FRANCES VAVRUS Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

University of Minnesota 255 Burton Hall

178 Pillsbury Drive SE Minneapolis, MN 55455-0221

vavru003@umn.edu http://www.cehd.umn.edu/olpd/people/faculty/Vavrus.asp

EDUCATION Harvard University, School of Public Health 1999 - 2001 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropological Demography University of Wisconsin Doctor of Philosophy 1998 Education (major field) African Studies (minor fields: Educational Policy Studies and History) University of Illinois Master of Arts with Distinction 1991 Teaching English as a Second Language Purdue University Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction 1987 Psychology (major field) Political Science (minor field) University of York (England) Study Abroad (Politics program) 1985 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Interim Chair, Department of Organizational Leadership, January – June 2016 Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota February – July 2014 Associate Chair, Department of Organizational Leadership, August 2014 - January 2016 Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change August 2014 – January 2016 University of Minnesota Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Organizational Leadership, July 2013 - present Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota Program Coordinator, Comparative and International 2009 - 2013 Development Education, University of Minnesota Director of Graduate Studies, International Education Minor 2009 - 2013 University of Minnesota

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Professor with Tenure, University of Minnesota 2014 – present

Affiliations at the University of Minnesota -Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies -Human Rights Program -Institute for Advanced Study -Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change -Master of Development Practice in International Development -Minnesota Population Center

Courses taught at the University of Minnesota

-Anthropology of Development -Comparative Education -Doctoral Research Seminar -Education and the Postcolonial Condition in Africa -Gender, Education, and International Development -International Education and Development -Inquiry Strategies in Educational and Organizational Research -Masters of Development Practice Capstone Seminar

Associate Professor with Tenure, University of Minnesota 2009 - 2014 Affiliated Faculty Member, Mwenge Catholic University (Tanzania) 2009 - present Project Coordinator, Teaching in Action 2007 –2012 Teacher professional development program in Tanzania Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota 2008 –2009 Program Coordinator, Programs in Comparative and International 2007-2008 Educational Development, Teachers College, Columbia University Associate Professor with Tenure, Teachers College, Columbia University 2006 -2008 Courses taught at Teachers College

-Cultural Perspectives on Education, Health, and International Development -Doctoral Research Seminar -Education and Demographic Change -Gender, Education, and International Development -Human Rights in Africa: Politics, Policies, and Pedagogies -Issues and Institutions in International Educational Development -Reading Development Policy through Practice in Tanzania

Associate Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University 2004-2006 Associate Director, Teachers College Center for African Education 2004 -2008 Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University 2000-2004

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Lecturer, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin 1999 Course taught: Education and Social Change in Africa Lecturer, International Relations Major, University of Wisconsin 1999 Course taught: Global Perspectives on Gender and Development Researcher, Project on Academic Language Socialization 1998 Wisconsin Center for Educational Research, University of Wisconsin AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS Fulbright Specialist Roster 2016-present

U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Institute of International Education’s Council for International Exchange of Scholars

Appointment to the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application 2013-present of the Recommendations Concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART)

Chair, Publications Committee, Comparative and International Education Society 2013-2015 Marty and Jack Rossman Award for outstanding teaching, research, and service 2015 University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development College of Education and Human Development Global Signature Grant 2015 (to develop joint course and student exchange with the University of Zambia) 2012 George Bereday Award Honorable Mention (recognizes the best article 2013

in the Comparative Education Review, the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society)

Co-Chair, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change Collaborative 2013-2016 Research Circle

Co-Principal Investigator for Strengthening Educational Performance Up Zambia 2012-2015 USAID (with Professor David Chapman) Residential Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota 2012 Co-Chair, Careers in Comparative and International Education Committee 2012-2013

Comparative and International Education Society Robert Beck Faculty Teaching Award, College of Education and Human Development 2011 University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development Big Idea Award 2011

(to promote internationalization in pre-service teacher education) University of Minnesota

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Office of International Programs Collaborative Seed Grant 2010 University of Minnesota

McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota 2009-2012 Ashoka Changemakers and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 2009

Champions of Quality Education in Africa Award for the Teaching in Action Program (with AfricAid and Mwenge University College of Education)

College of Education and Human Development International Initiatives Grant 2009 Office of International Programs Summer Travel Grant 2009 Provost’s Investment Fund, Teachers College, Teaching Africa Book Series 2008 (with Professor George Bond) Comparative and International Education Society, Elected Board Member 2007-2010 Comparative and International Education Society, Annual Meeting Program Co-Chair 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholars Fellowship (Tanzania) 2006-2007 Joyce Cain Award for Outstanding Research, Comparative and 2006

International Education Society Finalist, Carnegie Corporation’s Scholars Program 2004 Pre-Tenured Faculty Research Grant, Teachers College 2002 Spencer Research Training Grant 2002-2005

(with Professors Lesley Bartlett, George Bond, and Herve Varenne)

Faculty Diversity Research Award for 2002-2003, Teachers College 2002 Excellence in Teaching Award, Teachers College 2001, 2004 Takemi Fellow in International Health, Harvard School of Public Health 1999-2000 Deans Club Graduate Student Research Award, University of Wisconsin 1997 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (Tanzania) 1995 Peter Strevens Award for Academic Excellence, University of Illinois 1991 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University of Illinois 1988-1990 Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Fellowship for Kenya and Tanzania 1990

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Ranked Outstanding on “An Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent 1988, 1989, 1991 By Their Students,” University of Illinois Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society 1987 PUBLICATIONS Books Bartlett, L., and Vavrus, F. (2017). Rethinking Case Study Research: A Comparative Approach. New York and

London: Routledge. Vavrus, F., and Bartlett, L. (Eds.) (2013). Teaching in Tension: International Pedagogies, National Policies, and

Teachers’ Practices in Tanzania. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. Vavrus, F., and Bartlett, L. (Eds.) (2009). Critical Approaches to Comparative Education: Vertical

Case Studies from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Vavrus, F. (2003). Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanzania. New York: Peter Lang

Publishing. Monographs Vavrus, F., Thomas, M., and Bartlett, L. (2011). Ensuring Quality by Attending to Inquiry: Learner-

Centered Pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Addis Ababa: UNESCO-International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa.

DeJaeghere, J., & Vavrus, F. (2011, Fall). Educational Formations: Gendered Experiences of

Schooling in Local Contexts. Guest editors for special issue of Feminist Formations, 23(3). Vavrus, F., & Richey, L. A. (2003, Fall/Winter). Women and Development: Rethinking Policy and

Reconceptualizing Practice. Guest editors for special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly XXXI. Articles Vavrus, F. (2016). Topographies of power: Critical historical geography in the study of education in

Tanzania. Comparative Education 52(2): 136-156. Vavrus, F. (2015). More clever than the devil: Ujanja as schooling strategy in Tanzania. International

Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 28(1): 50-71. Vavrus, F., and Pekol, A. (2015). Critical internationalization: Moving from theory to practice. FIRE:

Forum for International Research in Education 2(2): 5-21.

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Bartlett, L., & Vavrus, F. (2014). Transversing the vertical case study: Methodological approaches to studies of educational policy-as-practice. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 45(2): 131-147.

Vavrus, F., & Kwauk, C. (2013). The new abolitionists? The World Bank and the ‘boldness’ of global

school fee elimination reforms. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 34(3): 351-365.

Vavrus, F., & Bartlett, L. (2012). Comparative pedagogies and epistemological diversity: Social and

materials contexts of teaching in Tanzania. Comparative Education Review 56(4): 634-658. (recipient of the 2012 George Bereday Award Honorable Mention from the Comparative and International Education Society)

DeJaeghere, J., & Vavrus, F. (2011). Introduction—Educational formations: Gendered experiences

of schooling in local contexts. Special issue of Feminist Formations, 23(3), vii-xvi. Vavrus, F., & Seghers, M. (2010). Critical discourse analysis in comparative education: A discursive

study of ‘partnership’ in Tanzania’s poverty reduction policies. Comparative Education Review 54(1): 77-103.

Vavrus, F. (2009). The cultural politics of constructivist pedagogies: Teacher education reform in

the United Republic of Tanzania. International Journal of Educational Development 29(3): 303-311. (listed as one of the journal’s “most cited articles published since 2007”)

Vavrus, F., & Moshi, G. (2009). The cost of a ‘free’ primary education in Tanzania. International

Journal of Educational Policy, Research, and Practice 8: 31-42. Vavrus, F. (2006). Girls’ schooling in Tanzania: The key to HIV/AIDS prevention? AIDS Care 18(8):

863-871. Vavrus, F., & Bartlett, L. (2006). Comparatively knowing: Making a case for the vertical case study.

Current Issues in Comparative Education 8(2) [Online]. Available at http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/Archives/8.2/82vavrus_bartlett.pdf

Bryan, A., & Vavrus, F. (2005). The promise and peril of education: The teaching of in/tolerance in

an era of globalization. Globalisation, Societies, and Education 3(2): 183-202. Vavrus, F. (2005). Adjusting inequality: Education and structural adjustment programs in Tanzania.

Harvard Educational Review 75(2): 174-201. Vavrus. F. (2003). “The acquired income deficiency syndrome”: School fees and sexual risk in

northern Tanzania. Compare 33(2), 235-250. Vavrus, F. (2003). “A shadow of the real thing”: Furrow societies, water user associations, and

democratic practices in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. Journal of African American History 88(4), 393-412.

Vavrus, F., & Larsen, U. (2003). Girls’ education and fertility transitions: An analysis of recent

trends in Tanzania and Uganda. Economic Development and Cultural Change 51(4): 945-976.

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Vavrus, F. (2002). Constructing consensus: The feminist modern and the re-construction of gender. Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE) [Online] 5(1). Available at: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/CICE/articles/fv151.htm

Vavrus, F. (2002). Making distinctions: Privatisation and the (un)educated girl on Mount

Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. International Journal of Educational Development 22(5), 527-547. Vavrus, F. (2002). Postcoloniality and English: Exploring language policy and the politics of

development in Tanzania. TESOL Quarterly 36(3), 373-397. Vavrus, F. (2002). Uncoupling the articulation between girls’ education and tradition in Tanzania.

Gender and Education 14(4), 367-389. Vavrus, F., & Cole, K. (2002). “I didn’t do nothin’”: The discursive construction of school suspension.

The Urban Review 34(2), 87-111. Vavrus, F. (2001). The contributions of cultural theory to the study of AIDS and education. Current

Issues in Comparative Education [Online] 3(1). Available at: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/CICE/. Vavrus, F. (2000). In pursuit of schooling: Girls’ education and economic ‘reform’ in Tanzania.

Cultural Survival Quarterly 24(3), 56-59. Chapters in books and monographs Vavrus, F. (forthcoming). Pedagogy and postcolonialism in East Africa: The Teachers for East Africa

Programs revisited. In N. Asher, C. Kolb, and J. Grinage (Eds.), Postcolonialism, Globalization, and

Education: Engaging Identities, Cultures, and Curriculum. Routledge.

Bartlett, L., & Vavrus, F. (2016). A vertical case study of global policy-making: Early grade literacy in Zambia. In K. Mundy, A. Green, R. Lingard, and A. Verger (Eds.), Handbook of Global Policy and Policy-Making in Education (pp. 554-572). London: Wiley Blackwell.

Bartlett, L., & Vavrus, F. (2014). Studying globalization: The vertical case study approach. In N.

Stromquist and K. Monkman (Eds.), Globalization and Education: Integration and Contestation across Cultures, 2nd edition (pp. 119-131). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Shuyler, A., & Vavrus, F. (2010). Global competition and higher education in the United Republic of

Tanzania. In V. D. Rust, L. M. Portnoi, and S. S. Bagley (Eds.), Higher Education, Policy and the Global Competition Phenomenon (pp. 177-190). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Thomas, M., & Vavrus, F. (2010). Lessons from Teaching in Action: Developing, implementing, and

sustaining a teacher-training professional development program. In M. Desforges and P. V. Lyimo (Eds.), Supporting Quality Education in East Africa: VMM Partnership Programs (pp. 135-151). U.K.: Liverpool Hope University Press.

Vavrus, F. (2007). The cultural and political context of schooling at Jefferson High School. In K. Cole

& J. Zuengler (Eds.), Research Process in Classroom Discourse Analysis: Current Perspectives (pp. 13-20). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

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Vavrus, F. (2006). The global politics of educational language policy in Tanzania. In M. Ofalayan (Ed.), Current Discourse on Education in Developing Nations: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Tabachnick and Robert Koehl (pp. 41-50). New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Vavrus, F. (2004). The referential web: Externalization beyond education in Tanzania. In G.

Steiner-Khamsi (Ed.), The Global Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending (pp. 141-153). New York: Teachers College Press.

Vavrus, F. (2000). Governmentality in an era of ‘empowerment’: The case of Tanzania. In T. S.

Popkewitz (Ed.), Educational Knowledge: Changing Relations between the State, Civil Society, and the Educational Community (pp. 221-242). New York: SUNY Press.

Bloch, M., & Vavrus, F. (1998). Gender and educational research, policy, and practice in Sub-Saharan

Africa: Theoretical and empirical problems and prospects. In M. Bloch, J. Beoku-Betts, & B. R. Tabachnick (Eds.), Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities and Constraints (pp. 1-24). Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner.

Vavrus, F., & Marsh, M.M. (1995). Rethinking comparative education in Africa. In Primary and

Secondary Education in Africa (pp. 55-64). Washington, D.C.: American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group: Research Focus on Education in the Caribbean and Africa.

Book and film reviews Vavrus, F. (2015). Bamako (film review). Comparative Education Review 59(1): 190-192. Vavrus, F. (2007). Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in

Education. Theory and Research in Education 5, 117-119. Vavrus, F. (2006). Education in Exile: SOMAFCO, the ANC School in Tanzania, 1978 to 1992. African

Studies Review 49(1), 149-150. Vavrus, F. (2005). Higher Education in Tanzania: A Case Study. Africa 75(2), 263-264. Vavrus, F. (2002). Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in

Israel. International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education 5(5), 294-295. Blog posts and non-peer reviewed publications Vavrus, F. (2016). CIES for Sale? Reflections on the Branding of Comparative and International

Education. CIES Perspectives: 9-10. Available at http://www.cies.us/news/273088/CIES-Perspectives-Newsletter-.htm.

Vavrus, F. (August 24, 2015). The Long Road to Teacher Professional Development. Education

International (http://educationincrisis.net/blog/item/1248-road-to-teacher-professional-development?highlight=WyJ2YXZydXMiXQ==)

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Reports and consultancies Vavrus, F. (2016). Consultant for the Open Society Foundation Education Support Program to assist

in the development of Critical Thinking Sourcebooks for primary school teacher education in the Humanities, Languages and Literacy, and Mathematics, Malawian Ministry of Education.

Campbell, A, & Vavrus, F. (2015). Mapping Education Quality Initiatives. New York: Open Society

Foundations. Wilkinson Consulting (Vavrus as contributing author). (2015). Capturing Quality, Equity &

Sustainability: An Actionable Vision with Powerful Indicators for a Broad and Bold Education Agenda Post-2015. New York: Open Society Foundations.

Miske Witt and Associates (Vavrus as contributing author). (2014). Education for All Global

Monitoring Report 2013 United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) Background Paper: Gendered Dimensions of Teaching and Learning. New York: UNGEI.

Vavrus, F., & Bartlett, L. (2011). Reconceptualizing Critical Thinking in Educational Policy and

Practice. New York: Open Society Foundations. Miske Witt and Associates (Vavrus as contributing author). (2010). Policy Frameworks and Quality

Standards for Gender Equity and Inclusion for the Tenth Meeting of the Working Group on Education for All (WGEFA). New York: UNICEF.

Bryan, A. & Vavrus, F. (2002). The Teaching of In/Tolerance: The Role of Education in Cultivating

Cultures of Peace and Hatred. New York: Prepared for President Arthur Levine and the President’s Council.

PRESENTATIONS Invited Vavrus, F. (2016, November). Mind the Gap? Exploring the Signification and Ideology of Educational

Inequality. Keynote address, Oceania Comparative and International Education Society, Sydney.

Vavrus, F. (2016, November). When ‘What Works’ Doesn’t: Comparative Pedagogies and

Epistemological Diversity, Sydney Ideas Dean’s Lecture, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney.

Vavrus, F. (2016, November). The Comparative Case Study Approach for Postgraduate Research.

Masterclass seminar, University of Syndey. Vavrus, F. (2016, September). LUI PhD Days 2016 Seminar Lecture: Supervising the Writing of

Theses and Papers. Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo. Vavrus, F., Thomas, M., & Schuelka, M. (2016, March). Career Development Workshop for New

Scholars. Comparative and International Education Society, Vancouver.

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Vavrus, F. (2015, October). Topographies of Power: Critical Historical Geography in the Study of Education in Tanzania. College of Education, University of South Carolina.

Vavrus, F. (2015, October). Teachers’ Rights in a Global Context: Monitoring and Implementing the

ILO/UNESCO Recommendation on the Status of Teachers Internationally. College of Education, University of South Carolina.

Vavrus, F. (2015, September). The Cultural Politics of Policy: The 2014 Tanzania Education and

Training Policy as Cultural Text. Tanzanian Education Post-2014: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead. East Lansing: Michigan State University.

Vavrus, F. (2015, August). Teaching in Tension: International Pedagogies, National Policies, and

Teachers’ Practices in Tanzania. Twaweza [We can make it happen], Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Vavrus, F. (2015, August). Transformation and Continuity in Tanzanian Teacher Education. Keynote

address, Teachers for East Africa Alumni conference, Minneapolis, MN. Vavrus, F. (2015, May). UNESCO representative on the Teachers for the Future We Want panel,

World Education Forum, Incheon, South Korea. Vavrus, F. (2014, October). Critical Internationalization: Moving from Theory to Practice. Keynote

address, Comparative and International Education Society Midwest Conference, Bloomington, IN.

Vavrus, F. (2014, April). Teacher Training and Social Justice in Tanzania. AfricAid USA, Denver, CO. Vavrus, F. (2014, March). Teaching in Tension: International Pedagogies, National Policies, and

Teachers’ Practices in Tanzania. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Vavrus, F., & Bartlett, L. (2014, March). New Scholars Career Preparation Workshop. Comparative

and International Education Society, Toronto, Canada. Bartlett, L., & Vavrus, F. (2014, March). Studying Globalization: The Vertical Case Study Approach.

Comparative and International Education Society, Toronto, Canada. Miske, S., & Vavrus, F. (2013, March). Development of Scholar-Practitioner Partnerships: A Critical

Dialogue on Developing Partnerships between Academics, Agencies, and Consultants from a Feminist Perspective. CIES Gender Symposium at the Comparative and International Education Society, New Orleans, LA.

Vavrus, F. (2013, March). Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Stunning Successes and Formidable

Challenges (panel discussant). Comparative and International Education Society, New Orleans, LA.

Vavrus, F., & Bartlett, L. (2013, March). New Scholars Career Preparation Workshop. Comparative

and International Education Society, New Orleans, LA.

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Vavrus, F. (2012, September). Teaching in Tension: International Pedagogies, National Policies, and Teachers’ Practices in Tanzania. International Education Development Program Invited Lecture Series, University of Pennsylvania.

Vavrus, F. (2012, September). Teaching in Tension: International Pedagogies, National Policies, and

Teachers’ Practices in Tanzania. Teachers College, Columbia University. Vavrus, F. (2011, April). Education and Liberation. Comparative and International Education

Society, Montreal, Canada. Vavrus, F. (2011, March). Gender and Education in Tanzania. Keynote address, African Studies

Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Bartlett, L., & Vavrus, F. (2011, May). Knowing, Comparatively: Vertical Case Studies as an Approach

to Policy as Practice. Comparative and International Education Society, Montreal, Canada. Vavrus, F. (2011, May). Career Development Workshop for New Scholars. Comparative and

International Education Society, Chicago, IL. Vavrus, F. (2010, March). Career Development Workshop for New Scholars. Comparative and

International Education Society, Chicago, IL. Vavrus, F. (2010, May). Roundtable discussant at the 2010-2020 World Bank Education Sector

Strategy meeting. Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Vavrus, F. (2010, December). Partnership, Poverty, and Power: What can Critical Discourse Analysis

Teach us about Health and Development in Tanzania? Center for Health and Society, Copenhagen University.

Vavrus, F., & Bartlett, L. (2010, January). Thinking Vertically and Horizontally in Comparative

Education. Teachers College, Columbia University.

Vavrus, F. (2009, March). Workshop on Gender and Education Research Methods: Ethnographic Methods. Comparative and International Education Society Gender Committee. Comparative and International Education Society, Charleston, SC.

Vavrus, F. (2009, May). “Democracy Lite”: Furrow Societies, Water User Associations, and the

Transformation of Community Water Conservation in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. Office of International Programs, Global Spotlight Series, University of Minnesota.

Vavrus, F. (2009, May). Education After ‘All’ Have Been Educated: Inclusion/Exclusion in Post-

Primary Schooling in Tanzania. African 'Education for All': Social Inclusions and Exclusions Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Vavrus, F. (2008, March). The Cultural Politics of Constructivist Pedagogies: Teacher Education

Reform in the United Republic of Tanzania. Lawrence A. Cremin Seminar and Lecture Series, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Vavrus, F. (2008, March). Research and Responsibility for Educational Equity in Africa. Comparative

and International Education Society, New York, NY.

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Vavrus, F. (2007, December). Schemes of Work: The Culture of Teacher Education in Tanzania. Committee on African Studies, Harvard University.

Vavrus, F. (2005, March). Panelist: Critical Issues in Girls’ Education: Missing the 2005 Gender Parity

Target. United Nations 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. New York. Vavrus, F. (2005, September). Panelist: Building Educational Partnerships to Provide Quality

Education for Girls and Eradicate Poverty. United Nations 58th Annual Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization Conference. New York, NY.

Vavrus, F. (2004, May). Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanzania. Harvard Graduate

School of Education. Vavrus, F. (2003, June). Panelist and Workshop Organizer: Dialogues Towards Sustainable

Management of Water Resources in the Pangani Basin. PAMOJA (Tanzanian/Dutch Non-Governmental Organization) and IUCN (World Conservation Union). Moshi, Tanzania.

Vavrus, F. (2003, December). Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanzania. Book launch

sponsored by the Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University Seminar on Studies in Contemporary Africa, and the Institute of African Studies in the School of International and Public Affairs, New York.

Vavrus, F. (2002, October). The Languages of Development in Tanzania. Symposium on Language

in Development at the International Association of World Englishes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Vavrus, F. (2002, November). Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanzania. African

Studies Program and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Vavrus, F. (2000, December). Girls’ Education, Poverty, and Population on Mount Kilimanjaro.

Institute for African Studies, Columbia University. Vavrus, F. (1999, November). “Swallowing a Camel”: Visions of Gender, Education, and Tradition in

Colonial Tanganyika. Harvard Graduate School of Education. Peer-reviewed Vavrus, F. (2016, August). The Historical Geography of Educational Inequity: A Longitudinal Study in

Tanzania. Paper presented at the World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, Beijing.

Vavrus, F. (2016, March). Fixing Knowledge: Reflections on Teacher Education in Postcolonial Tanzania. Comparative and International Education Society, Vancouver.

Vavrus, F. (2015, March). Transnational Knowledge Production and the Ethics of North-South Research. Comparative and International Education Society, Washington, DC.

Vavrus, F. (2015, March). Reimagining Teacher Education for Development (roundtable discussion participant). Comparative and International Education Society, Washington, DC.

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Bartlett, L., & Vavrus, F. (2014, March). Studying Globalization: The Vertical Case Study Approach. Comparative and International Education Society, Toronto.

Vavrus, F., & Ojwang, T. (2013, March). Opportunity and Inequality: The Limits of Social Mobility in the Context of Secondary School Expansion in Tanzania. Comparative and International Education Society, New Orleans, LA.

Bartlett, L., & Vavrus, F. (2013, March). Transversing the Vertical Case Study. Comparative and International Education Society, New Orleans, LA.

Vavrus, F., Bartlett, L., & Thomas, M. (2013, February). Team Ethnography: The Politics and Practice of Knowledge Production in Plurality. Ethnography Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Vavrus, F. (2012, March). Producing ‘Nonadversarial’ Global Partnerships: The World Bank and the

School Fee Abolition Initiative. Comparative and International Education Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Salema, V., & Vavrus, F. (2011, May). Teachers’ Work and Working Conditions in 21st Century

Tanzania. Educational Quality and Research in Northern Tanzania Conference, Mwenge University College of Education, Moshi, Tanzania.

Vavrus, F., & Salema, V. (2011, November). The Struggle for Self-Reliance among Tanzanian

Teachers. African Studies Association, Washington, DC. Vavrus, F., & Bartlett, L. (2010, March). Knowing, Comparatively. Comparative and International

Education Society, Chicago, IL. Bartlett, L., & Vavrus, F. (2009, March). Thinking Vertically (and Horizontally) in Comparative

Education. Comparative and International Education Society, Charleston, SC. Vavrus, F., & Moshi, C. (2007, October). Who Goes to School on Mt. Kilimanjaro? A Longitudinal Study

of Educational Rights in Tanzania. African Studies Association, New York, NY. Vavrus, F. (2005, April). Inter/national Partnerships as Poverty Reduction Strategies. American

Educational Research Association, Montreal. Vavrus, F. (2004, March). Qualitative Methods in Policy Studies: A Case Study of Structural Adjustment

in Tanzania. Comparative and International Education Society, Salt Lake City, UT. Vavrus, F. (2004, October). Creating Contexts for Graduate-Level Study Abroad: A Case Study in

Tanzania. New Directions in International Education Conference, Beloit College, Beloit, WI. Vavrus, F. (2004, November). The Global Politics of Educational Language Policy in Tanzania.

African Studies Association, New Orleans, LA. Vavrus, F. (2003, March). Girls’ Schooling in Tanzania: The Key to Health? Comparative and

International Education Society, New Orleans, LA.

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Vavrus, F. (2002, March). The Ties that Blind: The Fragmentation of ‘Local’ Identity in Tanzania.

Comparative and International Education Society, Orlando, FL. Vavrus, F. (2002, December). Schooling and the Reproductive Health Divide in Tanzania. African

Studies Association, Washington, DC. Vavrus, F. (2001, March). Running Away From Temptation: School Fees and Sexual Risk in an Era of

AIDS. Comparative and International Education Society, Washington, DC. Vavrus, F. (2001, October). Whose English? Re-Imagining Language Policy in Tanzania from a Local

Perspective. Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Northeast Regional Conference, Amherst, MA.

Vavrus, F. (2001, November). Infertile Soils and Inadequate Schools: Environmental and Educational

Degradation on Mount Kilimanjaro. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Houston, TX.

Vavrus, F. (2000, February). Ethical Issues in Data Collection Among Adolescents. Roundtable

presentation at the Comparative and International Education Society Northeast Regional Conference, New York, NY.

Vavrus, F. (2000, March). “Here in Tanzania Life is Difficult”: Gender, Poverty, and Population on

Mount Kilimanjaro. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA.

Vavrus, F. (2000, November). Reconceptualizing the Education-Population Connection: The Cases of

Tanzania and Uganda. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Nashville, TN.

Vavrus, F. (1999, April). From ‘Tradition’ to ‘Development’: Historical Perspectives on Girls’

Education in Developing Countries. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

Vavrus, F. (1998, March). “Disturbing the Morality”: Cultural History and the Study of Family

Planning Instruction in Tanzanian Secondary Schools. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Buffalo, NY.

Vavrus, F. (1997, March). Legislating Empowerment: Policy and Practice in an African Setting.

Roundtable presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Vavrus, F. (1997, November). Schooling, Empowerment, and the Politics of Population: A Case Study

from Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Columbus, OH.

Vavrus, F. (1994, November). ‘Legitimate’ Knowledge in Tanzanian Women’s Education, 1923-1993.

American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA.

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SERVICE (2000-2016) Professional Advisory Board, Comparative Education Review

Advisory Board, Compare

Advisory Board, Current Issues in Comparative Education

Advisory Board, International Rescue Committee, Healing Classrooms Program

Comparative and International Education Society Endowment Committee, Member

Consultant, Child Health and Social Ecology Project, Harvard Medical School

Consultant, Millennium Villages Project Consultant, UNICEF, Learning Plus Initiative Editorial Board, Annual Review of the Sociology of Education Editorial Board, Annual Review of Comparative and International Education Editorial Board, International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, and Practice Education International, Critical Friend (advisor) External Ph.D. Examiner, Roskilde University (Denmark) External Ph.D. Examiner, University of Sydney (Australia) External Ph.D. Examiner, University of Toronto (Canada) External Reviewer for Promotion and Tenure: Columbia University, Harvard University, Loyola

University, University of Kentucky, and University of Massachusetts-Amherst Minnesota International Development Education Consortium, Member of CARE-Patsy Collins Trust

Fund Initiative Project Referee, Africa Today

Referee, African Studies Review

Referee, American Anthropologist

Referee, Comparative Education Review

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Referee, Global Public Health

Referee, Globalisation, Societies and Education

Referee, International Journal of Educational Development

Referee, Journal of Asian and African Studies

Referee, Language Policy

Referee, National Women’s Studies Association Journal

Referee, Natural Resources Forum

Referee, Oxford Development Studies

Referee, Research in Sociology of Education

Referee, Sociology of Education

Referee, Women's Studies International Forum

Reviewer, American Association of University Women International Fellowship Selection Panel

Reviewer, Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development/USAID

Reviewer, Carnegie African Diaspora Fellows Program

Reviewer, Economic and Social Research Council, Department for International Development (United Kingdom)

Reviewer, Fulbright-International Institute of Education Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

(Teachers College review committee) Reviewer, Gail P. Kelly Dissertation Committee, Comparative and International Education Society Reviewer, International Perspectives on Education and Society Series, Emerald Publishing Reviewer, Muskie/FSA Graduate Fellows in Education Program, Open Society Institute Reviewer, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology

Reviewer, Sage Publications

Reviewer, Social Science Research Council: International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Reviewer, Spencer Foundation

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Community Advisor to the Board, AfricAid (Colorado) Board Member, Project Zawadi (Minnesota)

Facilitator, Power and Purpose: Tanzania and Minnesota Working Together University: University of Minnesota Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Education and Human Development 2014-2016

Member, African Studies Initiative Advisory Board Member 2014 – present Graduate Education Council (elected position) 2012-2014 Chair, Pre-Tenure Mentoring Committee for Dr. Roozbeh Shirazi 2014-present

Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Chair, Annual Review Revision Committee 2012 Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Guest lecturer -Transnational Feminist Praxis (2015)

-Inquiry Strategies in Educational and Organizational Research (2014; 2015; 2016) -Identity and Public Policy (2013) -Gender, Education, and International Development (2012; 2011) -Inquiry Strategies in Educational and Organizational Research (2011) -Case Studies for Policy Research (2011; 2009; 2008) -Educational Policy and Administration CARE seminar (2010) -Education and Globalization (2009)

Graduate School Fellowship Review Committee, College of Education and 2011 Human Development Reviewer for Promotion and Tenure Committee, Humphrey School of Public Affairs 2011 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow Co-Adviser (Applied Economics) 2010-2011 Faculty Advisor, Reconsidering Development (online journal) 2010-2012 Office of International Programs, Pre-Dissertation and Small Grants Review Committee 2010 Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD) External Affairs Committee 2010 OLPD and Curriculum and Instruction Doctoral Research Curriculum Review Committee 2010

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Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) 2009-present

-ICGC Faculty Advisory Committee (2009-2014) -ICGC Futures Committee (2009-2010) -Pre-dissertation/Internship program selection committee (2009)

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Development Faculty Advisor 2009-2011 Office of International Programs Advisory Committee on Africa 2009-2010 New Faculty Orientation: Discussant on Promotion and Tenure Panel 2009 Selection Committee, Comparative and International Development Education 2009

Hiroshima University Fellowship program University: Columbia University/Teachers College Teachers College Harassment Panel 2005-2008 Guest Speaker, Office of Policy and Research, The Personal and the Political in 2008 Community-Based Research Internal Reviewer for Faculty Reappointment, Department of Arts and Humanities 2005 Guest Speaker, Work, Family, and Care Forum 2005 Guest Lecturer

-International Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work (2004) -Introduction to Pan-African Studies, Barnard College (2004; 2005) -Gender, Education, and Development, Barnard College (2004)

-Peasants, Politics, and Religion in Contemporary Africa, Teachers College (2004) -Women of the World, Teachers College (2004)

Faculty Search Committee for Peace Education and International Affairs Professor 2004-2005 Speaker, Teachers College International Week: Africa Across the Curriculum 2004 Speaker, TC African Studies Working Group Panel Discussion 2004 The World Bank: Fix It or Nix It? Speaker, TC Winter Roundtable: Reconceptualizing African Studies 2004

at Teachers College: History, Theory, and Practice at the African Education Center Speaker, Teachers College Casual Conversations Series: Committing to Community: 2003 A Longitudinal Research Project on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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Speaker at the Society for International Education Proposal Writing Workshops 2003; 2004 Pre-Dissertation Grants Committee, Institute of African Studies 2003 Faculty Advisor, African Studies Working Group (student group) 2003-2008 Co-Organizer, Africa in the Age of Globalization Conference 2002 (with Professors Greg Anderson and George Bond) Organizing Committee, The World One Year After 9/11 Teachers’ Forum 2002 Columbia School of International and Public Affairs and Teachers College Speaker, “Beyond ‘Gender Sensitization’ and ‘Gender Mainstreaming’ 2002 Teachers College, Current Issues in Comparative Education Journal Launch Panel Speaker, “New Directions in Comparative and International Education” 2002 Teachers College, Current Issues in Comparative Education Journal Launch Panel Speaker, Teach-In for Teaching and Learning in a New Global Environment 2002 Teachers College Interdisciplinary Studies Committee 2002-2004 Faculty Search Committee for Bilingual/Bicultural Professor 2000-2001; 2001-2002 Faculty Advisor, Society for International Education (student group) 2001-2006 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS African Studies Association American Anthropological Association American Association of University Professors American Educational Research Association Comparative and International Education Society Tanzania Studies Association