Tina Mangieri joins UVA as the inaugural Director of Global Initiatives following multiple leadership positions in international education and a teaching/research career spanning four continents. Prior to UVA, she was based in Sweden, serving as the first Associate Academic Director and Director of Research at DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia, a Copenhagen and Stockholm-based non-profit leader in international education. Thriving in start-up mode, she held positions as Associate Dean and founding Director of the Center for Global Education at Bates College, inaugural Director of Experiential Education at New York University Abu Dhabi, and the first Academic Dean for Africa, South of the Sahara, with SIT Study Abroad. In each position, she focused on developing partnerships, expanding networks, nurturing collaborations, and establishing new locations to serve as key sites for global scholarship.
In addition to her international education leadership roles, Tina is a geographer and anthropologist with a PhD in geography from UNC Chapel Hill, where she received multiple awards - including a Fulbright fellowship - in support of a multi-sited study of transnational trade networks linking East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. She held an assistant professorship in geography at Texas A&M University, during which time she received the prestigious Nystrom Award from the American Association of Geographers. She taught international studies at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont and migration/urban studies at DIS. For ten years, Tina led international archaeological research projects as principal investigator/field director throughout Micronesia and Polynesia. She served as field cartographer with the Royal Ontario Museum’s Yemen Project and field director on Pemba island, Tanzania, with UVA. Combining teaching and research, she taught archaeological field schools for both the University of Guam and Stockholm University.
She has numerous publications ranging from her work on fashion and identity in Africa, global commodity chains and secondhand clothing in Africa and Asia, to archaeological investigations throughout the Pacific. Tina has presented widely on social justice and international education, field research, research ethics, and experiential pedagogies in both the US and abroad.