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Lois Roth Foundation board member Anne Barbaro recently wrote an article titled, “Lois Roth Foundation: Honoring a Great Cultural Diplomat” for the prestigious Public Diplomacy Association of America (PDAA) about the Lois Roth’s vision. Lois Roth was a groundbreaking cultural diplomat, and the LRE are proud to help further her vision with our programs fostering …

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On this Indigenous People’s Day, the Roth Foundation salutes its many former grantees working on Indigenous cultures and the issues facing Indigenous Peoples around the world. We are proud to help support these important projects. Read more about one of our former grantees, Patricia Tupou from New Zealand, HERE!  

A generous gift from Ann O. Thomson, whom Lois referred to as her Swedish adoptive mother, provides supplementary project support for American Fulbrighters in Sweden every year. The 2021 Roth-Thomson Awards was presented to Hannah Ritchey. Hannah is conducting research on Muslim immigration and integration in Sweden.  She will use the Roth-Thomson Award for translation …

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A generous gift from Ann O. Thomson provides supplementary project support for American Fulbrighters in Finland every year, in cooperation with the Fulbright Finland Foundation.  For 2021, the award was presented to Lexi Lobdell. Lexi is pursuing a Master’s of Science degree in International Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of Lappeenranta. She plans to …

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In collaboration with Fulbright Norway, the Roth Foundation grants an award to an American Fulbrighter in Norway every year. This year, the award went to Michelle Chang. Michelle Chang is conducting research on Norwegian mindsets about death in collaboration with the University of Bergen’s Center for Crisis Psychology to support the Center’s work with the …

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Congratulations to our 2020 Danish Project Support awardee James Budinich! Under a Fulbright grant with the American Scandinavian Foundation, James will work with the Royal Danish Academy of Music to conduct research on the Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and the Danish New Simplicity movement during the 1960s.  He will also develop a composition for vocalist …

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Congratulations to the 2021 awardees for our MLA-Roth Translation Award, which were announced in a virtual ceremony held by the Modern Language Association on January 9th, 2021! The 2021 award went to Robert and Elizabeth Chandler for their translation from the Russian of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad. Set in Russia in the midst of WWII, the …

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We are excited to announce the recipients of our 2020 Cultural Diplomacy Awards!  The Lois Roth Award went to Cultural Affairs Officer Davida MacDonald from the U.S. Embassy in Rabat, Morocco. Davida was recognized for the “Moonshot Morocco” campaign she designed that transformed the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing into a year-long celebration …

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