My Father and Senator Fulbright – Thomas Lundmark – Germany 1976, 1991, 1992, and 1993
My father was the one who introduced me to the Fulbright program. Upon being discharged from the US Navy at the close of World War II, he was employed by the federal administration that sold war surplus materiel. At Senator Fulbright’s urging, the funds raised by these sales were put to use for educational foreign […]
How a Fulbright Influenced My Family: A Historic Year in West Germany – Joseph C. Makarewicz – Germany 1989
With two young daughters in their formative years and my wife, I left in September 1989 to Plőn, a small village located in the lakes district of northern West Germany. We did not know what to expect. Who knew 1989/90 would be a historic year in the then, divided Germany. As a Senior Fulbright Scholar […]
Cultural Relativism – John Michael Strawn – Germany 1973
In Berlin during the Vietnam War era, I became sensitized to subtle propaganda. I could listen to the radio news from the Armed Forces Network, the local West Berlin radio stations, to East Berlin. I would hear about the communist troops in S Vietnam, the war in Vietnam, and the capitalist troops in S. Vietnam. […]
A Fulbright Legacy – John Rosenwald – Germany 1965 and China 1996, 1997, 2001
The Fulbright Commission has provided me with extraordinary opportunities to explore the world beyond the United States and to attempt to build bridges between other countries and our own. As a graduate student at the Universität Tübingen in Germany in 1965-6, I learned much from seeing the intensity of activism against the Vietnam War even […]
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 […]
Varying Professions and Varying Experiences – Andrew Carringer – Germany 2018
In this audio story, I allow former and current Fulbright participants, some who traveled to the US or Germany, some research grantees, and some teaching assistants, to share details of their Fulbright experiences, while adding some of my own thoughts as well. The audio, expect one redone line, was all recorded in 2018, so […]
Bittersweet – Marilya Reese – Germany & France 2006
The photo I am attaching illustrates the second— sweet —component reflected in my chosen title. It was taken during my summer Fulbright 2006 (to my knowledge the first and Sole joint Fulbright between Germany and France) and a visit to the Ritter Sport factory near Reutlingen. Emphasizing the pleasant element is intended as tempering […]
The Power of Cultural Diplomacy – Katherine Hoffman
Katherine Hoffman – Fulbrights to Austria (2006), Germany(2014), and Netherlands(2017) Story was originally published in Portraits: The Magazine of Saint Anselm College – Fall/ Winter 2020, pp. 38-41. Visit this link to see the original publication.