CGHE Webinar

Geopolitical Implications of Educational Diplomacy: The Fulbright Program, 1958–2023

Date: Tuesday, 7 January 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: All times BST. Teams, registration required
Speaker(s):
  • Marisa Lally , George Mason University

The Fulbright Program serves as a prominent example of educational diplomacy policy. This study combines archival research and critical discourse analysis to examine 33 evaluation and report documents that evaluate the effectiveness of the Fulbright Program from 1958–2023. Marisa employed argumentation analysis to understand the underlying ideological strategies used to discursively construct the Fulbright Program’s multiple purposes. The study finds that the documents argue that education and mutual understanding are ephemeral concepts, the Fulbright Program has geopolitical justifications, and academic disciplines are a source of geopolitical power. This approach to analyzing the Fulbright Program’s historical documents provides a model for understanding educational diplomacy schemes that use higher education as a geopolitical tool.

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