Dan Fellner is an eight-time Fulbright fellow who has more than 40 years of experience in print and broadcast journalism, corporate public relations, travel writing and university teaching in the United States, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.
He began his career as a television news and sports reporter at stations in four different American cities. He later spent 10 years in corporate public relations with the Dow Chemical Company, where he held a wide variety of positions, including manager of news media relations.
In 1998, Fellner joined Arizona State University as a faculty associate and has taught courses in print and broadcast journalism, public relations, international mass media, intercultural communications and travel writing. He also is a faculty affiliate with ASU's Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, and ASU's Center for Jewish Studies. He currently teaches courses in travel and Jewish history for ASU's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). In 2024 he received an "Award of Excellence" from OLLI for his passion and commitment to teaching.
Fellner is a three-time Fulbright Scholar -- Latvia, Moldova and Bulgaria, and five-time Fulbright Specialist -- North Macedonia (twice), Lithuania, Latvia and Indonesia. During his Fulbright grants, he has taught courses in journalism, public relations and intercultural communications at nine foreign universities. Most recently, he was a Fulbright Specialist at South East European University in North Macedonia during the Fall 2021 semester. He also has taught one-week intensive courses in communications four times at the Fulbright International Summer Institute (FISI) in Bulgaria. In 2023 Fellner was named for the sixth time to the speakers' bureau (AZ Speaks) of the Arizona Humanities Council. He gives presentations about unique overseas Jewish communities to audiences throughout the United States.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Fellner is a freelance travel writer for American newspapers and magazines. He has visited all 50 U.S. states, over 150 countries on all seven continents, and had more than 160 articles published on such diverse destinations as Greenland, Swaziland, Bali, Nicaragua, Myanmar, Kosovo, Tunisia, New Zealand, Dubai, Ecuador, Taiwan and India. His work has been featured in USA Today, The Jerusalem Post, The Washington Post, The Arizona Republic and numerous other publications.
Fellner served a three-year term on the Human Relations Commission in Gilbert, Arizona, and has been a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and the American Jewish Press Association.
All of Dan Fellner's published travel articles/photos can be viewed at: https://DanFellner.com.