ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the question of how undergraduate research during study abroad supports the development of global citizenship. Building in students the capacity to understand and appropriately conduct research is one of the goals of a high-quality undergraduate education. Providing study abroad students with opportunities to further engage their research interests to learn deeply about an aspect of a foreign culture-whether the investigation deals with a historical matter or is concerned with present-day issues, or the methodology is archival, fi eld-based, or observation-driven-is a fundamental way of developing the skills we can broadly ascribe to global citizenship. Students who have meaningful learning experiences gain the tools of wider knowledge and greater cultural understanding that after a study abroad experience can translate into active civil engagement. When carefully prepared, guided, and focused research is undertaken it augments the important personal and academic development that takes place during study abroad and allows students to engage in a form of intellectual activity that can promote the broad goals of civic education: open-mindedness, critical thinking, and the willingness to constructively advance society and its diverse membership. This kind of global citizenship is fostered in study abroad generally but made explicit through research abroad.
