Ben SiegelAffiliate Professor Christopher Thompson (2018 Kohei Miura Visiting Professor) assembly with Chubu college students in 2018.
Ohio College’s Chubu College Relations Committee is at the moment accepting purposes for the 2022 Kohei Miura Visiting Professorship, named in honor of the founding father of Chubu College.
Established in 1973, the Kohei Miura Visiting Professorship permits for an Ohio College college member to spend a semester in residence at Chubu College in Kasugai Metropolis, Japan. The profitable applicant for 2022 will likely be an Ohio College tenured or tenure-track college member who is ready to be in residence at Chubu College both in the course of the spring semester (early April by June 2022) or the autumn semester (late September by December 2022). Spherical-trip transportation, housing and a modest month-to-month expense reimbursement will likely be offered. Following world impacts of COVID-19, this chance is topic to Ohio College journey selections, in alignment with CDC pointers.
Kohei Miura Visiting Professors are anticipated to have interaction in an lively program of scholarship which will embody actions resembling participating in analysis actions, giving visitor shows in courses and seminars, conducting unbiased examine applications with college students and/or professors, taking part in outreach actions, and performing as consultants in areas of experience.
To submit an utility for the 2022 Kohei Miura Visiting Professorship, college members ought to ship a present curriculum vitae and canopy letter, addressed to the Chubu Relations Committee, detailing their curiosity within the place and present analysis focus related to this place by Wednesday, March 31, 2021, to the Workplace of International Affairs at globalaffairs@ohio.edu.
Current Kohei Miura Visiting Professor have included Professor Benjamin Bates, Associate Professor Chris Thompson, Professor William Condee and Professor Shiyong Wu. For a full checklist of Kohei Miura Visiting Professors, in addition to extra info on the professorship, please go to this web site.
The forthcoming Miura Visiting Professor, Dr. Yeong Kim, affiliate professor of geography within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is scheduled to journey in summer time 2021. She plans to conduct discipline analysis in Japan on the bodily and political administration of the Olympic venues and different services for Nagano 1998 and Tokyo 2020 within the context of Japan’s nationwide and native governments’ promotion of the Olympics as a main coverage device to improve the city infrastructure tasks within the host metropolis.
The Ohio College Workplace of International Affairs works carefully with Chubu College to coordinate the Kohei Miura Visiting Professorship, in addition to the Robert Glidden Visiting Professorship, which brings a Chubu College college member to Ohio College annually. The partnership between the 2 establishments includes quite a few applications for college students, college, Alden Library and completely different educational applications. For extra info, please contact the Office of Global Affairs at globalaffairs@ohio.edu.
