Rebecca Granato

Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives

Biography:

Rebecca Granato is associate vice president for global initiatives at Bard College, director of the Open Society University Network’s Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives (Hubs), and cochair of the Global Task Force on Third Country Education Pathways. She is also an associate of Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking, delivering professional development for teachers in places as far-reaching as Myanmar, Jordan, and Kyrgyzstan. Her past research has focused on the evolution of educational systems and alternative political structures inside Israeli political prisons for Palestinians in the 1970s and 1980s. She is currently working on a project that examines the tangible and intangible impacts of refugees who finish higher education on their host countries. She also works practically in the field of higher education in emergencies on educational design for refugee and displaced students, teachers, and researchers.

BA, Bard College; MA, The City University of New York; PhD, Wilfrid Laurier University. Also studied at Exeter College, Oxford. At Bard since 2004.

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