Collaborative Learning and Fun – Hayal Köksal – Turkey 1986
During the summer months of 1986, Fulbright held a six-week-communicative approach seminar for ELT lecturers working at various Turkish universities. Nearly a hundred participants, under the dynamic leadership of 15 professors, had wonderful days and nights at the dreamlike venue -Robert College- by the Bosphorus. The seminar leaders, Mrs. Julia Burks and Mrs. Nevin İnal, […]
Fulbright Equity: Celebrating the Founding Black Families of America – Dr. Barbara Paca – Ireland 1996
This is a story about how being a Fulbright changes your life and the world around you: for the better. Nearly thirty years later after being a postdoc Fulbrighter in the Republic of Ireland (during the period of peace negotiations), I reflect upon lessons learned such as how that time taught me important lessons about […]
An International Fulbright Family – Thora Qaddumi – India 1965
The Fulbright program has had huge impacts on my life and the lives of my husband, Maher Qaddumi, and our entire family. We live in Texas but the Fulbright program has given us all opportunities we would not otherwise gained. Both my husband and I, and two of our children, Halla and Tammer, are Fulbright […]
“Our Town” to Basingtoke – Joanne Louise Hjort – United Kingdom 1982
Upon boarding my flight to London on January 2, 1982, I realized that for the next four months, every person I was about to meet would be new. I taught Drama at Bothell High School, in a suburb of Seattle, WA and my counterpart was the Drama teacher at Bishop Challoner Secondary Modern School in […]
Educacion Ecologica Praxis Interdisciplinario en Torno a la Sequia en Chihuahua Mexico – Sara Soledad Garcia – Mexico 2001
I participated in field research and practice in a collaborative team of researchers and school teachers. The teams generated multiple action projects resulting in an edited book four years after the Fulbright residence. Sara Soledad Garcia – Fulbright to Mexico 2001
Our Guide: Radovan Karadjic – Susan Gayle – Yugoslavia 1984
I began my Fulbright in Belgrade, partnered with Diane Wakoski for the first half of my time in Yugoslavia, then with Al Young. The most “interesting” in retrospect was the period in Sarajevo, where the now infamous Radovan Karadzic was assigned to Al Young and me as our guide and interpreter. At the time, we […]
On a Four Year Wedding Journey to the USA – Hermann Strasser – USA 1968
Being a Fulbright Student mattered a great deal to me in many ways: having the chance to get to know the United States by establishing lifelong personal friendships, by making professional contacts and participating in international meetings. I finished my studies in economics at the University of Innsbruck with the doctoral degree in 1967, […]
Changing a Young Man’s Life – Arne Zaslove – France 1964
In 1964, I was 25 years old. Now that I am 81 years old and still healthy, I am still doing what I experienced on my Fulbright Grant to Paris as the first American to attend Ecole Jacques Lecoq. I’ve directed, taught, and traveled the world. I’ve also assisted M. Lecoq on his first visit […]