The Foreign Service Journal, November 2021

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2021 43 International Education at the Crossroads Edited by Deborah N. Cohn and Hilary E. Kahn, Indiana University Press, 2021, $30/hardcover, e-book available, 296 pages. A reflection on the past, present and future of international education, this collection of 26 essays grew out of Indiana University’s bicentennial symposium, “International Educa- tion at the Crossroads,” in 2018. Experts in language, area and global studies; policymakers; international education leaders and others gathered there to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the National Defense Education Act and the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI programs. The latter have expanded language and area studies at all levels of education across the United States, programs in which Indiana University has long been a leader. The authors bring a variety of viewpoints to show how international education is an imperative for the future of learning. They also call for a stock-taking of the entire field given the broad sociopolitical changes underway in the country and the world. Deborah N. Cohn is provost professor of Spanish and Portuguese and interim director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute at Indiana University. She is the author of The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War (2012) and History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction (1999). Her late father, Dave S. Cohn, served with USAID as a health and population Foreign Service officer from 1980 to 1999. Hilary E. Kahn is associate vice chancellor for international affairs and associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University–Purdue University Indiana, as well as Indiana University’s associate vice president of international affairs. She is also editor for the Framing the Global book series with IU Press and past president of the Association of International Education Administrators.