Students interested in studying abroad should talk to fellow and former students, like UNK English alumni Emily Hemmer and Megan Kelley who shared advice about living in Spain (LINK).
In addition, many faculty and staff members on the UNK campus have international experience and are open to answering questions that students might have about going abroad. See a partial list below. Feel free to reach out.
Department of Art & Design
Victoria Goro-Rapoport
Venice, Italy (International School of Graphics)
Department of Aviation
David Ballinger
England, Northern Ireland, Canada (all 10 provinces), Haiti, Kosovo/Macedonia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Panama, St. Lucia
Department of Biology
Benjamin Pélissié
Toulouse (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III) & Montpellier (Université de Montpellier, CNRA, CIRAD. INRA), France; Ribeirao Preto (SP), Brazil (Universidade de Sao Paulo – Ribeirao Preto)
Pricila Iranah
Republic of Mauritius; England (Coventry University)
Department of Communication
Akbar Javidi
Canada, China, Iran, Italy, Turkey
Jake Jakobsen
Panama; Cape Town, South Africa; England; Ireland; France; Italy; Spain; Portugal; China; India; Haiti; Finland; Sweden; Switzerland; Iquitos, Peru; Australia
Mandana Shirandasht
Canada, Iran, Turkey
Sonja Bickford
Sweden (including Umea); Norway; Finland (including Tampere); Estonia; Madrid and Valencia, Spain; the Arctic; Greenland; Iceland; Dubai, U.A.E; (served as the director of Study Abroad at the University of Great Falls, Montana from 2011-2015)
Tiffani Luethke
Rishikesh, India; Istanbul, Turkey; Abu Dhabi, UAE; Europe
Department of Communication Disorders
Ladan Ghazi Saidi
Kent, England; Tehran, Iran: Montreal, Canada; Paris, France; Bavaria, Germany: (visited over 120 cities around the world)
Philip Lai
Brisbane, Australia (University of Queensland)
Jan Allison Moore
Calgary, Alberta; Canadian Arctic & Northwest Territories; Montreal, Quebec, (Fulbright Scholar at McGill University); Europe; Africa; Australia.
Department of Counseling and School Psychology
Matthew Mims
London, England (Middlsex University); Olomouc, Czech Republic (Palacký University); led study tours through England, Scotland, France, Czech Republic, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, China, Korea, Japan.
Department of Cyber Systems
Jacques Bou Abdo
Lebanon; Paris, France
Department of English
Annarose Steinke
Beijing, China (Tsinghua University)
Denys Van Renen
Cairo, Egypt; Perpignan, France; Edinburgh, Scotland
Janet Graham
Guangdong Province, China; Abu Dhabi, UAE; Hanoi, Vietnam; Astana, Kazakhstan
Marguerite Tassi
London (Globe Theatre), Bristol, York, Stratford-upon-Avon, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; Montpellier, France; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Rome, Florence, and Venice, Italy
Maria O’Malley
Beijing, China (Graduate School of the Beijing Academy of Sciences); France
Michelle Beissel Heath
London, England
Rebecca Umland
London, England (Tate); Edinburgh and the Highlands, Scotland
Department of History
Carol Lilly
Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Vietnam, Cuba, Peru, Costa Rica
Doug Biggs
Glasgow, Scotland (University of Glasgow); York, England (Faculty adviser for Study Abroad and later Visiting Professor, Medieval Studies & Fellow of the Borthwick Institute); Plalcky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic (UNK Study Abroad and later J. William Fulbright Distinguished Chair); EF Tours - Program Leader, Holocaust Tour, 2016; EF Tours Program Leader, D-Day 75th Anniversary Tour (2019); EF Tours Program Leader, World War I: the Western Front (2022) (Read a news feature HERE.)
Jeff Wells
Canada (University of Victoria); France (American University of Paris, Université d’Orléans); Poland; Bulgaria; Israel (Albert Finkelstein Memorial Study Mission)
Jim Rohrer
Japan; Taiwan (Yushan College and Theological Seminary in Taiwan); Vellore and Coimbatore, South India, established a sister school relationship between Northwestern College (Iowa) and several colleges affiliated with the Church of South India (served as an International Adviser for 6 years at Northwestern College)
Department of Kinesiology and Sport Sciences
Christina Nelms
Manchester and London, England; Dubai, UAE; Okinawa, Japan
Department of Management
Jeong Hoon Choi
Seoul, South Korea
Noel F. Palmer
Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary
Department of Marketing
Sri Seshadri
India, Bulgaria, China, Italy, South Korea
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Ted Rupnow
Niamey, Niger (Sahel Academy)
Department of Modern Languages
Michiko Berman
Japan; Vancouver, Canada (University of British Columbia)
Christopher Jacobs
Barcelona, Spain (University of Barcelona); Montreal, Canada; Paris, France; Rome, Italy; London, England; Athens, Greece (Students may be interested in a non-degree summer program in immersive language study at Middlebury in Vermont.)
Janet Eckerson
San José, Costa Rica (Universidad Veritas); Córdoba, Argentina (Universidad Blas Pascal)
Jonathan Dettman
Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain
Michelle Warren
France (Rotary International Exchange); Guadalajara, Mexico; Argentina (Rotary International, Universidad del Salvador); Galicia (University of Santiago de Compostela), Gallego (Santiago de Compostela); Madrid and A Coruña, Spain; El Salvador; Colombia; Dominican Republic
Timothy Johnson
Valencia, Spain; San José, Costa Rica; Krasnodar, Russia; Murayama, Japan; Quito, Ecuador; Iquitos and Cuzco, Peru; Tetouan, Morocco
Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance /Humanities
Franziska Brech
Düsseldorf, Munich, and Rostock, Germany
Nebraska Safety Center
Carrie Bartholomew
Besancon, Franche-Comte, France (Centre de Linguistique Apliquée)
Department of Philosophy
Gene Fendt
Copenhagen, Denmark; Spain; Greece; Czech Republic; United Kingdom; Belgium; Sicily; Ukraine (Ukrainian Catholic University)
Department of Physics
Jeremy Armstrong
Lund, Sweden (Lund University); Aarhus, Denmark (Aarhus University)
Department of Sociology
Kurt Borchard
England (undergraduate study abroad); Jerusalem, Israel (Yad Vashem Museum and later Fellow of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies); Weihai, Shandong, and Shanghai, China (Shandong University); Germany; Poland; Czech Republic (Fellow of the East European Study Tour -- Holocaust Educational Foundation); Oswiecim, Poland (Auschwitz Jewish Center); (visited over 30 countries)
Student Health and Counseling
Wendy Schardt
England, Iceland, France, Italy, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Zambia, China
Department of Teacher Education
Wendy McCarty
Galway, Ireland (National University of Ireland)
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Learn more about opportunities for English majors and minors to
…apply for scholarships HERE.
…major in English and Pre-Law HERE.
…major in English and STEM HERE.
…minor in the English and/or Humanities HERE.
…participate in the Undergraduate Research Fellow program HERE.
…present research and creative writing at the department’s annual conference HERE.
…publish poetry and stories HERE.
…study abroad HERE.
…work as a tutor at the Learning Commons HERE.