{"id":65496,"date":"2013-05-21T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=65496"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:21:50","slug":"fulbright-recipients-2013-emily-libby-egan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/21\/fulbright-recipients-2013-emily-libby-egan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulbright recipients 2013: Emily &#8216;Libby&#8217; Egan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_65467\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/Fulbright13-Egan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65467\" class=\"size-large wp-image-65467\" alt=\"2013 Fulbright grant recipient Emily &quot;Libby&quot; Egan. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/Fulbright13-Egan-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/Fulbright13-Egan-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/Fulbright13-Egan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/Fulbright13-Egan.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 Fulbright grant recipient Emily &#8220;Libby&#8221; Egan. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A sociology major and education minor, Emily &#8220;Libby&#8221; Egan &#8217;13 of Harvard, Mass., received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship for work in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p>Egan&#8217;s experience includes teaching secondary students in Kenya, as well as peer assistance in writing and public speaking at Bates. She has student-taught in Lewiston public schools and conducted afterschool programs with local youth, including a book club that she founded for Somali refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching English in Bulgaria, she says, &#8220;I&#8217;ll engage students in intercultural conversation to create an interactive and supportive learning environment, and will guide students as they use English to express their strengths and beliefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter she hopes to earn a master&#8217;s in education, and teach history and social studies at an urban American public school. She says, &#8220;I will draw on my Fulbright experience to offer an authentic Bulgarian and Eastern European perspective in my world geography and world history classes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sociology major and education minor, Emily &#8220;Libby&#8221; Egan &#8217;13 of Harvard,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171605,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496\/revisions\/171605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}