Faculty Fellows Program - Global Education

Engaged KSU Faculty for Community Impact

Global Education has developed the Faculty Fellows Program to engage KSU faculty in areas that are of importance to the KSU community and have both local and international impact. In collaboration with faculty members from multiple colleges and disciplines, through focused research and analysis, the Faculty Fellows Program seeks to create new opportunities for community engagement, campus internationalization and professional development.

Team Members

M. Todd Harper, PhD.

Faculty Fellow, Annual Year of Country Study

M. Todd Harper, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English. He has been at Kennesaw State University since 1998, having arrived from the University of Louisville where he completed his doctorate. In 2003, Dr. Harper became the first faculty member to receive a traditional Fulbright-Hayes Grant. Dr. Harper taught and researched for five months at Ionian University on the island of Corfu, Greece. In 2005, he was awarded a Rotary Grant to teach a semester at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Since then, Dr. Harper has been involved in a number of KSU international initiatives, most notably directing study abroad programs to Greece and Italy. As of 2020, Dr. Harper has led over 14 programs to Montepulciano, Italy, alone. This year, Dr. Harper is excited to

Ken Hill

Faculty Fellow, Montepulciano, Italy

Ken Hill is a Senior Lecturer of Management. He came to Kennesaw State University in 2002 in conjunction with a 20-year career that included Operations Management, Organizational Training and Development, and Human Resources. He completed his master's degree in Education and Human Development from The George Washington University in 1993. In 2007, Hill accepted a position as full-time instructor teaching in University College and the Honors College with the President's Emerging Global Scholars program. During that time, he developed international relationships in Salvador, Brazil and San Jose, Costa Rica while researching and studying a variety of global challenges in collaboration with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC. He has lived and worked there on behalf of the university for the last four years. Recently, Hill was pleased to be accepted the role of Italian Faculty Fellow with Global Education while his academic home is with Coles College of Business in the Levin School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality.

Theresa Alviar-Martin, Ph.D.

Faculty Fellow, International Support

Theresa Alviar-Martin, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education. Originally from the Philippines, Theresa’s transnational career experience began when she worked as an ESOL teacher in a refugee camp in Bataan; and as a primary teacher in internationals schools in Manila, Bangkok, and Hong Kong. She held appointments as assistant professor at the National Institute of Education (NIE Singapore) and the Education University of Hong Kong (formerly Hong Kong Institute of Education) prior to joining KSU. She is a member of the KSU Presidential Commission on Race and Ethnic Dialogue and serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Annual Country Studies Program. Theresa’s research examines citizenship education in culturally diverse democracies from global and comparative perspectives. She is an editorial board member of Theory and Research in Social Education. Her scholarship has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Teaching and Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, and Journal of Educational Research.