DR. JOAN ROSALIE DASSIN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT January 2015 CONTACT INFORMATION Sustainable International Development Program Heller School for Social Policy and Management Brandeis University 435 South Street Mail Stop 035 P.O. Box 549110 Waltham, MA 02454 Telephone (Office) 781 736-­‐2207 (Cell) 917 691-­‐1731 Email: [email protected]; [email protected] HIGHLIGHTS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CURRENT POSITION Professor of International Education and Development Director, MA Program in Sustainable International Development Heller School of Social Policy and Management Brandeis University PREVIOUS POSITIONS Academic Visitor, St Antony’s College, and Visiting Research Associate, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Oxford, October 1, 2013-­‐June 30, 2014. Research Topic: Empowering Education: Leadership for Development and Social Change Executive Director, Ford Foundation International Fellowships Fund (IFF) August 2000-­‐September 2013 Independent Consultant June 1997-­‐July 2000 Regional Director, Latin America and Caribbean Programs (LAC), The Ford Foundation (New York Office, October 1992-­‐September 1996) Program Officer and Representative, Brazil Office, The Ford Foundation, Rio de Janeiro (July 1988 – August 1992) Staff Associate, Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, Social Science Research Council, New York (January 1984-­‐April 1988) Assistant Professor of Communications, Fordham University New York, 1981-­‐1983 Assistant Professor of English, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1974-­‐1980 SELECTED AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Marita Houlihan Award for Distinguished Contributions to International Education (NAFSA: Association of International Educators, June 2011) Honorary Citizenship, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil (By Vote of São Carlos Municipal Legislature, 2007) 1
Fulbright Advanced Scholar Serial Teaching and Research Grant (Brazil, 1998-­‐99) Topic: Educational Innovation in Brazil, University of São Paulo at São Carlos Fulbright Teaching and Research Grant (Brazil, 1985) Topic: Literature and Historical Memory at the University of São Paulo and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Fulbright Professorship of American Literature (Brazil, 1976-­‐77) Topic: Women’s Literature and Contemporary Anti-­‐War Fiction, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Best Article Prize, Latin American Studies Association, 1982 Dissertation Research Grant, the Social Science Research Council, 1971-­‐73 Phi Beta Kappa, Brandeis University, 1969 Louis Dembitz Brandeis Honorary Scholarship, 1967 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books (Authored, Edited and Co-­‐edited) Dassin, Joan, with Rachel Clift and Mary Zurbuchen. The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program: Linking Higher Education to Social Change. New York: Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program, 2013. Volkman, Toby, ed., with Joan Dassin and Mary Zurbuchen, Origins, Journeys and Returns: Social Justice in International Higher Education. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2009. Dassin, Joan, Joseph Tulchin, and Cynthia Brown, eds. Training a New Generation of Leaders: Woodrow Wilson Center Reports on the Americas, No. 3. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Latin American Program, 2002. Dassin, Joan, ed. Torture in Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Original edition, New York: Vintage Books, 1986. Based on the Portuguese volume Brasil: Nunca Mais. Petrópolis: Editora Vozes, 1985. Dassin, Joan, with Jane L. Curry, eds., Press Control Around the World. New York: Praeger Press, 1982. Dassin, Joan, Política e Poesia em Mário de Andrade. São Paulo: Livraria Duas Cidades, 1976. Book Chapters Dassin, Joan, “Mobility and Equity in Higher Education: The Latin American Experience of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program,” in Sylvia Didou Aupertit, coord., Los Programas de Educación Superior Indígena en América Latin y en México: Componentes Tradicionales y Emergentes. Lima: UNESCO-­‐ISEALC, 2014, pp. 83-­‐112. Dassin, Joan, Jürgen Enders and Andrea Kottmann, “Social Inclusion in International Higher Education and Leadership for Social Justice: The Approach and Achievements of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program.” In Leadership and Social Inclusion in International Higher Education, ed. Terry Bigalke and Mary Zurbuchen. New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2014, pp. 15-­‐34. Dassin, Joan, Jürgen Enders and Andrea Kottmann, “Social Inclusiveness, Development and Student Mobility in International Higher Education: The Case of the Ford Foundation International 2
Fellowships Program.” In Internationalization of Higher Education and Global Mobility, ed. Bernard Thomas Streitwieser. Oxford: Oxford Series on Higher Education, 2014, pp. 73-­‐86. Dassin, Joan, Chapter 1, “Access and Equity in Higher Education; Chapter 4, “IFP Fellows and the Dynamics of Return,” and Chapter 5, “Beyond Measure: Fellowships and Social Justice,” (with Toby Volkman and Mary Zurbuchen), in Volkman, Toby, ed., with Joan Dassin and Mary Zurbuchen, Origins, Journeys and Returns: Social Justice in International Higher Education. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2009. Dassin, Joan, “Public Policy Training Programs in the United States: Characteristics and Linkages to Latin America.” In Training a New Generation of Leaders: Woodrow Wilson Center Reports on the Americas, No. 3. Joan, Dassin, Joseph Tulchin, and Cynthia Brown, eds. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Latin American Program, 2002. Dassin, Joan, with Benjamín Álvarez, Larry Rosenberg, and David Bloom, “Education in Central America.” In Felipe Larraín B., ed., Economic Development in Central America, Vol. II: Structural Reforms, Cambridge, Massachusetts: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001. Dassin, Joan, “Testimonial Literature and the Armed Struggle in Brazil.” In Fear at the Edge, ed. Juan E. Corradi, Patricia Weiss Fagen and Manuel Antonio Garretón. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, pp.161-­‐183. Dassin, Joan, “Press Censorship and the Military State in Brazil,” in Jane L. Curry and Joan Dassin, eds., Press Control Around the World. New York: Praeger Press, 1982. Policy Articles Dassin, Joan, “Opening Opportunities in International Higher Education.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. December 1, 2011. Available online: http://chronicle.com/article/Opening-­‐
Opportunities-­‐in/129984 Dassin, Joan, Published comment on Schwartzman, Simon. “Affirmative action in higher education in Brazil.” Inside Higher Ed; “Blog U”. Sept 27, 2010. Available Online: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/the_world_view/affirmative_action_in_higher_education_in_
brazil Dassin, Joan, “Brain Drain and Reducing Social Inequality: the Experience of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program,” Bulletin IESALC Reports, No. 204, March 2010. Available at: http://www.iesalc.unesco.org.ve/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1917%3Adra-­‐
joan-­‐dassin&catid=201%3Aexperiencias-­‐y-­‐programas&Itemid=770&lang=en Dassin, Joan, Um Ensino Superior mais inclusivo.” Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil. February 2010. Dassin, Joan, “Promoting Inclusiveness in Higher Education in Latin America: A Policy Response.” IIE Networker: International Education in Latin America, Fall 2009, pp. 20-­‐22. Dassin, Joan, and Fúlvia Rosemberg. “Q&A: Moral Leaders in the Making.” Education Alliance Quarterly. Vol. 2. January/February 2009. Dassin, Joan, “Brain Drain is Not Inevitable.” Inside Higher Ed, Feb. 14, 2006. Dassin, Joan, “Healthy 'Brain Circulation' Promotes More Equitable Global Development.” The Financial Times (London). 2 February 2006. 3
Dassin, Joan, “Nurturing Leadership and Social Change.” IIENetworker. Fall 2005, pp. 32-­‐35. Dassin, Joan, “Brain Gain, Not Drain.” International Educator, Spring 2005, pp. 20-­‐25. Dassin, Joan, with Mary Zurbuchen. “Scholar Activists.” Ford Foundation Report, Winter 2005, pp. 35-­‐
37. Dassin, Joan, “Brandeis Revisited: Ford Foundation International Fellows and the Dream of Higher Education.” Brandeis Review, Summer 2004, pp. 24-­‐27. Dassin, Joan. “Promoting Access and Equity in International Higher Education.” International Educator, Volume XIII Number 3, Summer 2004, pp. 3-­‐5. Dassin, Joan, “Broadening Access to Post-­‐Graduate Education: The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program,” Supplement on Universities and the Transformation of Society, Higher Education Digest, Autumn 2002 – Issue 44, pp. 9-­‐12. Dassin, Joan, “Education as Foreign Policy: The New Politics of Hemispheric Cooperation.” LASPAU Informativo, Spring/Summer 1998, pp. 4-­‐5. (Portuguese translation, “Educação como Política Externa,”) Brazil Information Link, 18/12/98. EDUCATION Ph.D., Stanford University, 1974 (M.A., 1971). Major: Modern Thought and Literature: Minor: Comparative Literature. Dissertation: Mário de Andrade and the Case of Brazilian Modernism, 1922-­‐
1945. Attended 1969-­‐1974. B.A., Brandeis University, 1969. Major: English and American Literature. Graduated Magna Cum Laude and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Attended 1965-­‐1969. LANGUAGES: English Native Speaker Portuguese Fluent Spanish Fluent PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES: Available on request. 4
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