Amizade Faculty Instructors

Name: Eric Hartman

Faculty Biography: Eric Hartman is the Executive Director of Amizade Global Service-Learning. He first got involved with service-learning as an undergraduate, when he thought one of his political science classes was unnecessarily boring and proposed that the class be organized around cooperating with a community organization to address local issues. That proposal didn’t come to fruition, but it got him connected to a set of opportunities. Eric is currently finishing his dissertation on global service-learning methodology and outcomes at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

He has presented on global citizenship and global service-learning several times each at American Political Science Association and International Service-Learning Research Conferences. He served as lead author on a chapter contribution to Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society through Service-Learning and has published articles on service and citizenship for Transitions Abroad and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Eric has taught global service-learning courses for the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia University in Bolivia, Jamaica, Pittsburgh, Peru, and Tanzania. Eric is originally from the way-outskirts of a small town called Delta, Pennsylvania, and he can be found jogging and hiking anywhere and everywhere he lives, works, or temporarily stays. He speaks Spanish, a bit of Quechua, and is desperately hoping to improve upon his Kiswahili.