{"id":78664,"date":"2014-05-21T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=78664"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:52:58","slug":"fulbright-recipients-2014-owen-minott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/05\/21\/fulbright-recipients-2014-owen-minott\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Fulbright recipients: Owen Minott"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_79343\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Minott_02-L1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79343\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79343\" alt=\"Owen Minott '14 is a 2014 recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Minott_02-L1-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Minott_02-L1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Minott_02-L1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Minott_02-L1.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-79343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen Minott &#8217;14 is a 2014 recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A politics major, Owen Minott &#8217;14 of Needham, Mass., was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship for Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>As an elementary school tutor and an English-language-learner instructor working with Somali adults in Lewiston, Minott expanded his teaching skills, his patience, and his ease with cross-cultural interactions\u00a0\u2014 qualities that will stand him in good stead during his teaching assistantship in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Minott is excited about being in Brazil at a formative time in that nation&#8217;s history.\u00a0 &#8220;After a decade of growth, Brazil has developed a new middle class and I am curious to witness the social effects of changing demographics in this very diverse nation,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Minott will also spend time volunteering for a news organization, and engaging with university students by holding viewings and discussions of Brazilian and American films that deal with gender and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrazil\u2019s female president and legalization of same-sex marriage are two milestones not yet achieved by the U.S.,\u201d he says. \u201cComparing U.S. and Brazilian issues of gender and sexuality would likely spark a mutually interesting dialogue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A dean&#8217;s list student at Bates, Minott wrote a politics thesis exploring what motivates political violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=78676\">Return to main Fulbright story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Minott &#8217;14 is one of Bates&#8217; 10 Fulbright recipients for 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"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":[11011,9946],"tags":[3709,10770,10752,11055],"class_list":["post-78664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-exclude-from-loops","tag-fulbright-u-s-student-program","tag-politics","tag-south-america","tag-student-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78664","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78664"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79406,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78664\/revisions\/79406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}