Characterizing South Indian Dance Traditions – Aparna Keshaviah – India 2006
As an independent Fulbright scholar in Dance, I spent a year traveling to more than 60 Bharatanatyam (south Indian classical dance) schools around Chennai, Bangalore, and Delhi. I interviewed more than 200 teachers and students about their practice of Bharatanatyam. That unprecedented study of how the dance form is being expressed differently in different cities, […]
Unexpected Relationship in India – Jay L. Wenger – India 2017
A primary goal of the Fulbright program is to foster mutual understanding between people in different countries – people at prestigious institutions and people within the local communities. During the spring semester of 2018, I was a Fulbright Scholar to Loyola College in India. My primary assignment was to teach psychology in a variety […]
Samantha Bennett – India 2019
Lifting Others Up Through Action Research During a field visit, a woman with light gray hair and a forest green sari strolled up to me and began jabbering in Kannada, a local language in Southwestern India, throwing her arms about her thin frame. Nidhi, my translator, stood beside me giggling, testing me on the Kannada […]
Steven Darian – India 1992 – Uzbekistan 1997 – Ukraine 2001
I’ve been lucky enough to have had 3 Fulbrights: to India, Uzbekistan, & Ukraine. Apart from 30 years teaching at Rutgers, I’ve been an incurable traveler, with other long-term assignments in Saudi & Turkey, Afghanistan & India, China & Indonesia. These things become part of your identity. When doing my website, I had to ask […]
Brenda McGadney and Phyllis Bell Miller – West Africa 1979 – Bulgaria 2005 – India 2006
Fulbright is about making connections – and sometimes reconnections. At the Fulbright Association’s 40th Annual Conference in 2017, Phyllis Bell Miller, who was displaying her research in a poster presentation, noticed the impeccable fashion of another poster presenter. As a fashion design researcher, she was specifically impressed with the African-influenced pattern of this woman’s clothing […]
Holly Wheeler – India 2016
Holly Wheeler was the third Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) that Tanya, a senior at Shyama Prasad Vidyalaya secondary school in New Delhi, India, had encountered. Though she had never left Delhi in her life, her exposure to three American teachers at school instilled in Tanya a keen interest in studying abroad. In the spring […]