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Dr. Zoua Samaeva, the Orlik Hospital director, in traditional dress, singing for the patients in the adult unit.

Fulbright Experience: Out of Your Comfort Zone

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 2 (2024) AuthorNaj Wikoff AbstractFulbrighters step out of their comfort zones to cross International boundaries, expand their networks, thus improving institutions and lives of academics both abroad and at home. This is demonstrated by my Fulbright Awards (2006, 2012) that promoted using the arts to support research in clinical studies…

Fulbright Chronicles is Evolving

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 2 (2024) AuthorBruce B. Svare and Kevin F. F. Quigley Fulbright Chronicles is growing and evolving in new and important directions. With the advent of book reviews, interviews with distinguished Fulbright alumni and themed issues, the journal has responded to suggestions from readers and editorial team members. We invite you to…

Ethnographic Songwriting in Sardinia, Italy: My Fulbright Experience

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 2 (2024) AuthorKristina Jacobsen AbstractThis article examines the author’s scholarly and artistic work in Sardinia, Italy during her 2019-2020 Fulbright year. It explores the album of original songs and the ethnographic book that developed out of that year, and goes on to discuss other projects, including a study abroad program,…

Presentation carried out in the department during the last week of the stay showing the main results achieved during the stay

Economic and Other Underlying Reasons for Donald Trump’s Support in the American Midwest

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 2 (2024) AuthorJavier Matamoros-Becerra AbstractThis article summarizes the main results of my Fulbright predoctoral research conducted in the United States in 2023. I examined the reasons for the support of Donald Trump in the American Midwest in the state of Iowa. My findings show that there is a combination of…

Dancing Without Borders

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 2 (2024) AuthorMary Anna Ball Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences by Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene and Kathleen A. Spanos. Kathleen Spanos was a Fulbright Scholar to Universidad Federal de Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil in 2018. Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences reflects on the current limits of dance education and…

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…