Phone:

+49 30 6980 78847

Email:

atuerk@iu.edu

Website:

https://global.iu.edu

Department:

Global Gateways

Office:

Office of the Vice President for International Affairs

Campus:

IU

Biography

Annabell Türk is Assistant Director at the IU Europe Gateway. Originally from a small town in Franconia, Bavaria, she holds a bachelor's degree in North American Studies and Law from LMU Munich and a master's degree from the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute at Freie Universität Berlin, focusing her research on U.S. politics and sociology, specifically on situational analyses of school violence.

Annabell first joined the Europe Gateway team as a student assistant in 2018, and later full-time as its Program & Communications Manager. Prior to these roles, she worked with the German University Alliance in New York, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin as well as the U.S. Consulate General in Munich.

Ever since her study abroad in Korea, Annabell has become an avid traveler who has visited more than 30 countries and already made her way through seventeen U.S. states travelling across the country from the East to the West Coast.