Mission

The Office of International Programs created the Global Teaching Academy to recognize and celebrate exceptional teaching in an international context.

Please explore this page to see all previous members and this year’s class. Members will be inducted into the Phi Beta Delta Honorary Society for International Scholars.

Goals
  • Recognize our peers for their interest and efforts in globalizing Auburn's curriculum
  • Facilitate international course offerings on campus
  • Assist in creating an academic International Minor
  • Fund Academy faculty with modest support for international travel in recognition of their internationalization efforts
Selection Process
A call for nominations will go out each spring in Auburn News and via other campus channels. Tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty may nominate themselves or be nominated by a colleague. Existing members of the Global Teaching Academy review nominations and vote on new members.
Global Teaching Academy 2024 induction ceremony photo of inductees.

Global Teaching Academy 2024 Inductees

Academy Faculty

  • Lakami Baker, Russell Foundation Professorship of Entrepreneurial Studies, Harbert Global Programs
  • Elvan Ceyhan, Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
  • Muralikrishnan Dhanasekaran, Professor and Director of International Programs, Drug Discovery and Development
  • Rochelle Johnson, Director of Pathway & Transfer Outreach, Office of the Registrar
  • Thorsten Knappenberger, Associate Professor, Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences
  • John Morris, Professor, Political Science
  • Wilmer Pacheco, Extension Specialist and Associate Professor, Poultry Science
  • Imran Rahman, Associate Professor, Hospitality Management
  • Claire Thompson, Assistant Clinical Professor, Nursing
  • Peter Weber, Associate Professor, Consumer and Design Sciences
  • Michael Zabala, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

  • Brigitta Brunner, Professor, Communication and Journalism
  • Adeola Fayemi, Director of Intercultural Education and Inclusion, International Programs
  • Jorge Muñoz, Associate Professor, World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
  • Luke Oeding, Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
  • Amna Salman, Assistant Professor, Building Science
  • Jennifer Milanes, Assistant Professor, Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
  • Matthew Waters, Associate Professor, Crop Soil and Environmental Science
  • Kate Thornton, Director of Global Education, Human Sciences

  • Garry L. Adams, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Harbert College of Business
  • Kelly Ann Krawczyk, Associate Professor and Ph.D. Program Director, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
  • Dan Padgett, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, Harbert College of Business

  • Paul Harris, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
  • Wayde Morse, Associate Professor of Natural Resource Sociology, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences
  • Martin O’Neill, Department Head and Professor of Nutrition, Dietetics & Hospitality Management, College of Human Sciences
  • Tiffany Sippial, Director of Honors College and Associate Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts

  • Anna Riehl Bertolet, Associate Professor of English
  • Jill Crystal, Curtis O. Liles III Professor of Political Science
  • Traci Suzanne O’Brien, Associate Professor, Chair - Department of Foreign Language
  • James Witte, Professor - Adult Education

  • Salman Azhar, associate professor of Building Science
  • Craig Bertolet, professor of English
  • William Buskist, Distinguished Professor in the Teaching of Psychology
  • Adrienne Duke, assistant professor of Human Development & Family Studies
  • Jung Won Hur, associate professor in Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology
  • Tarik Orgen, professor of Architecture
  • Giovanna Summerfield, professor & Associate Dean of Educational Affairs

  • Gisela Buschle-diller, professor of Polymer and Fiber Engineering
  • Daniel Butler, Thomas Walter Chair of Technology Management & Marketing; executive director of Global Programs in the College of Business
  • J. Scott Finn, associate professor of Architecture
  • James Groccia, professor of Higher Education
  • Valentina Hartarska, professor of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and professor of Finance
  • Scott Kramer, professor of Building Science
  • Zdenko Krtic, associate professor of Art
  • Christopher Shook, Russell Professor and chair of Management

Inaugural Academy Faculty
  • Maria Auad, associate professor of Polymer and Fiber Engineering
  • Baker Ayoun, associate professor of Nutrition and Food Science
  • William Daniels, associate professor of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences
  • Kimberly Key, associate professor of Accounting
  • Hyejeong Kim, associate professor of Consumer Affairs
  • Kenneth McNabb, the W Kelly Mosley Environmental Professor of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences
  • Richard Penaskovic, professor of Philosophy
  • Allison Stewart, professor of Clinical Sciences
More Information

For more information, please contact Adeola Fayemi, director of intercultural education, aof0006@auburn.edu.