Ashesi is happy to announce that Alan Jay Lincoln, an Organisational Ombudsman and Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, was selected for a Fulbright Specialists project at Ashesi for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Alan arrived in Ghana earlier this month, and will be helping Ashesi revise its faculty and student policies including student judiciary processes, sexual harassment prevention and response policies. He is joined by his wife, Carol, a former librarian who will be working as a volunteer to help Ashesi improve library facilities in Berekuso’s township. Alan mentions that coming to Ghana has been an interesting experience for him so far, and he is excited about the opportunity to work with Ashesi University.
Alan earned master’s degrees in both Social Psychology and Sociology and a doctorate in Sociology from UMass Amherst. He also completed a National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Program in Family Violence at the University of New Hampshire. He previously held a Fulbright Professorship in the Netherlands and is the author of numerous articles, including three books on crime and violence in the family and public places. Alan is also a former journal editor of Library and Archival Security. He is a certified mediator and currently holds a five year appointment on the Fulbright Senior Specialists Roster. Alan now works as a Consulting Ombudsman and teaches online graduate classes at UMass Lowell.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have taught, studied or conducted research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement.
