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The Illuminating Beacon

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 1 (2023) AuthorHabiba I. Atta Five Scarves by Rana Dajani, winner of a Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship in 2000 at the University of Iowa and a Scholar Research Award at Yale University in 2012. Five Scarves offers amazing insights into the life of a highly successful academic, an associate professor of biology…

The Reward Was Clarity

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 1 (2023) AuthorMark Tardi Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen, Fulbright Scholar to Germany in 1981. At this stage in his illustrious career, which now includes six bestselling novels and numerous collections of nonfiction, Jonathan Franzen can do pretty much whatever he feels like. Resting on his laurels, however, is clearly not on…

Governments and Journalism Battle in an Online World

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 1 (2023) AuthorDom Caristi How to Stand up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa, a US student Fulbrighter to the University of the Philippines in 1986. Maria Ressa is the latest in a long line of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to publish a book providing advice to the world. Ressa’s book…

Woman Warrior

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 1 (2023) AuthorLogan Puck Ana Margarita Gasteazoro, Tell Mother I’m in Paradise: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador, edited by Judy Blankenship and Andrew Wilson. Judy Blankenship was a Fulbright Scholar to Ecuador in 2000, 2005, and 2013-14. Tell Mother I’m in Paradise: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El…

The Man that Cleveland Knew

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 4 (2023) AuthorRemington Ruyle American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower, winner of the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing to the UK in 1992. In 1934, a dark cloud began to form over the city of Cleveland…

Understanding China from Nixon to the Pandemic

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 4 (2023) AuthorBarbara Bennett Peterson Thank you, Mr. Nixon: Stories by Gish Jen, Fulbrighter to the People’s Republic of China in 2003. Award-winning novelist and short story writer Gish Jen’s latest book is Thank You, Mr. Nixon, a collection of linked short stories which begin with former President Richard Nixon’s visit…

Hope in the Time of Covid

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 4 (2023) AuthorMark Seielstad Fulbright in a Time of COVID: Essays by U.S. Fulbrighters in Asia, 2019-20, edited by Kurt Mosser, Fulbright Scholar at Soochow University in Suzhou from 2019-2020, and Amanda H. Schmidt, Fulbright Scholar at Sichuan University in China in 2019-2020 Three years after reports of an atypical…

“Global, Heartless and Without National Identity”: Oligarchy in Today’s World

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 4 (2023) AuthorLouis E. Esparza Oligarchy in the Americas: Comparing Oligarchic Rule in Latin America and the United States by Joe Foweraker, Visiting Fulbright Scholar in political science to the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1992-1993 Joe Foweraker’s Oligarchy in the Americas is a sobering and provocative comparison between oligarchic tendencies in…

The Impact of the Fulbright Experience on a Community College Educator: Twenty Years Later

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 4 (2023) Author David J. Smith Abstract The author shares his experiences in navigating the Fulbright US Scholar Program process and the impact that the experience had on his family and himself. Coming from a community college, he represents a minority of grantees, even though community colleges educate over 40%…

My Fulbright Award Helped Me to Uncover the Past and Discover My Future

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 4 (2023) AuthorMarx Navarro-Castillo Abstract The author, passionate about archaeology and the development of his birthplace Chiapas in Mexico, was granted the Fulbright-García Robles scholarship to pursue his graduate studies at SUNY-Albany. This accomplishment allowed him to not only contribute to the field of study of his interest, archaeology, but…