Heike Fahrenberg

Dr. phil. Heike Fahrenberg has been the Director of the School in Germany since August 2000. (Am. Studies PhD, JGu 2006, Am. Stud. / English lecturer JGu / UC Davis 1997 - 2009; Teacher State Exam I (German and English Stud.), M.A. (German, English, American Stud.) JGu 1997; German Assistant Midd. 1994-95; Biol. Lab Tech. Hoechst AG 1991) Integrating work with research, Heike focuses on teaching and assessing ICC and became a Qualified Administrator of the IDI in 2012. Taking Intercultural Communicative Practice to be at the heart of Conflict Transformation, Heike and her colleague, Prof. Roman Graf, German Department, gave a presentation called Initiating Democratic Behavior through Intercultural Communicative Practice at ACTFL in 2021, while Heike completed her Intercultural Conflict Style (ICS) Certification in November that same year. At ACTFL in 2019, Roman and Heike presented on Making Intercultural Communication Happen: Moving from Intercultural Competence to Intercultural Communicative Practice. In 2018 w. Prof. Graf (German Dept.) Institutional Change through Intercultural Communication, 2016 Multi-Level Advanced Intercultural Writing, 2014 w. Prof. Sanae Eda (Dir. School in Japan) “Teaching Language and Culture”, 2013 w. Prof. Graf “Study Abroad - Integral and Integrated Part of a Language Teaching Curriculum.” She gave AASAP Workshops in 2013/14 “Teaching and Assessing of Intercultural Competence With/out the IDI”; 2015 “Student Safety in Study Abroad”.