A Year of Sharing Knowledge and Broadening Cultural Understanding – Dr. Joseph Jones Jr – Ghana 1973
My wife and two daughters shared my Fulbright year with me in Ghana. Upon arrival in Accra, Ghana, we were met at the airport by Bill Lawrence, United States Information Service and a representative from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) located in Kumasi. We were taken to the University’s guest house […]
Giving the Fulbright Talk – Alexa Alice Joubin – United Kingdom 2014-2015
I have shared my research findings on cultural globalization during my Fulbright year to London in the 2019 Fulbright Talk at the Fulbright National Conference. The arts can lead to positive global changes in many areas. The Fulbright Spirit of mutual understanding is enhanced by theatre. When history is held hostage by politics and when […]
Was it Just a Nightmare or Something Real? – António Pacheco Pires – Lisbon 1990
I was a Cornell University PhD student in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering from August 1990 until May 1994 when I visited New York City and the Twin Towers and fell in love. From what I remember on the afternoon of 9/11, a colleague of mine (Jaime Ramos) informed me at IST (Lisbon Institute of […]
Beijing Foreign Studies University – Susan M. Rigdon – China 1992
In August of 1992, I took up residence at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) as a Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies. The remnants of the actions taken against department faculty for supporting the pro-democracy demonstrations of 1989 were still in place. There, troops had been stationed in the building that housed American Studies, while […]
Playing for the Archbishop of Polynesia – Kent R. Burnham – Fiji 1978
All Fulbrighters will agree that unexpected and serendipitous experiences often stand out far beyond our initial Fulbright job assignment. One such eye-opening experience has stayed with me for decades. Here is what happened: I had the privilege of being a Fulbright Scholar at The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, in 1978. I […]
Connected to Make a Better World – Rolando E. Tellez – USA 1992
The Fulbright Program made my life more productive and interesting by being connected to the rest of the world. I was born to a poor family in Nicaragua. This excellent program allowed me to go native in American culture and acquire the skills and motivation to continue learning up to this day. Living in the […]
Fulbright IEA – Amanda Yusko – South Korea 2016
Amanda Yusko – Fulbright to South Korea 2016
Truth & Reconciliation – Doris M Schoenhoff – South Africa 1996
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, began a four-day hearing in Durban, South Africa on May 7, 1996. Perpetrators and victims spoke about the suffering, torture, and murder under apartheid. What follows are brief excerpts from the diary I kept during my year at what is now the University of KwaZulu-Natal. […]