MIAS Staff

Dr. Hosay is Professor and Director of International Education at New York University. Among his publications are The Challenge of Urban Poverty, The Dictionary of American Biography, and an Outline Series in American Studies for the United States Information Agency. He has served as a consultant for the U.S. State Department in Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Egypt, Armenia, Belarus, Russia, Japan, Korea and Thailand, and has lectured at a number of foreign universities, including the Institut d'Études Politiques, Université Strasbourg, St. Petersburg University, Thammasat University and Chonnam National University. Most recently, he gave the keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association of Thailand and the American Studies Association of Korea, and he was a Senior Fullbright Specialist in Turkey.

Alexandra Wood, Administrative Director
A Ph.D. Candidate in International Education at New York University, Ms. Wood received a B.A. in Japanese and Interdisciplinary Studies in 2000 and an M.P.I.A. (International Affairs) in 2002 from the University of Pittsburgh. She then served as Director of the Center for International Studies at Kean University in Union, NJ for six years. At NYU Steinhardt, Ms. Wood has been a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Teaching & Learning and a Teaching Assistant in the International Education program. This is her fourth summer with MIAS, serving as Administrative Director in both 2010 and 2011, and as Program Officer in 2009. Her dissertation is a comparative study of recent efforts to educate the public about the internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians during World War II..

Christian Bracho, Program Officer
Christian Bracho is a doctoral candidate in the International Education program at New York University. After receiving his B.A. in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester, he completed a Master's degree and teaching credential at the University's Warner School of Education. Mr. Bracho then worked as an English/ Language Arts teacher for almost a decade, serving as English department chair and as a  full-time teacher trainer for the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District  in Los Angeles County.  He also served as a teacher mentor at two summer institutes sponsored by the Ahimsa Center for Nonviolence and  Social Change at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. At  NYU, Mr. Bracho has worked as a teaching and research assistant in the International Education program. His research examines teachers involved  in social and political movements; he spent part of 2011 in Oaxaca, Mexico interviewing teachers in a social movement now 30 years old. This is his third year working with MIAS.