KAIGC Faculty Associate Dean
Khaldoun Samman
2024-2027 KAIGC Faculty Associate Dean, Khaldoun Samman is a professor of sociology where he teaches a wide variety of courses and has published three books, the most recent is entitled The Clash of Modernities: The Islamist Challenge to Jewish, Turkish and Arab Nationalism. He is developing a new course on Palestine to be offered Fall 2024. He is also a proud board member of New Arab American Theater Works and the Director of the Yalla Drum Ensemble in Minneapolis where he teaches Arabic percussion.
The charges of the KAIGC Faculty Associate Dean are as follows:
Foster interdisciplinary learning with a focus on critical global engagement through the lens of global/transnational interconnectedness and power dynamics
- Engage in cross-disciplinary conversations with faculty and staff colleagues to foster research collaboration
- Design and coordinate spaces for interdisciplinary collaboration and global learning
- Design and build innovative ways to connect and share out Macalester research on interconnected global/transnational/local issues
Develop and share theories and practices of global learning both connected to and beyond study away
- Facilitate community conversations and understanding about critical global engagement
- Collaborate with CEC, CSA, EPAG, Institutional Research, Student Affairs, to further integrate students’ study away and community engagement experiences into both disciplinary and general curricula
- Facilitate the recognition and integration of diverse ways of knowing into teaching and learning
Conceptualize and organize International Roundtable
- Formulate themes based on community input
- Suggest and invite potential speakers and/or artists
- Participate in the planning, organizing, and evaluating of IRT
Mentor students and colleagues in
- Critical dialogues about global and transnational issues
- Student research related to global/transnational interconnections