Academic & Career Coaching
Les Joynes, PhD
Academic Leadership Coach
Dr. Les Joynes is an Academic Coach and explores International and transcultural Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and coaches PhDs at University of Melbourne Australia.
“Transcultural Academic Coaching (TAC) engages tools for effective communication, cooperation, scholarship and leadership within today’s increasingly globally interconnected academic environments.”
Transcultural Academic Coaching Series
As part of Dr. Joynes’s research on building platforms to support successful transcultural research, exchange and education he will contribute a special academic leadership pilot series on transcultural coaching offered to students and scholars in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies giving them the opportunity to explore coaching as a space to develop goals and vision. Each session will be 50-minutes via Zoom.
Biography: Dr. Les Joynes is a Visiting Research Scholar on International and Transcultural Education, at Teachers College, Columbia University and Visiting Faculty at Renmin University and Peking University, Beijing.
He now examines structures to support academic scholarship and leadership in transcultural environments.
An academic leadership coach, he serves as International Coaching Federation (ICF) New York Education Liaison to Columbia University.
Recent publications include “Artist-Centric Practices” in New Institutional Models: China’s Cultural Landscape by Mid-Century (2018), Long Museum, Shanghai, DrawnOver: Contemporary Drawing (2018), Vojvodina, Serbia: Museum of Contemporary Art [catalogue]; Going Beyond: Art as Adventure (2018): Cambridge Scholars UK; Anywhere v.1.(2015), Parsons School of Art; New York; Drawing: Inside Out Art Museum, New York: LeRoy Neiman Foundation [catalogue]; Art and Research at the Outermost Limits of Site Specificity, Newcastle, Australia and Octopus (2012) Journal for Visual Culture. Irvine: University of California, Irvine. Also trained in art criticism he has reviewed for Art in America, Springer, Flash Art; and the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) in Bern.
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Research Interests
Leadership in Higher Education Building leadership coaching methodologies for professionals in higher education. Academic Coaching, Goal Appraisals, Assessments, Case Studies.
International Collaboration in Higher Education Research on International exchange and collaboration. Co-publishing in 1990 on transnational collaboration models and parallel learning methodologies and technology transfer. Currently examining models for education exchange between the US and Mongolia.
Creative Education in the 21st Century Curriculum design for MFA and PhD programs that integrate the arts with other disciplines. .
Education
Post-Doctorate, School of Art and Communications, University of São Paulo, Brazil (2017)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Faculty of Art, Environment and Technology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK (2012)
Masters in Fine Art, Musashino Art University, Japan. Monbusho Award, Tokyo, Japan (2001)
Master of Arts, Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London,, UK (1997)
Master of Science, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Boston University & Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium (1988)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, UK (1996)
Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) in History), Boston University, Boston, MA (1996)
Selected Writing
FormLAB: Interfacing Technology with Site, ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Art, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea (2019); Artist Centric Practices in the Museum of Tomorrow, [book] Museum2050 and Long Art Museum, Shanghai (2019); Intercultural Collaboration in the Arts: Shamanism, Ritual in Brazil, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (2018); Higher Education at the Crossroads: Central Asia; American Center for Mongolian Studies (2018); Going Beyond: Art as Adventure (Cambridge Scholars, Nottingham, UK, 2018); Anywhere v.1. Parsons The New School for Design; Project Anywhere; and School of Creative Industries (2016); Artists from China and the US at Beijing’s Inside Out Art Museum (catalogue), LeRoy Neiman Foundation, New York (2014); The Invisible and the Transvisible in Contemporary Art, Singapore, Journal for Visual Culture, University of California, Irvine (Joynes and Basu, 2011; Yuichi Higashionna at NADIF Tokyo, Flash Art, Milan (Oct 2000); Yoshitomo Nara at Ginza Art Space, Art in America (1999); British art in the 1990s: David Thorpe and Brian Griffith, Springer, Vienna (1998).
Academic Appointments and Research
Columbia University, Teachers College Research Scholar on International and Transcultural Education (2021) Department of International and Transcultural Studies. Research Scholar on Art and Art Education (2016-2018).
Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. Professor of Record for Modern and Contemporary Art and Experimental Practices. (2013-present)
Columbia University, New York. Visiting Scholar and Scientist Program, Department of Art History and Archeology (2018-2020) Contemporary Art Histories and Visual Cultures (2018-2020); Department of Philosophy (2010-2012); School of the Arts (2008-2010).
Peking University, Beijing, China. Visiting Professor, cultural entrepreneurship. Post-Doctoral Liaison (2018-present.
University of the Arts London, UK.. TrAIN Research Fellow in Visual Art, UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN). UAL doctoral masterclass on arts practice and research. (2015)
Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan. BA Fine Art Tutor and Instructor (1998-2001)
Awards
Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award for India (2021); US Department of State, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs Grant for Colombia (2020); US Department of State, American Arts Incubator ZERO1: Art and Technology Artist (2019); Fulbright Hays US Public Diplomacy Mission China Award (2017); CEC ArtsLink Foundation Grant, St. Petersburg, Russia (2017); Renmin University of China Merit Award, Beijing, China (2017); Taiwan Ministry of Education (MOE) Language Scholar National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (2016); Wheatley Foundation Fellow, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK (2016); US Department of State Field Research Fellow, American Center for Mongolian Studies (2016); TrAIN Fellow, University of the Arts London Research Center on Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (2015); Fulbright Hays US Public Diplomacy Award for Mongolia (2014); CEC ArtsLink Foundation Grant for Mongolia (2014); Harlem Arts Alliance Grant, New York (2010): Queenstown Council, Singapore Citation Award, Singapore (2009); Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship, National Design Museum, New York (2009); Bauhaus Foundation Fellow, Dessau, Germany (2009); The Nordic Artists Center Fellowship, Norway (2008); Musashino Art University Selection Award (2001): Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture Scholar (Monbusho) (1998-2001); Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture Japanese Language Scholar (1997-1998); Academic Honours, Central Saint Martins College of Art, London (1996); Erasmus Scholar, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris (1995); King Sturge Award for Sculpture, London (2005).
Workshops
American Center of Mongolian Studies (ACMS), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Arts in Education in Mongolia (funded US Department of State in collaboration with Mongolian State University for Art & Culture, Ulaanbaatar; University of the Arts London, London, UK (2015). Transnational art systems and nomadic practices (including that of FormLAB); University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2014-2015) Intercultural and interdisciplinary art practice. Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jose Batista Dal Farra, Director, Departmento des Artes Cenicas (CAC); US Department of State and Fulbright, Washington DC. Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award at School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2021-2022); US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (CDAC), Colombia (2019-2021); Public Diplomacy Award China (2017); Fulbright-Hays US Public Diplomacy Award Mongolia (2014; Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK. Doctoral Research on emergence of new geographically dispersed art-making practice. (2012); National Academy Museum, New York. Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship (2009); Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau Germany. Fellow, Bauhaus Foundation Kolleg Program, Dessau, Germany (2008-2009); Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dalsåsen, Norway Research on Nordic mythology, and site-specific art installations. (2008); Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan. MEXT/Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture Research Scholar on East Asian Visual Cultures (1998-2001); Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK. MA Dissertation on American popular culture, art and film. (1996-1997); Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris,Erasmus Scholar in Fine Art (1995).
Selected Lectures
Long Art Museum, Shanghai (2018), Lecture on the museum of the future and artist-centric installation in China; Bard Abroad Smolny College Program, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2017) “Contemporary curating and international cooperation”; Pro Arte Foundation, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2017)“Contemporary art and collaboration between the US, China, Mongolia, Brazil, & Singapore”; Mongolian State University of Art and Culture, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2015, 2016) Visiting Lecturer on American Modern and Contemporary Art Lecture Series; Cambridge University, UK (2015) Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.Presenter on Intercultural art collaboration); University of Lincoln (May, 2014), University of Coventry (Feb 2014); Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea; Lasalle College of Art, Singapore; Nanyang Academy of Art, National University of Singapore (2009); University of California, Santa Barbara (2006); Otis School of Art, Los Angeles (2000).
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Mongolian.
