Trinity University is a Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs recognized Trinity University for being one of the colleges and universities with the highest number of faculty and administrators selected for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.

Trinity has had 25 Fulbright grantees, including individuals who have received multiple Fulbrights during their careers. Fulbright Top Producing Institutions such as Trinity University value global connection and support members of their campus communities across the United States to pursue international opportunities.

“Being a Fulbright Top Producing Institution demonstrates our core values of intentional inclusion and expanding global perspectives,” says Megan Mustain, Ph.D., provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. “Trinity faculty are distinguished scholars and dedicated mentors, and Fulbright Scholars further Trinity’s mission of perpetual discovery, cultivating new questions and hazarding new answers with a well-informed global lens.”

The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international academic exchange program. Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided over 400,000 talented and accomplished students, scholars, teachers, artists, and professionals of all backgrounds with the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research abroad. Fulbrighters exchange ideas, build people-to-people connections, and work to address complex global challenges.

The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress to the Department of State. Host institutions, participating governments, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide. Talented individuals from all backgrounds have participated in the Fulbright Program and returned home with an expanded worldview, a deeper appreciation for their host country and its people, and broader professional and personal networks.

“I’ve had the incredible opportunity to receive two Distinguished Fulbright Fellowships to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one in creative writing (2019-20) and the second in Irish literature (2023-24),” explains Jenny Browne, MFA, professor of English at Trinity. “What makes Fulbright unique for me is the opportunity for both academic and cultural exchange, to be immersed in the rich intellectual life of another institution while also invigorating my own writing and teaching through encounters with new colleagues, students, landscapes, and cultural experiences, and ultimately bring the excitement and lasting connections built from those experiences back to Trinity.”

Fulbright alumni work to make a positive impact on their communities, sectors, and the world and have included 44 heads of state or government, 62 Nobel Laureates, 90 Pulitzer Prize winners, 82 MacArthur Fellows, and countless leaders and changemakers who build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.  

For more information about the Fulbright Program, visit https://fulbrightprogram.org/.