Ph.D. in
Education |
George Mason University |
Fairfax, VA |
M.A. in Guidance &
Counseling |
University of Colorado |
Boulder, CO |
B.M. in Music Education |
Colorado State University |
Ft. Collins, CO |
Dr. Barfield has taught or been a guidance
counselor in Japan, Micronesia, and Germany, as well as in Colorado,
California, Virginia, and Montana. As a consultant, she has worked in the
private sector and conducted program evaluations for the Center for
Applied Linguistics (CAL), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),
Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), and
individual school districts and universities in Arizona, California, Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C.,
Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Oregon.
Dr. Barfield has been at MSUB since fall 1998
and retired in July 2013 as a Professor for the Department of Educational
Theory & Practice and the Department of Music. She also worked as
Principal Investigator, Project Director, or Project Advisor for the $2.2
million federal Big Sky Teacher Projects. She had a 4-month U.S.
Fulbright to Chile with the Chilean Ministry of Education in 2007. During
her sabbatical in Fall 2009 she taught at the Middelburg Center for
Transatlantic Studies in the Netherlands. She was awarded another
Fulbright in 2013 to teach at the University of Presov in Slovakia. She is
currently working in Chile on a National Geographic Society grant and was a Fulbright Specialist Fall 2018 at the University of Vilnius
in Lithuania. This fall she conducted a needs assessment at the
Insitute of Learning (University of Greenland) in Nuuk, Greenland, as an
English Language Specialist for the U.S. Embassy Copenhagen and U.S. State
Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She has
visited over 45 different countries. In addition to the U.S., she has made
presentations in Canada, Vietnam, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Cambodia,
Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Lithuania.