Bienvenidos/Welcome – Brenda Ellen Kirk – Uruguay 2003
I was one of the first seven Americans selected as Fulbright scholars to Uruguay. I had previously hosted three sets of teachers and principals from Uruguay who had been selected by Fulbright to live with bilingual teachers in the United States for three weeks in February while Uruguayan schools were on summer break. I was […]
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 […]
Visiting a Champagneski Factory in Ukraine – William W Wilen – Ukraine 2003
My Fulbright Scholar teaching experience in Ukraine was one of the most culturally informative and memorable experiences in my traveling academic life as a teacher education professor at Kent State University. I was the first Fulbrighter to serve as a senior lecturer at the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages located in the eastern […]
Teaching the History of U.S. Foreign Relations During the Invasion of Iraq – Joseph Michael Henning – Japan 2002-03
At Japan’s Tohoku University in 2002-2003, I taught courses on the history of U.S. foreign relations to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. During the break between the fall and spring semesters in March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. I initially had planned to address the 9/11 attacks and U.S. responses to them in the […]
Unexpected Meeting with Vice President Ian Khama – Edwin Michael Kaiser – Botswana 2003
On a Saturday morning in a drugstore at a local shopping center of Gaborone, Botswana, I had the pleasure to literally bump into the Honorable Ian Khama, Vice President of Botswana. I said to him, “Excuse me sir, but you look very much like the Vice President of Botswana.” He smiled as he responded, “some […]
Deborah Merola – Nepal 2003 & 2011
PLAY IT FORWARD How serendipitous that the 10th Anniversary of One World Theatre in 2021 is happening in the same year as the 75th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program, because it was Fulbright that directly led to the founding and flourishing of our social justice theatre company in Nepal. In 2003, there was no Department […]
Investigating the Will of the People – Theodore Life Jr – Japan 2003
I was a Fulbright Journalist Scholar in Okinawa, Japan where I researched what I termed the “Will of the Okinawan People” as it related to the US Bases that have been located there since the end of WWII. My Fulbright fellowship time was very rewarding. I was able to interview very prominent Okinawans, writers, professors […]