Noel Habashy

Educator | Researcher | Practitioner

About me

I am an educator who is committed to the holistic development of students and communities locally and around the globe.  Over my twenty-year career in international development, international education, and higher education, I have lived in five countries and worked in or traveled to over thirty others.  Currently, I am an associate teaching professor at The Pennsylvania State University (University Park, Pennsylvania, USA). In this role, I teach undergraduate classes related to international agriculture and development and coordinate the International Agriculture undergraduate minor.

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Educator

I have the tremendous privilege of working with and learning alongside some amazing young people everyday. I seek to further their perspectives on life around the globe in order to challenge, empower, and develop how they view the world around them. Click here to read more about my teaching philosophy.

The core classes I teach are:

Learn more about the International Agriculture minor at Penn State University:

Research

My research interests include:

  • Community perspectives of community-engaged education abroad programs
  • International Development
  • Food security
  • Global North-Global South partnerships
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

To learn more about my research, visit me at ResearchGate, Google Scholar, or ORCID.

Recent publications

  • Habashy, N., Webster, N. & Hunt, C. (2024) Decolonizing or Re-colonizing? Community members’ perspectives of global service learning programs. World Development Sustainability. 5(2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100190

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