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Thúy Tranviet, PhD

Thúy Tranviet is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies, where she has taught and managed the Vietnamese Language Studies program since 2000. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her broad research interests are within the framework of international education, literary studies and international/global service-learning (ISL/GSL) encompassing development studies, gender studies, and international development. She is particularly interested in connecting and engaging ISL in all academic disciplines. Her background training includes literary & language studies, Southeast Asian literature and film. At Cornell University she has established working relationships with many departments and units across campus, having many collaborations with the Southeast Asia Program, the Language Resource Center, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the office of Engaged Cornell, among others. Thúy received her Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara; her MA from the University of Michigan; her MS and PhD degrees from Cornell University. In designing this internationally oriented, interdisciplinary course that integrates field-based community services, she envisions it to be a great learning experience for everyone involved – students, instructors, and the community people in Vietnam.

Email: tdt5@cornell.edu

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Michael Hoffmann, PhD

Mike Hoffmann is the executive director of the Cornell Institute for Climate Smart Solutions (CICSS), which was created to help raise the profile of the challenges posed by a rapidly warming climate and to help those who grow our food adapt to the changing conditions as well as reduce their carbon footprint. As executive director of CICSS, he provides visionary leadership, communicates to a wide range of audiences the challenges and opportunities that come with a changing climate, and builds partnerships among public and private organizations. Previous positions he has held at Cornell include Director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, associate director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, and director of the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program. He is a professor in the Department of Entomology and maintains a research program focused on management of pests of vegetable crops. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin, Masters from the University of Arizona and PhD from the University of California, Davis. Email: mph3@cornell.edu

Lauren Chambliss, PhD

Lauren Chambliss is a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication. She is the former communication director at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. Her interest and experience is in communicating for impact and influence for public audiences, but particularly target audiences, media, policy makers and opinion/thought leaders, and targeted stakeholder groups. She focuses on written expression and teach a core course, Writing for Communication. She is interested in using research-based techniques in multiple media messaging, including online and social media, to convey messages and improve public understanding of science-based information and solutions to global challenges. She is committed to helping students master critical communication skills through application of theory for today's dynamic media environment. Email: elc55@cornell.edu

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Richard Kiely, PhD

Richard Kiely is a senior fellow for program evaluation, provides support, guidance, resources, coursework and professional development opportunities for faculty, students, and community members who are interested in community-engaged learning and research. He is interested in learning about the different ways people work together to have a positive impact on the world and the potential role of higher education in facilitating that process. In 2002, Richard received his PhD from Cornell University, and, in 2005, he was recognized nationally as a John Glenn Scholar in Service-Learning for his longitudinal research that led to the development of a transformative service-learning model. From 2002-2006, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Lifelong Education, Policy, and Administration at the University of Georgia, where he taught courses in community development, qualitative research, (global) service-learning, program planning, and learning theory. Returning to Cornell in 2006, Richard co-taught a graduate/undergraduate service-learning course in City & Regional Planning as part of the New Orleans Planning Initiative (NOPI). The participants in this course developed a comprehensive recovery plan, in conjunction with community partners, for the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. Richard also served as the faculty director of the Cornell Urban Scholars Program (CUSP) and the Cornell Urban Mentor Initiative (CUMI), two university-wide, interdisciplinary service-learning programs. His research focuses primarily on institutional models that foster sustainable campus-community partnerships, as well as the learning processes and outcomes that occur in service-learning courses and community-based research programs. Email: rck6@cornell.edu

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Pamela McElwee, PhD

Pamela McElwee is an associate professor in the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. For the past 15 years her research interests have concerned human adaptation to global environmental change, broadly defined, with particular expertise in biodiversity conservation and climate change in Asia. Her work focuses on how individuals and households respond to changes in the physical environment, and how their responses are shaped by external policies, markets and other constraints. Most of McElwee's research combines qualitative and quantitative household-level social analysis of environmental decision-making and resource use, with most of her fieldwork focusing on Vietnam. Prior to joining Rutgers, McElwee was an assistant professor of Global Studies at Arizona State University. She has also worked in the White House, US Senate, and US EPA on environmental policy. McElwee earned her Ph.D. in Forestry & Environmental Studies and Anthropology at Yale University in 2003.  

Email: pamela.mcelwee@rutgers.edu

Keith Taylor, PhD

Keith Taylor is Professor of Sino-Vietnamese Cultural Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. He has published several books and many articles about Vietnamese history and literature, most recently A History of the Vietnamese (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He has pioneered the teaching in North America of literary Vietnamese in the character script based on literary Chinese called chữ Nôm. He has studied and published about the theory and method of translation from literary Chinese to literary Vietnamese. After serving with the US Army in Vietnam, he obtained his Ph.D. in 1976 at the University of Michigan. He subsequently taught in Japan and Singapore for several years before returning to the US in 1987. After teaching for two years at Hope College, he took a position at Cornell University in 1989. He has visited Vietnam for research and scholarly exchange many times and lived continuously in Vietnam for two years in the early 1990s while studying and teaching. He has seriously researched all periods of the Vietnamese past and has developed a particular interest in Vietnamese poetry and how it has changed from generation to generation. Email: kwt3@cornell.edu

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Hong Anh Vu, PhD

Hong Anh Vu is an anthropologist with a doctorate degree from the Syracuse University, USA. Her research interests include rural livelihoods, natural resources management, climate change adaptation, and the role of local skills and knowledge in sustainable development. She has extensive experience in the development field, having worked on anti-landmines and environmental advocacy, food security and gender disparity issues for Oxfam, the UN and the World Bank on various assignments. Email: honganhvu@gmail.com