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Eric's Blog

Summer 2008 - Community Development in Tanzania

Amizade Faculty Instructors

Name: Eric Hartman

Faculty Biography: Eric Hartman, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of Amizade. Hartman has spent his career leveraging people's optimism and interests on behalf of positive community change. While completing his doctorate in Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, he co-founded the refugee tutoring organization Keep it Real.

Hartman has written for academic and popular publications, including  Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society through Service-Learning, International Service-Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Research (forthcoming),  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and  Transitions Abroad. He regularly updates his  Amizade travel blog as well. Hartman honed components of Amizade's curriculum as part of his doctoral research, and has presented that work on global citizenship and global service-learning as a consultant and at the American Political Science Association and International Service-Learning Research Conferences, among many others.

Proficient in Spanish, Hartman received Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships for Quichua and Quechua from Arizona State University and the University of Pittsburgh, respectively. He has taught service-learning courses and cooperated with community organizations in Bolivia, Ghana, Jamaica, Peru, and Tanzania. While his academic efforts indicate his commitment to the notion that the unexamined life is not worth living, he's also a strong proponent of the flipped phrase: the unlived life is not worth examining. Hartman is an avid runner, bicyclist, and hiker, and a voracious traveler and gourmand.