Mira Markham arrived in the Czech Republic at the beginning of January of this year. A PhD candidate in the College of Arts and Sciences at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mira won a 9-month Fulbright student grant to move forward with her dissertation research at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. When Mira planned her research project called, “Power in the Village: Rural Politics in Moravian Wallachia, 1945-1953,” there was no sign of a worldwide pandemic; thus, her original plan was to rely heavily on local in-person library, museum and archive research, communication with Czech scholars and field research in the rural area of Moravian Wallachia, the mountainous region located in the eastern part of the country. Mira is fluent in Czech and has been to the country four times prior to her Fulbright grant. How has she adjusted to the new realities of today? And how successful is she in conducting her research given the current limits? When I arrived at...
Jaké je to být Fulbrighterem. What it is like to be a Fulbrighter.