Fulbright adventure: Marblehead professor has special connection to India, history
Marblehead resident and Salem State University professor Michele Louro has just returned from her latest trip to India with the Fulbright Scholar program, where she spent two months conducting research for a new book and teaching.
Marblehead professor Michele Louro has just returned from her latest trip to India. COURTESY PHOTO
“It’s a cross-cultural, online teaching experience with students from Jawaharlal Nehru University and Salem State,” Louro told the Marblehead Current. “The four-week class explores colonialism, anti-colonialism and women — thinking about women and their importance in this history.”
Britain colonized India in 1858 and ruled there until 1947.
“One of my goals is to not only teach history, but to teach students to be global citizens of the world,” she sai...