Stories

Our Fulbrighters and CSPers have inspired and impressed us throughout the years. These blog posts were written by our program participants and will give you a glimpse into the Fulbright and CSP experience in the United States and the Netherlands.

Rayan Mazouz

Rayan Mazouz Received a Fulbright – Netherland-America Foundation grant in 2019 “In America, everything is portrayed in a grand manner. In the Netherlands, we have a more down-to-earth attitude, but I can appreciate that marketing of the American Dream. America has a large-scale entrepreneurial culture and that brings a lot of challenge, inspiration and motivation.…

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Vincent Veerbeek

“Crossroads of Old and New in the ‘Land of Enchantment’” by Vincent Veerbeek   From its origins as a Spanish colonial town to its popularity as a stop along Route 66, the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico might be best known today as the setting for the television show Breaking Bad and the home…

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Hannah Banks

“A Reflection of My Fulbright Year” by Hannah Banks   As the first year of my master’s program in Global Health: Research comes to a close at Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam, I’m left reflecting on my Fulbright year as it is also ending in just a few short months. Thinking back to the beginning…

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Jennifer Motter

“Archived Travels” by Jennifer Motter I will never forget the first class of my senior seminar at the University of Pittsburgh in 2018. The professor posed a simple question to the class, “why did you decide to become History majors?” For me, the answer was easy. I wanted to study history because knowing the past…

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Kendra Gordillo

Kendra Gordillo’s Fulbright experience   Hi all! My name is Kendra, and I’m a 2023-2024 Fulbrighter to the Netherlands. I study Philosophy, Bioethics and Health at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Before pursuing my Master’s here, I studied Genetics with a minor in Philosophy at Clemson University in South Carolina.   My Fulbright experience has been nothing…

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Unconventional Wisdom – Fardo Eringa

“Unconventional Wisdom”. Met dit motto wekte Rice University mijn nieuwsgierigheid. Het leek mij een uitgelezen plek om mijn eigen onconventionele onderzoek naar Michael Jackson-pelgrims verder te ontwikkelen. Ik werd niet teleurgesteld: Rice, met haar brede beschouwing van religie, bleek goed te passen bij mij en mijn onderwerp. Gedurende het Spring-semester van 2019 ervoer ik Rice…

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