Transcending Formalism in the Slovak Republic – Paul Joseph Carrier – Slovakia 1996
As a Fulbright Scholar to Slovakia in the mid 90’s, I became acquainted with a kindred organization: the American Bar Association’s Central and Eastern European Law Initiative. While at the the Comenius University Law Faculty’s Institute of International Affairs and Law Approximation, I was further tasked with teaching legal English courses to Ministry of Justice […]
A Fulbright Legacy – John Rosenwald – Germany 1965 and China 1996, 1997, 2001
The Fulbright Commission has provided me with extraordinary opportunities to explore the world beyond the United States and to attempt to build bridges between other countries and our own. As a graduate student at the Universität Tübingen in Germany in 1965-6, I learned much from seeing the intensity of activism against the Vietnam War even […]
Mutual Understanding via Drama – Ronald Emmons – United Kingdom 1996-1997
While teaching English at Southend High School for Girls, I volunteered to work with interested students on developing a theatre piece combining monologues discussing teenage life that had been written by some of my US students with their own views of growing up in the UK. The teaching schedule in an English secondary school restricted times […]
Fulbright Equity: Celebrating the Founding Black Families of America – Dr. Barbara Paca – Ireland 1996
This is a story about how being a Fulbright changes your life and the world around you: for the better. Nearly thirty years later after being a postdoc Fulbrighter in the Republic of Ireland (during the period of peace negotiations), I reflect upon lessons learned such as how that time taught me important lessons about […]
Truth & Reconciliation – Doris M Schoenhoff – South Africa 1996
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, began a four-day hearing in Durban, South Africa on May 7, 1996. Perpetrators and victims spoke about the suffering, torture, and murder under apartheid. What follows are brief excerpts from the diary I kept during my year at what is now the University of KwaZulu-Natal. […]
Celebrating Founding Fathers at 25th, 50th, 75th and 200th Anniversaries – Glenn W. Geelhoed – Mozambique 1996
During my Fulbright year in 1996, I was teaching and researching in Maputo based in the University Eduardo Mondelane. I had carried with me a banner from GWU, as my home base was celebrating its Sesquicentennial, and I circumnavigated with the GW flag. Following a special presentation to the governing community of the young nation, […]