MIAS Staff
Philip M. Hosay, Director
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 a s 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.
Elizabeth Hanauer, Administrative Director
A PhD student in International Education at New York University, Ms. Hanauer received her BA in French from Wellesley College and MA in French from Middlebury College in Paris. Prior to her studies at NYU, Ms. Hanauer worked for the Institute of International Education where she managed scholarship, exchange, training and development programs world-wide. Additionally she has worked with international education programs in Hungary and Italy. Her main research interests are in immigration, identity and education in France.
Amy Kapit, Program Officer
A doctoral student in the International Education Program at New York University, Amy received her Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Peace and Conflict Studies from Swarthmore College in 2006. At NYU, Ms. Kapit has worked as a teaching assistant and research assistant for the past year. Her research interests are in the role of identity in conflict and its resolution and the role of education in identity formation.
Karleigh Koster, Program Officer
A PhD candidate in International Education at New York University, Ms. Koster received a BA in French and History from Butler University and MA in French Studies from New York University. Prior to coming to NYU for her doctoral studies, she worked with international students and scholars at the University of Chicago and was a university French instructor. She has also worked with educational and humanitarian programs for an international non-profit organization. Her main interests are in university-level educational exchange programs and their relationship to diplomacy.
Rachel Wahl, Program Officer
Rachel recently completed her first year of doctoral studies in International Education at NYU, where she has worked as a teaching assistant for undergraduate and MA students. Prior to graduate school, Rachel taught English and worked in youth development in China and Peru, and worked in education with a national non-profit serving at-risk youth. Her undergraduate work was in theatre and anthropology at Marymount Manhattan College. Her research interest is in the way religious beliefs shape concepts of justice and political views.
Ashleigh White, Program Officer
Ms. White recently completed her first year of doctoral study in International Education at Steinhardt. Previous to coming to NYU, she graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Florida and a Ed.M. from Harvard University in Secondary Education. She taught English literature for three years in New York State before heading abroad to teach English as a Foreign Language in both Spain and Chile. While in Chile, she also worked as the Assistant Field Director for WorldTeach, an NGO affiliated with the Harvard Center for International Development that sends volunteer teachers to developing countries throughout the world, and as a curriculum development specialist and scriptwriter for an English language educational series produced for the Chilean Ministry of Education. Her research interests include the Third Culture Kid experience and intercultural sensitivity development within the context of international schools.
Alexandra Wood, Program Officer
A PhD Candidate in International Education at New York University, Ms. Wood received a BA in Japanese and Interdisciplinary Studies and an MPIA (International Affairs) from the University of Pittsburgh. She served as Director of the Center for International Studies at Kean University in Union, NJ. Ms. Wood has been a Graduate Assistant in NYU's Department of Teaching & Learning for the past year. Her main interests are in controversial social studies curricula in the U.S. and Canada.
Nick Kahn, Program Associate
A native New Yorker, Mr. Kahn has previously worked for the MIAS program in the summers of 2003, 2005, and 2007. He will be graduating from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in May 2009 with a BA in Geography. Beginning in the fall of 2009, Nick will be attending the University of Michigan to pursue a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning with a specialization in transportation planning. In his spare time, Nick likes to travel, attend sporting events, cook, and explore New York City.