Schuchardt Family at Sea for Fall 2013 Voyage - Part one of a Sabbatical Year

The Schuchardt family is going to be on UVA's Semester At Sea program for the Fall 2013 voyage and we'd like to keep you informed by way of this blog.  Here is our itinerary, and here is my faculty bio page, and here is how you can send mail ahead of us to our upcoming ports.

The Good Ship Lollipop MV Explorer

Since the fall of 2007 I have been working as a Communication Professor at Wheaton College in Illinois, and this past spring I was granted both tenure and a one-year (half-pay) sabbatical.  I am behind in my publishing deadlines, but I am excited to catch up in the coming year -- and equally eager to catch up with my wife and children who have had less and less of my time in the past few years.  We are incredibly grateful to Wheaton College for the generosity of this sabbatical and honored by University of Virginia for the offer of employment to teach Global Media, Intercultural Communication, and Media Religion and Culture -- all of which I've taught previously, but this time on a floating campus that travels to three continents and fifteen specific countries, regions, and cultures.  While 2012 was easily the most stressful year of my life thus far, 2013 will take me to 22 different  countries in all, and I do love me some traveling...

In a few days we leave Chicagoland and head for the east coast - a visit to New York friends before a week with Grandpa before getting on the plane that takes us to our point of embarkation.  In between now and then I have ten days in Japan (Bad timing!  But the Japan trip was planned two years ago, and is important work for my future research and teaching projects, as leading study abroad programs has become an integral part of my work since teaching at Franklin College Switzerland.)

Then, on August 15th we fly out of Boston, via Iceland, to London for a week before embarking on August 24th.  

We've got our swim trunks and our flippie-floppies.  It's getting exciting now...

Meanwhile, you can continue to reach us via e-mail, via phone message (which goes to my e-mail) at 630-752-5943, or via snail mail by mailing the ports (detailed here) before or as we get there.