Jamison, Amy
Amy
Jamison comes to MSU’s Education Policy Ph.D. program from UCLA where
she completed Masters degrees in African Studies and African History
and was awarded four Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships to
study Wolof and Kiswahili. She also holds a B.A. in French and
Africana Studies from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Between her
undergraduate and graduate programs, she worked as a study abroad
advisor at Brown University and became interested in issues of higher
education and global learning. Currently, her primary research
interests include the history of higher education in Africa, the role
of African universities in social and economic development, African
intellectuals’ experiences with research and international scholarly
collaboration, and global learning in higher education. In 2007
she was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
fellowship to pursue her dissertation research at the University of Dar
es Salaam (UDSM) in Tanzania, and in 2008 she spent the year at UDSM
doing her field research and data collection.
Honors/Awards:
MSU Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Summer 2010
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, 2008
MSU College of Education Dean’s Scholar Award, 2005
UCLA International Staff Service Award, 2003 & 2005
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for Swahili language study, 2003 & 2004
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for Wolof language study, 2001 & 2002
NAFSA (National Association of International Educators) Coop Mini-Grant, 2001
Faculty Scholar Award, 1994-1998
Publications/Presentations
Glew, R., Riedinger, J., & Jamison, A. (forthcoming) A study
of the legislative history and current status of international studies
national resource centers. New York: Social Science Research
Council.
McTighe
Musil, C., Hovland, K., Skylton-Sylvester, E., & Jamison, A. (2009)
“It Takes a Curriculum:Bringing Global Mindedness Back Home,” In R.
Lewin (Ed.) The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad: Higher Education and the Quest for Global Citizenship.
“Globalization,
and the Generation Gap: The Next Generation of Tanzanian Scholars at a
Crossroads,” Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual
Meeting, Vancouver, BC, November 5, 2009.
“Internationalizing
Campus: International Education at the University of Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania,” Comparative and International Education Society
Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, February 25, 2007
Diversity Issues in Study Abroad. Brown University, Office of International Programs, 2001
