Professor selected for second Fulbright Award

Paul Sracic, professor and chair of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Youngstown State University, has been granted a Fulbright Award to lecture in Japan.

Sracic is believed to be the first YSU professor to earn two Fulbright honors. His first in 2009 was also in Japan.

Sracic’s award runs from September 2018 through July 2018 and will include lecturing on American trade politics at Waseda University in Tokyo and Yokohoma National University in Yokohama.

The award is only the latest in Sracic’s ever-expanding international portfolio. In 2012, he was invited to Japan as part of the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office Visiting Experts Program and has since given more than 40 international U.S. State Department-sponsored lectures in eight different countries, including U.S. Embassy facilities in Tokyo and Beijing and at the U.S. ambassador’s residences in Brussels and Dublin.

A frequent guest and interviewee in international news media, from CNN and NPR to the Washington Post and USA Today, Sracic was part of the U.S. State Department’s election night program in 2016, answering questions from embassies around the world about the U.S. electoral system.

Sracic, who holds a PhD and master’s in Political Science from Rutgers University, is the co-author of Ohio Government and Politics with Bill Binning, chair emeritus of the YSU Department of Political Science. He also was featured in a TEDx talk entitled “Ohio, the Swing State,” which can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dw1HNNytCdjM.

The Fulbright Program, started in 1946, aims to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries and is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government. Fulbright alumni include heads of state, judges, ambassadors, cabinet ministers and university presidents, as well as leading journalists, artists, scientists, and teachers. They include 59 Nobel Laureates, 82 Pulitzer Prize winners, 71 MacArthur Fellows, 16 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, and thousands of leaders across the private, public and non-profit sectors.