The role of the Commission, Campus and Community in the Success of the Fulbright Program – Divine Tarla – USA 2016
In collaboration with Larry E. Erickson – Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University Ganga M. Hettiarachchi – Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University Lawrence C. Davis – Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University In 1979-80, the US government, in exchanges with the Cameroon government, decided to provide assistance to University Center […]
Maeve Moynihan – Spain 2017
As populist political parties and large-scale decisions like Brexit threaten the idea of open and accepting societies, the freedom to migrate has become increasingly restricted. The increased securitization of borders around the world suggests that many nations wish to exclude the freedom to migrate from their story. As a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in […]
Love at First Fulbright – David & Benita Fuchs (Italy-1959)
On June 24, 1959, Benita Bross of Cleveland, Ohio, and David Fuchs of the Bronx, New York, both Fulbright recipients embarked on the USS Constitution to Genoa, Italy, to study history. It was an experience that was to change their lives forever. Both young high school history teachers, they went to study at the Institute […]
Deborah Merola – Nepal 2003 & 2011
PLAY IT FORWARD How serendipitous that the 10th Anniversary of One World Theatre in 2021 is happening in the same year as the 75th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program, because it was Fulbright that directly led to the founding and flourishing of our social justice theatre company in Nepal. In 2003, there was no Department […]
Monica Housen – Latvia 1997 & Hungary 2011
Finding Ourselves We were well into the second half of our Fulbright experience to Hungary when we traveled to a nearby country for vacation. The owner of the guesthouse invited us to a neighborhood party, describing the route to take to walk to the celebration. We listened politely, my husband and I, our three young […]
Niharika Kulshresth – Oregon, USA 2011
The letter I got in the month of June 2011 from the J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, besides congratulating me for my selection also went on to inform me that, as a Fulbrighter, I joined the ranks of some 261,000 alumni of the programme who have gone on to become heads of states, judges, […]
Gennady Filimonov – England 1986
My Fulbright journey began in the summer of 1985, a year before I received my grant, when I was a scholarship student at Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau where I met the eminent Prof. Neaman. He was an enormous inspiration. The summer experience of private lessons, solo performances as well as chamber music performances with great […]
Tim Perry – South Africa 2002
An Ordinary Country? When we close the books on 2020, it will be measured not just in tragic loss of life to covid-19, but by a summer of Black Lives Matter protests, and the continued decline of democracy worldwide. Amid these trends, my thoughts have turned to the late Dr. Neville Alexander, the anti-Apartheid activist […]