For the first time in Wittenberg’s history, three professors earned prestigious Fulbright Scholar Awards during the same academic year for study abroad.

Tammy Proctor, associate professor of history, Cynthia Richards, associate professor of English, and John Ritter, professor of geology, joined the elite list of 2004-2005 faculty recipients in April, making Wittenberg the only liberal arts college in Ohio in the last 10 years to have more than two professors recognized by the Fulbright Program in one year.

“These dedicated men and women share a personal passion for their chosen academic discipline and for teaching,” said Ken Bladh, provost.

“Their time as Fulbright scholars will provide personal professional growth that benefits our students and the broader academic world as they share the fruits of their research in subsequent publications and presentations.”

An expert in European gender history, World War I, British Empire, and modern Europe and Britain, Proctor will conduct research in Belgium for a book titled A Civilian History of the First World War to be published by NYU Press.

Author of Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War and On My Honour: Guiding and Scouting in Interwar Britain, Proctor has worked extensively on the social and cultural history of war in the 20th century. She joined the faculty in 1998.

Richards will use her award to teach at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, as part of a project titled “American Literature in Relief: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.”

Winner of the Omicron Delta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award at Wittenberg and a winner of the American Society of 18th-Century Studies national course design competition, Richards has served as director of Wittenberg’s Women’s Studies program.

Currently working on a book-length project titled Radical Correspondences: Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Contemporaries, Richards joined the faculty in 1996.

Chair of the department of geology, Ritter will work with teaching and research faculty in The Centre for Caribbean Land and Environmental Appraisal Research at the University of the West Indies.

His project, titled “Learning Geology and Geoinformatics on the Front Line: Applying Concepts, Technology and Service to Geohazards in Trinidad and Tobago,” will provide an opportunity to combine an educational experience for students with service that meets the needs of the community.

Ritter, who has often assisted the Springfield community through his participation in the Clark County Soil and Water Conservation District, various advisory boards involved with planning or environmental issues and his research on local streams, joined the faculty in 1990.