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Fulbright in a Time of Plague

My calendar tells me that today is the annual reception at my university to honor the Fulbright scholar exchange program and its grantees. Cancelled, of course. But I woke up thinking about the Fulbright exchange program --what it has given me and my family, the opportunities it has created for students and scholars all over the world. It was April 2012 when I learned I was under consideration for the Distinguished Slavic Scholar position at the University of Warsaw, and we spent spring semester 2013 in Poland. Since then I've been back to Poland several times in spring, and I meet up with former students who are doing amazing things, stop by the Polish Fulbright Commission office to see what's new, share a meal with a friend from the American Studies Center. She has had formative intellectual and cultural experiences while in the U.S. on a Fulbright grant, and she regularly interacts with visitors from the U.S. to Poland. We were grateful to the American Studies Center