Sara CURRAN

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Sara CURRAN

• University of Washington-Seattle

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Going, Going, Going Global

• The Legacies of International Studies
• Challenges of Becoming Global Studies

Sara R. Curran, Henry M. Jackson School of
International Studies, University of Washington
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Overview

• Context 1
• History of Jackson School
• Current Configuration
• Context 2
• Disciplinary Accommodation Resistance
• Context 3
• Global University Inherent Contradictions?

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UW Baseball Team Visiting Japan, 1908
Dedication of Japan Building UW, 1909
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From Department of Oriental Studies
..To - Battling Isolationism
..To Far Eastern Studies Russian Studies
..To Cold War Bastion of Anti-Communism
..To Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies
..To Human Rights and Global Environmental
Challenges
..To ..
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Area Studies Programs
African Studies Canadian Studies China
Studies European Studies Hellenic Studies Japan
Studies Korea Studies Latin America
Studies Middle East Studies Russia, Eastern
Europe, and Central Asian Studies South Asian
Studies Southeast Asian Studies
8 Title VI Centers Complement Programs
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Global Programs
Comparative Religions Program International
Studies Program Institute for Global and Regional
Security Studies Program Institute for
Transnational Studies Program Jewish Studies
Program
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April 3, 2008 Task Force students investigate
college apparel industry in Guatemala By
Catherine O'Donnell, UW News and Information The
Guatemalan woman feared talking with the
professor and her students. A single mother, she
knew that if a factory boss learned she had
talked with investigators or reporters, she'd not
only be fired but blacklisted and prevented from
getting another factory job. Nevertheless, she
talked. That same week in February, another
factory worker allowed the professor and her
students to visit her tiny house, where they
learned that she and her co-workers had been
forced to work overtime without pay, that they'd
been denied a bonus owed them and that the
possibility of a union is only a dream -- and
likely to remain so. The factory is one of scores
in Guatemala, not to mention thousands around the
world, that make collegiate apparel, clothing
with university logos.
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Preparing Graduate Students Conceptually

• Global Complexities
• Systemic Understandings
• Network Dynamics
• Explanations for Social Change
• Histories and Critical Stances

• Local Dynamics and Agency
• Deep Knowledge of States, Regions, Societies
• Importance of Places and Identities
• Local perspectives on global engagement

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Preparing Graduate StudentsSkillfully

• Developing Navigation Skills
• Language
• Field Experience
• Cross-border individual and Institutional
  Relationship Building

• Critical Inquiry
• Study Design
• Writing for Policy or Academic Audiences
• Communicating Simultaneously - Complexity and
  Local Relevance

Bridging Practice Academia For Leadership
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Master in International Studies (Can we be
global studies?)
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Disciplinary Resistance Accommodation

• Anthropology
• Communications
• Economics
• Geography
• History
• College on the Environment
• Political Science
• Public Affairs
• Sociology

• Joint Appointments
• Adjunct positions
• Cross-Listed Courses
• ---
• Contentious topics
• Security IR
• Political Economy
• International Development

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Implementation in an Inherently Contradictory
Moment

• Self-Interested Global University vs. Global
  public University

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Ideals of the public Academia

• Public role - gadfly
• Academic Freedom
• U.S. Case
• Structured around systematized curriculum and
  legitimation (practical reasons)
• Flourishing of challenging ideas in a context of
  significant finances in the middle of the 20th
  century
• Building of many new disciplines, particularly
  in the physical and natural sciences

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Late 20th Century- Neo Liberalism Diminishment
and Expansions

• Declining public funding for public university
  rising costs
• Privatization and Marketing
• Self-financing programs - executive programs,
  extras for those that can pay
• Flourishing of private colleges
• Global economies and demographics

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Two Choices Inherent Contradictions

• Self-interested Global University
• Marketing to emerging economies youth
• Competitive Edge in Global Economy
• Corporate interests and training for global
  economy

• Global public University
• Reclaiming public space for
• Learning thru collaboration interdisciplinarity
• Sustained relationships
• Strong networks - multiple modes of exchange
• Tackling the global public good challenges
• Knowledge, environment, human welfare health,
  governance, etc.

Nimble, flexible entrepreneurial
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Principles Principled Global University
Global Studies

• What for?
• Obligation for growing global public goods
  (reclaiming)
• Tackling global challenges and opportunities
• How?
• Creating spaces for unsettling experiences and
  knowledge ? new knowledge ? societal change
• Sustained relationships around the globe
• Multiple pathways, long term commitment, growing
  spillovers or positive externalities
• Collaborative learning through
  interdisciplinary, iterative, integrative
  knowledge growth
• Capacity building through informal and formal
  pathways for networks and full participation

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