Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Dr. Kristi Julian is a Professor and Program Director at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Julian is a founding member of the Council of Virtual Exchange (CoVE) and is currently serving as the Executive Director. Her research interests focus on interior design pedagogy, design thinking, virtual exchange, and sustainability. In addition to project coordination as the ProGlobe U.S. project partner, she has conducted feasibility studies, and exchanges in U.S., Italy, Greece, and Argentina. She is part of the MTSU Online Intercultural Exchange (MTOIE) grant initiative at San Juan Bautista University in Peru and Maza University in Argentina. She serves as a faculty mentor for the MTSU/AUK U.S. State Department grant, American-Style Higher Education in Iraq and is an advisory board member for the American University of Kurdistan Design Department. She served on the DAAD Funding Selection Committee in 2021. She is the Associate Editor, for Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences (URJHS) and is an accreditation site visitor chair.