Visiting Scholars Listing

The Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) invites a small number of leaders and scholars who are pursuing research projects in higher education to visit UC Berkeley for an academic semester, or for a full year. Please visit the Visiting Scholars program overview for more information.

2026-27 Visiting Scholars

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Franziska Valder

Assistant Professor, Economics

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Doctoral Student

Beijing Normal University, China

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Associate Professor

Institute of Higher Education

Beijing University of Technology

China

Photo of Stephen Adams Stephen B. Adams

Entrepreneurship Scholar in Residence

Franklin P. Perdue School of Business

Salisbury University, Maryland

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2026 Visiting Scholars

Doctoral Student, School of Education, Tsinghua University

China

Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

China

2025 Visiting Scholars

Tim Seidenschnur

Lecturer & Research Associate

University of Kassel, Germany

Leonie Buschkamp

Visiting Doctoral Researcher

Leibniz University Hannover

Philipp Meller

Policy Officer

Ministry for Science, Research and Culture Brandenburg, Germany

Nino Pataraia

Professor of Innovative Management
Faculty of Business, Technology and Education
Ilia State University, Georgia

Margaret Constance de Leon

Visiting Doctoral Researcher

Doctoral Student, University of Toronto

Doctoral Student

Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)

2024 Visiting Scholars

Gökçe Garip

Doctoral Student

Gazi University

Associate Professor

Xi'An International Studies University, China

September 2023-September 2024

2023 Visiting Scholars

Huijie Zhang

Institute of Educational Assessment, and Department of Education Management, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University (ECNU) , China

November 1, 2022- October 31, 2023

Zsófia Kräussl

Research Scientist in Finance & Technology and Study Director, University of Luxembourg

zsofia.kraussl@berkeley.edu

April 1, 2023-June 30, 2023

Bryan Edward Penprase

Vice President of Sponsored Research and External Academic Relations

Soka University of America

bpenprase@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

September 2022 to August 2023

David P. Earwicker

Principal and Founder, Aspen Insight Consulting

dearwicker@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

August 2022 - May 2023

2022 Visiting Scholars

Takuya Kimura

Professor

Kyushu University, Japan

(cross appointment) National Center for University Entrance Examination, Japan

Jennifer Summit

Professor of English and Former Provost

San Francisco State University

Mengyuan Zhou

Doctoral Student

Beijing Normal University

zhmy_99@126.com

February 2022 - February 2023

Assistant Researcher

Institute of Higher Education at Yunnan University in China (YNU), and the Deputy Director of Comparative International Education Center at Yunnan University

China

abelucb@berkeley.edu

February 2022 - November 2022

Xiaojie Fan

Doctoral Student
Fudan University, China
xiaojiefan@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

February 2022 - November 2022

William C. Kirby

T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies

Harvard University

USA

September 2022 - December 2022

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2021 Visiting Scholars

Lærke Cecilie Anbert

PhD Fellow in Educational Anthropology

Aarhus University

Denmark

Marco Bitschnau

Doctoral Student

Université de Neuchâtel
Switzerland

marcobitschnau@berkeley.edu

Doctoral Student,

Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
China

lincong18766315563@sjtu.edu.cn
October 2021

Nelson Casimiro Zavale

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), and affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences

Mozambique
nelson.zavale@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)
October 2021

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2020 Visiting Scholars

Research associate, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney (Australia) and WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Australia
torka@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)
February 2020

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2019 Visiting Scholars

Vice Professor
Lanzhou University
China
baosm@lzu.edu.cn(link sends e-mail)
January 2019 - December 2019

Xiaoyu Chen
Professor
Peking University
China
xychen@pku.edu.cn(link sends e-mail)
October 2019 – September 2020

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Shanghai - Science & TechnologyChinaliuhongusst@usst.edu.cn(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail)January 2019 - December 2019

Assistant Professor
National Academy of Education Administration
China
xyao@naea.edu.cn(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail)
January 2019 - June 2019

Doctoral Student
Dalian University of Technology
China
234029698@mail.dlut.edu.cn(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail)
September 2019 - September 2020

Aray Saniyazova

Office of the President
Nazarbayev University
Kazakhstan
asaniyazova@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail)
August 2019 - July 2020

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2018-2019 Visiting Scholars

Xu Juan, Assistant Professor Northwest University China xj8009@163.com(link sends e-mail) September 2018 - February 2019	Nasser Rashidi, Professor of Foreign Languages and Linguistics Shiraz University Iran naser.rashidi@shirazu.ac.ir(link sends e-mail) February 2018 - December 2018
Wei Kang, Assistant Professor X'ian International University China 514040971@qq.com(link sends e-mail) February 2018 - January 2019	Qun Xie, Professor Shanghai University of Electric Power China xiequn_shiep@outlook.com(link sends e-mail) July 2018 - July 2019
Inna Sovsun, Former First Deputy Minister - Ukraine Kyiv School of EconomicsUkraineinna.sovsun@gmail.com(link sends e-mail)October 2018 - May 2019	Barbara Gagliardi, Associate ProfessorUniversity of TurinItalybarbara.gagliardi@unito.it(link sends e-mail)January 2019 - April 2019
Hong Liu, Associate ProfessorUniversity of Shanghai - Science & TechnologyChinaliuhongusst@usst.edu.cn(link sends e-mail)January 2019 - December 2019	Xiang Yao, Assistant Professor National Academy of Education Administration China xyao@naea.edu.cn(link sends e-mail) January 2019 - June 2019
Ram K. Sharma, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Students' Welfare Shiv Nadar University India ram.sharma@snu.edu.in(link sends e-mail) February 2018 - May 2018	ShuiMei Bao, Vice Professor Lanzhou University China baosm@lzu.edu.cn(link sends e-mail) January 2019 - December 31, 2019
Polina Pekker, Doctoral Student Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia polina1211@yandex.ru(link sends e-mail) February 2018 - August 2018	Rachel Spronken-Smith, Professor/Dean of Graduate Studies University of Otago New Zealand rachel.spronken-smith@otago.ac.nz(link sends e-mail) January 2018 - April 2018

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2017-2018 Visiting Scholars

Chia-Ming Hsueh, Senrior Project Manager & Acting CEO Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan USA chiaming@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) February 2017 - February 2018	Munir Moosa, Assistant Professor Sindh Madressatul Islam University Pakistan munirmoosa@berkeley.edu (link sends e-mail)August 2017 - October 2017
Grace Ufuk Taneri, Founding President, Consultant & Instructor Eminence Quality Management Consulting Ltd. North Cyprus graceutaneri@gmail.com(link sends e-mail) May 2017 - September 2017	Gwilym Croucher, Senior Lecturer/Principal Policy Advisor University of Melbourne Australia gcroucher@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) August 2017 - December 2017
Katarzyna Dziewanowska, Assistant Professor University of Warsaw Poland kdziewanowska@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) August 2017 - July 2018	Irina Shcheglova, Doctoral Student National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia irina.shcheglova@hse.ru(link sends e-mail) October 2017 - December 2017

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2016-2017 Visiting Scholars

Margaret Heisel, Associate University of California Office of the President USA margaretheisel@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) March 2016 - March 2017	Mounia Drissi, Doctoral Student Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Italy mn.drissi@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) August 2016 - October 2016
Karen Merritt, Associate University of California, Merced USA< kmerritt@ucmerced.edu(link sends e-mail) August 2016 - July 2017	Oliver Wieczorek, Doctoral Student University of Bamberg Germany oliver.wieczorek@uni-bamberg.de(link sends e-mail) November 2016 - January 2017
Mosi Weng, Doctoral Student Zhejiang University China mosi@zju.edu.cn(link sends e-mail) January 2016 - April 2017	Veronica Santelices, Associate Professor Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Chile vsanteli@uc.cl(link sends e-mail) December 2016 - April 2017
Tomasz Zajac, Assistant Professor University of Warsaw Poland t.zajac@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) August 2016 - December 2017

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2015-2016 Visiting Scholars

Samuel Sponem, Associate Professor HEC Montreal Canada samuel.sponem@hec.ca(link sends e-mail) September 2015 -August 2016	Ana Maria Carneiro, Researcher University of Campinas, (Unicamp) Brazil anamaria.carneiro@gmail.com(link sends e-mail) February 2016- May 2016
Stephanie Beyer, Researcher, Doctoral Student University of Bamberg Germany stephanie.beyer@uni-bamberg.de(link sends e-mail) January 2016 - June 2016	Grace Taneri Chancellor Emeritus, Institute of Higher Learning Eastern Mediterranean University North Cyprus graceutaneri@gmail.com(link sends e-mail) January 2016 - May 31, 2016

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2014-2015 Visiting Scholars

Igor Chirikov, Deputy First Vice-Rector, HSE-Moscow, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Russia chirikov@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) August 2014 - August 2015	Song Zhang, Research Assosciate, Nanjing Agricultural University, China zhangsong@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) August 2014 - August 2015
Bekir Gur, Assistant Professor, Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey bekir@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) September 2014 - August 2015 Missed Bekir's event on April 14, 2015? Check out the recorded session HERE (link is external)	Ami Zusman, Ph.D., Coordinator of Graduate Education Planning- Retired, University of California Office of the President, ami.zusman@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) April 2010 - May 2014

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2014 Visiting Scholars

Brigid Freeman, Research Fellow, Education Melbourne Graduate School of Education Victoria, Australia	Qiang Guo, Associate Professor, Post Doc Fellow, Comparative Higher Education Tongji University Shanghai, China
Jing Luo, Director Institute of Higher Education Xian Petroleum Unversity, Xian, China (link sends e-mail)	Romina Mueller, Research Assistant Leuphana University of Luneberg Luneberg, Germany
Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Assistant Professor York University Toronto, Canada (link sends e-mail)	Anatasia Yastrebtseva, Deputy Dean for Academic Development National Research University, Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia

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2013 Visiting Scholars

Daniel J. Julius, Executive Director
Levin Institute, State University of New York (SUNY)

New York, New York

Ana Maria Carneiro,

Stephanie Beyer, Researcher, Doctoral Student
University of Bamberg
Germany
stephanie.beyer@uni-bamberg.de(link sends e-mail)
January 2016 - June 2016

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2012 Visiting Scholars

Saleem Badat, Vice Chancellor, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa	Christian Leder, Ph.D. Student, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Monika Nerland, Professor, Department of Educational Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway	Julilan Tanner, Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Satoshi P. Watanabe, Associate Professor, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan	Guangkuan Xie, Ph.D. Student, School of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China
Meilan Ye, Vice President, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China	Maocheng Zhao, Vice President, College of Mechanical & Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China

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2011 Visiting Scholars

Simona (Judith) Dingfelder, Lawyer, Leadership Academy for Public Administration, State of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany	Hideto Fukudome, Associate Professor, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Cecile Hoareau, Post Doc, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom	Monika Ilves, Ph.D. Student, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Xiuyun Kang, Professor, School of Politics and Law, NE Normal University, Changchun, China	William Kirby, Professor, China Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jinlin Pan, Ph.D. Student, Institute of Education, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China	Nie Ting, Assistant Professor, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau, China

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2010 Visiting Scholars

Chia-Ming Hsueh, Senrior Project Manager & Acting CEO Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan USA chiaming@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) February 2017 - February 2018	Munir Moosa, Assistant Professor Sindh Madressatul Islam University Pakistan munirmoosa@berkeley.edu (link sends e-mail)August 2017 - October 2017
Grace Ufuk Taneri, Founding President, Consultant & Instructor Eminence Quality Management Consulting Ltd. North Cyprus graceutaneri@gmail.com(link sends e-mail) May 2017 - September 2017	Gwilym Croucher, Senior Lecturer/Principal Policy Advisor University of Melbourne Australia gcroucher@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) August 2017 - December 2017
Katarzyna Dziewanowska, Assistant Professor University of Warsaw Poland kdziewanowska@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) August 2017 - July 2018	Irina Shcheglova, Doctoral Student National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia irina.shcheglova@hse.ru(link sends e-mail) October 2017 - December 2017

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20009 Visiting Scholars

Michell Behr, Assistant Director, Western Association of Schools and Colleges Accrediting Commission, Alameda, California	Rong-Jyue Fang, Chair Professor, Southern Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Tainan City, Taiwan
Mauel Graca, Professor, University of Porto & CIPES, Porto, Portugal	Eric Hertzler, Ph.D. Student, Comparative Public Law, Pantheon-Assas University, Paris, France
Yu-Ling (Flora) Hsu, Secretary, Deputy Minister's Office, Ministry of Education	Yanxia Huang, Ph.D. Student, College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Ingrid Walker, Assistant Director, Western Association of Schools and Colleges Accrediting Commission, Alameda, California	Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Ph.D. Students, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Marwala Tshilidzi, Professor, School of Electrical & Information Engineering

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2008 Visiting Scholars

Chris Curran, National Distance Education Centre, Dublin City, Irelnad	Robert Guecker, Head of Division, Media Education, University of Offenberg, Applied Sciences, Offenberg, Germany
Ruth Keeling, Ph.D. Student International Relations, Pembroke College, Cambridge, United Kingdom	Jose Luis Mendoza Garcia, Ph.D. Students, Catholic University San Antonia, Murcia, Spain
Itsuki Yasuyoshi, Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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2007 Visiting Scholars

Rupa Datta, Senior Survey Director, NORC, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois	Stuart Middleton, Executive Director, External Relations & Student Affairs, Manukau Institute of Technology, Otara, New Zealand
Gritt Nielsen, Ph.D. Student, Frederiksberg, Denmark	Takahiro Saito, Associate Professor, Nat'l Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation, Kodaira, Tokyo
Elizaveta Sivak, Student Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economics Reforms, Moscow, Russia

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2006 Visiting Scholars

Roland Amann, Ph.D. Student	Heinke Roebken, Ph.D. Student, Oldenberg University, Oldenberg, Germany
Yifan Sui, Executive Vice President, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China

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2005 Visiting Scholars

Mary Burgan, Former General Secretary, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana	Sarah Earl-Novell, Ph.D. University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Ashta Gupta, Coordinator, UGC Major Research on Vocationalization and Privatization, University of New Delhi, Delhi, India	Emily Hauptmann, Associate Professor, Politcal Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Robert Shireman, Editor, www.StudentLoanWatch.org (link is external)	Pedro Nuno Teixeira, Economics and Center of Research on Politics in Higher Education, University of Porto

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2004 Visiting Scholars

Dawn Coppin, Post Doc, Sociology, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana	Warren Fox, Former Director, California Postsecondary Education Commission
Pat Pelfrey, Research Associate, UC History Digital Archive Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California	Hong Wei, Assistant Professor, Teaching Affairs Office, Beijing Normal University, China

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2003 Visiting Scholars

Sekio Hada, Professor, Education, Nihon University, Japan	Negley Harte, Senior Lecturer, Economics History, University College of London, England
Ann Malmberg, Graduate Student, School of Management and Economics, University of Vaxjo, Sweden	Masaaki Ogasawara, Head, Research Divsion, Hokkaido University, Japan
Robert Stevens, Fifth UCSC Chancellor, Pembroke College, Oxford, UK	Natalia Tikhonov, Ph.D. Student, Department of Social and Economic History, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
Daguang Wu, Professor of Higher Education, Xiamen University, Xiamenm, China

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2002 Visiting Scholars

Ahmed Bawa, Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Natal, South Africa	Malte Beinhauer, Institute for Information Systems, Saarland University, Germany
Clark Brundin, Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick, Founding Director Said Business School	Hakan Gunneriusson, Department of History, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Sarah Guri-Rosenblit, Open University of Israel, Ramat-Aviv, Israel	James Johnsen, Chief of Staff, University of Alaska System, Fairbanks
Thomas Pfeffer, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education of Austrian	Marijk van der Wende, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente

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2001 Visiting Scholars

Gordon Freedman, Founder Knowledge-Base, LLC	Roger Geiger, Director, Higher Education Program, Department of Education Policy, Penn State
Kim Gunnar Helsvig, Forum for University History, Forum for University History, University of Oslo, Sweden	Pekka Himanen, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland
Hans Pechar, Director, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education	Tjeldvoll Arlid, Institute for Education Research, University of Oslo, Norway
David Ward, President, American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.

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2000 Visiting Scholars

Edgeir Benum, Department of History, University of Oslo, Norway	Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, University of Ghent, Belgium
Tula Erikkson, Uppsala University, Sweden	Ragnvald Kalleberg, University of Oslo, Norway
Nura Lloret, President, Communication Polytechnical University of Valencia, Fesabid	Georg Nagler, President, Federal University of Hof, Germany
Shigera Nakayama, Kanagawa University, Kanagawa, Japan	Frank L. Rhodes, President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, Professor of Geological Sciences, Cornell University
Berit Sahlstro, Uppsala University, Sweden	Jean-Louis Soubret, Project Manager, Digital Technologies, University Branch, HAVAS Education and Reference, Paris, France
Fernando Spagnolo, CAPES, Ministry of Education-Brazil and Catholic University of Brasilia	Kuen-Ling Yeh, Lecturer, Graduate University of Education, National University of Taiwan, ROC