Sandy (Sandra) Grubb Chapman – Pakistan 1975
Pakistan today is so inhospitable to Americans that our state department discourages travel there, but things were very different in 1975. Our little group of teachers on a two-month educational tour led by Dr. James Sheaffer of Chadron State were treated like honored guests. The governors of three of the four provinces welcomed us to […]
“Knowledge Flows in Both Directions”
Celebrating 75 Years of Fulbright Stories In celebration of the Fulbright program’s 75th Anniversary, we are looking back at experiences of Fulbrighters, which span decades and generations. This fall, FA’s Assistant Director for Philanthropy Claire Jagla interviewed two Fulbright alumni with intertwining fields of study, the anti-colonial movement and the anti-apartheid movement, and a 40-year difference […]
India: Where Do I Start? – Dr. Brad Wideman – India 1975
Five hundred words could never capture the sounds, the flavor of its food, its rainbow of colors nor the uniqueness of its people. In 1975, I received a 9-week Fulbright Fellowship to study the “History and Culture of India.” The trip took me from New Delhi, to Agra, to Varanasi, to Kolkata, to Chennia, and […]
A Fulbright honeymoon year in Japan & onward – John Hancock – Asia 1975
In 1975, John L. Hancock (1923-2008) received a Fulbright year abroad to offer urban studies at the University of Tokyo & other Japanese schools. His lecturing extended through a Fulbright-supported summer tour of schools across Japan, throughout Asia, & onward to Australia & New Zealand. As his wife — we married within days of departing […]
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) […]
Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Bringing All the Women to Light – Cheryl Johnson-Odim – Nigeria 1975
When I went to southwestern Nigeria to investigate the roles of women in the anti-colonial struggle, I was told I would not find much. Au contraire! Many scholarly articles and eventually two books (one commissioned by the American Historical Association as part of a series on women in the world) later, I found research that […]