The Roth Foundation is very pleased to welcome the Moroccan-American Commission for Education and Cultural Exchange (MACECE Fulbright Morocco) as a new Project Support partner for the 2022-23 academic year… just in time to…
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Our 2020-21 Annual Review is now available here! Read about the great projects we have supported and the worthy recipients of our awards. Also, see the MATCHING CHALLENGE in the annual letter from the…
The Lois Roth Foundation has several exciting plans for celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2022. In addition to increasing our Project Support stipends, we are establishing new collaborations with three more Fulbright Commissions in…
We’re sure you know… today is Giving Tuesday. What you may not know is… the Roth Foundation is running a matching challenge. Thanks to funds contributed by Endowment founder Richard (Dick) Arndt, the first…
The Lois Roth Foundation is approaching another milestone: our 35th anniversary! The organization was founded in 1987, soon after Lois’s untimely death, by her widower Dick Arndt. Check out the painting we use as…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost five years since we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Lois Roth Foundation with a series of twelve monthly Alumni Portraits. They have lost none of…
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….
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…
Lois Roth Foundation board member Anne Barbaro recently wrote an article titled, “Locally Employed Staff Are the Lifeblood of Cultural Diplomacy” for the online journal, American Diplomacy about the Lois Roth Foundation’s annual Gill…
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…
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….
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…
On February 25th, Dr. Jeffrey C. Stewart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Fulbright Scholar Alumnus to Italy, joined Dr. Joanne Braxton for a virtual discussion of his most recent work, The New Negro: The…
On February 19th, a virtual panel discussion explored the life and work of renowned historian, Dr. John Hope Franklin, a Fulbright alumnus to multiple countries and former Fulbright Board Chair. Dr. Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom forever changed…
We are very pleased to present the video of the LRE Awards for Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy! The 2020 Award Ceremony of the Bureau for Educational and Cultural Diplomacy (ECA) was presented virtually on…
A virtual panel discussion on “Fulbright Impact in the Field: Strengthening International Engagement on US Campuses” took place on March 8. It was organized as part of events marking the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright…
We are excited to announce our new Gill Jacot-Guillarmod Career Achievement Award! Since 2011, the Roth Foundation Awards for Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy have been given in partnership with, and at the Annual Awards…
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…
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…
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…
On January 12th, 2021, Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering gave a virtual lecture on the Influence of International Exchange Programs on Diplomacy, introduced by Dr. Richard T. Arndt, retired US diplomat and founding chair of…