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2023-24 Americans in the EU General

Challenging Perspectives in the “Capital of Europe”: LGBTQ+ Discourse from East to West

As a Fulbright Schuman grant recipient in Brussels, Isobel Williamson spent the 2023-24 academic year conducting LGBTQ+ rights policy research with the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her research explores the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ Central and Eastern European migrants in Brussels to identify new avenues for the EU’s institutions to advocate for LGBTQ+ rights across […]

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2023-24 Europeans in the USA General

Connecting Cologne and California through Fulbright Schuman

Eleni Skarsouli was a Greek 2023-2024 Fulbright Schuman Research Scholar in Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Eleni Skarsouli has studied Classics in Greece and Germany and holds a PhD in Greek Philology from the University of Cologne. She has worked as a research assistant in the project “Edition Kölner Papyri ” and has edited documentary and literary papyri. In 2021 she published an edition of three papyri containing unknown passages from the Euripidean tragedy Telephos. Besides the edition of papyri her research also encompasses various topics related to ancient Greek language and life in antiquity (legislation, material culture, professional practices, color terminology etc.). In the last years she has investigated the use of metaphorical language in Ancient Greek for the expression of emotions.

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2023-24 Europeans in the USA

Designing a Closer Relationship: Examining European Identity in American Architecture

Andrea Soos was a Hungarian 2023-24 Fulbright Schuman Visiting Student Researcher in Art History at the Center for Architecture. She is a curator, writer and researcher. Her projects explore underground culture, human interactions in built environments and the ways architecture influences communities. She worked at the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hungarian National Gallery and carried out international research and curatorial projects in Europe and the United States. She holds a master’s degree in design theory from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and a curatorial degree from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Currently she is a PhD candidate in Design Culture Studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest.

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2023-24 Europeans in the USA

Fulbright Schuman Perspectives: ‘Take That Chance to Chat’

Carolina Paulesu was an Italian 2023-2024 Fulbright Schuman Visiting Student Researcher in Law at Yale University. She is a PhD Researcher in Law at the European University Institute. She holds a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Milan (J.D. equivalent), obtained summa cum laude, a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Master of Laws from the European University Institute.

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2023-24 Americans in the EU

From LA to Lund: The “Iran Challenge” from a (surprisingly) Swedish Perspective

Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye is a 2023-2024 Fulbright Schuman scholar based at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden and at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels, Belgium as a non-resident senior fellow. Dalia’s research compares American and European approaches to Iran beyond the nuclear agreement.  She is a senior fellow […]

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2022 Europeans in the USA

Studying the relationship between ideological interests and democratic values

Alberto Stefanelli was an Italian 2022-2023 Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher in Political Science at Yale University and NYU. Alberto Stefanelli is an FWO PhD Fellow at the Institute for Social and Political Opinion Research at KU Leuven, Belgium. His PhD focuses on the nature, the causes, and the consequences of political radicalism. He teaches graduate and PhD courses in applied statistics and is one of the founding members of MethodsNET.

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2022 Europeans in the USA

Examining Democracy in D.C: Lobbying, Learning, and Life in the US

Andreea Nastase was a Romanian 2022-2023 Fulbright Schuman Research Scholar in Political Science at James Madison University. Dr. Nastase is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, where she teaches various subjects in European Union politics and governance in BA and MA programmes. In her research, Andreea explores public ethics, integrity and democratic legitimacy in EU governance, while her most current work focuses on EU lobbying and lobbyists.

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EU-US Young Leaders Seminar

EU-US Young Leaders Seminar on the Security Implications of Climate Change

From 20 to 23 March 2024, the Fulbright Commission in Brussels facilitated the participation of 25 current American Fulbrighters and 25 European alumni of EU-funded exchange programs in the 2024 EU-US Young Leaders Seminar on the Security Implications of Climate Change. The event marked the seventh iteration of the EU-US Young Leaders Seminar, which was […]

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EU-NATO Seminar

EU-NATO Seminar 2024

In February 2024, the Fulbright Commission in Brussels welcomed American Fulbright grantees to Belgium and Luxembourg for the forty-first annual Fulbright Seminar to the European Union and NATO. Participants included U.S. Fulbright grantees based in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, […]

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2022 Americans in the EU

Métro, boulot, dodo

It was the type of Parisian street that I loved, wide enough for a car, but really intended for pedestrians.  Under the streetlights, the stunning Hausmannian facades seemed to lean gently over the sidewalk.  Tonight, though, my eyes were fixed not up at the buildings, but down at the pavement – or what I could […]