辛西娅·汤姆斯博士.D.

辛西娅·汤姆斯博士.D., is Professor of Global Studies and Kinesiology at Westmont College. She teaches courses in the area of food systems, 全球健康, 运动社会学, global studies and special populations. Dr. Toms also directs Westmont's Global Health in Uganda Semester program and co-advises Westmont's global studies fellows program and minor.

During the academic year 2022-2023, Dr. Toms is undertaking a Sabbatical Fellowship with the Hope Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she will be furthering her reSearch on food security as it relates to social determinants of health and the human spirit.

在来韦斯特蒙之前, she held posts at the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame; Uganda Studies Program in Mukono, Uganda; at Peking University and Huija Private College in Beijing, 中国.  Since coming to Santa Barbara in 2013, she has partnered with the Food Bank of Santa Barbara to reSearch food security, 和她的学生一起, on the Westside of Santa Barbara.

Dr. Toms serves on the Board of Child Family Health International, Santa Barbara Alliance for Community Transformation (SBACT), and the steering committee for The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative.  Dr. Toms' dissertation entitled "Global Development Through International Volunteerism and Service-Learning: Who's Saving Whom?" was awarded Dissertation of the Year by both the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) and the International Association for 研究 in Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE).  She was awarded teacher of the year in 2019 and elected to Messiah University's Athletic Hall of Honor in 2018.  As an avid equestrian eventer and foxhunter, she also volunteers as co-District Commissioner for the local US Pony Club chapter.  She resides with her husband and three sons in Santa Barbara, California.

最近的出版物

汤姆斯,C. (2018). "From Homemaking to Solidarity: Global Engagement as Common Good in an Age of Global Populism." Christian Higher Education, (卷. 17, 1-2).

湖,B., & 汤姆斯,C. (2018). "Global service-learning in institutions of higher education: concerns from a community of practice." Globalisation, Societies, and Education, (卷. 16, I).

麦克米兰J.莫里斯-帕里斯，C.选项B., & 汤姆斯,C. (2018). “公平贸易学习” Global Health Experiential Education from Theory to Practice, (Arya & 翻转,eds.). 劳特利奇出版社.

Kollman P., & 汤姆斯,C. (2018). Understanding World Christianity: Eastern Africa. 堡垒机.

麦金农T., 汤姆斯,C., & 翻转,J. (2017). "Service-Learning as a Framework for Competency-Based Local/Global Health Education." Annals of Global Health, (卷. 82, 6, 1034-1042).

汤姆斯,C. (2015). "The Economic Circle: Impacts of Volunteering and Service-Learning on Three Rural Communities in Costa Rica" in Larsen (Ed.), International Service-Learning: Engaging Host Communities. 劳特利奇出版社.

哈特曼,E.B., 汤姆斯,C., & 雷诺兹,N. (2015). "Assessing Intercultural Capacities, Community Health  Engagement, and Critical Thinking: The Global Engagement Survey. Frieman J.哈弗凯特，V.B.Park, R。.斯卡尔德，M., Eds.), Going Glocal: The theory, practice, evaluation, and experience of education for global citizenship. Amsterdam: Drukkerii Publishing.

鲍曼,N., & 汤姆斯,C. (2013). "The forgotten minority: examining religious affiliation and university satisfaction." Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning， v65 n6页. 745-760.

Rennick L., 汤姆斯,C.费雪，E.华莱士，E., & 金,Y. (2013). "The Effects of Spiritual/Religious Engagement on College Students' Affective 结果: Differences by Gender and Race." Journal of 研究 on Christian Higher Education. 22 (3), pp. 301-322.

汤姆斯,C. (2012). "In Partnership with Communities: Spiritual Formation and Cross-Cultural Immersion" in Reed, R. & 鲍尔泽C. (Eds.), Building a Culture of Faith: University-wide Partnerships for Spiritual Formation (pp. 233-247). ACU Press, Abilene, Texas.

摩根,R. & 汤姆斯,C.(Eds.) (2010). Transformations at the Edge of the World: Forming Global Christians through the Study Abroad Experience. ACU Press, Abilene, Texas.