Preparing for Globally Focused Faculty Careers

OISE Career Brown Bag Series:

Preparing for Globally-Focused Faculty Careers

Globally-focused research continues to grow in importance within higher education. Some faculty roles are specifically
designed with an international and comparative focus. In other cases, faculty find ways to bring a global focus to their
research and teaching. In this virtual talk, panelists will share how they prepared for their faculty job search and how
they have brought a global approach to their work. Additionally, the panelists will share ideas for conferences, ways to
network, and other resources they found useful in preparing for a faculty role. Panelists include those with very recent
job searching experience and who have faculty roles within and outside of the U.S.

Please join us for the second virtual panel talk in our series on globally focused education careers.  This talk is titled Preparing for Globally Focused Faculty Careers and will include one panelist currently at MSU and three alumni at institutions in the U.S. and also outside of the U.S.

Jungmin Kwon is an assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. She
received her doctoral degree in Curriculum and Teaching with a specialization in Literacy Education from Teachers
College, Columbia University in 2019. Using an ethnographic approach, she examines the ways immigrant children and
families draw on multilingual repertoires, build bilingual identities, and mobilize linguistic and cultural knowledge as
they move across spaces and geographic borders. Her research has appeared in journals such as International Journal of
Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Bilingual Research Journal, and Language and Education, among others. Her
research has been recognized with awards from the Literacy Research Association (LRA) and the American Educational
Studies Association (AESA). She completed her master’s degree at Brown University with a Fulbright fellowship and
bachelor’s degree from Sogang University, South Korea.

Taeyeon Kim is an assistant professor in the department of Educational Administration at the University of NebraskaLincoln. Her research focuses on how school leaders’ voices and strategies intersect with accountability policy. Drawing
on socio cultural understandings of policy, learning theories, and comparative perspectives, her research re-visits policy
and practice by centering the voices of equity leaders. She earned her PhD in K-12 Educational Administration at
MSU. Prior to higher education, she spent seven and a half years as a teacher and school consultant in K-12 education in
South Korea.

Donald R. McClure, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education in the School of Education at St. John’s
University in New York City. He holds his Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education from Michigan State
University; his M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame; and his B.Mus. from Central Michigan University. McClure also
served as an elementary and middle school teacher for eight years in the United States and Ireland. McClure’s research
interests span the areas of social studies education and international and comparative education. His research explores
students’ perceptions of citizenship, the intersection of sports and education, and teacher education.

Yisu Zhou is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Macau (UM/FED). He obtained my
doctoral degree from Michigan State University’s College of Education. Zhou’s doctoral work studied the teaching
profession (out-of-field teachers) using a large-scale survey from OECD. Prior to MSU, Zhou obtained his bachelor’s
degree in statistics from East China Normal University and worked as an English teacher in rural Shaanxi province in
China from 2005-2006 where his interests in understanding the educational process grew. Zhou’s research interests in
education policy span across various topics, including educational finance, teacher education, sociology, and economics
of education. He has published in the American Journal of Education, Journal of Contemporary China, Asia-Pacific
Education Researcher, Journal of School Health, Sociological Methods and Research, Social Science Computer Review,
etc. He is currently serving on the editorial board of Multicultural Education Review