Meet the Professors
Thúy Tranviet is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies, where she has taught and managed the Vietnamese Language Studies program since 2000. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her broad research interests are within the framework of international education, literary studies and international/global service-learning (ISL/GSL) encompassing development studies, gender studies, and international development. She is particularly interested in connecting and engaging ISL in all academic disciplines. Her background training includes literary & language studies, Southeast Asian literature and film. At Cornell University she has established working relationships with many departments and units across campus, having many collaborations with the Southeast Asia Program, the Language Resource Center, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the office of Engaged Cornell, among others. Thúy received her Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara; her MA from the University of Michigan; her MS and PhD degrees from Cornell University. In designing this internationally oriented, interdisciplinary course that integrates field-based community services, she envisions it to be a great learning experience for everyone involved – students, instructors, and the community people in Vietnam.
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Mike Hoffmann is the executive director of the Cornell Institute for Climate Change and Agriculture (CICCA), which was created to help raise the profile of the challenges posed by a rapidly warming climate and to help those who grow our food adapt to the changing conditions as well as reduce their carbon footprint. As executive director of CICCA he provides visionary leadership, communicates to a wide range of audiences the challenges and opportunities that come with a changing climate, and builds partnerships among public and private organizations. Previous positions he has held at Cornell include Director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, associate director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, and director of the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program. He is a professor in the Department of Entomology and maintains a research program focused on management of pests of vegetable crops. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin, Masters from the University of Arizona and PhD from the University of California, Davis. Email: [email protected]