2021 Selma Jeanne Cohen Dance Lecture Awardee: Dana Tai Soon Burgess
Dana Tai Soon Burgess Founder, Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company Dana Tai Soon Burgess is an American choreographer and dancer. In May 2016 Burgess was named the Smithsonian’s first-ever choreographer in residence at the National Portrait Gallery. His work has tended to focus on the “hyphenated person” – someone who is of mixed ethnic or […]
In Memoriam: Maria Bentel
Maria Azzarone Bentel grew up in Queens, New York City and attended Hunter College High School. She went on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed the Bachelor of Architecture program in 1951 as one of four females in her class. After graduation, she received a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship for 1952-1953 and studied at the […]
2021 Fulbright Prize to Bono
Bono, U2 lead singer and cofounder of ONE and (RED), to be awarded the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding Musician, activist, and humanitarian to be honored for his commitment to fighting injustice, extreme poverty, and the global AIDS crisis Award ceremony to take place in Washington DC on March 31st, 2022 Washington, DC/Ireland – The […]
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 […]
Remembering Horst S Jarka – Fulbrighter from Austria 1951
Horst S. Jarka passed away in Missoula on February 9, 2021 at the age of 95. For three decades he taught German language and literature at the University of Montana. Innovative as a teacher, he has former students spread throughout the community and across the country, and was known for his engagement and wit in […]
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, […]
2020 Selma Jeanne Cohen Dance Lecture Awardee: Janaki Patrik
Janaki Patrik Artistic Director, The Kathak Ensemble & Friends/CARAVAN, Inc. Trained in both modern dance (Merce Cunningham studio scholarship, 1971 to 79) and classical north Indian Kathak dance (Pt. Birju Maharaj, Kathak Kendra and Kalashram, New Delhi, ongoing from 1967), Janaki Patrik has choreographed thirty full-evening productions and numerous smaller works. Her knowledge of Hindi, […]
In Honor of Representative John Lewis
Approximately nine months ago (October 24-26, 2019), I had the privilege of attending the Fulbright 42nd Annual Conference and Advocacy Day. This conference happened to coincide with Congressman’s Elijah Cummings memorial at the capitol. As our multicultural cohort was enroute to render our respects to Representative Cummings, we encountered Congressman John Lewis. For whatever reason, […]