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Marita Houlihan Award Recipients
This award recognizes those who have displayed imaginative activity, outstanding personal enterprise, and creative contributions to the field through research, writing, or program development.
2008 Recipient - Ellen Mashiko
The 2008 recipient of the Marita Houlihan Award is Ellen E. Mashiko. This award recognizes those who have displayed imaginative activity, outstanding personal enterprise, and creative contributions to the field through research, writing, or program development. During Ellen’s 36-year-long career in international education, she has worked to strengthen exchange between Japan and the United States. She began her career concurrently serving as educational information officer of the Japan-United States Education Commission (Fulbright Program) and Japan Program development officer for the East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii) in Tokyo, Japan. Later, Ellen served as deputy executive director of the International Center and administrator of the Overseas Projects Development Office, Academic Affairs Division at Waseda University. She then was executive director of the Tokyo Foundation’s Scholarship Division with responsibility for developing programs worldwide.
2008 Recipient - Ellen Mashiko
The 2008 recipient of the Marita Houlihan Award is Ellen E. Mashiko. This award recognizes those who have displayed imaginative activity, outstanding personal enterprise, and creative contributions to the field through research, writing, or program development. During Ellen’s 36-year-long career in international education, she has worked to strengthen exchange between Japan and the United States. She began her career concurrently serving as educational information officer of the Japan-United States Education Commission (Fulbright Program) and Japan Program development officer for the East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii) in Tokyo, Japan. Later, Ellen served as deputy executive director of the International Center and administrator of the Overseas Projects Development Office, Academic Affairs Division at Waseda University. She then was executive director of the Tokyo Foundation’s Scholarship Division with responsibility for developing programs worldwide.Previous Recipients
- Marty Etchison Babcock, University of North Carolina
- Rebecca Zeigler Mano, US Embassy – Harare, Zimbabwe
- Gary Althen, University of Iowa
- Janet M. and Milton J. Bennett, Intercultural Communication Institute
- Edward S. Blankenship, California State University-Long Beach
- Alice Chandler, SUNY College-New Paltz
- Todd M. Davis, Institute of International Education
- Hans de Wit, University of Amsterdam
- Stephen Dunnett, SUNY at Buffalo
- Rene Greenwald, IIE-Mexico
- G. James Haas, Indiana University/Purdue University
- Linda Heaney, Linden Educational Services
- Ann Helm, City University of New York-Staten Island
- Axel Market, University of Tuebingen
- Ivy McQuiddy, University of Texas-Austin
- Josef Mestenhauser, University of Minnesota
- Terry O'Donnell, Commission on English Language Program Accreditation
- Jody Olsen, Peace Corps
- Mary E. Peterson, NAFSA
- Norman Peterson, Georgetown University
- Cassandra Pyle, CIES
- Kay Thomas, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
- Kevin Scheiffer, Experiment in International Living
- Gene Smith, University of Colorado-Boulder
- Ralph Smuckler, Michigan State University
- Caroline Atsuko Matano Yang, U.S.-Japan Educational Commission
