Priscilla Howe, Fulbright Scholar, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, AY 2014-2015
Professional storyteller Priscilla Howe recently published translations of forty-two Bulgarian folktales, together with introductory essay and notes for teachers and storytellers following each story. Most of the stories she...
Kate Conklin, Fulbright Student, Academy of Music, Dance, and Fine Arts, AY 2001-2002
In 2021, Kate Conklin and Bryan Landers released their debut album entitled Mesechinko Ljo (Dear Little Moon). This is a fantastic collection of voice and banjo duets featuring the intricate melodies, striking harmonies, and...
Edward Morgan, Fulbright Scholar, New Bulgarian University, AY 2018-2019
In the past year, Edward participated in a number of activities, including: Director: The Christains, by Lucas Hnath (released as a film, virtually) Next Act Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, Nov. 2020 Up Close (But Not Too Close!) Li...
Brian Farrell, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 2012-2013
In the past year, Brian participated in a number of conferences and webinars, including: presenting the project “Reframing Assessment of Rural Access to Justice: The Limits of Existing Data” at the Law & Society Asso...
Ted Efremoff, Fulbright Student Researcher, National Academy of Arts, AY 2008-2009
Ted Efremoff, whose artwork was featured in the film we created on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright Program, has been recently working on films himself. A Refugee’s Guide to Rome juxtaposes the st...
Alan Weltzien, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 1997-1998
In May-June 2020, Alan retired after forty years as a full-time English professor, the first 11 years at Ferrum College (Ferrum, VA) and the past 29, at the University of Montana Western (Dillon, MT). In October 2020, his bio...
Denis Vovchenko, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 2017-2018
In August 2020, Denis was promoted to full professor. Since his Fulbright time, he published five articles and two book reviews all on Russian-Balkan relations. “Through Distant & Distorted Mirrors: the Ideological Curr...
Dana Ray, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Dobrich, AY 2013-2014
In May 2021, Dana Ray, who is now a communications consultant, gave a keynote presentation for Creative Mornings DC. The talk introduced the core framework she uses in her business to help unboxable leaders name their work s...
Cascade Tuholske, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Sliven, AY 2011-2012
Recently, Cascade published a very personal and touching piece about his dad’s legacy and climate change in Outside magazine. Read more about how personal struggles affect one’s general attitude to life and problem-so...
Naomi Martisius, Fulbright Scholar, New Bulgarian University, AY 2019-2020
Naomi Martisius was part of the research team working on bone fragments from the Bacho Kiro cave. The studies they published with the results from their joint work present very convincing proofs that modern humans began arriv...
Kathryn Posin, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia National Opera and Ballet, AY 2011-2012
The Kathryn Posin Dance Company received a 2018-19 National Endowment for The Arts ART WORKS Grant and presented concert series in September 2019 at the 92 Y in New York City. Bulgarian Principal Dancer Momchil Mladenov, long...
Michael Zerbe, Fulbright Scholar, South-West University, AY 2008-2009
2019-2020 was a productive year for Michael Zerbe, who was promoted to full professor, and had a few excellent publications: An article about the four-letter alphabet part of the nucleic acid DNA, which has until recently bee...
Larry A. DiMatteo, Fulbright Scholar, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, AY 2011-2012
Larry A. DiMatteo took part in a unique collaboration between academic scholars, legal practitioners, and arbitrators, helping edit two handbooks: one focusing on the intersection of arbitration – as an alternative to l...
Patrick Harchik, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Yambol, AY 2018-2019
In 2019-2020, Patrick Harchik graduated from Airborne School in Fort Benning, GA. Airborne school is a three-week course which taught him how to jump out of a plane and parachute to the ground. He jumped out of a plane five t...
Jay L. Halio, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 2003-2004
On April 23, 2020, Dr. Jay L. Halio was presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles. An accomplished literature and lang...
Steven G. Kellman, Distinguished Chair in American Literature, Sofia University, AY 2000-2001
In February, 2020 Purdue University Press published Dr. Steven G. Kellman’s book Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism. Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues his work in the field of translin...
Cascade Tuholske, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Sliven, AY 2011-2012
Cascade Tuholske completed his Ph.D. in Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Earth Research Institute of Columbia University, and a National Science...
George Siedel, Distinguished Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 2001-2002
George Siedel has a new higher education coursebook published – Strategy, Law and Ethics for Business Decisions. This book shows students how to use the three key elements of decision making – strategy, law and et...
Ronald Harvey, Fulbright Scholar, National Center for Addictions, AY 2015-2016
Ron Harvey contributed with a chapter to Introduction to Community Psychology, a textbook showing how to comprehensively analyze, investigate, and address escalating problems of economic inequality, violence, substance abuse,...
Amy Kuiken, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Burgas, AY 2007-2008
Amy Kuiken presented a paper at the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society 2019 Conference in Nashville, Indiana. The paper was titled, “A Pedagogy of Guilt: A Freirean Critique of a Hegemonic Ethos in the Foreign...
Nancy Bartley, Fulbright Scholar, American University in Bulgaria, AY 2012-2013
Nancy Bartley was among the featured speakers at the 2019 annual conference of the Fulbright Association, “Connecting Minds and Hearts for Global Change”, taking place in Washington, DC on October 24-26, 2019. Fulbrighte...
Nancy J. Scannell, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 1998-1999
Dr. Nancy J. Scannell, Associate Professor of Business Administration, was invited to serve as a Fulbright Specialist at Irkutsk State University (ISU) in Russia. Thanks to her hard work and support, a select cohort of studen...
Laura Geier, Fubright Student Researcher, Academy of Music, Dance, and Fine Arts, AY 2010-2011
Laura Geier continues to perform music from Bulgaria, Romania & Moldova. She recently performed a set of music with colleague, Igor Iachimciuc, at the World Village Festival in Boise, ID....
Edward A. Friedman, Fulbright Scholar, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, AY 1992-1993
During the past 12 months, Dr. Edward A. Friedman has been active as a Board member of the American University in Bulgaria, as well as teaching a course on Nuclear Energy and Society at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hobo...
George Miaoulis, Fulbright Scholar, VUZF University, AY 2013-2014
George Miaoulis co-authored a publication on Netnography as a marketing research tool in the fashion industry in Southeast Europe for the International Journal of Market Research. The article explores the evolving opportuniti...
Jesse Scinto, Fulbright Scholar, American University in Bulgaria, AY 2017-2018
Jesse Scinto has been busy with many activities in the past year, here’s a list of some of them: Articles “Blues Without Borders,” Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange Newsletter (3/2019) “The Camer...
Elizabeth Bews, Fulbright Student Researcher, New Bulgarian University, AY 2016 – 2017
Elizabeth Bews completed her MA in archaeology from Cornell University in December 2018. The title of her thesis is: “After Accession: EU Funding and Archaeological Practice in Bulgaria.” She was also accepted to...
Daniel Keifer, Fulbright Student Researcher, Sofia University, AY 2017-2018
Daniel Keifer received a Boren Scholarship in 2019 to study in Kazakhstan. The Boren Fellowship is funding his studies at Nazarbayev University, as an exchange student in Eurasian Studies and Advanced Russian. It is also faci...
Diane Wawrejko, Fulbright Scholar, National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, AY 2006 – 2007
Dr. Diane Wawrejko had the following essays, articles, and presentations in 2018-2019: “Daniel Nagrin’s Man of Action: Dancing Jewish through a Photographic Lens.” Published photo essay with five shots by photograph...
Jeremiah Chamberlin, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 2016 – 2017
Jeremiah Chamberlin was named a Fulbright Specialist with a three-year mandate (2018-2021) and returned to Sofia in May of 2019 to teach a series of creative writing workshops for high school students in collaboration with t...
Eireene Nealand, Fulbright Student Researcher, Sofia University, AY 2015-2016
Eireene Nealand, together with her translation partner Daniela Hurezanu, have published an excerpt of a translation of Marguerite Duras’ Le Camion in the London Journal Index on Censorship. Bulgarian author Blagovesta...
Steven G. Kellman, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 2000-2001
Steven G. Kellman published two books within the past year: The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (University of Pittsburgh Press) American Suite (Finishing Line Press) Steven G. Kellman is professor of comparativ...
Keana Mirmajlesi, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Varna, AY 2018-2019
Keana Mirmajlesi had her undergraduate biomedical engineering research published this past year in an article titled “Free radical-mediated targeting and immobilization of coupled payloads” in the Journal of Drug...
Priscilla Howe, Fulbright Scholar, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, AY 2014-2015
Professional storyteller Priscilla Howe recently received the International Story Bridge Oracle Award at the National Storytelling Summit in Fremont, California. This award recognizes the exemplary work, dedication and spirit...
David Jenkins, Fulbright Scholar, University of Plovdiv, AY 1994-1995; Veliko Tarnovo University, AY 1997-1998
Dr. David Jenkins had a collection of his English translations of contemporary Bulgarian prose published by Plovdiv University Press in 2019. Interim Report of the Bulgarian Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance intro...
Dan Fellner, Fulbright Scholar, American University in Bulgaria, AY 2014 – 2015
Dan Fellner was named a Fulbright Specialist to the Republic of North Macedonia in 2019 and taught intercultural communications at the country’s largest university, Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He also...
Brian Farrell, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 2012-2013
Dr. Brian Farrell was selected by the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Section as a Bellow Scholar along with is colleague Prof. Daria Fisher Page. The program recognizes and supports innovative research proposals...
Shawn Ross, Fulbright Scholar, American University in Bulgaria, AY 2005-2006
Dr. Shawn Ross, together with colleagues who worked with him during his time in Bulgaria, recently published a book about their joint Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project (TRAP). The project was a collaborative, multidisci...
Anna Chernova, Fulbright Student Researcher, Sofia University, AY 2001-2002
Check out Anna Chernova’s most recent policy analyses on UK foreign policy and refugee issues here and here. Anna is Oxfam’s senior policy adviser on humanitarian issues. She provides policy expertise on rights, dem...
