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High School: Corvallis, Oregon |
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B.A., M.A., D.A., and Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon |
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Visiting Foreign Professor at Shimane University in Matsue, Japan.1978-79 |
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Fulbright Lecturer at Tribhuvan University in Nepal (1987) |
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AcademicSpecialist sponsored by the United States Information Agency in Kathmandu.(1991) |
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Foundation Visitor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand (1995) |
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John Gay: An Annotated Bibliography (date to come .....) |
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Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (Wayne State University Press,l990) |
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Interdisciplinary Studies Today (a 1994 co-edited volume in the Jossey Bass series New Directions in Teaching and Learning) |
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Crossing Boundaries:Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities (University Press of Virginia, 1996), |
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Mapping Interdisciplinary Studies (AACU: Association of American Colleges and Universities. 1999). |
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Wayne State University's President's Award for Excellence inTeaching |
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Wayne State University Board of Governor's Distinguished Faculty Award |
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Wayne StateUnivrsity Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellowship |
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Final prize in the Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Foundation's international competition for new research models, for her essay "Applying Interdisciplinary Models to Design, Planning, and Policy Making" |
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Invited Representative the United States at OECD-sponsored international symposium on interdisciplinarity in Sweden and at UNESCO-sponsored symposia on transdisciplinarity in Portugal and in France. |
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Senior Fellow at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) |
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Green College Speaker in Residence and Distinguished Lecturer in the Individual Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program at the University of British Columbia. |
Dr. Klein consults widely throughout North America. In addition to helping numerous colleges and universities develop interdisciplinary programs, she was involved with institution-wide evaluations of prospects for interdisciplinary research and graduate education at Ohio State University, the University of British Columbia, and Wayne State University. She was also a member of the first national Task Force on Interdisciplinary Studies in the U.S., sponsored by AACU, and has served as interdisciplinary expert consultant for AACU's Asheville Institute on General Education. Klein is active internationally as well. In addition, she has consulted on the design of interdisciplinary research teams at the Free University of Brussels, lectured on interdisciplinarity in Brazil, assisted the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld in building its research library, and counseled the Interdisciplinary Research Development Center in Ottawa on formulating interdisciplinary approaches to its research and problem-solving projects in third-world countries. Currently, Klein is a member of Congress Board of the Swiss Priority Program Environment, which is planning an international conference on transdisciplinary problem solving in early 2000. She is also a consultant to the National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Drug Abuse for Transdisciplinary Tobacco UseResearch Centers (TTURCs). In addition, she is a judge for granting programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities.