Gerald Fry
Editor’s Note: Gerry’s list of teaching assignments displays an extraordinary range of experiences. He has taught at every level from pre-school to graduate school to alumni programs and in many international locations. If you read Gerry’s “My Life as a Sports-Nut” stories on this site, you know that he is still a prodigious learner as well as a prolific teacher and researcher.
Preparing for Teaching
BA Stanford University, major: economics; minors, German and math
MPA Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, applied economics
Ph.D. Stanford, interdisciplinary doctorate in international development education, Ph.D minor: sociology
Early Teaching, 1966-74
Summer, 1966 Practice teaching in pre-school on the Big Island of Hawai’i as part of Peace Corps training
1966-7 Teaching public administration and technical English at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand (Peace Corps)
1967-8 Teaching public administration and technical English at the National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand (Peace Corps)
1967 Teaching English to Buddhist monks at Wat Bouwaniwet, to prepare them for study in India and to officials of Thailand’s Ministry of Interior, to prepare them for overseas study
1969 Teaching at a coaching school, Kanchanathep, to prepare Thai students for taking the TOEFL test
1969-72 Lecturer in international development, University of Oregon
1972-4 Teaching assistant, Stanford University
1973-4 Training Volunteers in Asia, Stanford University
Professor, University of Oregon and in Southeast Asia, 1980-2000
1980-2000 Political science professor teaching primarily International and Asian Studies at the University of Oregon
1986 Teaching comparative politics at Mahidol University, Thailand
1994 Teaching business at Kasetsart University, Thailand
1994-5 Doing training at the National University of Laos (NUOL)
1993-00 Teaching students on summer research programs from Chiang Mai University , NUOL, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Nihon Fukushi University, Japan
January, 2000 Teaching at Van Lang University, Saigon, Vietnam
Professor, University of Minnesota, 2000-Present
2000-present Teaching at the College of Education and Human Development, U of Minnesota
2000-10 Teaching Stanford alumni on study tours to Southeast Asia
2006-07 Teaching at Nagoya University, Japan
2008 Demonstration, pre-school teaching in Northeast Thailand
2018-19 Teaching at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Read more about Gerry’s teaching experiences in these stories: My Life as a Sports-Nut: Student Athlete, My Life as a Sports-Nut: My Professional Life; My Life as a Sports-Nut: International Professor.
