# Our Faculty
### Directory

Dr. Shane Peterson

Associate Professor

Pilcher 248 speter71@kennesaw.edu

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Magdalena Constantin
Instructor
Pilcher 221 mconsta@kennesaw.edu		/files/ylKY6vXuFlixGe9rC9Vc
Susanne Estrella
Instructor
Pilcher 221
sestrell@kennesaw.edu		/files/1lzaxovvAA6GyoZpRwOT
Sabina Carlson
Instructor
Pilcher 221 scarls14@kennesaw.edu		/files/xajYOkFD6gVMjz8W7Bd9

Dr. Lucy Henry
Adjunct Professor
Pilcher 221

lhenry34@kennesaw.edu

/files/16L5gc2ZXEkUnJHZtm1s
Dr. Aleksandra Starcevic

Adjunct Professor

Pilcher 221

astarcev@kennesaw.edu

/files/M1pStvxaKRY6caxEaU2r
Dr. Leili MeskarzadehAdjunct ProfessorPilcher 221email forthcoming
## 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.”](https://peer.asee.org/40608) American Society for Engineering Education. *2022 Annual Conference & Exposition*. #### Textbooks Peterson, Shane D., Sabine Smith, Dylan Goldblatt, and Susanne Estrella. [“der und mehr”:](https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/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](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Falg.manifoldapp.org%2Fprojects%2Fder-und-mehr\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594400850457%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=srHp9v2FA%2BQaIvBUVsmSjJUTzJ1SgddYotCgUaTSI%2Fw%3D\&reserved=0) * 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](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funi-paderborn.sciebo.de%2Findex.php%2Fs%2FwOpITMLOF3aCPsA\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594400850457%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=aR6d%2FCIy2wV0df4aAC%2B%2FKNhHvajtXg2xs56kj7uABrI%3D\&reserved=0) * 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](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fescholarship.org%2Fuc%2Fitem%2F5bx354k1%23page-1\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594400850457%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=HXU%2B7w4xPNDaeZsnH%2BXkv977n3UYhXMEiTk6wTpoBTY%3D\&reserved=0)). * 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](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fescholarship.org%2Fuc%2Fitem%2F5bx354k1%23page-1\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594400850457%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=HXU%2B7w4xPNDaeZsnH%2BXkv977n3UYhXMEiTk6wTpoBTY%3D\&reserved=0) ) * 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](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeer.asee.org%2F40608\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594400850457%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=oDll0w9bjiTseTs5etcvNRSh1247GVn1xTau5iVgrSM%3D\&reserved=0).[Available here](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeer.asee.org%2Fimproving-communication-skills-in-global-engineers-adapting-the-unesco-story-circles-method-in-undergraduate-engineering-programs\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594401006683%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=PR2XTMtD1bg34LjhR8jsrcshufKOKJ0EGDq6qTNIdao%3D\&reserved=0). * 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 Learning*14:1 (September 2022). 55-69. [Available here](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwebcdn.worcester.edu%2Fcurrents-in-teaching-and-learning%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F65%2F2022%2F09%2FCurrents-14-01-GuramatunhuCooper-Xiomara-Rodriguez-Kokil-Smith-Cross-Cultural-Contexts-of-Teaching-and-Learning-Experiences-of-International-Faculty.pdf\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594401006683%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=Xn4xq3edk%2FlEHzTxkt7pVLiQ%2FOthhUIwatSins%2BXUAI%3D\&reserved=0). * 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 * 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 . * 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 (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](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdga.kennesaw.edu%2Fsig%2Fitaic.php\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594401006683%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=ow3ONLOQIuUakKZkkUWsAdIABvKVt6NQDaQuiEJ1xrw%3D\&reserved=0) 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,](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhistorymuseum.kennesaw.edu%2Fexhibitions%2Ftraveling%2Fgreat-war.php\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594401006683%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=A%2BvtdMKHzIm%2BkI6zUcZuUk4OGRfDtww%2FM2fm4t8UNEw%3D\&reserved=0) *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](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhistorymuseum.kennesaw.edu%2Fexhibitions%2Ftraveling%2Fenduring-tension.php\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594401006683%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=xVoYkOl68EaeCOuY6WwnqTdCx3ZHNeLVhjg046dDEkw%3D\&reserved=0), with undergraduate students in GRMN 3200 (Spring 2022), KSU. Available at [https://meethistory.kennesaw.edu/items/show/90](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeethistory.kennesaw.edu%2Fitems%2Fshow%2F90\&data=05%7C01%7Cngoldbla%40kennesaw.edu%7Cda27d8d04078490416e808dba1ba73c8%7C45f26ee5f134439ebc93e6c7e33d61c2%7C1%7C0%7C638281594401006683%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C\&sdata=50ouzlldM%2F%2FeRvvS%2Bd%2FeDJMPUKOLqihEHxRqH60bI0E%3D\&reserved=0) (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).
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