The Office of Global Engagement is pleased to introduce Professor Inés Rojas as Drake’s Global Scholar-in-Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year. The Global Scholar-in-Residence program, sponsored by the Principal Center for Global Citizenship, allows accomplished academics abroad to bring their expertise to campus and engage with students, faculty/staff, and community members.

Professor Inés Rojas is a full professor at Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela, where she teaches Intercultural Communication, Human Rights, and International Organizations. She received her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Language and her Master’s degree in Linguistics from Universidad de Los Andes. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2002-2004 to attend Georgia State University where she obtained a Master’s and a PhD in Political Science. Her research areas include social movements, women’s human rights and gender policy reform, and civic engagement through citizen participation and experiential learning.

This is Professor Rojas’s second time visiting Drake University. She was a visiting scholar in the World Languages and Cultures program during the 2012-2013 academic year, where she taught a course on Model Organization of the Americas and Latin American Identity. Returning to the World Languages and Cultures program, she is teaching Practical Spanish Speaking and Writing this semester, and in Spring 2023 she will be teaching a course on the Image of a Latin America. During IE Week in November, Professor Rojas will speak about her time on campus so far, and how it fits into her ongoing work abroad.

For more information about the Global Scholar-in-Residence program at Drake University, please visit https://www.drake.edu/cgc/globalscholarpractitionerinresidence/.

— Dawson Urquidez, AS