Transcript International Activity in the College of Liberal Arts

International Activity in the
College of Liberal Arts
Alan Vaux, Dean
(& the CoLA Faculty)
Fall 2009
http://cola.siuc.edu/
An overview of CoLA
international activity:
• Students
• Faculty
• International expertise
• Curricula
• Research and creative
activity
• Goals
What’s at stake?
Some Personal thoughts.
How can citizens and leaders understand and address major
contemporary problems—the well-being and health of
populations, climate change, global economics, persistent
conflicts, poverty, human rights, resource shortages,
pandemics, terrorism, technology—when they are ignorant
of basic geography, let alone clueless about the multitude of
diverse and inter-related cultures in the world , and how
these have been shaped by a long history of population
movements, innovations, exploitation of resources,
exploration, wars, empires, oppression, colonization, and
social, intellectual, technological, and political revolutions?
My family history and professional career have
heightened an interest in identity , world
history, and culture.
Returning on a flight from Europe, I chatted to
a poised, bright, college student. After staring
at the flight map in the airline’s magazine for
15 minutes, she turned to me and asked
(without embarrassment) “Where is Italy?”
If I could, I would require every student to
spend a week devoted to a good “Atlas of
World History” and another to studying a “UN
Human Development Report”—before they
could progress to sophomore year!
Some favorite “international” reference books
United Nations Human Development Report
http://www.undp.org/hdr2009.shtml
http://www.worldwatch.org/
Students
Angola
Argentina
Benin
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Columbia
Congo
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
France
Gabon
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Israel
Ivory Coast
Japan
Jordan
Korea
Kuwait
Libya
Malaysia
Mali
Mexico
Mongolia
CoLA has an international
student body.
Center for English as a Second
Language (CESL)
Palestine
Panama
Peru
Poland
Puerto Rico
Romania
Saudi Arabia
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Togo
Turkey
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
• Was founded in 1964
• Will have taught ~23,000 by Sp 2010
• Since 2005, has taught 851 students
from 55 countries around the world.
Students
Afghanistan
Algeria
Belize
Brazil
Burma
Cambodia
Canada
China
Columbia
Congo
Cyprus
El Salvador
Germany
Honduras
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Japan
Korea
Macau
Nicaragua
Netherlands
Panama
Philippines
Poland
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Tawain
Tunisia
Turkey
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
• Linguistics graduate students
come from across the world
– 20 countries in Fall 09
– 28 countries in Fall 08
– 22 countries in Fall 07
Students:
Fulbright Scholars
2005 to the present,
• SIUC has hosted 89 Fulbright student scholars
• 48 (54%) of them were CoLA majors
• they studied across our arts, humanities, and
social science majors (though most in
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Anthropology
Economics
English
Linguistics (18 in 2009!)
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Speech Communication
Theater
Fulbright students in CoLA
came from 28 countries:
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Afghanistan
Algeria
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Cambodia
Colombia
Congo
Ecuador
El Salvador
Indonesia
Ireland
Ivory Coast
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Guinea
Honduras
Latvia
Namibia
Nicaragua
Myanmar
Pakistan
Germany
Russia
South Africa
Swaziland
Turkey
Ukraine
Vietnam
Faculty
CoLA has a broadly
international faculty,
coming from over 20
countries and every
continent.
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Bangladesh
Bulgaria
Canada
China
England
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Ghana
Hungary
India
Iran
Ireland
Japan
Korea
Malawi
Mexico
Nigeria
Pakistan
Spain
Taiwan
Uruguay
Faculty
Many CoLA faculty have “working
knowledge” of other languages:
“moderate ability to read, write, &/or
speak, to facilitate their teaching or
research”.
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# 1+ native speaker(s)
Amharic #
(Ethiopian)
o Ancient Greek
 Arabic
o Belarusian
Bengali #
Chinese* #
o Czech
Ewe #
o French***#
o German*** #
o Greek
 Hebrew
Hindi
o Hungarian #
o Italian *
Japanese
KiKongo
Korean #
o Latin*
o Lithuanian
 Navajo
 Mescalero
Oromo
 Ottoman
o Polish
o Portuguese
Punjabi
o Russian
Saraiki
o Spanish***
Tigrinya
 Turkish #
o Ukrainian
Urdu #
o Yiddish
Faculty:
Teaching and Research Expertise
20% of CoLA faculty identified
a wide array of countries and
regions of the world in which
they have “teaching or
research expertise”.
Australia
Austria
Bulgaria
Canada
In most cases, reports were
of “expertise” about the
China
country or region (see
Czech Republic
right).
England
France
Germany
Hungary
In some cases, reports were
Japan
of “experiences” of
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teaching, performing, or
research in a country (see
Russia
left).
Spain
Switzerland
Taiwan
Africa
Africa (Francophone)
Algeria
Argentina
Austria
Bali
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada (Francophone)
Caribbean
Chile
China
Columbia
Cost Rica
Cuba
Czech Republic
Dominican Rep.
East Africa
Ecuador
England
Estonia
Ethiopia
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guadeloupe
Honduras
Hong Kong
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Latin America
Lithuania
Martinique
Mexico
Nicaragua
Nigeria
North Africa
Pacific Islands
Pakistan
Panama
Peru
Poland
Puerto Rico
Russia
Scotland
South Africa
South Asia
Spain
Sri Lanka
Syria
Switzerland
Taiwan
Turkey
Tropical Latin Am
Uruguay
Venezuela
Faculty: Teaching and Research Experience
Faculty
Some individual departments
show extensive international
expertise: e.g., Anthropology.
Archeology Anthropology
Andrew Balkansky, Oaxaca, Mexico
Michelle Croissier, Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico
Don Rice, Guatemala
Prudence Rice, Guatemala, Peru
Izumi Shimada, Peru
Biological Anthropology/ Bioarcheology
Robert Corruccini, Australia, India, Mexico
Susan Ford, tropical South and Central America
Tammy Gamza, Egypt
[Tracy Prowse, Italy]
Ulrich Reichard, Thailand
Linguistic Anthropology
Janet Fuller, Germany (modern German school children, language)
C. Andrew Hofling, Guatemala (modern Maya, language)
Anthony Webster, First Nation Native Americans (Navajo, Apache)
Cultural Anthropology
Jonathan Hill, Venezuela (modern native populations in Amazonia)
David Sutton, Greece (modern populations, culture)
John McCall, Nigeria (modern populations, culture)
Roberto Barrios, Guatemala (modern Maya, culture)
Graduate Students
36 graduate students
working in 19 countries!
Archeology:
• Guatemala
• Oaxaca, Mexico
• Peru
Biological/bioarcheology:
• Bolivia
• Ecuador
• India
• Italy
• Peru
• Poland
• Kenya
• Suriname
• tropical South America
• Thailand
Cultural or Linguistic:
• Albania
• Brazil
• Greece
• Japan
• Venezuela
Curricula
CoLA offers study in the
• Arts
• Humanities
• Social Sciences
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•23 majors
(BA, BS, BFA, BMUS)
• 30+ minors
• 30+ Master’s degrees
(MA, MFA, MPA, MS)
• 19 PhD degrees
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• ~3000 UGs
• ~1000 Graduate students
• fills ~57,000 seats in
classes each year
• ~1000 degrees /yr
CoLA offers highly
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Languages
Study abroad
Educational exchange
Field schools
Majors and minors
Courses
Curricula: Languages
• CoLA is the only college at SIUC that has
a strict language requirement
• Foreign Languages and Literatures (FLL)
Chinese
Classics*
French*
German*
Japanese
Spanish*
– teaches language courses & degrees*
– hosts ~1000 high school students and
teachers for a fun-filled Foreign Lang. Day
– hosts annual Foreign Language Film Festival
• Linguistics
– teaches “less-commonly-taught” languages
Arabic
Greek (modern)
Korean
Polish
Russian
Turkish
Vietnamese
Curricula:
Study Abroad
CoLA has several ongoing
or occasional study
abroad experiences—
mostly brief, intense
summer programs.
Sample programs
• Ancient Legacies
• African Cultural Continuities
• Quebec & Paris
• School of Music Int’l Tours
Curricula: Study Abroad
Ancient Legacies
Professor Robert Hahn (Philosophy) has run
Ancient Legacies for decades. This has
involved annual trips to Egypt and to Greece.
Ancient Legacies is an interdisciplinary, teamtaught, hands-on learning experience, designed to
illuminate early periods of our western heritage and
to promote insights into contemporary questions.
Dr. Hahn is planning an exciting new trip to classical
Greek sites in southern Italy.
Groups are a mix of students and older adults.
Curricula: Study Abroad
African Cultural Continuities
African Cultural Continuities is a
decade-old intensive summer
program designed to introduce
students to the traditions, family
life, religion, music, dance, food,
and politics of modern Ghana—
in the context of the African
Diaspora. Led by Leo Gadzekpo
(Black American Studies).
• Based in Accra
• Visits to Kumasi, Cape Coast (slave
forts), Obuasi Akosombo, & Tema
• Visits to several universities
• 1-week of lectures provides overview of
Ghanaian history and culture, including
customs, taboos, and regulations
• Visits to homes
• Observe traditional chief system
• Meet Americans, esp. African Americans
• Tour museums and historic landmarks
• Meet government officials
Curricula: Study Abroad
Quebec and Paris
Quebec
Virginia Donovan (FLL) has
organized several intensive study
programs in France and
Francophone Canada.
Paris
In summer 2008, she organized a
trip to Laval University in Quebec,
where students enrolled in
intensive courses in French
language and culture.
In summer 2009, students had the
opportunity to live in Paris.
They lived in rented apartments,
shopped in local groceries and
markets, visited museums, and
visited Versailles and les chateaux
de la Loire.
Chambord
Curricula: Study Abroad
School of Music Tour
The School of Music Wind Ensemble and Concert Choir
(~60 students) went on a highly successful tour of China
in May 2009, with packed-house performances in
Beijing, Xi’an, and Shanghai.
We hope this will be the beginning of regular
international SoM concert tours.
Christopher Morehouse
Director of Wind Ensemble
Susan Davenport
Director of Concert Choir
Curricula:
Study Abroad
Foreign Languages & Literatures
FLL supports a number of study
abroad programs:
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Universidad Verita, Costa Rica
Grenoble Ecole de Mgmt., France
(via ISEP) Zurich, Switzerland
and GA exchange programs:
• Caen, France
• Mainz/ Germersheim, Germany
Foreign Languages and Int’l Trade (an FLL
degree) requires an international
internship. Students have been placed
in 17 countries:
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Austria
Belgium
Bolivia
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Bulgaria
China
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Mexico
Russia
Spain
Thailand
Uruguay
Venezuela
Curricula: Educ. Exchanges
Criminology & Criminal Justice
Criminology and Criminal Justice has had a
long-standing relationship with the Ministry of
Justice —Corrections Bureau in Japan.
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Developed by Myrl Alexander in 1963.
Ministry sends 1-3 employees/year to MA program
18-month stay, retain salary, get 25% GAship
Estimated 90 graduates: many top officials are alums
Many faculty have visited
Elmer Johnson
• 4 books on Japanese Corrections
• developed Int’l Division of Am Soc Criminology
• Int’l Jnl of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
• Kimberly Leonard, Director of CCJ
– visited Japan early 2009.
• Gave 3 presentations to national audiences
• Met Ministry officials and prison wardens
• Many top officials from SIUC program
• Got coverage in 2 national newspapers
• Editing special issue of Int’l Jnl Comp & App CJ
Curricula: Educational Exchanges
Economics
Economics and the Institute of Social and Economic Research,
Osaka University, Japan, signed a 5-year Academic Exchange
Agreement in 2005, & plan to renew for another 5 years.
 to promote cooperation in the fields of education, culture and academic research
 to exchange of information and materials in the fields of economics, of interest to
both organizations
 to exchange faculty for research of economics
 to organize and conduct joint workshops and conferences.
Curricula: Educ. Exchanges
Irish and Irish Immigration Studies
Irish and Irish Immigration Studies is an multidisciplinary center (literature, history, creative
writing, social sciences, theatre) for the study of
Irish culture and the Irish diaspora.
Exchange agreement between SIUC and NUI
University College Galway.
Initially developed through a FIPSE grant awarded to
now-Emeritus Prof. Charles Fanning, the program is now
directed by Prof. Beth Lordan (English).
• ~2 students/year
exchange
• Galway is near the
remaining regions of
Irish-speaking Ireland
Curricula: Educ. Exchanges
School of Art & Design
The School of Art and Design has a
17-year educational exchange with
Hospitalfield House in Scotland.
• Hospitalfield (200 years old, remodeled in
1850) was bequeathed for the promotion of
“Education in the Arts” in 1890.
• There has been active student exchange
• Summer inter-session 2009, 13 students from
SoAD & C&P accompanied by Ed Shay (Painting)
and Dan Overturf (C&P, MCMA) on an artproducing trip.
The School recently established an
exchange relationship (led by Jiyong
Lee, Glass) with the National College
of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland.
For each of the last several years…
• 2 Irish students have come to SIUC
• 1 SIUC student has gone to NACAD in Dublin
Curricula: Anthropology Field School
Tracy Prowse (recently
resigned) ran a bioarcheology field school
in Vagnari, Italy.
Curricula: Anthropology Field Experience
Ulrich Reichard conducts field
research on a community of
white-handed gibbons in Khao
Yai National Park, Thailand.
As research assistants,
graduate students
(~3/year) gain valuable
experience in the
challenges in doing
anthropological field
research.
Curricula: Int’l (Related) Majors and Minors
Majors
Africana Studies [pending]
Anthropology
CoLA has many
Classics
international majors
and minors.
Economics
French
Foreign Lang. & Intl. Trade
Geography & Environmental Resources
German
History
International Studies [pending]
Linguistics
Note: 7 new or
Philosophy
pending programs
Political Science
since 2005.
Spanish
Minors (most majors +)
African Studies
American Studies [pending]
Asian Studies
Chinese
Classical Civilization
East Asian Civilization
Greek
Global Studies [new]
Japanese
Latin
Latino & Latin American [new]
Native American [new]
Peace Studies [new]
Curricula:
Global Studies
Global Studies is a brand
new and exciting minor!
It illustrates well the rich scope of
CoLA international courses.
• Built on a rich array of existing “international” courses (mostly CoLA)
• Tag line: “study abroad at home”
• Goal: to expose students to “the world”
• to expose students to other cultures (ways of life, thinking, religion, art,
economics, politics, and so forth)
• to help students to understand the relationships between peoples
• to help students to appreciate the history of peoples, countries, and cultures
• to encourage further study, study abroad, and travel with an open mind
• to allow easy access whatever the student’s areas of interest
Goal: That most
CoLA students
take this minor!
Structure
• 2 global / comparative courses
• 1 course from each of 4 lists reflecting major
regions/cultural areas of the world (somewhat
crudely represented by continent).
Curricula: Global Studies
A. Global / Comparative
AJ 476
ANTH 104
ANTH 208
ANTH 304
ANTH 370
ARC 231
ARC 314i
ECON 302i
Comparative Criminal Justice*
The Human Experience (UCC)
World Prehistory
Origins of Civilization
Contemporary Human Problems
Architectural History (UCC)
Expressions in Architecture (UCC)
History & Philosophy of World’s
Economic Systems (UCC)
ECON 329 Introduction to International
Economics*
FL 301i
Cross-Cultural Orientation (UCC)
GEOG 103 World Geography (UCC)
GEOG 304 Geography of Globalization*
HIST 101a History of World Civilization (To
Industrialization) (UCC)
HIST 101b History of World Civilization (Since
the Age of Encounter) (UCC)
http://cola.siuc.edu/global.html
This section is designed to help students to
think about the world broadly: to appreciate
diverse peoples, nations, or cultures, their
differences and inter-relationships.
HIST 112
JRNL 306i
JRNL 401
PHIL 103
POLS 250
POLS 270
POLS 352i
POLS 372i
POLS 373
POLS 375
POLS 480
SPCM 441
SPCM 448
The Twentieth Century World (UCC)
International Media Systems (UCC)
International Communication
World Humanities (a or b) (UCC)
Comparative Politics
Introduction to International Relations
Ethnicity, Nationalism & Culture (UCC)
International Political Economy
International & Transnational
Organizations*
War & Force in World Politics
International Politics
Intercultural Communication*
Intercultural Training*
Curricula:
Although the number and
disciplinary diversity of
courses vary by area,
students still have
considerable choice.
No area has fewer than 12
options from 4 disciplines.
Global Studies
B. Africa
ANTH 271
ANTH 310a
ANTH 310f
ANTH 410h
ANTH 430C
BAS 135
BAS 225
BAS 310
BAS 314a
BAS 314b
BAS 320
HIST 387a
HIST 387b
POLS 467
Africa in African Cinema
Introduction to Peoples: (a) Africa (same as BAS 310a)
Introduction to Peoples: (f) Middle East & North Africa
African Expressive Culture
Archaeology of Africa
The Third World: The African Model
Social Change in Africa
Introduction to Peoples: Africa (same as ANTH 310a)
History of Africa: (a) to 1800 (same as HIST 387a)
History of Africa: (b) since 1800 (same as HIST 387b)
Leaders of the Black World
History of Africa: (a) to 1800 (same as BAS 314a)
History of Africa: (b) since 1800 (same as BAS 314b)
Governments & Politics of Middle East and North Africa
Curricula:
Global Studies
Many of the course options are from
the University Core Curriculum: both
(a) lower-level disciplinary courses-hopefully “feeder” courses into the
minor, and (b) higher-level
integrative courses—allowing
students to complete Core
requirements through a “globalized”
curriculum.
C. Asia & Middle East
CHIN 370
CHIN 470
EA 102
EA 300
HIST 380a
HIST 380b
HIST 381
HIST 385
JPN 370
PHIL 308i
PHIL 475
PHIL 476
PHIL 477
PHIL 478
PHIL 479
POLS 461
Contemporary China*
Chinese Literature in Translation
East Asian Civilization
Masterpieces of Oriental Literature
History of East Asia: (a) to 1600
History of East Asia: (b) since 1600
Colonial India
Islam and the West
Contemporary Japan*
Asian Religion--A Philosophical Approach (UCC)
Topics in Asian Philosophy
Islamic Philosophy
Indian Philosophy (India)
Buddhist Philosophy
Chinese Philosophy
Governments & Politics of Southeast Asia
Curricula:
Global Studies
D. Latin America and Caribbean
Note, not only the variety of
disciplines represented, but in
many cases representation of art,
humanities, and social science
fields.
ANTH 204
ANTH 205
ANTH 206
ANTH 302
ANTH 310c
ANTH 310e
ANTH 310i
ANTH 310j
ANTH 430
GEOG 303i
HIST 370a
HIST 370b
PHIL 360
POLS 466
SPAN 370b
SPAN 434
Anthropology of Latino Cultures (UCC)
Latin American Civilizations
Latin American Popular Cultures
Indians of the Americas
Introduction to Peoples: (c) Caribbean
Introduction to Peoples: (e) South America
Introduction to Peoples: (i) Mesoamerica
Introduction to Peoples: (j) Andes
Archaeology of (b) Mesoamerica* or (f) South America*
Physical Geography of the Americas
History of Latin America: (a) Colonial Latin America
History of Latin America: (b) Independent Latin America
Latin American Philosophy
Governments & Politics of Latin America*
Hispanic Culture and Civilization: A survey of the cultural
heritage of the Spanish-American people*
Colonial Literature*
Curricula:
Global Studies
The greater number of courses in this
section largely reflects more English and
FLL courses—otherwise the options
are similar to other areas.
E. Europe
ANTH 310
ART 207
CLAS 270
CLAS 271
ENGL 302a
ENGL 302b
ENGL 425
ENGL 448
ENGL 455
ENGL 464
ENGL 465
FL 200
FR 101a
FR 101b
Introduction to Peoples (d) Europe.
Introduction to Art History
(a) Ancient Civilizations;
(b) Ancient Rome-Early Renaissance; or
(c) Renaissance to Present.
Greek Civilization
Roman Civilization
Literary History of Britain: (a) Beowulf to
Civil War
Literary History of Britain: (b) Restoration
to 1900
Modern Continental Poetry
Irish Literature
Modern Continental Fiction
Modern British Drama
Modern Continental Drama
Masterpieces of World Literature (a, b, or
c) (UCC)
French Language and Culture I
French Language and Culture II*
FR 440
FR 470
GER 101a
GER 101b
GER 335
GER 337
GER 370
HIST 201
HIST 205a
HIST 205b
PHIL 482
POLS 458
POLS 459
SPAN 370a
Literature of the Enlightenment
French Culture and Civilization*
German Language and Culture I
German Language and Culture II*
The Germans I: From Tribes to Empire in History
and Literature*
The Germans II: From Reich to Republic in History
and Literature*
Contemporary Germany*
Art, Music, and Ideas in the Western World
History of Western Civilization: (a) Ancient times
through 16th century
History of Western Civilization: (b) 17th century to
present
Recent European Philosophy
Contemporary Europe
Government and Politics of Russia*
Hispanic Culture and Civilization: The cultural
patterns and heritage of the Spanish people from
the earliest times to present*
Departmental Profiles: Arts
Arts programs in
CoLA show an
extensive level of
international activity.
Art & Design
• International faculty
• Studio artists draw on aesthetic traditions of
Americas, Africa, Asia, & Europe (reflected in
courses and creative activity).
• Art History scholars study 20th German Art
(Chametzky), 20th century design (Gorman),
European medieval art (Gertsman), and 18th &
19th century British Art & Chinoiserie (Sloboda).
• Studio artists exhibit internationally: including in
China (Shang, Deller)
• Cheonae Kim was recipient of Artist’s
Residencies in Spain: Cadaques (4 summers) &
Mojacar Playa.
Music
• International faculty
• Draw on international music literature
(primarily Europe, America)
• Artists perform internationally
• Compositions performed internationally
• Wind Ensemble and Concert Choir
performed in China (May 2009)
• Plans for regular int’l performance tours.
Theater
• 1 int’l faculty member (Ojewuyi)
• Dept. draws on broad US and
European drama, musical, &
opera repertoire.
• Hosted conference on work of
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka &
produced his play, Death and the
King’s Horseman
• Ojewuyi has plans for a
performance tour to UK,
Barbados, & Nigeria (SU 2010).
Department Profiles: Humanities
English
• Creative writing program includes
diverse, regional, & int’l elements
• Courses/expertise in broad American &
English literature
• Film & literature, representation of
Vietnam, Hong Kong cinema (Williams)
• Irish & Irish Immigration Studies hosted
Nobel Laureate, poet Seamus Heaney
Foreign Languages & Literatures
• Many international faculty
• Teach large language & culture courses
• Degrees in Classics French, German, Spanish
• Also teach Chinese & Japanese
• Proposal for Int’l Studies major (pending)
• Foreign Language & Int’l Trade (w CoB)
includes international internship
Linguistics
• Small but international faculty
• Large MA programs: Teaching English as
Second Language (TESOL) & Applied Ling.
• many int’l graduate students & Fulbrights
• Teach “less commonly taught languages”
Humanities programs offer a
broadly international
curriculum.
Black American Studies
• International faculty
• Focus on art, literature, & history of African diaspora
• World renowned African poet & scholar (Chipasula)
• African Cultural Continuities summer program to Ghana
Philosophy
• Top program in American Philosophy—principal focus
• Prominent scholars in Continental Philosophy
(Steinbock, Beardsworth, & Tyman)
• Classical and contemporary Indian Buddhist
philosophy, classical Chinese philosophy, cross-cultural
philosophy (Berger)
• Ancient Legacies summer programs to Egypt & Greece
Speech Communication
• Inter-cultural communication (Bardhan, Griffin)
Department Profiles: Humanities (cont.)
History shows a striking
international profile.
Planned shift in curriculum to historical
relationships between world regions.
Recent hires have been outside the
European-American historical tradition.
Now have expertise in Africa, South
Asia, Islamic World, Latin America,
Atlantic World, and Native America.
James Allen
• 19th C French social and intellectual history
• social history of romanticism, reading, feminism, and memory
• 3 books including Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women (2000).
Getahun Benti
• teaches African and world history, including a comparative slavery course.
• research on urbanization-migration studies and the relationship between
migration, language, and nationalism in Ethiopia.
Ras Michael Brown
• Atlantic world: cultural connections created between West Africa and the
low-country of South Carolina & Georgia by the slave trade.
Holly Hurlburt
• women, gender, & political power in late medieval and early Modern Italy.
• Author of The Dogaressa of Venice: Wife and Icon in 2006.
• Sabbatical at Harvard's Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy.
Robbie Lieberman
• Editor of Peace and Change
Joseph Sramek
• British imperialism in South Asia <1850
• how politics and colonial administration intersect
with masculinity & gender, as well as race & class.
Hale Yilmaz
• Middle Eastern history, including Turkish history and
the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
• Courses in Islamic Civilization, Islamic Political
Movements, Arab-Israeli Conflict
Mariola Espinosa
• History of disease, public health, and colonialism in
Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America
• Director of Latino & Latin American Studies minor
Rachel Stocking
• Late antique & early medieval Iberian history
• Christian culture, religious and political identities, Christian Anti-Judaism,
Catholic political theology, and law & local communities.
• Author, Bishops, Councils, and Consensus in the Visigothic Kingdom, 589-633.
Jonathan Wiesen
• Modern European &German history, & the history of the Holocaust.
• historical memory, transatlantic rel’ns, and anti-Semitism in Modern Germany
• Author, West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past (2001) &
• Editor, Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (2007)
Department Profiles: Social Sciences
Anthropology
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programs offer international
curricula.
Int’l & diverse faculty
Major focus on central and south America
World-renowned scholars
Additional expertise in Greece, Thailand , west Africa
Expertise on “Nollywood”—Nigerian/West African
cinema (McCall)
Criminology
• Connection to Japanese Ministry of Justice
• Expertise on international criminal court, justice, and
conflict & genocide in post-colonial Africa (Mullins)
• Terrorism (Young)
• Comparative criminology
Economics
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5 international faculty (40%) from 4 countries
41 current int’l students from 27 countries
37 of 41 PhDs (2004-09) were international
International economics is 1 of 2 major foci
Very high rate of int’l publications & presentations
Highly ranked in international trade
Expertise in international economic development
Link with Osaka University, Japan
Int’l scholars have visited recently (2003-09) from
China, Denmark, Japan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UK.
• Distinguished alumnus Hedayat Amin Arsala ran for
President of Afghanistan
Geography
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Focus includes water resources, and climate change
Therrell (paleoclimatology) took students to Tanzania
Duram (organic agriculture) sabbatical at NUI Galway, IRL
Department Profiles: Social Sciences (cont.)
Political Science
• Major focus is American politics, but expertise in
• International Relations: post-soviet nationalism,
esp. Ukraine (Shulman); transnational processes
in central & eastern Europe (Bloom)
• Comparative Politics: influence of income
inequality on democracy and politics (Solt)
• Terrorism, interstate conflict, civil war (Young)
• Model UN, Int’l Relations Working Group
Psychology
• Some int’l faculty
• Some cross-cultural expertise
– Trans-national research (Komarraju),
– Prof. leadership in Taiwan (Wang),
– Int’l human development;
dimensions of culture (Vaux)
• Recent PhD alumna, Sofia Pinero Kluch,
is Associate Director, Center for Muslim
Studies of the Gallup Corporation—
conducts surveys in US & worldwide
Sociology
 Expertise in …
• Social movements (Benford, Sherkat, Ward)
• Peace and war (Benford, Field)
• Int’l pol. econ. & development (Reed, Ward)
• Religion, culture, & politics (Reed, Sherkat)
• Projects in Bangladesh (Kathryn Ward)
• AIBS Fellow (01-03), Fulbright (04-05)
• RISM grant fieldwork grant (5 grad students)
• ALO/USAID grant—domestic violence
• NSF grant—women workers & income strategies (03-05)
• Founder & Exec Dir, Nari Jabon Project (alternative skills
for women) (05-08)
Research: Int’l Conference Activity
CoLA faculty present an
extraordinary amount of
work at international
conferences, exhibits, and
performance venues:
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120 in CY 2004
152 in CY 2005
110 in CY 2006
75 in CY 2007
161 in CY 2008
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next slide.
• Lourdes Albuixech (FLL) “El Cid y Jimena en dos novelas de María Teresa León.” XXV
Asamblea General de Aldeeu, Burgos, Spain, July 5-9, 2005.
• Robert D. Benford (Sociology) “Framing Global Governance from Below: Discursive
Opportunities and Challenges in the Transnational Social Movement Arena.” Invited
paper presented at the Arguing Global Governance Workshop, University of Oxford,
Oxford, United Kingdom, June 2008.
• Getahun Benti (History) “Revisiting Sources of History: The Oromo in the Accounts of
Foreigners”. African Studies Association, San Francisco, November 2006.
• Douglas L. Berger (Philosophy) “The Blending of Heaven and the Human Will:
Schopenhauer and China.” Conference of the International Society for Comparative
Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Beijing University, China, 2008.
• Anne F. Carlson (FLL) “Envisioning Algeria’s future: Women’s lives, national history, and
aesthetic dialogue in Maïssa Bey’s Sous le jasmin la nuit.” African Literature Association
Conference, Accra, Ghana, May 17-21, 2006.
• Peter Chametzky (Art & Design) “Global Art National Values?: ‘German 9/11
Commemoration in America, ‘American’ Holocaust Commemoration in Germany,”
Research Colloquium of the Literature and Culture Division of the John F. Kennedy
Institute of North American Studies, Free University, Berlin, Germany, 4 May 2006.
• Carola Daffner (FLL) “Politics of the Body in Fascist Cinema” Invited Lecture and
Workshop at the University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, June 2009.
• Mariola Espinosa (History) “The U.S. Colonial Experience in the Caribbean and the
Nationalization of Public Health in the United States,” (invited) Making Empire Visible in
the Metropole: A Colloquium on Comparative Imperial Transformations in America,
Australia, England, and France, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 2008.
• Mariola Espinosa (History) “Idealizing Imperial Medicine: U.S. Constructions of the
Conquest of Yellow Fever.” The Imagining and Practising Imperial and Colonial Medicine,
1870-1960 Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, January 2008.
Research: Int’l Conference Activity (cont.)
• Mariola Espinosa (History) ¿Quién Gana?: Public Health and Inequality in Cuba, 1898-1909. Presented at the Latin American
Studies Association XXVIII International Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2009.
• Susan Ford (Anthropology) Ford, SM, Davis, LC. A Comparison of the Postcranial Adaptations of Exudativorous Primates. Paper
presented in Invited Symposium on “The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates,” International Primatological Society, Edinburgh,
Scotland, August 2008.
• Janet M. Fuller (Anthropology) Made in Berlin: Bilingualism and identity among immigrant and German-background Children.
Paper presented in the Multilingual Identities Workshop at AILA, the 15 th World Congress on Applied Linguistics, August 25-29.
• Leonard Gadzekpo (Black American Studies) “Skizzen für den Shaukasten and das Gemeindeblatt”, Stephanus Katholische
Gemeinde, Oldenburg, Germany, March 7- April 11, 2009.
• Larry Hickman (Dewey Center) John Dewey’s Naturalism as a Model for Global Ethics. Fifth International Course: Philosophy and
Democracy. Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 31, 2009.
• Holly S. Hurlburt (History) “Forms of Power, Strategies of Resistance: Another Look at Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus.” “Donne
a Venezia” international conference, Venice Italy, May, 2008.
• Holly S. Hurlburt (History) “Davide e la Dogaressa: Women and Gender Compared in Renaissance Venice and Florence.”
Renaissance Society of America annual meeting, Cambridge, UK, April 2005
• David Johnson (FLL) “Strauss on Xenophon. “ Xenophon 2009 Conference, University of Liverpool, UK, July 2009.
• Sajal Lahiri (Economics) “The Fiscal Impact of Foreign Aid in Rwanda: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,” WIDER Conf. on Fragile
States - Fragile Groups: Tackling Economic and Social Vulnerability, Helsinki, Poland, June 15-16, 2007.
• Sajal Lahiri (Economics) “Integrated Reform of indirect taxes,” 63rd Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance,
Cape Town, South Africa, 12-16 August, 2009.
• Mary Lamb (English) Plenary Speaker at "Controversy, Protest, Ridicule, and Laughter" University of Reading, UK, July 2010.
• Robbie Lieberman (History) “Peace and Freedom before the Vietnam War,” Cold War Peace Movements, London School of
Economics, London, England, February 2008.
• Segun Ojewuyi (Theater) “Godot, African Crossroads and a Theater or Panic” Global Beckett Conference, Odense Denmark 2006.
• Subash Sharma (Economics) “Estimation of Random Components and Prediction in One- and Two -Way Error Component
Regression Models” (Invited) 14th International Conference on Panel Data, The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics,
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China July 16-18, 2007 (with Anil Bera).
• Jennifer Smith (FLL) “La violencia de género en dos cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” I Congreso Internacional “La Literatura de
Emilia Pardo Bazán. La Coruña (Spain), June/July 2008.
• Rachel Stocking (History) “Braulio, Honorius, and Praevaricatores: An International Dialogue about Christian Identification in the
Seventh Century,” International Medieval Congress at Leeds, United Kingdom, July 17, 2009.
• Anthony Steinbock (Philosophy) “La cupabilité chez Heidegger” Université de Paris (Sorbonne—Paris IV), Paris, France (to be
presented December 9, 2009).
Research: Int’l Exhibits and Performances
• Michael Barta (Music) Chamber works by American Composers Bolcom, Harbison, Ludwig, Stemper,
Nationwide live broadcast, Studio 6, Radio Bartok, Budapest, Hungary, May 21, 2008.
• Pattie Chalmers (Art & Design) Voices, (Int’l) Invitational Exhibition, NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA , 2008.
• Pattie Chalmers (Art & Design) Mores Revealed, Uncommon Objects, York Quay Centre, Toronto, Canada.
• Harris Deller (Art & Design) The Best of American Ceramic Art, 12th Beijing International Art Expo, The
Exhibition Hall of China World Trade Center, Beijing, China, August 29-31, 2009.
• Harris Deller (Art & Design) International Ceramic Art Exhibition, Yixing Ceramics Museum, Yixing, China,
May-June ,2005.
• Jiyong Lee (Art & Design) Tools of imaginations, Korea Craft Promotion Foundation, Seoul, Korea, 2008 .
• Jiyong Lee (Art & Design) Korea-Italy glassArt Special exhibition, Cheongju International Craft Biennale
Encore Exhibition, Cheongju, Korea, 2008.
• Alex Lopez (Art & Design) Perceptible System, exhibition ,The (international) Armory Show, NYC, 2009.
• Xuhong Shang (Art & Design) Momentary - Painting, Photography, Installation , solo exhibition, Shanghai,
China, 2009.
• Xuhong Shang (Art & Design) Mountain Series, solo exhibition, Galerie Leda Fletcher, Geneva, Switzerland,
2007.
• Frank Stemper (Music) composed The Persistence of Honor, premiered by the Het Wagenings Philharmonic
Orchestra, Holland, 11/9/09.
• Frank Stemper (Music) composed Global Warning, world premiere by Junghwa Lee, in Orleans, France,
2/25/08.
• Frank Stemper (Music) composed String Trio, by The American String Trio, in Budapest, Hungary, 5/21/08.
• Frank Stemper (Music) composed Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, by Eric Mandat and Frank Stemper in
Bucharest, Romania, 5/26/08.
• Douglas Worthen (Music) guest performer (flute), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2008.
Research: Int’l Publications—Books
CoLA faculty author a
substantial number of
books, chapters, and
journal articles about
international topics,
and especially in
international outlets
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See samples at right
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• Getahun Benti (History) Addis Ababa: Migration and the Making of a MultiEthnic Metropolis, 1941-1974. Trenton, N.J.: The Red Sea/ Africa World Press,
2007.
• Stephen Bloom (Political Science) co-editor of Transnational Actors in Central and
Eastern European Transitions. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2008.
• Alejandro Caceres (FLL) (ed.) Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros.
(2nd. Ed.) Carbondale: SIU Press, 2008.
• Peter Chametzky (Art & Design) Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German
Art: Beckmann to Beuys, forthcoming in 2010 , University of California Press.
• Elina Gertsman (Art & Design) The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image,
Text, Performance, under contract with Brepols.
• Elina Gertsman (Art & Design) (Ed.) Visualizing Medieval Performance:
Perspectives, Histories, Contexts, Ashgate (2008).
• Holly S. Hurlburt, The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500: Wife and Icon. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, February 2006.
• Mullins, Christopher W. and Dawn L. Rothe (CCJ) (2008). Blood, Power, and
Bedlam: Violations of International Criminal Law in Post-Colonial Africa. New
York: Peter Lang Press.
• Rothe, Dawn and Christopher W. Mullins (CCJ) (2006). The International Criminal
Court: Symbolic Gestures and the Generation of Global Social Control. Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books.
• Anthony Steinbock (Philosophy) Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality
of Religious Experience (Indiana University Press, 2007).
• Theodore Weeks (History) From Assimilation to Antisemitism: the “Jewish
Question” in Poland, 1850-1914. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006.
Research: Int’l Publications—Chapters & Articles
• Rob Benford (Sociology) “Framing Global Governance from Below: Discursive Opportunities and Challenges in the Transnational
Social Movement Arena.” In Corneliu Bjola and Markus Kornprobst (eds.), Argumentation and Global Governance. London:
Routledge. Forthcoming 2010.
• Getahun Benti (History) “African Resistance to German Colonialism and its Legacies: 1884–1913" in Ruth Simms Hamilton (ed.),
Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora, Vol. I, Part I, African Diaspora Research Project (ADRP) Series. Michigan
State University Press, 2007.
• Douglas Berger (Philosophy) “The Question of Influence: Schopenhauer and Early Indian Thought” in Arati Barua (ed.),
Schopenhauer and Indian Philosophy: A Dialogue between India and Germany. Northern Book Center, New Delhi, 2008.
• Douglas Berger (Philosophy) “Relational and Intrinsic Moral Roots: A Brief Contrast of Confucian and Hindu Concepts of Duty.”
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 2008, 7:2, 157-63.
• Anne F. Carlson (FLL) “À la mémoire de ma mère : souvenirs et identité dans Les Saisons de passage par Andrée Chedid.” Edited
by Efstratia Oktapoda-Lu . (Budapest : Revue Neohelicon : La francophonie de l’Est méditerranéen. Mémoire et identité, XXXIII,
1, 2006) 63-80.
• Peter Chametzky (Art & Design) “Global Art, National Values, Monumental Compromises: ‘German' 9/11 Commemoration in
America, ‘American’ Holocaust Commemoration in Germany,” The Massachusetts Review (MR 50 Celebrating Fifty Years) vol. 50
nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2009): 155-180.
• Carola Daffner (FLL) “Luis Trenker’s Der Kaiser von Kalifornien and the Subversion of Nazi Filmpolitik,” in A New History of
German Cinema, eds. Jennifer Kapczynski and Michael Richardson. Rochester: Camden House (in press).
• Ron Naversen (Theater) “Making Faces.” National Geographic Explorer, Vol. 6, # 6 April, 2007.
• Basharat Pitafi (Economics) “Elasticity of Fuel Consumption in Pakistan: An Econometric Study," Empirical Economics Letters, 3
(4), 181-193, 2004.
• Subash Sharma (Economics) “Currency Substitution in Selected African Countries”, Forthcoming Journal of Economic Studies,
2008, (with Assande Adom and AKM Mahbub Morshed).
• Subash Sharma (Economics) “Cost Efficiency, Economies of Scale, Technological Progress and Productivity in Indonesian Banks”,
Journal of Asian Economics, 2009, (with Heru Margono and Paul Melvin).
• Jennifer Smith (FLL) “La violencia de género en dos cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” La Tribuna 6 (2008): 583-91. Print. [2009]
(Essay on two Nineteenth-Century short stories on domestic violence by a Spanish Writer)
• Veronique Maisier (FLL) “Albert Cohen, Annie Ernaux et le portrait problématique de la mère”, Women in French Studies, 2008,
vol.16, 51-63.
Research:
International Offices (samples)
• Randy Auxier (Philosophy) Principal Organizer, 10th International Conference on Persons, University of Nottingham, UK.
• Robert D. Benford (Sociology) Associate Editor, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography , and Journal of Political and Military Sociology
• Getahun Benti (History) Contributing editor: Oromo Studies Association
• Douglas L. Berger (Philosophy) Program Coordinator, Annual Conference of Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy,
• Peter Chametzky (Art & Design) President, Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture (an affiliated society of the
College Art Association, with an international membership)
• Peter Chametzky (Art & Design) Assistant Editor, Centropa, a journal of Central European architecture and related arts.
• Anne F. Carlson (FLL) Member of Executive Committee of the African Literature Association.
• Mariola Espinosa (History) Co-chair of the Health, Science, and Society Section of the Latin American Studies Association.
• Janet M. Fuller (Anthropology) Editorial Board/future Editor of the Language and Linguistics Compass (Sociolinguistics section).
• Leonard Gadzekpo (Black American Studies) Editorial Board, Journal of International Politics and Development.
• Larry Hickman (Dewey Ctr.) Scientific Board, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy // Board of Directors,
International Pragmatism Society // Board of Directors, Dewey-Center Köln, University of Köln, Germany // Advisory Board, Ctr. for
Studies of Dewey and American Philosophy at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
• Jonathan Hill (Anthropology) Editor, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power // Editorial Board, several international journals.
• David Johnson (FLL) Associate Editor, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Jiyong Lee (Art & Design) Member of Board of Directors, (International) Glass Art Society.
• Robbie Lieberman (History) Editor, Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research
• AKM Mahbub Morshed (Economics) Editorial Board, Journal of Panoeconomicus (Published from Novi Sad, Serbia).
• Christopher W Mullins (Criminology & Criminal Justice) Editorial Board: International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology.
• Ronald Naversen (Theater) Scenography Committee Representative for the US Institute for Theater Technology (USITT) to Organisation
Internationale des Scénographes, Techniciens et Architectes de Théâtre (OISTAT), 2009-10.
• Ronald Naversen (Theater) Selection Committee for USITT for Prague Quadrennial 2007 Student Tour Award.
• Daniel Primont (Economics) Associate Editor, Journal of Productivity Analysis.
• Subash Sharma (Economics) Executive Editor, Journal of Asian Economics.
• Theodore R. Weeks (History) Associate Editor, Journal of Baltic Studies
• Anne Winston-Allen (FLL) Alexander von Humboldt TransCoop Grant: “Women’s Religious Communities in the European Middle Ages”.
• Yu-Wei Wang (Psychology) Co-Founder, co-Chair, past Chair, Taiwan Psychology Network.
Spotlight: Larry Hickman
Center for Dewey Studies
Ctr. for Dewey Studies is internationally renowned, as is Director Larry Hickman
• helped found 6 int’l centers for the study of life and work of John Dewey (China,
Japan, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Germany) (& pending Spain, Croatia, Romania)
• lectured in 23 countries, inc. Cuba, Vietnam, Korea, Russia, & China.
• published work has been translated into 10 different foreign languages
• holds honorary doctorates from Soka University and Univ of Cologne member
of the Program Committee, World Congress of Philosophy, in Seoul, Korea
(2008)
• keynote speaker at the meeting of the Int’l Network of Philosophers of
Education in Kyoto, Japan (2008)
• Ctr. sponsored Fulbright scholars from China, Denmark, Macedonia, & Poland
• International presentations in 2009:
• “John Dewey’s Naturalism as a Model for Global Ethics.” Fifth International Course: Philosophy and Democracy.
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“John Dewey in the Context of American and European Values.” Opole University, Opole, Poland, June 26, 2009.
“Genuine Concepts in Dewey’s Pedagogy.” Conference on John Dewey at 150, Opole University, Opole, Poland,
June 24, 2009.
“John Dewey at 150: His Contribution to a Comprehensive Philosophy of Technology.” John Dewey Research
Center at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, June 22, 2009.
“John Dewey’s Interdisciplinary Perspective.” International John Dewey Seminar, University of Naples Federico II,
Naples, Italy, January 29, 2009.
participant in 2 conferences in China (late 2009): Phil and Globalization; Dewey and Chinese Phil and Culture
Since 2005, he has
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Croatia
Finland
German
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Italy
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Poland
Singapore
South Korea
Vietnam
Spotlight: Izumi Shimada, Anthropology
Izumi Shimada is internationally-recognized for
his study of pre-Hispanic cultures of the Andean—
particularly of religious/ceremonial centers:
Pampa Grande, Sican, and Pachacamac.
 Numerous honors, including
• Presidential Citation for Distinguished Achievement
and Service, President of the Tokyo Broadcasting
System, Tokyo, 2008.
• Outstanding Scholar (CoLA 2004; SIUC 2007)
• Medalla de Honor del Congreso de la República del
Perú en el Grado de Gran Oficial, 2006.
 Widely published
• 10 books, including Craft Production in Complex
Societies: Multi-Crafting, Sequential Production, and
Producers. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
• Over 130 articles and chapters
• Over 65 conference papers
Dr. Shimada has served a one of two scientific advisors
for a 2-year-long exhibit, “Nasca, Wonder of the World:
Messages Etched on the Desert Floor” inaugurated
recently at the National Science Museum, Tokyo. Among
other duties, he was responsible for the thematic design
of the exhibit and principal author of the 200-page
catalog.
 Many grants, including NSF
Dr. Shimada is the principal scientific advisor for
the traveling exhibit, “Sican: Royal Tombs of
Peru” that began its tour at the Nickle Arts
Museum, University of Calgary, went on to the
Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and is now at
the Museum of Civilization in Quebec.
Spotlight: Anthony Steinbock, Philosophy
Phenomenology
Research Center
http://www.phenomenologyresearchcenter.org/
International Linkages
 The “Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics” group under
the direction of Professor Sara Heinämaa at the Helsinki
Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Hosted by the Department of Philosophy and supported by the
Aaltonen Foundation.
 The “Brazilian Center for Research in Democracy” at the
Pontifical Catholic University (PUCRS) Porto Alegre, Brazil,
directed by Professor Nythamar de Oliveira.
 The Center is establishing ties with the Laboratoire ERIAC (Equipe
de recherches sur les Identitiés culturelles/Equipe de recherches
sur les identités, les affects et les conflits) under direction of
Professor Natalie Depraz, Université de Rouen, France.
 The Korean Society of Phenomenology, Seoul National University,
Korea, under direction of Professor Nam-In Lee.
 The Seminario-Taller de Estudios y Proyectos de Fenomenología
Husserliana, at UNAM and the Universidad Michoacana, Mexico,
under direction of Professor Antonio Zirión Q.
 The Center is in the process of creating a liaison with University
of Paris (Sorbonne IV), France, under direction of Claude Romano
and Jean-Luc Marion.
Steinbock is internationally renowned:
• Research in Contemporary German and French
Philosophy, Classical Phenomenology,
Philosophy of Religion, Social Ontology
• CoLA Outstanding Scholar (‘08) & Teacher (‘06)
• Published several books including the awardwinning, Phenomenology and Mysticism: The
Verticality of Religious Experience (INUP, 2007)
• Published over 60 articles and translations
• General Editor, Studies in Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, Northwestern UP
• Editor, Continental Philosophy Review
Visiting Scholars AY2009-10
• Fabricio Pontin, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil. Institute of International
Education (IIE), Brazilian Ministry of Education Exchange
• Professor Eui Geun Ryu, Philosophy Department, Silla
University in Busan, Korea (sabbatical year)
• Professor Eldon Wait, Department of Philosophy,
University of Zululand, Kwa Dlangezwa, South Africa
(sabbatical year)
• Jana Trajtelová, Slovakia (doctoral study)
• Johannes Servan, University of Bergen, Norway
(doctoral study)—Spring 2010
Emotions Project
• Problem-based phenomenology seminar: this
year the group—with members from Slovakia,
South Korea, South Africa, Brazil, Israel, Iran,
Bulgaria, and China—discusses “Shame”).
Spotlight:
Kathryn Ward, Sociology
Ward is internationally renowned:
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Bangladesh and women workers
Feminist critique of sociology and science
Oral histories and visual sociology
 Extensive field work/action research in Bangladesh
 Funded by ALO/USAID & NSF
 Women’s work during global restructuring
 women’s school and training program for women workers,
Dhaka
 Nari Jibon Project, alternative skills, www.narijibon.com
 combating domestic violence
www.siu.edu/~narijibon/DADV.htm
 Jane Addams, Public Sociology Award,
Midwest Sociological Society, March, 2008.
 ~75 conference presentations
 ~60 invited talks, including
• Women Work, and Globalization. Women’s
Studies Colloquium, St. Mary’s College, 2006.
 Published several books, including
• Women Workers and Global Restructuring.
(Editor). Ithaca, New York: ILR Press, 1990.
 32 articles and chapters, including
• Ward, Kathryn, Fahmida Rahman, A.K.M. Saiful
Islam, Rifat Akhter, and Nashid Kamal. 2004.
The Effects of Global Economic Restructuring on
Urban Women’s Work and Income-Generating
Strategies in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Critical
Sociology 30:1-40.
Spotlight: Theodore Weeks, History
Weeks is internationally renowned:
 Professor of History, with expertise in
• Nationalism
• "Minority Nationalities" in East-Central Europe, the
Russian Empire, and the USSR
• Nat’l Movements in East C. Europe & Russia
• Ethnic Relations and Assimilation
• Antisemitism
• Imperialism
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Fulbright Dist. Chair, Univ. of Warsaw, Poland
~30 research & teaching honors/awards
Work in Warsaw, Vilnius, Jerusalem, Helsinki, St.
Petersburg, Budapest, Cracow, Prague.
Languages: German, Russian, Polish, French,
Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Lithuanian (+ Yiddish,
Ukrainian, Esperanto, Belarusian, Czech, Hungarian)
Published several books: including From
Assimilation to Antisemitism: the “Jewish Question”
in Poland, 1850-1914. DeKalb: Northern Illinois
University Press, 2006 .
~50 articles & chapters, many in int’l journals
reviews of ~140 books, most on int’l history
~70 papers on int’l history, often int’l venues
Has taught a wide array of international history courses:
• History 101B.. World Civilizations since the Age of Encounter.
• History 205A/B. Western Civilization (Origins to Reformation;
Reformation to Present)
• History 337A/B. History of Russia (divides at Great Reforms/
1860s).
• History 338. Eastern Europe
• History 339. 20th-Century Russian Culture and Society
• History 426. Cities and Culture in Europe 1870-1914
• History 427. World War I
• History 438. History of Poland
• History 493. Political Violence since the French Revolution
• History 499. UG research seminar: Russia from Revolution
through Stalinism, 1917-1953
• History 499. UG research seminar: Modern Europe
• History 522. Graduate Colloquium in European History (Major
Topics in Modern Russian/Soviet History).
• History 522/523. Graduate Colloquium and Research Seminar
sequence on Nationality, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in the
Modern World.
• History 582/583. Graduate Colloquium and Research Seminar
on topic Empires and Imperialism
• History 597. Practicum in College Teaching (for new teaching
assistants, as Director of Graduate Studies)
• Honors 351 . Russian History through Literature (19th and 20th
centuries).
CoLA Int’l Activities: Challenges & Goals
CoLA is proud of many accomplishments:
• international students and faculty
• a highly internationalized curriculum
• a faculty that has an impact on international
scholarships, research, and creative activity.
CoLA faces a number of challenges in promoting
international activity:
• budgets, budgets, and … budgets
• location, cost of travel, low-income students
• perennial uncertainty of summer funding
• ambivalence of SIUC re language education
• inconsistent administrative support
CoLA has a number of international goals:
• increase faculty int’l activity even further
• establish a thriving global curriculum
• increase study abroad (intensive SU programs)
• increase # of exchanges, field schools, etc.
• rapid growth of Global Studies minor
• achieve almost universal involvement of CoLA
students in some international experience
• educate tomorrow’s int’l leaders at SIUC!