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Kingsbury Receives Second Fulbright Award

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of Arts and Sciences Dr. Aaron Kingsbury recently completed the prestigious Fulbright Specialist fellowship at the University of Atma Jaya Yogyakarta in Indonesia. The collaboration extended a rapidly developing personal and professional relationship between Dr. Kingsbury and his Indonesian hosts.
Dr. Kingsbury’s fellowship sought to develop the interdisciplinary teaching and research skills of scholars at his host university. While in Indonesia, he conducted a series of workshops including Drones and Open-Source Photogrammetry for Engineering, Designing an Experiential Educational-Based Curriculum, Drones in the Social Sciences (Theory and Practice for Research), and Innovative and Ecological Approaches to Social Change in Japanese Farming (with Implications for Indonesia). One highlight was a multiple-day series of practical exercises in drone mapping on an active construction site.

Dr. Kingsbury also joined with host Indonesian faculty for regular trips to the surrounding countryside to visit female farming cooperatives. Future research collaborations are planned.

Dr. Aaron Kingsbury at the University of Atma Jaya Yogyakarta in Indonesia.

Dr. Kingsbury has been teaching at MMA since 2018. His research interests include cultural and environmental geographies; sustainability in agriculture; geospatial technologies; and low-altitude remote sensing using drones and kites. He serves as a research advisor for the Agriculture and Forestry Research & Development Center for Mountainous Regions in Vietnam and has been involved in agricultural and development research across Asia-Pacific for over twenty years. Dr. Kingsbury was also a US Fulbright Scholar in Vietnam in 2021-2022. He is a student in the Small Vessel Operations program at MMA.

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