Director of the UC Santa Barbara Education Abroad Program

April 20, 2011

We are pleased to announce that Professor Juan E. Campo has agreed to serve as Director of the UC Santa Barbara Education Abroad Program, effective July 1, 2011.   Juan is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and the History of Religions in the Department of Religious Studies and is an affiliated faculty member of the Global and International Studies Program.  He has nearly 20 years of experience with the Education Abroad Program and international education on campus.  He served as Director for the EAP study center in Egypt (1991-93) and in India (1998-2001), and spent six years on the Senate’s Committee on International Education (formerly CEAP and CELIP), in addition to three years on the systemwide Committee on International Education.  Professor Campo also chaired the 1997-98 programmatic review of the campus EAP office and served on two ad hoc committees for international education at UC Santa Barbara.

Professor Campo has successfully served as the Interim Director of the UC Santa Barbara Education Abroad Program, and we look forward to working with him in this permanent capacity.