Stories
Your Unique Story Is What Sets You Apart
Fleur Malease was a Belgian 2023-2024 Fulbright Master’s Student in Public Administration at Harvard University. Before Harvard, Fleur worked as a Donor Relations Officer at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). She holds a Master’s degree in Commercial Engineering completed…
From Belgium to the United States: An Exploration of International and Business Law
Sonia Belhassen was a Belgian 2023-24 Master’s Student in Law at Harvard University (LL.M.). Sonia is an Associate at Clifford Chance where she works across several finance transactions, including debt capital markets. She graduated with a master’s degree in law…
Brussels – Defying the Big City Stereotype
Lily Wright was a 2023-24 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Belgium. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English and French, Lily spent a year serving her home state of West Virginia as an AmeriCorps VISTA member. In addition to…
Restoring Rubens: Revealing the Magic of Antwerp Through Art Restoration
Kayla Metelenis is a paintings conservator who holds an MA in Art History and MS in the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works from The Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. As a 2023-2024…
Family, Friends, and Finding Lost Manuscripts in Flanders
Virginia Blanton was a Fulbright Scholar in Literature at the University of Antwerp in the 2023-24 academic year. She spent the year doing research with UAntwerpen and the Onderzoeksinstituut Ruusbroecgenootschap. During the year, she investigated the English nuns of Syon…
Bridging Cultures: One Journey as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Luxembourg
Julia Barone is a second year Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Luxembourg in the 2024-25 academic year. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College in 2022, where she studied English and French. After spending her senior year at…
Sharing the American Perspective through Teaching, Traveling, and Volleyball
Molly Wancewicz was a 2023-2024 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Belgium. In 2021, she graduated summa cum laude from Rice University with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History. After graduating, she joined Teach for America and spent two…
Flemish, Yoga, and Lace Making Classes: A Life Full of Learning as an ETA in Bruges
Emma Hudson-Mairet spent the 2023-2024 academic year serving as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Belgium. Emma graduated from Marquette University with a bachelor’s degree in French, Environmental Studies, and Peace Studies in 2022. After graduation, Emma spent a year…
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…