Characterizing South Indian Dance Traditions – Aparna Keshaviah – India 2006
As an independent Fulbright scholar in Dance, I spent a year traveling to more than 60 Bharatanatyam (south Indian classical dance) schools around Chennai, Bangalore, and Delhi. I interviewed more than 200 teachers and students about their practice of Bharatanatyam. That unprecedented study of how the dance form is being expressed differently in different cities, […]
Unexpected Meeting with Vice President Ian Khama – Edwin Michael Kaiser – Botswana 2003
On a Saturday morning in a drugstore at a local shopping center of Gaborone, Botswana, I had the pleasure to literally bump into the Honorable Ian Khama, Vice President of Botswana. I said to him, “Excuse me sir, but you look very much like the Vice President of Botswana.” He smiled as he responded, “some […]
A Foundation For The Future – Rebecca Davis – Russia 2004 and The Crimea 2012
How can an experience prepare you for your life’s work? I am the Founder and Executive Director of MindLeaps, a non-profit organization that uses dance as an entry point to education and skills development for some of the world’s most vulnerable youth. How I built MindLeaps is deeply rooted in my Fulbright experience. In 2004-05, […]
If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It – Andrea Gonzalez Esteche – New York, USA 2017
Being a Fulbrighter was a faraway dream until I made it. The first time I heard about the scholarship was thanks to the US Embassy Paraguay in 2006 during my sophomore year of college when they were advertising about building the future Fulbright programs and were preparing future candidates for the Fulbright Scholarship. Since then, […]
When the pandemic interrupted my Fulbright at Harvard – Paul David Harpur – Massachusetts, USA 2020
From the inception of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946, those of us who were privileged to be abroad in the first half of 2020 had the most unique of all experiences. We are the only Fulbright cohort to have lived through a global pandemic. COVID-19 cut our projects short and caused us anguish, but it […]
A Fulbrighter in Pakistan – Joseph M. Wronka – Pakistan 2015
Joseph M. Wronka – Fulbright to Pakistan 2015 For a full presentation slideshow on this experience follow this link.
Fulbright Scholar in Estonia During 9/11 – Jay L. Wenger – Estonia 2001
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, was a typical day for me in Estonia, until late afternoon. My wife, 11-year-old daughter, and I had been living in Estonia for less than three weeks, and I was settling-in to my role as a Fulbright Scholar to Tallinn University. For most of the day, I was at the university […]
History in the Making – Marcy Tanter – South Korea 2018
When I arrived at the Fulbright building in Seoul, I had no idea what lay ahead. I was nervous. The director, Mrs. Jai Ok Shim, greeted me and introduced me to the staff that immediately put me at ease. The warmth and friendliness in that office were crucial to my Fulbright success because they made […]