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Program Evaluation • Higher Education Administration • Complex Project Management • Process Improvement • Policy Analysis • Internationalization of (Higher) Education

Biography

Dr. Ahn is the Founding Director for the International Projects Office at the University of Wisconsin–Madison International Division. She is also (or has been) a lecturer for the Educational Policy Studies Department at UW–Madison, the College of Humanities and Education at KIMEP University, the Doctor of Education program at Edgewood College and the Center for Evaluation Programme at the University of Melbourne. Prior to coming to Madison, WI, she was an Assistant Professor in the Language Center (now the College of Humanities and Education) at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.  She received my Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign specializing in global studies in education and program evaluation.

Dr. Ahn’s research focuses on language and education policy change and how these changes impact the broader systems in which they are embedded. Focusing on these areas in the Turkish, Kazakhstani, and more broadly, post-Soviet contexts, has allowed me to explore the uneven ways social policies are implemented and experienced at different levels or scales in transition contexts. Incorporating a spatial lens further reveals how other factors, e.g., socio-economic status, ethnicity/nationality, and community networks, contribute to the (re)production of inequality by structurally privileging certain spaces over others.

Countries/Regions of Expertise
Türkiye, Kazakhstan, USA, Central Asia, European Union

Areas of Expertise
Language and education policy; education change and reform; internationalization of (higher) education; bi- and multilingual education; education and (in)equity; sociology of language and education; program evaluation; globalization

Other Affiliations
She is also a member and current co-chair of the Comparative and International Education Society’s Europe and Central Asia Special Interest Group (click here to find out more about the ECA SIG or follow them @CIESEurasia) and Language SIG (click here). She is also an affiliate with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's EU Center and Russia, East European, and Eurasia Center and UW–Madison's Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, and a member of the Heteroglossia.net network. 

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Получила степень магистра лингвистики и доктора в области исследований образовательной политики в Университете Иллинойса в г. Урбана-Шампейн (УИУШ), США. Диссертация посвящена институционализации языка на раннем этапе развития Республики Турция. Преподавала в УИУШ четыре года, научно-исследовательские интересы – языковая политика и процессы планирования, язык и образование, социология образования, глобализация и высшее образование.
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Урбана-Шампейн қаласындағы (АҚШ) Иллинойс Университетінен (УШИУ) білімдік саясат саласында лингвистика магистрі және доктор дәрежесін алған. Диссертация Түркия Республикасы алғашқы даму кезеңінде тілдің институционалдауына арналған. УШИУ-де төрт жыл сабақ берген, ғылыми-зерттеулік мүдделері – тіл саясаты және жоспарлау үдерісі, тіл және білім, білімнің әлеумет ғылымы, ғаламдану және жоғары білім.

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