The U.S.- Italy Fulbright Commission is a bi-national, non-profit organization promoting the opportunities for study, research, and teaching in Italy and the United States of America. The commission acts as executor of the Fulbright Program to and from Italy. Since 1948, the commission has fostered mutual cultural understanding through educational exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills. The commission offers competitive, merit-based grants for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists.
Created in 1948, the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission is one of 50 bi-national organizations responsible for overseeing the international collaboration of the Fulbright Program, one of the most well-known and prestigious scholarship programs in the world.
The US-Italy Fulbright Commission is governed by a Board of twelve members: six US members nominated by the Ambassador of the United States to Italy, and six Italian members nominated by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the United States Ambassador to Italy are honorary presidents of the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission.
The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, General Directorate for Cultural Promotion and Cooperation and General Directorate for the Americas ensure financial coverage and jointly manage the program.
The Commission promotes study, research and lectureship opportunities in Italy and in the U.S. through the Fulbright scholarships for Italian and American citizens (approximately 100 scholarships a year). It organizes and sponsors cultural and educational activities with both a national and international outreach and offers an Information Service on the Fulbright Program and on study and research opportunities in the U.S. and in Italy.
Currently, the Fulbright Program is the largest program of international cultural exchanges in the United States. It was proposed by Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas who believed that an international educational program could be an essential vehicle to promote peace and mutual understanding between individuals, institutions and future leaders wherever they may be. The program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide, with approximately 294,000 participants awarded over the course of 60 years. Awards vary between study programs, research or teaching in the United States and other participating countries. Each year approximately 7,500 Fulbright scholarships are awarded.
According to the Fulbright website, the following individuals are notable alumni of the U.S.-Italy Fulbright scholarship program:
Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Edoardo Amaldi
Giuliano Amato
Franco Amatori
Roberto Antonelli (filologo)
Antonio Armellini
Sergio Balanzino
Piero Bassetti
Paolo Bernardini
Irene Bignardi
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
Dario Biocca
Giovanni Boato
Remo Bodei
Luigi Boitani
Piero Boitani
Francesco Bruni (linguista)
Elisabetta Brusa
Antonio Cassese
Sabino Cassese
Sandro Calvani
Maurizio Calvesi
Carlo M. Cipolla
Giuseppe Cipolloni
Patrizio Civili
Umberto Colombo
Luigi Dallapiccola
Mario De Caro
Giovanni De Micheli
Furio Diaz
Lamberto Dini
Umberto Eco
Maria Luisa Fagioli
Franco Ferrarotti
Christian Filippella
Luciano Fonda
Luigi Fontanella
Carlo Forlivesi
Francesco Paolo Fulci
Luigi Gatteschi
Riccardo Giacconi
Roberto Giammanco
Paolo Giubellino
Gino Giugni
Francesco Grillo
Margherita Hack
Francesco Iachello
Piero Ignazi
Antonio Mario La Pergola
Laura Lilli
Massimo Livi Bacci
Agostino Lombardo
Empedocle Maffia
Ugo Mattei
Carlo Minnaja
Alberto Monroy (scienziato)
Loretta Napoleoni
Luigi Gerardo Napolitano
Manfredi Nicoletti
Michele Nicoletti
Mario Oriani-Ambrosini
Gianfranco Pasquino
Corrado Passera
Marcello Pera
Pierluigi Petrobelli
Giandomenico Picco
Mario Prosperi
Giuseppe Quatriglio
Carlo Ratti
Tullio Regge
Lucrezia Reichlin
Manlio Resta
Gianni Riotta
Stefano Rodotà
Lucia Ronchetti
Silvia Ronchey
Manlio Rossi-Doria
Carlo Rubbia
Giuseppe Sacco
Luigi Salerno
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Giovanni Sartori
Salvatore Settis
Giorgio Spini
Luigi Squarzina
Marco Stroppa
Massimo Teodori
Enzo Tiezzi
Irene Tinagli
Vanni Treves
Domenicangela Lina Unali
Paolo Valore
Umberto Vattani
Lionello Venturi
Massimiliano Versace
Itala Vivan
Vito Zagarrio
Michele Zappella
Federico Zeri
Alfred C. Aman, Jr.
Bumpei Akaji
Douglas Allanbrook
Putnam Aldrich
Herbert L. Anderson
Dominick Argento
Kenneth Arrow
Leonard J. Arrington
Jerome A. Barron
Denver Michelle Beattie
Robert Beauchamp
J. Bowyer Bell
Arthur Asa Berger
Steve Bickerstaff
Norman Birnbaum
Lee Bontecou
Daniel J. Boorstin
David Brion Davis
Eric Britton
James M. Buchanan
Noel DaCosta
Edmond Casarella
Nicolas Carone
Francesco Cesareo
Dale Chihuly
William J. Connell (historian)
Aaron Copland
Frederick Crews
Dan Dailey (glass artist)
James Dashow
Stephen De Staebler
Peter Diamond
David DiChiera
Niels Diffrient
Spencer M. Di Scala
Lois Dodd
Grant Drumheller
Norman Dyhrenfurth
Shirlee Emmons
Richard Faith
Daniel Ferro
Robert O. Fink
Marshall Fishwick
Angelo Garzio
Joseph Giardina
Gregory Gillespie
Milton Glaser
James Green (educator)
Eugene P. Gross
Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal
James Higginbotham
Theodore Holmes Bullock
Raymond F. Hopkins
L. Thomas Hopkins
Peter Hujar
Edgar Hull
Ada Louise Huxtable
Richard Karpen
John Kearney (artist)
Murray Kempton
David Kertzer
William King (artist)
Jerry Kirkbride
George Kish
Karl Klare
Karl Korte
Lisa Krohn
Herbert Kubly
Allen Kurzweil
Frank Judge
Gabriel Laderman
Joseph La Palombara
Linda Lappin
Irving Lavin
Lynne Lawner
Stanford Lehmberg
Alan Lelchuk
Richard S. Levy
Lorin Maazel
Sabina Magliocco
Jules Maidoff
Judith Malafronte
Richard Marquis
Donald Martino
Berthe Marti
Emily Mason
Bob McMath
Howard McParlin Davis
Richard Miller (singer)
Andrea Modica
Franco Modigliani
Anna Moffo
William Morgan (architect)
Mark Musa
Robert Neffson
Louis J. Nigro, Jr.
Louis Owens
Revilo P. Oliver
Robert Pack (poet and critic)
Philip Pearlstein
Sylvia Poggioli
Andreas Poulimenos
Larry Pressler
Robert Putnam
Joseph Raffael
Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr.
Theodore Roethke
David Rosand
Richard Rosecrance
Robert Royal (author)
Frederick P. Salvucci
Ellis Sandoz
Alberto Sbacchi
Emilio Segrè
Richard Serra
Salvatore Scibona
Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton
Larry R. Smith
Richard E. Spear
Dominic J. Squatrito
Jack Stauffacher
Michael Steinberg (music critic)
Mark Strand
Gregory Sumner
Webster Tarpley
John Thow
Rudolph Edward Torrini
Garner Tullis
Peter Vaghi
Hal Varian
Peter Viereck
William Weaver
Arnold Weinstein
Stephen Werlick
William Westney
Oliver Williamson
Betty Woodman
L. Randall Wray
Charles Wright (poet)
Arlene Zallman
Astra Zarina
