Speaker: Nick Gozik, Assistant Director of Study Abroad at Duke University (presentation & discussion)

Date/time: Tuesday, November 18, from 6-7pm

Location: UNC’s Global Education Center, Room 2009 (Parking is free after 5pm underneath the building. The entry to the parking garage is on Pharmacy Lane.)

***You can also visit our Resource Library at this meeting. Our available resources are listed on our website: http://sietarnc.org/resource-library/

About the Presentation & Speaker:

Rethinking Internationalization: The Case of Area Studies Centers

In this presentation, Gozik explores the role of area studies centers within broader internationalization initiatives on U.S. campuses. This presentation draws on data collected by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) on area studies centers and the production of knowledge on world regions. Funded through the U.S. Department of Education’s International Research and Studies Program, the six-year project is entitled “Internationalization, Interdisciplinarity and Boundary

Crossing: An Evaluation of Title VI National Resource Centers for the Middle East, Eurasia and South Asia.” From the data collected, the team has found that area studies centers, which are in many ways poised to contribute to such initiatives, due to their long-standing tradition of providing language training and deep cultural knowledge, have largely remained at the periphery. Gozik explores the relationship between internationalization and area studies, as well as the ways in which internationalization is being defined on U.S. campuses more broadly.

Nick Gozik has served as a Project Researcher at the SSRC since January 2006. He holds a B.A. in History, an M.A. in French, and is in the final stages of a Ph.D. program in International Education at NYU. His doctoral research, conducted in the French overseas department of Martinique, explores the relationship between schooling, identity, and race in France. In September 2008, Gozik was named Assistant Director of Study Abroad at Duke University. Additionally, he has worked in study abroad offices at New York University and the University of Richmond, and taught English in France and South Korea.