1:06 p.m., April 9, 2010----Jean Pfaelzer, professor at the University of Delaware, has won a Senior Fulbright and will be in Utrecht, Holland, during the spring semester of 2011.

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Pfaelzer, who has appointments in UD's Department of English and the Women's Studies and East Asian Studies programs, will be hosted by the American studies program at the University of Utrecht, one of the oldest universities in Europe.

She will be teaching a graduate seminar in Asian American culture and history, and an undergraduate seminar in 19th century American women authors.

Based in Holland, Pfaelzer will use Dutch, Portuguese and British archives of diaries, newspaper articles, letters, court and maritime records to complete her research on Muted Mutinies, a study of slave rebellions on ships transporting kidnapped “coolies” from China to work in the sugar plantations in the Caribbean.

Pfaelzer's last book, Driven Out, the Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans, was named The New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the Asian American Book of the Year.

Pfaelzer has a long history of internationalizing American studies. She founded and chaired the American Studies Association International Women's Task Force and is now on the association's International Committee, helping to bring a globalist perspective to the field, to help international scholars meet and work with U.S. scholars, and to increase professional opportunities and visibility for international women scholars who study U.S. cultures and histories.

"I am very honored by the Fulbright award and excited to be working at Utrecht, which is at both the geographical and intellectual crossroads of American studies," Pfaelzer said.

The Fulbright Scholar Program, sponsored by the U. S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year to lecture and conduct research in a variety of fields.