Name: Kristine Hart
Email: kh1392@nyu.edu
Program: International Education
Research Interests: Peace & Conflict Studies, Human Rights Education, Genocide Studies, History Education, International Development
Principal Advisor(s): Elisabeth King
Research Description/Bio:
Kristine Hart is a second-year doctoral student in the International Education program at NYU Steinhardt. She is interested in examining the evolution of Cambodia’s national education system from Cambodia's independence from France in 1953, to the abolishment of formal education, which was considered “remnants of the imperialists, colonialists, and other oppressor classes” under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge (1975-1979), to the country’s present-day education system. She will seek to explore the extent to which the tenets propagated by the Khmer Rouge regime present themselves in the policies, pedagogy, and curricula used in Cambodia’s rural schools.
Before joining the International Education program at NYU, Kristine was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mesang, Cambodia. Kristine then moved to Shenzhen, China, where she worked as an English language instructor for 3 years. Following her time in China, Kristine spent 3 years teaching at an international boarding school in New York. After nearly a decade working in education, Kristine began her journey studying international education at NYU. She received her MA in 2017 and has since worked at both NYU Shanghai and NYU Abu Dhabi in New York. She is currently the Manager of Academic Administration at NYU Abu Dhabi in New York. Kristine is also an adjunct instructor at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City and has taught professional development courses at NYU Shanghai and NYU Steinhardt.
Kristine received the Shearwater Grant and 2023 ASH Professional Development and Research Support Fund to participate in the Genocide & Human Rights University Program at the Zoryan Institue in Toronto in Summer 2023.
Kristine holds an MA in International Education from NYU, BA in Psychology from Loyola University Maryland, and a certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).