Fulbright Scholarship Archives

A final letter from Santiago

Eric ZolovOpinions Top StoryDecember 4, 2019December 5, 2019

“Tu normalidad es privilegio,” is graffitied over an entire wall along the Nueva Providencia Avenue in downtown Santiago. After six weeks of nearly continuous street protests and a growing tally of the dead and wounded, the debate over “a return to normalcy” has taken center stage here in Chile.

Another letter from Santiago: A cataclysmic week in Chile

Eric ZolovOpinionsOctober 27, 2019October 27, 2019

“Ta-ta, ta, ta, ta.” That’s the beat of protest, heard at random on the streets. It grows louder as one approaches the center, and reverberates off apartment buildings in the evenings following the start of a curfew. A simple banging of a spoon on a pot: the symbol of a peaceful protest.

A letter from Santiago

Eric ZolovOpinions Top StoryOctober 21, 2019October 21, 2019

We’re living in a different country from that of last Thursday. No one saw this coming. The media, colleagues and friends — everyone is trying to come to terms with what happened, what it means and where the country goes from here.

Professor Eric Zolov receives his third Fulbright Scholarship

Mike AdamsNewsFebruary 24, 2019February 25, 2019

Associate History Professor Eric Zolov will spend the next academic year teaching a seminar at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile as a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for professionals who already have their PhDs or equivalent degrees. Zolov will teach a course called “The Global 60s,” that analyzes the impact of America’s mid-century counterculture movement on Latin America.