It was March 2014 when I received an email that I was selected as a Fulbright-Schuman grantee. It was hard to believe that, knowing that there were many candidates hoping for the same opportunity. Only after buying a direct flight Madrid – Atlanta, I knew that this is for real. My research entitled Integrated dance […]
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End of an Era
This blog post admittedly has a slightly dramatic title. Nevertheless, when I took the plane across the Atlantic after my Fulbright-Schuman experience had come to the end, it certainly felt like that. Now I feel like it is finally time to say goodbye to my grand adventure. When I was only embarking on my Fulbright […]
While this is my second blog entry, it feels very much like the first. In part, due to the simple enormity of the United States and the richness of my experience here, in part, due to the academic and professional opportunities of which I feel I have not yet grasped enough, and finally, in part […]
After my experience as a Fulbright-Schuman grantee at American University – Washington College of Law (AU-WCL), I edited a book (in English and Spanish), called “Protección Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Estados Humanos y Estado de Derecho.” Also, I met a colleague and also a Fulbright grantee from Venezuela, prof. Juan Carlos Sainz-Borgo -whose grandfather […]
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 […]