“Knowledge Flows in Both Directions”
Celebrating 75 Years of Fulbright Stories In celebration of the Fulbright program’s 75th Anniversary, we are looking back at experiences of Fulbrighters, which span decades and generations. This fall, FA’s Assistant Director for Philanthropy Claire Jagla interviewed two Fulbright alumni with intertwining fields of study, the anti-colonial movement and the anti-apartheid movement, and a 40-year difference […]
Ah ha!: Recognizing cultural variability – Ruth Stotter – Thailand 2016
The first night I was at Mahasarakham University in northern Thailand, members of the Western Languages and Linguistics Department faculty took me to a restaurant. We sat around a large table with platters of artfully arranged and delicious looking food in the center. Waiters put food on our plates. No one moved. Everyone was looking at me — and […]
Fieldwork in the Colombian Amazonia – Rafael O. de Sa – Colombia 2016
A Fulbright award allowed me to travel to Bogota, Colombia to pursue biodiversity research with colleagues at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the SINCHI Amazonic Institute of Scientific Research. During that period, SINCHI colleagues invited me to participate in a field expedition to an area poorly studied along the Vaupes River. The team consisted […]
Sacred Space – Gita V. Pai – India 2016
Participating on an Arte France documentary about humankind and faith as I filmed on location at the Minaksi-Sundareshvara temple in Madurai, south India would enable me to share my knowledge about the sacred space and its goddess to a broad (and global) audience in ways that my upcoming scholarly monograph about the religious site cannot. […]
A Standing Ovation for Law – Rumu Sarkar – Poland 2016
While attending a seminar at Georgetown University Law Center where I was an adjunct law professor, I happened to sit next to a Chinese law professor studying at Georgetown Law under his Fulbright Scholarship. He was, to my amazement, already familiar with my publication, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW, and promptly invited me to speak at his […]
Inspiring Cultural Exchange Globally Through International University Fairs – Phillip Wenturine – Portugal 2016
I got my first real taste of international exchange during my final year of university where I studied in Beijing, China, and later on, got my first experience of teaching in Kunming, China, where I worked in an elementary orphanage. After that, I knew I wanted to work in education. After working for a few […]
Welcoming Scholars and Lasting Personal and Professional Connections in Sweden – Theresa Kutasz – Sweden 2015 and 2016
When I arrived in Sweden for my Fulbright year, I found that the scholars I met to be generous, welcoming, and genuinely engaged in helping me to progress my research project. When I herd from a fellow Fulbrighter about a seminar on Queen Christina of Sweden, the subject of my doctoral work, being conducted at […]
Embracing the Swiss Culture – Varun Yarabarla – Switzerland 2016
I approached everything with an open mind during my Fulbright grant year abroad. By being in a new continent, everything is a new experience. Upon arrival, I did my best to first get involved with my hobbies like playing tennis and working out. I joined the LUC Tennis Team which allowed me to play competitive […]