Grantee and Alumni News

There is always a lot to celebrate, as our outstanding grantees are always doing something interesting, reaching milestones, taking on new responsibilities and just being fabulous as they continue to promote Fulbright and Iceland-U.S. relations in one way or another!

• Fulbright–NSF Arctic Research Scholar 2016–2017 Erica Hill has been selected University of Alaska President’s Arctic Professor.
• Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir has been chosen as one of the 50 inaugural members of IIE’s Global Community for Women’s Leadership, to which she was invited following her participation in Fulbright Arctic Initiative III.
• Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson has been promoted to the position of professor at the Department of Law at Reykjavik University. Hafsteinn received Fulbright and Boas awards to study for LLM at Harvard in 2012.
• 2024-2025 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Iris Nowenstein became an assistant professor at the University of Iceland on July 1.
• Fulbright Fellow and Boas Award recipient Hildur Hjörvar has been elected the President of HEILA, the Harvard European Law Association. Hildur is currently studying for an LLM degree in human rights law at Harvard University and is the Executive External Chair of the Harvard Human Rights Journal and Research Assistant at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict.
• Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir (Fulbright fellow 2012-2013) is exhibiting works from her series Your Feelings Matter at Gallery Guðmundsdottir in Berlin from December 19.
• Rachel Britton (Fulbright fellow 2020-2021) translated the poetry book A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, published in November 2024.
• Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson (Fulbright Scholar 1991 and 1998) has published a new book, Conservative Liberalism, North and South: Grundtvig, Einaudi and Their Relevance Today.
• Árni Heimir Ingólfsson (Fulbright Scholar 2010 and 2019) has a new book, Tónar útlaganna, that has been nominated to the 2024 Icelandic Literary Prize.
• Fulbright Visiting Scholar 2024-2025 Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir and former Fulbright Iceland board member Elizabeth Lay co-authored an article titled “Competing identities in diverse classrooms: mapping social and academic hierarchies in perceived inclusive utopias,” which was published in International Studies in Sociology of Education