Getting our survey out:  exploratory research Aid Worker Voices:  Survey Results and Commentary I’ll start with some very deep and reflexive background.  In 2000 I published a book that was used by colleagues here at my university in a required course by the same name, Understanding the Global Experience.  When I was asked to teach one section of the pilot for this course in 1994 I used that moment to begin taking a deep interest in global affairs.  I recall reading Benjamin Barber’s The Atlantic article Jihad vs McWorld and being immediately absorbed by the vague (or is that vacuous?) concept of global citizenship.  My interest in all things global only accelerated from there.  As past President of the Association for Humanist Sociology my attention regarding social justice issues was already advanced. In 2003 I founded a program at my university designed to offer a three year pathway for students who wanted to … Continue reading Getting our survey out: exploratory research