Harriet Mayor Fulbright

Résumé

WORK EXPERIENCE

2006-March, 2010
President, J. William & Harriet Fulbright Center

2000-2003
Chairman, International Child Art Foundation, Washington, DC

1997-2000
Executive Director, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

1996-1997
Official Ambassador for the 50th Anniversary Fulbright Program celebrations.
Delivered more than 35 speeches in 15 different countries and 18 cities around the U.S.

1990-96
President, Center for Arts in the Basic Curriculum, Washington, DC
Organization concerned with advocacy of educational reform and teacher training

1988-92
Coordinator, Washington Area Senior Fulbright Program
Started and administered program

1987-91
Executive Director, Fulbright Association, Washington, DC
Set up the Fulbright alumni association in Washington, DC

1984-87
Executive Secretary, XXVIth International Congress of the History of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1982-84
Assistant Director, Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art, Washington, DC

1981-82
Assistant Director, Congressional Arts Caucus, Washington, DC

TEACHING

1975-81
Chairman, Art Department, Maret School, Washington, DC

1972-75
Adjunct Professor, American University, Montgomery College, Washington area

1964-69
Art Teacher, Rippowam School, Bedford New York

1961-63
English Teacher of non-English speaking students, Moscow, USSR

1958-60
English Professor, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION

MFA, George Washington University, Washington, DC
BA, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA

PUBLICATIONS

"How to Start Your Own Preschool Playgroup" (Universe Books, New York, NY)
"The Fulbright Program at Fifty: Its Importance and Its Outlook" (American Studies in Europe, Issue No. 38, May 1997)
"The Congressional Arts Caucus" (Southwest Art, October, 1981)
"The Arts at the Heart of Learning" (Stagebill, Kennedy Center, November 1993)

Numerous articles, over 100 speeches on education, creativity, the importance of arts and humanities, leadership, the Fulbright Program and the work of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

HONORARY DEGREES

Honorary Doctorate of Law, Cleveland State University, 2008
Officiorum Publicorum Doctorem, College of William & Mary, 2007
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, St. Thomas Aquinas College, 2007
Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy – Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2006
Honorary Degree in Humane Letters from Pace University, 2006
Honorary Doctorate, University for Development Studies, Ghana, 2004
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Bank Street College of Education, 2000
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Long Island University, 1997
Honorary Doctorate of Law, The University of Scranton, 1996

HONORS

Global Health Education Consortium Distinguished Service Award, 2009
Excellence in Leadership Award, Inter American Economic Council, 2007
Awarded the Order of Australia by the Governor-General of Australia, for service to educational and cultural exchange between Australia and the United States, 2006
Honorary Bennett Fellow of the School of International Studies, Oklahoma State University, 2006
Cassandra Pyle Award for extraordinary leadership to enhance the role of international education in promoting the increased capacity of individual students and other citizens to contribute to world peace, national security and improved communications among the people of the world, National Association of Foreign Students Affairs (NAFSA), 2005
Rotary/One Person of the Year Award , Rotary International, 2005
Hubert H. Humphrey Humanities Award, Association of Teachers of Social Science, 2004
Middle Cross of the Order of Merit, Republic of Hungary, 2002 Arts in Education Award, Fillmore Art Center, 2001
Fulbright Award for Contribution to International Understanding, 2000
El Orden de Manuel Amador Guerrero, Panama’s highest civilian award, 1997
Young Audiences Honoree of the Year, 1994
Maharishi Award for contributions to international understanding through education, 1989
Teacher of the Year, Maret School, 1980

CIVIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Board of:

Academy for Educational Development
Wendy & Emery Reves Center for International Studies (Chair) at William and Mary College
The International Foreign Policy Center (Chair)