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More Than a Drink: The Global Journey of Yerba Mate

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 4, Number 2 (2026) AuthorBenjamin Junge The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History by Charles Folch, who had a Fulbright Dissertation Research Grant to Paraguay, 2008-2009. Across Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil, it is as common to see people cradling a cuia (gourd) and bomba (metal straw) as it is…

Handel’s MESSIAH and the Librettist Who Inspired It

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 4, Number 2 (2026) AuthorJames E. Crimmins Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King who was a Fulbright Scholar in 2013 to Zambia. We know a good deal about Handel’s life and career as the preeminent composer of the age, while Jennens has virtually…

Hear Them Speak

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 4, Number 2 (2026) AuthorCynthia Smith The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands Written by the People Who Lived Through It by Nina Siegal, who had a Fulbright Fellowship in Creative Writing in 2014. In The Diary Keepers, author Nina Siegal taps into the importance of first-person contemporary narratives during…

Exposing Biases in AI

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 4, Number 1 (2025) AuthorMariofanna Milanova Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini who was a Fulbright Scholar in 2013 to Zambia. As a Professor of Computer Science and Fulbright Scholar, I found Dr. Joy Buolamwini’s book Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect…

The Ideal Entry Point

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 4, Number 1 (2025) AuthorKhadija Ouajjani Introduction to Machine Learning (Revised 4th Edition) by Ethan Alpaydin who was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar to the Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, 1997-1998. I first stumbled upon Alpaydin’s Machine Learning while compiling a concise yet solid reading list for managers and…

Today’s Crisis, Yesterday’s News

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 3 (2025) AuthorJoyce Bennett Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer, who was a Fulbright Scholar to Spain in 2010. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis is…

The Questions that Matter Most to Jane Smiley

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 3 (2025) AuthorKatherine Arnoldi The Questions that Matter Most. Reading, Writing and the Exercise of Freedom by Jane Smiley who was a Fulbright Scholar to Iceland in 1976. Smiley instructed her students not to judge or praise their own work or the work of others, but instead, to ask questions….

Intimate Strangers

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 3 (2025) AuthorMateo Garcia-Olazábal Letters to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us edited by Colleen Kinder, who was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico in 2019. Letters to A Stranger is a poignant anthology that explores the transformative power of letter writing. Editor Colleen Kinder asked writers to compose…

A Reading Life

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 3 (2025) AuthorAndrew Martino Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin, by Peter Orner who was a Fulbright Scholar to Namibia in 2016-2017. Still No Word from You is an excellent chronicle of how lives are built, lived, and remembered, not necessarily in a linear fashion, but in…