The Best of Times – Missie Hodges Schaefer – Italy 1990
Fulbright afforded a Latin high school teacher with two college kids the opportunity to see and experience everything that is usually on the pictures of her Latin textbook. Since I was in the sixth grade, I was inspired by my teacher to want to see Italy. There are not enough words to describe what a […]
The Golden Year – Evelyn Eller – Italy 1954
When I was 21, I received a Fulbright Grant to Italy. It was an inspiring and important part of my development as an artist and at age 87, I am still working and exhibiting. In 2016, I created an artist book about memories of my Fulbright year which included text from the State Department letters, […]
Roma Health In Hungary – Sue Gena Lurie – Hungary 2009
My Fulbright experience as a lecturer at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary in fall, 2009, began with visits to Roma health fairs with local Susan B. Komen Foundation staff that were arranged by Komen of Fort Worth, Texas, where I taught at UNT Health Science Center. We rode in a taxi from our flat near Erze’bet Hid […]
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 […]
Sharing America’s Election Drama with Ukraine – Adrian Karmazyn – Ukraine 2016
During the closing weeks of the 2016 US election season, I had the unique opportunity to try and explain the key moments of the campaign to an audience of Ukrainian university journalism students. During mid October, I started a one-month Fulbright Specialist lecture tour which took me to three cities in Ukraine — Kyiv, Kharkiv, […]
Making Lemonade Out Of Lemons – Janet Chapman – Romania 2004-05
The International Educators Newspaper connected me in 2000 with a special education position at an American International School in Cairo, Egypt. After being accepted and attending orientation, I taught for two months. The former administrator had quit and took most students with him so they did not need me for three students. Aspersions led to […]
Visiting a Champagneski Factory in Ukraine – William W Wilen – Ukraine 2003
My Fulbright Scholar teaching experience in Ukraine was one of the most culturally informative and memorable experiences in my traveling academic life as a teacher education professor at Kent State University. I was the first Fulbrighter to serve as a senior lecturer at the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages located in the eastern […]
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. […]