Name: Anthony L. Wagner V
Email: alw9399@nyu.edu
Program: International Education
Research Interests: Higher education; Democracy & higher education; Internationalization of higher education; Public vs. private higher education; Brazil
Principal Advisor(s): Dr. Carol Anne Spreen
Research description/bio:
Anthony's research focuses on the public and democratic purposes of higher education in Brazil amidst the backdrop of changes to the country's public and private higher education sectors, as well as the political participation and civic engagement of the nation's university students. He is also interested in the internationalization of higher education in Brazil and the United States. At NYU Steinhardt, he works as a research assistant to Dr. Erich Dietrich.
Anthony has professional and research experience working in various international education contexts. As an undergraduate student, he conducted research on youth civic engagement and the work of an education equity NGO, the Umkhumbane Schools Project, in Cato Manor Township, Durban, South Africa. He was a 2018-2020 Fulbright grantee at the Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei in Brazil. He served as a grantee leader in his second year, mentoring and assisting a regional cohort of Fulbrighters. As a Fulbright grantee, he co-designed and facilitated a number of experiential learning opportunities for youth and teachers in his host community, including Rock Paintings in Translation, a project co-sponsored by the United States Embassy that linked the fields of archaeology and communications with the concept of global citizenship. Additionally, he spent two summers teaching English to students in Jiangyin, China and served as a post-graduate fellow for the College Life Division at Gettysburg College, managing a task force on student mentoring and assisting with special projects.
He serves part-time as associate director of the largest higher education association in the Maryland, DC, Delaware, and West Virginia region dedicated to advancing the public purposes of higher education, Transform Mid-Atlantic. As associate director, he created the TMA Civic Fellowship program and collaboratively leads various aspects of the organization's strategic plan membership development, and programming, including its federal advocacy efforts in support of funding for service-learning and civic and community engagement programs in U.S. schools and universities.
Anthony grew up on a small family farm in Western Pennsylvania and enjoys running, baking, hiking, birding, and biking. He earned a BA from Gettysburg College in 2017 and an MSEd in 2021 from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education in the Education, Culture, & Society Program.
Selected Awards, Publications, and Presentations: Forthcoming chapter: Wagner, A. & Dietrich, E. (2023) Internationalization of higher education in Brazil: Advances and challenges. In Yu, C. & Woldegiorgis, E. (Eds.) Critical reflections on the internationalisation of higher education in the Global South. Emerald Publishing.