 Study Abroad Advisor & Instructor Ruth earned her BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University in 1999. Through her program at Vanderbilt she studied abroad for a semester in 1998 in Santiago, Chile. She moved to Mississippi to work in the Teacher Corps and receive her MA in Education in 2001. She followed that degree in 2003 with a second MA, this time in Spanish, from The University of Mississippi. |
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Passport stamps
Chile, Costa Rica, Spain, Mexico, South Africa, Ecuador, Tanzania, UK, South Korea, Argentina, Portugal, Jamaica, Honduras, Ireland, Italy
Advising areas
Latin America, Spain and incoming exchange students
My favorite place in the world is …
The mountains of Monteverde, Costa Rica –OR-- the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Aisle, window, or middle seat?
Window. I hate the idea of waking up and realizing that I’ve been sleeping on a complete stranger’s shoulder.
Best travel tip:
Relax and enjoy life. People are more important than time.
What I consider a travel emergency:
Forgetting to pack my running sneakers.
Biggest cultural hurdle:
First job out of college — teaching Spanish in the Mississippi Delta
I think you should go abroad because …
You need to fall in love with the rest of the human race.
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