“The Fulbright experience provided me the time and opportunity to deepen existing relationships

with French colleagues, to meet many other scholars and develop an expanding research network, and to access the riches of the French archives and libraries. The four months I have been here have been an intense non-stop immersive experience in which I have been constantly interrogating how

the problems of the past inform our contemporary struggles. Senator Fulbright’s vision of cross-cultural and international communication and diplomacy as the path to a peaceful democratic world

offers a powerful model.”

- Maureen Shanahan, Fulbright Research Scholar in Art History 2016-2017