My 7000-Mile Graphic Journey – Sang Young Yoon – South Korea 2007 and 2013
My first Fulbright award in 2007 was a research grant encompassing a three month stay hosted by Hong Ik University in Seoul. As I drove into the city of Seoul from the airport, the cityscape, especially the street graphics and signboards, attracted my scholarly attention. With collected photos of the intriguing signage on stores and […]
Teaching, Researching, and Becoming a Mom in Lebanon – Rebecca Dyer – Lebanon 2007
My time teaching English literature courses and conducting research as a Fulbright Traditional Scholar was a rocky year for Lebanon, as it followed Israel’s bombing of parts of Beirut during the summer of 2006. With that war going on as I completed my Fulbright application, I had considered postponing. Yet, I wanted very much to visit the country I […]
A Fulbright Scholar in Ireland – Richard Peach – Ireland 2007
As editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, I first collaborated with the faculty in the Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies at Trinity College Dublin while recruiting a manuscript for publication. The partnership turned out to be such a good fit that the faculty there enthusiastically agreed to host me for a […]
Anne Fitzgibbon – Venezuela 2007
In 2007, I was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study Venezuela’s national youth orchestra system, “El Sistema,” a social program of youth and community development through the study of music. The goal of my Fulbright was to identify tenets of this renowned model of music education to guide the evolution of the Harmony Program, an […]
Stephen Cottrell – Thailand 2007 – Japan 2009 – Vietnam 2013
The English novelist George Orwell best captured my first experience in Vietnam with his penetrating words, “If the war didn’t kill you it was bound to start you thinking.” Having survived the former, I became a huge fan of the latter. It can be safely assumed that many readers of this article have experienced defining […]