Tag: tourist stuff
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The First Day
I met my students for the first time on Tuesday, for the first session of my seminar in the History of American Foreign Policy. What an amazing group of students! I am very excited to teach this group. I am also confronted immediately with the differences between American and Italian styles of teaching at the…
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My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. What happens when an American historian goes to Rome on a Fulbright, at a very confusing time in U.S. politics ? Add in a splash of pandemic and stir.
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Hi, I’m Lauren.
I started this blog to catalog the experiences I was about to have as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Rome, Italy, in Spring 2020. For some months I had envisioned my biggest challenge as a Fulbrighter, and one likely to be of interest to a lot of people, would be how to explain U.S. history…