A paper by Reed Professor Kris Anderson and Universitat de Barcelona Professor Noemí Pereda has been published not long after their successful faculty exchange.
By Cara Nixon
October 6, 2025
In 2024, Professor Kris Anderson [psychology] said the potential for joint research through the international faculty exchange was a deeply valuable aspect of the program. Now, that potential has become a reality, as her and Universitat de Barcelona Professor Noemí Pereda’s paper on the relationship between peer victimization and alcohol consumption was published in the International Journal of Bullying Prevention this September.
Last spring, Anderson visited Pereda, a professor of victimology, in Spain through the faculty exchange, and, in turn, Pereda visited the Reed campus in the fall. The program, spearheaded by Alberto del Río Malo, associate dean of global education and director of the International Programs Office, works to expand Reed’s global reach, build relationships between faculty members, and benefit students, who see their professors model the learning abroad experience and bring new perspectives into the classroom.
Anderson and Pereda’s exchange was the first of many to come. Since then, the program has continued with Professor Michael Pitts [psychology] visiting cognitive neuroscience lecturer Angela Mastropasqua in Copenhagen, Denmark, in fall 2024, and her coming to Reed’s campus in winter 2024.
Most recently, Professor Tamara Metz [political science and humanities] visited the Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona in Spain last May. Abel Escribá-Folch, professor and dean of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona Department of Political and Social Sciences, visited Reed in September.
The International Programs Office is working to expand the program to other parts of the world, including Argentina, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany. This will open more opportunities for impactful and lasting faculty collaboration.
“Working with Noemí has been a delight!” Anderson says of her experience. “The faculty exchange program brought together two researchers with adjacent interests who could bring our individual expertise to the table in investigating an important area of public health. I look forward to our continued collaboration in the years to come.”