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.
2025-26 Visiting Scholars
2025 Visiting Scholars
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Professor of Innovative Management Visiting Doctoral Researcher Doctoral Student, University of Toronto Doctoral Student Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) |
2024 Visiting Scholars
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Doctoral Student Gazi University Associate Professor Xi'An International Studies University, China September 2023-September 2024 |
2023 Visiting Scholars
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Institute of Educational Assessment, and Department of Education Management, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University (ECNU) , China November 1, 2022- October 31, 2023 Research Scientist in Finance & Technology and Study Director, University of Luxembourg April 1, 2023-June 30, 2023 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 Principal and Founder, Aspen Insight Consulting dearwicker@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) August 2022 - May 2023 |
2022 Visiting Scholars
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Professor Kyushu University, Japan (cross appointment) National Center for University Entrance Examination, Japan Professor of English and Former Provost San Francisco State University Doctoral Student Beijing Normal University 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 February 2022 - November 2022 Doctoral Student February 2022 - November 2022 T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies Harvard University USA September 2022 - December 2022 |
2021 Visiting Scholars
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PhD Fellow in Educational Anthropology Aarhus University Denmark Doctoral Student Université de Neuchâtel Doctoral Student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, lincong18766315563@sjtu.edu.cn Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), and affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences Mozambique |
2020 Visiting Scholars
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Research associate, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney (Australia) and WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
2019 Visiting Scholars
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Vice Professor |
Xiaoyu Chen Professor Peking University China xychen@pku.edu.cn(link sends e-mail) October 2019 – September 2020 |
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Associate ProfessorUniversity of Shanghai - Science & TechnologyChinaliuhongusst@usst.edu.cn(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail)January 2019 - December 2019 |
Assistant Professor |
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Doctoral Student |
Office of the President |
2018-2019 Visiting Scholars
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Xu Juan, Assistant Professor
Northwest University
China
September 2018 - February 2019
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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 |
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Ram K. Sharma, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Students' Welfare |
ShuiMei Bao, Vice Professor |
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Polina Pekker, Doctoral Student |
Rachel Spronken-Smith, Professor/Dean of Graduate Studies |
2017-2018 Visiting Scholars
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Chia-Ming Hsueh, Senrior Project Manager & Acting CEO |
Munir Moosa, Assistant Professor |
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Grace Ufuk Taneri, Founding President, Consultant & Instructor |
Gwilym Croucher, Senior Lecturer/Principal Policy Advisor |
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Katarzyna Dziewanowska, Assistant Professor |
Irina Shcheglova, Doctoral Student |
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 |
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Mosi Weng, Doctoral Student |
Veronica Santelices, Associate Professor |
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Tomasz Zajac, Assistant Professor |
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
February 2016- May 2016
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| 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
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 |
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 |
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Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Assistant Professor |
Anatasia Yastrebtseva, Deputy Dean for Academic Development |
2013 Visiting Scholars
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Daniel J. Julius, Executive Director 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 |
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 |
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Satoshi P. Watanabe, Associate Professor, |
Guangkuan Xie, Ph.D. Student, |
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Meilan Ye, Vice President, |
Maocheng Zhao, Vice President, |
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 |
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Xiuyun Kang, Professor, |
William Kirby, Professor, |
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Jinlin Pan, Ph.D. Student, |
Nie Ting, Assistant Professor, |
2010 Visiting Scholars
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Chia-Ming Hsueh, Senrior Project Manager & Acting CEO |
Munir Moosa, Assistant Professor |
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Grace Ufuk Taneri, Founding President, Consultant & Instructor |
Gwilym Croucher, Senior Lecturer/Principal Policy Advisor |
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Katarzyna Dziewanowska, Assistant Professor |
Irina Shcheglova, Doctoral Student |
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 |
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Yu-Ling (Flora) Hsu, Secretary, |
Yanxia Huang, Ph.D. Student, |
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Ingrid Walker, Assistant Director, |
Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Ph.D. Students, |
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Marwala Tshilidzi, Professor, |
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 |
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Itsuki Yasuyoshi, Professor, |
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 |
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Elizaveta Sivak, Student |
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 |
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 |
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Robert Shireman, Editor, |
Pedro Nuno Teixeira, |
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 |
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 |
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Robert Stevens, Fifth UCSC Chancellor, |
Natalia Tikhonov, Ph.D. Student, |
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Daguang Wu, Professor of Higher Education, |
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 |
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Sarah Guri-Rosenblit, |
James Johnsen, Chief of Staff, |
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Thomas Pfeffer, |
Marijk van der Wende, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente |
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 |
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Hans Pechar, Director, |
Tjeldvoll Arlid, |
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David Ward, President, |
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 |
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Nura Lloret, President, |
Georg Nagler, President, |
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Shigera Nakayama, |
Frank L. Rhodes, President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, |
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Berit Sahlstro, |
Jean-Louis Soubret, Project Manager, Digital Technologies, University Branch, HAVAS Education and Reference, Paris, France |
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Fernando Spagnolo, |
Kuen-Ling Yeh, Lecturer, Graduate University of Education, National University of Taiwan, ROC |