Dr. Talya Zemach Bersin

Biography

Talya Zemach-Bersin is a lecturer in the Department of Education Studies at Yale University, where she also serves as the Senior Capstone Coordinator. Her work focuses on the political, social, and cultural dimensions of education. Currently, she is working on a monograph titled 'Education Making American Globalism: 1898-1950', which is set to be published by Harvard University Press. Zemach-Bersin has published several articles and book chapters related to international education and has explored concepts such as global citizenship education. Her research has been supported by prominent organizations such as New York University’s Center for United States Cold War Studies, the Council for International Educational Exchange, and Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. She received her PhD in American Studies from Yale University in 2015 after obtaining her BA from Wesleyan University. For her excellence in teaching, she was awarded the Yale University Prize Teaching Fellowship, and her dissertation earned her the Yale University John Addison Porter Prize, as well as the Education Society's Claude Eggertsen Dissertation Prize. In addition to her role at Yale, Zemach-Bersin has taught courses in Gender Studies and American Studies at Wesleyan University and Brown University. She resides in New Haven with her partner and their dog, Frankie.

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