Friday, September 24, 2021

Speaker

Dr. Stephanie K. Kim brings over a decade of experience as a scholar and educator in the field of comparative and international higher education. At Georgetown University, she is Assistant Professor of the Practice in the School of Continuing Studies and is the inaugural Faculty Director of the Master’s in Higher Education Administration.

She researches and writes about internationalization reforms, student mobility, and comparative higher education policy. Her work appears in a number of journals, edited volumes, and media outlets. She is currently writing a book about higher education reform and international student mobility in the post-recession era.

Additionally, she serves the Journal of International Students as Associate Editor. She is also a former Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholar and Fulbright Fellow to South Korea.

Prior to arriving at Georgetown, she held academic and administrative positions at UC Berkeley and received her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA.

Commentators

Jiyeon Kang is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. Her academic interests include online activism, youth culture, vernacular rhetoric, and globalization.

Her research focuses on conceptualizing the democratic potential of the Internet, with a specific interest in the communicative dynamics and cultural norms that have emerged in the contexts of youth-driven social movements and online communities. Her forthcoming book Igniting the Internet: Youth and Activism in Postauthoritarian South Korea examines a decade of Internet activism in South Korea by combining rhetorical analysis of online communities with ethnographic interviews. The book attends to the political significance of the Internet as not only an extension of existing politics but also a new social space in which the circulation of multisensory texts invites users to act upon their previously unarticulated yet shared desires and grievances. It also draws attention to long-term changes in political sensibilities even after the period of activism has passed. She has additionally published articles on vernacular discourse on the web, collective agency, unintended political effects, and memories of Internet-born activism.

Kang’s upcoming projects explore “new civilities” on the Internet, referring not simply to politeness but to the transforming social and ethical norms of coexistence. Her article-length project examines how a marginalized group maintains its distinct style in the digital environment, resisting attempts to dismiss it as emotional, rude, or disrespectful. She is concurrently working on a collaborative book-length project with Nancy Abelmann and Xia Zhang on the novel and varied civilities at play in the online communities of international undergraduate students in the U.S., China, and South Korea.

Yingyi Ma is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Asian/Asian American Studies at Syracuse University. She is the Provost Faculty Fellow on internationalization at Syracuse University, where she leads and supports culturally responsive pedagogy and programs for international education and partnership. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2007.

Ma’s research addresses education and migration in the U.S. and China and she has published about thirty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, in addition to one monograph and one co-edited book. Several projects use quantitative methods and examine fields of study often neglected in the context of education stratification, particularly how those fields provide a mobility strategy for racial minorities, the children of immigrants, and their families in the U.S. This line of research has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Alfred Sloan Foundation, and Association of Institutional Research.

Ma’s research on international education uses mixed methods including surveys and in-depth interviews. Her monograph, Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education, was published by Columbia University Press in February 2020. This book has won Best Book awards from multiple sections of the Comparative and International Education Association and the Bourdieu Best Book Award Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association. It has been featured in national and international news media, such as The Washington Post and Times Higher Education. She is the co-editor of Understanding International Students from Asia in American Universities: Learning and Living Globalization (2017), which has won the honorable mention of the Best Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Association’s Study Abroad and International Students Section.

Chris R. Glass, PhD is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education at Boston College. His research and writing focus on issues of equity, sustainability, and belonging in global student mobility. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Students, the Co-Editor of the Routledge Studies in Global Student Mobility book series, and Vice President for Research and Public Policy at the Society of Transnational Academic Researchers (STAR). He co-authored the recent monograph by the American Council on Education (ACE) titled, Toward Greater Inclusion and Success: A New Compact for International Students and was the
recipient of the NAFSA Innovative Research in International Education Award. He has a deep  commitment to the transformative power of international education, developed through years of leading study abroad programs and strengthened by personal connections with international students and scholars around the world. His research has been published in the International Journal of Educational Development, Studies in Higher Education, Higher Education Research & Development, Compare, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, and the Journal of Studies in International
Education. Glass earned his PhD in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University (2012). You can learn more about his research and scholarship on his website at chrisrglass.com and/or by following him on Twitter at @crglass.