Each Global Citizenship Seminar is led by a group of Teaching Faculty who delivers talks and provides academic leadership throughout the week. Every seminar has a unique balance of Teaching Faculty members with complimentary expertise and experience that includes a mix of academics, civil servants, and practitioners. The following represents a range of Teaching Faculty who have donated their expertise and time more recently and regularly.
Santwana Dasgupta
Santwana has held various roles in the education sector, including Director of Education and Chief of Party at The Asia Foundation, Manager at USAID Higher Education Project in Afghanistan, and Executive Director at Partnership for the Education of Children in Afghanistan. Additionally, Santwana has experience in NGO development and management, with a background in technology and financial advising. She joined the Teaching Faculty in 2012 and since then has returned every year. Santwana serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Citizenship Alliance.
Birsen Erdogan
Birsen is a full-time lecturer at Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. She coordinates and teaches courses like International Relations Theory, Middle Eastern Politics, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Contemporary Security Studies. Her main interest areas are security, foreign policymaking, the Middle East, and discourse analysis. She has authored several books and book chapters and published articles on these issues. Birsen graduated from Bilkent University in Ankara, where she studied International Relations. Later she studied at the London School of Economics, Utrecht University and finally Maastricht University. She has also worked in several international projects, including a comprehensive human rights training project in Turkey.
Farid Hafez
Farid is currently Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College. Before, he was a lecturer and researcher at the University of Salzburg, Department of Political Science and Sociology. He is also a faculty member at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where he researches & writes about Islamophobia as a Senior Fellow for The Bridge Initiative. In 2017, he was a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2014, he was visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York. Since 2010 he has been the editor of the Islamophobia Studies Yearbook, and since 2016 the co-editor of the European Islamophobia Report.
Charles Hopkins
Chuck is the UNESCO Chair at York University in Toronto, Canada where he teaches in the Graduate School. His UNESCO work focuses on the development and coordination of an international network of teacher education institutions from over 50 countries working on the reorientation of teacher education to address sustainable development. He is co-director of the Sustainability and Education Academy (SEdA), a Canada-wide institution that assists ministries of education, faculties of education, and school districts in reorienting their school systems to address sustainability. Chuck has been a member of the core Faculty of the Global Citizenship Program since 2004.
Maghan Keita
Maghan is professor of history, director of the Institute for Global Interdisciplinary Studies, and chair of the unit on Critical Language and Cultural Studies at Villanova University. He was the chair of the Board of Trustees of the College Board and has spent the majority of his professional life concentrating on issues of education in various venues with a particular focus on excellence, access and equity in the educational process. Maghan holds a B.A. in Chinese language and East Asian studies from Oberlin College; an M.A. in American history from Cleveland State University; and a Ph.D. in African studies from Howard University. He joined the Teaching Faculty in 2013.
Yolanda Moses
Yolanda serves as professor of anthropology, associate vice chancellor for diversity, equity and excellence, and executive director for conflict resolution at the University of California, Riverside. She previously served as chair of the Board of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, president of City University of New York/The City College, and president of the American Association for Higher Education. Yolanda’s research focuses on the broad question of the origins of social inequality in complex societies through the use of comparative ethnographic and survey methods. She has been involved in many Salzburg Global Seminar programs, is a core faculty member of the Mellon Fellow Community Initiative, and co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Citizenship Alliance.
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hampa Patel
Champa is the Executive Director for Governments and Policy, which includes leading on the strategy, development and growth of Climate Groups work with subnational and national governments, including the Under2 Coalition, and international institutions. She also leads on the organisation’s policy development and advocacy strategies. Most recently, Champa was Director of Innovation and Deputy Director of the Future of Conflict Program at the International Crisis Group. In this role, she was responsible for research and advocacy on climate, technological and the economic aspects of conflict. Before this, Champa was Director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, managing policy research on the region. She has also worked at Amnesty International, as Regional Director for the South Asia, and Southeast Asia and Pacific Offices and as Global Director for Campaigns, overseeing human rights policy, research and advocacy.
Hedy C. Rose
Hedy has taught at every level, from pre-school to university. She was born in Amsterdam and has lived in the United States since 1947. She has served on the faculties of Smith College; the University of Massachusetts, Hampshire College, where she was a long-time member of the School of Social Science and headed Education and Child Studies; and Wesleyan University where, for seven years, she taught and directed the Educational Studies Program for both undergraduates and graduate students. For the Global Citizenship Program she lectures on her personal experiences during the Holocaust since 2004.
Peter Rose
Peter (Ph.D. Cornell, 1959) is Senior Fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology, and former director of the American Studies Diploma Program for foreign graduate students at Smith College in Massachusetts. He is also a member of the Graduate Faculty of the University of Massachusetts. Peter has been a visiting professor at Clark, Wesleyan, the University of Colorado, UCLA, Yale, and Harvard. He has served on the Faculty of many Salzburg Global Seminar sessions, is a core Faculty member of the Global Citizenship Program since 2004, and serves on the Board of American Studies of the Salzburg Global Seminar.
Alex Seago
Alex is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at Richmond The American University in London, England. With an interdisciplinary academic background in American studies, cultural history and cultural studies, he has taught for a wide variety of American and British universities and colleges, including the University of Kansas, The Royal College of Art, Sotheby’s Institute, Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, and the London campuses of the University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin and Syracuse University. Alex’s research interests focus upon the area of cultural globalization – with particular reference to music, art and design. He joined the Teaching Faculty in 2009.
Tazalika te Reh
Tazalika is an architect and cultural studies scholar. For over 10 years she has been researching the intersections of architecture, space and racialization, specifically in the context of decolonization and decarbonization. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from TU Dortmund University, realizes architectural projects, works in the EV charging industry and teaches Global Citizenship in Austria. As part of her academic work, she has received fellowships from the Salzburg Global Seminar and Stiftung Mercator, and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Dr. te Reh is a member of the teaching faculty of the Global Citizenship Alliance.
Reinhold Wagnleitner
Reinhold is a student of global US cultural influences and the Cold War. He was associate professor of modern history at the University of Salzburg and visiting professor of US history at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. For many years he played bass and sang in Austrian rock and jazz bands. He is a lecturer of history at Salzburg College and the former president of the Austrian Association for American Studies. He is the author of Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second World War. Over the years, he has served on the Faculty of nearly eighty seminars for both students and faculty and administrators.
