Vice President and Associate Provost for Internationalization
J. Nicholas Entrikin
J. Nicholas Entrikin was appointed Notre Dame’s first vice president and associate provost for internationalization in July 2010. His professorial appointment is in the Department of Sociology. In his new role, Entrikin will provide oversight to international institutes and programming at Notre Dame including the Kroc, Kellogg, Keough-Naughton, and Nanovic institutes, the Office of International Studies (OIS), and the Office of International Student Services and Activities (ISSA). In addition, he will lead efforts to develop international strategic partnerships with foreign universities and research organizations and consult on issues of international admissions, alumni relations, and development.
Prior to his arrival at Notre Dame, Entrikin was vice provost of international studies at UCLA. During his tenure as vice provost he reorganized UCLA’s International Institute into a university-wide organization with an expanded mission as the foreign affairs office for the university. This change placed the vice provost in the role of setting international priorities for the university. In 2009-10 he oversaw the development of UCLA’s first joint international research institute, the UCLA-Peking University Joint Research Institute in Science and Technology.
Entrikin was a member of the UCLA Geography Department, for which he served five years as chair. He also had faculty affiliations with the Institute of the Environment and the International Institute, where he served as chair for the first two years of the Global Studies major. His research is in the area of cultural geography, more specifically, the modern significance of place and landscape, which has included studies of the rise of modern environmentalism, political and cultural conflict over space and territory, and the cultural trauma of place destruction through natural disaster. He is the author of The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity (1991), and the editor or co-editor of Reflections on Richard Hartshorne’s The Nature of Geography (1989), The Marshall Plan Today: Model and Metaphor (2004), Regions: Critical Essays in Human Geography (2008), and Envisioning Landscapes; Making Worlds (forthcoming). His numerous journal articles and book chapters have appeared in both English- and French-language publications. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, visiting director of research with CNRS, and a faculty fellow at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. The Association of American Geographers has recently chosen Entrikin as the discipline’s representative to the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
His community activities in the Los Angeles area included the creation of the UCLA History-Geography Project (UCLA-HGP). As the founding director in the early 1990s, Entrikin worked with a team of academics and K-12 teachers to build a community of educators in history, geography, and the social sciences working together for curricular reform in Los Angeles-area schools. In his capacity as director, Entrikin served as the principal investigator for a Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant from the US Department of Education that supported work with teachers in the lowest performing public high schools of the south-central district of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
