Month: January 2025

International & Comparative Bi/Multilingual Education Research Group (ICBERG)

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International & Comparative Bi/Multilingual Education Research Group (ICBERG).

A message from Cristian R. Aquino-Sterling, Founder and Co-Director, ICBERG:

“As bi-/multilingual education continues to gain momentum as a dynamic field of research, practice, and advocacy globally, there is a growing need for a unified, strategic vision to guide its systematic internationalization. As scholars dedicated to advancing bi-/multilingual education within and beyond our national contexts, we are excited and honored to introduce you to the work of the International and Comparative Bi-/Multilingual Education Research Group (ICBERG).

At ICBERG, we envision a global movement and a vibrant community of interculturally aware, open-minded, and engaged scholar-practitioners. Together, we are committed to forging innovative, transnational pathways for research, practice, professional development, and advocacy in bi-/multilingual education. Drawing from diverse conceptual, theoretical, and research traditions across the world, ICBERG aims to be a steadfast force for fostering international partnerships, nurturing collaborations, and driving globally-informed innovations that make a meaningful impact within, across, and beyond national borders.

We warmly invite members of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue with an interest in bi-/multilingual education research to participate in our EduTalk Series. Join our international community to engage in thought-provoking discussions on cutting-edge research aimed at advancing bi-/multilingual education.

For more information about the program and to register (all ICBERG activities are free of charge!), please visit our website.

We look forward to your participation!”

ICBERG – Program of Activities – January – May 2025

Comfort Tosin Adebayo Profile

Profiles

Comfort Tosin Adebayo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Towson University, where she also serves as the Coordinator of Undergraduate Research.

Comfort Tosin AdebayoDr. Tosin Adebayo earned her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2020, where her doctoral dissertation on maternal mortality among Black women won the National Communication Association Gerald Miller Dissertation Award. She also received her M.A. in Communication from Western Illinois University and a B.A. in English from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

As an intercultural and health communication scholar, Dr. Adebayo’s work currently focuses on health disparities and intercultural communication, with a particular emphasis on Black women’s sexual and reproductive health in marginalized communities. She is deeply involved in community-based research projects, including The Sexual Violence Project in Nigeria, where she examines issues related to sexual violence and trauma among Nigerian women.

Dr. Adebayo is passionate about mentoring students, particularly international students across various levels of research engagement, and her work at Towson University reflects her unwavering commitment to student success and scholarly excellence.

Dr. Adebayo is fluent in both Yoruba and English languages.

With an award-winning interdisciplinary background, Tomide examines globalization, cultural politics of taste, platformization, and political economy in postcolonial Nigerian visual cultures. His interdisciplinary works are widely published on topics such as identity, cross-cultural adaptation, embodiment, mis- and disinformation, intergroup communication, and global Black group vitality. His current research focuses on the narrative and perceptual shifts informed by the mainstreaming of African media products, specifically Afrobeats, and their implications for global Black relationalities.

Publications include:

Suter, E., Sahlstein Parcell, E., & Adebayo C. T. (2024): Introduction: Special issue on relational dialectics theory: The past, present, and future. Journal of Family Communication, 24(3–4), 171–176. https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2404368

Suter, E., Sahlstein Parcell, E., Adebayo C. T., Romo, D. C. T., & Weadock, C. R. (2024). Charting a research agenda for relational dialectics theory: Forwarding critical theorizing in interpersonal and family communication research. Journal of Family Communication, 24(3–4), 177–195.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2394027

Olukotun, O. V…Adebayo, C.T… (2024). Gender-based violence in the lives of Somali women with refugee status: A framework for analysis and action. Journal of Transcultural. Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1177/10436596241274121

Adebayo, C. T. (2023). “I wanted it to be flowers and sunshine, but that was not it at all”: A Relational Dialectics Theory analysis of Black motherhood. Journal of Family Communication, 23(3-4), 258-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2240763

Adebayo, C. T., Olukotun, O.V., Olukotun, M., Kirungi, J., Gondwe, K. W., Alfaifi, F. Y., Crooks, N. K., Singer, R. B., Dressel, A., Fahmy, L., Kako, P., Snethen, J., Adam, S., & Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. (2023). Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women: A socio-ecological model approach. Culture, Health, & Sexuality, 26(5), 654-670.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2023.2236163

Olagoke, A. A., Floyd, B., Adebayo, C. T., Owoyemi, A., & Hughes, A. M. (2022). The content of covid-19 information searches and vaccination intention: An implication for risk communication. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 17, e258.. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.257

Adebayo, C. T., Sahlstein Parcell, E., Mkandawire-Valhmu, L, & Olukotun, O. (2021). Maternal healthcare experiences of African American women: A critical race theory perspective. Health Communication, 37(9), 1135-1146.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1888453

Hawkins, M.M., Schmitt, M.E., Adebayo, C.T., Weitzel, J., Olukotun, O., Christensen, A. M., Ruiz, A. M., Gilman, K., Quigley, K., Dressel, A., & Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. (2021). Promoting the health of refugee women: A scoping literature review incorporating the social-ecological model. International Journal of Equity Health, 20( 45), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01387-5

Adebayo, C. T. (2021). Physician-patient interactions in Nigerian hospitals: A critical cultural role of power. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 50(1), 21–40.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2020.1799845

Adebayo, C. T., Walker, K., Hawkins, M., Olukotun, O., Shaw, L., Sahlstein Parcell, E… & Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. (2020). Race and Blackness: A thematic review of communication challenges confronting the Black community within the United States healthcare system. Journal of Transcultural. Nursing, 31(4), 397–405. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1043659619889111

Work for CID:

Comfort Tosin Adebayo has served as a reviewer for Yoruba translations.

UNC: Assistant Director for International Programs (USA)

“JobAssistant Director for International Programs, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA. Deadline: 3 February 2025.

The Office of International Programs (OIP) serves as a center of leadership for the international role and mission of the university. It is comprised of six related units that function together toward creating an international perspective in all facets of campus life. Those units include: OIP Administration (OIPA), Office of Education Abroad (OEA), International Student and Scholar Office (ISSO), English Language Training Institute (ELTI), Office of Intercultural and Educational Experiences (OIEE), and the Office of Global Education and Engagement (OGEE). OIP also hosts the World Affairs Council of Charlotte (WACC).

The assistant director for the Office of International Programs supports the associate provost for International Programs by collaborating directly with six operational units and assisting with the overall administration of OIP’s ongoing operations, such as communications, marketing and public relations, risk management, and facilities management. Two key responsibilities include developing and overseeing departmental assessment practices and managing OIP’s annual reporting activities, which encompass the annual strategic plan report and the report on international exchange partnership activities.

SciencesPo: Political Science (France)

“JobAssistant Professor in Political Science, SciencesPo, Paris, France. Deadline: 15 February 2025.

The Centre for International Studies at SciencesPo, Paris, seeks a candidate working on the political and ecological issues of the oceans, seas and coasts, in an innovative way. The environmental issues specific to these areas are at the heart of many situations of violence and conflict, linked to the predation of resources and their entry into trade circuits, which raises both economic and political issues. Possible research topics include, but are not limited to, practices conceptualised as ‘blue grabbing’ to indicate the dispossession of local communities of resources linked to the sea, the struggles and conflicts between protection,
conservation, exploitation and grabbing of maritime and coastal spaces, the politicisation and judicialisation of pollution and contamination issues, as well as the claims and practices of ‘blue justice’, involving a variety of actors: local communities, multinationals, NGOs, national and international public actors and institutions, as well as groups involved in piracy practices.

In methodological terms, the research programme is expected to be based on an expertise in one or more fields (particularly in the global South) as a starting point for comparative reflection. In terms of discipline, the profile is open-ended: in addition to the sub-disciplines of political science (particularly comparative politics and international relations), other social science disciplines inclined to dialogue with political science are welcome, such as anthropology, geography, sociology and history. An interest in interdisciplinary openness towards maritime environmental science disciplines will be considered an asset.

U Notre Dame: Visiting Research Fellowships 2025-26 (USA)

FellowshipsVisiting Research Fellowships, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. Deadline: 31 January 2025.

Each year, the Kroc Institute’s Visiting Research Fellows Program brings outstanding scholars focused on peace research to the University of Notre Dame for a semester or a full academic year. For the academic year 2025-26, they invite research proposals that focus on one or more of the following themes:

  • Climate Change and Environmental Justice.
  • Intersection of Gender, Race, Class and Peacebuilding.
  • International Mediation.
  • Media, Technology and Peacebuilding.
  • Peace Accords Matrix (PAM).
  • Peacebuilding and the Arts.

Northeastern U: Postdoc at Center for Transformative Media (USA)

Postdocs

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Transformative Media, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Deadline: Open until filled; posted 6 January 2025.

The Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change within the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University invites applications for a fully funded Postdoctoral Research Associate. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to engage in a series of research projects at the intersection of networked urban mobilities and mobile communication, with a particular focus on understanding how marginalized communities creatively appropriate media technologies.

Projects include:

  • Mobile Networked Creativity: An investigation of how marginalized communities around the world creatively engage with networked technologies. The project includes mapping/visualizing how these creative practices occur around the Globe.
  • Retro Mobile Gaming Database: A mobile gaming database of historic mobile games and artifacts to aid researchers in games studies.
    Retro Mobile Gaming Collection: Producing a media art show on the history of mobile communication and mobile games, and contributing to the growth of the retro mobile gaming collection housed in the Center.
  • Micromobilities Justice: Analyzing networked urban mobilities in Global South urban spaces as they relate to mobility justice and social inclusion.

This is a full time position for one year, with potential for renewal based on performance and funding availability.

Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 2025

AwardsThe Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order is given to those who have taken on issues of world importance and presented viewpoints that could lead to a more just and peaceful world. Each idea supports one noble cause: to inspire us all to work together for the common good. Award: $100,000. Deadline: 31 January 2025.

Submissions will be judged according to originality, feasibility and potential impact, not by the cumulative record of the nominee. They may address a wide range of global concerns including foreign policy and its formation; the conduct of international relations or world politics; global economic issues, such as world trade and investment; resolution of regional, ethnic or racial conflicts; the proliferation of destructive technologies; global cooperation on environmental protection or other important issues; international law and organization; any combination or particular aspects of these, or any other suitable idea which could at least incrementally lead to a more just and peaceful world order.

Stimson Center: Junior Fellows, South Asia Program 2025 (USA)

Fellowships

Junior Fellows, South Asia Program, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C., USA. Deadline: 31 January 2025.

The Henry L. Stimson Center’s South Asia Program welcomes applications from highly motivated graduating seniors or individuals who have completed their undergraduate or master’s degree in the past year for its 2025-2026 cohort of Junior Fellows. The one-year, full-time fellowship will provide individuals with a unique opportunity to expand their knowledge of security issues in the subcontinent, engage with the South Asia policy community in Washington and the region, and experience working at a dynamic think tank that provides close interaction with senior staff and researchers…

Junior Fellows will support the Stimson South Asia Program’s efforts to research, analyze, and inform policymakers about the evolving dynamics of deterrence, conflict risks, military modernization, and great-power competition in Southern Asia. Fellows will support research, publications, and programmatic efforts (including South Asian Voices, Strategic Learning, and public events and workshops). They will receive professional development opportunities to engage with leading scholars and practitioners in the field; to represent Stimson at scholarly and policy convenings; to hone technical and analytical skills; and to conduct, present, and publish their own research.

The Stimson Center is rated as “Least Biased” based on mostly neutral reporting on security, and “High” for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record by Media Bias/Fact Check. Other positions currently available at the Stimson Center are listed here.

Yang Guest Post: The Evolving Field of Multilingual Studies

Guest Posts
The evolving field of multilingual studies. Guest post by Mimi Yang.

The evolving field of Multilingual Studies integrates intercultural and interdisciplinary studies missed in traditional scholarship. Most people are multilingual or interlingual (that is, bilingual, trilingual, or simply polyglots), who cross linguistic frontiers as part of daily life or at times mix different linguistic codes as a second nature, usually to a receptively multilingual audience. Linguistic code switching (moving between languages or dialects in a single conversation) in itself brings cultures together in speech and dialogue, which, in return, stimulate further code-switching. Some of us are multilingual by training and others were born into an intercultural and interlingual environment. Multiple dimensions of multilingualism weave intercultural dialogues inherently and intimately.

Download the entire guest post as a PDF.

Northeastern U: Global Media (USA)

“JobOpen-Rank Teaching Professor in Global Media, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 4 December 2024.

The Department of Communication Studies in the College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) of Northeastern University invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track Teaching Professor (open rank) position in Global Media. Candidates will have expertise across regions, with expertise in at least one non-English speaking region, ideally outside the Global North. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the analysis and creation of media and media technologies with a theoretical focus on at least one of the following areas: representation, identity and industry. They encourage applicants with an interdisciplinary perspective that connects to other CAMD degrees in the creative arts and media industry, for example content creation in the technology industry.