Fulbright Passport to Academic Excellence – Usha Rani Narayana – India 1990-1
I was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship two times in my career which is a rare distinction in India. My first Fellowship was in 1990-91 and was affiliated with Newhouse School of Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. I studied TV Program Production, Radio Program Production and International Communication. I, as a student of Prof. Richard Breyer, […]
Discovering New Facts about the 1932-34 Famine in Soviet Ukraine – Oleh Wolowyna – Ukraine 2008 and 2014
Sometimes a decision at a specific point in time triggers a significant change in one’s life course. I started my first Fulbright grant in September 2008 at the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. I soon realized that the Institute staff was not very interested in my […]
Living Abroad – Richard H Pells – Austria 1979 Denmark 1982 Finland 1997 Germany 2003 Indonesia 2004 The Netherlands 2005
I’ve had 6 Fulbright lectureships and chairs, possibly a record! As a historian of the U.S., I’d always wanted to live abroad and my chance to do so changed my life and career. It yielded 2 books, Not Like Us and Modernist America. For these experiences, I will always be grateful. Richard H Pells – Fulbright […]
Students Are People Too – Eric Trules – Romania 2010
May 21, 2010 – It started out with just the two of us. Mihaela and I, sitting for lunch at a little wooden table at the “One” café, right next door to the Caragiale Film and Theater University in central Bucharest, where I’d been invited to teach for two weeks on my Fulbright Senior Specialist […]
Personal Digital Stories – John Higgins – Cyprus 2011
Personal digital stories created in 2011 by Cypriot Fulbright/CASP (Cyprus-America Scholarship Program) alumni as part of activities reflecting on the Cyprus Fulbright Commission’s 50th Anniversary in 2012: “Fulbright Changes Lives.” With support from the Public Affairs Section and Bicommunal Support Program of the US Embassy, Cyprus. John Higgins – Fulbright to Cyprus 2011 Alexia […]
The big snow of 1976 – Judith A Rasson – Bosnia 1975
I spent my Fulbright year (1975-1976) at the Zemaljski Muzej (museum) in Sarajevo, Bosnia, doing research for my PhD dissertation in archaeology. Every day I took the morning coffee break with the archaeologists and support staff like the illustrators. In the early new year there was a big snowstorm and all the archaeologists (including me) […]
Golden Friendship – Barbara McCleary – Hungary 2000
With COVID-19 quarantine restrictions, we turn to Zoom to communicate with friends and family. Since 2000, we of Pecs, Hungarian Fulbright-Hays Grant, have kept in touch mainly through Facebook. This month, Sylvia of Pecs, suggested a Zoom meeting of our group so I set to organize 12 of the original 20 members to Zoom next […]
Personal and Professional Growth – Charles Edward Kiamie III – Jordan 2004
As a Fulbrighter in Jordan (2004-05), I completed critical research that enabled me to complete my doctoral dissertation in comparative politics and Arab studies. Even more, the experience yielded wonderful relationships which endured to this day. I met my wife as a Fulbrighter, and our children have come to view Jordan as a second home. […]