Blog Posts

Karen Wachsmuth, Associate Director of International Fellowships​, University of Iowa 2016 Fulbright International Education Administrators Seminar to Japan Arriving in Japan on a Fulbright International Education Administrators grant in June of 2016, less than a month after President Obama’s historic visit to Hiroshima as the first sitting American president to do so after World War II, was a

Jeffrey Kelly Lowenstein, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Grand Valley State University 2013-2014 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Chile Photo Credit: Jon Lowenstein/NOOR My wife Dunreith and I spent a magical Fulbright semester in Santiago from July to December 2013. We arrived the day after we sold our house in Evanston, Illinois, and were fortunate to be in Chile during a very momentous time

Sharika Crawford, Associate Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy 2015-2016 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Colombia From July to November 2015, I was a Fulbright Research and Lecture U.S Scholar and visiting fellow in the History and Geography Department at the Universidad de los Andes. I came to conduct archival and library research on diplomatic disputes between Colombia, Costa

Peter Raeth, Senior Computational Scientist, Senior Research Engineer 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar to Zimbabwe Academia is vastly different from the industrial world. While academia can be said to have the aim of providing a solid educational foundation to prepare students for industrial success, companies in industry often assert that they cannot find enough qualified people. As a member of

Christian O’Connell, Senior Lecturer of American History, University of Gloucestershire, UK 2015-2016 Fulbright Visiting Scholar to Elon University This is the second part of a blog post written by Fulbright Visiting Scholar Christian O'Connell. Click to read the Part I of the post . Being in a vibrant environment such as Elon, there were always plenty of options for extracurricular activities

Christian O’Connell, Senior Lecturer of American History, University of Gloucestershire, UK 2015-2016 Fulbright Visiting Scholar to Elon University Four months might not seem like a long time, but thinking back about everything I’ve done in North Carolina during my Fulbright experience, I really had to narrow it down for this blog post. There have been encounters with fascinating people, including

Sara Parker, Professor of Political Science at Chabot College 2014-2015 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar to China My family has been using the phrase, “Last year at this time…” a lot lately. The memories of our Fulbright semester in China are seared into our memories. In Spring 2015, my husband and our three children, ages 8, 6, and 2 spent a semester in Beijing, where I taught American Government and

Casey D. Allen, Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver 2015-2016 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Jordan At the Fulbright Orientation in DC, our Director told us to make sure that we “explore beyond Amman”. Apparently, many Fulbrighters – and not just to Jordan, but other countries as well – stay close to their neighborhood. It’s easy to see

Nirmal Goswami, Professor, Political Science, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Outreach Lecturing Fund Host It started almost twenty years ago, with a reference to a place which I wanted to learn about — Calabria, Italy. Now, of course, I don’t even remember what got me interested in Calabria in the first place, but while reading up on Calabria, I stumbled upon a reference to Dr. Matteo Marini from

Royal Hartigan, Professor of World Music, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Ghana I returned to the Philippines as a Fulbright Scholar in 2006, following my Peace Corps service there in 1968-1970, teaching and performing jazz as a connection between our two countries’ cultures. My Fulbright experience in the Philippines made it clear that bringing students