Beyond Immediate Impact: Study Abroad for Global Engagement (SAGE)
Research team
Principal Investigators
R. Michael Paige
R. Michael Paige, Ph.D. in education, is a professor of international and intercultural education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is an internationally recognized scholar on intercultural education and training, the lead author of two volumes on language and culture learning strategies for study abroad (Maximizing Study Abroad: A Students’ Guide to Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use, 2002; Maximizing Study Abroad: A Program Professionals’ Guide to Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use, 2003), and co-principal investigator (with Andrew Cohen) of the three-year Maximizing Study Abroad research project sponsored by a Department of Education Title VI International Research and Studies Program grant. He has also edited Education for the Intercultural Experience (Intercultural Press, 1993) and is the co-editor with Dale Lange of Culture as the core: Perspectives on culture in second language learning (2003, Information Age Publishing). Dr. Paige has more than 35 years of experience as a professional international educator, scholar, teacher, and program administrator.
Gerald Fry
Gerald Fry, Ph.D. in international development education, is a professor of international and intercultural education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Dr. Fry is a former director of International Studies and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Oregon. Professor Fry’s specialty is international and intercultural education. For the past ten years he has been leading overseas study programs for a wide variety of institutions such as the East-West Center, Stanford University, the University of Oregon, and the University of Minnesota. He recently evaluated CIEE’s study abroad program in Thailand. Among his many publications is the monograph: International Cooperative Learning: An Innovative Approach to Intercultural Service, the culmination of a 10 year project which annually took multicultural groups to Southeast Asia for intensive research fieldwork and intercultural learning. Currently Professor Fry is an editor and advisor for the forthcoming, Encyclopedia of Global Perspectives on the United States, commissioned by the Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Press, His most recent publication (October, 2005) is an anthology of many of his major research studies, Understanding Thailand and Its Neighbors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Post-Doctoral Research Associates
Elizabeth Stallman
Elizabeth Stallman received her Ph.D. in comparative and international development education at the University of Minnesota. She is the lead research associate on the SAGE project. Her research interests are racial and ethnic identity, intercultural competence, college student development, and internationalization of the campus. She received her M.A. in international educational development from Teachers College, Columbia University, where she also served as assistant director of International Services. She received her B.A. in international politics from Penn State University. From 1994 to 1996 she was a JET Program participant for which she taught English to Japanese high school students in Shizuoka, Japan.
Jae-Eun Jon
Jae-Eun Jon received Ph.D. in the comparative and international development education from the Educational Policy and Administration program at the University of Minnesota. She is a research assistant on the SAGE project. Her previous involvement in research projects at the University of Minnesota includes the Georgetown consortium project and the study on a long-term study abroad impact sponsored by the Council on International Educational Exchange. Her research interests include the internationalization of higher education, intercultural competence, intercultural friendship, and international educational development. Before she came to the U.S. for her doctoral degree, she received B.A. in linguistics and M.A. in international area studies from Seoul National University in South Korea. Her passion in international education grew from her year-long study abroad experience at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Japan as an undergraduate.
Graduate Research Assistant
Jasmina Josić
Jasmina Josić is a research assistant on the SAGE research project and a Ph.D. candidate in comparative and international development education at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests are in the areas of citizenship education in multicultural societies, dynamics of educational policies in urban environment, gender equity in education, organizational aspects of internationalization of higher education, and development of intercultural competence. Jasmina holds M.B.A. and B.A. in international business/economics from Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she also served at different professional positions in international education and student affairs offices.
Research Consultant
Bruce La Brack
Bruce La Brack, Ph.D., is professor of anthropology and international studies at the School of International Studies, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA. He has traveled to over eighty countries and has twice been a Fulbright scholar (India and Japan). He is chair of the Pacific Master's of Arts in Intercultural Relations (MAIR) program and director of the Pacific Institute for Cross-Cultural Training (PICCT). He is also coordinator of Cross-Cultural Training for the University of the Pacific, responsible for origination, design, coordination, and facilitation of both orientation and reentry training for study abroad students. He has been, researching, writing about, and providing training related to international transitions issues for thirty years in South Asia, North America, and East Asia including reentry research in India, Japan, Uganda, and England. He is the Training Section co-editor and a reviewer for the International Journal of Intercultural Relations and a senior faculty member at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, Portland, Oregon. His "What's Up with Culture?" Web site, an online cultural training resource for US-American study abroad students, was developed as part of the three-year FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education) project.