Global Teaching Academy

Mission

The Office of International Programs created the Global Teaching Academy to recognize and celebrate exceptional teaching in an international context.

Goals

  • Recognize our peers for their interest and efforts in globalizing Auburn's curriculum
  • Facilitate international course offerings on campus
  • Assist in creating an academic International Minor
  • Fund Academy faculty with modest support for international travel in recognition of their internationalization efforts

Selection Process

  • The Academy will add five to six faculty per year, recognized for their international teaching
  • Nominations will be invited from tenure-track faculty in May
  • Faculty need simply to provide a CV highlighting their teaching of international content, either on-campus or overseas

More Information

For more information or questions, please contact Jenn Mason, director of international initiatives, at jlm0061@auburn.edu.

Academy Faculty

  • Brigitta Brunner, Professor, Communication and Journalism
  • Adeola Fayemi, Director of Intercultural Education and Inclusion, International Programs
  • Jorge Muñoz, Associate Professor, World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
  • Luke Oeding, Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
  • Amna Salman, Assistant Professor, Building Science
  • Jennifer Smith, Assistant Professor, Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
  • Matthew Waters, Associate Professor, Crop Soil and Environmental Science
  • Kate Thornton, Director of Global Education, Human Sciences

  • Garry L. Adams, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Harbert College of Business
  • Kelly Ann Krawczyk, Associate Professor and Ph.D. Program Director, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
  • Dan Padgett, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, Harbert College of Business

  • Paul Harris, Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
  • Wayde Morse, Associate Professor of Natural Resource Sociology, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences
  • Martin O’Neill, Department Head and Professor of Nutrition, Dietetics & Hospitality Management, College of Human Sciences
  • Tiffany Sippial, Director of Honors College and Associate Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts

  • Salman Azhar, associate professor of Building Science
  • Craig Bertolet, professor of English
  • William Buskist, Distinguished Professor in the Teaching of Psychology
  • Adrienne Duke, assistant professor of Human Development & Family Studies
  • Jung Won Hur, associate professor in Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology
  • Tarik Orgen, professor of Architecture
  • Giovanna Summerfield, professor & Associate Dean of Educational Affairs

Inaugural Academy Faculty