The Lois Roth Foundation is proud to celebrate the continued literary achievement of our MLA-Roth Translation awardee Sasha Dugdale who has been honored with the 2025 Runciman Award for The Strongbox, a powerful poetic…
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Most of the Inuit artworks that are the subject of Dr. Pushaw’s study are not in Greenland, taken and residing in collections in places as diverse as Oslo and Kansas. Dr. Bart Pushaw, of…
Two years ago, we were proud to support Kalyn McDonough through our Project Support Award for Australia. Recently, the Lois Roth Foundation Board had the pleasure of reconnecting over lunch and hearing how this…
In an enlightening exchange in May 2024, Meryem Hammam—Chief of Staff of MACECE (the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange)—described the financial situation facing international Fulbrighters, despite a recent raise in stipends to offset…
We’re proud to see our 2021 Gill Jacot- Guillarmod Awardee in action! On March 29, Gözde Doğan, Ph.D. gave an inspiring presentation to American University students in a Skills Institute on Cultural Diplomacy and…
Congratulations to Derek Russell, recipient of a 2025 Project Support Award Ecuador! After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree in Architecture, Derek is undertaking architectural…
Marielle Buxbaum is a recipient of the 2025 Project Support Ecuador Award for her exploration of youth social concerns in Theatre for Youth Futures: Engaging Ecuadorian Urban Teens. Marielle’s playwriting-for-social-change program looks to address difficult…
We are pleased to announce the inauguration of the Dick Arndt Prize for an Outstanding Work on Cultural Diplomacy. This biennial award honors Dr. Richard T. Arndt—a distinguished former Foreign Service Officer and founder…
A very Happy New Year to you from the Roth Foundation! We hope you had a warm holiday break and that the new year brings good health, happiness and peace. As I change the…
In this last piece before our winter break, we focus on our most recent awards for translations published in English, which we bestow in collaboration with two partner organizations. Our Translation Awards honor Lois…
This fall, our partner the Fulbright Association held its 47th conference, exploring the timely theme “the World at a Crossroads.” Embodying the Fulbright mission, the conferences of this US Fulbright alumni organization underscore the extraordinary potential of Fulbright alumni to…
In celebration of International Education Week and educational exchanges, we reached out to alumni of our Project Support Award program, and asked them for updates since receiving their award. If you follow us on…
Our Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy Awards capped off a joyful awards ceremony at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) on October 23. In her opening remarks, State Dept Assistant Secretary Lee Satterfield reported…
We are so pleased to report that the second Arabic Literature Tour we have helped support was a great success! It presented two novels by Syrian author Shahla Ujayli, translated by Michelle Hartman: A Sky So Close…
This year’s Robin and Avril Winks Award went to Chelsea Wong. A second generation Chinese-New Zealander, Chelsea has noticed a limited representation and understanding of Asian New Zealander experiences in the arts and is…
Emily Zhao, a graduate of Duke University, is the recipient of the 2024 Project Support Award Australia for her research in flexible smart home electrification. Emily will spend a year analyzing and collecting data,…
The Roth Foundation seeks to reinforce the service rendered by Comisión Fulbright Uruguay by offering supplementary support for projects in the social sciences and humanities, including the visual and performing arts. This year’s Project…
On June 14, the Roth Foundation was pleased and honored to be able to attend our fourteenth Fulbright Distinguished Lecture at Pembroke College Oxford, given by Dr. Fareed Zakaria. In thanking us for our support, Executive…
The Roth Foundation offers supplementary funds to a grantee of the American Scandinavian Foundation traveling to Denmark. This prize was instituted in honor of Lois Roth’s friend, Sonja Bungard-Nielsen, long-time director of the Danish…
A generous gift from Ann O. Thomson provides supplementary project support for up to two American Fulbrighters in Finland every year, in cooperation with the Fulbright Finland Foundation. The 2024 award went to Laura…
A generous gift from Ann O. Thomson provides supplementary project support for up to two American Fulbrighters in Finland every year, in cooperation with the Fulbright Finland Foundation. The 2024 award went to Sydney…
In collaboration with Fulbright Norway, the Roth Foundation grants an award to an American Fulbrighter in Norway every year. The 2024 award went to Leah Balter. Leah Balter will use the award to support…
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 2024 Roth-Thomson Awards were presented to…