Advocacy Update May 2021
This Zoom call was extraordinary for several reasons. It was the first time Association members from Alaska could participate in advocacy for the Fulbright Program. Alaska is too far from Washington to have make the trip prior to COVID, but the wonders of digital connections made it possible and normal. Second, one of those Alaskans, […]
Learning, Sharing and Socializing – Irma M. Olmedo – Spain 2012
As I progressed in my profession, my teaching and research were strengthened by a variety of experiences. As a senior scholar at my university in the United States, I was able to secure research grants for my work and use my ongoing research to enhance my teaching. How wonderful it would be to do both […]
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) […]