Category: Articles

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 3 (2022) AuthorStanley K. Sessions Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert, Fulbright Scholar to Hamburg, Germany in 1983. In her latest book, Under a White Sky: the Nature of the Future, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Elizabeth Kolbert proves herself to be an engaging story teller,…

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 3 (2022) AuthorK. Narayana Chandran Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove, Fulbright Scholar to Germany in 1974 and a Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal Recipient in 2009. The poems in Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Rita Dove’s eleventh collection appeal to us not by being “poetic” in the traditional sense of…

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 3 (2022) AuthorJill Thistlethwaite The Biomedical Empire. Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic by Barbara Katz Rothman, Fulbright Professor to the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 1995 and Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Distinguished Chair in Health Sciences, Finland in 2018. As a medical doctor and educator, I have long been…

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 3 (2022) AuthorRobert E. Sterken Jr. The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer, Fulbright Scholar to Italy in 1978 and 2000. The Pope at War is a spellbinding, beautifully written examination of the silence of an influential religious leader during…

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 3 (2022) AuthorsGlen S. Fukushima Abstract The United States and Japan, as the world’s two largest capitalist democracies as measured by GDP, have much to learn from each other and to gain by cooperating with each other. Recent trends, however, indicate declining mutual attention. Fulbright alumni in both countries can…

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 3 (2022) AuthorKaren P. Peirce Abstract A primary goal of the Fulbright Program is to nurture mutual understanding across cultures. This article aims to show how rhetorical ethos can contribute to this goal. Following an autoethnographic study of one Fulbrighter’s experience in South Korea, the concept of rhetorical ethos is…

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 3 (2022) AuthorCameron O’Reilly Abstract As a Fulbright Professional Scholar in 2009, I was fortunate to spend four months in Texas executing a comparative study on the impact of emissions reduction policies on the US and Australian electricity sectors. My professional base was the Center for International Energy & Environmental…

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 3 (2022) AuthorAndy Briers Abstract Research conducted in Colorado, US in fulfilment of a PhD on comparative school-based policing, led to a subsequent exchange program between US and UK police officers as part of a Fulbright Alumni Initiative 2003-05. This formed the creation of the UK Safer Schools Partnership program…

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 1, Number 3 (2022) AuthorSteve Blumenshine Abstract Fulbright Scholar Awards offer diverse experiences, but this can also apply to individual Fulbright Scholars as well. This article explores a career trajectory that spans early development, an initial early career Fulbright, an intervening 15 years of development, and a subsequent Fulbright on a separate…