U.S. Scholars
Explore opportunities for U.S. citizens to go abroad with the Fulbright Scholar Program. With more than 800 awards annually to 135+ countries, find the right Fulbright for you.
Non-U.S. Scholars
Each year roughly 850 faculty and professionals from around the world receive Fulbright Scholar awards for advanced research and university lecturing in the United States. Individual awards are available to scholars from over 100 countries.
U.S. Institutions
U.S. Higher Education institutions are instrumental to the success of the Fulbright mission. They are key allies in advancing the goal of sharing knowledge across communities, promoting mutual understanding across nations and improving lives around the world.
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Across the Border: Shared Indigenous Experience in North America
This Native American Heritage Month, we’re highlighting the contributions of outstanding Fulbrighters who live the Fulbright mission through the ways in which they express their identities and their goals. In this Q&A, Fulbright Scholar Alumni Ambassador Brian Klopotek shares his experiences in Mexico, where he learned about Indigenous communities of Mexico, and shared his knowledge of Native Americans.
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Donathan Brown, U.S. Scholar to Slovenia, 2017
Title: Associate Professor
Discipline: Communications and Political Science
Home Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
City: Rochester
State: New York
Conferences and Workshops
Fulbright Facts
160
Countries
Since its inception in 1946, over 400,000 Fulbrighters have participated from over 160 countries.
8000
Fellowships
Annually, the Fulbright Program awards approximately 8,000 fellowships.
Fulbright Alumni Include
40
Heads of State or Government
61
Nobel Prize Laureates
76
MacArthur Foundation Fellows
89
Pulitzer Prize Recipients