The Day I Became a Fulbrighter – Victor Hugo Cuspinera Contreras – USA 2012
After six months of starting the process of applying for the Fulbright scholarship, I was selected amongst 500 applicants to be one of the 71 candidates from Mexico to behold the Fulbright Scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies in the US. I can still remember the joy I felt, having been one of the favorite days […]
Fulbright Spirit in the Czech Republic – Rick Feinberg – Czech Republic 2019
I am an anthropologist whose research is primarily with Polynesians in the southwestern Pacific. Thanks to a circuitous path and a dose of serendipity, I spent spring semester of 2019 as Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Anthropology at Palacký University, Olomouc, in the Czech Republic. Over two decades ago, my son, Joe, was a freshman at […]
My Experience in Brazil – Barbara Randolph – Brazil 2004
I feel so lucky and grateful to have been chosen to represent the U.S. Principals as an ambassador to Brazil. This opportunity was a life changer, I thought we were going to be teaching our southern neighbors how to be “Distinguished Schools,” when in fact, we learned more from them. From Sao Paulo (richest) to […]
Teaching the History of U.S. Foreign Relations During the Invasion of Iraq – Joseph Michael Henning – Japan 2002-03
At Japan’s Tohoku University in 2002-2003, I taught courses on the history of U.S. foreign relations to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. During the break between the fall and spring semesters in March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. I initially had planned to address the 9/11 attacks and U.S. responses to them in the […]
Asha Jawa (Coming and Going) – Snehendu B. Kar – India 2015
Snehendu B. Kar – Fulbright to India 2015
Full Circle – Jaime Palter – Costa Rica 2000
I learned so much about myself, my host country, and the biggest estuary in Costa Rica during my Fulbright experience 20 years ago. Every day at Costa Rica stretched me intellectually. Today, a Fulbright student from Indonesia studies oceanography with me here in the US. The potential for science to unite us across cultures and […]
The Fulbright Spirit – Mark William Drews – Norway 1993
Almost 30 years ago, I was presented with the opportunity to help create Norway’s first graduate music production and recording program. Having provided initial ideas for the new program, I thought it might be possible to travel to Norway as a researcher to work with the project on site in Stavanger. After investigating options for […]
“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 […]