Characterizing South Indian Dance Traditions – Aparna Keshaviah – India 2006
As an independent Fulbright scholar in Dance, I spent a year traveling to more than 60 Bharatanatyam (south Indian classical dance) schools around Chennai, Bangalore, and Delhi. I interviewed more than 200 teachers and students about their practice of Bharatanatyam. That unprecedented study of how the dance form is being expressed differently in different cities, […]
A Fulbrighter in China: Constructing a Platform for a Cultural Dialogue between Confucianism and American Pragmatism
The Fulbright Mission Statement is rather clear: to promote better relations between the United States and other countries in the world. And probably the most important international relationship in the first decades of the 21st century is that between the remaining superpower with the most developed economy, America, and most populace country with the fastest […]
My Fulbright Time – Kakhaber Djakeli – Connecticut, USA 2006
I dreamed to be Fulbright Scholar from my childhood. In 2005, I started to participate in the Fulbright Exam Process at the US Embassy in Tbilisi. During that time, only five men had the chance to win a Fulbright scholarship and I already had my PhD. I wanted to show my knowledge and gain friends […]
Brenda McGadney and Phyllis Bell Miller – West Africa 1979 – Bulgaria 2005 – India 2006
Fulbright is about making connections – and sometimes reconnections. At the Fulbright Association’s 40th Annual Conference in 2017, Phyllis Bell Miller, who was displaying her research in a poster presentation, noticed the impeccable fashion of another poster presenter. As a fashion design researcher, she was specifically impressed with the African-influenced pattern of this woman’s clothing […]
Miguel Cruz – United States 2006
Miguel Cruz is an accomplished Spanish filmmaker and a faculty member at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a 2006 Fulbright grant in filmmaking. Miguel Cruz’s career exemplifies the lifelong power of the Fulbright experience — and the many bridges it can build. Cruz is a Spanish filmmaker […]