A library in Provence and an Intellectual Adventure – Richard Rubenstein – France 1976
I arrived in Aix-en-Provence, France, in September 1976 with my wife and two children to begin a one-year appointment as a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Provence. I had arranged to rent a house owned by Michel Vovelle, a famous historian at the university who later became a chaired professor at the University […]
“Azcárraga” – an American “Pasodoble fallero” for Spain – Richard Scott Cohen D.M. – Spain 1993
Azcárraga, Pasodoble Fallero is a Spanish-style “pasodoble” march composed in 1994 by American musician, Richard Scott Cohen, during his Fulbright research scholarship residency in the Valencia region of Spain, from 1993-1995. The research focused on Valencia’s rich and historic community band movement, unequaled anywhere else in the world. The resulting dissertation helped Cohen complete his […]
Post-Fulbright Identities by Means of Storytelling
I am a Fulbright alumna, an English language teacher and a researcher from Russia. At these crazy times while everyone is being affected in one way or another, mental health problems are becoming increasingly common (and might seem even more dangerous than the virus itself). Fulbrighters are left feeling vulnerable, too as we are experiencing […]