A Better View of the Moon – RoseAnna Mueller – Venezuela 2002
My husband and I had taken a trip on the Rio Cauro in Venezuela. We were camped at a campsite that was owned and maintained by the local Yakuona tribe. They brought food and water to the campsite along the river, but mostly stayed out of sight. One evening I followed a path into the […]
Rembrandt, Fondue, and bicycling to a beach picnic in Holland – Susan Ross Evans – Belgium & Netherlands 1976
It was the sesquicentennial summer of 1976 when I began my Fulbright adventure in Brussels. My scholarship involved immersion in the art history of Belgium and the Netherlands. In Belgium there were wonderful lectures by noted art historians and trips from Brussels to historic towns like Ghent to see the Van Eyck altar piece, Brugge […]
My New World – Enrique Merino – USA 1967
My Fulbright fellowship sent me, from southern Spain, to Berkeley, California. California became my new world, with landscapes and live oaks and sequoias and vines. The Berkeley International House provided friends and the wife I still have. My ashes will be scattered on Mount Wittenberg, Point Reyes. Enrique Merino – Fulbright to USA 1967
Heat: An Excerpt from OY PIONEER!: A NOVEL – Marleen S. Barr – Germany 1983, 1989, 2008
Heat: An Excerpt from Oy Pioneer!: A Novel by Marleen S. Barr (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003) Although I knew that Germany has many elaborate pools replete with squirting fountains and bubbling hot and cold water, I was not prepared for the particular organic contraptions I would encounter at this pool. I could easily accept […]
Russian Friends – Larry R Foulke – Norway 1961
The Fulbright Spirit was reinforced by making the acquaintance of so many students from other nations. One acquaintance that stands out was the friendship with a Russian student, Tolya. We had many discussions about the merits of our respective governments. Neither convinced the other. But we became friends and exchanged books. Here is a picture […]
Lasting Friendships – Diane Quantic – Bulgaria 1986
Maria Mitreva, daughter of my colleague in Bulgaria, came to live with us when she was 16. She graduated from Friends University where my husband Bruce was a professor. She stayed in Wichita, married and began a career with CCH, a company that writes tax software. Her mother joins her a part of each year. […]
Fieldwork in the Colombian Amazonia – Rafael O. de Sa – Colombia 2016
A Fulbright award allowed me to travel to Bogota, Colombia to pursue biodiversity research with colleagues at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the SINCHI Amazonic Institute of Scientific Research. During that period, SINCHI colleagues invited me to participate in a field expedition to an area poorly studied along the Vaupes River. The team consisted […]
Sacred Space – Gita V. Pai – India 2016
Participating on an Arte France documentary about humankind and faith as I filmed on location at the Minaksi-Sundareshvara temple in Madurai, south India would enable me to share my knowledge about the sacred space and its goddess to a broad (and global) audience in ways that my upcoming scholarly monograph about the religious site cannot. […]