Airport Friend – Melvina – Fulbright to USA 2008
Sometimes in life, the wrong gate leads you to the right destination. It was middle December of 2008, my first winter in the US. I was traveling to the East coast with my housemate. We were very excited at the same time sleepy during the flights. The night before the flight, we still had final […]
Eagle in Mongolia – Jay Nathan – Mongolia 2008
After a class-room lecture, I was surprised by my host-professor, who said, “I am driving you to an interesting place in a mountain.” He did not say much, until we got near to a man, who happens to be an eagle-trainer. We saw him just let go of his eagle. Then, I saw the eagle […]
Following In My Father’s Footsteps – Sandhya Rao – India 2008
My Fulbright experience in India in spring 2008 allowed me to reconnect and give back to my old country. Since I moved to the United States in 1989, winds of liberalization had blown over India, rapidly changing the economic, social, cultural and mass media scenes. I had seen mere glimpses of these changes during my […]
Heat: An Excerpt from OY PIONEER!: A NOVEL – Marleen S. Barr – Germany 1983, 1989, 2008
Heat: An Excerpt from Oy Pioneer!: A Novel by Marleen S. Barr (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003) Although I knew that Germany has many elaborate pools replete with squirting fountains and bubbling hot and cold water, I was not prepared for the particular organic contraptions I would encounter at this pool. I could easily accept […]
Holodomor: the little known famine-genocide – Oleh Wolowyna – Ukraine 2008 and 2014
Discovering new facts about the 1932-34 Famine in Soviet Ukraine Sometimes a decision at a specific point in time triggers a significant change in one’s life course. I started my first Fulbright grant in September 2008 at the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. I soon […]
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 […]
A Time of Discovery and Growth – Frederick (Jerry) Streets – South Africa 2008, 2010, and 2012
The opportunity to travel through out the beautiful and fascinating country of South Africa to do research, study, and teach at the University of Pretoria and the University of the Free State contributed to my personal and professional growth as a clinical social worker and pastoral theologian. While I was there, I was able to […]
Discovering New Facts about the 1932-34 Famine in Soviet Ukraine – Oleh Wolowyna – Ukraine 2008 and 2014
Sometimes a decision at a specific point in time triggers a significant change in one’s life course. I started my first Fulbright grant in September 2008 at the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. I soon realized that the Institute staff was not very interested in my […]