Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology
Northern Arizona University
Blase S. Scarnati, Ph.D., consults on community-based global-local learning and its pedagogies, faculty curricular collaboration and development, and issues in international education. He currently serves as Director of Academic Programs with Kambia Education, the university curricular wing of Global Brigades, a non-profit NGO that has brought more than 86,000 students into the NGO’s day-to-day work and planning with nearly 680 communities in Central America, Africa, and in Southern Europe, working on real-world issues, problems, and solutions. He served as the Director of Global Learning in the Center for International Education at Northern Arizona University for a decade, where he co-created the Global Learning Initiative, an across-the curriculum internationalization effort based in all undergraduate programs, which significantly contributed to the university receiving NAFSA’s Senator Paul Simon Award. He was also the founding Director of NAU’s First Year Seminar-Action Research Team Program, which saw 600 students each year working with over forty community partners on issues identified by the community. The Program became one of the largest civic agency and community engagement programs in the US and was featured at the Obama White House. He has published in University World News, Global Impact Exchange, Huffington Post, Academic Leader, Diversity & Democracy, Bringing Theory to Practice-AAC&U Civic Series, Higher Education Exchange, and the Kettering Foundation Working Paper Series among many others. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in historical musicology from the University of Pittsburgh and a M.M. in music performance from Northwestern University. Scarnati is Emeritus Professor of Musicology in the Kitt School of Music at Northern Arizona University. LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/BlaseScarnati) | Academica.edu (https://nau.academia.edu/BlaseScarnati)
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