Faculty Internationalization Initiative

In their third year of Champlain College's new Core curriculum, students take courses designed to deepen their awareness of global cultures and issues beyond their home borders. With the shared goal of providing an engaging, relevant, and up-to-date global education, College administrators and faculty adopted an innovative proposal for developing the third-year courses: Send the professors who will teach them beyond their home borders. What better way to craft courses exploring our ever-changing world than to have course designers explore the world?

Elizabeth Beaulieu

Dean, Core Division
Focus: Jordan, Egypt—Gender roles and expectations; culturally constructed notions of beauty in the Islamic world

Cynthia Brandenburg

Assistant Professor
Focus: Morocco, Spain—The impact of environmental change on community structures, of technological adaptations on cultural traditions, and of historic identity in the context of globalization, climate change, biodiversity loss, population growth, and pollution (in partnership with Michael Lange)

Tim Brookes

Director, Professional Writing Program
Focus: Egypt—Offering writing workshops for public health officials through a collaboration with Writers Without Borders (cofounded by Tim Brookes)

Alfonso Capone

Assistant Professor
Focus: Jordan, Turkey—The relationship between religion and state identity

Erik Esckilsen

Assistant Professor
Focus: Israel/Palestine—Political cinema in the Middle East

Joanne Farrell

Professor
Focus: Morocco, Spain—Themes and issues relevant to Middle Eastern women, such as language and cultures, community, hyphenated identity, war and conflict, race, gender and religion

Richard Hunt

Professor
Focus: Israel/Palestine, Jordan—Middle East conflict and cooperation

David Kite

Associate Professor
Focus: Turkey—Sharia Islamic law, secularization in Turkey, and the historical significance of Istanbul

Michael Lange

Assistant Professor
Focus: Morocco—the impact of environmental change on community structures, of technological adaptations on cultural traditions, and of historic identity in the context of globalization, climate change, biodiversity loss, population growth, and pollution (in partnership with Cynthia Brandenburg)

Robert Mayer

Assistant Professor
Focus: Israel/Palestine, Jordan—The interplay of faith, culture, politics in contemporary Middle Eastern society

Gary Scudder

Professor
Assistant Dean for Global Engagement
Focus: Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates—Establishing cross-cultural dialogue networks linking Champlain College students and students at Middle Eastern universities through Global Modules partnerships