As Princeton’s Associate Provost for International Initiatives, Diana Davies facilitates and promotes all aspects of campus internationalization. She serves on the Council for International Teaching and Research (the University’s faculty-based governance group for international scholarly activities), chairs the International Operations Team, and oversees Princeton’s linkages with foreign institutions. She also works closely with the offices that provide support for international students, scholars and visitors and with the offices that send Princeton students to study, work, or volunteer abroad.

She was a member of the planning committee that established Princeton’s unique Bridge Year Program (which sends incoming freshmen abroad for a year of service prior to beginning their studies at Princeton) and has played a key role in developing Princeton’s innovative international programs such as the Global Collaborative Research Networks and Global Scholars.

Prior to coming to Princeton, she served as the Director of International Programs at The University of Iowa and as the Director of the Languages Across the Curriculum Program at Binghamton University. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Rochester (New York), with specializations in Russian and Latin American literature, and began her academic career as an instructor of Russian. She is a founding member of the national consortium for Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum and serves on the advisory boards for the American Council on Education’s Internationalization Collaborative and Princeton in Africa.

Dr. Davies’s areas of special interest and expertise include infusion models of internationalization (incorporating foreign languages and international perspectives into all functions of the University); methods of assessing comprehensive internationalization; and bridging the gap between multicultural (domestic diversity) and international education goals through intercultural approaches.