International Connections @ Carleton – Office of International Student Life

International Connections is a faculty and staff directory designed to help international students, OCS participants, and students learning languages build community at Carleton. Please use this directory to find connections across campus (search using the filter). We hope to continue to create more visibility for the international community at Carleton as we grow!

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Name	Role	Country of Birth	Languages Spoken	Work/Study Abroad Countries
Ken Abrams	Professor of Psychology	-	Czech	Czech Republic / Slovakia
Temi Adeyemi	Program Director for Experiential Learning	Nigeria	Korean	Former U.S. International Student South Korea, Ghana
David Ahrens '22	Admissions Officer	-	Mandarin	Mongolia
Palmar Álvarez-Blanco	Broom Fellow for Public Scholarship, Professor of Spanish	Spain	Spanish	Former U.S. International Student
Sarah Anthony	Lecturer in French	Canada	French	Canada
Marty Baylor	Professor of Physics	-	Mandarin Chinese	China
Carly Born	Academic Technologist for Digital Learning Experiences	-	Japanese	Japan
Kate Brooks	Reference and Instruction Librarian for Arts and Media, International Liaison for Library Services	-	German	Germany
Adit Burkule	Director of Technology Support, Information Technology Services	India	Marathi(fluent), Hindi(Conversational)	-
Fabia Calabresi Dennison	Administrative and Pre-Departure Process Specialist	Brasil	Portuguese; Italian; Spanish	Argentina, Brasil and Costa Rica
Sarah Calhoun '01	Reference & Instruction Librarian for Humanities and Digital Scholarship	-	French, Thai, Sinhala, Hindi, Sanskrit, Pali	Sri Lanka, Thailand
Shalin Carranza ’20	Alumni Engagement Officer	Costa Rica	Spanish and French	Costa Rica
Kevin Chapman	Technology Support Specialist	Scotland, UK	-	Scotland, UK
Sarah Clark	German Language Associate	Germany	German	Germany
Liz Cody	Director of International Life	-	German	Austria, Italy, UK
Vera Coleman	Senior Lecturer and Spanish Language Program Director	South Korea	Spanish (near-native), Portuguese (novice-mid) and a bit of Japanese	Spain (Study); Japan (Lived)
Fernando Contreras Flamand	Lecturer in Spanish	Mexico	Spanish; some Czech, Japanese, and French	Japan, Russia, Hungary, Ecuador, Israel, Canada, and Czech Republic
Mihaela Czobor-Lupp	Associate Professor of Political Science	Romania	Romanian, French, German	Romania, UK, France
Lin Deng	Lecturer in Chinese	China	Chinese, Japanese	Former U.S. International Student
Trenne Fields	Administrative Assistant in Physics and Astronomy	-	French	France
Sindy Fleming	Associate Dean of Students	Guatemala	Spanish	-
Elijah Genheimer	Accessibility Specialist	-	-	South Africa, Botswana, Ethiopia, & the UK
Shaohua Guo	Associate Professor of Chinese, Chair of Asian Languages and Literatures	-	Mandarin Chinese	Former U.S. International Student
Zaki Haidar	Senior Lecturer in Arabic	Lebanon	Arabic	Egypt and Lebanon
Jenna Holt	Associate Dean of Admissions, Director of Communications	-	French	France and Morocco
Amy Hutchinson	Language Center Director	-	French, mostly. A bit of German, as well. I have also studied Spanish, Japanese, and Mongolian in the past!	Germany (Stuttgart and Düsseldorf)
Helena Kaufman	Director of Off-Campus Studies, Lecturer in Latin American Studies	Poland	Polish, Portuguese, Spanish	Former U.S. International Student/ Green Card Holder Portugal and Brazil
Amy Kennedy	Assistant Director of International Student Life	-	Spanish	Mexico
Kiley Kost	Lecturer in German	-	German, Swedish	Germany, Austria, Sweden
Wiebke Kuhn	Director of Academic Technology	Germany	German	Former U.S. International Student Germany, UK
Holly Lake '25	Admissions Officer - Temporary	-	-	Studied in the UK; triple citizen of the US, England, & Ireland
Claudia Lange	Instructor in Spanish	Uruguay	Spanish and Portuguese	Chile, Argentina, and Brazil
Christopher Leppink-Shands '19	Assistant Dean of Admissions, Alumni Admissions Representative Program	-	-	Budapest Hungary and Geneva Switzerland
Zong Xian Lim ’21	Investment Analyst	Malaysia	Mandarin, Malay, and Manglish	Former U.S. International Student Malaysia
Silvia López	Director of Latin American Studies, Director of the Center for Global and Regional Studies, Maxine H. and Winston R. Wallin Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies	-	Spanish; German; Portuguese	Former U.S. International Student Brazil and Germany
Victoria Morse	Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Professor of History	-	Italian; Some French	Italy, Austria
Tammy Metcalf-Filzen	Professor of Physical Education, Athletics, and Recreation & Head Women's Basketball Coach	-	I spoke Mandarin as a child and also took it in college (STO) but it is in need of MAJOR review for me to converse.	Taiwan
Tun Myint	Chair of Political Science and International Relations, Professor of Political Science	Burma	Burmese, Chinese, Thai	Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Thailand, Lao PDR, Burma
Kate Niemisto	Periodicals & Cataloging Librarian	-	-	India (worked in K-12 education)
William North	Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Professor of History	-	Italian, some Spanish, some French, some German	Lived and worked in Italy for over 6 years
Brooke Okazaki	Assistant Professor of Music	-	Japanese	Japan
Deya Ortiz	Assistant to the Vice President for Inclusion, Equity and Community	Venezuela	Spanish	Venezuela and England
Beatriz Pariente-Beltrán	Senior Lecturer in Spanish	Spain	Spanish	Former U.S. International Student Spain, Austria
Ovini Pathirana	Administrative Assistant in Admissions for Communication & International Recruitment	Sri Lanka	Sinhalese	Sri Lanka
Arjendu Pattanayak	Professor of Physics	India	Hindi, Odia, some Bengali, Punjabi, and French	Former U.S. International Student Canada, and technically–though for very short visits — India, Italy, Germany, and Singapore
Seth Peabody	Assistant Professor of German	-	German; a bit of French and Italian	Germany, Austria
Yansi Pérez	Associate Provost, Professor of Spanish	El Salvador	Spanish (native speaker); Portuguese (Proficient)	El Salvador
Paul Petzschmann	Sr. Lecturer and Research Associate in European Studies	Germany	German; French	France, UK, Norway, South Africa, Pakistan
Rob Quanbeck	Program Manager	-	Norwegian	Norway (Study Abroad and Work - University of Oslo Summer School); Israel (Study Abroad)
Fatima Ramos	Academic Advisor, TRIO/Student Support Services	Mexico	Spanish	Spain, Ecuador
Maria Reverman	Associate Registrar for Academic Progress, Commencement, and Records	Germany (Hannover)	German	Former U.S. International Student German
Urania Roque-Vanyo	Human Resources Generalist	-	Spanish	Japan
Charlie Saini	Records and Registration Assistant	-	-	India (internship), China (worked), Italy (studied), Brazil (studied)
Juliane Schicker	Associate Professor of German	German Democratic Republic	German	Former U.S. International Student Germany, Austria
Michelle Sylvester	Associate Director for Inclusion, Equity, and Community Programs and Initiatives	South Africa (Durban)	Afrikaans	South Africa
Victoria Thorstensson	Lecturer in Russian	Hungary, but I am Russian	Russian (native), plus some Polish, German, French and Ukrainian	Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland
Aimee Thostenson	Associate Dean of Admissions & Director of International Recruitment	-	Conversational Indonesian	Indonesia
Chie Tokuyama	Assistant Professor of Japanese	Japan	Japanese	Former U.S. International Student Japan (attended an undergraduate program at a university in Tokyo, worked as an instructor of Japanese at a university in Yamaguchi)
Solita Tullo	Administrative Assistant to the Director of the Quantitative Resource Center & Assistant to the Director of the Language Center	Ireland	-	Ireland, England, New Zealand
Don Vosburg	Academic Technologist of Learning Innovation, Information Technology Services	-	German, and many years ago I had learned some Irish but have forgotten most of it.	I have worked and studied in Ireland, Germany, and Austria.
Magdalena Worman '23	Communications and Digital Literacy Intern	-	Spanish and Mandarin Chinese	China, Taiwan, Honduras, Bermuda
Cheryl Yin	Assistant Professor of Anthropology		Khmer (Cambodian), Mandarin Chinese	Cambodia, China
Seungjoo Yoon	Associate Professor of History	-	Korean; Chinese; Japanese	China, Korea, Japan
Dina Zavala	Vice President for Inclusion, Equity, and Community	Honduras	Spanish	Honduras
Naomi Ziegler	Associate Director of Off Campus Studies	-	French	Senegal (8 years as a kid), France (2 years + study abroad)