Fulbright Changed My Life – Eugenie Trow – Netherlands 1966
Year: 1966-67, Amsterdam, Nederlands Who I am: Playwright. Retired teacher of Theatre Arts and Math at a two-year college. Why I went: To study Intuitionistic Mathematics, found only at the University of Amsterdam. This mathematical theory advocates that we need to be suspicious about processes that repeat “forever,” since we can’t be there when it […]
Pizza Party – Raymond Hogler – Italy 2007
In 2007, I spent a semester teaching at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. I understood at the outset that students were competent in English and I would be teaching in that language. It wasn’t quite so easy. My students generally didn’t speak any better English than I did Italian. It was a problem. […]
Fulbright and the Growth of a Professional Teachers’ Organization – Sally La Luzerne-Oi – Ukraine 1995 & 2007
My Fulbright experience in Ukraine during the 1995-1996 academic year provided many special moments and memories, but the most enduring one was helping to organize a professional organization for teachers of English. One of my tasks while teaching English classes for English majors at Vinnytsia Pedagogical Institute (now a university) was to assist faculty there […]
Thank You for My Italian Year – Anya Farion – Italy 1988
Being awarded a Fulbright Grant to carve marble for a year in the town of Pietrasanta, Italy was a dream come true for a sculptor like myself. The situation was ideal; one was able to learn from and be inspired by the Italian craftsmen and the international community of artists who come from around the […]
20th Independence Day in North Macedonia – Cassidy Henry – Macedonia 2011
I arrived in country three days before the celebration of the 20th independence day for North Macedonia in 2011. They had pulled out all the stops- military parade in the morning, activities all day long, followed by a star studded concert at night. My roommate, my language professor, and I went down to the square […]
Paris 1968-1969: Student Strikes – Michael DeLucia – France 1968
My Fulbright to Paris was 50 years ago, during the chaotic period 1968-1969. My year began with the student strikes that swept Paris, that undermined the government and ended with the resignation of Charles de Gaulle as President. For me, it was a momentous year. I met my wife Alice, a graduate student from Middlebury […]
Voices From the Center – Janeil Engelstad – Slovakia 2006
In 2006, as a Fulbright Scholar teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD) in Bratislava, I initiated conversations with new colleagues and friends about how their life had changed since the end of Socialism. I wanted to better understand the experiences of people who, like me, grew up during the Cold War. […]
Memories of my Fulbright in Vienna – Jerry Rosenberg – Austria 1955
After completing an internship at the University of Minnesota Hospital in June,1955 I married Corliss, who had been a nursing student while I was a medical student, and spent the summer in Wisconsin Dells where I had a locum tenens as a GP. We left for Austria in September, 1955 where I was to begin […]