Robert Harding, PhD
From New Albany, IN
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During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 2019 Fellowship from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh to be guest lecturer on American immigration policy and foreign policy. July 2019. $4,000 value
* 2018 Valdosta State University Center for Faculty Scholarship, $1,000 award for presentation of research in Savannah, Georgia at the Georgia Political Science Association annual meeting in November 2018.
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 2017 Valdosta State University Center for Faculty Scholarship, $1,000 award for presentation of research in Savannah, Georgia at the Georgia Political Science Association annual meeting in November 2017.
* 2017 Valdosta State University Center for Faculty Scholarship, $2,000 award for presentation of research in New Orleans, LA at the Southern Political Science Association annual meeting in January 2017.
* 2016 Chaired the committee for Project Innovate, which received a $16,000 innovation grant for the Department of Political Science to develop summer camp for high school students to explore the ideas of citizenship, politics, and relationship between them. Implemented in Summer 2017.
* 2016 Valdosta State University Center for Faculty Scholarship, $1,000 award for presentation of research in Atlanta, GA at the International Studies Association annual meeting in March 2016.
* 2016 Valdosta State University Center for Faculty Scholarship, $1,000 award for presentation of research in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the Southern Political Science Association annual meeting in January 2016.
* 2015 Recipient of the Southern Political Science Association Artinian $500 travel award for presentation of research in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the Southern Political Science Association annual meeting in January 2016.
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 2015 Recipient of the Council on Foreign Relations travel award to attend Fourth Annual CFR Educators Workshop in Washington, DC, April 16-17.
* 2015 Spring Hill College $300 travel award to present research at International Studies
Association conference in New Orleans, LA.
* 2015 Recipient of the Spring Hill College Dawson Research Award.
* 2015 Spring Hill College $300 travel award to present research at Southern Political
Science Association national conference in New Orleans, LA.
* 2014 Spring Hill College $600 travel grant to present research at Midwest Political
Science Association conference in Chicago, IL.
* 2013 European Space Policy Institute fellowship (travel and lodging; approximately $3,000 value) for presentation of research at 7th Annual Autumn Conference, Yearbook on Space Policy, Vienna, Austria (October).
* 2013 Spring Hill College $1,000 travel award to present research at International Studies Association annual conference in San Francisco, CA.
* 2011 Spring Hill College $600 travel award to present research at International Studies Association annual conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
* 2010 Swansea University (United Kingdom) fellowship for presentation of space policy research at professional roundtable held at Swansea for the UK Space Agency (approximately $2,000).
* 2010 Spring Hill College $600 travel grant to present research at International Studies Association annual conference in New Orleans, LA.
* 2008 Recipient of Spring Hill Colleges competitive Summer Research Grant ($1,000).
* 2007 Awarded the Lynchburg College James A. Huston Excellence in Scholarship
award.
* 2007 Awarded spring semester sabbatical at Lynchburg College.
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 2006 Awarded $2,000 competitive travel award to serve as the Lynchburg College
representative at the Foundation of Independent Colleges Conference on Teaching
in Portland, Oregon.
* 2005 Awarded the Lynchburg College Faculty Development Grant (competitive) for
presentation of research at the Southern Political Science Association annual
conference in New Orleans, Louisiana ($800).
* 2003 Awarded a Lynchburg College Faculty Development Grant (competitive) for
presentation of research in Portland, Oregon at the International Studies
Association annual conference ($1,000).
* 2002 Awarded a competitive Lynchburg College Summer Research Grant Recipient
($1,000).
* 2001 Rotary International Fellow in Germany, Summer 2001. Professional visits to
universities in southern and eastern Germany. Conducted research on post- reunification challenges and democratization in the former East Germany for comparison to post-Castro Cuba.
* 2000 $2,000 fellowship award from Georgetown University and the Portuguese Arrabida Foundation for presentation of research at the conference The Politics of Military Extrication in Comparative Perspective: Lessons for Cuba. September 21-22, 2000, in Arrabida, Portugal.
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 1999 Awarded $500 Indiana University research grant for adjunct faculty.
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 1996-98 Recipient of the University of Miami Provosts Doctoral Fellowship (full tuition,
books, and stipend).
* 1996-97 Recipient of the University of Miami North-South Center Research Fellowship.
Served as research assistant to Dr. Jaime Suchlicki, for his book, An Historical
Dictionary of Cuba (2nd ed., Lanham, Md., Scarecrow Press, 2001).
* 1996 Awarded $1,000 University of Miami Graduate Student Research Travel Grant for presentation of a research paper at the University of Texas at Austin and to
conduct dissertation research at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
* 1996-97 Associate Director of Information Technology and Grant Administrator for Project SITE, Dade County Public Schools (DCPS), 1996-1997. Authored successful $70,000 federal grant for project to examine the pedagogical utility of the Internet for language and cultural instruction; made presentations of findings to DCPS officials; offered instructional seminars to DCPS teachers
* 1995-96 Associate Director of Information Technology, Grant Administrator, and Project Instructor for Project CATE, Dade County Public Schools, Co-authored successful $40,000 federal grant for project to examine the pedagogical utility of computer-based instruction for English as a Second Language instruction.
* 1993-96 Graduate Research Assistantship at the University of Miamis North-South Center. Conducted research and translated articles from Spanish into English for a published edited volume on European-Latin America relations.
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 1991 Awarded Summer Foreign Language and Areas Studies Scholarship. Department of Modern Languages, University of Louisville. (Spanish language study and research in Puerto Rico of the Puerto Rican political writer, Rene Marques).
* 1990-91 Assistant to the Director and Head Spanish translator, Center for Latin American Education, University of Louisville.
During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:
* 1988 Awarded full Summer Foreign Language and Areas Studies scholarship to Spain. Department of Modern Languages, University of Louisville.
* 1987 Awarded full scholarship for University of Louisville summer semester in London, England for study of the British parliamentary system and the British policy-making process.