It’s an unsettling feeling, becoming a cliché. Heading out to the US in August, fresh from the application process, both myself and my husband knew all about the mission of Senator Fulbright to ‘increase mutual respect and understanding’ between Americans and people in other countries. Coming back four months later, the difference was, we felt […]
On arrival in the US I flew straight to the Will Rogers World airport in Oklahoma City to attend a four-day Fulbright Gateway Orientation. The orientation took place in the beautiful campus of the University of Oklahoma (OU), in Norman, Oklahoma. The gateway programme was a wonderful initiation into what it means to be a […]
During my time in the EU, I collected some useful data on the topic of teacher education in the EU. I met and talked with several professors at Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam, the Open University, and Utrecht University. I was also able to meet with the Bologna Process representative from the Netherlands at […]
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Augmented in California
Three zig zag corners away from the building that houses the Department of Creative Media and Behavioral Health Center, School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California there is a relief in Greek and its translation in Latin which says: Ανθρωπος ψυχήν και σωμα συμμετρος (man is a balance of body and soul). […]
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Res Publica Ann Arbor
Arriving in the Midwest in the middle of winter needs a special kind of courage. Leaving Detroit Metropolitan Wayne Airport one experiences the definition of the romantic notion of sublime: man against nature. It’s been a week since Ann Arbor defeated the North Pole’s first place in lowest temperatures. But the sublime exists more than this […]
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Music, Work, and the New Year
It’s been just over three months since I crossed the Atlantic from Ireland to study at Princeton’s Department of Politics, and so far so good. Craigslist may not be for everyone but through this site I managed to find an affordable room in a very friendly house full of aspiring musicians. There’s a bit of […]
This week, Executive Director Erica Lutes visited Bulgaria to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange. While the Fulbright Program in Bulgaria was already established in 1968, it was not until 1993 that the Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange was founded. Erica was the only foreign Executive Director present at the […]
Crossing the Ocean and the American continent all the way until the west coast and seeing for the first time the Pacific Ocean was an exciting challenge for me, which entailed a special meaning. Merely eighteen hours later, I was on the other side of the planet and taking a taxi to Berkeley. It was […]
Photo of Executive Director, Erica Lutes, and former Congresswoman and President of Women’s Campaign International, Marjorie Margolies at the ‘Women Leaders in International Relations: Comparing EU and U.S. Experiences’ that took place in Brussels 8-11 July at the Italian Cultural Institute. Ms. Lutes was the U.S. embassy contact for Ms. Margolies during her visit with […]
When I decided to apply for a Fulbright grant, the choice for a host institution was not so difficult. The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University is the place to be for every scholar interested in the topic of democratization. I had spent many years studying the European […]