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  • Edward Morgan, Fulbright Scholar, New Bulgarian University, AY 2018-2019

    Edward Morgan, Fulbright Scholar, New Bulgarian University, AY 2018-2019

    Over the past year, Edward Morgan directed several productions including his play, So You Can Look Ahead at Lamar University in Texas, Three Viewpoints at Next in Milwaukee and Up Close (But Not Too Close!) with John McGiver...

  • Jasmin Vassileva, Fulbright Scholar, Bulgarian Addictions Institute, AY 2020-2021

    Jasmin Vassileva, Fulbright Scholar, Bulgarian Addictions Institute, AY 2020-2021

    Dr. Vassileva, who came to Bulgaria to work on a cross-cultural adaptation and development of novel neuroscience-informed psychoeducational interventions for substance use disorders, published numerous articles in her field o...

  • Brian Farrell, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 2012-2013

    Brian Farrell, Fulbright Scholar, Sofia University, AY 2012-2013

    Brian authored the article “Habeas Corpus” for the recently launched Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights. The Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights is the most comprehensive reference work in the field of international human...

  • Steven G. Kellman, Distinguished Chair in American Literature, Sofia University, AY 2000-2001

    Steven G. Kellman, Distinguished Chair in American Literature, Sofia University, AY 2000-2001

    Though it might seem as modern as Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Vladimir Nabokov, translingual writing – texts by authors using more than one language or a language other than their primary one – has an ancie...

  • Gene Berryhill, Fulbright Scholar, National Academy of Arts, AY 2016-2017

    Gene Berryhill, Fulbright Scholar, National Academy of Arts, AY 2016-2017

    Gene wrote two historical fiction books; they are both published on Amazon and along with a fascinating story contain Gene’s exceptional artwork. Mystery in the Gallo Mountains is a laconic fictional story. It is blended w...

  • Danielle Nutting, Fulbright Student, Union of Bulgarian Composers, AY 2019-2020

    Danielle Nutting, Fulbright Student, Union of Bulgarian Composers, AY 2019-2020

    Fulbright alumna Danielle Nutting together with a flutist colleague started an online publication that manifests a mosaic of musical identity, comprising authentic and underrecognized voices in their field. The Collective (ht...

  • Priscilla Howe, Fulbright Scholar, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, AY 2014-2015

    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

    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

    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

    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, 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

    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

    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

    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

    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, 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

    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

    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, 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

    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

    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

    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, 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, 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

    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, 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, 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

    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, 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

    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, 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, 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, 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, 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

    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, 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, 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, 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, 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

    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

    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, 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

    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

    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

    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...


 

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