There are many ways that U.S. Roster candidates can identify new contacts at institutions overseas.  These might include:

• Colleagues at your department, the international office on your campus, or other sources within your home institution.

• Networking with foreign faculty through conferences or other academic forums

• Fulbright Scholar Directories available on the CIES website include both U.S. and Visiting Scholar lists. You may use the directories to reach out to scholars who have travelled to or from countries of interest, as well as to find non-U.S. institutions that have participated in Fulbright programs across various disciplines.
• Fulbright Core Scholar Catalog of Awards to see which non-U.S. institutions are active hosts in the Fulbright Core Scholar Program.
• Fulbright campus representatives: campus representatives are crucial to the promotion of the Fulbright Program to the U.S. higher education community.
• Professional journals in your field (to find authors or institutions from particular countries).
• Area Studies Research Centers funded by Title VI of the Department of Education.
• Online search engines such as Braintrack (www.braintrack.com) and 4 International Higher Education directory and search engine (www.4icu.org).
• Fellows of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program.

U.S. Roster candidates can send an introductory letter with details about the Fulbright Specialist Program to potential contacts at non-U.S. institutions in order to introduce themselves and the program.

 

 

If you have made contact with a colleague at a non-U.S. institution that wishes to develop and submit a Specialist project request, please see the project request submission and approval process.
Below is a general checklist of aspects the requesting institution should note when completing a project request form, proposing a potential project opportunity for a preferred Specialist.
The host institution:

• Is a non-U.S., post-secondary academic institution or an education-focused organization.
• Has documented its willingness to provide housing or a housing allowance for the Specialist for the specific dates of the project.
• Has documented its willingness to provide meals or a per diem allowance for the Specialist for the duration of the project.
• Has documented its willingness to pay for and arrange all in-country grant-related travel for the duration of the project.
• Has documented its willingness to arrange for the Specialist’s arrival and pickup from the airport. 

The proposed project:

• Has a grant length of 14 to 42 days, including estimated round trip travel days to the host institution, weekends, and public holidays.
• Entails that the Specialist’s role will adhere to those listed in the ‘Sample Fulbright Specialist Activities’ section of the Specialist website.
• Clearly matches the expertise of a Named Request’s discipline and specializations as indicated on his/her curriculum vitae for this program.

The proposed specialist:

• Has successfully applied for and been accepted onto the Fulbright Specialist Roster.
• Is currently residing in the United States and will return to the United States upon completion of the grant.
• Is eligible to receive a Specialist grant for the proposed start date, (according to current J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board policies).

If you have any questions about working with non-U.S. institutions to assist them in developing and submitting Specialist project requests, please contact us at fulspec@iie.org.