“Bringing Puppetry to Uganda” — Carol Sterling
This is the first of two articles shared by alumna Carol Sterling about her Fulbright experiences teaching puppetry in Uganda and India. The articles are published, with permission of the author, as they were printed in The Puppetry Journal. To read the second article, please click here. Carol Sterling is a former President of the UNIMA-USA […]
“Travels Through India Conducting Puppetry Workshops” — Carol Sterling
This is the second of two articles shared by alumna Carol Sterling about her Fulbright experiences teaching puppetry in Uganda and India. The articles are published, with permission of the author, as they were printed in The Puppetry Journal. To read the first article, please click here. To read the second article in this series, please […]
Tammy Hensrud – Germany 1985
Above: Hensrud performing a Kurt Weill program at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland in September 2017 “I absolutely feel international exposure and exchanges are essential for artistic growth. We as artists are asked to interpret life experiences which we may never have personally experienced,” says Tammy Hensrud, a Fulbright scholar alumna who […]
Jonathan Goodman Levitt – United Kingdom 1999
“The idea that ‘film is an empathy machine,’ while somewhat cliched, is true. It’s the closest we can come to meeting people in real life and experiencing them in-person,” says award-winning documentary filmmaker Jonathan Goodman Levitt. Levitt received a Fulbright grant in 1999, and went to the UK’s National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, […]
Alumni Bring International Scholarship to the Teaching of Music
Since its origins, the Fulbright Program has played a critical role in developing the global competencies of U.S. educators. International education broadens a teacher’s own horizons, giving them a deeper understanding of the world to impart to their students. Fulbrighters Hollis Thoms and Cynthia Smith are both educators and musical scholars whose experiences working and […]
Fulbrighters in the Operatic Arts Reimagine the Genre for Modern Times
Above: Scene from “Così fan tutte,” performed by DC Public Opera and directed by Jennifer Williams in 2015. Photo courtesy of DC Public Opera. It has been said that music is the world’s only true international language. It is one with the ability to communicate any singular feeling from the universally shared range of human emotion […]
Holly Wheeler – India 2016
Holly Wheeler was the third Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) that Tanya, a senior at Shyama Prasad Vidyalaya secondary school in New Delhi, India, had encountered. Though she had never left Delhi in her life, her exposure to three American teachers at school instilled in Tanya a keen interest in studying abroad. In the spring […]
Joyce Kim – South Korea 2015
From Philadelphia to Seoul to London, alumna Joyce Kim’s Fulbright research has continued to evolve and expand, both in its geographic reach and its human impact. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, Kim wrote her thesis on the formal education system in South Korea and its influence on South Koreans’ perceptions of North […]