Gerardo_Blanco

Gerardo L. Blanco

207B Campion Hall

140 Commonwealth Ave. Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467

gerardo.blanco@bc.edu

EDUCATION

Doctor of Education, 2013

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Educational Policy & Leadership: Higher Education

Master of Education, 2007

The University of Maine

Student Development in Higher Education

Bachelor of Arts (With Honors), 2005

Universidad de las Américas, Puebla (Mexico)

Educational Studies

APPOINTMENTS

Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)

Lynch School of Education & Human Development

Associate Professor of Educational Leadership & Higher Education (tenured), July 2020—

Academic Director, Center for International Higher Education, July 2020—

University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)

Neag School of Education

Associate Professor of Higher Education & Student Affairs (tenured), August 2019-June 2020

Assistant Professor of Higher Education & Student Affairs, August 2018-July 2019

Shaanxi Normal University (Xi’an, PR China).

Tin Ka Ping School of Education

Visiting Associate Professor (Summer), 2016-2019

University of Massachusetts Boston

College of Education & Human Development

Assistant Professor of Higher Education, September 2013-July 2018

AWARDS

2020 Best Research Article Award—Honorable Mention, Comparative & International

Education Society (CIES) Higher Education Special Interest Group

2017 Best Research Article Award, Comparative & International Education Society (CIES)

Higher Education Special Interest Group

2014 Best Dissertation Award—Honorable Mention,

Comparative & International Education Society (CIES)

Higher Education Special Interest Group

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FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS AWARDED

2021 Co-Principal investigator. “The Future of Internationalization Partnership.” $160,000

USD Partnership Development Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research

Council of Canada to facilitate collaboration among the Center for International Higher

Education, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the International

Association of Universities.

2021 Fulbright Specialist. Admitted to the Specialist roster for a 4-year tenure, with

assignment to the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana-Cali (Colombia) for “Learning

evaluation system and quality in higher education” project.

2020 Principal investigator. “Higher Education Forum for Africa, Asia, and Latin America.”

$150,000 USD award from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to organize and

academic conference.

2019 Principal investigator. “Promoting Global Dialogue in the Classroom: Listening, Respect,

and Cosmopolitanism.” $7,000 award from the University of Connecticut’s Thomas J.

Dodd Research Center to explore the potential of intergroup dialogue in the context of

global/international learning communities.

2017 Principal investigator. “Educational Reform and Inclusion in Vietnam and Thailand.”

$5,000 award from the UMass Boston Office of Global Programs to facilitate a study

tour of higher education institutions.

2017 Erasmus+ Teaching Fellowship. $8,000 to teach at the John Paul II Catholic University of

Lublin (Poland)

2015 Principal Investigator. “Enhancing Higher Education Quality in Bangladesh: An

Exploration of Institutional Responses to New Policy Developments” $5,000 award from

the UMass Boston College of Education & Human Development to collect data on higher

education policy in Bangladesh

2014 Principal investigator. “North-American Dynamics of Globalization in Higher Education:

Collaboration, Competition and Position Taking.” $4,000 Award from the UMass Boston

Office of Global Programs to collect data on accreditation practices in British Columbia,

Canada.

2012 New Scholars Dissertation Fellowship. $2,000 from the Comparative & International

Education Society (CIES)

2012 Principal Investigator. “U.S. Accreditation in Mexico Dissertation Research Grant.”

$2,000 Award from the UMass Amherst Graduate School & Department of Educational

Policy, Leadership & Administration to collect data on the implementation of US

accreditation in Mexico.

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Marshall, C., Rossman, G. B., & Blanco, G. L. (2021). Designing qualitative research, 7

Edition.

Los Angeles: SAGE.

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Wotipka, C. M., Anderson, E. W., Vanner, C., Kelly, K., Lukose, R., Takayama, K., Blanco, G. L.,

Webster, N., & Ohito, E. O. (2021). “Participation Does Not Equal Voice”: Gendered

Experiences in an Academic and Professional Society. Comparative Education

Review, 65(3), 534-554. https://doi.org/10.1086/714990

Buckner, E., Blanco, G. L., & Zhang, Y. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on International Student

Enrollments in North America: Comparing Canada and the United States. Higher

Education Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12365

Blanco, G. L. (2021). Global citizenship education as a pedagogy of dwelling: re-tracing

(mis)steps in practice during challenging times. Globalisation, Societies and Education,

19(4), 432-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.1899800

Colina, F. E., & Blanco, G. L. (2021). Accountability compliance, and student learning as

competing rationales for assessment: A case study of US Tuning in practice. Tertiary

Education and Management, 27(2), 129-142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11233-021-

09069-1

Luu, D. H., & Blanco, G. L. (2021). Exploring U.S. federal policy discourse on refugee access to

post-secondary education. Higher Education Policy, 34, 456-473.

https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-019-00144-2

Metcalfe, A. S., & Blanco, G. L. (2021). Love is Calling: Academic Friendship and International

Research Collaboration Amid a Global Pandemic. Emotion, Space and Society, 38, 1-4.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100763

Oleksiyenko, A., Blanco, G., Hayhoe, R., Jackson, L., Lee, J., Metcalfe, A., Sivasubramaniam, M.,

& Zha, Q. (2021). Comparative and international higher education in a new key?

Thoughts on the post-pandemic prospects of scholarship. Compare: A Journal of

Comparative and International Education, 51(4), 612-628.

https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1838121

Blanco, G. L., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2020). Visualizing quality: University online identities as

organizational performativity in higher education. Review of Higher Education, 43(3),

781-809. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2020.0007

Blanco, G. L., & Saunders, D. B. (2019). Giving account of our (mobile) selves: Embodied and

relational notions of academic privilege in the international classroom. Teaching in

Higher Education, 24(5), 666-677. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2019.1621281

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Luu, D. H. (2018). A qualitative exploration of US institutional

accreditation in three Canadian universities. Studies in Higher Education, 43(2), 989-

1001. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2016.1203891

George Mwangi, C. A., Latafat, S., Hammond, S., Kommers, S., Thoma, H. S., Berger, J. B., &

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2018). Criticality in international higher education research: A

critical discourse analysis of higher education journals. Higher Education, 76(6), 1091-

1107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0259-9

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Wells, R. E., Cuenca, R., Blanco Ramírez, G., & Delgado, J. (2018). Geographic mobility and social

Inequality among Peruvian university students. Higher Education, 75(3), 449-469.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-017-0149-6

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2017). Jean Baudrillard’s radical thinking, and its potential contribution to

the Sociology of Higher Education illustrated by debates about ‘world-class’ universities.

International Studies in Sociology of Education, 26(4), 337-352

https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2017.1322913

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2017). #Hashtivism as public discourse: Exploring online

student activism in response to state violence and forced disappearances in Mexico.

Research in Education, 97(1), 56-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523717714067

Franke, R. & Blanco Ramirez, G. (2017). Value for money and employability: Conceptualizing the

U.S. federal system of postsecondary institutions. Higher Education Policy, 30(3), 299-

317. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-016-0024-6

Saunders, D. B., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2017a). Against “Teaching Excellence”: Ideology,

Commodification, and Enabling the Neoliberalization of Postsecondary Education.

Teaching in Higher Education, 22(4), 396-407.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1301913

Saunders, D. B., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2017b). Resisting the neoliberalization of higher

education: A challenge to commonsensical understandings of commodities and

consumption. Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, 17(3), 189-196.

https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708616669529

Shahjahan, R. A., Blanco Ramírez, G., & Andreotti, V. (2017). Attempting to imagine the

unimaginable: A decolonial reading of global university rankings. Comparative Education

Review, 61(S1), 51-73. https://doi.org/10.1086/690457

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2016). Many choices, one destination: multimodal university brand

construction in an urban public transportation system. International Journal of

Qualitative Studies in Education, 29(2), 186-204.

https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2015.1023233

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Haque, M. J. (2016). Addressing quality challenges in the private

university sector in Bangladesh: from policy formulation to institutional implementation.

Quality in Higher Education, 22(2), 139-151.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2016.1198177

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2015a). International accreditation as global position taking: An empirical

exploration of U.S. accreditation in Mexico. Higher Education, 69(3), 361-374.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-014-9780-7

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2015b). Translating quality in higher education: The role of U.S. regional

accrediting agencies abroad. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 40(7), 943-

957. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2014.960361

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Blanco Ramírez, G. (2015c). U.S. accreditation in Mexico: Quality in higher education as symbol,

performance and translation. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education,

36(4), 329-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2013.871236

Blanco Ramírez, G. & Palu-ay, L. (2015). ‘You don’t look like your profile picture’: The politics

and ethics of researching online university identities. Educational Research &

Evaluation, 21(2), 139-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2015.1024009

Papadimitriou, A., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2015). Exploring advertising in higher education: An

empirical analysis in North America, Europe and East Asia. Tertiary Education and

Management, 21(2), 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2014.999702

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2014a). A world of brands: Higher education and the emergence of

multinational quality franchises. Quality in Higher Education, 20(2), 216-232.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2014.924787

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2014b). Trading quality across borders: Colonial discourse and international

accreditation in higher education. Tertiary Education and Management, 20(2), 121-134.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2014.896025

Blanco Ramírez, G. & Berger, J. B. (2014). Rankings, accreditation and the international quest for

quality: Organizing and approach to quality. Quality Assurance in Education, 22(1), 88-

104. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAE-07-2013-0031

Berger, J. B., Blanco Ramírez, G., & Hudson, K. E. (2014). Multi-layered cross-cultural challenges:

The case of a new American for-profit college in the Philippines. Journal of Further &

Higher Education, 38(5), 690-708. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2013.831034

Berger, J. B., Hudson, K. E., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2013). How universities work: Understanding

higher education management in Northwest China. Education Policy Analysis Archives

21(66), 1-21. http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/1350

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2013a). Learning abroad or just going abroad? International education in

opposite sides of the border. The Qualitative Report, 18(31), 1-11.

http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR18/ramirez62.pdf

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2013b). The global dimension of quality assurance in higher education.

International Journal of Technology and Educational Marketing 3(1), 15-27.

https://doi.org/10.4018/ijtem.2013010102

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2013c). Studying quality beyond technical rationality: Political and symbolic

perspectives. Quality in Higher Education 19(2), 126-141.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2013.774804

Peer-Reviewed Handbook Chapters

Mendoza, P., Blanco, G. L. (forthcoming). International and Comparative Research in Higher

Education: A Critical Review. In L. Cohen-Vogel, J. Scott & P. Youngs (Eds.), AERA

Handbook of Education Policy Research, Vol 2.

Metcalfe A.S., & Blanco G. L. (2019). Visual Research Methods for the Study of Higher Education

Organizations. In M. Paulsen & L. Perna (Eds.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory

and Research, vol 34. Dordrecht: Springer. doi: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03457-3_4

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Encyclopedia Entries

Metcalfe, A. S., Kumari, R., & Blanco, G. L. (forthcoming). Critical visual methodologies. In J.

Salvo & J. Ulmer (Eds.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Qualitative Methods.

Blanco, G. L. (2020). Accreditation. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education. San Francisco:

Sage.

Book Chapters

Blanco, G. L., Rumbley, L. E., & de Wit, J. W. M., (2021). Rankings and internationalization: An

unfortunate alliance. In E. Hazelkorn & G. Mihut (Eds.), Research Handbook on

University Rankings: History, Methodology, Influence and Impact (pp.137-149). Edward

Elgar.

Blanco, G. L., Zhao, B., & Ji, B. (in press). The Promise and Limits of Engaging International

Students through Living-Learning Communities in U.S. Research Universities. In M.

Mohamad & J. Boyd (Eds.), International Student Support and Engagement. Routledge

Blanco, G. L., & Mutthana, A. (2022). Looking for Hope Abroad: The New Global University

Beyond Neoliberalism. In S. Bengtsen & R. Gildersleeve (Eds.), The Transformation of the

University: New academic realities, new institutional hope. Routledge.

Blanco, G. L. (2021). Higher Education and The Enduring Value of Hospitality: Reflections for the

21st Century. In H. van’t Land, A. Corcoran & D. Iancu (Eds.), The Promise of Higher

Education: Essays in Honour of 70 Years of IAU (pp.175-179). Springer.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67245-4_27

Blanco, G. L. (2021). International Accreditation as Geopolitical Space: U.S. Practices

as “Global Standards” for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. In J. Lee (Ed.), U.S.

Power in International Higher Education. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Blanco, G. L., & Rossman, G. B. (2021). As a qualitative study unfolds: Shifts in design and

analysis. In Vanover, C., Mihas, P., & Saldaña, J. (Eds.), Analyzing and Interpreting

Qualitative Research: After the Interview (pp. 7-23). Los Angeles: Sage.

Blanco, G. L. (2020). Decolonizing voice and localizing method in comparative education. In C.

Manion, E. Anderson, S. Bailey, M. Call-Cummings, R. Iyengar, P. Shah & M. Witenstein

(Eds.), Interrogating and innovating comparative and international education:

Decolonizing practices for inclusive, safe spaces (pp.67-71). Rotterdam: Sense/Springer.

Madden, M., & Blanco, G. L. (2019). Orientations and trends in comparative and international

higher education. In A. W. Wiseman (Ed.), 2018 Annual Review of Comparative and

International Education (pp. 73-81). Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2017). Introduction: Mapping the global brandscape of higher education. In

A. Papadimitriou (Ed.), Competition in higher education branding and marketing:

National and global perspectives (pp. 1-12). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Papadimitriou, A., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2017). Conclusions and reflections on branding and

marketing in higher education. In A. Papadimitriou (Ed.), Competition in higher

education branding and marketing: National and global perspectives (pp. 239-247). New

York: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Berger, J. B., Blanco Ramírez, G. & Lyons, S. (2012). Past to present: A historical look at

retention. In A. Seidman (Ed.), College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success

(pp. 7-34). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Peer-Edited Scholarly Contributions

Blanco, G. L. (2021). El reto de adaptar los consorcios y las redes universitarias a la nueva

normalidad. Revista de Educación Superior en América Latina ESAL, 10, 43-46.

https://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/esal/article/view/14221/214421445443

Blanco, G. L., Altbach, P. G., & de Wit, J. W. M. (2020). Anti-Blackness and Racism in

International Higher Education. International Higher Education, 104, 3-4.

https://doi.org/10.36197/IHE.2020.104.01

Blanco, G. L., & de Wit, J. W. M. (2020). The Response of International Higher Education

Associations to COVID-19. International Higher Education, 102, 11-12.

https://doi.org/10.36197/IHE.2020.102.05

Book Reviews

Blanco, G. L. (2019). A review of “Quality assurance and institutional transformation: the

Chinese experience.” Higher Education Research and Development, 38(2), 426-433.

https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2018.1537963

Colina, F. E., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2018). A review of “Improving Quality in American Higher

Education.” Review of Higher Education, 42(1), E1-E4.

https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2018.0039

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2017). A review of “International Higher Education's Scholar-Practitioners:

Bridging research and practice.” Teachers College Record. Advanced online publication

available from: http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=21935

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2015). A review of “Higher education and sustainable development: A

model for curricular renewal”. Comparative Education Review, 59(1), 175-177.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2013). A review of “Universities and the public sphere: Knowledge creation

and state building in the era of globalization”. The Review of Higher Education, 37(1),

127-128.

Wells, R. S., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2011). A review of “Equal opportunity in higher education:

The past and future of California’s Proposition 209.” Equity and Excellence in Education

44 (4), 571-574.

Electronic Media

Blanco, G. L. (2021). The assault on private higher education must stop. University World News.

The assault on private higher education must stop.

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210716102543566

Blanco, G. L. (2021). Can university consortia and networks adapt to new normal? University

World News.

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210216075218665

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Blanco, G. L. (2020). International students and hostage taking. Critical Internationalization

Studies Network Blog. https://criticalinternationalization.net/2020/07/09/international-

students-and-hostage-taking/

Blanco, G. L. (2020). Trump has just made it harder to attract academic talent. University World

News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200703145123105

Blanco, G. L. (2020). From Open Doors to offering radical hospitality in HE. University World

News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200108122140888

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2016). La educación según Donald Trump: privatización, desregulación e

incertidumbre. Nexos. Distancia por Tiempos. https://educacion.nexos.com.mx/?p=381

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Keynotes, Invited Symposia & Plenary Panels

Blanco, G. L. (2021, November). Considerations on quality and international diversity for

promoting internationalization: research perspectives from East Asia and Latin America.

Keynote presented at the XXIX Annual Meeting of the Mexican Association for

International Education (AMPEI) [online]

Blanco, G. L. (2021, September). Internationalization of research: Structures, policies and

actions. Keynote presented at the U.S. Embassy of the United States in Peru’s Forum on

University Internationalization [online]

Blanco, G. L. (2021, July). Practices for the assurance of learning in a global context. Keynote

presented at the Fulbright Colombia Higher Education Forum [online]

Arroyo, A., & Blanco, G. L. (2020, November). International research and educational

cooperation. Keynote presented at the meeting of the Red de Universidades de Ecuador

y Colombia [Network of Universities from Ecuador and Colombia, online]

Blanco, G. L. (2020, November). From austerity to innovation: An international analysis of

responses to the pandemic. Keynote presented at the COVID-19 Education Summit,

Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico [online]

Blanco, G. L. (2020, April). Where are Students in the Global Quest for Quality? Re-centering

Success and Equity Priorities in Higher Education. Keynote presented at the Acacademic

Meeting “Innovative responses to the COVID-19 contingency.” Universidad de las

Américas Puebla, Cholula, Mexico [online]

Blanco, G. L. (2019, December). Impact of International Accreditation on Higher Education

Institutions. Keynote presented at the International Conference on Quality Assurance,

Standards and Policies, Higher Education Commission. Islamabad, Pakistan.

Blanco Ramirez, G. (2018, July). A Research perspective on Higher Education Quality as “Double

First Class” in Light of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Keynote presented at the Second

Forum on the Internationalization of Higher Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an,

China.

Adukia, A., Blanco Ramírez, G., Khoja-Moolji, S., Kidwai, H., Iyengar, R., & Witenstein, M. (2017,

October). Decolonizing Methodology by Invoking Local Voices. Plenary panel at the

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Second Fall Symposium of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES),

Arlington, VA.

Blanco Ramirez, G. (2017, July). Trends in the Internationalization of Higher Education:

Opportunities for Engagement. Keynote presented at the Forum on the

Internationalization of Higher Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China.

Berger, J. B., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2017, May). A values framework for higher education

development. Paper presented at the “Sustainable Development Goals for Higher

Education” Workshop of the Global Higher Education and Research (World Universities

Network), Amherst, MA.

Shahjahan, R. A., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2017, March). Attempting to imagine the unimaginable:

A decolonial reading of global university rankings. Paper presented in presidential

highlighted session of the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International

Education Society, Atlanta, GA.

Metcalfe, A. S., Blanco Ramírez, G., Eddy, P. L., & Tanner, M. J. (2016, November). Graduate

Education for the Global Good: Internationalizing the Higher Education Graduate

Program Curriculum. Invited Interactive Symposium conducted at the 2016 Annual

Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Columbus, OH.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2015, April). International perspectives on higher education accountability

and its impact on faculty work. In Neoliberalism and faculty life. Invited symposium

conducted at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research

Association.

Refereed Papers, Symposia and Roundtables

Blanco, G. L., Buckner, E., Denenberg, J., Kontelli, M., Zhang, Y., Gelashvili, M., Wang, L.,

Marroquín, A., & Marinoni, G. (2022). Higher Education Internationalization in a COVID-

affected World. Panel presented at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and

International Educaton Society (CIES).

Blanco, G. L., & Gottlieb, E. G. (2020, October). Deconstructing and reconstructing diversity and

cross-national learning: Engaged higher education. Workshop delivered at the AAC&U

Conference on Global Learning, Online.

Blanco, G. L., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2020, June). Internationalization as Fatal Strategy. Paper

presented at the Critical Internationalization Studies Network Conference, Spencer

Foundation-University of British Columbia [online].

Kai, R., & Blanco, G. L. (2020, April). You will want to be better in every aspect: A narrative

inquiry of tongzhi student identities in China. Paper presented at the Annual Conference

of the Comparative & International Education Society.

Blanco, G. L. (2020, April). Getting in the zone: The Empty Concept of Innovation Space

in Higher Education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Comparative &

International Education Society.

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Blanco, G. L. (2020, February). International-Comparative Education: Knowledge Production

Dynamics. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of International

Education Administrators, Washington, D.C.

Zhang, B., & Blanco, G. L. (2019, November). Exploring Mechanisms for Faculty Agency in the

Implementation of the “Double First-Class Initiative” in China. Paper presented at the

Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Portland, OR.

Shahjahan, R. A., & Blanco, G. L. (2019, April). Affect, geopolitics of knowledge and quality

assurance in higher education. Paper presented at the 63

Annual Conference of the

Comparative & International Education Society, San Francisco, CA.

Blanco, G. L. (2019, April). U.S. Accreditation as International Accreditation: Casting U.S.

Practices as Global Standards and "Best Practices" for Quality Assurance. Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association,

Toronto, Canada.

Castiello-Gutiérrez, S., & Blanco, G. L. (2018, November). Internationalization Through the Lens:

Depictions of Students’ Experiences Abroad. Round table presented at the Annual

Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Tampa, FL.

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2018, March). The spectacle of internationalization:

Unpacking North-South circulation of image capital in higher education. Paper

presented at the Annual Conference of the Comparative & International education

Society, Mexico City.

Wilczenski, F. L., Blanco Ramírez, G., Berger, J. B., & Rozwadoska-Shah, S. (2018, March).

Internationalizing the graduate curriculum: South-North engagement through short-

term study tours. Workshop presented at the Annual Conference of the Comparative &

International education Society, Mexico City.

Metcalfe, A. S., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2017, May). Internationalization as spectacle: Globalized

universities and the accumulation of image capital. Paper presented at the International

Conference on Cultural Studies and Education, Vancouver, B.C.

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Gottlieb, E. (2017, March). Exploring comparative perspectives on higher

education internationalization: Reproblematizing global competencies. Workshop

conducted at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education

Society, Atlanta, GA.

Blanco Ramírez, G. & Haque, H. M. J. (2017, March). Multidimensional challenges for higher

education quality assurance in Bangladesh. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of

the Comparative and International Education Society, Atlanta, GA.

Blanco Ramírez, G. & Metcalfe, A. S. (2017, March). Images of internationalization: Promoting

the global university. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and

International Education Society, Atlanta, GA.

Blanco Ramírez, G. & Metcalfe, A. S. (2016, November). #Hashtivism as public discourse:

Exploring online activism in response to State violence and forced disappearances in

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Mexico. Paper presented at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Association for the

Study of Higher Education, Columbus, OH.

Colina, F. E., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2016, November). Assessment for Accreditation and

Assessment for Student Learning: Exploring Faculty and Administration Roles in Three

Organizational Contexts. Paper presented at the 2016 Annual Conference of the

Association for the Study of Higher Education, Columbus, OH.

Blanco Ramírez, G. & Metcalfe, A. S. (2016, April). Visualizing Quality: University Online

Identities as

Organizational Performativity in Higher Education. Paper presented at the Annual

Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.

Saunders, D. B., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2016, April). Theorizing commodities and consumption in

higher education through the exploration of rankings. Roundtable presented at the

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.

Wells, R., Cuenca, R., Blanco Ramírez, G., & Aragón, J. (2016, April). Geographic Mobility and

Social Inequality among Peruvian University Students. Paper presented at the Annual

Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2016, March). Internationalization and Quality Assurance in Three Canadian

Universities Seeking US Accreditation. Paper presented at the annual conference of the

Comparative and International Education Society, Vancouver, BC.

Shahjahan, R. A., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2016, March). Representing higher education:

Unpacking Global university rankings media. Paper presented at the annual conference

of the Comparative and International Education Society, Vancouver, BC.

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Luu, D. H. (2015, November). “They want American accreditation; they

want the gold seal of approval”: An exploration of US accreditation in two Canadian

universities. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for the Study

of Higher Education, Denver, CO.

Blanco Ramírez, G. & Palu-ay, L. (2015, November). University branding as assemblage and

collage. In Exploring Posthumanism in Higher Education: Methods, Contexts, and

Implications. Interactive symposium presented at the annual conference of the

Association for the Study of Higher Education, Denver, CO.

Blanco Ramirez, G. (2015, May). University branding as posthuman racial assemblage. In

Posthumanism in higher education. Symposium conducted at the 11

Congress of

Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

Franke, R., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2015, April). Quality, Value and Justice in Higher Education:

Engaging the Postsecondary Institutions Rating System. Paper presented at the 2015

AERA Annual Meeting.

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Rallis, S. F. (2015, March). Expanding notions of evidence: Exploring

paradigmatic positionality for qualitative research & evaluation in international

contexts. Workshop presented at the annual conference of the Comparative and

International Education Society, Washington, DC.

CV Gerardo L Blanco

Hudson, K. E., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2015, March). Developing faculty for international

collaboration in higher education. Paper presented at the annual conference of the

Comparative and International Education Society, Washington, DC.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2014, November). Mapping the global brandscape of higher education. In

Higher education branding in a context of global competition. Symposium conducted at

the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education,

Washington, DC.

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Franke, R. (2014, November). Value for money, revisited: Conceptualizing

the postsecondary institutions rating system. Paper presented at the annual conference

of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Washington, DC.

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Papadimitriou, A. (2014, November). Branding hubs in higher education:

An empirical analysis in North America, Europe and Japan. Paper presented at the

Council for International Higher Education Forum of the annual meeting of the

Association for the Study of Higher Education, Washington, DC.

Palu-ay, L., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2014, November). Representing diversity in college and

university identities: Implications for ethical research and practice. Round table

conducted at the Council for Ethnic Participation pre-conference of the annual meeting

of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Washington, DC.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2014, March). Multimodal semiotic analysis and compressed ethnography.

In G. Rossman (Chair), From time-space compression to compressed ethnography in

international education. Symposium conducted at the 58th annual conference of the

Comparative & International Education Society, Toronto, ON.

Hudson, K. E., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2014, March). Collaboration and agency in higher

education partnerships. Paper presented at the 58th annual conference of the

Comparative & International Education Society, Toronto, ON.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2013, November). U.S. institutional accreditation in Mexico: Exploring cross

border quality assurance in higher education. Paper presented at the annual conference

of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, St. Louis, MO.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2013, November). Translating quality in higher education: The role of U.S.

regional accrediting agencies abroad. Paper presented at the Council for International

Higher Education Forum of the annual conference of the Association for the Study of

Higher Education, St. Louis, MO.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2013, March). Implementing international accreditation in Mexico: A critical

view. In S. Kamat (Chair), Can the local trump the global? Rankings and Classifications:

How do they work and for whom? Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the

Comparative and International Education Society, New Orleans, LA.

Blanco Ramírez, G. & Berger, J. B. (2012, November). Rankings, Accreditation and the

International Quest for Quality. Paper presented at the annual conference of the

Association for the Study of Higher Education, Las Vegas, NV.

CV Gerardo L Blanco

Blanco Ramírez, G. & Berger, G. (2011, April). American Accreditation of Institutions of Higher

Learning in the Global South: From Quality Management to Postcolonial Critique. Paper

presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education

Society, San Juan, PR.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2011, April). American Institutional Accreditation in the Mexican Higher

Education System. Paper presented at the New Scholars Dissertation Workshop of the

56th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, San Juan,

PR.

Hudson, K. E., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2011, November). Collaboration and Agency in

International Partnerships in Higher Education. Paper presented at the annual meeting

of the association for the Study of Higher Education, Charlotte, NC.

Blanco Ramírez, G., & Luu, D. H. (2011, March). Queer Students and Educators of Color in Search

for Purpose. Program presented at the annual conference of Student Affairs

Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA), Philadelphia, PA.

Berger, J. B., Barnes, B. J., & Blanco Ramírez, G. (2010). Multi-layered Cross-cultural Challenges:

The Case of a New American for-profit College in the Philippines. Paper presented at the

annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Indianapolis, IN.

Conference Discussant

Blanco, G. L. (2020, November). Comparative Perspectives on Competition and Institutional

Variation: East Asia. Discussant, panel presented at the Annual Meeting of the

Association for the Study of Higher Education, Online.

Blanco, G. L. (2019, April). Global Perspectives on Access to Postsecondary Education for

Underserved Students. Discussant, panel presented at the Annual Meeting of the

American Educational Research Association. Toronto, Canada.

Blanco, G. L. (2018, November). Critical Studies of Power, Inequality, and Unintended

Consequences: The Hidden Side of Internationalization in the Academy. Discussant, panel

presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education,

Tampa, FL.

Blanco, G. L. (2018, November). New Methodological Paths in Comparative Higher Education.

Discussant, panel presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of

Higher Education, Tampa, FL.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2018, April). International Perspectives on Rankings and Higher Education

Quality Assurance. Discussant, panel presented at the Annual Meeting of the American

Research Association, New York, NY.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2016, April). Internationalization and International Contexts: Implications

for Reform, Partnership, and Leadership Efforts. Discussant, panel presented at the

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2015, November). Global connections between academe and the private

sector. Discussant, panel presented at the annual conference of the Association for the

Study of Higher Education, Denver, CO.

CV Gerardo L Blanco

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2015, March). Modes of knowledge production: Training students.

Discussant, panel presented at the annual conference of the Comparative and

International Education Society, Washington, DC.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2014, November). Factors and conditions that impact globalization.

Discussant, panel presented at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of

Higher Education, Washington, DC.

Blanco Ramírez, G. (2013, November). Comparative and cross-cultural perspectives on

academia. Discussant, panel presented at the annual conference of the Association for

the Study of Higher Education, St. Louis, MO.

TEACHING

Boston College

ELHE 7602 Special Topics: Global Perspectives on Quality of Higher Education (Fall 2021)

ELHE 7603 Internationalization of Higher Education (Spring 2021; 2022)

ELHE 7805 Global perspectives on Student Affairs (Spring 2021)

ELHE 7903 Applying Research in International Higher Education (Fall 2020; 2021)

ELHE 8203 Social Justice and the Foundations of Higher Education (Fall 2021)

University of Connecticut

EDLR 5102 Assessment, Evaluation, and Research in Student Affairs I (Fall 2018; 2019)

EDLR 5103 Assessment, Evaluation, and Research in Student Affairs II (Spring 2019; 2020)

EDLR 5118 Seminar in Higher Education (Spring 2019)

EDLR 5099 Ind. Study: Assessment & Evaluation Teaching Experience

Global Education & Engagement in Higher Education

UNIV 1810 Learning Community Seminar: Global House (Fall 2019)

UNIV 3820 Advanced Learning Community Seminar: Global House (Fall 2019)

University of Massachusetts Boston

HIGHED 624 Globalization & Internationalization in Higher Education (Summer 2016, 2017)

HIGHED 636 Sociological Perspectives in Higher Education (Fall 2015; 2017)

HIGHED 641 Effecting Change in Higher Education (Spring 2018)

HIGHED 752 Qualitative Research in Higher Education (Fall 2014, Spring 2014, 2016, 2017,

2018)

HIGHED 793 Research Seminar on the Qualifying Paper Proposal (Summer 2015, 2016; 2018)

HIGHED 891 Dissertation Seminar I (Fall 2014, 2015, 2016)

HIGHED 696 Ind. Study: Higher Education & Critical Social Theories

Ind. Study: Grounded theory in Higher Education Research

Ind. Study: Phenomenological Approaches in Education Research

Ind. Study: Software Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis

Ind. Study: Critical Discourse Analysis

Shaanxi Normal University

Visualization and Text Analysis in Education Research (Summer 2019)

North American Perspectives on Globalization of Higher Education (Summer 2017)

CV Gerardo L Blanco

Software-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (Summer 2016; 2018)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Assistant for:

EDUC 619: Introduction to Qualitative Research

EDUC 621: Higher Education Management

EDUC 634: Strategies for Institutional Change

EDUC 643: Master’s Seminar in Higher Education

EDUC 739: Introduction to Inquiry

DISSERTATION ADVISING & SUPERVISION

Dissertation Chair

Kelley, E. (2019). Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, and Questioning Women Student

Athletes. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Massachusetts Boston.

Williams, S. (2019). The Lived Experiences of First-Generation College Students.

in Leadership Development Programs. (Doctoral dissertation). University of

Massachusetts Boston.

Colina, F. E. (2018). Institutional Use of Assessment: Improving Linkages to Student Learning

Outcomes. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Massachusetts Boston.

Simmons, D. (2016). To Go Where Neither Parent Has Gone Before: The Experiences of First-

Generation Students in Doctoral Programs. (Doctoral dissertation). University of

Massachusetts Boston.

Dissertation Committee Member

Salsedo-Surovov, A. (2022). How Adults Learn to be Philanthropic: A Basic Interpretive Study of

Major Donors to Higher Education. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Connecticut.

Drew, J. (2018). Two Roads Diverged—Understanding the Experience of First-Generation and

Low-Income Students that Chose Different Paths in Pursuit of a Baccalaureate Degree.

(Doctoral dissertation). University of Massachusetts Boston.

Golden, K. M. (2018). Through Their Voices: The Influence of Gender Roles and Student

Subcultures on Sexual Assault. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Massachusetts

Boston.

Perkins, A. G. (2018). Unescorted Guests: Yale’s First Women Undergraduates and the Quest for

Equity, 1969-1973. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Massachusetts Boston.

Perry, B. R. (2018). A Comparative Case Study of Co-Curricular a Portfolio and Transcript.

(Doctoral dissertation). University of Massachusetts Boston.

Poloma, A. (2017). Querying the Intersections and Contradictions Between Academic Capitalism

and the Public Good in U.S. Higher Education: A Grounded Theory Study of University

Internationalization Strategies. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Massachusetts

Boston.

CV Gerardo L Blanco

Palu-ay, L. (2016). A Portraiture of Cultural Identity Among Students of Color at Institutes of Art

and Design: A Postcolonial and Critical Race Theory Study. (Doctoral dissertation).

University of Massachusetts Boston.

Sangang, A. M. (2016). Addressing graduate employability in Sub-Saharan Africa: an exploratory

case study of Cameroon. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Massachusetts Boston.

Chouinard, P. (2016). Borderlands and bridges: Mexican Youth Education and Identity. (Doctoral

dissertation). University of Massachusetts Boston.

External Examiner

Hernandez, G. L. (2021). Mobile bodies of color: Racial ethnic, and national exclusion/inclusion

in international higher education. (Doctoral dissertation). Università della Svizzera

Italiana (Switzerland).

Sen, V. (2020). Captive subjects? Higher education and social mobility in postcolonial Cambodia.

(Doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia (Canada).

Haapakoski, J. (2020). Market exclusions and false inclusions: mapping obstacles for more

ethical approaches in internationalization of higher education. (Doctoral dissertation).

University of Oulu (Finland).

Rahman, T. (2019). A Study of a World Bank Project (HEQEP) on Higher Education in

Bangladesh. University of Queensland (Australia).

Worku, A. (2016). Organizational Change Implementation in Public Universities in Ethiopia.

(Doctoral dissertation). Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).

Mamo, D. (2017). Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness of HEIs of Ethiopia: The

Mediating Effect of Culture. (Doctoral dissertation). Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).

SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Advisory Boards

Inter-American Organization of Higher Education (OUI-IOHE) 2022-present

International Association of Universities (IAU) Internationalisation 2022-present

Survey

Universidad de las Américas Puebla Department of Pedagogy 2021-present

University Committees

Boston College

Global Engagement Committee 2021-present

University of Connecticut

Education Abroad Advisory Committee 2019-2020

Graduate Faculty Council 2018-2020

University of Massachusetts Boston

CV Gerardo L Blanco

Institute for International and Comparative Education 2014-2018

Administrative Review Committee: Vice Provost & Director 2016

Office of Global Programs

School Committees

University of Connecticut

Faculty Council 2019-present

University of Massachusetts Boston

Academic Affairs and Curriculum Committee 2014-2018

College Senate 2014

Department Committees

University of Connecticut

Promotion, Tenure, and Reappointment Committee 2019-present

Higher Education & Student Affairs Admission Committee 2018-present

University of Massachusetts Boston

Higher Education Program Admission Committee 2013-2018

Search Committees

University of Connecticut

Assistant Director, Rainbow Center 2019

University of Massachusetts Boston

Assistant Professor of Higher Education 2017-2018

Dean, College of Education & Human Development 2016-2017

Assistant Professor of Global Inclusion & Social Development 2016-2017

Assistant Professor of Educational Administration 2015-2016

Director for Assessment, Accreditation, and Licensure 2015-2016

Assistant Dean for Assessment, Accreditation, and Planning 2015

Assistant Professor of Leadership in Urban Schools 2014-2015

Activities in Scholarly Societies

Open Society Foundations 2019

Civil Society Scholar Awards Selection Committee Member

Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2017-present

Higher Education SIG, Co-Chairperson

Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 2014-2018

Council for International Higher Education, Communications Coordinator

Editorial Service

International Higher Education 2020–

Associate Editor

Comparative Education Review 2017-2020

Book & Media Editor

Quality in Higher Education 2019-present

Editorial Board Member

CV Gerardo L Blanco

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education 2018-present

Editorial Advisory Board Member

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education 2017-present

Editorial Board Member (Ex officio)

Conference Program Committees

Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 2019-2020

Council for International Higher Education Pre Conference Chair

Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 2018-2019

Section 7: International Higher Education Co-Chair

American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2016-2019

Division J: Postsecondary Education

Section 3: Leadership, Management, and Organization Co-Chair

Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2014-2017

Higher Education Special Interest Group Program Co-Chair

Mentoring

Institute of International Education, Scholar Rescue Fund 2019-present

Partnership for Scholar Advancement (PSA) Mentor

Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 2015; 2016

Council for International Higher Education, Faculty Mentor

Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2015

New Scholars Publishing Program Mentor

Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2013; 2014; 2017

New Scholars Dissertation Mentor

Five College Intergroup Dialogue Initiative 2009-2011

Facilitator and Trainer

Manuscript Reviewer

Studies in Higher Education (Taylor & Francis) 2014-present

Higher Education (Springer) 2014-present

Review of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press) 2016-present

Quality Assurance in Education (Emerald) 2015-present

Comparative Education Review (University of Chicago Press) 2014-2017

Conference Proposal Reviewer

Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 2012-present

Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) 2013-present

CONSULTING

American Council on Education (USA)

Learner Success Lab Advisor, 2021-present

• Serve as a consultant to CETYS University (Mexico)

CV Gerardo L Blanco

• Support LSL and other ACE transformation laboratories

Higher Education Commission (Islamabad, Pakistan)

External Advisor, 2019

• Advised the Commission on the improvement of the accreditation system

• Advised the Commission on the risks of developing a ranking system of Pakistani

universities.

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (Dhaka)

External Consultant for Faculty Development, 2014-2019

• Develop and facilitate faculty development workshops on active learning, faculty

research and higher education internationalization

• Assist in the ongoing development of faculty development initiatives

Universidade Tiradentes (Aracaju, Brazil)

External Consultant for Faculty Development, 2019

• Developed and delivered faculty development workshops on active and service learning

for 40 faculty members from 3 campuses

Talloires Network (Tufts University)

Consultant/Learning Partner, 2016-2018

• Assisted in developing insights from Youth Economic Participation Initiative (YEPI) and

University Education for Transformative Leadership in Africa (UETLA) into research

findings and publications.

• Collaborated with the Talloires Network secretariat in multiple initiatives

Salvadoran Foundation for Economic & Social Development (San Salvador)

External Consultant/Trainer, 2012

• Facilitated a three-day workshop on qualitative research methods

• Consulted on the design and implementation of several ongoing research projects by

the foundation.

EXPERIENCE

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Graduate Research Assistant, 2011-2013

School of Education, Office of Research & Engagement

Residence Director, 2007-2011

Division of Student Affairs, Residence Life Department

University of Maine

Resident Director, 2005-2007

Housing & Residence Life

Graduate Intern for Multicultural Programs & ALANA Center, 2006

Division of Student Affairs