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Christopher Bjork
Thesis title – Educational Decentralization in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Study of Local Responses to National Policy
Alma mater/current institution – Stanford University/Vassar College
Job title, Employer – Chair and Associate Professor, Education Department, Vassar College
Research Interests – Comparative and international education, educational decentralization, teaching cultures, educational reform in Asia
Blogs/websites – http://education.vassar.edu/bios/chbjork.html
Annick Corbeil
Thesis title – The experiences of international students in transnational higher education programs in Singapore
Alma mater/current institution – University of Toronto/École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec
Job title, Employer – Research officer, international mobility and partnerships/Cross-cultural training and coaching
Blogs/websites – http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/annick-corbeil/13/348/4a7
Lyndsay Hayhurst
Thesis title – Governing the “Girl Effect” through Sport, Gender and Development? Postcolonial Girlhoods, Constellations of Aid and Global Corporate Social Engagement
Alma mater/current institution – University of Toronto/University of Ottawa
Job title, Employer – SSHRC Postdoctoral fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences and Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa
Research Interests – Corporate social responsibility, postcolonial feminist theory, international relations theory, girlhood studies, cultural studies of sport, recreation and physical activity, critical policy studies
Keiko Inoue
Thesis title – Vive la patiente! Discourse Analysis of the Global Expansion of Health as a Human Right
Alma mater/current institution – University of Pennsylvania;Stanford University/The World Bank
Job title, Employer – Education Specialist, The World Bank
Research Interests – Vulnerable youth and employment; behavioral skills development
Nancy Kendall
Alma mater/current institution – Stanford University/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Job title, Employer – Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests – Comparative and international education policy, with foci in education and: democratization, HIV/AIDS, gender, orphans and vulnerable children, and sexuality. Roles that schooling plays, or fails to play, in increasing social justice globally, and in improving students’ and families’ lives.
Blogs/websites – http://eps.education.wisc.edu/faculty/kendall.asp
Caroline (Carly) Manion
Thesis title – “Girls’ Education as a Means or End of Development? A Case Study of Gender and Education Policy Knowledge and Action in The Gambia”
Alma mater/current institution – University of Montreal/University of Toronto
Job title – Employer: SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow & Instructor at OISE
Research Interests – sociology in education; gender and education; religion and education; politics of education; policy sociology; education multilateralism; civil society; social development/social justice; development ethics
Blogs/websites – http://carolinemanion.com
Obed Mfum-Mensah
Thesis title – The impact of non-formal basic education programs: A case study of northern Ghana. UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations (AAT NQ 84699)
Alma mater/current institution – University of Toronto/Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Job title – Associate Professor, Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania
Research Interests – Alternative Primary Schooling programs/Complementary Education Programs; Education and the construction of citizenship; curriculum theorizing; education of marginalized groups in sub-Saharan Africa
Blogs/websites – http://www.messiah.edu/departments/education/profile/ObedMfum-Mensah.htm
Gary Pluim
Thesis title – Power and participation in the Haitian reconstruction: A vertical case study analysis of international aid to innovative youth programs.
Alma mater/current institution – University of Waterloo, Queen’s University
Job title – PhD Candidate and Instructor, OISE / University of Toronto
Research Interests – Global and international education; Canadian aid to education; citizen participation in development; civil society and NGOs; youth and non-formal education; curriculum studies; democratic, inquiry-based, and experiential pedagogies.
Blogs/websites – http://utoronto.academia.edu/GaryPluim
Cheryl R. Richardson
Thesis title – The Lives of Kenyan Women Teachers, 1965-1992: Perspectives on the Role and Meaning of Teaching
Alma mater/current institution – Stanford University/University of California, Los Angeles
Job title, Employer – Director, New Growth International
Research Interests – Qualitative Research Related to the Professionalization of Teaching in Africa – What it means and how to nurture it.
Michel Welmond
Thesis title – Globalization at the Periphery: Teacher Policy in the Republic of Benin
Alma mater/current institution – University of Toronto/The World Bank
Job title, Employer – Lead Education Specialist, Africa Region, The World Bank
Research Interests – Teacher Policy, secondary education, Employment and Youth
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