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Karen Waters, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Professor of English Emerita at Marymount University 2006-2007 Core Fulbright Scholar to India As I stepped out of the Delhi airport into the warm October night in 2006, I was filled with excitement and anxiety. I was embarking on two long-cherished goals – to visit India and to live in another culture for an extended period of time. Both of these goals

Pamela Louderback, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Library Director and Assistant Professor at Northeastern State University 2010-2011 Fulbright Core Scholar to the United Kingdom As a library director and assistant professor at Northeastern State University, I knew my time as a Fulbright Scholar in Belfast, Northern Ireland would be remarkable. But my Fulbright experience went well beyond my

Jeanne Toungara, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Associate Professor of History at Howard University 1993 Fulbright-Hays Research Scholar to Cote d’Ivoire In 1993, the Fulbright-Hays research award funded my extraordinary journey into northwestern Côte d’Ivoire to find the ideological underpinnings of Manding state formation through a study of Kabasarana, a 19 th -century enclave founded by the Toure

Kenny Fries, Faculty, Creative Writing Program at Goddard College 2005-2006 Core Fulbright Scholar to Japan Kenny Fries, an author and faculty at Goddard College in Vermont, undertook his Fulbright U.S. Scholar research grant to Japan in 2005-2006 to gather material for his book, In the Province of the Gods . In his book, Fries shares his experience in Japan as a foreigner with a disability and

Mahmoud Suleiman, Alumni Ambassador Professor and Department Chair of Education at California State University, Bakersfield 2009 – 2010 Core Fulbright Scholar to Bahrain The Fulbright experience is a life-changing endeavor. It is an act of discovery and renewal in all aspects. For me, it has been the most rewarding journey of my life, literally! It afforded me an opportunity to delve deeper in a

Timothy Krantz, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Professor, University of Redlands 2009-2010 Core Fulbright Scholar to Austria In June 2007, I taught an environmental seminar at the University of Redlands campus in Salzburg with guest lecturers including senior representatives from the Austrian environment ministry, Lebensministerium , Land Salzburg and city representatives. Over some excellent beers

Lisa Jones-Engel , Senior Research Scientist at University of Washington 2014-2015 Core Fulbright Scholar to Bangladesh Reposted with permission via www.FredHutch.org What a semi-nomadic ethnic group — and their performing monkeys — can teach us abo ut how viruses jump from animals to humans. During 2006, Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel traveled to the Bangladeshi village of Dhamrai with her research team

Elizabeth Collins, Fulbright Ambassador Professor, Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University September-December 2002 Fulbright Scholar to Indonesia In 1994, I was interviewing student leaders and activists in the Legal Aid Society (LBH) and environmental NGO WALHI in South Sumatra for my book, Indonesia Betrayed: How Development Failed . By 1997, the activists were caught up in

Todd A. Surovell, Director of Frison Institute of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming 2014-Present Fulbright Flex Scholar to Mongolia “In the morning when the temperature is in the 20s and the stove is cold, the key is to build a hot fire early, one so hot that it cooks you out of your sleeping bag,” I wrote on the morning of September 22 nd , 2014. This short passage gives a small taste of

Dr. Jonathan Shenkin, Clinical Associate Professor at Boston University April 2015 Fulbright Specialist Scholar to Belarus During the spring of 2015, I traveled to Minsk, Belarus as a Fulbright Specialist Scholar to conduct a project with my colleagues at the Belarusian State Medical University to improve the oral health of children. The intent of the project was to educate pediatricians on how to