Dr. Kris Acheson earned a PhD in Intercultural Communication from Arizona State University in 2008. Before coming to Purdue University in 2016, she served as a faculty member in Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University for 7 years and was awarded a yearlong Fulbright Scholar grant from the U.S. State Department to research and teach in Honduras in 2015. At Purdue, Dr. Acheson now directs the Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research (CILMAR) and holds a courtesy faculty position in the Brian Lamb School of Communication. CILMAR's mission is to support intercultural development for everyone in the Purdue community. Led by Dr. Acheson, CILMAR's staff works with faculty and staff at Purdue to embed intercultural learning across the curriculum and to produce cutting-edge intercultural research. CILMAR’s flagship program is the science gateway of resources for interculturalists, the Intercultural Learning Hub (
www.hubicl.org). Dr. Acheson is a well-published scholar and a thought leader in the development and assessment of intercultural competence. One of her current projects is a culturally-responsive mentorship training program funded by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation.
