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Dr. Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, is on a Fulbright-Nehru Award at the University of Delhi in India this academic year. Singh is working on a personal and historical book tentatively titled “At Home Abroad: The Making of Minority Consciousness in India and the United […]

Dispatch from Romania By Tim Anderson Associate Professor of Geography In his widely acclaimed history of Romania from prehistoric times to the present, Romania: Borderland of Europe, the noted Romanian scholar Lucian Boia argues that the “soul” of the country, its national identity, is deeply rooted in tropes associated with […]

By Stephen J. Scanlan, Fulbright  Scholar National University of Ireland Galway Greetings from Galway, Ireland. It has been far too long since I have traveled abroad. I have too often lived vicariously through the stories students and colleagues have shared with me.  I am thus drawn back to the simplicity […]

For the 20th time since 1990, the Ohio Program of Intensive English (OPIE) was selected to host Fulbright scholars from other countries for a three-week U.S. Department of State Training as they prepared to study in the United States. OPIE, in the Ohio University Department of Linguistics, hosted 28 Fulbright […]

by Katie Schmittauer Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Malaysia Retiring (adj): Reserved, shy. Example: The retiring young student hid her face behind her hands and refused to speak when Miss Katie asked her a question. Studying for the GRE gave me creative new vocabulary to describe my problem, but failed to provide […]

Distinctive architecture in the Danube-Swabian town of Lenauheim.  Image source: www.lenauheim.de What were they thinking in the House of Hapsburg when they looked at the Banat area of Romania in 1718? The newly conquered region had been part of the Ottoman Empire for 200 years but now lay devastated by […]

Forget Superman spinning around the world to turn back history. Steve Scanlan wants to know if empowered women can help protect the planet. Researchers have studied the effect of climate change on women, but Professor Scanlan says there’s an important question not yet examined: What is the effect of women […]