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 […]
Using My Malaysia Fulbright Experience to Travel Around the World – William Wilen – Malaysia 1994
My first Fulbright Scholar teaching experience was to Malaysia and its Ministry of Education with the assignment of designing and teaching a four-day workshop to be delivered to university English language faculties in five locations around the country. Malaysia was going through a major educational change. The Ministry of Education wanted schools and teachers to […]
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 […]
Sharing America’s Election Drama with Ukraine – Adrian Karmazyn – Ukraine 2016
During the closing weeks of the 2016 US election season, I had the unique opportunity to try and explain the key moments of the campaign to an audience of Ukrainian university journalism students. During mid October, I started a one-month Fulbright Specialist lecture tour which took me to three cities in Ukraine — Kyiv, Kharkiv, […]
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 […]
Making Lemonade Out Of Lemons – Janet Chapman – Romania 2004-05
The International Educators Newspaper connected me in 2000 with a special education position at an American International School in Cairo, Egypt. After being accepted and attending orientation, I taught for two months. The former administrator had quit and took most students with him so they did not need me for three students. Aspersions led to […]
Visiting a Champagneski Factory in Ukraine – William W Wilen – Ukraine 2003
My Fulbright Scholar teaching experience in Ukraine was one of the most culturally informative and memorable experiences in my traveling academic life as a teacher education professor at Kent State University. I was the first Fulbrighter to serve as a senior lecturer at the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages located in the eastern […]
Making a Difference by Dispelling Stereotypes and Aging Poles – Greta Garniss – Poland 2011
I was a mid-career professional at the time of my award pursuing a Masters Degree at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. I used this award to extend my research relating to seniors and housing plus working on dispelling the myths of Polish seniors -all very old, all close to death, and possibly living with extended family. […]