When I asked about the role of his experience of global faculty community professor Kurtz answered “is everything.” He actually holds more communication with international faculty than the US faculty. This is mostly because he is writing a book about non-western thinkers and non-western sociological theory. “Western theory cannot and is not the only knowledge there is” Dr. Kurtz said (personal communication, May 3, 2016). Therefore, communication with international faculty is quite often. Lately, Dr. Kurtz does not write articles as much as before anymore, but he engages in co-authoring as a second author to help other starting scholars in getting publish under his supervision.
Dr. Kurtz’s international interaction really started while he …show more content…
He teaches since 2004 right after he graduated with a BA in History at the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in 2003. He obtained his MA in Urban Sociology at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Mina Gerais in 2009 and he just defended his PhD on History of Religion at the Federal University of Ouro Preto. For his Ph.D. studies Dr. Leonel had the opportunity to do research at the University of Georgetown in DC in the Fall of 2013 and was an audit researcher student to one class of an expert sociologist in the sociology of religion, Professor Jose …show more content…
Hanrahan taught for one semester at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro as an expert specialist on Feminist theory. This does not mean that she did not have a global community of faculty before. Certainly she had communication with some, but it was not too often. One whole semester in Brazil, on the other hand, brought her the opportunity to build up a deeper and more grounded global community with her Brazilians colleagues. The only think she did not like about her semester in Brazil was the fact that her students were quite limited. Because of the language barrier, her class consisted on bilingual Brazilian graduate students only, who were not many compared to the total of the students. Yet she is glad to the fact that she introduced feminist theory to Brazilian scholars, or at least help them to open the doors of sociology of feminism on a global scale. Ever since her global community has increased. This does not mean that she would not had communication with international faculty before, only that the communication was very low (about once a year). After five years now, her communication with international faculty is indeed decreasing, but it is definitively much more grounded than before. She can count with her Brazilian peers anytime of the year and she is looking forward to re-visit her now friends to share more knowledge and
Dr. Kurtz’s international interaction really started while he …show more content…
He teaches since 2004 right after he graduated with a BA in History at the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in 2003. He obtained his MA in Urban Sociology at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Mina Gerais in 2009 and he just defended his PhD on History of Religion at the Federal University of Ouro Preto. For his Ph.D. studies Dr. Leonel had the opportunity to do research at the University of Georgetown in DC in the Fall of 2013 and was an audit researcher student to one class of an expert sociologist in the sociology of religion, Professor Jose …show more content…
Hanrahan taught for one semester at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro as an expert specialist on Feminist theory. This does not mean that she did not have a global community of faculty before. Certainly she had communication with some, but it was not too often. One whole semester in Brazil, on the other hand, brought her the opportunity to build up a deeper and more grounded global community with her Brazilians colleagues. The only think she did not like about her semester in Brazil was the fact that her students were quite limited. Because of the language barrier, her class consisted on bilingual Brazilian graduate students only, who were not many compared to the total of the students. Yet she is glad to the fact that she introduced feminist theory to Brazilian scholars, or at least help them to open the doors of sociology of feminism on a global scale. Ever since her global community has increased. This does not mean that she would not had communication with international faculty before, only that the communication was very low (about once a year). After five years now, her communication with international faculty is indeed decreasing, but it is definitively much more grounded than before. She can count with her Brazilian peers anytime of the year and she is looking forward to re-visit her now friends to share more knowledge and