Leslie Brice Bustamante, PhD

Leslie Brice Bustamante advises undergraduate and graduate students applying for nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships. She focuses on programs that promote diversity, international education and research, language learning, and international affairs such as the Boren Fellowship, Critical Language Scholarship, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Gilman International Scholarship, Public Policy and International Affairs program, and the Clarke, FAIT, Payne, Rangel, and Pickering Graduate Foreign Service Fellowships. She is also the campus representative for the Udall Undergraduate Scholarship, awarded for environmental leadership. Additionally, Dr. Brice Bustamante serves on the Office of Undergraduate Studies Diversity and Inclusion Task Force and on the Individual Studies Program faculty committee. In 2018, she was awarded a Fulbright to participate in the U.S.-Korea International Education Administrators Seminar in Seoul.

Prior to her current position, she held teaching appointments at the Corcoran College of Art and Design and Montgomery College. Dr. Brice earned her PhD from the University of Maryland, focusing on the Arts of the African Diaspora; her MA in the History of Art from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and her BS in Art and the History of Art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.