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Educational Science
Marie Merrill "Pipo" Bui (1997-98)
Pipo works as the Development Director at EarthCorps, a nonprofit organization based in Seattle that trains emerging environmental leaders from around the world. She and her husband also opened a café in downtown Seattle, Seattle Coffee Works. She worked at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2001 to 2004. She studied communications and European Ethnology (Anthropology), both of which turned out to be very useful in fundraising! In October 2001, she defended her dissertation on representations of Vietnamese migrants in Germany (the project she pursued as a German Chancellor Fellow) at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Shortly before leaving Berlin in 2000, she and her husband Sebastian helped classmate Stefan Gutzeit get the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA) off the ground. ECLA has since hosted at least one German Chancellor Fellow. She and her husband recently started a café in Seattle located at 107 Pike Street. (7/2/09)
Todd Burgman (1993-94)
Todd left his post as Assistant Professor of Finance at Union College in 1996, running away to sea. He spends half of his time sailing as captain of the Sea Cloud, which is one of the world’s largest actively sailing tall ships. During his time off from Sea Cloud he has worked with experiential education programs aboard square-rigged tall ships. Recent projects have included sailing as master of the brigantine Corwith Cramer for the Sea Education Association (Woods Hole, MA) and the German brig Roald Amundsen (LebenLernen auf Segelschiffen, e.V.). He has sailed to over 75 countries and all seven continents. (6/26/09)
Gayle Christensen (2004-05)
Gayle works as a Research Associate in the Urban Institute's Education Policy Center. During her year as a German Chancellor Fellow, Gayle worked at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Her project focused on immigrant student achievement and motivation in Germany and internationally. Prior to going to Germany, Gayle undertook doctoral studies at Stanford University, where she focused on immigrant student outcomes cross-nationally. During her time in California, she also had the opportunity to work as a research associate for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation focusing on improving education in the United States and abroad. In addition, she holds a MA in international educational administration and policy analysis from Stanford and a MA in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. (4/24/07)
Andrew Chu (2004-05)
Andrew Chu received his Master of Arts in Teaching in 2010 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009 from Washington University in St. Louis. Since graduation, Andrew has designed t-shirts for a women’s apparel company, worked as a line cook for a restaurant in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, explored Warsaw, Poland while supporting himself as an English tutor, and roamed the back alleys and byways of New York City as a bike messenger. While he has tried his hand at many things, Andrew’s first loves have always been creating large-scale sculptural installations and helping children develop their capacity for imagination and critical thought. Andrew is eager to explore the synthesis of these interests during his German Chancellor Fellowship. Andrew will examine the designs and philosophies of Berlin adventure playgrounds to determine their social, developmental, and educational benefits for children. Through participant observation and by conducting semi-structured interviews, Andrew seeks to gain insight on the methodology of play occurring at adventure playgrounds and the implications of these sites in a postmodern urban center. In collaboration and consultation with German educators and designers, he will also develop a plan for an American adventure playground. Andrew’s research will culminate in a published paper to share with Bund der Jugendfarmen und Aktivspielplätze (BDJA) and with the Landesverband Abenteuerspielplätze und Kinderbauernhöfe in Berlin (AKIB), and a concrete design for an American adventure playground. (4/27/11)
Todd Ettelson (2003-04)
In August 2002, Todd defended a history dissertation at the University of Michigan on masculinity and the formation of the National Socialist state. While completing his dissertation, he lived and taught in Berlin, where he developed an interest in curricular reform and educational access in German secondary education. This motivated him to pursue a Masters degree in international and comparative education policy at Stanford University. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Todd looked at multicultural education in the three tracks of secondary education by conducting ethnographic research with principals, teachers and students at several schools in Berlin. He also explored the role that youth organizations play in several Berlin neighborhoods in shaping the lives of minority youth. (8/1/04)
C. Robert Garris (1995-96)
Rob Garris is a member of the Senior Leadership team at the Rockefeller Foundation, working as Managing Director for Conference and Residency Programs at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. The Bellagio Center, located in northern Italy, hosts conferences and residencies for scholars, artists, and policy practitioners. His role is to align programming at the Bellagio Center with the Rockefeller Foundation's mission and with its key initiatives, including environment and climate change, urbanization, basic survival needs (health, water, nutrition, and economic growth), social and economic security, and nurturing innovation and creativity in philanthropic work. Prior to the Rockefeller Foundation, Rob worked for nine years as the Senior Associate Dean at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Rob has a Ph.D. in European History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a focus on urban and social history. (7/21/11)
Cynthia Miller-Idriss (2000-01)
Since September 2003, Cynthia has been Assistant Professor of International Education and Educational Sociology at New York University. Cynthia completed a doctoral degree in sociology and two masters degrees (in public policy and sociology) at the University of Michigan. She spent her year as a German Chancellor Fellow in Berlin, researching conceptions of citizenship and national identity among students and teachers in three vocational schools. Her book, Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany, which is based in large part on the research she conducted while a German Chancellor Fellow, will be published by Duke University Press in August 2009. (6/26/09)
Todd Presner (2001-02)
Todd is Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a doctorate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University in 2001 and completed a second doctorate in art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His German Chancellor Fellowship project was called "Re-Imagining the Humanities in the New Economy: University Management, Pedagogy, and Curriculum." It took him to the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), a new university in Berlin. As the hands-on application of his humanities training, he worked in university management for one year, contributing to the design of the curriculum and initiating web-based pedagogy at ECLA. (5/16/05)
Dennis Shirley (1990-91)
Dennis is a professor in the Department of Teacher Education, Special Education, and Curriculum and Instruction in Lynch School of Education at Boston College. For more information, go to: http://www.dennisshirley.net Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves' new book, entitled "The Fourth Way," will be published by Corwin on July 28. Endorsements and advanced praise for the book come from Anthony Giddens, Dean of the London School of Economics and author of "The Third Way," the Presidents of the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators, the President of the Hope Foundation, the Directors of the UK National College for School Leadership and the Australian Council for Educational Leaders, Michael Fullan, Linda Darling Hammond, and Susan Moore Johnson. For details click here. (6/19/09)
Alexis Spry (2005-06)
As a German Chancellor Fellow, Alexis created an online educational resource called the "GDR Wunderkammer" about the former East Germany for American high school teachers. She completed her M.A. In Library and Information Studies in 2008 and currently works as a Knowledge Manager for the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (6/26/09)
Bernhard Streitwieser (1998-99)
Bernhard is a Senior Research Associate at Northwestern University's Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and a lecturer in the School of Education and Social Policy, where he teaches on comparative higher education. Bernhard is currently leading two research projects: one studies the impact of research opportunities on undergraduates in the sciences (funded by the National Science Foundation); the other looks at the impact of international education on undergraduate student development (funded by Northwestern's Center for International and Comparative Studies). Previously at Northwestern, Bernhard held positions as the Associate Director of the Study Abroad Office (where he specialized in study in Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Western Europe); as the lead researcher on a large, Mellon Foundation-sponsored educational study; and as a lecturer in the German Department teaching on East Germany. While in Berlin as a German Chancellor Fellow from Columbia University, Bernhard completed his dissertation on educational transformation in Eastern Germany following reunification and also served as a guest researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung. Bernhard was the President of the German Chancellor Fellow Alumni Association from 2003-2005. (6/19/09)
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