Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Shawna Knauff
Associate Vice Provost, Executive Director, Bing Overseas Studies
BioShawna Knauff is an Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Executive Director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program. She joined BOSP in 2016 as the Associate Director for Student and Academic Services and assumed the role of Executive Director in 2018. In this role she provides leadership for all BOSP programs and operations. Serving as the hub of undergraduate study abroad and away, BOSP operates academic centers in Berlin, Cape Town, Florence, Kyoto, Madrid, New York, Oxford, Paris, and Santiago. In addition, students have global learning opportunities through academic partnership programs in Australia, Istanbul, Hong Kong and short-term, faculty-led seminars.
Shawna has over twelve years of experience in international and higher education. Before coming to Stanford, she held leadership roles at Hult International Business School and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Shawna has extensive experience in education abroad program development and operations, international student and scholar services, crisis and risk management, and student advising. She is an active member of NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the Forum on Education Abroad. She currently serves as an officer of Stanford’s subsidiaries in Chile and South Africa and member of the advisory board for the Rubenstein-Bing Student-Athlete Civic Engagement Program (ACE).
As an undergraduate, Shawna spent a year studying abroad in Granada, Spain. She holds a BA in Spanish and a BS in Recreation Administration from California State University Chico and MA in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco. -
Karen Ruoff Kramer
Director, Bing Overseas Studies
BioKaren Ruoff Kramer has been Director of the University’s Bing Overseas Stzdies Program in Berlin since 1980. She studied at Stanford (B.A. in English literature, Ph.D. in German Studies) and at the Freie Universität Berlin (Magister in Philosophy, Comparative Literature and American Studies). She teaches German theater, film, and literature at the Berlin Center and has been Lecturer in SLE and in German Studies at Stanford/CA. Her books include The Politics of Discourse: Third Thoughts on New Subjectivity (NY/Bern: NYU Ottendorfer Series), Aktualisierung Brechts (Argument Sonderband 50, ed. with W.F. Haug/Klaus Pierwoß) and a novel, Academia: Exzellenz hat ihren Preis (Hamburg: Ariadne/Argument). In addition to articles on film, theater, comparative cultural studies, she has published poetry, and essays on comparative culture. She sits on the Boards of the German Fulbright Commission, the Will Foundation, is a Fellow of the Institut für Kritische Theorie, and is founding member of the AASAP (Assoziation Amerikanischer Study Abroad Programme in Deutschland). She was awarded the German Federal Medal of Honor (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande) in 2002 for her contributions to relations between Germany and the United States and between Germans East and West. She plays the cello and dances with horses (though not at the same time).
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Miguel Larrañaga Zulueta
Overseas Studies - Madrid, Bing Overseas Studies
BioSt Sebastian (Spain), 1961.
Graduated in Philosophy, master degree in Paleography and PhD in Medieval History. The social and cultural history of the Middle Ages has centered his teaching and research work, areas on which he has published an extensive number of books and articles. Some of his latest publications are: "Palabra, Imagen, Poder: Enseñar el Orden en la Edad Media" (Word, Image, Power: Teaching Order in the Middle Ages), 2015; "Sobre los orígenes del culto jacobeo" (On the origins of the Jacobean cult), 2018; “History and Art in the convent of Santa Cruz la Real of Segovia " (2018).
He has been a professor at the universities of Alcala (Spain) and Middlebury College (Madrid), and a researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish Superior Council of Scientific Research). He was a visiting professor in the United States (St John's U.-The Hill Manuscript Library, Minnesota), Germany (Institut für Franziskanische Geschichte - Münster) and the United Kingdom (Oxford Center for Medieval History - U. of Oxford). He is currently a professor, director of the Antiquity & Middle Ages Research Center and Vice-Rector of IE University, professor at Stanford University in Madrid, member of the CARMEN group (Cooperative for the Advancement of Research through the Medieval European Network), and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (Routledge, USA).
Miguel is married and lives in Madrid and Segovia (Spain). He enjoys outdoor activities: Rock climbing, mountain biking, and surfing. -
Eloi Laurent
Overseas Studies - Paris, Bing Overseas Studies
BioDr. Éloi Laurent is a senior economist at OFCE, professor at Ponts Paris Tech, at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po and visiting professor at Stanford University (Paris and Stanford). Macro-economist by training (PhD), he graduated from Paris-Dauphine and Sciences Po (summa cum laude).
His work focuses on the relationship between well-being and sustainability through the social-ecological approach, in particular the exploration of the sustainability-justice nexus and planetary health-human health nexus (“full health nexus”).
He is the author or editor of twenty books in French and English (translated into nine languages), three governmental reports and around a hundred articles published in French and international journals.
He was parliamentary attaché to the National Assembly and assistant in the cabinet of the French Prime Minister. He has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University (NYU) and Columbia University, Visiting Professor at the University of Montreal, and Visiting Scholar and Professor at Harvard University.
He is Research Fellow at the Well-being Economy Alliance (WeALL), qualified expert for European institutions and chairman of the SHS 5 (economics and law) and Foresight (sustainable development) Commissions of the Scientific Research Fund, FRS- FNRS (Belgium).
He recently published The New Environmental Economics – Sustainability and Justice (2020) https://politybooks.com/the-new-environmental-economics/ , The Well-being Transition: Analysis and Policy (2021) https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030678593 and the Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment (2021) https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-the-Political-Economy-of-the-Environment/Laurent-Zwickl/p/book/9780367410704 . -
Jacob Lloyd
Overseas Studies - Oxford, Bing Overseas Studies
BioDPhil, Balliol College, University of Oxford, English (2019)
MA, University of Bristol, English Literature (2010)
BA, Jesus College, University of Oxford, English Language and Literature (2008)
I am a scholar of Romantic Period literature, especially the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). My research addresses the relationship between poetry and politics: how writers use poetry as a space to explore political questions and how formal or aesthetic choices are related to political concerns. I also have research interests in literary relationships and influence.
My work has been published in journals including 'Wordsworth Circle', 'Romanticism', and 'Notes & Queries'. I contributed the chapter ‘Political Coleridge’ to 'The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge' (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
I am currently finishing my first monograph, 'Coleridge’s Political Poetics', which is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. This book is the first to consider Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the 18th Century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. I argue that Coleridge was able to articulate radical ideas in the 1790s under the cover of widely accepted principles through his references to this poetry. He positioned his poetry within a mainstream discourse even as he favoured radical social change. -
Rev. Daiko Matsuyama
Overseas Studies - Kyoto, Bing Overseas Studies
BioBorn in 1978 in Kyoto, Mr. Matsuyama obtained his Master’s degree in Agriculture and Life Sciences from the University of Tokyo.
After three and half years of training at Heirin-ji Temple, Niiza, he became the deputy priest of Taizoin Temple in 2007.
Matsuyama is acclaimed for organizing intercultural activities such as Zen experience tours for foreign visitors and talks at embassies in Japan and at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club.
In May 2009, he was elected as a Japan Tourism Agency’s Ambassador for its “Visit Japan” Campaign.
He has been a member of Kyoto’s Ambassadors for Tourism since 2011, and was listed as one of “The Top 100 People of the New Generation 2016” in Nikkei Business.
And he was appointed as a fellow of US-Japan Leadership Program from 2016.
In 2018, he was invited to Israel as the delegate of Young Leaders Program.
And he also became a visiting lecturer at Stanford Univ.
He received The Award of Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and Shigemitsu Award from Japan society in Boston in 2019.
He is serving as an appointed member of the Kyoto City Board of Education and an Outside Director of V-cube, a tech startup, since 2021.
As a young representative of the Zen Sect in Japan, Matsuyama has interacted with many religious leaders, such as having an audience with the Roman Catholic Pope and conversing with the 14th Dalai Lama.
He also participated in the Davos World Economic Forum in 2014, and continues to work actively beyond national and religious borders.
He is the author of the book,
Forget What’s Important First: 30 Zen Teachings for the Wavering Soul (Sekai Bunka Publishing, 2014)
Strolling around Zen Gardens in Kyoto (PHP Publishing, 2016)
Introduction of ZEN for workers (Kodansya Publishing, 2016). -
Harry R. McCarthy
Overseas Studies, Bing Overseas Studies
BioMy research centres on early modern acting and performances by children in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
I grew up just outside Oxford, where I attended local comprehensive schools before coming to Exeter in 2011. Over the course of my BA in English and French, I was repeatedly drawn to questions concerning early modern theatrical culture and present-day performances of early modern drama, which culminated in a final-year dissertation on the self-fashioning and reputation of the actor-playwright Nathan Field. Having graduated with a First and Dean's and College Commendations, I left Exeter in 2015 to pursue an M.St. in English (1550-1700) at the University of Oxford, where I worked on theatrical documents in the plays of Christopher Marlowe, the publication and paratexts of Jacobean play quartos, ekphrasis in the narrative poetry of Spenser and Shakespeare, and, finally, a dissertation on early modern concepts of 'youth' and its articulation in the repertory of the Children of the Queen's Revels, 1609-1613. I returned to Exeter in 2016 after being awarded a South, West, and Wales DTP PhD scholarship which allows me to continue to pursue my interests in the training, rehearsal, performance, and afterlives of early modern boy actors.
Throughout my undergraduate and postgraduate studies, I have worked as Director of the Oxford Summer Academy, a Writing Advisor with Exeter's Undergraduate Writing Centre, and have privately taught English, French, and Drama to GCSE, IB, and A Level students. At Exeter, I have taught classes in Shakespeare and Performance (Stage and Screen), and Early Modern Literature. With Paul Prescott (Warwick), I was the Performance Reviews Editor and Editorial Assistant for Shakespeare Bulletin until December 2017. -
Maggie Mustaklem
Overseas Studies - Oxford, Bing Overseas Studies
BioMaggie Mustaklem is a PhD student at the University of Oxford focusing on AI and creativity. Her doctoral research project, Who and What is Designing Design, centers on algorithmic image search and the images creative professionals use for inspiration. Maggie holds a Master of Arts in History of Design from the Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Michigan.
In addition to her research, Maggie is the project lead on AI Yesterday, a digital zine and multimedia forum that critically engages with AI histories, challenging dominant narratives about AI’s potential futures. Through experimental, freeform participation, AI Yesterday embraces voices and outputs that academic writing and journalism often exclude. -
Jack Nasher
Overseas Studies - Oxford, Bing Overseas Studies
BioJack Nasher is a scholar and practitioner in negotiation strategy.
Professor Jack Nasher previously taught at Oxford University, his alma mater, and became the youngest ever appointee for a professorship at Munich Business School.
Alongside his studies in Philosophy (PhD), Psychology (MA), Management (MSc), and Law (German State Exam), he earned his stripes at the European Court of Justice, at the United Nations in New York City, and at Wall Street’s leading law firm Skadden.
Professor Jack Nasher explores the dynamics of the negotiation process, utilizing psychological insights to read and influence people. He founded the NASHER Negotiation Institute which helps car manufacturers, private equity firms, professional service firms, and many other companies and individuals improve their negotiation processes.
Books authored by Professor Jack Nasher became multiple bestsellers and were published in the USA, Germany, Russia, India, Japan, China and many other countries. He has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and the China Times and he is the author of the annual Forbes list of the Top 10 World Changing Negotiations.
Professor Jack Nasher is a Principle Practitioner of the Association of Business Psychology and regularly speaks at management conventions, where his research has been awarded with a gold medal. He is an avid mentalist and regularly demonstrates mind mysteries at Hollywood’s Magic Castle. -
Laura Quirarte
Academic Services Coordinator, Bing Overseas Studies
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