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Program Administrators
| Dr. Esther E. Gottlieb
joined OSU Office of International Affairs in Fall 2002 to head this
key initiative to enhance OSU intellectual competitiveness by forming
and managing two clusters of interdisciplinary research and to coordinate
the efforts of OSU researchers working on selected international themes
in which the University can establish prominence. Gottlieb was Director
of Research Development for the Humanities and Social Sciences at
West Virginia University and an Associate Professor of Education.
Her wide experience in teacher education, administration and development
includes working at Hakibbutizm College, in Tel Aviv and a NASA three
year Outreach funded program in WV. She holds a Ph.D. from the University
of Pittsburgh, and a M.A. from Case Western Reserve University. At
OSU she taught "Feminist Analysis in Global Perspective"
and "Globalization and Education". Her research in comparative
and international education has focused on discursive practices. Among
her recent publications are chapters: "Are We Postmodern Yet?
Historical and Theoretical Explorations in Comparative Education,"
in International Companion to Education (Routledge,
2000), and "Appalachian Self-Fashioning: Regional identities
and cultural models" in Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics
of education (Vol. 22, No. 3, 2001). Her edited volume with J. Craig
Jenkins Identity Conflicts: Can Violence be Regulated?
Is forthcoming (2007) from Transaction Publishers. |
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Joanna
Kukielka-Blaser CIRIT program coordinator from 2002 to 2006.
Previously, she served as Assistant Director of the Mershon Center
Civic Education Program (CEP) of the Ohio State University. Joanna
was with the Mershon Center’s civic education exchange programs
from 1996 to 2002 as a Program Assistant, Program Coordinator and
Program Manager. She holds an M.A. degree in Russian Language and
Literature from the Department of Slavic and East European Languages
and Literatures of the Ohio State University where she held a Graduate
Teaching Associate appointment. From 1992 to 1996 she was a Soros
Foundation Teaching Fellow at the Teacher Training College of Gdansk
University in Poland. In this position, she taught foreign language
teaching methodology and advanced English courses, supervised student
teaching practice, advised student theses, and developed teacher-training
courses and curricula. |
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