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Dr. Sabine Smith Professor Pilcher 253 [e-mail]

Dr. Shane Peterson

Associate Professor

Pilcher 248 [e-mail]

Magdalena Constantin Instructor Pilcher 221 [e-mail]

Susanne Estrella Instructor Pilcher 221 [e-mail]

Sabina Carlson Instructor Pilcher 221 [e-mail]

Dr. Lucy Henry Adjunct Professor Pilcher 221

[e-mail]

Dr. Aleksandra Starcevic

Adjunct Professor

Pilcher 221

[e-mail]

Faculty Publications

Shane Peterson, Ph.D.

Articles

Ergai, Awatef, Shane D. Peterson, Ginny Zhan, and Sabine Smith. “Advancing Intercultural Communication Skills in Diverse Teams: An Intervention Program for Project-Based Engineering Courses.” Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 23.10 (2023): 120-136.

Peterson, Shane D. “The Contested Status of Illustrated Literature (1860-1890).” Colloquia Germanica 49.2-3 (2016 [2018]): 259-82.

Peterson, Shane D. “Projection Spaces: Manifestations of the Alpine in the Reception of the Austrian Heimatfilm Echo der Berge (1954) and of the Vienna Flak Towers.” Austrian Studies 18 (2010): 124-40.

Book Chapters

Peterson, Shane D. “Illustrated Editions of Novels as Marketing Strategy: The Case of Wilhelm Raabe.” Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, eds. Vance Byrd & Ervin Malakaj. De Gruyter, 2020. 269-305.

Peterson, Shane D. “Intranational Migration – The Search for Postwar Austrian Heimat in « Echo der Berge »(1954).” Imaginäre Topographien: Migration und Verortung, eds. Klaus Müller-Richter and Ramona Uritescu-Lombard. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2007. 127-42.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Ergai, Awatef, Shane D. Peterson, Ginny Zhan, and Sabine Smith. “Improving Communication Skills in Global Engineers: Adapting the UNESCO Story Circles Method in an Undergraduate Engineering Course.” American Society for Engineering Education. 2022 Annual Conference & Exposition.

Textbooks

Peterson, Shane D., Sabine Smith, Dylan Goldblatt, and Susanne Estrella. “der und mehr”: An Online, Open-Source German Language Textbook.

Undergraduate Research Mentorship

Faculty Mentor, First-Year Scholars Program, “Measuring German Vocabulary Learning,” 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. “Have Interest, Will NOT Travel: Multi-Institutional Study of the Reasons Why Students Opt Out of Study Abroad,” 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. “Exploring Patterns of Student Global Learning Choices: A Multi-Institutional Analysis,” in: Namaste, Nina & Amanda Sturgill, eds. Mind The Gap: Integrating Global Learning at Home and Abroad (Stylus, 2020).

• Smith, Sabine H. “The Urban Residential Balcony as Interstitial Site.” Resistance and the City. Ed. Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer; (= Spatial Practices series). Amsterdam/Leiden: Rodopi/Brill, 2018, 168-184.

• Smith, Sabine H. “Staking the Ground for the ‘Third Place’: Fostering Intercultural Competence in Foreign Language Students at an American University.” Intercultural Encounters in Education, vol.2 Ed. Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer and Hermine Penz. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2014, 9-27.

• Smith, Sabine H. “Perfectly Ambivalent: How German Am I?” 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. “Introduction.” 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. “Epilogue: Synthesizing Stories and Making Connections.” 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. “Questions: Reflection, Discussion and Cultural Change.” 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. “’I would have hoped for a different discussion…’: An Interview with Helke Sander.” Triangulated Visions: Women in Recent German Cinema. Ed. Ingeborg Major O’Sickey and Ingeborg von Zadow. New York: SUNY P, 1998.

Articles (peer reviewed/refereed):

• Ergai, Awatef, Shane Peterson, Sabine H. Smith, Ginny Zhan, ”Advancing Intercultural Communication Skills in Diverse Teams: An Intervention Program for Project-Based Engineering Courses.“ Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 23:10 (2023).120 – 136.

• Ergai, Awatef, Shane Peterson, Ginny Zhan, Sabine H. Smith, „Improving Communication Skills in Global Engineers: Adapting the UNESCO Story Circles Method in an Undergraduate Engineering Course,” 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, “Cross-Cultural Contexts of Teaching and Learning: Experiences of International Faculty at a Southeastern University in the United States,” Currents in Teaching and Learning14:1 (September 2022). 55-69. Available here.
• Smith, Sabine H., and Daniel J. Paracka. “Global learning is shared learning: Interdisciplinary intercultural competence at a comprehensive regional university” International Journal for Intercultural Relations 63:1 (2018), 17-26. Smith, Sabine H., “Investigating Products, Practices, and Perspectives in a Simulated Moving Abroad Project.” 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. “Die Integration von interkultureller Kommunikationskompetenz in das Curriculum eines Institutes für Fremdsprachen: Eine explorative Fallstudie” [Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence Into the Curriculum of a Department of Foreign Languages: An Exploratory Case Study] Intercultural Journal: Online Zeitschrift für Interkulturelle Studien 12:21 (2013). 59-70. Available at http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/45416.

• Smith, Sabine H., and Miriam Bley. „Streets in the Sky: The Balconies of Lima and the Road to Intercultural Competence.“ The Journal of Global Initiatives 7:2 (2012). 143-166.

• Hoyt, Kristin, and Sabine H. Smith. “Keeping Them In While Getting Them Out” FLAG Journal 1:1 (Fall 2009). 15-22.

• Hunt, Hugh, Catherine Lewis, and Smith, Sabine H. “Following in Anne Frank’s Footsteps: An Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program.” The International Journal of the Humanities 5:9 (Fall 2007). 61-68.

Online teaching modules, research-based

• Contributor of online module “Embracing the Monkey Wrench: Preparing for the OPI” to Webinar by DFL Faculty Learning Community “High Leverage Teaching Practice” Available at https://mediaspace.kennesaw.edu/media/Webinar+1+Power+Point+Interpersonal+Task_FinalPrez/1_uh38bf81 (5/18).
• Contributor of online module “Exploring Your Worldview and the Importance of Self-Assessment” (pre-departure section) for KSU Campus Internationalization Prize: Online Intercultural Education and Training for Study Abroad Engagement,” 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 “Cultural Simulation “It’s Peanuts!” http://dga.kennesaw.edu/sig/itaic.php for KSU Campus Internationalization Prize: “Campus Internationalization Prize: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Assessment of Intercultural Competence,” 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 „Remembering Ravensbrück: Women and the Holocaust,“ co-presented w/ Dr. Jennifer Dickey and undergraduate students in HIST 4426 and GRMN 3305, KSU (5/12).

• Co-Curator of bi-lingual exhibit „Karikatur of Power:World War II Through Political Cartoons,“ co-presented w/ Dr. Catherine Lewis and undergraduate students in HIST 4428 and GRMN 3305, KSU (3/09).