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I can`t belive that this is Mr.Sanil .. My 9th grade english teacher In The Sultanat Of Oman!!

I would like to offer one correction to the 9/21/06 article by Maura McHale. Professor Sanil Raj Johnson of Kerala, India was not the first ever Fulbright Scholar to study at UCONN. I served as the the liason and sponsor for Professor Ruxandra Dragan, assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania, whose teaching responsibilities includes courses in sociolinguistics focusing on the history and dialects of American English.
Professor Dragan was awarded a Fulbright grant for the 2003 - 2004 academic year to study at the University of Connecticut under the auspices of the Institute for African American Studies during my tenure as its Director To work on her project "Hate Speech in American and Romanian Media - the Case of African Americans and Romanian Roma." This project examined historical instances of 'hate speech' in the American media in order to compare them to representations of the Roma community in today's Romanian print media.


Robert W. Stephens
Professor of Music