
to
spend
a
month at the University of
Costa Rica in San Jose this
summer.
The
entire
Dr Patricia Mark received her
experience
was
amazing
bachelor in International Studies
and it improved my Spanish
from
the
University of
South
skills significantly. Neither my host mom nor my professors
Alabama in1982. Later on she
spoke English, so almost every minute of the day I had to
returned to earn her MBA before
speak and understand everything in Spanish. There is nothing
earning her doctoral degree in
like study abroad to help with a foreign language.
communication
Spending the summer in Costa Rica was incredible. I am
from
the
University of Southern Mississippi.
grateful to the Caldwell family for giving students this
After spending one year in France, Dr. Mark got an internship
opportunity every year”.
with Mann and Mark Communication, a public relations and
LYDIA GUION
marketing consulting firm, and for five years she became a
- 2009 Caldwell Recipient
managing partner. Afterwards, she served as the Director of
Academic Marketing, the Director of lifelong learning and as

The Caldwell Scholarship competition for 2010 is now
an assistant professor of Communication at Spring Hill
open!
College.
Sciences student for study abroad in the coming
Today she works as an assistant professor of advertising n the
year.
Department of Communication at the University of South
forms can be obtained in the Arts and Sciences
Alabama.
Advising Office (HUMB 110) or:
She is just one of over 200 successful alumni of
the IS Program at USA.
$3000 will be awarded to an Arts and
The deadline is Friday, April 9.
Application
http://www.usouthal.edu/internationalstudies/Caldwell.htm