Hampshire College

Visiting International Students
Please contact Katie Irwin at kirwin@hampshire.edu if you are an international student at one of our affiliate institutions and are interested in applying to be a visiting exchange student at Hampshire College.

What's Hampshire like? Learn more about one student's experience through his photo essay, by Aleksi Ahonen (visiting exchange student from Finland, Year 2008-2009).

Visiting International Scholars
Every year Hampshire College is pleased to host several visiting professors and research scholars to our campus to teach our students and to continue their research. Our scholars come from all over the world, and from many different countries. This year's scholars at Hampshire come from China and Bolivia, and scholars through the Five College language mentors program come from Turkey, Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, India, Tanzania, and Tunisia.  Every year, approximately five scholars also live at Hampshire in the International Scholars Mod located in Greenwich House. Many of our scholars participate in the Fulbright program hosted through the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages. The Five College Center coordinates the study of the least commonly taught languages for the Five College consortium. The Fulbright scholars teach their native language to Hampshire and Five College students as part of the Five College Mentored Language Program.  

2008-2009 ACADEMIC YEAR

Visiting scholars hiking at the Notch in Amherst, Massachusetts, in September 2008. From left to right: Mohsen Jalali, Kakhramon Gafurov, Naushad Khan, Zhu Chen, and Hu Huihong.

Scholars from Hefei, China 

Both of our scholars come from our partner university, Anhui Agricultural University in Hefei, China as part of a continuing exchange program between our two institutions. For more information about this exchange program, please see Hampshire Exchange in China. 

Chen Zhu is a lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anhui Agricultural University (AAU) in Hefei, China. She has taught Hampshire students in China for three years as part of Hampshire’s exchange program at AAU. This year she will be the leading Chinese language teacher at Hampshire for our intensive elementary Chinese language class and third year Chinese language class.

Huiyong Hu teaches linguistics and English reading in the School of Foreign Languages of Anhui Agricultural University (AAU) in Hefei, China. Prior to teaching linguistics at AAU, he taught English in the junior high school for nearly 10 years. Mr. Hu is at Hampshire for the fall 2008 semester to take classes and continue his research in contrastive linguistics and English-Chinese translation.

Liangjun Ye teaches in the School of Social Sciences of Anhui Agricultural University (AAU) in Hefei, China. Mr. Ye will be at Hampshire for the spring 2009 semester.

Fulbright Scholars and Five College Language Mentors

Hampshire College, along with all of the Five Colleges, hosts language mentors each year to teach their native language to Hampshire and other Five College students.

Barkha Dwivedi is a Hindi Language Mentor from Luknow, India. She received a master's degree in English from the University of Lucknow.

Mohsen Jalali is a Persian Language Mentor from Esfahan, Iran. He received a master's degree in philosophy from Tehran University.

Sondes Labidi is an Arabic Language Mentor from Ben Arous, Tunisia. She received her B.A. in English Literature from the Institut Superieur des Langues de Tunis.

Wema Munisi is a Swahili Language Mentor from Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. She received her Bachelor of Education from the University of Dar-es-Salaam. Wema was a teaching assistant at the Cornerstone Christian School.

Naushad Khan is a Pashto Language Mentor from Peshawar, Pakistan. He received his master's degree in philosophy and master's in English from the University of Peshawar. Naushad was lecturer in English in BRAINS Post-Graduate College in Peshawar.

Kakhramon Gafurov from Bukhara, Uzbekistan, received a master's in English Literature from Bukhara State University and an American Studies diploma from Smith College. He was the Director of Bukhara Youth Center. Kakramon is a Senior Uzbek Language Mentor for the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages.

Berna Balci from Tarsus, Turkey received an American Studies diploma from Smith College. She was an English teacher for the Ministry of Education and is currently working on her master’s thesis in English Language Teaching at Cukurova University. Berna is a Senior Turkish Language Mentor for the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages.

Visiting international scholars from Hampshire College and Marlboro College hiking at Black Mountain, Vermont, in October 2008.

Other Visiting Scholars

Zacarías Rolando Encinas Calderón is a professional musician who has been performing Bolivian music since the 1960s. As a student of Ernesto Cavour, he specializes in the quena instrument (notched flute), but also teaches and performs a wide array of Bolivian instruments. He is the founder and director of the Bolivian ensemble, “Música de Maestros,” and during his artistic career he has participated in over one hundred recordings of Bolivian music. Rolando comes to Hampshire campus during January Term to co-teach the course “Performing Bolivian Music” with Professor Michelle Bigenho for the fifth consecutive year.

Maria Gloria Benavides Guevara will be coming from Mexico during January Term to co-teach the course "Insurgent Mexico: Social Movements and Activism in Mexico Today" with Professor Margaret Cerullo.