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2017-18 Europeans in the USA

Brief Reflections on my Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship at Yale University

From September 2016 to April 2017, thanks to the Fulbright Schuman grant, I spent eight months at Yale University as a pre-doctoral research fellow. During this time, I had the chance to finalize my PhD project ‘The business of state-building: How business associations shaped the performance of local governments in Bosnia and Herzegovina’. Having recently […]

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2017-18 Europeans in the USA

Five of my favorite “American moments”

During the past five-and-a-half months, thanks to the Fulbright Schuman grant, I have been conducting my research at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. It has been a fantastic time, which allowed me not only to delve into my project on “Forms of Foreign Policy Cooperation in the Unraveled Transatlantic […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

My Schuman-Fulbright research experience at George Mason University, Northern Virginia

In January 2017, I came to the Washington DC area to investigate the representation of Islam and Muslims in higher education, Islam on campus for short. George Mason University (GMU) was my case study for my Fulbright-Schuman research project. The rationale for choosing GMU was because the university is one of the most ethnically diverse […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

From Oxford to New York and Back

In 2016 I was awarded one of the Fulbright-Schuman pre-doctoral fellowships in order to conduct research at Columbia University in the city of New York. Hosted by Professor Tim Frye, at the Political Science Department I researched how economic sanctions affect politics in targeted countries. The time I spent at Columbia was tremendously enriching and […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

Hi, my name is Viorica and I am European

Smiles, curiosity, intrigue, admiration, excitement, confusion – are just a few of reactions my initial introductions stirred amongst my fellow Fulbright colleagues, students and faculty in my first days in the U.S. Curious as my presentation was at the beginning, it is no longer curious now – only four months after the start of the […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

Our first American Thanksgiving

Fulbright friendship We are two Fulbright grantees from France, Farah and Raphaële. We met in Paris during the pre-departure orientation meeting organized by the French Fulbright Commission, and decided to meet up again in New York at the beginning of the academic year. Since then, it has become a tradition for us to see each […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

A Fulbright-Schuman Scholar in the District

I chose Georgetown University as my destination because of my research interests. I am in the close-to-final stage of my PhD dissertation, and wanted to work in a place that seemed to fit my research needs and plans the best. Not only were my expectations were met in Georgetown, but also exceed, making my experience […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

At The University of Michigan: A Unique Opportunity to Reflect on the E.U. and the Refugee Crisis

It is almost two months already since I left Belgium to start my experience as an EU Fulbright-Schuman Scholar at the renowned University of Michigan Law School. Travelling for the first time to the other side of the Atlantic has soon become a totalizing experience of life during which I have been learning a lot […]

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2016-17 Europeans in the USA

Environmental Experiences from Vermont Law School

Vermont Law School (VLS) is utterly charming. Nestled in nature and river-rounded it is a wonderful place to research and enjoy all things environmental (whether natural; situational; or cultural). I find it hard to believe that I’ve already been here a month. Time has skipped joyfully by, thanks to a combination of kind, colourful and […]

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2015-16 2016 Europeans in the USA

Bringing a family on the Fulbright Schuman Program

Coming across the Atlantic with a family requires creativity, the endurance to fill out a big pile of forms, and a truckload of patience. But based on my so-far very short experience in the States, it is definitely worth it. In this blog post, I want to share a few things that our family has […]