Fulbright - Hays at Sixty

The Legacy of America’s Premiere Exchange Program

A conversation with Lonnie R. Johnson. Moderated by: Dr. J. Laurence Hare, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History

Dr. Johnson, a native of Minnesota, has lived and worked in Vienna, Austria in international education for over forty years and served as the executive director of the Austrian Fulbright Commission from 1997 until his retirement in 2019. The author of numerous books and articles on Central European history, his work in recent years has focused on the history of the Fulbright Program for a book with the working title Remembering and Forgetting Fulbright: The Remarkable History of the Fulbright Program, 1946-1971 (University of Arkansas Press). He has done research numerous times in the University of Arkansas Library’s special collections.

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