Mutual Understanding via Drama – Ronald Emmons – United Kingdom 1996-1997
While teaching English at Southend High School for Girls, I volunteered to work with interested students on developing a theatre piece combining monologues discussing teenage life that had been written by some of my US students with their own views of growing up in the UK. The teaching schedule in an English secondary school restricted times […]
A Delicious Friendship – Prudence Salasky – Bulgaria 2019
The doors to our apartments were inches apart in a shared hallway with room for two bikes. Yet weeks passed before I even heard my neighbors, let alone met them. I would see Kolya’s bike vanish and reappear and the tell-tale shoes on the mat. It wasn’t until one morning I woke at 5AM for […]
Learning, Sharing and Socializing – Irma M. Olmedo – Spain 2012
As I progressed in my profession, my teaching and research were strengthened by a variety of experiences. As a senior scholar at my university in the United States, I was able to secure research grants for my work and use my ongoing research to enhance my teaching. How wonderful it would be to do both […]
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 […]
Living Abroad – Richard H Pells – Austria 1979 Denmark 1982 Finland 1997 Germany 2003 Indonesia 2004 The Netherlands 2005
I’ve had 6 Fulbright lectureships and chairs, possibly a record! As a historian of the U.S., I’d always wanted to live abroad and my chance to do so changed my life and career. It yielded 2 books, Not Like Us and Modernist America. For these experiences, I will always be grateful. Richard H Pells – Fulbright […]
Students Are People Too – Eric Trules – Romania 2010
May 21, 2010 – It started out with just the two of us. Mihaela and I, sitting for lunch at a little wooden table at the “One” café, right next door to the Caragiale Film and Theater University in central Bucharest, where I’d been invited to teach for two weeks on my Fulbright Senior Specialist […]
Personal Digital Stories – John Higgins – Cyprus 2011
Personal digital stories created in 2011 by Cypriot Fulbright/CASP (Cyprus-America Scholarship Program) alumni as part of activities reflecting on the Cyprus Fulbright Commission’s 50th Anniversary in 2012: “Fulbright Changes Lives.” With support from the Public Affairs Section and Bicommunal Support Program of the US Embassy, Cyprus. John Higgins – Fulbright to Cyprus 2011 Alexia […]
The big snow of 1976 – Judith A Rasson – Bosnia 1975
I spent my Fulbright year (1975-1976) at the Zemaljski Muzej (museum) in Sarajevo, Bosnia, doing research for my PhD dissertation in archaeology. Every day I took the morning coffee break with the archaeologists and support staff like the illustrators. In the early new year there was a big snowstorm and all the archaeologists (including me) […]