Director of Global Learning & Partnerships
VRQ2YS@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Kyle David Anderson brings his unique background as a tenured professor and business executive to the creation and management of global partnerships and initiatives.
Before joining JMU, he piloted scaffolded experiential learning technologies and programming as a VP with Academic Programs International. Prior to this, he served as the Senior Director Global Partnerships and Initiatives at Clemson University (SC), and the Director of the Center for Global Citizenship at Centre College (KY), where he also taught as an Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Chinese Studies.
His work in global education has focused primarily on faculty and curriculum development, interdisciplinary research initiatives, partnership creation, and the adoption and promotion of student global learning outcomes. Funded projects have included the implementation of a Henry Luce LIASE grant on Asia and the environment, and the creation of a multi-institutional study abroad consortium supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is also the developer of Clemson University’s Schwehr Global Service-Learning platforms in India and South Africa.
Anderson is a former Fulbright junior scholar (Taiwan) and Fulbright-Hays fellow (China and Italy). He publishes regularly in the fields of global education, literary history, and Chinese fiction and translation.
Outside of JMU, you will find him hiking, waterfall hunting and chopping wood, as well as throwing around weights in the gym and clay to hand build sculptures.
Selected Publications
- Looking Back, Moving Forward: How Clemson University is Advancing Intercultural Communication,” AAC&U’s Liberal Education 107.1 (Winter 2021): 33-39.
- “Scaffolding High Impact Practices for Asian Studies and the Environment,” Asia Network Exchange 27.2: 53-64.
- “Deepening Convictions: Religious Identity and Off-Campus Study,” Frontiers Journal XXXII.2 (January 2020): 119-147.
- “Liberal Education for a Troubled Democracy: Myanmar’s Parami Institute,” AAC&U Liberal Education 105.3-4 (Summer/Fall 2019): 48-53.
- When the Yellow Emperor Visited Urbino: Lodovico Arrivabene’s Il Magno Vitei (1597),” The Sixteenth Century Journal 46.2 (Fall 2015): 269-90.