Hamilton Lugar School
of Global and International Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-3699

Email:

akkent@indiana.edu

Department:

Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Amber is a Virginia Beach native. She holds a BA in English from Old Dominion University, dual MAs in TESOL & Applied Linguistics and Computational Linguistics from Indiana University, as well as a graduate certificate in Instructional Systems Technology from IU’s School of Education. As CeLCAR’s Language Instruction Specialist, she works with the language specialists to design and develop language learning curriculums and materials, collaborates with faculty on pedagogical research, designs and leads professional development workshops, coordinates the bi-annual Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL), and hosts the “On the Silkroad with CeLCAR” podcast.