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Maryse Condé’s Beautiful Last Testament

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 2 (2024) AuthorNoémie Mil-Homens Cavaco The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé who was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Occidental College in 1985. Despite having announced that she would not write anymore, Guadeloupean best-selling and Nobel Prize laureate Maryse Condé, who recently passed away at age 90, had…

A Visually Unique Look at Trees

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorPavel Mezei The Language of Trees: The Rewilding of Literature and Landscapes by Katie Holten, Fulbright Scholar to Cornell in 2004. The Language of Trees forces the reader to consider how poetry, short stories, history, and science reflect our relationship to trees and forests. Over 69 scientists, poets, journalists, craftspersons—including…

On Both Sides of The Camera Lens: Australian Fishers Use Photos to Express Concerns About the Future of Fishing Sustainability and Being Filmed at Work

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorLekelia D. Jenkins AbstractAs a Fulbright Scholar in Australia, I explored the Queensland’s fishing industry’s views on sustainability, especially the proposed use of video cameras to monitor fishing activity and catches. Using PhotoVoice, fishers took photos representing their concerns and discussed these images in a focus group. I…

Conflict, Learning and Sustainable Peacebuilding: Case Studies for Finding a Better Way Forward

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorWilliam M. Timpson AbstractThere is much to know about conflict and how to survive its pressures and threats, both real and imagined, and how we can find a better way forward. There is much here to teach others. Sparked by my Fulbright Awards to Northern Ireland, Burundi (East…

A Conceptual Journey to the Forest: Planting a Prosumer Economy

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorUygar Özesmi AbstractThirty years after my Fulbright MSc Scholarship at Ohio State University in 1993-93, what I learned and experienced then, has still a profound impact in my work. Since then, I have worked on ecology and complex systems in NGOs and social enterprises. While my love of…

Fulbright Foundations to Full Bright Futures

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorWaqas Idrees AbstractIn the tapestry of life’s trials and tribulations, sometimes, a single thread of resolve stands out. For me, that thread was the Fulbright scholarship, a goal that took three attempts. But once secured, it became a gateway to a world of possibilities, which later translated into…

Experiences in Sustainability Education: An American Fulbright Scholar’s Journey from Norway to Scotland

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorSarah Anderson AbstractAs a Fulbright Scholar in Norway in 2011-2012, I was able to establish a professional disposition well situated to contribute to a more sustainable future. I have identified three keyways the Fulbright experience prepared me for education for sustainability in Scotland: (1) an orientation towards diplomacy…

Indigenous Languages and Schooling in Mexico: A Fulbright Alumnae Collaboration

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorLeslie Ann Locke and Maika Dorantes AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic forced Fulbrighters across the globe to return to their home countries. The Fulbright alumnae featured here were in the midst of their Fulbright experiences in March of 2020 when such decisions were made. After return to their countries, Locke–Garcia-Robles…

Changing waters: From Cape Town and Santa Cruz’s water stresses to Antarctica’s Shifting Ice

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorGina Ziervogel AbstractIn 2021, I spent 6 months at University of California Santa Cruz as a Fulbright Scholar. During my time there, I focused on understanding local water governance issues in Santa Cruz county. This related closely to previous work in my home country, South Africa, where I…

El agua es vida, al-mā’ al-hayāt, aman iman, water is life: Traditional irrigation systems as a solution to climate change

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorEmily Hayes-Rich AbstractWith the growing pressure of climate change threatening many desert ecosystems around the globe, many communities have been returning to traditional forms of technology. From 2022 to 2023, I spent my Fulbright project using remote sensing and community-based archaeological survey to study one of these traditional…