Ambiguously Brown – Ryan Booth – India 2019
No one mistakes me for being white. Although, I am half-white on my father’s side and I carry his surname. To look at him or his forbears, you clearly see his Euro-American bloodlines. I am also the son of an Upper Skagit, Nooksack, and Hawaiian woman. It must be the Polynesian blood in my mother’s […]
A Goodwill Ambassador to Brazil – King Chung – Fulbright Brazil 2019
Hearing is an important sense for learning and communication. Yet many things can go wrong in our auditory system to compromise our ability to hear and to lower our quality of life. Wanting to help vulnerable and underserved populations, I embarked on a trip to work with several like-minded colleagues to examine the hearing status […]
Fulbright Spirit in the Czech Republic – Rick Feinberg – Czech Republic 2019
I am an anthropologist whose research is primarily with Polynesians in the southwestern Pacific. Thanks to a circuitous path and a dose of serendipity, I spent spring semester of 2019 as Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Anthropology at Palacký University, Olomouc, in the Czech Republic. Over two decades ago, my son, Joe, was a freshman at […]
Visiting Professor – Loreley Gomes Garcia – Brazil 2010 & 2019
In 2010, I went to Temple University as a Scholar in Residence. Then in 2019, I was a Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Chair in Brazilian Studies. Loreley Gomes Garcia – Fulbright to Brazil 2010 and 2019
Finding “Hygge” While on a Fulbright – Dianne Morrison Beedy – Norway 2018-19
I set off on my Fulbright Specialist adventure heading to Oslo, Norway. While working on various nursing curriculum strategies, conducting leadership workshops, and giving talks on evidence-based practice, I started noticing something else. There was the essence of “hygge” all around me. As a newcomer to Norway, I wondered, could I gain some of this […]
A Learning Experience – Eric F Prince – 2019
I am a Walden University Ph.D Candidate in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Forensic Psychology and U.S.C.G. Aux Unit officer. I’ve assisted with critical global mission campaigns with other Fulbright military personnel to teach and assist communities who are in need on how to safe guard themselves in times of crisis. I learned tremendous […]
Samantha Bennett – India 2019
Lifting Others Up Through Action Research During a field visit, a woman with light gray hair and a forest green sari strolled up to me and began jabbering in Kannada, a local language in Southwestern India, throwing her arms about her thin frame. Nidhi, my translator, stood beside me giggling, testing me on the Kannada […]
Josh Leib – Croatia 2019
The Power of Perspective A life I built over five and a half months crumbled in three days. Like most Fulbright ETAs, the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly ended my grant in Croatia and forced me to return to the United States. I scrambled to say goodbyes, close bank accounts, clean my house, and pack. I visited […]