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The Office of Global Affairs is a division of Office of the Provost.

Vice President for Global Affairs

Daniel Terris is vice president of global affairs and the director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University.

Programs initiated under his leadership at Brandeis have included: the Brandeis Institute for International Judges, the M.A. Program in Coexistence and Conflict, the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts, the Sorensen Fellowship Program, the Brandeis University/Al-Quds University partnership, the Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry, and the university’s Division of Graduate Professional Studies. Dr. Terris received his Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Harvard University, and he has written on 20th century history, literature, and religion. He is the author, most recently, of Ethics at Work: Creating Virtue in an American Corporation and the co-author of The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World's Cases.

Office of Global Affairs Staff

Shelby Bleiweis '04 is the senior program associate of the OGA.  She received her masters degree in Higher Education Administration from Boston College's Lynch School of Education.  Shelby has most recently been a newsletter administrator and graduate center assistant at Boston College, and an operations intern in the Office for Campus Life at Tufts University.  At Brandeis, she graduated cum laude in Sociology and History, with a minor in Education Studies.  In 2003, Shelby had the opportunity to study at the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain.  She has also traveled abroad in Italy, Canada, and Morocco.

Bryan McAllister-Grande is the adviser for global initiatives for the OGA. He received his M.Ed. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, where he studied higher education in an international and comparative context. He currently serves as the network leader for research & scholarship for NAFSA: Association of International Educators, and is the co-editor of the NAFSA Review of Global Studies Literature. He has presented at international education conferences on the history of university internationalization.