Fulbright Means Friendship – Allison LeClere – Germany 2013
It is incredible how your life can change in just an instant. For me, it was when I received my acceptance email into my Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Program. I was sitting in a small cafe in Bloomington, Indiana with a friend as I labored over my senior thesis on the Holocaust and dark tourism […]
Gordon Bronitsky – Germany 1984
I am an anthropologist by training (PhD Arizona 1977). In 1984-1985, I was a Senior Fulbright Professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, teaching Germans about American Indians and lecturing all over Europe on American Indian topics. The experience changed my life. I grew up in Albuquerque and loved the Southwest; my dissertation was […]
Kathleen Bakarich – Germany 2008
Before embarking on her Fulbright Program to Germany in 2008, Kathleen Bakarich did not know anyone else studying international accounting. It was a relatively new field that had yet to achieve much popularity, and accounting was not often associated with international research. But when you find your passion and expertise, Katie contends, the Fulbright Program […]
Derek Crider – Germany 1979
As a junior at Purdue University studying civil engineering in 1976, Derek Crider participated in a yearlong study abroad program in Hamburg, Germany. Through his coursework, travel, and observations, he gained an understanding of how German public transport and urban planning were interconnected, and began to identify opportunities for improvement that could be applied to […]
Tammy Hensrud – Germany 1985
Above: Hensrud performing a Kurt Weill program at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland in September 2017 “I absolutely feel international exposure and exchanges are essential for artistic growth. We as artists are asked to interpret life experiences which we may never have personally experienced,” says Tammy Hensrud, a Fulbright scholar alumna who […]