Integrating Worlds (ePub)

Scott D. Carpenter is the Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor of French and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College (Minnesota), where he serves as the chair of French and Francophone Studies, Director of Cross-Cultural Studies, and the founding director of Carleton's Center for Global and Regional Studies. A frequent leader of Carleton's own program in Paris and Morocco, he has helped develop programs or internship opportunities in Spain, Germany, Cameroon, and China. A member of the academic board of CUPA, he presents work regularly at the Forum on Education Abroad (European conferences) and the AAC&U.

Helena Kaufman is originally from Poland. She is the Director of Off-Campus Studies and Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Carleton College. In addition to her studies in Poland, Portugal, and the U.S., she has broad experience teaching on the topics of national and cultural identity. In Off-Campus Studies she is involved in everything from curriculum planning to risk management for a vast array of off-campus study programs of nearly every flavor: term-length and short-term faculty-led programs, consortial and third-party provider programs, and more. She is a member of and a frequent contributor to NAFSA and the Forum on Education Abroad.

Malene Torp is the Executive Director of DIS-Study Abroad in Scandinavia (headquartered in Copenhagen), one of the largest non-profit, independent programs for American students in Europe. Trained as a political scientist, she has a deep understanding of American higher education, having been a Fulbright Scholar at New York University and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. She is a member of the Association of International Education Administrators' (AIEA) Leadership Development Committee and a frequent contributor to NAFSA and the Forum on Education Abroad.