TNN, "BMTC crushes American professor" The Times Of India - IndiaMonday, November 24, 2008
Bangalore: An American citizen and visiting professor at a city college was killed on Saturday evening after being hit by a BMTC bus while he was cycling near Ramohalli Gate on Bangalore-Mysore Road.
Brent Hurd (38) was a Fulbright scholar and visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Kumbalgodu. Hurd was cycling home after visiting a club on Mysore Road at 7 pm for a round of swimming. Though he was rushed to hospital, he was declared dead on arrival.
A traveller and documentary film-maker, Hurd joined IIJNM in July for a one-year appointment to teach video journalism and documentary. Before that, he taught a summer semester graduate class at American University, Washington DC. During 2007 and 2008, he worked eight months in Azerbaijan as a Fulbright scholar, lecturing at Baku State University.
According to Kanchan Kaur, vice-dean of IIJNM, Hurd's first loves were reporting and filming, both of which he did prolifically. His travels matched his love for exotic stories.
"I have walked the streets of southern Thailand covering religious conflict, canvassed the Medina of Tunis assessing women's rights and studied geysers to understand geothermal technology in Iceland,'' Hurd had written on his website.
Hurd was a Peace Corps volunteer in Plovdiv, Bulgaria; a European tour guide; an adjunct English professor and helped negotiate contracts for construction of the International Space Station. Then he turned to journalism as a writer with the Voice of America. He went on to serve as a news analysis reporter for five years. Among the luminaries he covered are the Dalai Lama and former US presidential candidate Gary Hart.
Hurd had an enduring interest in describing the role of Islam in the modern world, an assignment he took on after the 9/11 attacks as way to explain the religion to shell-shocked Americans.
While on the 2007-2008 Fulbright scholarship in Baku, he produced a documentary, `A Return to Islam'.
At the time of death, he was working on another documentary about Sufism, the mystical side of Islam.
Hurd is survived by his parents, brother and two sisters. After the memorial service at IIJNM on Monday at 11.30 am, his body will be flown to the United States.
[Visit Professor Brent Hurd's blog http://www.brenthurd.com/].
Bangalore: An American citizen and visiting professor at a city college was killed on Saturday evening after being hit by a BMTC bus while he was cycling near Ramohalli Gate on Bangalore-Mysore Road.
Brent Hurd (38) was a Fulbright scholar and visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Kumbalgodu. Hurd was cycling home after visiting a club on Mysore Road at 7 pm for a round of swimming. Though he was rushed to hospital, he was declared dead on arrival.
A traveller and documentary film-maker, Hurd joined IIJNM in July for a one-year appointment to teach video journalism and documentary. Before that, he taught a summer semester graduate class at American University, Washington DC. During 2007 and 2008, he worked eight months in Azerbaijan as a Fulbright scholar, lecturing at Baku State University.
According to Kanchan Kaur, vice-dean of IIJNM, Hurd's first loves were reporting and filming, both of which he did prolifically. His travels matched his love for exotic stories.
"I have walked the streets of southern Thailand covering religious conflict, canvassed the Medina of Tunis assessing women's rights and studied geysers to understand geothermal technology in Iceland,'' Hurd had written on his website.
Hurd was a Peace Corps volunteer in Plovdiv, Bulgaria; a European tour guide; an adjunct English professor and helped negotiate contracts for construction of the International Space Station. Then he turned to journalism as a writer with the Voice of America. He went on to serve as a news analysis reporter for five years. Among the luminaries he covered are the Dalai Lama and former US presidential candidate Gary Hart.
Hurd had an enduring interest in describing the role of Islam in the modern world, an assignment he took on after the 9/11 attacks as way to explain the religion to shell-shocked Americans.
While on the 2007-2008 Fulbright scholarship in Baku, he produced a documentary, `A Return to Islam'.
At the time of death, he was working on another documentary about Sufism, the mystical side of Islam.
Hurd is survived by his parents, brother and two sisters. After the memorial service at IIJNM on Monday at 11.30 am, his body will be flown to the United States.
[Visit Professor Brent Hurd's blog http://www.brenthurd.com/].
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