David B. Austell

David B. Austell, Ph.D., is Associate Provost and Executive Director of the International Students and Scholars Office at Columbia University where he is also an Associate Professor (adjunct) of International Education in Teachers College-Columbia University. David has undergraduate and graduate degrees in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Higher Education, focusing on International Education. His doctoral dissertation, "The Birds in the Rich Forest," concerned Chinese students in the United States during the Student Democracy Movement. He is also a musician and poet, and his third book, "The Tin Man" regarding the life of St. Joseph of Arimathea (with Introduction by The Very Reverend Dr. Robert Willis, Dean of Canterbury Cathedral), was published by Nirala Press in April 2018.