Professor Kathleen Mulligan (Theatre) received the 2022 Award for Outstanding Chapter Leadership at the annual Fulbright Association Conference in Bethesda, Maryland October 6-9. Mulligan is the current president of the Central NY Chapter of the Fulbright Association. The association’s mission is to “continue and extend the Fulbright tradition of education, advocacy, and service.” Mulligan also presented a general session at the conference: “Dwelling in Possibility with the Belle of Amherst.” She performed an excerpt from her one-woman show “The Belle of Amherst” and shared her experiences performing the production in Beirut, Lebanon during the Whatsapp Revolution of 2019.
Mulligan will step down from her position as president in December in order to begin her Fulbright project in Amritsar, India “Preserving the Vanishing Stories of Partition.”
