Blood Diamonds: Before and After Sierra Leone’s Civil War – Susan Ruel – Sierra Leone 1978
My Fulbright year in Sierra Leone made an incalculably significant impact on my life. When I left in 1979, I saw no hint that a vicious civil war would break out there just over a decade later. On arrival in 1978 as one of a tiny group of “pothos” (whites) in country, I felt such […]
You’re Sort of a Missionary, Right? – Bill Issel – UK 1978, Hungary 2008, Romania 2018
I’ll call him “Mr. Smith.” I meet him one afternoon on the Charles Bridge in Prague. I’m there to lecture on race, class, and politics in American history. It’s 1978 and I’m doing my first Fulbright at the American Studies Centre in London. I help get the Centre started, working with my English colleague Chris […]
Rep. Cole Shares Memories as a Fulbright Fellow – Tom Cole – United Kingdom 1977-1978
Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) – Fulbright to the United Kingdom 1977-1978
My Year as a Fulbright-Hays Professor At Keele University – Dwight Peltzer – The United Kingdom 1978
My year spent as a Fulbright-Hays visiting professor at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, was exciting because of Keele’s unique American studies program. I was delighted to share my expertise as an American music specialist with their doctoral students. With emphasis placed on research in American contemporary composers, I taught a harmonic analysis course on […]
Playing for the Archbishop of Polynesia – Kent R. Burnham – Fiji 1978
All Fulbrighters will agree that unexpected and serendipitous experiences often stand out far beyond our initial Fulbright job assignment. One such eye-opening experience has stayed with me for decades. Here is what happened: I had the privilege of being a Fulbright Scholar at The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, in 1978. I […]
East and West Berlin – Kenneth Whetstone – United Kingdom 1978
In 1978-1979, a Fulbright award provided me the opportunity to research the Jurassic toothed bird Archaeopteryx in various museums of Europe. This included a short period of study at the GDR Museum of Natural History located in what was then, Soviet East Berlin. Each day, I would travel through the Berlin wall from West to […]