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About the Office

The Office of Global Affairs (OGA) was created in 2007 to enhance collaboration between the Brandeis community and support international activities, programs, research and service. The OGA will build connections between the University's many ongoing activities in the international arena, strengthen the public profile of our global programs, identify new resources for international projects, and develop a strategic vision for "Global Brandeis."

With the Office of Communications, the OGA produces and maintains this Global Brandeis web portal. In addition, the OGA coordinates the University's major overseas partnerships, including the Brandeis-Al-Quds partnership, a multi-year project funded by the Ford Foundation that links Brandeis with a Palestinian university.

The OGA was established by the Provost following one of the suggestions of an ad hoc group of faculty and administrators convened in spring 2006 to consider the strengths and challenges of "Brandeis as a Global Institution." More information on the work of this ad hoc group can be found at www.brandeis.edu/provost/.

Office of Global Affairs Staff

Daniel Terris is associate vice president of global affairs and the director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life. Programs initiated under his leadership at the Center and as assistant provost at Brandeis have included: the Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence, the Brandeis Institute for International Judges (BIIJ), the Brandeis International Fellowships, Community Histories by Youth in the Middle East (CHYME), the Ethics Center Student Fellowships (formerly the Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellowships), Brandeis in the Berkshires, Genesis at Brandeis University, and the University's continuing studies division. He has offered courses on individualism, poverty, American literature, and the roots and causes of September 11, and he offers the annual writing seminar for the Ethics Center Student Fellows. 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 of Ethics at Work: Creating Virtue in an American Corporation (University Press of New England, 2005) and the co-author of the The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World's Cases (with Leigh Swigart and Cesare Romano, University Press of New England, 2007).

Bryan McAllister-Grande is the assistant director of the OGA. He received his M.Ed. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, where he studied higher education with an international and comparative focus. Before coming to Brandeis, he managed and advised on study abroad and international exchange programs at Clark University and EF Education, and he assisted in the formation of a global education center at the Colleges of the Fenway consortium in Boston. He is an active member-leader with NAFSA: The Association of International Educators, and he has presented at NAFSA conferences on the history of international education.