Dr. Kimberly Cavanagh Honored with 2019-2020 Fulbright Award

Kim Cavanagh, Ph.D., has been selected to receive a 2019-2020 Fulbright Scholar Research Award to Jordan to continue building upon the research she conducted years earlier in the desert kingdom. Dr. Cavanagh, an assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of Social Sciences at USCB, was selected based on the merits of the research project she proposed: “Remapping Aqaba: Exploring the Social and Economic Development of Aqaba, Jordan.” Her new research will be supported by her previous work delving into planned large-scale urban tourism development in the Red Sea port city of Aqaba. Her findings will serve to develop a “longitudinal ethnographic portrait of the social and economic realities” that Aqaba residents experience as their city becomes a “developed” city. The University of Jordan-Aqaba will serve as her international host. This is her second Fulbright. She won a Fulbright Student Scholarship in 2008.