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Dr. Leili Meskarzadeh
Adjunct Professor
Pilcher 221
email forthcoming
Faculty Publications
Shane Peterson, Ph.D.
Articles
Ergai, Awatef, Shane D. Peterson, Ginny Zhan, and Sabine Smith. โAdvancing Intercultural Communication Skills in Diverse Teams: An Intervention Program for Project-Based Engineering Courses.โ Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 23.10 (2023): 120-136.
Peterson, Shane D. โThe Contested Status of Illustrated Literature (1860-1890).โ Colloquia Germanica 49.2-3 (2016 [2018]): 259-82.
Peterson, Shane D. โProjection Spaces: Manifestations of the Alpine in the Reception of the Austrian Heimatfilm Echo der Berge (1954) and of the Vienna Flak Towers.โ Austrian Studies 18 (2010): 124-40.
Book Chapters
Peterson, Shane D. โIllustrated Editions of Novels as Marketing Strategy: The Case of Wilhelm Raabe.โ Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, eds. Vance Byrd & Ervin Malakaj. De Gruyter, 2020. 269-305.
Peterson, Shane D. โIntranational Migration โ The Search for Postwar Austrian Heimat in ยซ Echo der Berge ยป(1954).โ Imaginรคre Topographien: Migration und Verortung, eds. Klaus Mรผller-Richter and Ramona Uritescu-Lombard. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2007. 127-42.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Ergai, Awatef, Shane D. Peterson, Ginny Zhan, and Sabine Smith. โImproving Communication Skills in Global Engineers: Adapting the UNESCO Story Circles Method in an Undergraduate Engineering Course.โ American Society for Engineering Education. 2022 Annual Conference & Exposition.
Textbooks
Peterson, Shane D., Sabine Smith, Dylan Goldblatt, and Susanne Estrella. โder und mehrโ: An Online, Open-Source German Language Textbook.
Undergraduate Research Mentorship
Faculty Mentor, First-Year Scholars Program, โMeasuring German Vocabulary Learning,โ 2020-21.
Sabine Smith, Ph.D.
Monographs
Peterson, Shane, Sabine H. Smith, Dylan Goldblatt, Susanne Estrella. Der und mehr. Open Textbooks, ALG, 2020. Available via https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/der-und-mehr
Ehland, Christoph, Sabine H. Smith, eds. KSU UPB Maymester 2016: Georgia with the Germans. Paderborn: np, 2017. Available in print and via https://uni-paderborn.sciebo.de/index.php/s/wOpITMLOF3aCPsA
Robbins, Sarah, Sabine H. Smith, and Federica Santini, eds. Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011.
Smith, Sabine H. Sexual Violence in German Culture: Rereading and Rewriting the Tradition. Studien zum Theater, Film, Fernsehen 26. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1998.
Book chapters:
Levintova, Ekaterina, Sabine H. Smith, Iris Berdrow, Laura Boudon, Dan Paracka, and Paul Worley. โHave Interest, Will NOT Travel: Multi-Institutional Study of the Reasons Why Students Opt Out of Study Abroad,โ in: Namaste, Nina & Amanda Sturgill, eds. Mind The Gap: Integrating Global Learning at Home and Abroad (Stylus, 2020).
Berdrow, Iris, Rebecca Cruise, Ekaterina Levintova, Sabine H. Smith, Laura Boudon, Dan Paracka, and Paul Worley. โExploring Patterns of Student Global Learning Choices: A Multi-Institutional Analysis,โ in: Namaste, Nina & Amanda Sturgill, eds. Mind The Gap: Integrating Global Learning at Home and Abroad (Stylus, 2020).
Smith, Sabine H. โThe Urban Residential Balcony as Interstitial Site.โ Resistance and the City. Ed. Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer; (= Spatial Practices series). Amsterdam/Leiden: Rodopi/Brill, 2018, 168-184.
Smith, Sabine H. โStaking the Ground for the โThird Placeโ: Fostering Intercultural Competence in Foreign Language Students at an American University.โ Intercultural Encounters in Education, vol.2 Ed. Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer and Hermine Penz. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2014, 9-27.
Smith, Sabine H. โPerfectly Ambivalent: How German Am I?โ Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Ed. Sarah Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Federica Santini. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011, 40-60. (Reprinted in Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4(1) (2012), 11-31. Available http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5bx354k1#page-1).
Santini, Federica, Sabine H. Smith, and Sarah Robbins. โIntroduction.โ Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Ed. Sarah Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Federica Santini. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011, xxi-xlii. (Reprinted in Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4(1) (2012), 1-10. Available http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5bx354k1#page-1 )
Howard, Lori, Sarah R. Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Bridging Cultures writers. โEpilogue: Synthesizing Stories and Making Connections.โ Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Ed. Sarah Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Federica Santini Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011, 157-173.
Santini, Federica, and Sabine H. Smith. โQuestions: Reflection, Discussion and Cultural Change.โ Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Ed. Sarah Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Federica Santini. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011, 174-177.
Smith, Sabine H. โโI would have hoped for a different discussionโฆโ: An Interview with Helke Sander.โ Triangulated Visions: Women in Recent German Cinema. Ed. Ingeborg Major OโSickey and Ingeborg von Zadow. New York: SUNY P, 1998.
Articles (peer reviewed/refereed):
Ergai, Awatef, Shane Peterson, Sabine H. Smith, Ginny Zhan, โAdvancing Intercultural Communication Skills in Diverse Teams: An Intervention Program for Project-Based Engineering Courses.โ Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 23:10 (2023).120 โ 136.
Ergai, Awatef, Shane Peterson, Ginny Zhan, Sabine H. Smith, โImproving Communication Skills in Global Engineers: Adapting the UNESCO Story Circles Method in an Undergraduate Engineering Course,โ 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022.American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 1-18. https://peer.asee.org/40608.Available here.
GuramatunhuCooper, Nyasha M., Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, Uttam Kokil, Sabine H. Smith, โCross-Cultural Contexts of Teaching and Learning: Experiences of International Faculty at a Southeastern University in the United States,โ Currents in Teaching and Learning14:1 (September 2022). 55-69. Available here.
Smith, Sabine H., and Daniel J. Paracka. โGlobal learning is shared learning: Interdisciplinary intercultural competence at a comprehensive regional universityโ International Journal for Intercultural Relations 63:1 (2018), 17-26. Smith, Sabine H., โInvestigating Products, Practices, and Perspectives in a Simulated Moving Abroad Project.โ Garrett-Rucks, Paula and Alvino Fantini, eds. Dimension 2016 Special Issue: Focus on Intercultural Competence (2016). 169-194. Available at https://www.academia.edu/26575642/Dimension_2016_Special_Issue_Focus_on_Intercultural_Competence
Terantino, Joseph, Claudia Stura, Sabine H. Smith, and Jeannette Boettcher. โDie Integration von interkultureller Kommunikationskompetenz in das Curriculum eines Institutes fรผr Fremdsprachen: Eine explorative Fallstudieโ [Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence Into the Curriculum of a Department of Foreign Languages: An Exploratory Case Study] Intercultural Journal: Online Zeitschrift fรผr Interkulturelle Studien 12:21 (2013). 59-70. Available at http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/45416.
Smith, Sabine H., and Miriam Bley. โStreets in the Sky: The Balconies of Lima and the Road to Intercultural Competence.โ The Journal of Global Initiatives 7:2 (2012). 143-166.
Hoyt, Kristin, and Sabine H. Smith. โKeeping Them In While Getting Them Outโ FLAG Journal 1:1 (Fall 2009). 15-22.
Hunt, Hugh, Catherine Lewis, and Smith, Sabine H. โFollowing in Anne Frankโs Footsteps: An Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program.โ The International Journal of the Humanities 5:9 (Fall 2007). 61-68.
Online teaching modules, research-based
Contributor of online module โEmbracing the Monkey Wrench: Preparing for the OPIโ to Webinar by DFL Faculty Learning Community โHigh Leverage Teaching Practiceโ Available at https://mediaspace.kennesaw.edu/media/Webinar+1+Power+Point+Interpersonal+Task_FinalPrez/1_uh38bf81 (5/18).
Contributor of online module โExploring Your Worldview and the Importance of Self-Assessmentโ (pre-departure section) for KSU Campus Internationalization Prize: Online Intercultural Education and Training for Study Abroad Engagement,โ for Co-PIs Drs. Wade-Berg, Slinger-Friedman, Robinson-Dooley, and Coffey, sponsored by the KSU Institute of Global Initiatives (6/16).
Contributor of online module โCultural Simulation โItโs Peanuts!โ http://dga.kennesaw.edu/sig/itaic.php for KSU Campus Internationalization Prize: โCampus Internationalization Prize: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Assessment of Intercultural Competence,โ for Co-PIs Drs. Smith, Paracka and Terantino, sponsored by the KSU Institute of Global Initiatives (6/15).
Performances, exhibits, and installations
Coordinator of translation project (English-German) of KSU MHHE exhibit Voices from the Great War, with undergraduate students in GRMN 3200 (Spring 20232), KSU. Forthcoming.
Coordinator of translation project (English-German) of KSU MHHE exhibit Enduring Tension: (En)countering Antisemitism in Every Age, with undergraduate students in GRMN 3200 (Spring 2022), KSU. Available at https://meethistory.kennesaw.edu/items/show/90 (5/22).
Co-Curator of bi-lingual exhibit โRemembering Ravensbrรผck: Women and the Holocaust,โ co-presented w/ Dr. Jennifer Dickey and undergraduate students in HIST 4426 and GRMN 3305, KSU (5/12).
Co-Curator of bi-lingual exhibit โKarikatur of Power:World War II Through Political Cartoons,โ co-presented w/ Dr. Catherine Lewis and undergraduate students in HIST 4428 and GRMN 3305, KSU (3/09).
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