Associate Professor Jessica McCaughey has won a Fulbright Scholar Award to research and teach at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Creative Writing at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She'll be developing a public research project about workplace communication in post-Troubles Northern Ireland. Jessica and her family will be in Belfast for the first half of 2026.
Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious fellowships that offer scholars unique opportunities to teach and conduct research abroad, playing a critical role in U.S. public diplomacy. Notable awards received by alumni include 63 Nobel Prizes, 98 Pulitzer Prizes, and 82 MacArthur Fellowships.