Stories
Engaging with the Catholic Community in Flanders in and out of the Classroom
Seth Kreeger is a PhD candidate at Marquette University and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Belgium for the 2023-2024 academic year. While in Belgium he conducted his research at KU Leuven into the Arabic philosophical background of…
Learning How to “work to live” as a Fulbright Scholar in Belgium
Yaghoob (Amir) Farnam is an associate professor at Drexel University. He received his PhD from Purdue University in 2015. As the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award to Belgium, he spent five months in 2024 at Ghent University to develop…
Working Towards a Circular Carbon Economy in Boston
Kevin De Ras was a Belgian 2023-2024 Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher in Engineering at MIT. He is a chemical engineering PhD candidate in his final year at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology of Ghent University. His research focuses on the…
New Perspectives in New York: Studying Law at Columbia
Malik Baba was a Belgian 2022-2023 Master’s Student in Law at Columbia University. Malik Baba obtained a master degree in Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2016 and an advanced master degree in Company Law from the KU…
Law without Borders: From Belgium to New York to Berlin
Liselotte Kasse B’nicco was a Belgian 2022-2023 Fulbright Master’s Student in Law at NYU. She holds a Master of Laws degree from Ghent University (2021). She dedicated her studies to international and human rights law, participating in projects such as…
Media Psychophysiology in the Pacific Northwest
Paulien Decorte was a Belgian 2022-2023 Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher in Communications at Washington State University. Paulien has recently obtained her PhD in Social Sciences in the department of Communication, studying the impact of food media on food-related choices and…
From theater to music to dance: Connecting to psychology in Luxembourg
While my fascination for studying psychology has always been connected with conducting psychological research, I did not realize that I would connect with my favorite discipline in three, non-traditional, artistic ways – theater, music, and dance – during my Fulbright…
The Carnivalesque and Belgian Modernism
Hannah Rose Blakeley was a 2022-2023 Fulbright Student Researcher in Belgium, where she conducted art historical research at Ghent University for her doctoral dissertation, “The Carnivalesque in Belgian Modernism.” Hannah Rose’s project investigates the ways in which two Belgian artists,…
In Search of Hawaiʻi in Antwerp
During the 2022-23 academic year, Rickey Larkin received a grant through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to conduct research on the linguistic landscapes of poke restaurants in Belgium at the Universiteit Antwerpen. We sat down with Rickey to ask him…
A Taste of the Luxurious Life in Luxembourg
Nicole Duby was a 2022-2023 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Luxembourg. After graduating from the University of Arizona with degrees in French and Psychological Sciences, she worked as a language assistant in Clermont-Ferrand, France through the Teaching Assistant Program in…
A Week in the Life at Michigan State
Julie Mennes was a Belgian 2022-2023 Fulbright Visiting Scholar to the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative (TDI)Center at Michigan State University MSU. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Logic andPhilosophy of Science at Ghent University. She has an interdisciplinary…
From Belgium to Boston
Liesbet Van Acker was a Belgian 2022-2023 Fulbright Student to Harvard University. She is a Ph.D. candidate at KU Leuven’s Consumer Competition Market and Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Liesbet obtained her Master of Laws at KU Leuven (magna cum laude)…