For the seventh consecutive year Bellevue College is welcoming an international scholar-in-residence under the auspices of the Fulbright academic exchange programs of the U.S. State Department.

This year’s Fulbright award brings Gabriela Estrada-Centelles, an assistant professor from the Instituto Technólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, to Bellevue for the 2009-10 school year.

In addition to teaching courses in Mexican culture, society and identity, Estrada-Centelles will also visit with community groups, lead seminars and advise the college on curriculum development in the field of Latin American studies.

At home, Estrada-Centelles teaches on the faculty of the distinguished International Baccalaureate Programme of the Instituto Technólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico City campus, where she previously earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees.

Estrada-Centelles’ residency at Bellevue College is sponsored by Fulbright’s Council for International Exchange of Scholars, a division of the Institute of International Education, U.S. State Department.

Bellevue College has previously hosted international scholars-in-residence from Tibet, Nigeria, Brazil, Morocco, Oman, Argentina and Tunisia, all but the first sponsored by the Fulbright program.

Bellevue College was one of the first two community colleges ever to receive support of this nature from the State Department.

To arrange a community presentation by Estrada-Centelles, please contact the Bellevue College Arts and Humanities Division at 425-564-2341 or star.rush@bellevuecollege.edu.