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, […]
If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It – Andrea Gonzalez Esteche – New York, USA 2017
Being a Fulbrighter was a faraway dream until I made it. The first time I heard about the scholarship was thanks to the US Embassy Paraguay in 2006 during my sophomore year of college when they were advertising about building the future Fulbright programs and were preparing future candidates for the Fulbright Scholarship. Since then, […]
When the pandemic interrupted my Fulbright at Harvard – Paul David Harpur – Massachusetts, USA 2020
From the inception of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946, those of us who were privileged to be abroad in the first half of 2020 had the most unique of all experiences. We are the only Fulbright cohort to have lived through a global pandemic. COVID-19 cut our projects short and caused us anguish, but it […]
My Fulbright Time – Kakhaber Djakeli – Connecticut, USA 2006
I dreamed to be Fulbright Scholar from my childhood. In 2005, I started to participate in the Fulbright Exam Process at the US Embassy in Tbilisi. During that time, only five men had the chance to win a Fulbright scholarship and I already had my PhD. I wanted to show my knowledge and gain friends […]
Niharika Kulshresth – Oregon, USA 2011
The letter I got in the month of June 2011 from the J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, besides congratulating me for my selection also went on to inform me that, as a Fulbrighter, I joined the ranks of some 261,000 alumni of the programme who have gone on to become heads of states, judges, […]
Miguel Cruz – United States 2006
Miguel Cruz is an accomplished Spanish filmmaker and a faculty member at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a 2006 Fulbright grant in filmmaking. Miguel Cruz’s career exemplifies the lifelong power of the Fulbright experience — and the many bridges it can build. Cruz is a Spanish filmmaker […]
Priyali Sur – United States 2014
Priyali Sur is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker reporting on social and development issues with a focus on gender rights. A 2014-2015 Fulbright Humphrey Fellow, Sur is a consultant for the World Bank and director of the film ‘sahbak.’ She has also given a TEDxFulbright talk called “Gender equality – A man’s fight as […]
Dr. Koji Nakanishi – United States 1950
Through the “Extraordinary Fulbrighters” video series, the Fulbright Association is pleased to share the story of Dr. Koji Nakanishi, Centennial Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Columbia University. Dr. Nakanishi was the “first student from a so called enemy country” to come study in the United States. Through the precursor to the Fulbright Program, then called […]