Randy Kluver

Alan Randolph Kluver is the Associate Provost and Dean of OSU Global and the School of Global Studies, and a Professor in the School of Media and Strategic Communication at Oklahoma State University. He also holds the Don and Cathey Humphreys Chair in Global Studies and is an elected member of the National Academy of International Education (NAIE). Prior to his leadership at OSU, he held several tenured faculty and administrative positions at Texas A&M University.

As the senior international officer for the University, Dr. Kluver develops, implements, and coordinates OSU's global strategy and institutional impact. His administrative portfolio includes oversight of the Center for Global Learning, the international branch footprint including the OSU Mexico Office, International Students and Scholars, the Fulbright and Global Scholars Support Office, the School of Global Studies graduate program, the endowed Farzaneh Family Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies program, and the Don and Cathey Humphreys funding endowment. Under his leadership, OSU was awarded the prestigious NAFSA Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award for its rapid humanitarian and academic response to the Afghan refugee crisis.

Dr. Kluver has extensive international experience, having previously taught at Jiangxi Normal University (China), National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He continues to conduct active research at the intersection of media, new media, and geopolitics. He has published widely in the fields of Asian politics, the Internet in Asian societies, public diplomacy, and international communication. He has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator for approximately $10 million in research and institutional funding.

He is the author or editor of five books. His research includes serving as the principal investigator for a comprehensive analysis of global media coverage of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, published as Global Media and Strategic Narratives of Contested Democracy (Routledge, 2019). He was also a principal investigator for The Internet and National Elections: a Comparative Study of Web Campaigning (Routledge, 2007) and founded the Singapore Internet Research Centre. His book Civic Discourse, Civil Society, and Chinese Communities won the Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association (NCA). Most recently, expanding his focus to regional migration history, he edited and published Chào to Main Street, documenting the 1975 Vietnamese refugee resettlement in Oklahoma.