Kris Koblik – Diablo
Valley College
Kris Koblik has been
indebted to Study Abroad since before she was born: her parents met at the
Stanford in Germany campus in the 1960s. Her educational background includes a
BA in Art History from Stanford University, a stint at American River Community
College, and graduate work at New York University and Sonoma State, culminating
in her Masters of Arts at San Francisco State. She has taught Art History at
the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and has been a full time
instructor at Diablo Valley College since 2008.
Kris has traveled widely
in Europe both for scholarly pleasure and as a water polo player. Her most
recent trip was to Greece and Italy, where she was part of the Olympic Club’s
champion over-30’s team at the FINA World Masters Championship in Riccione,
Italy. She managed to see plenty of art in addition to pool time, with side
trips to Rome, Urbino, Venice, and Crete.
Kris is thrilled to be
teaching in Paris, which she fell in love with on her honeymoon. The city is a
temple to art, and the home of several of the best museums in the world. She is
excited to show these treasures of art and architecture to students, and to
make them come alive in her classes.
Her classes are
dynamic and center on student discussion and exploration of the cultures and
historical periods covered. She promises many field trips to museums like the
Louvre, D’Orsay, Museé des Moyen Ages, and the Centre Pompidou, and impassioned
discussions (perhaps over a café au lait and macarons).
Jon Hanson –
Sacramento City College
Jon Hanson teaches in
the Language and Literature Division at Sacramento City College. He holds a BA
and MA from California State University, Sacramento. He has enjoyed teaching
the critical reading and thinking courses since 1999, and for the last seven
years, has served as one of the department chairs for his division. He loves to
travel, read, write, cook and walk his French Bull Dog named Bruns. He spent
last summer in Paris scouting for new gastronomical adventures.
Michael Traina - SRJC
Michael Traina began
his academic training as a Communication and Religious Studies major at
University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Interested in teaching,
Traina pursued a master’s in Mass Communication Theory and landed a job at
Antelope Valley College in Los Angeles County where he served for 13 years on
the full-time faculty. In 2008, he accepted a position at Santa Rosa Junior
College and relocated to Petaluma where he teaches Film & Media Studies.
Mike’s professional
career in the film industry began as a programmer for the American Film
Institute Theatre at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington, D.C. His experience curating American independent films for AFI
lead to a two decade career running film festivals in both Northern and
Southern California. In 1997, he wrote and directed his first feature film and
has since worked on a wide variety of film and television projects in China,
Greece, and the U.S. He has been an invited guest to several film festivals
around the world as a festival director, filmmaker, and occasional juror. He
currently directs the Petaluma Film Alliance, a nonprofit which operates a
weekly public cinematheque and produces the city’s annual film festival.
Mike’s insatiable
wanderlust has brought him to dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and
South America. He had the good fortune to teach in AIFS’s London program in
1999 and 2006 which he found to be a “truly transformative experience.” Now,
with his sights set on Paris, he is eager to help students explore France’s
rich tradition of motion picture production and criticism. Bienvenue à la cité
du cinéma!
David Danielson,
College of San Mateo
Coming soon!
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