Making a Difference by Dispelling Stereotypes and Aging Poles – Greta Garniss – Poland 2011
I was a mid-career professional at the time of my award pursuing a Masters Degree at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. I used this award to extend my research relating to seniors and housing plus working on dispelling the myths of Polish seniors -all very old, all close to death, and possibly living with extended family. […]
Creating a Portraiture of the Indigenous Inhabitants of Taiwan – Brenda Zlamany – Taiwan 2011
In 2011, I received a Fulbright fellowship for my project entitled “Creating a Portraiture of the Indigenous Inhabitants of Taiwan.” In this project, I traveled to 33 places in Taiwan, primarily aboriginal villages. I persuaded 888 people from diverse socioeconomic groups to sit for watercolor portraits that I made from direct observation using a camera […]
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 […]
Monica Housen – Latvia 1997 & Hungary 2011
Finding Ourselves We were well into the second half of our Fulbright experience to Hungary when we traveled to a nearby country for vacation. The owner of the guesthouse invited us to a neighborhood party, describing the route to take to walk to the celebration. We listened politely, my husband and I, our three young […]
Niharika Kulshresth – Oregon, USA 2011
The letter I got in the month of June 2011 from the J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, besides congratulating me for my selection also went on to inform me that, as a Fulbrighter, I joined the ranks of some 261,000 alumni of the programme who have gone on to become heads of states, judges, […]
Munir Sayegh – Egypt 2011
Munir Sayegh’s collection of specialties is multi-faceted: he is a photographer, artist, designer, researcher, and data guru with professional expertise in marketing and economics. As a Fulbrighter and study abroad alum, he not only has had the chance to build these skills, he now uses his experience to give back to the international exchange community. […]