Fulbright U.S. Student Program

Leslie Anderson is the director of collections, exhibitions, and programs at the National Nordic Museum. She leads the museum’s efforts to provide meaningful cultural experiences and oversees the care and interpretation of 80,000 objects. Since joining in 2019, Leslie has organized major loan exhibitions with the Finnish National Gallery and Sweden’s National Museum and spearheaded the virtualization of educational content, delivering programs that teach the Museum’s core values of social justice and sustainability. To coincide with UN Climate Change Conference in 2021, she partnered with the American Alliance of Museums and the International Council of Museums to organize a symposium titled, “On the Front Line: Arctic Museums and Climate Change” to discuss the impact of the climate emergency on Arctic museums and the indigenous communities they serve.

In 2018, Leslie received the Award for Excellence from the International Association of Art Museum Curators for her permanent exhibition American and Regional Art: Mythmaking and Truth-Telling. The following year she received Utah Museums Association Award for Excellence for Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art. She’s worked at multiple major museums throughout her career, including but not limited to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Denmark, and Indianapolis Museum of Art. She also taught art history courses at multiple colleges across the country and was a six-time reader for the College Board’s AP Art History exam.

Leslie is an alumna of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in Denmark. She has also been an American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellow and a Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow.

Robyn Cutright is an archaeologist specializing in local experiences of imperial conquest in the Andes. She is currently an associate professor of anthropology and Latin American studies at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Robyn has led international archaeological projects and mentored undergraduate researchers on the north coast of Peru since 2006. She has taught study-abroad courses in Cuba, Costa Rica, and Peru and plans to teach one in Mexico in 2023. Robyn recently published a book on the archaeology of food and teaches a wide range of anthropology, archaeology, and Latin American studies courses at Centre, including a new course on food, identity, and culture in the Americas. From 2019 till 2021, Robyn served as the interim director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Centre College, where she facilitated the emergency shift to remote learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Robyn’s dissertation research in Peru was supported by a Fulbright U.S. Student award, and she has also served as a Fulbright Program Adviser at Centre, where she has mentored over a dozen Fulbright ETA and Study/Research award winners. She earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and received her undergraduate degree in anthropology and Spanish from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Caroline Gutman is a freelance photojournalist and writer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her photography often portrays gender and economic inequality, climate change, and art and cultural innovation. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, ProPublica, Buzzfeed News, and NPR and has been funded by The Pulitzer Center.

Caroline is also co-founder of Nu Market, a social enterprise that expands women artisans’ market access, and she is part of the U.S. Department of State’s Speakers Program. Previously she was a Fulbright Research Fellow in China where she documented Yi and Miao indigenous women artisans and their textile traditions. Her photography from the Fulbright Program has been exhibited at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. Her work with artisans has been recognized by Nasdaq, the Textile Arts Council, and the Aspen Institute’s Artisan Alliance.

Caroline holds a bachelor’s degree in Chinese language and literature and political science from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. She is a member of Women Photograph and speaks fluent Mandarin and conversational French, Spanish, and German.