Fall 2009 Faculty & Staff

Faculty

• Terry Bangs (Communication)
• Francis Colavita (Psychology)
• Cynthia Church (Biology)
• K. Siân Davies-Vollum (Geology/Environmental Science)
• Steven Dickstein (Business/Commerce)
Daniel Duran (Business/Commerce)
• Richard Farkas (Political Science)
• James Godfrey (History and Art History)
• Alfred Hunt (History)
• Stepanka Korytova-Magstadt (History/Women's Studies)
• John Kovach (Sociology)
• María Lope Solá (Law)
• Robert McGowan (Business/Commerce)
• Farzaneh Milani (Religion/Studies in Women and Gender)
• Andrea Mitnick (Communication)
• Jahan Ramazani (English)
• Agustín Reyes-Torres (English)
• Caroline Rody (English)
• Catherine Skokan (Geology/Earth Sciences)
• Bernard Strenecky (Leadership/Service Learning)
• Charles Tolbert (Astronomy)
• Wenda Trevathan (Anthropology)
• Robert Vaughan (Humanities)
• Paul Wagner (Documentary Film)
• Aimee Wheaton Schlander (Business/Commerce)
• Edmond Williams (Drama/Theatre)
• Colin White (Economics)
• N. Brian Winchester (Global Studies)

Terry Bangs (Communication)

Terry Bangs (Communication). Terry Bangs recently retired as national director of client training for Hewitt Associates, a global management-consulting firm. His PhD in organizational communication from the University of Denver followed bachelor's and master's degrees (radio, TV, and film) from the University of Michigan. Prior to his 20-year career at Hewitt, Terry was associate professor and deputy head of the Department of English, USAF Academy, Colorado, where he directed, designed, and taught courses in composition, speech, technical and business communication, and theatre. He designed and taught the first course in theatre history offered at any US military academy and, in 1976, was selected to direct the USAF Academy's Bicentennial production of the musical 1776. Over the course of his two careers, Terry has taught management and communication to audiences in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia as well as throughout the US. Before he settled into education and training, Terry was an Air Force pilot, stationed in SE Asia, Europe, and the US. He has flown single-seat fighters across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Francis Colavita (Psychology)

Emeritus Associate Professor, Department of Psycholgy, University of Pittsburgh. Professor Colavita's publication record includes over 50 books, published articles, and invited addresses in the areas of sensory physiology, brain damage and recovery of function, human perception, and issues related to teaching effectiveness. He was the recipient of the Univ. of Pittsburgh "Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award" in 1997. He served as Chairman of the Psychology Department from 1980-1988, and has been a licensed clinical neuropsychologist since 1986. His course on DVD entitled "Sensation, Perception, and the Aging Process" was produced and marketed internationally by "The Teaching Company" in 2006 Professor Colavita was raised and educated with Asian children outside of the continental United States from ages 8 through 13. He participated as a faculty member on the Fall 2000 SAS voyage, and served as Academic Dean on the Summer 2003 SAS voyage. B.A., Psychology, University of Maryland; Ph.D., Physiological Psychology, University of Indiana.
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Cynthia Church (Biology)

Cynthia Church is Associate Professor and Chair of Biology at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. Prior to her appointment at Metro State, she was a visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College. In her dissertation work, which she completed in 1996 at The University of Colorado-Boulder, she examined the role of a nuclear gene, PET100, in the cytochrome c oxidase assembly pathway in yeast. The study combined molecular genetics, including cloning and characterization of PET100, with cell biology using confocal fluorescence and electron microscopy. Prior to beginning her doctoral research, Dr. Church received a master's degree in parasitology from the University of Northern Colorado. Her thesis project was a taxonomic study of the cestodes of the round stingray, which she collected at el Centro Intercultural de Estudios de Desiertos y Océanos (CEDO) in Puerto Peñasco, México. She has taught three different study abroad courses including Tropical Marine Ecology on San Salvador Island, Bahamas, Costa Rica from Canopy to Coast in Central America, and In Darwin's Footsteps in the Galápagos Islands.
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K. Siân Davies-Vollum (Geology/Environmental Science)

Siân Davies-Vollum is an Associate Professor of geosciences in the environmental science program at the University of Washington-Tacoma (UWT). Born and educated in the UK, she has a BA and Ph.D. in geology from Oxford University and an M.Sc. in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London. Her research focuses on the sedimentology of river environments and the plant-based material that they preserve. She has conducted fieldwork in North America and Europe and has participated in geological field trips in South America, South Africa and Asia. Recently, she has been researching interdisciplinary environmental issues in Washington's Puget Sound. Professor Davies-Vollum has been very involved in curriculum development at UWT; she developed the geosciences component of the environmental science program and was a founding faculty member of the freshman general education curriculum. She has taught a variety of courses in environmental science and geology, including field courses in the US and UK, and has published a number of pedagogical research papers. She taught on the SAS summer 2003 voyage.
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Steven Dickstein(Business/Commerce)

Steven Dickstein, Senior Lecturer, Department of Management Sciences, Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia; M.B.A. Finance & International Business, Rutgers University. Adjunct Faculty member with primary responsibility to develop & teach business courses that include short-term, international travel component for CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research) at Fisher College. Undergraduate teaching focuses on International Operations. Business faculty member on the Summer, 2007 Semester at Sea voyage to Latin America. 30+ years of industry experience in Fortune 100 companies with international responsibilities for business development and "best practices."
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Daniel Duran (Business/Commerce)

Dan Duran is a tenured Associate Professor of Business Administration at Whittier College where he teaches Energy and Water Policy, Renewable Resources Planning, Operations, MIS, International Business, and Change Management courses. He is also the founder and a Principal of Energized Solutions, a California based LLC that provides consulting services in the renewable resources, strategic environmental planning, energy efficiency, water conservation, and sustainability areas. Dan's background includes twenty-five years of leadership positions in the environmental, energy, telecommunications, and information services sectors, including senior positions with AT&T, NEC (Japan), Edison International, Sempra, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), and Sat Networks Int. He currently is managing projects with several cities, counties and utilities in the area of long term sustainability and environmental planning. Dan holds a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), a MLS and BA (Political Science) from the University of California, Berkeley. Dan has authored several texts, including a seminal text on the information seeking behavior or Latinos and one of the first texts on energy services outsourcing. He is currently at work on a new book on the history and evolution of environmental services in the United Sates. Dan has been engaged in international business for most of his career, including a long stint with NEC (Japan) and establishment of a international satellite operations center in Mexico City. For the last several years he has led groups of undergraduate students to Mexico, Chile, and Argentina to meet with multinational business executives.
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Richard Farkas (Political Science)

Full Professor, Political Science, DePaul University, Chicago. Ph.D. International Studies, University of South Carolina. B.A. Political Science, Northwestern University. Recent publications focus on the dynamics of change in political systems and include "Post-Conflict Societies and Terrorism," Democratization in the Balkans: Prescription for a Badly Scarred Body Politic, "Transitional Politics in Central Europe," and "Transitional Politics in East and Southeastern Europe." International experience includes more than 25 study abroad programs including two previous Semester-at-Sea voyages; more than 60 research and lecturing jaunts to Eastern Europe; protracted research projects in Hungary, Croatia and Russia; an honorary degree from Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences (Budapest, 1985) and service as the founding Study Abroad Director for the College of Arts and Sciences at DePaul University (1981).
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James Godfrey (History and Art History)

James B. Godfrey is an internationally recognized specialist in Chinese art and antiquities based in Charlottesville, Virginia. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in History with a specialization in East Asian Studies. He served as the Maddox-Cowden Curator of Asian Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas from 1984-1996 where he curated numerous exhibitions focusing on the arts of East Asia. From 1996-2001 he was Senior Vice President and Director of Chinese Art at Sotheby's from 1996-2001 where he was also Director of Asian Business Development and conducted auctions of Chinese Antiquities in New York, London and Hong Kong. He was Vice President and director of Chinese Art at Christie's in London and New York from 1974-1978. He lectures on Chinese art regularly at universities and museums through out the United States and has served as a consultant to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. He served as interport lecturer during the Asian component of the Spring 2008 voyage.
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Alfred Hunt (History)

Alfred Hunt is Full Professor Emeritus from the State University of New York, College at Purchase where he served as Dean of the College of Letters and Science for a decade and taught for 30 years. He received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching of Excellence in 2003. His publications include The Influence of Haiti on Antebellum America (LSU, Press, 1988) and numerous articles on slavery and the Diaspora. Professor Hunt developed and hosted an award-winning cable television program, "Critical Issues," and is a frequent public lecturer on American and world history. He received his Ph. D in American Studies in 1975 from the University of Texas at Austin, and has twice been a Fulbright Fellow, at the University of Venice, Italy and University of the West Indies, Barbados. He founded and directed overseas programs in both Italy and Spain, where he continues to teach. This is Dr. Hunt's second voyage with the University of Virginia, Semester at Sea.
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Stepanka Korytova-Magstadt (History/Women's Studies)

Stepanka Korytova-Magstadt, PhD, a Czech native, born in Prague, lived in England and in the United States where she received her education: undergraduate degree in Modern European and American History from Southampton University, England; Master's Degree from the University of Nebraska; and PhD from Charles University, Prague. She has held teaching positions in these three countries, including a Visiting Professorship at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Charles University. She has received a number of grants, including one from the Center for Great Lakes Culture, Michigan State University Fellowship at the Newberry Library; Ruth Crawford Mitchell Scholar Award, University of Pittsburgh, and FU JF Kennedy American Studies Research Grant, Berlin, Germany. In 2008 she received a grant from a Czech foundation to support her research on diaspora and its ties to the motherland. Her book entitled To Reap a Bountiful Harvest: Czech Emigration Beyond the Mississippi River, 1850-1900 was published in 1993. Numerous articles of hers have dealt with migration, ethnicity, race and gender, including "The Elite, the Peasants, and Woodrow Wilson: American Slovaks and Their Ties to the Homeland, 1914-1918," in the Transcultural Localisms: Responding to Ethnicity in a Globalized World in the American Studies monograph series. Memberships include the Organization of American Historians, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California at San Diego, and Research Associate, Czech and Slovak Association of American Studies and Gender Studies, Prague.
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John Kovach (Sociology)

John A. Kovach, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA. In addition to 15 years as a sociology professor at Pennsylvania State University and Kutztown University (PA), he has served as the Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Education's Regional Educational Laboratory at Temple University and as the Project Director of the National Indian Education Needs Survey for the Office of Indian Education. He has published numerous articles and several book chapters in the areas of the achievement gap between white and minority students, urban education policy, and educational segregation in urban schools. He has worked as a consultant for the School District of Philadelphia and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Project of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He has been recognized for outstanding teaching and was the recipient of a Distinguished Educator Award from the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Kovach is also an accomplished metal sculptor having exhibited pieces at juried shows within the Central Pennsylvania region.
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María Lope Solá (Law)

María Lope Solá is an international lawyer who has practiced law and been a prosecutor in Spain, worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Central Asia, and has taught International Public Law at the American University of Central Asia and at Indiana University. She is a graduate in Law from the Law School of the University of the Basque Country at San Sebastian, Spain, where she also received a Masters degree in European Community Law. She has a second Masters degree, in International Labor Relations, from the University of Alcalá de Henares in Madrid.
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Robert McGowan (Business/Commerce)

Dr. Robert P. McGowan is Professor of Management at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University as well as M.P.A. from George Washington University and B.A. from West Virginia University. He has published extensively in the areas of strategic planning, strategic alliances and new ventures and innovation management. He has taught entrepreneurship to officials from Russia, South Korea, and the People's Republic of China as well as several African delegations. Professor McGowan has done executive training for the China Ministry of Water Resources through UC Berkeley Executive and International programs. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, R.O.C. In 1991, Dr. McGowan was named Methodist Scholar/Teacher of the Year for the University of Denver, and in 1993, he was given the Cecil Puckett Award for Teaching Excellence in the Daniels College of Business.
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Farzaneh Milani (Religion/Studies in Women and Gender)

Farzaneh Milani completed her graduate studies in Comparative Literature in 1979 at UCLA. Her dissertation, "Forugh Farrokhzad: A Feminist Perspective" was a critical study of the poetry of a pioneering Iranian poet. Past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America, Milani was the recipient of All University Teaching Award in 1998 and nominated for Virginia Faculty of the Year in 1999. She is the author of "Veils and Words: The Emerging Voice of Iranian Women Writers," "A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems of Simin Behbahani" (with Kaveh Safa). She has published over 100 articles, epilogues, forewords, and afterwards in Persian and in English. She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Ms. Magazine, the Readers Digest, USA Today, and N.P.R.'s All Things Considered. She has presented more than 150 lectures nationally and internationally. Former Director of Studies in Women and Gender and Professor of Persian Literature and Women Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Milani was a Carnegie Fellow, 2006-2007.
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Andrea Mitnick (Communication)

Andrea D. Mitnick, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Theatre at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She teaches Business and Professional Communication, Public Relations, Crisis Management and Leadership Communication. Previously an Assistant Professor of Communication at Penn State University, she won the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award there in 1995. She received her Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication from Temple University, and her research on a wide range of topics has been published in both journals and textbooks. She has presented more than twenty-four juried papers at national and international conferences since arriving at Kutztown University in 1996. An experienced researcher and speaker on age diversity, Dr. Mitnick recently co-authored a groundbreaking study on the generational transition taking place in the construction trades with The Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Kentucky. A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Mitnick has lived and lectured in Switzerland. She has taught crisis communication in Moscow at the Diplomatic Academy on three separate visits and continues to travel extensively in Europe, China and the Pacific Rim, Mexico and North America. This will be her third voyage with Semester at Sea.
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Jahan Ramazani (English)

Jahan Ramazani is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He chaired the English Department from 2006 to 2009, where he has taught courses on modern and contemporary poetry and on anglophone literature in a global context. He is the author of four books, most recently A Transnational Poetics (2009), The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (2001), and Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He edited the most recent edition of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (2003) and, with Jon Stallworthy, The Twentieth Century and After, in The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2006). He received a PhD from Yale, an MPhil from Oxford, and a BA with Highest Distinction from Virginia. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, the William Riley Parker Prize of the MLA, the NEH/Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professorship, and the Jefferson Scholars Faculty Prize at the University of Virginia.
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Agustín Reyes-Torres (English)

Agustín, from Spain, is an Assistant Professor at the Hispanic Studies Program of the University of Virginia in Valencia. He received his Ph.D. from the Universitat de Valencia (Spain) in English Philology, where his doctoral dissertation focused on postcolonial studies and the creation of an alternative subjectivity in the African American detective novel. He has published several articles on his specialization and most recently, a book titled Walter Mosley's Detective Novels: The Creation of a Black Subjectivity. He also holds the M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa, where he concentrated on Chicano literature. He has taught different English and Spanish courses at Middlebury College, U.Va, Semester at Sea, Florida State University, Caxton College, and the University of Iowa, where he was a course coordinator. He was a 2000-2001 recipient of the University's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
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Caroline Rody (English)

Caroline Rody is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where she teaches fiction by contemporary ethnic American, Caribbean, and women writers and is affiliated with UVA's Asian Pacific American Studies and Jewish Studies programs. After receiving a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, she was Assistant Professor of English at Yale before moving to UVA in 1996. Her first book, The Daughter's Return: African American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History, was published in 2001 by Oxford University Press, and Oxford will also publish her forthcoming study, The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction. In the spring of 2007, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute of Oxford University.
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Catherine Skokan (Geology/Earth Sciences)

Associate Professor of Engineering, Colorado School of Mines. BSc, MSc, PhD, Colorado School of Mines, published over 80 articles and extended abstracts in numerous geophysical and educational journals including the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research and Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors and Journal of Engineering Education. Her research interests include geophysical measurements of volcanoes and geothermal areas, energy resources, and groundwater. Another research thrust involves curriculum development in problem and project based learning. Her research also addresses humanitarian engineering - an application of earth science and engineering skills to aid underserved populations. She has led student humanitarian projects including travel to Tribal Communities in Alaska, South Dakota, and New Mexico as well as Ghana, Honduras, and Senegal. Dr. Skokan has traveled with students for summer studies in former Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Southeast Asia, and Morocco. She also traveled on the Fall 2002 Voyage of Semester at Sea.
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Bernard Strenecky (Leadership/Service Learning)

Bernard J. Strenecky presently serves as the Scholar in Residence at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. His responsibilities at the university center on internationalization through the development of innovative curriculum and program design and the establishment of faculty development programs. He holds a master's degree from the University of Scranton and a doctoral degree in Education and Curriculum Design from the University of Rochester. Dr. Strenecky's recent publications and professional presentations center on the development of interdisciplinary international service learning program design. Dr. Strenecky has taught or consulted in over fifty countries. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to international education development. The highest of these honors is the Gold Crown of Merit which was awarded by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for outstanding contributions to the development of the country of Barbados. This award is the highest honor that can be bestowed on a non-Barbadian citizen. Dr. Strenecky serves in the Diplomatic Corp of Barbados and holds the title of Honorary Consul from Barbados to Kentucky. He is an active Rotarian and was designated Rotarian of the Year for his contributions to international understanding in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. In concert with The Prospect/Goshen Rotary Club, Semester at Sea and Western Kentucky University, he has developed a humanitarian project entitled the $100 Solution. Through this project, students are provided with knowledge, skills and funds which are used to solve social problems at the national and international levels. To date, projects have been established in twelve international areas. Dr. Strenecky welcomes all students who have a desire to develop international leadership skills especially in the area of service to others.
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Charles Tolbert (Astronomy)

Charles R. Tolbert is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia. He received a BS from the University of Richmond in Physics in 1958, a MS in Physics-Astronomy from Vanderbilt University in 1960 and a PhD in Astronomy from Vanderbilt University in 1963. He held a postdoctoral position at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands working in the area of 21-cm radio astronomy. He was for four years a staff member at the University of Groningen before joining the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1967. His research interest in photoelectric photometry includes observation of variable stars, double stars, and star clusters and the study of stellar classification, photoelectric systems and reduction techniques. His work in radio astronomy includes observations of the 21 cm line radiation of neutral hydrogen and studies of the distribution of hydrogen outside the galactic plane especially in low and intermediate velocity clouds. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society, the Dutch Astronomical Society, and the International Astronomical Union. He served for a number of years as president of the Society for Scientific Exploration. Professor Tolbert is a popular teacher at the University of Virginia.
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Wenda Trevathan (Anthropology)

Wenda Trevathan is Regents Professor of Anthropology at New Mexico State University and Resident Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe (2008-2009). She is a biological anthropologist and received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her international experience includes a Fulbright Senior Lectureship in the Philippines and three previous voyages with the Semester at Sea (1980, 1990, 1995). Her research focuses on the evolutionary and biocultural factors underlying human reproduction including childbirth, maternal behavior, sexuality, and menopause; primary publications include works on the evolution of childbirth and evolutionary medicine. She teaches courses in nutritional anthropology, medical anthropology, evolutionary medicine, and anthropology of reproduction. She has received awards for teaching and research from New Mexico State University and is the recipient of the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology.
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Robert Vaughan (Humanities)

Rob Vaughan is President and founder of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, a research, education, and program center. He has taught at least one course each year for over 30 years at the University of Virginia. Among his publications are The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Its Evolution and Consequences in American History (Cambridge) and The South (Greenwood). He received his B.A. from Washington and Lee University, his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Averett University. Vaughan has served as President of the National Humanities Alliance and the Center for Nonprofit Excellence; as an officer of many national organizations, including SOLINET, the American Shakespeare Center, and Tupelo Press; as a judge for the John Dos Passos Prize in American Literature; and as a consultant to the Pew Trusts, the University of North Carolina, Hendrix College, the American Council of Learned Societies, and other institutions. He directs an international Fellowship program, has built houses in Mexico, was a recent guest of the Chinese exploring cultural development, and has traveled widely in Europe. His interests are interdisciplinary, and he is currently developing an exchange program with a Chinese university and an international center on violence and community.
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Paul Wagner (Documentary Film)

Paul Wagner is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and a member of the Adjunct Faculty currently teaching film at the University of Virginia. His work includes both documentaries and narrative films, many focused on cultural, political and historical themes. They include The Stone Carvers, a film about Italian American artisans, that won the Oscar and Emmy Awards for Best Documentary; Signature: George C. Wolfe, a documentary about the charismatic New York theater director, that was named Outstanding Public Television Program of the Year; Out of Ireland, a feature documentary about Irish immigration, that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; and Windhorse, a narrative theatrical feature shot on location in Tibet and Nepal, that won several major film festival awards. Wagner holds a BA and MA in Communications from the University of Kentucky and studied anthropological film at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communications. Over his thirty-year career, Wagner has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and private foundations. His films have been featured at many international film festivals and broadcast on public television in the U.S and around the world.
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Aimee Wheaton Schlander (Business/Commerce)

Aimee Wheaton Schlander is an Associate Professor at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. She received her Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, Master of Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University and Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong. Her research and published works have focused on cross-cultural management, comparative organizational commitment, spirituality and work, and managing the work-life balance. She has published in the Business Ethics Encyclopedia, the Asia Pacific Business Review, and the Business Research Yearbook, among others. Aimee has lived and traveled extensively throughout Asia. She currently teaches classes in International Management, Organizational Behavior, Business Policy and Strategy, and Diversity.
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Edmond Williams (Drama/Theatre)

Edmond Williams (Drama/Theatre). Professor Williams served as the Chairman of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Alabama from 1979-2007. He joined the faculty in 1971 just after receiving his Ph.D. degree from Florida State University, and now continues to teach and direct at the University of Alabama as Professor of Theatre. His dissertation for the Ph.D. was on directing Shakespeare and involved his observation of the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and in London. At the University of Alabama Williams established the MFA degree for professional studies in Theatre, regularly directs at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and teaches in the Professional Actor Training Program there. Williams has been involved with the Alabama at Oxford program, teaching at Wadham College within Oxford University, and the Alabama in Ireland program, teaching at Trinity College, Dublin. He has also served as consultant for the US Department of State to the National Theatre of Namibia, was outside examiner for the University of Namibia's Academy of the Arts, and served as consultant to the University of Ulster in their efforts to establish a graduate program. His production of Edward Bond's Lear was presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a national winner in the American College Theatre Festival. He is the recipient of the University of Alabama National Alumni Association's award for Outstanding Commitment to Teaching, and presently serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Schools of Theatre.
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Colin White (Economics)

Professor Colin White (BA and MA, Cantab.), a full professor of economics at the La Trobe University, Melbourne until retirement from full time employment this year, has been head of three departments - economic history, economics and the graduate school of management. He has wide academic interests but a particular interest in comparative economic performance, publishing a wide range of books, including Russia and America: the roots of economic divergence, and Coming Full Circle: an economic history of the Pacific and Risk and Foreign Direct Investment. He has traveled and worked widely at the international level in all continents. Recently he was a Balkan scholar at the American University in Bulgaria and the Hobart Houghton research fellow at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He is currently working on a book on economic growth.
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N. Brian Winchester (Global Studies)

N. Brian Winchester is the Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University. He has taught more than a dozen different political science and international and area studies courses at Iowa State University, the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, the American University in Kyrgyzstan, and Indiana University. He has, in addition, lectured at Taraz State University in Kazakhstan, the University of Pretoria in South Africa, at Pompeu Fabra Law School in Barcelona, Spain, and to the faculties of the St. Cyril and Methodius University and South East European University in Macedonia. He has conducted research in Africa, Western Europe, the U.S. and Canada, the results of which have been presented at two dozen professional conferences and subsequently published in books, reference works, academic journals, and the popular press. His most recent publication is "Emerging Global Environmental Governance" which will be published in the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies in Fall 2008.
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