Two University of California, Davis, scholars have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for 1996-97 to teach and pursue research in Israel and in Germany. Carol S. Bruch, professor of law, will conduct research on international child abduction cases in countries that have religious-based family law. She will be at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for eight months, beginning in December. Bruch has studied national and international family law for the past 20 years, during which time she has sought changes in laws governing child support standards, child custody, nonmarital cohabitation, adoption and spousal support. She has served on the U.S. State Department's study group on international child abduction, and, in 1989, was a delegate to a meeting sponsored by the Organization of American States where she represented the United States in drafting inter-American family law treaties on child abduction and on family support obligations. Alessa Johns, an assistant professor of English, will study women's utopianism in 18th-century Europe. She will be based at the University of Munich, Germany, for six months, starting in January. Johns will research the work of 18th-century German women writers to complete her book, "Women's Utopianism in 18th-Century Europe." She has been teaching at UC Davis for two years. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1994. The Fulbright program, launched in 1946 in legislation sponsored by former Sen. J. William Fulbright, is designed to heighten understanding between people of the United States and other nations. Recipients are selected on the basis of academic and professional qualifications, as well as their ability to share ideas and experiences with people in other countries.