Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility
Global Learning Speakers
The following speakers have served as visiting experts and consultants on global learning for the Shared Futures network and its participating institutions. This resource is meant to facilitate access to expertise for educators who hope to develop curricula or co-curricular structures around these major global themes.
Shared Futures Program Directors
Caryn McTighe Musil is the Senior Vice President at AAC&U and oversees the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives. Under her leadership, the office works to mobilize powerful and overlapping educational reform movements involving civic engagement, diversity, global learning, women’s issues, and personal and social responsibility.
Kevin Hovland is
the Director of Global Initiatives and Curricular Change at AAC&U. He is responsible for the Shared Futures initiative and other programs that
encourage colleges and universities to use global learning outcomes as an organizing principle for coherent and comprehensive general education curricular designs.
Health and Social Justice
Dr. Victor K. Barbiero is a visiting associate professor of Global Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Dr. Barbiero is also a Senior Advisor in Global Health Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He previously served 21 years as a Foreign Service Officer with the Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, East Africa and India. Throughout his career he has worked on issues such as HIV/AIDS; child survival; health and nutrition; and tropical and vector-borne diseases. Dr. Barbiero has also worked with the World Health Organization and the Peace Corps. (2008 Undergraduate Curriculum Development Institute,The Educated Citizen and Public Health)
Dr. Gro Brundtland is an expert on global health as well as the former Prime Minister of Norway and director-general of the World Health Organization.
(2005 Global Scholar-in-Residence, Mount Holyoke College)
Dr. Gerald Caplan is an expert on genocide prevention and a senior consultant to the African Union and the United Nations. (2007 Global Scholar-in-Residence, Mount Holyoke College)
More links: Genocide Prevention and the International Community: A Fable for Our Time (Podcast)
Dr. Merve Kavakci is a former member of the Turkish Parliament and a part-time
lecturer on culture and international affairs
at the George Washington University. Dr. Kavakci is also an expert on Islam and its relationship with democracy and gender.
(Faculty Development Presentation, Drury University)
Dr. Obioma Nnaemeka is a professor at Indiana University, Indianapolis. As an expert in African/African Diaspora studies, development, globalization, women's/gender studies, human rights, and multiculturalism, Nnaemeka conducts research and consultancy for the United Nations, foreign governments, international agencies, and academic institutions. (2006 Summer Institute, Shared Futures)
More links: "Humanizing” and “Righting” Globalization (Podcast)
Kavita Ramdas is the president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas possesses insights into issues of global poverty and inequity.
(2008 Global Scholar-in-Residence, Mount Holyoke College)
More links: Gender Equity in a Global World: Who (se) Rules? (Podcast)
Sustainability
Dr. Geoffrey Chase is
the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at San Diego State University and co-editor of the book, Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for change. (Global Citizenship Student Symposium workshops, Hawai'i Pacific University)
Jean MacGregor is the co-founder and Senior Scholar at the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education at Evergreen State College where she teaches in the Masters of Environmental Studies Program.
She also directs the Center's new Curriculum for the Bioregion Initiative whose goal is to engage more undergraduates in experiential learning related to environment, community and sustainability. (2007 Faculty and Curriculum Development Institute, Shared Futures)
Cathy Middlecamp holds a joint appointment in Chemistry and Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The participants of her workshop, As If People Mattered; As If Our Planet Were at Stake, ultimately confront the urgency expressed in the title of this talk —to teach science to both non-majors and majors as if the planet depended on it. (2007 Faculty and Curriculum Development Institute, Shared Futures)
Dr. David Orr is a professor at Oberlin College and an expert in ecological design and environmental literacy in higher education. (Faculty Development Presentation, Drury University)
Debra Rowe is a senior fellow at the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future where she helps higher education institutions integrate "sustainability literacy" into curricula throughout the disciplines, student life, operations, and community partnerships. She is an executive committee member of the U.S. Partnership for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and the energy and sustainability consultant to an NSF-funded National Science Database Library. Rowe has been professor of Renewable Energy Technologies and Behavioral Sciences for over 25 years at Oakland Community College. (2006 Summer Institute, Shared Futures)
More links: Creating Better Futures: Higher Education and Sustainable Development Leadership (Podcast)
Dr. Stephen Schneider is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Stanford University professor, and a climate change expert. (2008 Lecture Series, Hawai'i Pacific University) and (2007 Faculty and Curriculum Development Institute, Shared Futures)
Globalization, Wealth, and Poverty
Dr. Matthew Krain is professor of political science at the College of Wooster. He is also an expert of conflict, development, and human rights. (Faculty Seminar Series, John Carroll University)
Ann Makepeace has been a writer, producer, and director of award-winning independent films for more than twenty years. Her film, Rain in a Dry Land, is an effective tool for film discussion on what it means to be a refugee in today's global village as well as issues of racism, poverty, and cross cultural interaction. (2007 Faculty and Curriculum Development Institute, Shared Futures)
Dr. Guy Standing is a professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath and an expert on the globalization of labor markets. (2006 Global Scholar-in-Residence, Mount Holyoke College)
The Ethics of Global Citizenship
Dr. Bipasha Baruah is the associate director of the Yadunandan Center for India Studies and a geography faculty member at California State University, Long Beach. She is an expert on environmental Studies and global citizenship. (Citizenship Student Symposium, Hawai'i Pacific University Global)
Dr. Grant Cornwell is the President of the College of Wooster and an advisory board member of Liberal Education and Global Citizenship. He is also the co-author of “Globalizing Knowledge,"an AAC&U article that examines importance of intersecting global studies with American cultural diversity. (faculty development workshops, Albany State University)
Identity, Culture and Border Crossings
Benjamin Barber is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and a principal of the Democracy Collaborative. Barber brings an abiding concern for democracy and citizenship to issues of politics, culture, and education in America and abroad. (2006 Summer Institute, Shared Futures)
More links: Religion, Globalization, and Democracy: Is Fundamentalism an Obstacle to Democracy? A Cause of Terrorism? Or a Reaction to the Secular Empire of McWorld? (Podcast)
Dr. Mark Gilbert is a National Endowment for Humanities Endowed Chair of History at Hawai'i Pacific University. He is an expert on historical perspectives and Globalization. (Global Citizenship Student Symposium, Hawai'i Pacific University)
Dr. Rohan Gunaratna is head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University as well as the author of "Inside Al Qaeda: Network of Terror." (Guest Lecture, University of Alaska)
Dr. Bonnie Honig is a professor at Northwestern University and half-time senior research fellow for the American Bar Foundation. Her expertise is issues of contemporary political, democratic, and feminist theory. In her book, “Democracy and the Foreigner," she examines the implications of immigration for national identity and citizenship. (Faculty Seminar Series, John Carroll University)
Rami Khouri is the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut as well as editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper. He is a well-published and widely-read journalist on Mid-East affairs. (2004 Global Scholar-in-Residence, Mount Holyoke College)
Dr. Debra Mubashshir of Beloit College’s Department of Religious Studies is an expert on women's studies within Islamic culture. (Guest Lecture, University of Alaska)
Dr. Obioma Nnaemeka is a professor at Indiana University, Indianapolis. As an expert in African/African Diaspora studies, development, globalization, women's/gender studies, human rights, and multiculturalism, Nnaemeka conducts research and consultancy for the United Nations, foreign governments, international agencies, and academic institutions. (2006 Summer Institute, Shared Futures)
More links: "Humanizing” and “Righting” Globalization (Podcast)
Dr. Noam Zohar is a professor of philosophy at Bar-Ilan University and an expert on Jewish bio-medical ethics and Just War Theory (Faculty Seminar Series, John Carroll University)
More Pedagogy and Curricular Design
- 2007 Faculty and Curriculum Development Summer Institute:
Sonoma State University (Workshops)
- 2006 Faculty and Curriculum Development Summer Institute:
Smith College (Institution Sharing)
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