Blase Scarnati, Ph.D., serves as the Lead for virtual university programs with Global Brigades and is currently Director of Global Learning in the Center for International Education and Professor of MusicHistory in the School of Music at Northern Arizona University. He publishes and consults on community-based local and international student engagement/experiential learning and its pedagogies, curricular development, and international education issues. Scarnati is the co-creator of the Global Learning InitiativeatNorthern Arizona University, an across-the curriculum internationalization effort located in all undergraduate programs and majors, for which Northern Arizona Universityreceivedthe 2012 Senator Paul Simon Award for CampusInternationalization presented by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. He also established one of the largest civic agency and community engagement programs in the country at Northern Arizona University, where 600first-year students each year worked with over 40 community partners in Flagstaff, Arizona, and the region on social justice, sustainability, and community empowerment issues, and whose efforts were featured at the Obama White House.
Scarnati has published articles in Global Impact Exchange, Bringing Theory to Practice-AAC&U Civic Series, Higher Education Exchange, Academic LeaderToday, Teacher-Scholar, Diversity & Democracy, the Kettering Foundation Working Paper Series, and the Huffington Post among others, and numerous book chapters on international education, student engagement, and curricular development issues. He has presented papers and preconference workshops at the Association of International Education Administrators Annual Conference, NAFSA: Association of International Educators Annual Conference, National Conference of the American Association of Colleges & Universities, and American Association of State Colleges and Universities National Conference, among others. https://nau.academia.edu/BlaseScarnati