Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Karl J. Schmidt is the Director of International Affairs at SDSU, assuming the post in September 2003. His responsibilities include overseeing all student and faculty exchange programs, developing and leading faculty development seminars abroad, negotiating and finalizing new agreements with international partner universities, maintaining existing international partnerships, chairing the SDSU International Advisory Council, and representing the university in the international sphere and with the university's consortial partners (ISEP, CCSA, CCIS, and CIEE).

He has 15 years of university teaching experience with specialties in the history of India and China, as well as 20th century world history and international affairs, and was most recently associate professor of history and international studies at Missouri Southern State University, where he taught for nine years.  For Fall 2005, he is once again teaching, offering a course on the history of India.

Dr. Schmidt also directs and edits Project South Asia, an Internet-based digital teaching library developed, in part, with grants from the National Security Education Program (a unit of the National Defense University) and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of New York.

Beginning with dissertation research in the fall of 1992, Dr. Schmidt has visited India seven times in the last eleven years. In addition to articles and reviews about Indian topics, he is the author of An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History (M.E. Sharpe, 1995), a text-based historical atlas.

Dr. Schmidt holds a B.A. in geography from the University of South Florida (1985), as well as an M.A. in international affairs and Ph.D. in history from Florida State University (1987 and 1994, respectively).
 

The International Affairs Office staff

From left to right: Katherine Brandtjen, Study Abroad Peer Mentor; Dr. Karl J. Schmidt, Director; LaRee Grebner, Secretary; Rachael Seiner, Study Abroad Peer Advisor