Tina Mangieri is Director of Global Initiatives and affiliated faculty in Global Studies at the University of Virginia. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having conducted Fulbright and NSF-funded research on South-South economic networks in Kenya, Oman,and the UAE. Prior to UVA, she held faculty and administrative positions at Bates College, NYU Abu Dhabi, Champlain College, and Texas A&M University, in addition to serving as Director of Research/Associate Academic Director at DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia and Dean for Africa at SIT Study Abroad. For over 20 years, she conducted fieldwork as senior archaeologist/principal investigator for research projects throughout Micronesia/Polynesia, Sweden, Tanzania, and Yemen, and as onsite academic director for education abroad programs in East Africa, West Africa, and Scandinavia. Her research and teaching interests include transnationalism, migration, cultures of economies, textiles/apparel, experiential pedagogies, and urban geographies of East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Scandinavia. Reflecting this breadth, her publications include international research opportunities for US undergraduates in Europe, Swahili men's fashion, WWII Japanese shellfish farming in Micronesia, the politics of heterodox economics, and secondhand clothing in Kenya.