Last fall, the Centers for International Business Education (CIBE) project directors met at Temple University in Philadelphia for the group’s first in-person meeting since 2019 and the first meeting since the new FY 22 CIBE awards were announced by the Department earlier this year. Tim Duvall, CIBE program manager, and Brian Cwiek represented the Department at the meeting. The event provided an opportunity for grantees to describe new initiatives and reflect on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on reshaping their training and outreach activities. The 16 CIBEs described the collaborative projects already begun or that will take place over the next four years. Participants also discussed the potential impacts of emerging trends in international business education and research on the ongoing development of effective and relevant curricula.

• David Borgonjon, Columbia University (Dissertation title: "Modern Chinese Literature in Cold War Indonesia"). Borgonjon will conduct archival research in Indonesia for six months and in the Netherlands for four months. He is most excited about searching for Chinese-language books, newspapers, and magazines from 1950s historical Indonesia.
• Melissa Karp, Duke University (Dissertation title: “Imagining the Collaborator: Ghosts of Occupation in Transwar France and Korea”). Karp will conduct research in South Korea for two months and in France for four months. She looks forward to visiting memorials and museums in both countries to learn about the ways war memory is transmitted in public history spaces.
• Sabina Madrid-Malloy, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Dissertation title: "Resonating Resistance: The Body in Contemporary Mexican Theatre and Performance"). Madrid-Malloy will conduct research in Mexico for six months and is excited to be in the field and to view performances.
• Wallace Teska, Stanford University (Dissertation topic: The history of law, religion, and social change in a transnational zone of Francophone West Africa). Teska will conduct research in Senegal, France, and Italy for three months each. He looks forward to visiting five different archives across two continents and further developing his Arabic reading skills.
• Adrian Wong, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Dissertation topic: Development discourse, digital infrastructure, and inequality in the context of Chile-China Relations). Wong will conduct research in Chile for 12 months, where he looks forward to connecting with the inspiring and groundbreaking scholarly community in Chile. 

• Anjara Mishra, assistant teaching professor, Florida International University. Mishra's research interests include Asian Indian diaspora and development studies, and her FRA project focuses on Chikan women artisans of Lucknow, India. Mishra looks forward to being in Lucknow over a period of four months, conversing with the artisans in the Urdu language, and collecting data.
• Yücel Yanıkdağ, professor of history, University of Richmond. Yanıkdağ is a three-time Fulbright-Hays grant recipient, including a previous DDRA award. His research focuses on the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic, and he will work in Turkey for seven months using his FRA fellowship. Yanıkdağ's research and instructional subjects are usually partially or completely unexplored, and he is excited to find new unutilized sources during his research project in Turkey.

IFLE will be accepting applications for the following FY 23 programs in the coming months:

• Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad (SA) Program
  (Application now open! Deadline to apply: Feb. 9, 2023)
  The SA program provides short-term seminars abroad for U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities to improve their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. Educational lectures and activities are designed specifically for each seminar group, including visits to local schools and organizations, meetings with educators and students, and visits to cultural sites. Participants draw on their experiences abroad to create new curricula for their classrooms and school systems back in the U.S. The FY 23 summer seminars will be offered in Jordan (grades K–8), Argentina and Brazil (grades 9–12), and Mexico (postsecondary).
  Contact: SeminarsAbroad@ed.gov
  
  
• Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program 
  (Estimated date for competition announcement: January)
  The GPA Program provides grants for overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies by teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Programs are designed to help integrate international studies and culture into an institution's or school system's general curriculum, to acquire resource materials for curriculum development and dissemination in the U.S., or to conduct group research or study projects abroad. The FY 23 GPA competition will invite applicants to request support for either a short-term project or a long-term project.
  Contact: GPA@ed.gov

In the months after the Feb. 1, 2021, military coup in Myanmar, faculty, staff, and students at Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) considered how they could help at-risk scholars come to the university for safety, and to participate in SEAP programming. Drawing on Title VI National Resource Center funding, SEAP assisted four at-risk, scholars, activists, and artists, along with their families, to find visiting fellow positions at Cornell. The visiting fellows are May Sabe Phyu, co-founder of the Gender Equality Network and a prominent human and women's rights activist; Kyaw Yin Hlaing, executive director of Center for Diversity and National Harmony, a nongovernmental organization in Myanmar focused on social harmonization, peaceful coexistence, and the mitigation of violence; Min Ma Naing (a temporary pseudonym adopted due to the political situation in Myanmar), a personal documentary photographer; and Nay Yan Oo, former Myanmar parliamentary candidate for the pro-democracy People's Party.

Thamora Fishel, Associate Director of SEAP, described this process in an interview with East-West Center Young Professional Drake Avila. Click below to read the full article.

With a multicultural lens and a deep sense of curiosity, recent University of Washington (UW) Foster School of Business graduate Giselle Antoine researches shame cultures and their organizational impact. Shame cultures are systems of social control that guide members in how they ought to feel and behave surrounding the violation of norms. In an interview recently posted to UW's website, Antoine shared how her interest in intercultural communication led her to complete a Ph.D. in management and organization. The interview also reveals her insights about what’s next for her research and teaching, and key takeaways for business leaders.

Antoine’s research while in the Ph.D. program at UW was partially supported by the Title VI Centers for International Business Education (CIBE) program. The UW Foster School Global Business Center is one of 16 federally-designated CIBEs.

Master's student Rose Adams received two Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships from Stanford University's Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) to support her study of the Korean language and her thesis on depictions of women in North Korean post-famine cinema. In an interview on the CEAS website, Adams shares her path to East Asian language and area studies, and how FLAS helped her gain the knowledge and skills to write an article on the transition toward product placement in North Korean broadcast media that was recently published in North Korean Review.

Leah Valtin-Erwin, a FY 21 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellow and doctoral candidate at Indiana University Bloomington, recently published an article, “Ukraina — Jesteśmy з вами!: War in Ukraine and Warsaw Transformed,” in NewsNet, a publication of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. In the article, Valtin-Erwin shares her experience traveling from Bucharest, Romania, to Warsaw, Poland, on Feb. 27, 2022, just three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Valtin-Erwin, who is a historian of contemporary Eastern Europe, shares her experience as she witnessed the large influx of refugees into the city, and how her background and research in the region provided a unique perspective and outlook on what she witnessed. Click the "read more" button below to read the entire piece and view additional photos.

Howard University’s Center for African Studies Outreach Director Brenda Randolph has been selected to receive the 2022 Distinguished Africanist Award by the African Studies Association (ASA). For the first time, the ASA expanded its selection criteria beyond those who hold Ph.Ds. and have written significant academic texts to acknowledge the exceptional value of scholarship often relegated to the margins as "service." The ASA’s unparalleled decision acknowledges Randolph's lifelong engagement with and commitment to Africa, including developing and disseminating Africa-affirming scholarship and literature. It is also a recognition of the significant impact of African Studies Outreach programming on African knowledge production and promotion at all levels of education.

For the past 40 years, Randolph has played a transformational role in the field of K–12 African literature and curricular materials. She has published numerous articles, book reviews and online scholarly texts and websites, including "The Gold Road: Medieval Ghana, Mali and Songhai; Discover Africa in the World" interactive map, and a webpage of extended book reviews of children’s materials on Africa. The impact of these websites has been extensive, reaching nearly 9000 teachers and students to date, while her book reviews have been read by over 3000 educators. As founder of the nonprofit Africa Access, as well as the Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA), Randolph has been an exemplar in promoting Africanist authors, literature, and educational resources in U.S. K–12 schools. CABA, which was pioneered with the ASA Outreach Council in 1991, became the model for the creation of other world area book awards, and recently celebrated its 30th anniversary.

The Center for African Studies at Howard University is a current and past award recipient of the Title VI National Resource Center grant program, which supports language and area studies education at institutions of higher education across the country.

The Center for East Asian Studies; Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy; Center for Latin American Studies; and Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona are excited to host the seventh annual conference for community college educators on Jan. 20–22, 2023. This year’s theme is “Globalizing the Community College Curriculum: Add Food and Stir.”

Community colleges are doing important work, educating a large percentage of postsecondary students to become part of a globalized world. As such, it is vital to internationalize the curricula of community college classes. The topic of food, as a universal need and cultural touchstone, provides an accessible gateway to the world. The upcoming conference will offer an opportunity to learn from and share with colleagues across community college departments and campuses how to use the topics of food and cuisine to internationalize their curriculum.

To acknowledge the Lunar New Year, occurring during the conference on Jan. 22, the conference will include a dinner to celebrate. This conference is FREE and will be meeting in person. Limited funding will be available for out-of-town presenters’ housing. Three meals will be included for all participants. 

Click here or on the "Read More" button below to register. For questions, please contact Abby Limmer at alimmer@arizona.edu or Katrina Dillon at kedillon@arizona.edu.

The Boston University (BU) African Language Program has published a new workbook in its growing series of Ajami teaching resources: Littafin Koyan Hausa Ajami Don Lafiar Al-Umma (Hausa Ajami Workbook for Public Health) by Mustapha Hashim Kurfi. Across 12 chapters, the workbook covers topics including childbirth, family health, infectious diseases, death, and more.

The BU African Language Program is the recipient of a Title VI National Resource Center grant for the FY 2018–21 and 2022–25 grant cycles.

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