Grantee Stories

We don’t understand peace until we lost it. A major evidence that disrupted social, economic, and humanity balance is the terrorist attacks in many countries. We lost peace, we are uprooted from our very existence. Foundation of peace is not love but equality, respect and acceptance. Chrisma Albandjar 2001 Fulbright student to San Francisco State University.. Read More.

The Fulbright program has been so meaningful to me. It has opened my eyes to see the world from which I build my pluralistic world view, to see different cultures from which I build my humanitarian “ideology,” to see the other as part of “us” (our well-beings could only be attained through guaranteeing the well-beings.. Read More.

A stone, thrown into a pond, sends ever expanding ripples. Such a stone was I … thrown into the minds and hearts of ever incoming students and thereby forever sending ever expanding ripples of Fulbright’s vision. Subur Laksmono Wardoyo Professor, Semarang State University; Fulbright Grant recipient for his M.A. (N.Y.U. 1984), Ph.D.(N.Y.U. 1993), Research in.. Read More.

The Fulbright episode is an important milestone in both my career and personal trajectories. Opening up a door to the glittering world of academia, it indulges my hunger for knowledge of cross-disciplinary approaches in the humanities and for the experience of worldwide cultural diversity. Pursuing the Ph.D. in the U.S. has been both precious professional.. Read More.