Alexandra Lord is one of the five American Fulbrighters who were able to start their program this winter, despite the worldwide pandemic. As a historian of medicine at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., Alexandra is curious about how cities can encourage visitors to engage with the more painful aspects of history. In Prague, hosted by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Alexandra discovers what the famous capital hides "Behind the Beautiful Facades." On March 12, 2020, I opened my computer to discover two emails. The first, from my employer, the National Museum of American History (the Smithsonian), informed me that our museum would now move to teleworking. The second congratulated me upon receiving a Fulbright Fellowship to the Czech Republic for the spring of 2021. Because spring of 2021 seemed so far away at the time, I gave little thought to how the pandemic might impact my time in Prague. In retrospect I am rather ...
Jaké je to být Fulbrighterem. What it is like to be a Fulbrighter.