Dr. Shuhan Wang
Deputy Director, NFLC
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Dr. Shuhan C. Wang is deputy director for the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Joint National Committee for Languages, the Editorial Board of Foreign Language Annals of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and the Leadership Team of the Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages. From 2006 to 2009, Dr. Wang served as the Executive Director for Chinese Language Initiatives at the Asia Society; and from 1998 to 2006, she was Education Associate for World Languages and International Education for the Delaware Department of Education. Her collaborative efforts led Delaware to win the prestigious Goldman Sachs Award for Excellence in International Education in 2005. For eight years, from 1998 to 2006, she was the director of the Summer Institute for Chinese Language Teachers at the University of Pennsylvania. For more than 25 years, she has been actively involved in field-building for the Chinese heritage language community schools in the United States. She is currently co-principal investigator for STARTALK, a multiyear federally funded initiative that promotes the study and teaching of critical languages. As co-principal investigator, Dr. Wang and the STARTALK team are leading the effort to enhance the foreign language capacity of the United States.
Dr. Wang holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the National Taiwan University, an MA in Communication from the Ohio State University, and another MA in Bilingualism/Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Delaware. She received her PhD in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. |