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FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS - MEET THE FELLOWS

RESEARCH FELLOWS

2010 Fellow
Erika França de Souza Vasconcelos is a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia, Athens. Her research explores the theory, practice, and implications of teaching and learning dialogically in an undergraduate ESOL teacher education class.

Erika is a native of Pernambuco, Brazil. Erika has dealt with the mechanics of language for 20 years now, as a teacher, translator, editor, researcher, and information analyst. While she enjoys all these roles, teaching is definitely what brings her the highest pleasure, and what brought her back to graduate school. Erika sees herself first and foremost as a teacher.

In Brazil, Erika earned her undergraduate degree in Translation Studies and her master’s in Linguistics, both at the Universidade de Brasília. Her MA thesis (1999) titled Critical Reading in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language was the fulfilling outcome of a blend between Applied Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, and its pedagogical branch, Critical Language Awareness. In her ethnographic study, she investigated the interaction among EFL teachers and advanced students in a classroom setting, focusing on the knowledge, social relations and social identities constructed in discursive events. In Brazil, she also taught translation, writing, and EFL for two years at college level.

2009 Fellow
Anna Rosefsky Saavedra is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Anna is currently using causal quantitative analysis methods to research the impact of enrollment in IB Diploma Programmes on students': end of high school academic achievement; college application, enrollment and perseverance; civic engagement; and humanitarian values. Saavedra is pictured as a panelist at CASIE's 2009 International Education Summit.

2008 Fellow
Leah Mason, is an EdD candidate at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College. Leah is comparing and contrasting the language policies of the United States and European Union and how they prepare students to be global citizens.

2007 Fellow
Theresa Alviar-Martin is a PhD candidate at Emory University. Theresa is researching how cosmopolitan citizenship is taught in social studies courses at two international schools – one in the United States with the IB curriculum and another in Hong Kong using the Advanced Placement program. Completed research report - Click here.

RESOURCE BANK FELLOW

Cecile Doyen is CASIE’s Resource Bank Fellow. Cecile is completing her Master’s degree at the University of Strasbourg. As a fellow, she is building a searchable database of resources and research on international education and language learning.