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

Garcia, Susan
Assistant Program Coordinator

Susan Garcia is Outreach Coordinator for the Indiana University (IU) Center for the Study of Global Change (Global Center) where she manages several projects, including: Bridges: Children, Languages, World; Deliberation: Integrating International and Civic Education; Global Grants Monroe County Community School Corporation; Global Issues Community Discussion Series; Internationalizing the Academic Standards: Indiana; and New Tech Global Issues All-School Project. Susan has a B.A. in History, secondary teaching license, and M.S.Ed. in International and Comparative Education with a concentration in Higher Education and Student Affairs. Before coming to the Global Center, she co-developed the curriculum for an alternative school and taught middle and high school students there for eight years. As an undergraduate, Susan studied in Spain. She has traveled to Canada, France, Guatemala, Mexico, and Morocco.

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

Phone: (812) 855-1638
Fax: (812) 855-6271
E-mail: gloutrch@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 is the program assistant for the Center for the Study of Global Change where she works on a number of projects, including the Internationalization Collaborative Across Bloomington, the Institute for Curriculum and College Internationalization, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies program. She served as editor of the recently published Global Human Trafficking: A Bibliography (2000-2010). While at Indiana University she has taught courses on feminism and the history of feminism in the Department of Gender Studies. Prior to her move to Bloomington, she served as assistant professor of English at Ball State University where she was a member of the Writing Program faculty and an affiliate faculty member in the Women and Gender Studies Program. She is a writer and editor whose current projects include writing for the David Owsley Museum of Art (Ball State University) and Bloom Magazine. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition.

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

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