I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in the Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development program with an emphasis on Comparative and International Development Education.

I study comparative and international development education through an anthropological lens. My academic interests are anthropology of education, higher education, global citizenship education, and the intersection of educational ideas and practices with notions of power, ideology, identity, citizenship, and belonging. In my work, I trace underlying cultural and ideological constructions that shape perceptions on the role of higher education in society, and the ways in which notions of (global) citizenship are produced and reproduced among faculty, staff, and students in higher educational institutions in the United States. I am committed to exploring the potential of critical approaches to education for global citizenship that address - rather than perpetuate - social, political, and economic inequalities in power that are reproduced in policy, practice, and scholarship.

I have over 20 years of experience in international and intercultural educational settings, most recently having worked as the Assistant Director of International Student Services at a large land-grant university in the United States. Prior to that, I taught and worked for a number of years in educational settings in the United States, Germany, Ukraine, and Bangladesh.