Jeffrey Belnap 675 Academy Street, 6F New York, NY, USA 10034 [email protected], +1 516 637 7463

The American University of Afghanistan Darulaman Road PO Box 458 Central Post Office Kabul, Afghanistan [email protected], +93 79 657 7173

Professional Positions THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN, Kabul, Afghanistan 2017-present Provost and Senior Vice President

LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, Brooklyn and Brookville, New York, USA 2013-2017 Dean, LIU Global College

2016-17 Acting Dean, LIU Post College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

ZAYED UNIVERSITY, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE 2012-13 Chief Academic Officer

2011-12 Associate Provost, Academic Affairs

2008-11 Abu Dhabi Campus Director

2008-11 Associate Provost (Institutional Effectiveness)

2007-2008 Campus Director, Sweihan Campus

2005-2008 Assistant Provost and Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs

2003-5 Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

2002-3 Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-HAWAII CAMPUS, Laie, Hawaii, U.S.A. 1999-2002 Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

1998-9 Associate Dean, Division of Fine Arts

1997-2002 Associate Professor of Humanities and International Cultural Studies

1993-1997 Assistant Professor of Humanities

Education 1993 PhD, Comparative Literature and Critical Theory University of California, Irvine Dissertation: The Post-Colonial State and the Hybrid Intellect: Carpentier, Ngugi, Spivak 2

1987 MA, Comparative Literature Brigham Young University Thesis: Reader and Allegory in Hölderlin’s Patmos Hymn

1982 BA, International Relations Minor: English Literature Brigham Young University

Administrative Experience THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN Provost and Senior Vice President Responsibilities • Chief Academic and Student Affairs Officer, overseeing undergraduate and graduate programs, student services, quality assurance, accreditations, faculty, and staff. • Assist the AUAF President in oversight of all aspects of the university’s administration.

LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY Dean of LIU Global College (the former Friends World College) Responsibilities and Accomplishments • Chief Academic and Administrative Officer of LIU Global College, a world-distributed Global Studies BA program. Oversaw programing that facilitates students circling the globe for seven semesters, studying in centers and programs in Costa Rica, Spain, Italy, China, India, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Australia, Fiji, South Africa, finishing with an eighth semester Capstone in New York City. • Designed and launched a new second-year program for LIU Global in Europe, a program that includes semester-long residence in Spain and Italy with field excursions to the UK, Germany, Morocco, France, Austria, Hungary, and Bosnia Herzegovina. • Designed and launched a semester-long Asia-Pacific program, a curriculum devoted to humanity’s quest for sustainable development with modules delivered in Fiji, Australia and Thailand. • Led a complete redesign of the Global Studies curriculum, implementing twelve new courses and increasing the degree’s systematic emphasis on field research and international internships. • Led the design and implementation of minors in Entrepreneurship, International Relations and Arts & Communication delivered in blended formats. • Led process for complete update of world-wide health, safety and security policies and procedures. • Assisted in internationalization initiatives on LIU Campuses in Brooklyn and Brookville, including LIU programing in Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa.

ZAYED UNIVERSITY Chief Academic Officer/Associate Provost, Academic Affairs (Fall 2011-Summer 2013) Responsibilities and Accomplishments • Oversight of all undergraduate and graduate academic programs and personnel in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. • Coordination of planning, budgeting, evaluation and program improvement. • Ex Officio Chair, Standing Committee for Academic Affairs. • Accreditation Liaison Officer and Self-Study Co-Chair, Middle States Commission for Higher Education 2013 Self-Study.

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Campus Director and Associate Provost (Institutional Effectiveness) (Fall 2008-11) Responsibilities and Accomplishments • Administration of Zayed University’s male and female campuses in Abu Dhabi. • Accreditation Liaison Officer and Self-Study Co-Chair, Middle States Commission for Higher Education 2013 Self-Study. • Coordination of learning assessment, disciplinary accreditations and program reviews for all academic programs on ZU campuses in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Assistant Provost and Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs (Fall 2005-Fall 2008) Responsibilities and Accomplishments • Chief academic officer for the pre-baccalaureate programs and Zayed University’s core curriculum, known as the Colloquy on Integrated Learning (COL). • Served as a principal in preparing for ZU’s first-time accreditation by the Middle States. Commission on Higher Education, including writing the Self-Study’s first draft. • Developed, in consultation with all of the University’s colleges, a career education program. • Led the team that designed and implemented new first-year transitions and advising programs, projects that included electronic advising and early warning systems. • Served as a principal in developing and implementing the University’s assessment strategy.

Founding Campus Director, Sweihan Campus (held concurrently with position of Assistant Provost and Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs) (Fall 2007-Fall 2008) Responsibilities and Accomplishments • Supervision of all fiscal, physical, and human resource matters attendant on the launching of ZU’s new campus for men. • Academic supervision of programs delivered on new campus.

Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (2003-5) Responsibilities and Accomplishments • Maintained line responsibility for five departments and the pre-baccalaureate English program—over 200 faculty and staff housed on two campuses. • Led the development and implementation of the 2003-5 strategic plan for the College of Arts and Sciences. • Oversaw searches for over 45 faculty in all the disciplines represented in ZU’s College of Arts and Sciences. • Participated in planning the curriculum and partnership arrangements for an Executive Masters of Public Administration.

Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (2002-3) Responsibilities and Accomplishments • With the oversight of the Dean, led the initiative to develop a skill-rich, interdisciplinary general education program. • Chaired the subcommittee of the University Standing Committee for Research charged to make recommendations regarding scholarly expectations in the ZU faculty workload.

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-HAWAII CAMPUS Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (1999-2002) Responsibilities and Accomplishments • Reorganized the College of Arts and Sciences from seven divisions into thirteen departments, comprised of approximately 80 faculty members. • Reorganized the allocation and accountability processes for the College’s $10 million budget. • Regularized processes for peer-reviewed professional development funding. 4

• Facilitated the launching of new degree program in International Cultural Studies. • Facilitated significant curricular reforms in the music, foreign language, and journalism programs. • Facilitated the reaccredidation of the Social Work degree. • Developed new protocols for the student newspaper. • Worked as a principal member of the University’s strategic planning committee, planning and executing major initiatives in student success, academics, and co-curricular programing. • Planned and implemented three international tours for BYU-Hawaii performing groups throughout Asia and the Pacific.

Publications 1. “Caricaturing the Gringo Tourist: Diego Rivera’s ‘Folkloric and Touristic Mexico’ and Miguel Covarrubias’s ‘Sunday Afternoon in Xochimilco’” in Between High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture, ed. Patricia Johnston, University of California Press, 2006, 266-79. 2. “Diego Rivera’s Greater America: Pan-American Patronage, Indigenism, and ‘H.P.’” Cultural Critique, 53, 2006, 61-98. 3. “Disentangling the Strangled Tehuana: The Nationalist Antimony in Frida Kahlo’s ‘What the Water Has Given Me.’” Genders 33, 2001; http://www.genders.org. 4. “The Erotics of Pan-American Romance: Goddard and Kahlo before the Blank Canvas of History” in XIII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte: El amor y el desamor en las artes, ed. Arnulfo Herrera, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, 2001, 407-28. 5. José Martí’s “Our America”: From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies, editing and critical introduction (with Raúl Fernández), Duke University Press, 1998. 6. “Headbands, Hemp Sandals, and Headdresses: The Dialectics of Dress and Self-Conception in Martí’s ‘Our America,’” included in José Martí’s “Our America”: From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies (above), 191-209.

Selected Conference Presentations The American University Afghanistan 1. “Liberal Learning/Global Learning: A Contemporary Typology,” in the panel “Globalizing the Liberal Arts: Provocations for the Future,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Building Public Trust in the Promise of Liberal Education and Inclusive Excellence, San Francisco, California, January 25-28, 2017. 2. “Multi-lingual University Education in the Contemporary Arabian Gulf” (delivered in Spanish), Truchimanes: Arab and Berber Interpreters In the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco, Biblioteca Viva de Al-Andalus, Cordoba, Spain, February 3, 2015. 3. “Whose Quality Criteria Count for What to Whom?,” panel presentation at the OECD-SUNY Conference Internationalization for Job Creation and Economic Growth: Increasing Coherence in Government and System Policies at a Time of Global Crisis, the SUNY Global Center, New York City, April 12-13, 2012. 4. “The New Universities of the Gulf: Innovation and Institutional Hybridity,” at the Second Global Studies Conference, The Middle East and 21st Century Globalization, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 30-June 1, 2009. 5. “Teaching Global Awareness in a Time of Global Turmoil,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, The Real Test: Liberal Education and Democracy’s Big Questions, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 17-20, 2007. 6. “The Emiratization of Liberal Learning: Zayed University,” at the European-American University Forum, 16th Annual International Conference of the American Association of University Administrators, Krakow, Poland, October 22-28, 2006. 5

7. “Traveling to the Mexican Egypt: Tehuantepec at the Crossroads of Knowledge,” at the Conference of the Latin American Studies Association 2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15- 18, 2006. 8. “The Prosthetic Tehuana: Sergei Eisenstein and Rosa Rolando’s Tehuantepec,” at the XXIXth International Colloquium on the History of Art, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Puebla, Mexico, October 23-28, 2005. 9. “Zayed University’s Colloquy on Integrated Learning,” in the panel “Liberal Education in a Global Age,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Liberal Education and the New Academy: Raising Expectations, Keeping Promises, San Francisco, California, January 26-29, 2005. 10. “Visualizing Hemispheric Totalities: Rivera and Covarrubias at the San Francisco International Exhibition (1939-40),” at the Conference of the Latin American Studies Association 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 7-9, 2004. 11. “Painting the World Revolution: Diego Rivera and the Comintern in 1928,” at the Modernist Studies Association Fifth Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, U.K., September 25- 28, 2003. 12. "Saving the Mexican Personality from the U.S. Machine: Diego Rivera's Early Anti-U.S. Aesthetics (1925)," at the Modernist Studies Association Fourth Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 31-November 3, 2002. 13. “Pan-American Patronage and Diego Rivera’s Ballet HP,” Program of the International Hispanic Study Group, Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections, Toronto, November 1-5, 2000. 14. “Mexican Nationalism in the Work of Frida Kahlo,” Nation and Multidisciplinary Visions: Art and Criticism in Mexico, University of California, Irvine, May 26-7, 2000. 15. “Caricaturing the Gringo Tourist: Diego Rivera’s ‘Folkloric and Touristic Mexico’ and Miguel Covarrubias’s ‘Sunday Afternoon in Xochimilco,’” at the Conference of the American Studies Association, Montreal, Oct. 27-October 31, 1999. 16. “The Erotics of Rivera’s Pan-American Romance: Goddard and Kahlo before the Blank Canvas of History,” at the XXIII International Colloquium of the History of Art, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, September 26-October 1, 1999. 17. “Through Coatlicue, Bolton and Martí: Diego Rivera’s Imagining of Greater America,” at the Conference of the American Studies Association, Seattle, Washington, November 19-22, 1998. 18. “Multiple Names/Conflicting Claims: Zapotec Identity and La Z/Sandunga,” at the 34th International Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Nitre, Slovakia, June 26-29, 1997. 19. “Exoticizing Tehuantepec: The Chávez/Rivera Ballet HP,” at the Conference of the Latin American Studies Association 1997, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 16-19, 1997. 20. “From the Wreckage of an Exotic Façade: Contesting the Tehuana’s Commodification,” delivered in Spanish, Segundo Encuentro Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba, December 6-10, 1995. 21. “Yet Another Chichimeca: Images of Asia at the Viceregal Periphery,” for the Colonial Latin American Literature Panel, Conference of the Modern Language Association, December 27- 30, 1994, San Diego, California. 22. “Whispering Peasants and the ‘New’ Orality: Ngugi’s Reclamation of a Popular Imaginary,” for Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life, Conference of the African Literature Association, March 24-31, 1994, Accra, Ghana.

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Conference Development and Participation 1. Panel chair, “Degree Recognition and Accreditation,” at the OECD/IMHE Conference Strategic Management of Internationalization in Higher Education, Lund University, Sweden, December 14-15, 2011. 2. Panel organizer, “America’s Promise and the Globalization of Liberal Learning,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America’s Promise, Seattle, Washington, January 21-24, 2009. 3. Panel organizer, “Placing the Nation in an International Frame: Mexican Painting, Patronage and the Antinomy of Cosmopolitan Nationalism (1920-45),” Conference of the Latin American Studies Association 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 7-9, 2004. 4. Panel organizer, “Representing the Revolution: Japanese, Korean and Mexican Modernism and the Emerging Soviet Union,” Modernist Studies Association Fifth Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, U.K., September 25-28, 2003. 5. Panel organizer, "National Aesthetics and the Claims of 'Universal Modernity': Negotiating with Imperialism in the Philippines, Korea, and Mexico Between the World Wars," Modernist Studies Association Fourth Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 31- November 3, 2002. 6. Panel organizer and commentator, “Music of the Americas II: Remembering/Forgetting the Nation,” Conference of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 8-11, 2001. 7. Panel organizer and chair, “Music of the Americas Caucus I and II,” Conference of the American Studies Association, Detroit, Michigan, October 12-15, 2000. 8. Co-coordinator, Music of the Americas Caucus, American Studies Association, 1999-2001. 9. Panel organizer and chair, “José Martí’s Our Americanism and the Question of Post-National American Studies,” Conference of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., October 29-November 1, 1997. 10. Conference co-organizer, “Our America and the Gilded Age: José Martí’s Chronicles of Imperial Critique,” conference at the University of California Humanities Research Center, Irvine, California, November 27-28, 1995.

Invited Presentations 1. “Internationalization & Economic Development: The View from the Gulf in the Wake of the Arab Spring,” invited plenary at the OECD-SUNY conference Internationalization for Job Creation and Economic Growth: Increasing Coherence of Government and System Policies at a Time of Global Crisis, the SUNY Global Center, New York City, April 12-13, 2012. 2. “Diego Rivera’s Pan American Iconography,” The Pan American Unity Lecture Series Commemorating the 60thAnniversary of Diego Rivera’s Pan American Unity Mural, City College of San Francisco, December 4, 2000. 3. “Nationalist Antinomies in the Mexican Renaissance: Rivera, Chávez, Kahlo,” at the Colgate Humanities Colloquium, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, March 25, 1997. 4. “Antipodal Supplementarity in Habsburg Representations of the East and West Indies,” for A Postcolonial Agenda of Modernity: Holland, America, and the Habsburg Empire: Optical Experiences With Nature, conference at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, November 29-30, 1996, Vienna, Austria.

Selected Committees and Task Forces LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY 2014-7 Member, Long Island University Strategic Planning Steering Committee Chair, Global College Tactic Sub-Committee Member, Internationalization Tactic Sub-Committee

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ZAYED UNIVERSITY 2011-13 Chair (Ex Officio), Zayed University Standing Committee for Academic Affairs

2010-13 Co-Chair, Middle States Commission on Higher Education Self Study

2008-11 Chair, Abu Dhabi Campus Leadership Committee

2008-9 Chair (Ex Officio), ZU Learning Outcomes Task Forces: Language, IT 2005-8 Chair, Colloquy Council, management council for course coordinators and learning support for the Colloquy on Integrated Learning, Zayed University’s core curriculum

2007-8 Member, Self-Study Steering Group, for initial accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. I wrote the Self-Study’s first draft.

2005-6 Chair, ZU Learning Outcomes Task Force: Bilingualism. Charged to draft a language outcome and to develop a University-wide strategy for promoting and assessing students’ academic and professional English and Arabic.

2003-5 Chair, Dean’s Council, College of Arts and Sciences

2002-4 Member, University Standing Committee for Research; Chair of sub-committee that drafted recommendations regarding research expectations and faculty role.

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-HAWAII CAMPUS 1999-2002 Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Council

2001-2002 Chair, BYU-Futures: MA TESOL Planning Committee. BYU-system committee charged with developing a feasibility plan for an MA in TESOL at BYU-Hawaii.

1996-2002 BYU-Hawaii Strategic Planning and Budgeting Committee: Writing Committee (1996- 7); Student Success Task Force (2001-2); Budgeting Task Force (2001); Academic Identity Task Force (2002).

1994-2001 BYU-Hawaii General Education and Honors Committee: Comprehensive GE reform (1995-7); Committee Chair (1999-2000); development of assessment master plan (1999-2001).

1999-2000 Chair, Asia 2000: Ad hoc committee that planned and executed a four-week performance tour of Singapore and Taiwan with BYU-Hawaii’s Concert Choir.

Additional Professional Activities 2015-17 Member, University of Central Asia Undergraduate Advisory Group

2011-13 Board Trustees, American Community School of Abu Dhabi

Winter 2011 Visitor, Middle States Commission on Higher Education: American University of Central Asia-Bard College Joint Degree Program Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

2000, 2002 Accreditation Team Member, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC): University of Guam, General Education, Faculty, Academic Programs L.I.F.E. Bible College, General Education, Faculty, Academic Programs 8

Summer 1994, Faculty, BYU-Hawaii/Asian Development Bank Degree Program for Marshallese 1995 Civil Servants, Majuro, Marshall Islands

Selected Professional Development 2016 Globalizing the Liberal Arts: Yale-National University of Singapore Symposium/Workshop, Yale University, June 6-9, 2016

2007 Institute for Educational Management, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

1998 American Studies Institute, “Back to the Futures,” Dartmouth College

1997-8 Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), guest researcher (sabbatical year), Mexico City

1996 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, “Latin America, Music and Society,” University of Texas at Austin

1992-3 University of California Humanities Research Institute, research fellow, “Minority Discourse Initiative II”

Past and Present Professional Affiliations American Association of Colleges and Universities American Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences American Studies Association Latin American Studies Association Modern Language Association Modernist Studies Association NAFSA: Association of International Educators College Art Association Society for the Study of Nationalism and Ethnicity

Languages Spanish (near-native fluency) German (basic conversation and reading) French (basic conversation and reading) Arabic (novice)

References Jeffrey Kane Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (stepped down September, 2017) Professor of Philosophy and Education Long Island University 700 Northern Boulevard Brookville, NY 11548 (516) 299 2917 [email protected]

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Sarah Moran Assistant Dean and Costa Rica Center Director LIU Global San Isidro De Heredia Costa Rica 40601 (718) 233-1159 (USA Vonage); +506 8393-3943 (cell) [email protected]

Noel Zahler Dean and Professor J. T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts Texas Tech University 1011 Boston Ave., Lubbock TX 79409 (806) 742-0700 [email protected]

Larry Wilson Former Provost, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates President Emeritus, Marietta College Provost and Chancellor Emeritus, UNC Asheville 22 Maywood Road Asheville, NC 28804 (828) 275 9713 [email protected]

Alexander Cooley Director, Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe, Columbia University Claire Two Professor of Political Science, Barnard College 1214 IAB, 420 W.118th Street New York, NY 10027 212-854-6213 [email protected]

Scott Evenbeck President Guttman Community College, CUNY 50 W. 40th Street #701 New York, NY 10016 (646) 313-8020 [email protected]