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What a Fulbright Award Really Means

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 2 (2023) AuthorsBruce B. Svare and Kevin F. F. Quigley In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, Roger Rosenblatt analyzed the meaning of prestigious academic awards that are given every year. He stated: “A Nobel or Pulitzer, for instance, says, ‘Congrats, you’ve hit the jackpot!’ while a Fulbright…

An Insider’s View of the Path to Peace in Colombia

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 2 (2023) AuthorJoe Foweraker Juan Manuel Santos, The Battle for Peace: the Long Road to Ending a War with the World’s Oldest Guerrilla Army. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Fulbright-Fletcher Fellowship in 1981 and the Fulbright Excellence Award for Outstanding Alumni by the Fulbright Commission…

Signs of New Life

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 2 (2023) AuthorChloë G. K. Atkins Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, by Emily Rapp Black, who was a Fulbright Scholar to Seoul, Korea, in 1996. Frida Kahlo includes monkeys in many of her self-portraits. In one of them, she depicts the face of a small black monkey as well…

Megaforests Tie Together the Fabric of Conservation and Communities

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 2 (2023) AuthorJocelyn L. Aycrigg John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy, Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet. Thomas E. Lovejoy was the Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer to Cyprus and Turkey in 1996. Ever Green is a wonderfully written book on a highly relevant and timely topic….

Fulbright Chronicles Seeks Book Reviewers

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 2 (2023) If you’re interested in reviewing books for Fulbright Chronicles and have experience reviewing non-academic, general interest books, please send your contact information, details about your Fulbright award(s), academic discipline, previous publications, as well as any particular interests that will help match you with the right book to Erika J. Waters…

One Poet’s Reaction to War

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 2 (2023) AuthorSteven Darian Trauma, Primitivism, and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett by Joy Porter, a Visiting Fulbright Scholar from the UK to Dartmouth College, 2015 This book follows the life journey of the Canadian World War I poet Frank Prewett and the life-changing effects of…

Fulbright (Re-)Connections: Centering Community-Based Research in the Dominican Republic

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 1 (2023) AuthorsMolly Hamm-Rodríguez and Megan Jeanette Myers Abstract The authors represent a Fulbright US Scholar and a recipient of the Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) award. We initially met at a community event on the Dominican-Haitian border in 2012 and, a decade later, reconnected during our Fulbrights in…

A Fulbright Experience: The Irony of an Event

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 1 (2023) AuthorRosina Claudia Krecek Abstract My first public health teacher was my mother, a nurse in underserved communities of southern Florida, US. Her captivating cases of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) filled our evenings at home. Fifty years later, I prepared my keynote address, “One Health and NTDs” as a…

Fulbright Fellow to Fulbright Faculty: My Circuitous Passage from Chengdu to Ho Chi Minh City

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 1 (2023) AuthorMark E. Frank Abstract Over the past five years, I went from being a Fulbright Research Fellow in China to becoming a member of the history faculty at Fulbright University Vietnam. I reflect on the barriers facing similar US exchanges with China today, and the new opportunities for…

How Fulbright Believed in Me When No One Else Did, and How I Had to Break the Mold to Pass this Gift On

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 1 (2023) AuthorItto Outini Abstract The Fulbright program changed my life. As a blind woman who spent six years homeless, I struggled to find anyone who would invest in me. In 2017, Fulbright sent me to America to study for my Masters. In 2022, I received a ‘Fulbright in the…