You’re Sort of a Missionary, Right? – Bill Issel – UK 1978, Hungary 2008, Romania 2018
I’ll call him “Mr. Smith.” I meet him one afternoon on the Charles Bridge in Prague. I’m there to lecture on race, class, and politics in American history. It’s 1978 and I’m doing my first Fulbright at the American Studies Centre in London. I help get the Centre started, working with my English colleague Chris […]
Students Are People Too – Eric Trules – Romania 2010
May 21, 2010 – It started out with just the two of us. Mihaela and I, sitting for lunch at a little wooden table at the “One” café, right next door to the Caragiale Film and Theater University in central Bucharest, where I’d been invited to teach for two weeks on my Fulbright Senior Specialist […]
Making Lemonade Out Of Lemons – Janet Chapman – Romania 2004-05
The International Educators Newspaper connected me in 2000 with a special education position at an American International School in Cairo, Egypt. After being accepted and attending orientation, I taught for two months. The former administrator had quit and took most students with him so they did not need me for three students. Aspersions led to […]
Full Cycle – Oana Godeanu Kenworthy – Romania 2018
Returning to Romania was like returning home, it was like experiencing the place for the first time from a fresh angle. I am an alumna of University of Bucharest, and returning there in 2019 fits very well with the focus on my Fulbright project – to bring global and intercultural perspectives into the teaching of […]
David Hadaller – Romania 1987
My Fulbright Year in communist Romania began almost two years before I arrived in Bucharest in 1987. My former professor and mentor from Gonzaga University, Dr. Fran Polek, was himself a Fulbright alumnus who had served in Timisoara, Romania, during the 1984-85 academic year. In late 1985, I told Fran about my dreams of working […]