{"id":31313,"date":"2024-04-18T16:43:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=31313"},"modified":"2024-04-18T16:44:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:44:50","slug":"roger-sneed-receives-fulbright-u-s-scholar-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/roger-sneed-receives-fulbright-u-s-scholar-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Sneed receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wee hours of Feb. 23,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/roger-sneed\/\">Roger Sneed<\/a> read an email and was shocked. The message told him he\u2019d received a Fulbright <a href=\"https:\/\/fulbrightscholars.org\/us-scholar-awards\">U.S. Scholar Award<\/a> to teach in the Czech Republic. He was so excited he had trouble going back to sleep. Days later when he learned his teaching placement would be at Prague\u2019s Charles University, he was over the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy excitement level went to 10,\u201d he said, adding that there were only 10 U.S. Fulbright teaching spots available in all of Czechia.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Sneed, the outgoing faculty chair and a professor of religion, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/michael-svec\">Michael Svec<\/a>, professor of education, led a cohort of Furman students to the Czech Republic for a three-week May Experience (MayX). Sneed is thrilled to return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many things I loved about Prague when I was there, and I can\u2019t wait to experience it again,\u201d he said. Noting Prague\u2019s rich history, Sneed is particularly fond of an area known as \u201cnew town\u201d that dates to 1348. \u201cI also love the city\u2019s walkability and slower pace of life compared to the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the 2024-2025 academic year, Sneed will teach African American religious and philosophical thought, sexuality and Christian theology and a course on religion and science fiction\/fantasy at the Hussite Theological Faculty, one of three theological faculties of Charles University in the \u201cCity of a Hundred Spires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to sharing my scholarly work in Central Europe,\u201d Sneed said. \u201cI understand Czech students are quite interested in American religious thought. I\u2019m also excited to be living and teaching in a completely different context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sneed has a bachelor&#8217;s and a master&#8217;s degree from the University of Tulsa, a master&#8217;s of divinity from Emory University and a doctorate from Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Religion and Faculty Chair Roger Sneed will teach several classes at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, during the 2024-2025 academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":31315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,28,54,23],"tags":[2728,2726,2727,2725],"class_list":["post-31313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-education","category-may-experience","category-religion","tag-african-american-religious-thought","tag-czech-republic","tag-czechia","tag-fulbright-u-s-scholar-award"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}