Jody McBrien
Dr. Jody McBrien is known for her work in the areas of international and comparative issues of refugee students and their families, which she has conducted in North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australasia. Her 2019 book, Educational Policies and Practices of English-Speaking Refugee Resettlement Countries (Brill/Sense) brought together 21 scholars to write about this work from the perspectives of seven countries. In 2005 she published an influential article in the Review of Educational Research titled “Educational Needs and Barriers for Refugee Students in the United States.” She has also published in Social Studies Research & Practice, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Contemporary Journal of African Studies, International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, The Journal of Transformative Education, and Journal of School Public Relations. She received a 2014 Ian Axford (New Zealand) Fellowship in Public Policy to examine how policies in New Zealand affected refugee resettlement; a 2019 Fulbright Specialist Award to review practices at the rebuilt Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, and is an International Affairs Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. McBrien works in interdisciplinary spaces and has taught courses for the College of Education, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, and the Honors College. She has also guest taught at Shortwood Teachers College in Kingston, Jamaica, at the University of Winnipeg in Canada and at Soka University in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. McBrien is a Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.
Find out more about her work: https://researchmagazine.usfsm.edu/speaking-refugees-language/
To cite this episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2021, July 6). A conversation with Jody McBrien. (Season 2, No. 4) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests. DOI: 10.5240/B52C-F1DA-910A-C0AB-F226-M
