Adjunct Associate Professor
Center for Global Affairs
Education
BA, University of Scranton
MA, Tufts University - The Fletcher School
PHD, Georgetown University
M.Ed., Columbia University Teachers College
Colette Mazzucelli, MALD, EdM, PhD, HonD teaches core and elective courses in the MSGA Program,
including international relations in the post-Cold War era, Europe in the 21st Century, and ethnic
conflict. She was a recipient of the NYU SPS Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013. Professor Mazzucelli
served as the Inaugural President (Academia), Global Listening Centre, 2020-22. She participated in the
Parallel Histories conference in the House of Lords and the CFR-Lumina Foundation Global Literacy
Advisory Group at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her diplomatic experience includes hosting the
International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) to welcome Visiting Delegations to New York University
in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State. She engages with diverse organizations, including the
Bled Strategic Forum, the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network, and the Paris Peace Forum.
The Founder and Principal of LEAD IMPACT, she is the Editor of the Anthem Press Ethics of Personal Data
Collection Series. Mazzucelli is the author and/or editor of 5 books, including France and Germany at
Maastricht Politics and Negotiations to Create the European Union and Mapping Transatlantic Futures,
with several more forthcoming, notably, Transatlantic Tomorrows: Foreign Policy Lessons Learned,
Climate Justice Concerns in the Distributed Ecosystem Environmental Case Studies in Comparative
Perspective and Personal Data on the Interrupted Path to Peace: Intechgrativism in a Fragmented
World. Professor Mazzucelli is an alumna of the Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies.
In 2016, she was named an Honorary Ambassador of Peace in recognition of her service as an educator
with over 25 years’ experience in technology-mediated learning. For Pioneer Academics, she mentors
talented high- school students on five continents who aspire to pursue their undergraduate education at
leading North American institutions of higher learning. A Fulbright Scholar to France (1991) and
Germany (2007), Professor Mazzucelli is a contributor to and peer reviewer for numerous academic
journals. Her courses have been profiled by the Council on Foreign Relations in Foreign Affairs as well as
the CFR Educators Bulletin. As the recipient of 11 fellowships in 7 countries, she was presented in 2019
with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who. Professor
Mazzucelli was invited to participate in Canada’s first training program on the prevention of mass
atrocities and genocide by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia
University. She has spoken on panels commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Élysée Treaty of
Friendship between France and Germany (1963-2013) by the French and German Embassies in
Washington and the French and German Consulates General in Boston. During 2000-03, she was
responsible to direct and teach the first technology-mediated seminar in the history of the Institute of
Political Studies (Sciences Po) Paris analyzing conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Professor Mazzucelli is a
former Director, International Programs, Budapest Institute for Graduate International and Diplomatic
Studies, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, 1995-97. As a participant in the Robert Bosch
Foundation Fellowship Program for Future American Leaders, she assisted with the ratification of the
Treaty on European Union (“Maastricht”) in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1992-93.
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