Kahn, Hilary E.
Co-director

Hilary E. Kahn has been at Indiana University since 1997, beginning as faculty within the discipline of anthropology and since 2004 within the field of international education. She is currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change at IU-Bloomington (a Title VI National Resource Center), the Director of the Graduate Minor in Global Studies at IUB, the Director of Voices and Visions: Islam and Muslims in a Global Perspective (a public scholarship initiative supported by the Social Science Research Council), Director of Framing the Global Project (a research and publication initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation), and faculty in Anthropology and International Studies. She also leads communities of practice and professional development workshops for staff and faculty of Bloomington and the entire IU system on curriculum and campus internationalization. Before coming to the Global Center, she was the Director of Curriculum Internationalization at IUPUI. She regularly teaches within the IU Global Studies Program and the International Studies Department and she runs a summer service-learning program in Jamaica. She has taught semester long Global Dialogues courses through interactive video technology with Macedonia, Indonesia, and Russia. Her areas of interest and expertise include international education, intercultural teaching and learning, visual anthropology, visual pedagogies, human rights and the arts, and global research. In 2009, she received the IU Commission of Multicultural Understanding Faculty Award for promoting multicultural understanding and the IU International Studies Excellence in Teaching Award. She is also the leader of the Internationalization of Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Network for NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

201 North Indiana Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 855-5545
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: hkahn@indiana.edu

Hutton, Deborah S.
Co-director

Deborah Hutton is the Assistant Director of Indiana University's (IU) Center for the Study of Global Change. She is the FLAS Fellowship coordinator, co-director of the center's annual Institute for Curriculum and College Internationalization, co-director of the New Tech Global Issues All-School Project, and project director of the newly released Internationalizing the Academic Standards: Indiana. For multiple international/global outreach projects under her direction, the Global Center received the Goldman Sachs Foundation & Asia Society's Excellence in International Education Prize for Higher Education (2005) and was highlighted in the American Council on Education's Promising Practices: Spotlighting Excellence in Comprehensive Internationalization (2002), and the IU International Studies for Indiana Schools [interactive video] Project received the DIAL Consortium's International Distance Learning Programming Award (2001) for two series she created. She was the contributing editor of the Globalization issue of Faces: People, Places, and Cultures (2006). Her teaching experience includes secondary geography and history, as well as undergraduate and graduate university courses in social studies and global education. In the past, she has worked on projects to promote global education in Russian schools, strengthen social studies education in Africa, and internationalize IU undergraduate teacher education; she also facilitated an IU overseas study experience in the People's Republic of China.

201 North Indiana Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 856-4827
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: huttond@indiana.edu

Byler, Troy
Co-director

Troy Byler is a senior lecturer and outreach coordinator for the Germanic Studies Department at Indiana University Bloomington. He teaches all levels of German language instruction and is also the departmental liaison for the high school concurrent enrollment program, Advance College Project. He is involved with course development, articulation, teacher training and workshops, and assessment. He has been the program coordinator for a previous long-standing international program for teachers administered by the Center for the Study of Global Change.

201 N. Indiana Ave.
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 856-1768
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: tbyler@indiana.edu

Latz, Gil
ICCI Group Leader

Gil Latz, Associate Vice Chancellor of IUPUI and IU Associate Vice President for International Affairs, oversees the IUPUI Office of International Affairs. This office serves as IUPUI's hub of international activities, including the coordination of recruiting, advising, and admitting international students and scholars, developing strategic international partners, and promoting curricular internationalization. Previously, he was Vice Provost for International Affairs at Portland State since 2002 and Portland State professor of geography and international studies since 1993. For additional biographical information, click here.

201 North Indiana Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington , IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 856-5523
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: glatz@iupui.edu

Aw, Fanta
Pre-conference Workshop Leader

Fanta Aw is Assistant Vice President of Campus Life and Director of International Student and Scholar Services at American University in Washington D.C. Dr. Aw oversees all administrative, programmatic and personnel operations related to International/Intercultural programs and services and student engagement in the Office of Campus. Units for which she has oversight include Student Activities, University Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Women's Resource Center, GLBTA, Center for Community Engagement and Service, and the Kay Spiritual Life Center. Dr. Aw advises American University leadership on matters related to campus internationalization, and issues of inclusion, diversity and equity.

Butler Pavilion - 410
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016

Phone: (202) 885-3357
Fax:
E-mail: fanta@american.edu

Rehrey, George
ICCI Group Co-Leader

George Rehrey is a Principal Instructional Consultant with IUB's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, where he coordinates Indiana University's Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Program and advises and supports IUB instructors as they conduct classroom research, collect evidence of student learning, form communities of inquiry, apply for funding, and disseminate their work locally, nationally, and internationally. Each summer, along with his colleagues Lisa Kurz (CITL) and Eric Metzler (Kelley School of Business), George facilitates the Course Development Institute, where 40 faculty and graduate students participate in a 4-day intensive workshop to design or redesign a course of their choice. He also works with the Internationalization Collaborative Across Bloomington Project where he assists faculty on the internationalization of their courses. George's own SOTL work includes using taxonomies in gathering evidence of student learning, documenting how student-generated visual products can promote student-centered learning, and investigating how reflective teaching and backward course design methods improve teaching and learning. George holds an MFA in photography from Ohio University and a M.Ed. in Instructional Design/Organizational Development from the University of Illinois

201 North Indiana Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 856-5523
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: grehrey@indiana.edu

Kessler, Mary Lou
Business Manager

Mary Lou Kessler, with an MBA in Finance from the Indiana University School of Business, is the Business Manager for the Center. Previously, Mary Lou served as Account Executive with Dean Witter Reynolds, as an accountant and Comptroller in several banks, and as Business Manager for Indiana University's Malaysia Cooperative Program and Center for International Education and Development Assistance. She maintains and reconciles all accounting records for grants and contracts, audits billings for grant compliance and prepares financial reports, payroll, purchase orders, travel requests, etc.

201 North Indiana Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 855-6264
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: mlkessle@indiana.edu

O'Connor, Louise
Information Manager

Louise O’Connor, the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs (OVPIA) Web Services Specialist, graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and Statistics. She has worked for the U.S. Navy in Maryland as an Information Programmer/Operations Researcher and at Hewlett-Packard in Colorado as a Systems Analyst in database design and programming. She began her employment at Indiana University as the Project Web Programmer Analyst for the International Resource Center’s Indiana in the World project. She has since worked on developing and maintaining Web sites and/or database systems for OVPIA, the Center for International Education and Development Assistance (CIEDA), the IU Honors Program in Foreign Languages for High School Students, the Open Society’s Burmese Scholars project, International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI), Access International, International Studies In Schools (ISIS), the South African Legislative Drafting Program, and the Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization (ICCI).

201 North Indiana Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 855-0756
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: looconno@indiana.edu

Siering, Carmen
Assistant Program Administrator

Carmen Siering, Program Assistant at the Center for the Study of Global Change, taught in the Department of English at Ball State University as a member of the Writing Program, and as affiliate faculty in the Women and Gender Studies Program. Since arriving at Indiana University, she has taught courses on feminism in the Department of Gender Studies. At the Global Center, Carmen works with the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) program.

201 North Indiana Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 856-5523
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: icci@indiana.edu

Garcia, Susan
Assistant Program Coordinator

Susan Garcia is Outreach Coordinator for the Indiana University (IU) Center for the Study of Global Change. She manages several projects, including: Deliberation; Integrating International and Civic Education; Global Grants Monroe County Community School Corporation; Global Grants Indiana; Global Issues Community Discussion Series; Internationalizing the Academic Standards: Indiana; and New Tech Global Issues All-School Project. Susan's teaching experience includes secondary English/language arts, health, mathematics, science, and social studies. She co-developed the curriculum for the alternative school setting in which she taught for eight years. Susan studied in Spain as an undergraduate student and has traveled to Canada, France, Guatemala, Mexico, and Morocco. She is currently earning a Master's in International and Comparative Education at IU.

201 North Indiana Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 855-1638
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: gloutrch@indiana.edu

Manifold, Laura
VC Coordinator

Laura Manifold is the Communications Liaison for the International Studies Program, in addition to the Center for the Study of Global Change. She coordinates the Digital Pathways Initiative by communicating with faculty and technology specialists at IU and across the world, problem-solving technical and curricular issues, assisting faculty with the curricular integration of technologies, and promoting the initiative and its opportunities across campus. She holds a Master of Arts in Cultural Studies from Rijksinversiteit Groningen and from Georg-August Universität, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University in Spanish and Portuguese.

201 North Indiana Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 856-5523
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: lmanifol@indiana.edu

Zerrer, Jessica
Program Assistant

Jessica Zerrer is the Program Assistant for ICCI. She earned her Master's degree in Latin American and Caribbean studies with a concentration in anthropology from Indiana University (through CLACS). Her research focuses on Afro-Latin America, with food and tourism in particular, exploring the ways in which "exotic" and "tropical" foods are marketed to tourists in the U.S., and how these images shape both the tourists' experience while on vacation and also the impact on local food landscapes in tourist destinations. Jessica received a dual B.A. in International Affairs as well as Spanish Language/Literature from Transylvania University in Lexington, KY. Jessica has also taught Spanish at Indiana University as well as the University of Kentucky.

201 North Indiana Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001

Phone: (812) 856-5523
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: Jessgarr@indiana.edu