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International News December 2004

President Herbert Testifies before
Congressional Hearing on Visa Procedures

O ver the past year, articles visitors from coming to the United devoted to advancing knowledge of
have appeared in the The States. Reminding a packed Senate the world’s major regions. Many IU
Chronicle of Higher hearing room that “hosting foreign area studies programs further

Education with headlines such as students is one of the most success- national strategic interests, and

“Wanted: Foreign Students,” “No ful elements of our public diplo- international students and faculty

Longer Dreaming of America,” and macy” and that “these temporary are significant contributors to the

“Security at Home Creates university’s global promi-

Insecurity Abroad.” All report nence. He spoke of the

significant declines in the “This is a moment for decisive action. contribution of IU’s 4,400
number of international stu- We must return the United States to its international students to
dents applying for and being preeminence in international education.” the diversity and quality
admitted to U.S. higher edu- of education on IU’s cam-
cation institutions. —IU President Adam Herbert puses; of the importance of

A survey conducted the interactions and

earlier this year by five friendships that bridge the

higher-education associations visitors provide enormous economic cultural divide between U.S. and

showed that the United States is no and cultural benefits to our country,” foreign students; and of the unique

longer regarded as destination of he invited a panel of presidents from knowledge and skills these students

choice for attracting the world’s top three major research universities to bring as assistant instructors to IU’s

students, largely because of the diffi- testify on the effects of the new visa classrooms, laboratories, and lan-

culties they face in obtaining visas. policy on their institutions and on guage and culture classes. Just as

Many U.S. embassies and consulates the nation as a whole. important are the opportunities that

worldwide have backlogs of applica- Indiana University President U.S. institutions have to mold the

tions waiting processing. At the Adam W. Herbert made his perspectives of future leaders of

same time, foreign student popula- remarks in the context of the univer- other countries, who return home

tions in other English-speaking sity’s rich legacy of outstanding

countries like Australia, Canada, research and teaching programs continued on page 24

England, and New Zealand are

rising significantly. The question is

whether the more restrictive visa

procedures that have been put in

place to secure U.S. borders are also

shutting the door on the legitimate

exchange of students and scholars.

Senator Richard G. Lugar

(R-Ind.), chair of the Senate

Committee on Foreign Relations,

held a hearing on October 6,

“Addressing the New Reality of

Current Visa Policy on International

Students and Researchers.” His goal

was to determine whether the

changes in visa procedures were Presidents Adam Herbert of Indiana University (center), C. D. Mote of the University of
unnecessarily limiting or deterring Maryland (left), and Martin Jischke of Purdue University (right).
students, researchers, and official

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International News December 2004

Business Faculty Teach Innovative
International M.B.A. Program in Croatia

T wo years in the planning, the Europe, particularly in Hungary and
International Graduate Slovenia. The EIZ turned out to be
Business School (IGBS) Zagreb an ideal Croatian partner, with

was founded by a partnership library holdings, technology support,

between Indiana University’s top- and other facilities that are impor-

ranked Kelley School of Business bines high-level theoretical teaching tant attractions of the program. The

and the Economics Institute of with hands-on experience in their new IGBS program further strength-

Zagreb (EIZ). IGBS Zagreb offers an own business communities. Formal ens the Kelley School’s presence and

innovative, English-language instruction began in January 2004 influence in the Central and the

International M.B.A. Program, with an initial cohort of 14 highly Southeastern European region and

designed to produce a highly skilled qualified student-professionals who provides a potential outlet for

cadre of management professionals will graduate in May 2005. Graduates advanced training of select students

to address the growing needs of receive an M.B.A. diploma from from IU’s South East European

Croatian and southeastern European IGBS Zagreb and a certificate from University undergraduate programs

business communities and con- the Kelley School of Business. The in Macedonia.

tribute to the economic expansion program is limited to 30 students In the two years of preparation

and stability of the region. each year. before the beginning of formal

Until recently, these communi- The genesis of IGBS Zagreb was instruction, Croatian faculty and

ties had to send their young man- when the U.S. Department of State’s administrators visited the Kelley

agers abroad to business schools in Bureau of Educational and Cultural School to work with its faculty in

Europe or the United States to be Affairs awarded a grant of a more designing the curriculum, observing

trained at considerable expense. The than half a million dollars to the Kelley classes, and meeting with key

only Croatian M.B.A. programs Kelley School to help an appropriate administrators to understand how to

available were part time and of lim- partner in Croatia establish and develop and administer a top M.B.A.

ited value to companies. Now, young implement a top-quality manage- program. The school assisted with a

professionals have more affordable ment training program. The Kelley range of marketing strategies,

access to a top-quality management School already had long-standing including a recruitment brochure

education right at home that com- interests in Central and Eastern and flyer distributed not only

throughout Croatia

and Croatian embassies

in other Central and

southeastern European

countries, but even as

far as Canada and the

United States, where

several cities are home

to sizeable Croatian

heritage populations.

Among the out-

standing innovations

of the IGBS Zagreb

program is the struc-

ture of its curriculum.

The international

The official photograph of the 2004–2005 IGBS Zagreb M.B.A. group, together with faculty and M.B.A. is a 16-month

administrators.

continued on page 30

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International News December 2004

IU Bloomington Hosts Three
Central Eurasian Conferences

F or three days in mid-October, discussants who traveled to Çiˇgdem Balim (CeLCAR), Gardner
Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington from Asia, Central Bovingdon (CEUS), Shahyar
hosted several hundred U.S. Asia, Europe, North Africa, Russia, Daneshgar (CEUS), William
and international academics and and the United States, representing Fierman (CEUS), Sara Friedman
artists who came to participate in about 50 U.S. and international (Anthropology), Aktam Jalilov
concurrent meetings convened by institutions. The 62 thematic ses- (CEUS), Askarali Karimov
three international societies and sions and roundtables were devoted (SPEA), Anya King (CEUS),
included concerts, a book exhibit, to topics as wide ranging as Dodona Kiziria (Slavics), Edward
films, and art exhibits. This conver- Charisma and Sources of Authority; Lazzerini (IAUNRC and CEUS),
gence of events focused on the inter- the Politics of Perception; Language, Ricardo Lopez (Economics),
disciplinary study of the cultures, Policy, and Identity; Clans and Talant Mawkanuli (CEUS,
economies, histories, languages, Families in the Caucasus; Human CeLCAR), Anne Pyburn
politics, and globalization of the vast Capital and Economic Development (Anthropology), Nazif Shahrani
region known as Central Eurasia. It in Central Asia; NGOs and Civil (NELC), Kemal Silay (CEUS), and
stretches from the Black Sea basin Society; the Political and Cultural Christopher Whitsel (CEUS).
through Central Asia and Values of Youth; Transnational and
Afghanistan on to Mongolia, Tibet, Regional Energy Issues; Russians in The second meeting was the
and the Uyghur Autonomous Region Central Asia and Central Asians in annual meeting of the Mongolia
in northwest China. The two major Russia; Islam and Politics; and Society, a private, nonprofit, non-
gatherings were the Fifth Annual Inclusion and Exclusion: Ethnic political scholarly organization that
Conference of the Central Eurasian Minorities and the State. The has been housed at Indiana
Studies Society (CESS) and the keynote speaker was Ronald G. University since the mid-1960s. A
Mongolian Society Annual Meeting. Suny of the University of Chicago, major international center for infor-
The third smaller conference was a whose topic was “Dialectics of mation on this remote country, the
symposium convened by the Empire.” organization promotes awareness of
Azerbaijani American Cultural and Mongolia through annual meetings,
Educational Foundation (AACEF). A IUB faculty, students, and visit- yearly exchanges of scholars, and
board meeting of the American ing scholars who participated were publications dealing with its history,
Institute of Afghanistan Studies Michael Alexeev (Economics),
accompanied the events on the last Christopher Atwood (CEUS), continued on page 13
day of the conference.
Central Asian national dress and a model of a Central Asian yurt (on table) are dis-
CESS was formally established played at the book exhibit.
in 2000 as the primary North
American organization to promote
research, teaching, and publication
among scholars of Central Eurasia,
defined to broadly include Turkic,
Mongolian, Iranian, Caucasian,
Tibetan, and other peoples. Its sec-
retariat is hosted by the Harvard
Program on Central Asia and the
Caucasus. The 1,000-strong mem-
bership includes 64 countries.

The CESS conference, which
drew an audience of about 350, had
more than 250 presenters and

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International News December 2004

IUPUI Professor Is Awarded Honorary
Degree from South African University

In October, Robert G. Bringle, Bacon, 1999); and most recently, University of Free State’s Rector Frederick
director of the Center for Service Fourie hoods IUPUI’s Robert Bringle.
and Learning and Chancellor’s The Measure of Service
Professor of Psychology and several of UFS’s community service
Philanthropic Studies at IUPUI, Learning: Research Scales to projects as well as his role in the
received the degree of Doctor advancement of a multi- and inter-
Philosophiae (honoris causa) from Assess Student Experiences disciplinary approach to academic
the University of the Free State (UFS) development and the integration of
in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The (APA Books, 2004). service learning within the faculties
colorful ceremony marked the For several years, Bringle has of UFS. He has also made a valuable
centenary of the university’s found- contribution to the conceptual
ing, its long development, and its been a consultant on the Commu- framework of UFS’s unique commu-
transformation into a modern nity–Higher Education–Service nity service policy and more recently
university. Partnership (CHESP) project of the to the advancement of a research
Joint Education Trust (JET) culture regarding community serv-
Bringle has been a major leader Education Services in South Africa. ice.”
in institutionalizing service learning Part of that involvement has
and civic engagement. Under his included an exceptionally productive Of the 12 honorary doctoral
guidance, IUPUI’s nationally recog- collaboration with UFS. During degrees awarded that evening as
nized Center for Service and 1999, he and his IUPUI colleagues part of UFS’s centenary celebration,
Learning has expanded courses and hosted the university’s core mem- Bringle was the only foreign recipient.
developed a curriculum for academic bers of the CHESP initiative and
staff development, a community shared with them a wealth of infor- —RMN
service scholarship program, an mation regarding many aspects of
America Reads tutoring program, civic engagement.
and a community outreach partner-
ship center. Since then, Bringle has visited
South Africa annually to present
His scholarly interests in service workshops and hold in-depth dis-
learning, community service, and cussions on community engagement
civic engagement include student and service learning. In 2004, he
and faculty attitudes, educational was the featured speaker at UFS’s
outcomes, institutionalization, and second Community Service
assessment and measurement Conference and his presentation was
issues. He is co-editor of a number considered a highlight of the meet-
of books, With Service in Mind: ing. Currently, he is collaborating
with a university staff member as
Concepts and Models for guest editor on a special issue of
Acta Academica titled “Research
Service-Learning in Psychology and (Community) Service Learning
in South African Higher Education
(American Psychological Institutions.”
Association, 1998); Colleges and
Universities as Citizens (Allyn & At the October 14 ceremonies,
UFS said of Bringle: “He is honored
for his exceptional contribution to

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International News December 2004

Indiana University–“la Caixa” Partnership
Continues to Thrive

I t has been almost 20 years since Harvard, Yale, MIT,
the remarkable partnership began
between Indiana University and Stanford, Columbia,
“la Caixa” Foundation. “La Caixa”
Graduate Fellowship Program was University of Chicago, and
founded by “la Caixa,” Spain’s
largest savings bank, to support the Berkeley, among others.
country’s brightest and most tal-
ented students who wished to pur- To date, a total of 23 fel-
sue advanced study abroad. Fellows
may study in the United States, lows have come to IU
Canada, England, France, or
Germany. “La Caixa” graduate fel- Bloomington.
lowships are among Europe’s most
prestigious and embody a farsighted As with every yearly
vision for educating Spain’s future
doctors, scientists, artists, engineers, orientation in August, the
business executives, and an interna-
tionally informed citizenry. Funds scholars of the 2004
for the program derive from Spanish
tax laws that offer benefits to certain Convocatoria exhibited
institutions that contribute a per-
centage of their profits to social, the same degree of enthu-
educational, and cultural projects, as
does “la Caixa” Foundation. siasm and excitement at About to cut “la Caixa” cake at the welcome dinner
meeting each other—most to are (second, third, and fourth from left) Kenneth
The U.S. program, the oldest
and largest of the fellowship pro- for the first time—and Gros Louis, IU Bloomington Chancellor; Rosa-Maria
grams, has been managed by IU were impressed by the Molins, who accompanied the fellows from Spain;
since 1985 through the Office of beauty and hospitality of and OIP Dean Patrick O’Meara. The logo on the cake
International Programs. IU provides the Bloomington campus was originally designed by Joan Miró.
complete financial management of
the program; assists fellowship and the breadth of its aca-
recipients with admissions, aca-
demic placement, and tracking; and demic programs. A group of 31 fel- Patrick O’Meara, dean for interna-
hosts a week of orientation activities lows, accompanied by Rosa-Maria tional programs, who, with Eugene
on the Bloomington campus before Molins and her husband, Josep Kintgen, associate dean of the
the start of each academic year. Tico, came for the August orienta- University Graduate School, and
tion. On their first full day on cam-
“La Caixa” fellows are fully
funded for two years to do graduate pus, they were warmly welcomed by continued on page 20
study in any field they wish at
America’s top educational institu- President Adam Herbert gives welcoming remarks to “la Caixa” fellows at a special
tions. The program has seen growth lunch.
from an initial intake of 12 fellows in
1985 to 50 in 2004. Over the years,
IU has placed “la Caixa” fellows at
such top host institutions as

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International News December 2004

Polish Studies Center and Director
Receive Polish Foreign Ministry Award

T his fall, Indiana University’s Bill Johnston (left) accepts the Polish Foreign Ministry Award from the Polish Foreign
Polish Studies Center (PSC) in Minister, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland.
Bloomington and its current
director, Bill Johnston, received a some of the most important figures several years directing the British
special tribute from the Foreign in Polish politics and culture. These Council’s English Language Centre
Ministry of Poland. The Polish include the 1998 visit of Lech at the University of Wroclaw. While
Foreign Ministry Award, which has Wal˛esa, former president of Poland working later at University of Hawai’i
been made each year since 1970, and Nobel Peace Prize winner for on his dissertation, he became
honors people and institutions that his leadership in the solidarity involved in translating several stories
significantly enhance the promotion movement that paved the way for for a Polish cultural festival there.
of Poland abroad. On October 6, democracy in Poland. Among liter- Since then, he has continued work-
Johnson accepted the award from ary figures was the late Czeslaw ing as a literary translator, particu-
the Polish Foreign Minister, Milosz, a 1980 Nobel Laureate in larly of the works of contemporary
Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, in a Literature who came to IU in Polish authors.
ceremony that took place at the 1981–1982 as a Patten Lecturer. His
Presidential Palace in Warsaw. life and work were celebrated this Johnston’s most recent works of
September by an evening of prose translation are those of renowned
IU has been promoting Polish and poetry readings, sponsored by writer Witold Gombrowicz
studies for almost 30 years. The year the PSC and the Office of the (1904–1969). They were published
1976 saw the establishment of an Bloomington Chancellor. just in time to celebrate the “Year of
exchange program, largely funded Gombrowicz” that has been declared
by the U.S. Department of State, to Johnston, who has been the in Poland to honor the writer’s birth
develop an American Studies Center center’s director since 2001, is an in 1904. These two books are
(ASC) at Warsaw University and a associate professor of applied lin- Bacacay (Archipelago Books, 2004),
Polish Studies Center (PSC) at IU guistics, an adjunct associate profes- a collection of his short stories, and
Bloomington. During the cold war sor of comparative literature, and an Polish Memories (Yale University
period, the ASC was the only place award-winning translator of con- Press, 2004), autobiographical
where Polish scholars had access to temporary Polish literature. He has sketches of his youth written for
uncensored material about the lived, worked, and traveled through- Radio Free Europe during the 1950s.
United States and to U.S. publica- out Poland for many years and spent In April 2002, Johnston was
tions. Over the years, numerous
scholars in the social sciences and continued on page 16
humanities from both institutions
have participated in the exchange,
allowing for more than 60 IU faculty
and graduate students to study in
Poland and an equal number of
Polish scholars to come to the
Bloomington campus.

Each year, the PSC sponsors an
active program of academic, cul-
tural, and social events, including
conferences, concerts, film series,
theatrical performances, and recep-
tions as well as publications. The
center has participated in hosting

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International News December 2004

IUPUI Students Explore
the Many Landscapes of Cuba

F or the third consecutive year,
Timothy Brothers, a profes-
sor of geography at IUPUI, led
a study abroad program to Cuba this

summer. This is no small feat, con-

sidering how both the Cuban and

U.S. governments tightly restrict

Cuban-American interaction. In fact,

11 students had originally signed up

for the program, but 3 had to pull

out due to delays in getting govern-

ment permission. Nevertheless,

Brothers managed to take 8 stu-

dents, all from IUPUI.

Yet, the politics of this exchange

is only one of the multiple landscapes

he and his students explored in On a Havana street corner (left to right) are Timothy Brothers, student Sarah Goss-

Cuba. Robertson, Brothers’ wife Cora Ramirez-Brothers, and student Lori Paul (back to cam-
The 2004 program was offered era) as they listen to Manuel Bollo (second from right), dean of the Faculty of
Geography at the University of Havana, provide information about the surroundings.
as a 3-credit second summer session

course (G345 Geography of Cuba).

The course began at IUPUI with They took walking tours, entered in-depth look into Cuban life is vital

three weeks of intensive introductory apartments, visited the subsidized to Brothers’ goals for his students.

lectures and preparation. Then bodega (market), and met with indi- John Cook, an IUPUI student in

Brothers and his students flew to viduals trained in Santería. This new media who participated in the

Miami where they took a program and took professional-

licensed charter flight to grade photos throughout the

Havana. Staying at midrange trip, agrees that the immersion

hotels for 15 days, they and intense cultural interaction

immersed themselves in the was unique. He says that he

human, cultural, historical, and and his fellow students “had

physical landscapes of Cuba. the opportunity to meet and

The group was assisted by a talk to people, so we could have

Cuban geography professor at a broader view of Havana and

the University of Havana, Cuba.” Kyle Dugan, a student

Angel Claro, who provided lec- of German and Spanish, adds

tures, guidance, and cultural that “I had some of the most

insights. intelligent conversations with

The group stayed five days random people on the street.”

in Havana where they explored The students also took a

all parts of the city. Brothers three-day trip to Pinar del Río,

instructed his students to learn the tobacco region of western

about how the average Cuban Student Erin Grissom chooses some mangos at a fresh Cuba, and they flew to Santiago
lives, so the group ventured far air market. on the Guantánamo Coast of
beyond the typical tourist trail. southeast Cuba. The topography

continued on page 19

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International News December 2004

Education Professor Leads Seminar
in Senegal for English Teachers in
Islamic Schools

A grant through the U.S. first two weeks included intensive the Internet for their poster presen-
Department of State’s Bureau all-day seminars at the American tations. In particular, instructors
of Educational and Cultural Center Summer Institute in Dakar were encouraged to draw on
Affairs supported a unique program where those 20 participants, mostly American studies materials to com-
to address the instructional needs of high school teachers chosen through plement their teaching of English.
Islamic schools that teach English in a highly competitive process,
Africa. Sponsored through the Office learned new methodologies for At the end of the two weeks, their
of English Language Programs for teaching English as a foreign lan- evaluations of the program were
high-level English language training, guage (ELF), assisted by ELF overwhelmingly positive, expressing
the grant enabled 20 English teach- instructor Julia Frazier, and profound appreciation to their
ers from various regions of Senegal received intensive Internet training. instructors. “We have learned in less
to go to the capital, Dakar, for inten- than 15 days what we may have
sive training in interactive, commu- Hosted through the American spent a year or two to learn,” notes
nicative teaching strategies that Embassy, the initial two-week semi- one participant. “Never shall we be
break away from rote memorization nar was conducted at the American able to tell you how much indebted
and traditional grammar-translation Center in downtown Dakar near the we are to you.” Another adds: “It is
approaches to learning languages. port. The participants commuted by really a new step in my life.”
ferry daily to Goree Island—a his-
Students cluster around the computers. During the closing ceremony of
toric stopping-off point the program, the U.S. Ambassador
After conducting a needs assess- in the slave trade— to Senegal, Richard Roth,
ment of teachers in Islamic elemen- where they were housed addressed the 20 graduates and
tary and secondary schools, Ruth at the Mariama Ba awarded certificates. He then
Petzold, the regional English lan- boarding school. announced the 5 instructors who
guage officer (RELO) at the U.S. would participate in the second
Embassy in Dakar, worked with Demba Sene, direc- stage of the seminar in the United
Martha Nyikos, professor of lan- tor of the Internet States where they would receive an
guage education at IU’s School of Resource Center, lead additional two weeks of hands-on
Education, to develop an intensive the teachers through the language training and experience
four-week training program to be Internet training. Nyikos with American culture.
sponsored by the U.S. Embassy. The was impressed by how
much progress the 20 Those five teachers, Seny Diene,
participants made and Mauhamadou “Seydou” Barry,
how eager they were to Lucien Carrera, Birame Diagne,
make their classes more and Gaoussou Drame, made their
interactive. The teachers trip to IU Bloomington in August.
tried out and applied ideas of prob- They spent a week at the School of
lem-based learning, information gap Education to learn about Midwestern
activities, and American studies top- community and university life and
ics from the media and Internet. The worked on ways to incorporate these
participants especially appreciated experiences into classroom lessons
the interactive weekly poster presen- that integrate culture into each
tations that each team of four teach- English lesson they will teach in
ers made and where participants Senegal. Ibro Chekaraou and
offered verbal input and tips to their Susan Jallow, doctoral students in
colleagues. One aim was for teachers the language education department
to find resources and materials on planned and led a panel discussion

continued on page 33

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International News December 2004

Hutton Foundation Lowers Student
Costs for Summer Study Abroad Programs

N ot only did Indiana University students IU student Ryan McCarty (left) enjoys the shallow pool in
spend this past summer on new overseas
study programs, but they did so at a Amsterdam’s Vondelpark with fellow IU students Karen Felts
lower cost. The Edward L. Hutton Foundation
awarded the Office of Overseas Study a three- and Vinney Overmeyer.
year $225,000 grant to create short-term
programs at a reduced cost to students. Known was for me. London theatre and costume history
as the Expanding Horizons Program (see are two of my favorite subjects. Taking students
International News, May 2004), several fac- to London to study both simultaneously and
ulty-led programs were available in summer how they work together socially and theatrically
2004: photography in Paris; costume and char- was a tremendous opportunity, and I think the
acter in London theatre; social justice in the students may have sensed my enthusiasm. I
Netherlands; and history and culture of West learned a great deal myself from this experience
African Muslim societies in Dakar, Senegal. and from the experiences of my students. I look
forward to 2006.”
The Paris photography program allowed 12
undergraduate and 1 graduate student the The open, pragmatic, and international
opportunity to explore Paris through a camera approach to social justice in the Netherlands pro-
lens while earning 6 credit hours. “Considering vides a vivid contrast to U.S. policy. This contrast
that this was the first year of the program,” says gave IUB criminal justice professor Stephanie
program director Jeffrey Wolin (Fine Arts, Kane the idea to design an interdisciplinary pro-
IUB), “I think it was tremendously successful.” gram at the University of Amsterdam. Kane
The program is tentatively scheduled to be directed the first program in July 2004 and will
offered again in 2005. do so again in July 2005. Thirteen undergradu-
ate students earned 6 credits combining class
Students followed two basic themes in their time with excursions to the Peace Palace in the
photographic exploration of Paris. The first was Hague, as well as to an ancient market, a work-
“public Paris,” a tour of sites that all tourists ing windmill, and a new mosque in the historical
visit: Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Pompidou town of Deventer. Students could choose to
Center, among others. The second was “private assign their credits to different IU departments
Paris,” places less frequented by tourists such as such as criminal justice, gender studies, political
smaller parks, le Marais, la Défense, and the science, or anthropology. Commenting on the
Catacombs. Students also visited both historic 2004 class, Kane says: “The students worked
and contemporary exhibitions at art museums hard and they played hard. Amsterdam is a safe
such as the Pompidou, photography museums
such as la Maison Européenne de la Photo-
graphie, and a number of commercial galleries.

Six graduate and seven undergraduate stu-
dents participated in the London theatre pro-
gram, which will be available again in the
summer of 2006. Students earned 3 credits and
spent their time studying plays, attending the-
atre events, and visiting museums and exhibi-
tions featuring costume and art collections.

London Theatre Program director Linda
Pisano (Theatre and Drama, IUB) says of her
summer course, “What a great experience this

continued on page 52
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International News December 2004

IU Southeast Professors Conduct Economic
Development Workshop in Ukraine

This article is written by Jerry E. Wheat, professor of business located 380 kilometers east of Kiev.
administration in the School of Business at IU Southeast and One was a group of business profes-
Brenda Swartz, director of the Regional Economic Development sionals and the second a group of
Resource Center at IU Southeast and an adjunct lecturer in IUS’ School NGO managers. We conducted
of Business. They recently returned from their second trip to Ukraine. economic development training ses-
sions for each group, and we main-
W e first traveled to Ukraine in moving toward a capitalist sys- tained contact with each participant
in 1998 on a grant given to tem, our visit gave us the opportu- via e-mail when they returned to
the Louisville International nity to witness firsthand systems Sumy. Together with our Sumy part-
Cultural Center (LICC) from the that seemed destined to fail because ners, we conceived the idea of LICC
U.S./Ukraine Foundation. Under they lacked the support structure doing an economic development
this U.S. State Department program necessary for capitalism to thrive. A workshop in Sumy as a follow-up to
called “Community Connections,” report we composed after the visit the work we had begun in Louisville,
Louisville was paired with Donetsk, suggested that the city needed sig- and we decided to make the program
Ukraine. The goal of the program nificant assistance, and over a four available to past participants and
was to give government officials in year period the LICC sent several other interested parties. The U.S.
Donetsk the opportunity to learn city officials and business people to State Department’s Bureau of Educa-
about modern city management help Donetsk develop new tional and Cultural Affairs (ECA)
techniques and economic develop- management approaches. responded well to this “bottom up”
ment. We led a needs assessment initiative and agreed that such a
team of four people to Donetsk. We are both board members program could be very valuable.
and grant writers with LICC. Since
Although we had read about the 1994 we have been advisors to visit- We made our second trip to
problems command economies had ing government officials, business Kiev this past summer, from July 24
people, and nongovernmental to August 8, 2004. In August, we
(left to right) Brenda Swartz, Jerry organization (NGO) professionals met in Kiev with Ben Jones, the
Wheat, and Ben Jones in Sumy, Ukraine, who have visited Louisville under executive director of LICC. We were
with the Ukraine Orthodox Church in the numerous State Department pro- pleased to see the changes in Kiev
background. grams. We routinely bring our visi- since our 1998 visit. The route we
tors to campus to meet with took from the airport had numerous
students, faculty, and administra- freshly painted government build-
tors. It was in a discussion with stu- ings, rehabilitated housing blocks,
dents in an economics class that a and new residential housing.
visitor who owned a bakery in Tula,
Russia, first realized she needed to In Sumy, our economic develop-
be nice to her customers, or they ment workshop audience consisted
might switch to her competitors. In of past Community Connections
discussions in another seminar, a participants, Peace Corps Volunteers
manufacturing manager realized working with Ukrainian NGOs,
that high employee turnover cost his small business people, and univer-
company money and that training sity professors. Some groups spent
might be a good investment. 14 hours on the train to get to Sumy
for the workshop, which focused on
The most recent Community presentation and discussion of the
Connections groups visiting Louisville best practices in economic develop-
were from Sumy, Ukraine, an indus- ment as identified in a recent book
trial center of 250,000 people, released by the Organization for

continued on page 16

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International News December 2004

University of Namibia Choir
Performs at IU Bloomington and IU East

I n late September, Indiana University hosted For this inaugural visit, the choir, with a smaller
one of Africa’s most dynamic young choral group of 20 voices under the direction of its con-
ensembles, the University of Namibia Choir. ductor, Bonnie Pereko, produced a brand new

Currently on its first tour to the United States, program that was more dramatic, inspirational,

with sponsorship from the U.S. Department of and entertaining than anything it had done

State, the UNAM Choir spent three days in before.

Indiana. They performed, gave workshops and The UNAM Choir’s visit to IUB included a

interviews, and met fellow musicians and stu- public performance at the Grand Hall of the

dents on the IU Bloomington campus and at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, where they

IU East campus. IUE has had an important fac- also met informally with Wells Scholars Honors

ulty and administrator exchange program with College undergraduates. They held joint classes

the University of Namibia for the past two years. with the International Vocal Ensemble taught by

Created in 1997, the 50-strong UNAM Choir Mary Goetze of the School of Music, and the

is considered one of the cultural gems of African American Choral Ensemble directed by

Namibian youth. It has toured in Africa and James Mumford of the African American Arts

Europe, with performances that have been Institute. Mumford was interested to see the dif-

described as “a breathtaking kaleidoscope of the ferences in how Africans performed African-

finest choral and dance traditions and cultural American gospel songs.

rituals of Namibia’s various indigenous commu- IU students reacted to the choir perform-

nities and of the African continent itself, often ance and class participation with overwhelm-

woven into a tapestry of original musicals.” ingly enthusiasm: “Having them there, learning

The UNAM Choir prefers to sing in four- from them, and then them learning from us—I

voice a capella that is traditional in Africa, really was totally pepped about that whole expe-

accompanied by drums or a small band. Their rience!” Other students added: “What a wonder-

repertoire consists of religious, concert, tradi- ful, wonderful performance and message,” and,

tional, and folk music. They sing in all Namibian “I was really inspired by the Namibian choir’s

languages, 5 African (Kwanyama, Ndonga, energy and spirit.”

Herero, Lozi, Kwangali) and 3 European

(German, English, Afrikaans). Their perform- continued on page 49

ance of Oshinyandwa, an original musical

drama written by Namibian dramatist

and actor Aldo Behrens, patron of

the choir and UNAM’s dean of

humanities and social sciences, has

spellbound international audiences.

International recognition and

support for the choir’s outstanding

artistry has come from the Ford

Foundation, the German Cultural

Exchange Service (DAAD), the British

Council, several diplomatic missions

in Namibia, and several multinational

corporations, such as Coca-Cola.

This year, thanks to support by

the U.S. Department of State and

invitations from the Yale Glee Club The choir performs a musical drama at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.
Choir, Rutgers University, and IU, a

U.S. tour was finally made possible.

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International News December 2004

New Director Is Appointed
to Lead Indiana University Press

Janet Rabinowitch of the press for so long, but I’m In acknowledging the current
thrilled to be in the position of lead- challenges for all university presses,
A fter a year-long national ing the press and working with its she points out that the book market,
search, Janet Rabinowitch wonderful staff to reach even greater along with academic library budgets,
has been chosen as the new heights.” Her colleague Marilyn are currently shrinking. “It is very
director of Indiana University Press. Breiter, marketing manager for the difficult to be an academic press at
The press is one of the nation’s lead- press, says, “She knows how to make this time, as big chains and whole-
ing academic publishers specializing decisions, and she is enormously salers often return books if they are
in the humanities and social sciences respected and liked by everyone here.” not sold right away,” says
and was founded in 1950 by the late Rabinowitch.
University Chancellor Herman B Rabinowitch has been with the
Wells. With about 140 new books press for a remarkable 29 years Among technological innova-
and 25 journals published every since joining in 1975. She has held tions in publishing, Rabinowitch
year, IU Press is “among the top 10 positions as sponsoring editor, hopes to keep up with the new trend
U.S. university presses in publishing senior sponsoring editor, editorial of print-on-demand publishing,
new material,” says Rabinowitch. director, and interim director since which allows books to be produced
June 2003. An undergraduate one at a time as orders are
“We are lucky to have Janet as French major at Wellesley College, requested. Of her goal in building up
the director of IU Press,” says she earned her doctorate in Russian the overall program, she says, “We
Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis, senior studies at Georgetown University. At are trying to steer our list in the
vice president for academic affairs the press, she earned an international direction of books that reach beyond
and Bloomington chancellor. “I reputation as a distinguished editor specific disciplines and that are of
know that she will lead IU Press into in the field of Russian and Eastern interest to the academic world and
a new era of excellence while contin- European studies. In 1997, IU’s to serious general readers.”
uing the good work of her predeces- Russian and East European Institute
sors. Janet understands the value of awarded her its Distinguished Rabinowitch also hopes to part-
IU Press and the important role it Service Award, and in 2000, she was ner with units within the university
plays at Indiana University.” honored with the Outstanding to start electronic publishing, a trend
Lifetime Achievement Award from that is definitely the wave of the
“I am honored to have been the Association for Women in Slavic future. She has spearheaded collabo-
selected as the next director,” says Studies. rations between IU Press and such
Rabinowitch. “I’ve been a central part important cultural institutions as the
During her time at the press, U.S. Holocaust Museum, the YIVO
Rabinowitch has acquired more Institute for Jewish Research, the
than 500 titles. In addition to Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Russian and Eastern European stud- in Poland, and the Indianapolis
ies, she established internationally Museum of Art. She is currently
respected lists for Indiana in Jewish serving a three-year term on the
and Holocaust studies, African stud- board of directors of the Association
ies, Middle Eastern studies, and of American University Presses.
continental philosophy. Under her
guidance, many of these books have Rabinowitch is the fourth direc-
won prestigious academic awards tor of Indiana University Press and
and prizes and been recognized as the first woman to hold that position.
“Outstanding Academic Books” by
the American Library Association’s —Adapted from IU Media Relations
Choice magazine.
(September 13, 2004) and Indiana

Daily Student (September 14, 2004)

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International News December 2004

Eurasian Conferences continued from page 3

language, ethnic groups, and (Left to right) OIP Dean Patrick O’Meara and IUB CESS keynote speaker
cultures. Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis greet U.S. Ambassador to Ronald Suny of the
Mongolia Pamela Slutz; Deputy Mongolian Ambassador University of Chicago.
The 2004 annual meeting was to the United States Ts. Jambaldorj; and his wife
devoted to the theme “Mongols and Dulamsuren.
their Neighbors,” and its eight pan-
els were on the topics of education, China, India, Italy, Japan, the (visiting scholar, CEUS), and Daniel
interethnic relations, language, Netherlands, and Russia. IUB fac- Zaretsky (CeLCAR).
Buddhism, pre-history, relations to ulty, students, and visiting scholars
Central Asian neighbors, contempo- who participated were Christopher The third meeting, “Azerbaijanis
rary social and economic problems, Atwood (CEUS), Gyorgy Kara in Iran: Facts and Perspectives,” was
and U.S. undergraduate curriculum (CEUS), Nasrullo Khodjaerov the first of its kind and was con-
on Mongolia. Two keynote speakers (CeLCAR), Myagmar (visiting ducted entirely in the Azerbaijani
were U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia scholar, CEUS), Katherine Petrie language. Azerbaijanis are the
Pamela Slutz, and Deputy (Anthropology), Baasan Ragchaa largest ethnic minority in Iran,
Ambassador of Mongolia to the about 25 million. About 100 atten-
United States Tserendorj dinosaurs fighting to the death. dees came from many countries,
Jambaldorj. Slutz spoke of the Sumiya was unable to enter the including Azerbaijan, Canada, Iran,
deepening relationship between the United States at the last minute. Sweden, Turkey, and the United
two countries and praised the His brother, Enkhold Sumiya, a States. The First Secretary of the
increasingly democratic reforms tak- student studying at IUB for his Embassy of Azerbaijan in the United
ing place there. Jambaldorj pointed master’s in environmental sci- States Sultan Malikov was an hon-
to difficulties in the transition to ence, says that his brother is fas- ored guest. The conference sponsor,
democracy and a market economy, cinated by prehistory and has AACEF, is a Bloomington-based
but said the process was positive spent time doing research at nonprofit cultural and educational
and urged expanding cultural Mongolia’s Museum of Natural organization formed in 2003 with
exchanges. History, which has one of the Shahyar Daneshgar as its execu-
largest collections of dinosaur tive director. AACEF’s goals are to
There were more than 30 pre- remains on the continent. advance and improve the study of
senters, not just from Mongolia and Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis in all
the United States, but including Mongolian Studies Professor academic fields.
Christopher Atwood has written
Mongolian Art Exhibits The symposium examined such
continued on page 32 aspects as the political and social
The cultural highlights of the rights, the question of self-determi-
nation, the role of intellectuals in
Mongolian Society meeting were

two art exhibits by contemporary

Mongolian painters, the first by

the husband-wife team,

Erdenebayar Monkhor and

Munkhtsetseg-Anar Jakhaajav,

at the Indiana Memorial Union

Gallery, and the second by five

other artists at IU’s Mathers

Museum of World Cultures. A fea-

tured artist at that exhibit was

Chinzorig Sumiya, whose

abstract oil on canvas painting

Beginning to the End is depicted

on the cover, showing two

continued on page 32

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International News December 2004

IUPUI’s International House
Forges Friendship and Understanding

T he IUPUI International House (I-House), a cultures through cross-cultural living as well as
joint program of the Office of International through international programs and activities.
Affairs and Campus Housing, began in I-House residents are members of the
1990 as a cross-cultural living and learning cen- International Club, which is open to any individ-
ter that aimed to forge deeper understanding ual who is interested in international and cul-
and respect for all cultures. Now in its tural activities. The International Club helps
fourteenth year, I-House has been home to sponsor weekly Culture Hours every Friday after-
nearly 800 students from more than 100 coun- noon from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Students make pre-
tries worldwide. sentations about their respective countries and
cultures or discuss international topics or current
Initially located in the old Warthin Apartment events. Ethnic food is always a highlight of the
building on the IUPUI campus, I-House was Culture Hours, which are held in the Corner at
demolished in 2001 to make way for new campus the Campus Apartments on the Riverwalk.
housing. After a two-year construction period in Culture Hours are free, and everyone is welcome
which I-House was relocated off campus, the res- to attend. Over the years, I-House residents have
idence moved back to campus with the opening also been involved in community service proj-
of the Campus Apartments on the Riverwalk, ects, campus events, and a variety of social activi-
located along the White River State Park. Jill ties and excursions. Residents have traveled to
Jean-Baptiste, program coordinator of Chicago, New Orleans, New York City, and
International House since 1996, is extremely Washington, D.C. They have gone whitewater
pleased with the new location, the spacious rafting and visited Kings Island Amusement Park
apartments, and the diverse group of residents. in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Nineteen countries, including Belgium, Belize,
India, Japan, Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, International House is more than a place to
Tajikistan, Togo, and the United States, are cur- live. It brings together students, faculty, staff,
rently represented. Thirty-seven residents live in and the Indianapolis community for dialogue
fully equipped four-bedroom, two-bath apart- about international events and cross-cultural
ments. Within each apartment, students live, issues. It provides a necessary forum for the
socialize, study, and cook together in shared exchange of ideas and the development of global
kitchens and living spaces. awareness.

The mission of the I-House is to foster a Of course, it is a wonderful place to live and
deeper understanding and appreciation of other forge friendships. As Jean-Baptiste points out, it
is the “community and friendships” that make
Students are happy about their new international residence at this residence special. She particularly enjoys
IUPUI. “watching students from all over the world build
unique and lasting relationships.” The friend-
ships and social bonds that emerge from I-House
are numerous and deep. They lay the foundation
for the deeper understanding and respect for cul-
tures, which is, after all, the mission of living and
learning at I-House.

For more information about the
International House or the International Culture
Hours, please contact Jill Jean-Baptiste by
e-mail at [email protected].

—Hilary Kahn

Office of International Affairs, IUPUI

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International News December 2004

School of Music Appoints Internationally
Acclaimed Artists to Piano Faculty

I n the fall of 2004, the Indiana Philharmonic in its Young People’s Symphony,
University School of Music Concert, which was broadcast nation-
appointed two of the world’s wide on CBS-TV. Two weeks later, Orchestre de
greatest living pianists, André he was asked to substitute at the last
Watts and Arnaldo Cohen, to its minute for an ailing Glenn Gould to la Suisse
faculty. Watts will fill the newly cre- perform music by Franz Liszt with
ated Jack I. and Dora B. Hamlin the Philharmonic, thus launching Romande, and
Endowed Chair in Music. His Watts’ career in storybook fashion.
appointment was made possible by the Santa
the university’s Commitment to Watts’ 1976 New York recital,
Excellence Program, which is help- aired on the program “Live from Cecilia
ing the School of Music through the Lincoln Center,” made history as the
addition of four eminent master first full-length recital broadcast in Orchestra of
teachers. the history of television. A much-
honored artist who has played Rome. He has
Says School of Music Dean before royalty and heads of state
Gwyn Richards, “The appointment worldwide, Watts was the youngest also performed
of musicians of such outstanding person, at age 26, ever to receive an
caliber is a tribute to our school, our honorary doctorate from Yale under some of
faculty, and our reputation as a University. More than 40 years
worldwide leader in music education later, Watts remains one of today’s the world’s Arnaldo Cohen
and performance. We are delighted most celebrated and beloved greatest
and honored that André and pianists. He makes regular visits to
Arnaldo have chosen Bloomington the major summer music festivals conductors,
as the place to continue their distin- and has also made frequent televi-
guished careers and look forward to sion appearances, performing with including Kurt Masur, Klaus
them greatly enhancing the artistic the New York Philharmonic, the
lives of our students.” Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Tennstedt, Kurt Sanderling, Edo de
Orchestra, the Mostly Mozart
“I am absolutely delighted to Festival Orchestra, and the Chamber Waart, and Yehudi Menuhin, who
welcome these two wonderful indi- Music Society of Lincoln Center.
viduals,” says Evelyne Brancart, called Cohen “one of the greatest
chair of the piano department. Watts’ endowed chair was made
“They are not only on top of the possible by a gift from IU alumni pianists I have ever heard.”
pianistic and musical world, but Jack and Dora Hamlin of Norfolk,
they are both great human beings.” Virginia. A pianist and music lover, Born to Persian and Russian
Jack Hamlin earned a degree in
Watts business from IU before going on to immigrants in Brazil, Cohen was the
burst upon serve in World War II, Korea, and
the music Vietnam. first-prize winner of the 1972 Busoni
world in 1963
at the age of Brazilian-born Arnaldo Cohen International Piano Competition in
16 when has been called one of the world’s
Leonard best-kept secrets, even though he Italy and later became a prominent
Bernstein has played in major concert halls
chose him to throughout Europe and South figure in the European music world
make his America and with the Royal
debut with Philharmonic Orchestra, the when he replaced legendary
the New York André Watts Philharmonia, the Bavarian Radio
Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich

at a concert at the Concertgebouw in

Amsterdam.

Cohen made his triumphant

New York debut during the

1996–1997 season in a recital at the

Frick Museum. He returned to New

York the next season to perform a

critically acclaimed recital at the

Tisch Center for the Performing

Arts. In addition to his solo appear-

ances, he has performed in the

Amadeus Piano Trio as well as with

many string quartets, including the

Lindsay Quartet, Chilingirian

Quartet, Orlando Quartet, and

Vanbrugh Quartet.

In the 2002–2003 season,

Cohen made several other U.S.

debuts, including performances with

the Philadelphia Orchestra and

continued on page 27

15

International News December 2004

Economic Development Workshop continued from page 10

Economic Cooperation and nomic development with government starting a student newspaper in
Sumy. We are working with a Peace
Development (OECD). officials and NGO managers at 30 Corps Volunteer teaching photogra-
phy in an orphanage in Sumy to
In a U.S. State Department other IAPT sites located throughout arrange a showing of their photo-
graphs on our campus. Additionally,
Internet training laboratory in the Ukraine. we sent them information about the
March 2005 meeting of the Soyuz
Sumy State University (SSU) After returning to Kiev, we held Symposium hosted by IU to SSU
faculty in hopes that one or more
Scientific Library building, we held a discussions with U.S. embassy officials might submit papers for presentation.

chat session on the Internet Access about our trip. They expressed a wish The State Department calls the
programs we work with “citizen
and Training Program (IATP) to send a group of Ukrainian mayors diplomacy,” and we like to think of
ourselves as two of IU’s am-
(www.iatp.org.ua) Web site. For two to the Louisville area next spring to bassadors to the world. We have
learned much in our travels and
hours, the three of us discussed eco- discuss economic development. interactions with people of other
cultures; the experiences have added
Since our another dimension to our lives. We
try to create similar opportunities
return to the U.S., for students, faculty, and commu-
nity members to experience other
we have started cultures.

several different —REEIfication Newsletter

programs with our (October 2004)

Ukrainian friends.

LICC’s Global

Education Network

has paired stu-

dents from local

high schools with

high school stu-

dents in Ukraine as

e-mail “pen pals.”

James St. Clair

(Journalism, IUS)

Standing behind the class during one of the workshop sessions and his students

are (left to right) SSU history professor Sergiy Kubatov, who are assisting stu-
served as translator, Jerry Wheat, and Brenda Swartz. dents at SSU in

Polish Foreign Ministry Award continued from page 6

responsible for bringing a dramatic adaptation center, like the other area studies centers at IU,
of Gombrowicz’s satirical novel, Ferdydurke, to has been opening up the rest of the world to IU
Bloomington. In April 2003, he was awarded an students and faculty as well as the people of the
Amicus Poloniae award from the Polish govern- state of Indiana.”
ment, together with Patrick O’Meara, IU’s
dean for International Programs. This academic In addition to Warsaw University, IUB has
year, Johnston is on sabbatical leave. more recently established an academic exchange
program with Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
“This award to the Polish Studies Center IUPUI has also been exploring formal agree-
and to Bill Johnston for promoting knowledge of ments with a number of universities in Poland.
Poland and things Polish is richly deserved,”
says Owen V. Johnson, the center’s acting —RMN
director. “But the award only tells part of the
story. For more than a quarter of a century, the

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International News December 2004

WEST Students Learn Firsthand
about the European Union during Summer

M ichael McLaughlin, a pants were also given rare opportu- group attended sessions at the
graduate student in West nities to tour the Palais du Ministry for Internal Affairs; the
European Studies (WEST) Luxembourg, which houses the Ministry of Economics and Labor;
and the School of Public and French Sénat, and the Hôtel de the headquarters of the Christian
Environmental Affairs (SPEA), and Ville, the city hall of Paris. Despite Democratic Union/Christian Social
Todd Linton, a graduate student in the busy schedule of lectures and Union, the current opposition politi-
WEST, spent the summer studying sessions at ENA, the IU students cal party; a law firm; and the offices
the European Union—by visiting it. still found many opportunities to of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit.
Through a course offered by SPEA, explore the celebrated City of Lights. They gained a strong sense of many
the European Union in the Twenty- Some intrepid students even rented different aspects of public policy in
First Century, the two joined 14 a car and paid a visit to the historic Germany, including how the issues
other area studies, law, and SPEA beaches and memorials of
students on a four-week trip across Normandy. Michael McLaughlin (right) and Todd
Europe, accompanied by SPEA pro- Linton at the Erfurt conference.
fessor Eugene McGregor and The next stop was Brussels, the
joined later in Germany by another capital of Belgium and seat of the that remain from the country’s long
SPEA professor, David Audretsch, political institutions of the EU. They division are being addressed and
director of SPEA’s Institute for sat in on sessions at the European how Germany is affected by the
Development Strategies. They stayed Commission and the Council of evolving nature of the EU. The
in five European cities and visited Ministers. After having studied Berlin part of the course concluded
many major political institutions these organizations for so long, the with a guided tour of the
along the way to gain a fuller under- students found it incredible to be Reichstag, the German Parliament,
standing of how the EU operates able to visit them firsthand, and whose famous dome offers a spec-
and what it means for a once- gain an in-depth understanding of tacular view of the city.
divided continent to pursue a path the issues currently confronting the
of peaceful integration. EU. The matter of security policy The next stop was Erfurt, where
was addressed during a subsequent they participated in a two-day con-
The class began in Paris, where visit to NATO, where different per- ference at the Erfurt School of Public
the students were hosted by the spectives on the Atlantic Alliance Policy entitled “Where is Europe
were shared by a group of Going? (And What Has America to
École Nationale d’Administration enthusiastic speakers. Do with It?).” This conference gave
the IU students a remarkable oppor-
(ENA)—France’s prestigious training After Brussels, the students tunity to discuss the issues they had
school for high-level civil servants. traveled by bus to the town of studied with a group of other stu-
The students heard presentations by Bingen, Germany. A boat ride up the dents from around the world. Erfurt
important figures in French public Rhine River, past the region’s beau- and SPEA students sat together on
affairs, including representatives tiful castles and vineyards, brought
from the Conseil d’État, the the group to Boppard, a small town continued on page 28
Magistrature, and the Foreign on the Rhine that is home to the
Ministry, as well as by analysts and Bundesakademie, a monastery
academics from European universi- converted into a training center for
ties and research institutions. The German civil servants. After resting
speakers were all engaging and for two days in this picturesque
knowledgeable and gave the stu- town, the students departed by bus
dents a great amount of insight into for Berlin.
the workings of the French govern-
ment, society, and economy, and As in Paris and Brussels, the
also into France’s place in the wider class had a full and busy schedule.
European context. The class partici- After a walking tour of the city, the

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International News December 2004

Thailand’s NIDA Renews Its Exchange
Relationship with Indiana University

T he National Institute of
Development Administration
(NIDA) is Thailand’s leading educa-
tional institution that concentrates exclu-

sively on graduate studies in fields related

to national development, offering mas-

ter’s and doctoral degree programs in

business administration, social develop-

ment, applied statistics, and others. Since

its inception in the mid-1960s, NIDA has

had a long-standing association and his-

tory of cooperation on various projects

with Indiana University that go back

more than 25 years. President Preecha Jarungidanan signs the IU-NIDA renewal
agreement with Dean for International Programs Patrick
In October, a six-member delegation
from NIDA, headed by President Preecha

Jarungidanan, came to Indiana

University to renew the relationship

between the two institutions. A formal agreement Nattapong Thongpakde, Director of the
was first signed in 1985 through the Office of Economics Ph.D. Program Wichai Turongpun,
International Programs to promote mutual Dean of the School of Business Administration
understanding. The renewal this fall will allow Thakol Nunthirapakorn, and Assistant to the
more student opportunities and short-term fac- President Wasita Boonsathorn.
ulty and staff exchanges to both the Bloomington
and Indianapolis campuses. The delegation was also interested in learn-
ing more about the U.S. academic system and
Accompanying the president were Vice various administrative units and structures. On
President for Administration Chindalak both the Bloomington and Indianapolis cam-
Vadhanasindhu, Vice President for Planning puses, they were able to meet several deans and

faculty members of the

schools of public and envi-

ronmental affairs, business,

education, and the graduate

school, as well as adminis-

trators in the budget office,

university information sys-

tems office, planning and

institutional improvement

and instructional technol-

ogy, and international pro-

grams. At IUPUI, they were

present at the dedication of

the new informatics build-

At a dinner given in honor of the delegation’s visit are (left to right) NIDA ing housing the School of

President Preecha Jarungidanan, former IU President John W. Ryan, and NIDA Informatics.
Vice President Chindalak Vadhanasindhu, an IU alumnus.

—RMN

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International News December 2004

Global Center Publishes Guides to
International and Global Resources

Over the past five years, The • Christine Furno, Sarah Geis, These publications may be
Center for the Study of Rebecca Olson, and Virginia ordered from the Center for the
Global Change at Indiana Goehlert. International Study of Global Change, 201 North
University Bloomington has been Studies Resources: A Indiana Avenue, Indiana University,
publishing a series of resource Bloomington, IN 47408-4001;
guides for students and faculty Selected Guide, 2002. 160 pp. telephone: (812) 855-0756; fax:
interested in international and • Kenneth A. Steuer. A Guide to (812) 855-6271; e-mail:
global studies. All guides were devel- [email protected].
oped under the general direction of Conducting International
Robert Goehlert, IU librarian for
economics, political science, and Conference Simulations,
criminal justice and library liaison
for the global center. 2002. 115 pp.
• Kris Bell and Rebecca Olson. • Alisa Alering, Nancy Almand,

Countries of Southeast Asia Kira Homo, and Christina Jones.
Globalization: A Guide to
and Australasia: A
Selected Resources, 2003.
Bibliographic Guide, 2000. 44 103 pp.
pp. • Kira Homo, Christina Jones,
• Marian Shaaban and Robert and John Russell. Terrorism:
Goehlert. United Nations A Guide to Selected

Documentation: A Basic Resources, 2004. 118 pp.
• Robert Goehlert and Marian
Guide, 2002. 81 pp.
Shaaban. The European Union:
Basic Resources, 2004. 93
pp.

Landscapes of Cuba continued from page 7

changes dramatically throughout the other, with history, and with
rural and urban regions of Cuba—
from cactus scrub to limestone topo- the physical geography in
graphy to rainforest—so the students
experienced firsthand the physical which they happen to live.
and cultural diversity of Cuba.
The future of this course
But Brothers wanted his stu-
dents to learn more than the is, unfortunately, unknown.
specifics of Cuba; he wanted them to
comprehend Cuba in context and The U.S. government has
envision Cuba as part of wider
spheres. He and Claro demonstrated further restricted travel to
the intimate relationship between
environment, economics, and ethnic Cuba, so Brothers will have
politics. They related the specifics of
Cuba to universal models of global- to reapply to the U.S.
ization, colonization, and the move-
ment of plate tectonics. The course Treasury Department for an
was thus not only about Cuba but
more broadly about how people all academic license to run his
over the world interact with each
Cuba study abroad program. The Cathedral of Havana dates back to the
Though there is uncertainty, eighteenth century.
he is optimistic. So are his

students. As Dugan points

out, “Cuba won’t be Cuba for long. —Hilary Kahn

Once the embargo is lifted or when Office of International Affairs, IUPUI

Castro dies, its uniqueness will be

changed. So, it is imperative that

you go now, before Cuba as we know

it is gone.”

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International News December 2004

Partnership continued from page 5

see, and shop before Doctor of Laws to “la Caixa” presi-
dent and CEO José Vilarasau,
traveling on to their whose visionary leadership led to
the creation of “la Caixa” fellowship
host institutions. program. That same year, the gov-
ernment of Catalonia awarded
An important O’Meara its highest award to a non-
Catalonian, the Cross of St. George,
part of the IU–“la in recognition of his dedication to
“la Caixa” program. During the 1998
Caixa” partnership orientation, a group of seven jour-
nalists from Spain accompanied the
is IU’s annual par- fellows and spent several days tour-
ing the campus and interviewing IU
ticipation in the students and administrators to
gather information on the U.S. sys-
selection process of tem of higher education. In spring
2001, IU awarded Josep Carrau,
future fellows. Each director of the research department
of “la Caixa,” the Thomas Hart
fall, an IU team of Benton Mural Medallion to honor
him for his dedicated leadership of
top administrators, the program.

led by O’Meara, The five musicians who are cur-
rently studying at or just recently
travels to Madrid left the School of Music are Jordi
Torrent, who in 2002 studied for a
and Barcelona to Master of Music in piano;
Salvador Esteve, who also arrived
At “la Caixa” headquarters in Barcelona during selection of take part in the rig- in 2002 and is completing a
new fellows are (left to right) Patrick O’Meara; Rosa-Maria orous interview and Performer Diploma in violin; Jaime
Molins, fellowship program officer; Josep Carrau, director of selection process of Gorgojo, who arrived in 2003 to
“la Caixa’s” Research Department; and Maria-Teresa Torrents more than 450 aspi- earn a Master of Music in violin, and
coordinator of the UK, Canada, and France fellowship Fernando Cruz, this year’s newest
fellow to pursue his Master in Music
rants vying for the in piano.

50 places in the U.S. —RMN

Bruce Jaffee, professor in the program. This year, O’Meara was
Kelley School of Business, spoke to accompanied by John Slattery,
them about “The Graduate dean of Graduate Studies; Eugene
Experience in the United States.” O’Brien, associate dean of the
School of Music; and Suzanne
The next day, IU President Thorin, dean of University
Adam Herbert extended a warm Libraries. In spring, when finalists
welcome to the scholars at a special for the following year have been
luncheon, where they also heard two chosen, O’Meara returns to Spain to
talks on aspects of contemporary represent IU at a formal award cere-
American culture by Yeidy Rivero mony presided over by King Juan
and Chris Anderson, both profes- Carlos Iand Queen Sofía of Spain.
sors in the Department of Communi-
cation and Culture. The final three Over the years, IU and “la
days of orientation week were spent Caixa” have continued to enhance
in Chicago, where the fellows were their partnership in other ways. In
able to tour the Art Institute, sight- 1997, IU conferred an honorary

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International News December 2004

IU Signs Agreement with
Mahasarakham University in Thailand

A high-level delegation of vice One of the areas
presidents, deans, and direc-
tors from Mahasarakham MSU has targeted
University (MSU) in Thailand,
headed by President Adulya for expansion is the
Viriyavejakul, spent a two-day visit
at Indiana University Bloomington creation of new
in mid-November. Their purpose
was to sign an “Agreement of Ph.D. programs in
Friendship and Cooperation”
between MSU and IUB’s Office of the field of educa-
International Programs. MSU
already has existing articulation tion. The Thai dele-
agreements with IUPUI’s School of
Engineering and Technology and the gation first attended
Department of Computer and
Information Science whereby under- a formal signing, fol-
graduate Thai students may transfer
to the Indianapolis campus to com- lowed by a luncheon
plete the last two years of their
Bachelor of Science degrees. hosted by IU’s Dean

Located in northeastern for International
Thailand, MSU was originally estab-
lished as a College of Education in Programs Patrick
1968, evolved into a branch of
Srinakharinwirot University in 1974, O’Meara, and sen-
and then eventually received its own
charter in 1994 to become a compre- ior administrators
hensive university. It now comprises
14 faculties and several research and faculty of the At the signing are Mahasarakham University’s President
institutes, centers, and support School of Education. Adulya Viriyavejakul (seated left), Dean for International
units. It has a current enrollment of Meeting the delega- Programs Patrick O’Meara, and School of Education Dean
more than 20,000 students studying tion were Dean Gerardo Gonzales (standing second from right).
in 49 undergraduate programs, 26
master’s degree programs, and sev- Gerardo Gonzalez
eral doctoral degree programs. As a
young university, it is actively seek- near future. Three areas in educa-
ing to expand its linkages with
educational institutions abroad. and Associate Dean Peter tion that MSU is especially inter-
A major goal of the new formal
IU–MSU agreement is to draw on Kloosterman, as well faculty ested in developing are doctoral
IU’s broad expertise to help them
expand their doctoral programs and members Elizabeth Boling programs in educational administra-
learn more about the infrastructure
of a major U.S. research university. (Instructional Systems Technology), tion, educational technology, and

Barry Bull (Education Leadership curriculum and instruction. IU edu-

and Policy Studies), Carry Buzzelli cation faculty will consult at MSU on

(Curriculum and Instruction), curriculum development and doc-

Bradley Levinson (International toral degree programs while MSU

Education), and Martha Nyikos faculty will come to IU for short-

(Language Education). Others term visits related to their special-

attending were David Jones izations. Helping to coordinate the

(Center on Southeast Asia) and delegation’s visit at the school were

Timothy Diemer (School of Heidi Ross of the Department of

Engineering and Technology) from Educational Leadership and Policy

the IUPUI campus, and OIP Studies and chair of the school’s

Associate Dean Charles International Programs Committee,

Reafsnyder and Assistant Deans and Rose Vondrasek, OIP program

Judith Rice and Roxana Ma associate for administering IU’s

N e w m a n. international affiliations.

The remaining day and a half

were devoted to individual and —RMN

group meetings with School of

Education professors to plan details

for an exchange of faculty in the

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International News December 2004

IUPUI’s School of Engineering and
Technology Trains Turkish Students in Summer

Services coordinated support services

for the Turkish participants by arrang-

ing housing, orientation, and activities

that involved them in recreational and

cultural experiences in the central

Indiana area. Activities designed to

offer broader perspectives on life and

work in Middle America included vis-

its to local industries, cultural events,

shopping tours, and a seminar series

of lectures and discussions on cultural

and technical topics. Industry visits

SET Dean H. Öner Yurtseven (center with tie) gathers faculty and staff to congratulate were arranged in cooperation with
the 11 Yeditepe University participants upon completion of their summer 2004 program. public relations offices at Cummins,

Inc., Carrier Corporation, Kelley

Racing, and Diversified Systems, Inc.

I n the spring of 2004, administrators and Marilyn Mangin of the school’s Office
faculty members from Yeditepe University of International Services coordinated the social
(YU), Istanbul, Turkey, selected 11 of their and cultural activities and industry visits.

students to participate in a specially arranged Timothy Diemer of SET’s Department of

summer 2004 program for engineering and Organizational Leadership coordinated the sem-

technology students at the IUPUI School of inar series on technical and cross-cultural topics.

Engineering and Technology (SET). The program On the final day of the summer program the

was designed in accordance with an agreement Yeditepe University participants presented multi-

for friendship and cooperation between YU and media descriptions of their laboratory work to

IUPUI, which was signed in May 2003. an audience of SET faculty and staff members.

SET faculty members reviewed qualifica- Acting on advice and feedback from both partici-

tions of the Turkish students and matched each pants and SET faculty members, H. Öner

with suitable internship assignments in the Yurtseven, dean of the School of Engineering

school’s laboratories in mechanical engineering, and Technology, intends to offer a similar

electrical and computer engineering, electrical program to YU students during summer 2005.

and computer engineering technology, and The exchange agreement between IUPUI

computer and information technology. Because and YU also allowed two IUPUI students to

English is the language of instruction at YU, attend a summer 2004 program at Yeditepe

participants arrived with strong English University.

language qualifications to complement their

technical backgrounds. —Timothy Diemer

The students were at IUPUI for the whole School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI

month of July 2004. SET’s Office of International

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International News December 2004

IUB Offers Summer Intensive
Yiddish Course for Holocaust Researchers

T he Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Summer Intensive Yiddish course students with Marc
of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Caplan and Brukhe Lang Caplan (second and third
cooperation with Indiana University’s 2004 from left); IU alumna Ruth Schachter (front row, third
Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, from right); and Paul Shapiro (far right), director of the
and Central Asian Languages and the Robert A. Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S.
and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Holocaust Memorial Museum.
sponsored an intensive language course, Yiddish
for Holocaust Research, on the Bloomington Kerler; “Antisemitism or Obedience? Under-
campus from June 28 to August 6, 2004. standing the Perpetrators,” by Mark Roseman;
“Literature and the Holocaust,” by Alvin
The six-week course, which offered partici- Rosenfeld; and “Sutzkever and Singer: Two
pants the equivalent of a full year (6 credits) of Strategies for Holocaust Fiction in Yiddish,” by
college language instruction, focused primarily Marc Caplan. Lectures by Center for Advanced
on Yiddish grammar and reading skills for use in Holocaust Studies staff included: “History of the
research. IU comparative literature lecturer Holocaust: An Overview,” by Peter Black; “The
Marc Caplan and his wife Brukhe Lang Caplan Churches and the Holocaust,” by Suzanne
taught the course. Brown-Fleming; and “The Holocaust in
Romania,” by Radu Ioanid.
Ten students and scholars were selected
from more than 40 applicants. Participants had The cost of the course, books, housing in a
an interest in acquiring a reading knowledge of residence hall, and meal allowances were under-
Yiddish to access Jewish source documents and written by the Center for Advanced Holocaust
perspectives on the Holocaust and to better Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
understand the Yiddish-speaking Jewish com-
munities of Europe that were targeted by the —Carolyn Lipson-Walker
Nazis. One of the workshop participants was IU Jewish Studies Program
alumna Ruth Schachter (B.A. ’03, Jewish
Studies and History), currently a graduate
student in Jewish history at the University of
Maryland.

In addition, there was an evening series of
seven lectures open to the public, “On the Golden
Bridge of Sunset: Jewish Culture and the
Holocaust,” sponsored by the Borns Jewish
Studies Program and the Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies. Lectures by Jewish Studies
faculty members included “Yiddish Songs and
Folk Creativity in the Holocaust,” by Dov-Ber

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International News December 2004

President Herbert Testifies continued from page 1

with an appreciation of and ability degree of
to explain “the American way of life.”
scrutiny when
A continual flow of visiting
international faculty and researchers, they need to
currently about 1,250 each year, is
equally essential to the university’s leave and
intellectual life and research agenda.
Herbert pointed out that, for exam- reenter the
ple, “More than 30 percent of
instructors, research specialists, and country,” said
technical staff in our School of
Medicine, the second largest in the Herbert. A
United States, are from abroad.”
related area of
The president warned of the
potential negative consequences for concern is the
IU if present trends continue. This
year there was unprecedented need for addi-
decline in applications from
international students. For the tional staff
Bloomington campus, graduate
applications fell by 21 percent and support at
undergraduate applications by 14
percent. Student enrollment from 25 embassies and
Muslim and Middle Eastern coun-
tries have declined by 27 percent consulates to
over the past five-year period.
Enrollments from the top five con- help reduce Dean for International Programs Patrick O’Meara (left) and
tributing countries of South Korea,
China, India, Taiwan, and Japan, the bottle- Associate Dean and Director of International Services Christopher
declined 11.6 percent over the previ- necks. Herbert Viers (right) greet Senator Richard Lugar.
ous year. Herbert also cited examples
of international students and visit- concluded his
ing faculty at IU who had left the
country on short personal trips home testimony by roundtable meeting of international
or professional trips abroad only to
find themselves unable to return to saying that the decisive moment for academic administrators and repre-
IU in time to resume studying or
teaching because of visa delays. action is now if the United States is sentatives of national associations to

The need to reexamine several to regain its preeminence in interna- help identify administrative or leg-
visa procedures contributing to the
visa backlog was clear. One is the tional education. islative actions that could lead to a
face-to-face visa interview required
of all applicants. The critical ques- Two other university presidents more efficient visa process while
tion is whether these interviews are
really necessary for the vast majority who gave similarly compelling testi- balancing the needs of U.S. security.
of legitimate applicants. “We also
believe that students and scholars mony were Martin Jischke of On November 8, the Senate
who have successfully received entry
visas should not require the same Purdue University and C. D. Mote Foreign Relations Committee staff

of the University of Maryland. followed up by convening a round-

A second panel of discussants table discussion, to which

from national education organiza- Christopher Viers, IU’s associate

tions also testified at the hearing, dean for international programs and

citing two sets of suggested recom- director of the Office of International

mendations that have been widely Services, was invited. The meeting

discussed in the nation’s higher edu- included representatives from the

cation community. The speakers Departments of State and Homeland

were Catheryn Cotten, director of Security, as well as individuals from

the International Office at Duke the research and international

University; Allen Goodman, presi- academic NGO communities.

dent and CEO of the Institute of Viers spoke of the need for a

International Education; Marlene comprehensive national strategy to

Johnson, executive director and promote international student access

CEO of NAFSA: the Association of to U.S. higher education. Such a

International Educators; and the plan, he said, should include a

Hon. Theodore Kattouf, president recruitment strategy to coordinate

and CEO of AMIDEAST and former efforts of the Departments of State,

U.S. Ambassador to Syria and the Commerce, and Education. It should

United Arab Emirates. address issues of cost through inno-

The hearing concluded with the vative and expanded loan, tuition,

suggestion that the Senate convene a and scholarship programs for inter-

continued on next page

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International News December 2004

Jewish Studies Program Announces
New Study Abroad Program in Germany

I n response to the reemergence of anti- different German universities, students will then
Semitism in Europe and elsewhere, Indiana have an opportunity to meet and interact with
University’s Borns Jewish Studies Program scholars of German-Jewish history during semi-
and the Office of Overseas Study will offer a new nars held in cooperation with Jewish studies
study abroad program next summer to address programs at these universities. They will also
this troubling phenomenon. meet representatives of Jewish life in Germany
and interact with their peers.
With sponsorship from the Bridge of
Understanding organization in Germany, the Costs for the study tour are significantly
new program, “The Jewish Experience of underwritten by Germany’s Bridge of Under-
Modern Germany,” is designed for 15 Jewish standing, which will pay two-thirds of the airfare
Studies major and area certificate students to and cover accommodations for two weeks.
accompany Matthias Lehmann (Jewish Studies Bridge of Understanding was initiated in 1994
Program and History) to Germany for two weeks by the coordinator for German-American co-
in May 2005. The goal of the 2–credit program operation at the German Foreign Office and is
will give students a unique opportunity to learn supported by the German Foreign and Economic
about the German-Jewish experience through Affairs Ministries.
direct interaction with Germans, Jewish and
non-Jewish. The deadline for applications is January 28,
2005. For further information, contact Carolyn
Before the trip, the students will learn about Lipson-Walker, Jewish Studies Program;
German-Jewish history in a series of classroom telephone: (812) 855-0453; e-mail:
meetings with Lehmann. In Germany, at [email protected].

www.indiana.edu/~overseas/flyers/bridge.html

President Herbert Testifies continued from previous page

national students from world regions that are Viers and his colleagues also advocated
underrepresented in U.S. higher education. enhancing the integrity of the Student and
Viers also spoke of the need to remove excessive Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS)
governmentally imposed barriers to U.S. higher by permitting universities to have the capability
education. There should be a system of priority to correct inaccurate data entered in the govern-
processing and notification for security clear- ment database. This would fulfill the original
ance cases pending more than 30 days. Security intent of SEVIS, the goal of which was to enhance
clearances should be made valid for the duration rather than impede educational exchange.
of an individual’s program. Further, consular Participants agreed that there was a need to
officers should be given discretion to waive the move to the next steps in addressing these con-
now mandatory 90-second interview for visas, cerns, and Senate staff pledged to push nonleg-
as well as increased support to handle the visa islative solutions and establish future meetings.
processing workload.
—RMN

For information on recommendations for improving the visa process, see:
www.nafsa.org/content/PublicPolicy/FortheMedia/visapolrecs042904.htm
www.aau.edu/homeland/JointVisaStatement.pdf

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International News December 2004

Bloomington Law School Visits Four Asian Countries

The second stop was Hong Kong,

where IU had established an exchange

program with the University of Hong

Kong in 2002. Next academic year will

be the first year that the law school

will send a group of three J.D. stu-

dents to UHK for a semester.

In China, the team was graciously

hosted by IU’s long-time partner uni-

versity, China University of Politics

and Law in Beijing (CUPL). They had a

chance to reunite with alumni and

meet prospective students at a well-

attended alumni reception at the

The first reunion in Beijing, China, of IU School of Law—Bloomington alumni, with Lisa Beijing Friendship Hotel. Wei Xiao

Farnsworth (front, second from left), Aviva Orenstein (front, fifth from left), and Lesley Jun, a former visiting scholar at IU
Davis (front, second from right). who is now working for the Bureau of

Narcotics Control, also attended the

I n May 2004, a team of three from IU’s School reception, as did three CUPL faculty members
of Law—Bloomington, Aviva Orenstein, who had recently received LL.M. degrees from
professor of law; Lisa Farnsworth, director IU, Qi Jun (’00), Zhang Qing (’01), and Zhang

of Graduate Legal Studies; and Lesley Davis, Meichang (’03). MCL alumna Li Qian (’00)

assistant dean for the Office of International came to Beijing from Shanghai, where she is a

Programs, spent three weeks visiting alumni and founding partner of the Shu Jin Law Firm, to

partner institutions in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and spend the week with the team. The IU School of

China. Farnsworth and Davis also made a visit Law reception was the first organized IU law

to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. alumni reception to be held in China—thanks to

The team was warmly welcomed by more the efforts of LL.M. alumnus Lin Yao (’02).

than 25 alumni of the Graduate Legal Studies In Ulaanbaatar, Farnsworth and Davis were

Program at a reception in Taipei, many of whom hosted by Central Eurasian Studies alumnus

are working for Taiwan’s major corporations, Peter Marsh (Ph.D. ’02), who is now resident

law firms, and national universities. IU alumni director of the American Center for Mongolian

Bruce Liao (S.J.D. ’03) of National Chengchi Studies. With his colleagues at the Educational

University and Tony Wang (S.J.D. ’97) of Shih- Advising and Resource Center, he arranged for

Hsin University, kindly assisted with arranging them to meet with law students from the

productive visits with Soochow University, Mongolian State University. As a result of this

National Chengchi University, National Taiwan visit, the law school is hosting its first

University, National Taipei University, Fu-Jen Mongolian LL.M. student in the fall.

Catholic University, and Shih-Hsin University.

The group also met the Minister of Justice —Lesley Davis

Ding-Nan Chen, and President of the Judicial IU School of Law—Bloomington

Yuan Yueh-Sheng Weng, in the company of

Senator Charlie Lu.

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International News December 2004

IPFW Team Publishes New Textbook on Terrorism

A few years ago, Indiana University–Purdue In the
University Fort Wayne’s chair of the authors’ words,
Department of Political Science, James “This textbook is
M. Lutz, was frustrated with the textbooks a comprehensive
available for a course on terrorism that he had introduction to
been teaching. At the time, which was before the global terrorism
September 11, 2001, attacks on the United for helping stu-
States, Lutz says the available books that were dents to under-
suitable tended to focus on the Middle East and stand the history,
Islam, giving the impression that terrorism was politics, ideolo-
specific to that region and religion. His wife, gies, and strate-
Brenda J. Lutz, who was working at that time gies of both
on her master’s degree in sociological practice, contemporary
challenged him to write a better textbook. His and older terror-
response was to suggest that she be his co- ist groups.” The
author, utilizing her writing and research skills, topics included in James and Brenda Lutz
her political science degree, and, Lutz says, the 13 chapters
“most importantly, to keep the final version free are definitions and typology of terrorism; classi-
of jargon.” And that’s how the idea for Global fications of groups; tactics, weapons, and tech-
Terrorism (Routledge, 2004) came about. niques; religious terrorism; ethnic disputes; left-
and right-wing extremism; state-sponsored ter-
By the end of February 2001, the authors rorism; techniques for countering terrorism; and
had a detailed outline of the book that they sent future development of terrorist activity. There is
to various textbook publishers. Their book was a wide variety of case studies from around the
intended to be a thorough overview of terrorism, globe, including terror in the French Revolution,
covering history, political ideologies, and strate- the Zealots, Irish Republicanism, the Italian Red
gies of both contemporary and earlier terrorist Brigades, American militias, Colombia, ethnic
groups. By June 2001, there was a book con- cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sri Lanka, Al-
tract. However, it would take nearly three more Qaeda, and the PLO.
years before the book was actually published. In
May 2004, a news conference announcing the The Lutzes are currently working on a more
publication was held, during which both authors academic book on the subject looking at the
discussed writing the book, the publication evolution of terrorism over time.
process, and what, if any impact, the events of
September 11 had on the project. —Adapted from IPFW News Release

(May 2004)

Acclaimed Artists continued from page 15 record company BIS Records, “Three Centuries
of Brazilian Music,” was released in 2001 to
Cleveland Orchestra. He made his debut at the great acclaim. Cohen has been a fellow of the
Casals Festival in January 2003. During the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester,
2004–2005 season, he will appear with the England, and a professor at the Royal Academy
Baltimore Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, of Music in London.
Jacksonville Symphony, and North Carolina
Symphony. —Ryan Piurek
IU Media Relations
Cohen’s recent recordings have concen-
trated on the works of Liszt, Schumann, and
Brahms. His first recording for the Swedish

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International News December 2004

IU Continuing Studies Offers Online TOEFL Course

I nternational students needing to and receive personalized feedback. degree programs,” she says, “the
take the Test of English as a Indiana University is the first insti- School of Continuing Studies has
Foreign Language (TOEFL) to tution of higher education to offer reached out to students in dozens of
gain admission to a U.S. college or such an opportunity online. “Using countries, extending Indiana
university can ready themselves with the instructor’s responses,” he con- University’s educational resources
Preparing for the TOEFL Written tinues, “students can find patterns and expertise to a worldwide audi-
Essay, an online, noncredit course in their errors and improve their ence.”
offered by the IU School of writing and test scores.”
Continuing Studies (SCS). Preparing for the TOEFL
Leeds notes that the online for- Written Essay is open to individuals
Developed by Bruce Leeds, mat is well suited to Preparing for worldwide. To take the course,
adjunct assistant professor with the the TOEFL Written Essay. “Online students need only a modern PC or
Indiana University Center for courses—regardless of the topic— Macintosh computer with Internet
English Language Training (CELT) require a considerable amount of access via modem or Ethernet. They
and an official reader for the TOEFL writing,” he says, “so this course will must have an e-mail account.
Test of Written English, the course provide students with plenty of writ- Essential software includes Microsoft
has 10 weekly lessons. For each les- ten practice. And since it is non- Word and an up-to-date Web
son, students write essays in credit, students don’t have to worry browser such as Internet Explorer
response to official TOEFL essay about grades. Their focus can (version 5 or higher) or Netscape
topics. CELT instructors read and remain on improving their English Navigator (version 4.7x or higher).
score the essays, providing individu- language skills.”
alized feedback on grammar, punc- For registration information see
tuation, word choice, and style. SCS’s interim dean, Judith the School’s Web site below or con-
Wertheim, notes that Preparing for tact by e-mail: [email protected]; or
“There are many organizations the TOEFL Written Essay continues telephone: (812) 855-2292 or 1-800-
that provide online practice ques- SCS’s long tradition of serving stu- 334-1011.
tions and guides for the TOEFL,” dents outside the United States.
says Leeds, “but none allow students “Through its distance scs.indiana.edu/international/toefl.html
to interact with a real live instructor education courses and

WEST Students continued from page 17

panels and debated a range of topics, from the less formal setting. The Erfurt conference was,
future of transatlantic relations to the problems for many, the highlight of the trip, and a won-
and possibilities associated with EU expansion. derful chance to interact with other students and
A variety of perspectives were presented, and engage in a dialogue about Europe’s place in the
the discussion was stimulating and thought pro- world and the future of the EU.
voking for everyone. The conference ended with
a dinner held at a restored medieval castle out- —Todd Linton
side of Erfurt. It was a unique and enjoyable WEST Newsletter
experience and gave the American and (September 2004)
European students an opportunity to mingle in a

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International News December 2004

Thirteen IUB Students Win
Fulbright Grants for 2004–2005

A mong the most prestigious federal grants sought by OF EDUCATION
U.S. graduate students to study, teach, or conduct
dissertation research abroad are the two Fulbright FULBRIGHT–HAYS GRANTS
grant programs described below. For academic
2004–2005, a total of 13 IU Bloomington students The Fulbright–Hays Grants for Doctoral
received grants under these two programs. The Office of Dissertation Research Abroad are among the most
International Programs offers its congratulations to these competitive research grants in the nation. They were
winners. established to provide support specifically for disserta-
tion research in modern foreign languages and area
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE FULBRIGHT GRANTS studies in non-Western European countries. They are
administered by the U.S. Department of Education’s
The U.S. Student Fulbright Program for Graduate International Education Programs Service.
Study or Research Abroad is the best-known source of
overseas study grants in the nation. It provides support Nationwide, about 400 students apply annually, for
for seniors and graduate students to study abroad, con- which about 140 awards are granted. At IU Bloomington,
duct research, teach in certain fields, or obtain profes- 14 students applied during the 2004–2005 competition,
sional training in the creative and performing arts. These of which 3 students received awards and 5 students were
Fulbright grants are administered by the Institute of named alternates.
International Education (IIE).
Ginger Elliott Comparative
Nationwide, about 4,500 students apply annually,
for which about 1,100 awards are granted. At IU Political Science, Tanzania
Bloomington, 39 students applied for IIE grants during Nathan Plageman
the 2004–2005 competition. Of these, 10 students
received awards, putting Indiana University among the African History, Ghana
top five colleges and universities in the Midwest region Joanne Quimby
producing Fulbright fellows.
Literature, Japan

www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/index.html

Ryan Adams The Office of International Programs disseminates
information on these and other external grant opportuni-
Anthropology, Brazil ties for students. In this office, the student Fulbright pro-
Jeremy Albright gram advisor manages the entire application process,
which includes annual student information sessions held
Comparative Politics, Spain in the spring and fall semesters, e-mail and in-person
Christopher Baker support for all student questions regarding these grants,
one-on-one meetings to discuss potential grant proposals,
Area Studies, Kazakhstan access to review successfully funded IU student applica-
Kathryn Boswell tions, technical support for completing online applica-
tions, and on-campus faculty interviews to assist student
Anthropology, Burkina Faso applicants to focus and clarify their proposal goals.
Angela Bredehoeft
For further information on these grants, contact
ESL Teaching Assistantship, Germany Rose Vondrasek, OIP program associate and student
Cassandra Chambliss Fulbright program advisor; Franklin Hall 315; telephone:
(812) 855-7557; e-mail: [email protected].
Near/Middle Eastern Studies, Egypt
Abigail Crisman www.indiana.edu/~intlprog/grad.html

South Asian Studies, India
Kathleen Lavengood

Ethnomusicology, Canada
Lisa Overholser

Ethnomusicology, Hungary
Deanna Wooley

Modern History, Czech Republic

www.iie.org/fulbright/us U.S. DEPARTMENT

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International News December 2004

Kelly School of Business continued from page 2

course of study that begins in tute, says, “I can assure you that the students—without a doubt, some of
January of Year 1 and ends with IGBS M.B.A. program is a unique the very best I’ve ever had. I will
graduation the following May of and outstanding experience. The remember their hard work and espe-
Year 2. It is an intensive, full-time program and faculty are superb, cially their acts of kindness and
program where students are information is up to date, and the appreciation.”
immersed in a fast-paced learning networking opportunities are
environment. Students work in excellent.” The partnership has proved to
teams, interact with the faculty, and be immensely satisfying on both
network with business executives. Thus far, the courses have been sides. Bruce Jaffee (Business
Courses are delivered in a modular taught primarily by Kelley School’s Economics and Public Policy), who
format. Each of the 20 course mod- faculty—recently ranked by the serves as project director, points to
ules is two weeks in length, with Princeton Review’s 2004 edition the professional and personal enrich-
four modules in each of five eight- of the “Best 143 Business Schools” as ment that Kelley faculty have experi-
week periods that end in December. having the “Number One” M.B.A. enced. The director of EIZ, Ivan
In the fifth module, students take faculty in the nation. Those who have Teodorovic, is proud that his insti-
specialized courses in financing, already taught in the 2004 program tute is a founding partner of a pro-
marketing, or information technol- are Phil Cochran (Management), gram that is bringing to Croatia and
ogy. The remaining five months are Andreas Hauskrecht (Business southeastern Europe its first top-
spent in internships with Croatian Economics and Public Policy), Greg quality, full-time M.B.A. program.
companies and the preparation of a Kitzmiller (Marketing), Chris Zlatan Fröhlich, IGBS Zagreb’s
thesis, common in Eastern European Lundblad (Finance), Vince Mabert dean, points to “the high educational
academic programs. This final proj- (Operations and Decision Tech- standards, innovative teaching tech-
ect reflects the transfer of knowledge nologies), Julie Magid (Business niques, and active participation of
to application that each IGBS Law), Jamie Pratt (Accounting and leading executives that characterize
M.B.A. student has learned from his Information Systems), Eric the IGBS M.B.A. program.”
or her course of study. Richards (Business Law), Reed
Smith (Accounting), Greg Udell As Louise A. Siffin, director of
The 14 M.B.A. students in the (Finance), M. A. Venkataramanan the Kelley School’s Global Programs
current 2004–2005 cohort are (Operations and Decision Tech- Office notes, “This project has
almost all Croatian professionals in nologies), and James Wimbush brought together the school’s exten-
management or research positions, a (Management). In the coming years, sive experience in Central and
number of whom have master’s or the program hopes to attract more southeastern Europe, the renowned
Ph.D. degrees. All had to take the faculty from within the region and teaching skills of Kelley faculty, and
standard GMAT test for graduate western Europe. the best of Croatia’s young manage-
business students as well as the rial talent to extend IU’s consider-
TOEFL test because the language of The Kelley M.B.A. faculty have able reach in transitional European
instruction is English. They also had been equally enthusiastic about the economies, particularly those which
to have a minimum of three years’ quality and commitment of the have recently achieved or, as with
work experience. young people they are teaching. Croatia, are aspiring to EU
“The students are absolutely excel- membership.”
The 2004–2005 group’s enthu- lent—smart, fun, hard working, and
siasm for the program is evident very appreciative. I have never —RMN
from student comments: “My expec- taught a better group. Everyone is
tations were high and IGBS has very committed to make this pro- For more information:
exceeded them completely.” Another gram work!” says Pratt. Wimbush, www.igbs.hr
student, who already holds a U.S. associate dean of the faculties at the
Ph.D. in molecular biology and works Kelley School, hopes to return to
at a pharmaceuticals research insti- teach there: “I’ll miss the talented

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Boren Scholarships and Fellowships
Available to Support International Studies

T he David L. Boren Undergraduate and fellows must fulfill a service requirement of
Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships, one year working for the federal government in
administered by the National Security such units as the Departments of Defense,
Education Program, provide funds from a sum- Homeland Security, State, the Intelligence
mer up to a full year of international study. Their Community, or other possibilities.
aim is to support the study of world areas (Africa,
Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, Latin America The external deadline for Boren Under-
and the Caribbean, and the Middle East) and graduate Scholarships is February 10, 2005.
foreign languages (about 45 less commonly The internal deadline on campus is January
taught languages) in fields of study that lead to 17, 2005, and the campus contact is Paige
global knowledge considered critical to national Weting, Office of Overseas Study; telephone:
security (such as sustainable development, global (812) 855-7002; fax: (812) 855-855-6452;
competitiveness, global disease and hunger, e-mail: [email protected]. Full information
environmental degradation, refugee migration). is available at the Institute for International
Fields of study may range from business, eco- Education Web site below.
nomics, history, international affairs, law, and
political and other social sciences to the physical/ The deadline for Boren Graduate Fellowships
mathematical sciences, engineering and technol- is January 29, 2005. Full information is
ogy, and health and biomedical sciences. available at the Academy for American
Development Web site below.
Study of a foreign language is required, as is
study abroad for undergraduates. Graduates For undergraduate scholarships:
may fulfill their language study through com- www.iie.org/programs/nsep/generalinfo.htm
bined domestic and overseas study courses.
Scholarship or fellowship awards depend on the For graduate fellowships:
length of the study program. All Boren scholars nsep.aed.org

IU Press Announces New Journal on the Middle East

The Journal of Middle East Women’s approaches. It reflects the explosion of knowl-
Studies (J M E W S) is the official publication of edge production about Middle Eastern women
the Association for Middle East Women’s and gender of the past quarter century and pub-
Studies (AMEWS), a multidisciplinary, interna- lishes research informed by transnational femi-
tional organization affiliated with the Middle nist studies, cultural studies, modern historical
East Studies Association. Its purpose is to studies, new forms of ethnography, and the
advance the fields of Middle East women’s stud- emergent intersections of science and philoso-
ies, gender studies, and Middle East studies phy. J M E W S provides a forum in which area-
through contributions across disciplines in the specific questions can be discussed and debated
social sciences and humanities. J M E W S is pub- among authors from the global north and south,
lished by Indiana University Press. through scholarly articles, book and film
reviews, and other forms of communication.
Located at the cutting edge of the new
scholarship in Middle East women’s studies, The first number of Volume 1 will appear in
J M E W S , which is published three times a year, February 2005.
encourages research using innovative, theoreti-
cal, epistemological, and methodological For further information:

iupjournals.org/jmews/

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Eurasian Conferences continued from page 13

contemporary history, the ensemble member Avner

development of the Shakov, “and when we get

Azerbaijani language (also together, nobody asks the

known as Azeri), and the nationality of each other

portrayal of Azerbaijanis in because music is our interna-

the media. A professor of lit- tional identity.”

erature at the University of Among the many IU

Toronto and a former presi- sponsors for the three confer-

dent of PEN Canada, Reza ences and related events were

Baraheni, gave a lecture in the Inner Asian and Uralic

English entitled “Exile: The Silk Road Ensemble performers. National Resource Center,

Third Zone of Literature.” Department of Central

For two evenings of Eurasian Studies, Mongolia Society, Department

these three meetings, the participants were of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Office

entertained by the Silk Road Ensemble, a nine- of International Programs, Turkish Studies

member musical group that took the audiences Chair, Department of Comparative Literature,

on a musical and cultural journey stretching and the International Studies Major Program.

from the Mediterranean Sea to China. Annual

performances by the 30-year old For more information on these conferences:
www.indiana.edu/~cess2004
group focus on the artistry and www.cess.fas.harvard.edu
emotions of the music, overcoming www.indiana.edu/~mongsoc/Conference%20Schedule.doc
national differences. “We musi-

cians have only one nation,” says www.aacef.org/bulletins/bulletins.html

Mongolian Art Exhibits continued from page 13

The skies over the vast Mongolian steppes and a brief overview of the his- Tibetan Buddhist iconography
horses are common themes in these contem- tory of Mongolian painting flourished. Political and historical
porary Mongolian paintings. for the Mathers exhibit that themes due to Soviet influence
describes various media were encouraged after the 1921
and artistic styles used by revolution. In the 1950s, a new
Mongolian artists. Early neotraditional style called
nomadic artists painted in “Mongol Zurag” arose that used a
the well-known animal style mix of European and traditional
depicting interlocking techniques to portray secular top-
snarling animals. Human ics. Lastly, abstract art was
figures began to appear in allowed to develop only in the late
the Middle Ages in memo- 1980s. The Mathers exhibit is on
rial statues. With the con- display until the end of December.
version of Mongols to
Buddhism in the late 1500s, —RMN

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Summer Seminar continued from page 8

on international perceptions of

American education, culture, reli-

gion, gender, individual rights, and

democracy—topics that Nyikos

addressed in Senegal. Stephanie

Carter, assistant professor in the

Department of Language Education,

gave them supplies and children’s

books to take back to Senegal. The

group also visited June Cargill’s

FASE Mentoring Program to meet

minority students and talk about

their views on race and cultural Martha Nyikos (second at top left) with some of the summer participants
diversity. at the Mariama Ba boarding school.

Jallow and Chekaraou also

hosted participants in a variety of

academic, religious, and social activ-

ities including attendance at the

Bloomington mosque, a picnic at

Carthell Everett’s farm, an outing

to Springmill State Park, and a tour

of Bloomington High School South

led by one of the school’s foreign

language teachers, Steve Sobiech.

Later they were hosted by Sobiech

and his wife Kathleen Sobiech

(Center for the Study of Global

Change) at their home. As the

Senegalese educators were about to American Center Summer Institute participants with Ambassador Richard Roth (back
leave Bloomington, an article profil- row), Martha Nyikos (second row center), ELF Julia Frazier (second row left), and RELO
ing their stay appeared in the local Ruth Petzold (back row) after the closing ceremony.
Herald-Times newspaper, just in

time for them to be amazed and

delighted at seeing their photos and journey on the Dakar embassy: “Not only has this program

the front page. significantly improved the skills and knowledge

Preceding their stay in Bloomington, the of 20 English teachers from Islamic schools; it

teachers toured Washington, D.C., Baltimore, has given these teachers a very positive impres-

and Philadelphia, visiting historic sites, sion of the United States that will be shared with

churches, a Jewish synagogue housing a Muslim approximately 3,000 students per year around

school, a county fair, youth centers, a minority Senegal.”

business development center, and African-

American community institutions. —RMN

The importance of sponsoring locally based For more information about RELO programs:
language training programs is underscored by exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching

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In Memoriam

ALO RAUN

May 8, 1905–June 14, 2004

Alo Raun, 99, professor emeritus of His main academic specialty was
linguistics and Uralic studies at Indiana Finno-Ugric linguistics, a field in which
University, died in Bloomington on he published extensively and played a
June 14, 2004. He taught at IU from pioneering role. His work was recog-
1952 until his retirement in 1975. nized by numerous scholarly societies,
as seen in his corresponding member-
Raun grew up in Tartu, Estonia, ship in the Finnish Literary Society and
and attended Tartu University, obtain- the Kalevala Society as well as honorary
ing a Master of Philosophy degree in membership in the Societas Uralo-
1931 and a Ph.D. in Finno-Ugric lin- Altaica, the Finno-Ugric Society, and the
guistics in 1942. He began teaching at Estonian Learned Society. The Finnish
Tartu University in the late 1930s and government made him a knight com-
also served as scientific secretary of the mander of the Order of the Finnish
Academic Mother Tongue Society and Lion, and the reestablished Estonian
first secretary of the Estonian Learned government recently awarded him the
Society. White Star II Class for his services to
the Estonian state and people.
Toward the end of World War II, His colleagues at Indiana University and around the
Raun and his family fled Estonia as refugees in the face world especially valued his cooperative spirit, integrity,
of the impending reimposition of Soviet rule. His early and thoroughness as a scholar. He also had a lifelong
postwar years were spent in Germany, mainly at the passion for music, deepened by two years of study at a
Baltic University in exile near Hamburg, where he was conservatory in Tartu in the 1920s, and as late as his
an associate professor and also served as the Estonian 99th birthday he still played his beloved piano.
rector toward the end of his stay there. In 1949, he immi-
grated to the United States with his family and taught —Toivo Raun
romance languages at Pacific Lutheran College for the
first two years. In 1951, he came to Bloomington on a Department of Central Eurasian Studies, IUB
Guggenheim Fellowship and joined the IU faculty the
following year.

A memorial service celebrating the life of Alo Raun was held on September 24, 2004, in Beck Chapel on the
Bloomington campus, featuring remembrances from his colleagues, Denis Sinor, Gustave Bayerle, and his son, Toivo
Raun, and including Estonian and Finnish choral and instrumental music performed by Lynn Hooker and several
students.

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Christopher Atwood (Central Eurasian Studies, IUB) Fritz Breithaupt (Germanic Studies, IUB) has been
has published his two-volume Young Mongols and appointed as director of IU’s Title VI West European
Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia’s Interregnum Studies Center. His research interests include
Goethezeit literature, philosophy, and culture; German
Decades, 1922–1931 (Brill Academic Publishers, 2002). and Austrian Modernism, including film; phenomenol-
ogy and aesthetics; literary theory; and German criminal
Matt Auer (School of Public Affairs and Environmental history and discourses on economics since 1740. His
Sciences, IUB) has published an edited volume entitled publications include a book on Goethe (Jenseits der
Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Bilder, 2000); essays on the history of selfhood before
Freud; questions of history and theories of money; as
Policy Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and well as edited volumes on Goethe, Wittgenstein, and a
forthcoming volume on the culture of money.
Russia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). He is also the
incoming editor-in-chief for the journal Policy Phillip Butterfield has been hired as chief of party for
Indiana University’s USAID–funded Higher Education
Sciences. Linkage Project with the South East European University
(SEEU) in Macedonia. His responsibilities include over-
Christopher Beckwith (Central all project administration as well as teaching with the
Eurasian Studies, IUB) has been awarded two major business department of SEEU. Butterfield has worked
grants this year. He is spending the current academic extensively in higher education in the developing world
year in Japan on a Fulbright-Hays research grant, con- and most recently served as Provost of the Education
ducting research on the ethnolinguistic ancestors and Network in Central Asia where he promoted cooperation
continental relatives of the Japanese-Koguryoic family of in cross-border educational initiatives and reforms.
languages. Beckwith also has been named a Guggenheim
Fellow for a research project on a comprehensive history Mary Ellen Brown (Emerita, Folklore and
Ethnomusicology, IUB) has won a Guggenheim fellow-
of central Eurasia. ship to study English and Scottish ballads edited by the
nineteenth-century scholar Francis James Child through
Rick Bein (Geography, IUPUI) has an ethnographic analysis of manuscript volumes as well
been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to lecture and as correspondence and other comparative data.
conduct research at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
in Maputo, Mozambique, during the 2004–2005 aca- Alisa Clapp-Itnyre (English, IUE) has published
demic year. He will teach courses in environmental man- Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social
agement and study environmental management practices
of peasant farmers. Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Ohio University
Press, 2002).
Jack Bielasiak (Political Science,
IUB) has won a Fulbright Scholar Charles M. Clark Jr. (School of
Award to teach at University of Warsaw, Poland, where Medicine, IUPUI), associate dean for
he holds the chair of Distinguished Chair in East Continuing Medical Education at the Indiana University
European Studies. He is doing two courses on School of Medicine, has been named a Fulbright Senior
Democratic Institutions, Theoretical Prescriptions, and Specialist by the Council for International Exchange of
Post-Communist Realities and Politics in Post- Scholars (CIES). Clark, a professor of medicine and of
Communist States. pharmacology, was invited in 1999–2000 by the
National University of La Plata, Argentina, to consult on
Matthew Todd Bradley (Political Science, IUK) has a newly initiated research study in Corrientes, Argentina,
published Nigeria since Independence and the and to present lectures on the delivery of health care and
Impact of Non-Governmental Organizations on

Democratization, Studies in African Economic and
Social Development, v. 20 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).

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ment will enable him to complete the analysis of this sor in the Department of Anthropology and is co-teach-
study in Argentina. ing a new course in spring 2005, I300 Global Dialogues,
that critically examines international and intercultural
This summer, Nino Cocchiarella (Emeritus, Philosophy, interaction and features a real-time link once a week
IUB), whose ancestral origins are in the ancient Sannio with a class at Universitas Negeri Jakarta in Indonesia.
region of Italy, was among seven Sanniti honored this
summer by the province of Benevento. The award, titled Mike Keen (Sociology, Anthropology, IUSB) has co-
Gladiatore d’oro, is given in recognition of outstanding edited, with Janusz Mucha, Sociology in Central and
contributions made by contemporary Sanniti in such Eastern Europe: Transformation at the Dawn of a
fields as the arts, sciences, education, sports, and entre-
preneurship. Cocchiarella was cited for his lifelong schol- New Millennium (Praeger, 2003).
arly work in logic and metaphysics.
Ellen Ketterson (Biology, IUB) will use her
Michelle Facos (Art History, IUB) has co-edited, with Guggenheim Fellowship to examine whether human sex
Sharon Hirsh, Art, Culture, and National Identity and gender concepts apply in songbirds. Her research
in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (Cambridge University Press, will take her to Costa Rica and Mexico, as well as to sites
2003). in the U.S., to see whether geographic differences in
songbird behavior and physiology relate to sex and possi-
David Fidler’s (Law, IUB) book SARS, Governance bly gender.
and the Globalization of Disease was published by
Palgrave Macmillan in July. The book provides a com- Keith Michael Kovach (Mechanical Engineering
prehensive and original analysis of the historic global Technology, IUPUI) has been awarded a Fulbright
SARS outbreak of 2003. Scholar Award to lecture and conduct research on media

John Hanson (History, African Studies studies at the National University of
Program, IUB) received two major fel- Arts in Bucharest, Romania, from
lowships for the academic year. He is September to December 2004.
spending the fall semester in Washington, D.C., as a
Rockefeller Humanities Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Karen Kovacik (English, IUPUI) has been awarded a
Library of Congress’ John W. Kluge Center, participating Fulbright Scholar Award to do research for the 2004-
in its program, “Globalization and Muslim Societies.” In 2005 academic year on the topic, “Bodies of Music,
January 2005, he will travel to Ghana and the United
Kingdom on a U.S. Department of Education Fulbright- Bodies Like Machines: Translating
Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant to continue his Cycles of Metaphysical Poems by
research on the Ahmadiyya Muslim movement, which Katarzyna Borun and Krystyna Lars,”
has a significant following in West Africa. at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Kenneth Johnston (Emeritus, English, IUB) is spending Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Gender Studies, Comparative
the year on a Fulbright Scholar Award Literature, IUB), the Martha C. Kraft Professor of
to lecture and conduct research on Humanities at IU, has been elected a member of the
“Britain’s Last Republicans and First American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned
society in the country. Election to the APS honors
Romantics” at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland’s extraordinary accomplishments in all fields, and she is
oldest university and the third-oldest in the United only the fourth IU faculty member to achieve this honor.
Kingdom. Her intellectual focus has been on visual and verbal
narratives, in both high and popular culture, especially
Hilary Kahn has been appointed director of interna- as these intersect with issues of marginality, disability,
tional communications in the Office of International gender, and the body. Her work ranges from classical
Affairs at IUPUI. She is also an adjunct assistant profes- literature, medieval history, and Arabo-Islamic writing to
gender relations, feminism, sexism, and privacy and
disability law.

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Patricia McDougall (Kelley School of Business, IUB), Paul Newman (Linguistics, IUB) has just published
associate dean for academics, won the “Article of the Klingenheben’s Law in Hausa (Rüdiger Köppe, 2004),
Decade” award at the July 2004 annual meeting of the a phonological study of historical sound changes in
Academy of International Business (AIB). Hausa, a member of the Chadic language family and the
most widely spoken language of West Africa.
In 2003, the concluding volume of the 11-volume series
on the epic poetry of the First Crusade, under the general Milos Novotny (Chemistry, IUB) was elected a Foreign
editorship of Emanuel Mickel (French and Italian, IUB) Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic on
and Jan Nelson (University of Alabama) was published. May 25, 2004. This society is the Czech equivalent of the
This decades-long collaborative work, The Old French National Academy of Sciences.
Crusade Cycle, has been published over the period
from 1977 to 2003 by the University of Alabama Press. Daniel B. Reed (Folklore and Ethnomusicology,
Archives of Traditional Music, IUB) has been awarded
Director of the Lilly Library Breon Mitchell (Germanic the prestigious Amaury Talbot Prize for African
Studies, IUB) has been awarded the 2004 Helen and Anthropology by the Royal Anthropological Institute in
Kurt Wolff Prize by the Goethe-Institut Chicago for out- London for his book Dan Ge Performance: Masks and
standing translation from German into English for his Music in Contemporary Côte d’Ivoire (Indiana
translation of Uwe Timm’s Morenga (New Directions, University Press, 2003).
2003).
Robert Rohrschneider (Political Science, West
Leila Monaghan (Communication and Culture, IUB) has European Studies, IUB) has been awarded a research
co-edited Many Ways to be Deaf: International fellowship from the German Marshall Fund to conduct
Variation in Deaf Communities (Gallaudet University research during 2004–2005 on party competition over
Press, 2003). European integration in 13 East-Central European
nations.
Bridget M. Morgan (Foreign Languages, IUSB) has co-
edited, with Emma Sepulveda, Memorial de una Anya Royce (Anthropology, IUB) has published a new
escritura: Aproximaciones a la obra de Marjorie book entitled Anthropology of the Performing Arts:
Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in a
Agosín (Santiago, Chile: Editorial Cuarto Proprio,
2002). Cross-Cultural Perspective (Alta Mira Press, 2004),
in which the author seeks to distinguish artistry from vir-
M. Razi Nalim (Engineering and Technology, IUPUI) tuosity through a cross-cultural examination of perform-
received a Fulbright grant to research strategies for com- ance, art, and artists.
puter simulations to help control emissions for small,
gas-powered engines—such as taxis and three-wheeled Alan Rugman (Kelley School of Business, IUB) assumed
the presidency as of August 1, 2004, of the Academy of
vehicles—that are a major source of International Business (AIB), the leading association of
pollution in South Asian cities. Under scholars and specialists in this field, for a two-year term.
the award, Nalim will leave in January
2005 for a six-month-long sabbatical during which he Frank Schorn has been appointed director of interna-
also will teach at the University of Moratuwa in Sri tional development in the Office of International Affairs
Lanka. at IUPUI. He has extensive experience in educational
development work, having directed projects worldwide
Richard Nash’s (English, IUB) book Wild Enlightenment: for USAID, World Bank, UNESCO, Save the Children,
the Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth and the UNDP. At IUPUI, Schorn will initiate and
encourage new development projects for the campus and
Century (University of Virginia Press, 2003) is the win-
ner of the Walker Cowan Memorial Prize for outstanding
work in eighteenth–century studies.

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will collaborate with IU’s CIEDA office on university- Samrat Upadhyah (English, IUB), a creative writing
wide international development grant initiatives. professor, said he was “just honored to be even nomi-
nated” in spring 2004 for the Kiriyama Prize, a presti-
Jeanne Sept (Anthropology, IUB) has been appointed gious award split between a fiction and non-fiction writer
the new dean of the faculties at IU Bloomington. A whose works focus on the people and nations of the
paleoanthropologist, she served an associate dean of the Pacific Rim and South Asia. His novel The Guru of
faculties from 2000 to 2003 and was chair of the Love (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) was one of five finalists
Department of Anthropology until fall 2004. She has in the fiction category.
been an innovator and federal grant recipient in educa-
tional technology and has published and presented Jeffrey Wasserstrom (History, East Asian Studies
Center, IUB) has edited Twentieth–Century China:
extensively on the topic. Her Web New Approaches (Routledge, 2003).
site on the “Human Origins and
Evolution in Africa” was recognized Gary Wiggins (Informatics, IUB) consulted with col-
as one of the best instructional sites leagues in chemistry at the University of Belgrade for one
by Archaeology magazine. week in May 2004, giving three lectures, demonstrating
the use of chemical databases not currently accessible in
Daniel Smith (School of Business, Belgrade, and working with staff of the chemistry library.
IUB), associate dean of academics While in Europe, he attended the Third Sheffield
and Clare W. Barker Chair in Conference on Chemical Informatics and the Beilstein
Marketing, has been named interim Institute’s international workshop, “The Chemical
dean of the Kelley School of Theatre of Biological Systems,” in Bolzano, Italy. Wiggins
Business. Since joining the school faculty in 1996, Smith directs the program in chemical informatics and is the
served as M.B.A. program chair from 1998 to 2001 and interim director of the bioinformatics program on the
was appointed chair of the marketing department in IUB and IUPUI campuses.
2002.
Enid Zimmerman (Art Education, IUB) is the new senior
Ruth Stone (Folklore and Ethnomusicology, IUB) has editor of the Journal of Cultural Research in Art
just published Music in West Africa: Experiencing Education, an annual publication of the United States
Music, Expressing Culture, Global Music Series Society for Education though Art (USSEA), which pro-
(Oxford University Press, 2004), which includes a CD. motes multicultural and cross-cultural research in art
Drawing upon the author’s extensive fieldwork among education.
the Kpelle in Liberia, the book explores how music’s
complex rhythmic combinations in fast-paced patterns
and quick, tightly orchestrated movements influence the
fabric of everyday social and political life. Stone was
most recently honored at IUB by being named the first
holder of a Laura Boulton professorship that is funded by
an endowment from the Laura Boulton Foundation.

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The Office of International Programs welcomes the and British Orientalism is due to be published in 2005
following new 2004–2005 tenured and tenure-track by Cambridge. He will teach courses on the history of
faculty with international interests to the Indiana India and on the process of British world imperialism,
University Bloomington community. and be active in the India Studies Program.

Heather Marie Akou (Apparel Merchandising and Sara Lizbeth Friedman (Anthropology, Gender
Interior Design) received her doctorate in design, hous- Studies) worked at Washington University before joining
ing, and apparel from the University of Minnesota. Her IU. She is a sociocultural anthropologist, focusing on the
research focuses on Somali dress, and her major inter- relationship between political processes and social/cul-
ests include Africa and the African diaspora, migration tural change in China and Taiwan, with particular atten-
and globalization, the social history of textiles and dress, tion to marginalized groups. Her recent research seeks to
and fashion theory (particularly symbolic interaction). better understand the highly contested nature of citizen-
Her teaching specializations are in textiles, and inter- ship, national identity, and national sovereignty in the
national textiles and apparel trade. She is also associated China/Taiwan relationship. A forthcoming monograph,
with the cross-disciplinary African Studies Program. Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State

Çiˇgdem Balim has joined the Center for Languages of Power in Southeastern China, is being published in
the Central Asian Region as an academic specialist and the Harvard University East Asian Series. Friedman
co-director. She is also affiliated with the Department of teaches courses on gender, sexuality and popular culture,
Central Eurasian Studies and will teach courses there on the politics of marriage, and gender and labor politics.
comparative Turkic linguistics and on the society, cul-
ture, and politics of contemporary Turkey. She comes to Madeleine Goh (Classical Studies) comes to IU by way of
IU from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the the University of Washington in Seattle, where she
University of Manchester where she has been active in received a double B.A. in classics and comparative his-
redesigning the curriculum on Turkish language, litera- tory of ideas in 1997, and a Ph.D. at Harvard University
ture, and culture courses and in introducing new teach- on classical philology. Her dissertation studied the repre-
ing methodologies. Among her research interests are sentation of chariots and charioteers in narratives about
language and politics relating to Turkish and other the coming of age in ancient Greece. Her teaching and
Central Asian languages. research interests include archaic poetry, Greek drama,
women in antiquity, and literary criticism.
Aaron Bradley Beaver (Slavic Languages and Litera-
tures) received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Carl Good (Spanish and Portuguese) received his Ph.D.
Chicago with a dissertation entitled “Time in the Lyric in Hispanic literature (1998) from the University of
Poetry of Joseph Brodsky.” He has published articles on California at Irvine and taught at Emory University before
Brodsky and the literary canon, as well as on Milan coming to IU. A specialist in twentieth-century Latin
Kundera and kitsch. His research interests include American literature, especially poetry, he is the editor of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian poetry, The Effects of the Nation: Mexican Art in an Age
literary and critical theory, the relationship of literature
to philosophy, and the use of literary texts in the of Globalism (Temple University Press, 2001), and the
teaching of secondary languages. author of a book-length manuscript, “Freedom of Verse:
Modernism and Fragmentary Form in Latin-American
Michael Sinclair Dodson (History) specializes in the Literature,” as well as numerous journal articles.
history of India. He earned his doctoral degree from
Cambridge University in 2003, where he won a number James Grehan (History, Near Eastern Languages and
of awards, including the Smits Memorial Fund Grant and Cultures) specializes in the history of the Middle East
the Rapson Fund Grant from the Faculty of Oriental and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at
Studies, and lectured on the history of South Asia. His Austin. In 2001–2002, he won a postdoctoral fellowship
book An Empire of Understanding: Indian Pandits from the National Endowment for the Humanities/
American Research Institute in Turkey. He is currently
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Economy: Everyday Life and Economic Culture in and is published widely in her areas of specialization.
Eighteenth Century Damascus.” Her research interests are on basic human sexual arousal
processes from a psychophysiological perspective, clinical
David James Hakken (Informatics) outcome research on sexual function and dysfunction—
specializes in social informatics. He is a including, more recently, pharmacological interventions—
cultural anthropologist who does and adults with coercive childhood sexual experiences.
ethnography in cyberspace to understand how automated
information technologies (AITs) shape cultures, and he Nancy Karin Levene (Religious Studies) received her
promotes AITs that expand, not undermine, human Ph.D. in 2000 from Harvard University. Her academic
capabilities. His current work on open computing (espe- interests encompass the ideas, philosophies, and cultures
cially open source) and knowledge networking compares of the modern European West, from early modern intel-
Nusantara (Island Southeast Asia) with the North Atlantic, lectual revolutions until the present. Her recent book,
and he will spend the first half of 2005 doing fieldwork Spinoza’s Revelation: Religion, Democracy, and
in Malaysia on a Fulbright research grant. Hakken was
the first recipient of the American Anthropological Reason (Cambridge, 2004), traces the relationship
Association’s Textor Prize in Anticipatory Anthropology between philosophy, religion, and politics in Spinoza’s
and is an adjunct professor of anthropology at IU. His major works. The contexts of her research and teaching
second Routledge book, The Knowledge Landscapes of include Jewish, Christian, and secular modernity and
Cyberspace, was published in October 2003. postmodernity. She has published articles in the areas of
ethics, politics, and gender and is currently working on a
Tracy Alan Hall (Germanic Studies) received his Ph.D. book on the relationship between desire and work in
from the University of Washington. His teaching and Hegel and Freud, among others.
research interests include general and Germanic linguis-
tics, phonology, morphology, and historical linguistics. Shaul Magid (Jewish Studies) holds the Jay and Jeanie
Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies in Modern Judaism.
Rick Harbaugh (Business Economics and Public Policy, He previously taught at Jewish Theological Seminary and
Kelley School of Business) received his Ph.D. from the was chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy. His
University of Pittsburgh. He has taught at the Yale research and teaching span Jewish religious experience
School of Management and the Claremont Colleges. His and thought from the Middle Ages to the present, with a
research is in the areas of information economics, auc- focus on Hasidic Judaism, the subject of his recent book
tions, and the Chinese economy. His current research Hasidism on the Margin (University of Wisconsin
concentrates on the economics of understatement and of Press, 2003). He teaches Kabbala, Hasidism, and
comparative statements. He is also the author of a widely medieval and modern Jewish philosophy. His areas of
used Chinese-English etymological dictionary. His teach- research include sixteenth-century Kabbala; early
ing interests include managerial economics, game theory, Hasidism, nineteenth-century Polish Hasidism; medieval
and the Chinese economy. pietism; gender and religion; Jewish ethics; and contem-
porary conceptions of Jewish religiosity, renewal, and
Julia R. Heiman (Kinsey Institute, Psychology) is the fundamentalism.
new director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex,
Gender, and Reproduction, with additional appointments Emily Maguire (Spanish and Portuguese) received her
as a professor of psychology and of clinical psychiatry. Ph.D. from New York University in 2004. Her disserta-
She comes from the School of Medicine at the University tion, “Fieldwork for the Nation: Ethnography and Cultural
of Washington, where she held positions as professor of Translation in the Work of Lydia Cabrera,” focused on
psychiatry and behavioral sciences, director of the Afro-Cuban literature and culture. She has published
Reproductive and Sexual Medicine Clinic, and associate Island Signifying: Tracing a Caribbean Sense of
director for psychotherapy programs at the Outpatient
Psychiatry Center. She is a researcher, clinician, and an Play in Lydia Cabrera and Nicolás Guillén
international authority in the field of human sexuality
(Ciberletras, 2002).

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Lauren Morris MacLean (Political Science) was at the Oana Panaite (French and Italian) specializes in con-
Univerity of Michigan as a Robert Wood Johnson temporary French literature and francophone studies.
Scholar of health policy research before coming to She is currently completing her doctoral degree through
Bloomington. Her University of California–Berkeley a joint program with the Johns Hopkins University and
dissertation, supported by a Fulbright-Hays dissertation the University of Paris IV, Sorbonne. Her dissertation,
fellowship, was on “Solidarity in Crisis: Social Politices “La littérature et ses ombres: Invention esthétique et
and Social Support Networks in Ghana and Côte questionnement éthique dans la prose contemporaine,”
d’Ivoire.” She has published studies in the Journal of examines the major directions of contemporary French
Modern African Studies and Comparative Studies and francophone writing while placing them in the gen-
in Society and History. eral context of twentieth-century literature. She is the
author of several articles on topics including creolist
Marissa Moorman (History) focuses on the modern Patrick Chamoiseau, French novelist Jean Echenoz, and
history of Africa. She earned her doctorate from the themes in comparative literature.
University of Minnesota, where she also held a MacArthur
Fellowship from the MacArthur Program on Peace and William Pridemore (Criminal Justice) is a member of
International Cooperation. Her dissertation research the National Consortium on Violence Research and spent
explored the relationship between popular music and a year as a research fellow at Harvard University in the
nationalism in Angola. The International Journal of Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His main
African Historical Studies will publish her essay on research interest is the impact of social structure, eco-
“Dueling Bands and Good Girls: Gender and Music in nomic transition, and alcohol consumption on homicide
Luanda’s Musseques, 1961–1974” in 2004. and suicide in Russia. Other research interests include
far right-wing culture and crime and the measurement of
John Nieto-Phillips (History, Latino Studies) holds both crime. His research has been funded by the National
an undergraduate degree and doctorate from the Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National
University of California, Los Angeles. He studies the Council for Eurasian and East European Research,
Latino experience in the United States and joins the National Institute of Justice, American Sociological
Departments of History and Latino Studies with a partic- Association, and National Science Foundation.
ular expertise in the formation of Spanish-American
identity in the American Southwest. His book, The Benjamin Robinson (Germanic Studies) received his
Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research interests
include twentieth-century German literary and political
American Identity in New Mexico, 1850s–1930s, modernism, law and literature, and economics and
literature.
was published in 2003 by the University of New Mexico
Press. In 2002, he held a faculty research grant from the Ranu Samantrai (English) received her Ph.D. from
National Endowment for the Humanities. the University of Michigan. She is the former chair of
cultural studies at the Claremont Graduate University
Cecilia Sem Obeng (Applied Health Science, HPER) and author of numerous essays on contemporary Britain,
received her Ph.D. degree from the IU School of Educa- Africa, and women’s literature. She is the author of
tion, focusing on early childhood education. She has AlterNatives: Black Feminism in the Postimperial
taught at Ivy Tech State College’s Department of Early
Childhood Education, as well as at IU. Her experience as Nation (Stanford, 2002).
a preschool, primary, and junior secondary school teacher
spans three continents—Africa, Europe, and America. Jutta Schickore (History and Philosophy of Science)
Her research interests are in the areas of school dropouts studied philosophy, sociology, and social and economic
and the family, child development in the Third World history at Hamburg University. She has held postdoc-
(Africa, Ghana), developmental health issues of teenage toral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the
mothers and their infants, and traditional infant and adult History of Science (Berlin), at the Dibner Institute for the
health issues in the developing world, especially Africa.

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History of Science and Technology (Cambridge, MA), David Delgado Shorter (Folklore and Ethnomusico-
and a Wellcome research fellowship at the University of logy) received his Ph.D. in history of consciousness from
Cambridge. She has taught courses in the philosophy of the University of California–Santa Cruz in 2002. His
science and history of science and medicine, especially areas of teaching and research include indigenous reli-
from the nineteenth century, at the Universities of Kiel, gious performance as nonliterate inscription, particularly
Cambridge, and Oxford. Her research areas are historical within historiographic and ethnographic contexts,
and philosophical aspects of scientific methodology, religions, native film/video, critical theory, ritual and
vision studies, and the problem of error in science. She is performance, and U.S.–Mexico borderlands. His field
currently completing a book on the entwined history of research is in Potam Pueblo, Sonora, Mexico. His
the eye and the microscope from 1750 to 1850. teaching will include indigenous religions, religion
and colonialism, indigenous film/video, and critical
Miryam Segal (Jewish Studies Program) joins IU as ethnography.
director of the Hebrew program, specializing in modern
Hebrew literature and language. She received her Ph.D. Aaron Dean Stalnaker (Religious Studies) received his
in comparative literature from University of California– Ph.D. from Brown University in 2001. He studies the
Berkeley. Her research focuses on Hebrew poetry and its intellectual and practical consequences of religious diver-
interconnections with Israeli nationalism. The recipient sity, especially as these are illuminated by comparisons
of a Fulbright scholarship and other honors, she has between Western and Chinese religious ideas and prac-
been active in teaching, having served as an instructor at tices. He is most interested in the relevance of ancient
the University of Pennsylvania, the Drisha Institute in conceptions of human excellence to life in contemporary
New York, and the Pardes Program in Israel. culturally intermingled societies. His current book
project, “Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and
IUPUI’s Office of Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine,” compares
the ethico-religious practices of virtue-cultivation
International Affairs advocated by the early Confucian, Xunzi, and the early
Christian, Augustine of Hippo. He teaches courses on
Has Moved Christian ethics, classical Chinese thought, contemporary
ethical theory, and various cross-traditional themes.
At the end of September, the Office of International
Affairs at IUPUI moved to new offices in the Lin Zou (East Asian Languages and Cultures) received
Education/Social Work Building (ES). The new her Ph.D. in August 2003 from the Department of
address and contact information are as follows. Comparative Literature at the University of California–
Berkeley, focusing on a comparative study of modern
Office of International Affairs Chinese, English, and French literatures. Her current
IUPUI research and teaching interests center on modern and
902 W. New York Street, ES 2126 contemporary Chinese literature and film; the modern
Indianapolis, IN 46202 transformation, commercialization, and consumption of
classical Chinese aesthetics; aesthetic theory; and theory
Telephone: (317) 274-7000; Fax: (317) 278-2213 of emotions and subjective agency. She also earned M.A.
E-mail: [email protected] degrees in sociology and in English literature. From 1992
to 1995, she taught sociology as a senior lecturer at
Editor’s Note: Please check the inside back cover Southeast University in China.
of this issue for more contact information.

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The Office of International Programs welcomes the ANTHROPOLOGY
following international scholars, a number of whom are
Visiting Fulbright Scholars, to the Indiana University Olga Filippova is an associate
Bloomington campus for the academic year professor in the Department of Social
2004–2005. For further information regarding the Sciences at the National University of
research or the availability of visiting scholars for Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her Fulbright research
consultation or classroom visits, please contact the project is on “Society, Childhood, Identity: A Cross-
respective centers, departments, or faculty members Temporal and Cross-Cultural Study of Childhood,” and
given below. she will be at IUB for the academic year. Her faculty con-
tact is Sarah Phillips (Anthropology).
AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
Paul Diakite, from the English Section CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN
of the Department of Languages at the
University of Bamako, Mali, is spend- STUDIES (CLACS)

ing the academic year at IUB as a visiting Fulbright Eugenia Rodriguez-Saenz is a visit-
scholar. His project is “Research in African and African ing Fulbright scholar from the
American Literatures: Black People’s Quest for Cultural University of Costa Rica. She is accom-
Identity in the Contexts of Domination and panied by her husband, Ivan Molinas Jimenez, also a
Dependence,” and he is consulting with IU specialists in visiting scholar in CLACS. They are in Bloomington until
African and African American literatures. His faculty December 19, 2004. For further information, contact
contact is Maria Grosz-Ngaté (African Studies Program). CLACS.

Haseenah Ebrahim, a film scholar in dramatic art at COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, is in resi-
dence during the month of November 2004 under the IU alumnus Gene Coyle, on sabbatical leave from the
faculty exchange agreement between IU’s African Studies Central Intelligence Agency, is a visiting lecturer at IUB
Program and the University of the Witwatersrand’s for the two academic years 2004–2006. He is jointly
School of Art. Her faculty contact is Paula Girshick sponsored by the College and the School of Public and
(Anthropology). Environmental Affairs (SPEA) and is affiliated with both
West European Studies (WEST) and the Russian and
Yekutiel Gershoni, from the Department of Middle East European Institute. This fall, he is teaching two
Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, courses, Major Events of International Espionage and
Israel, is spending his 2004–2005 sabbatical leave at IU the American Intelligence Community. Coyle earned his
to research the political history of Liberia from M.A. in East European history and his B.A. in American
1980–1990. His contact is Verlon Stone, director of the history and political science, both from IU Bloomington.
Liberian Collections Project. He has also been an exchange scholar at the Stiftung
Europa Kolleg in Hamburg, Germany. He has published
Ayo Joseph Opefeyitimi, a lecturer in the Department in the CIA journal, Studies in Intelligence, and taught
of African Languages and Literatures international relations courses in Kyrgyzstan. For further
at Obafemi Awolowo University, information, contact WEST.
Nigeria, is spending the academic year
INNER ASIAN AND URALIC NATIONAL RESOURCE
at IU on an Institute of International Education
Fulbright fellowship to conduct doctoral research on CENTER (IAUNRC)
Yoruba oral tradition and praise poetry. His faculty con-
tact is John W. Johnson (Folklore and Ethnomusicology). Nurmira Jamangulova is a faculty member at the
American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan whose
Ph.D. dissertation was on the topic “Causes of
Biodiversity Degradation in Brij Mandal (northern India)
and its Conservation.” She is a visiting scholar in the
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, observing
classes and developing courses and new curricula on
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also make presentations at conferences and write up her Kyrgyzstan, and a visiting scholar of the Junior Faculty
research in an effort to establish broader professional Development Program. At IUB, her host department is
connections between her home university and U.S. uni- the Department of Comparative Literature where she is
versities. Her faculty contact is Vicky Meretsky (SPEA). currently doing research based on the literary issues of
the two cultures and gathering resources for developing
Rustem Kadyrzhanov is head of the new curricula for her home university. Her faculty con-
Institute of Philosophy and Political tact is Paul Losensky (Comparative Literature and Near
Science, Department of Political Eastern Languages and Cultures).
Science in the Ministry of Education and Science,
Almaty, Kazakhstan. His research project is “National Nurlan Masylbaev is a visiting scholar from the Islamic
Idea and National Consolidation in the Post-Soviet University of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. This fall semester, he
Transition.” He will be at IUB for the academic year, and is at IUB as part of the Social Science Research Council
his faculty contact is William Fierman (IAUNRC). faculty exchange program, observing classroom instruc-
tion on teaching religion. He is fluent in Kyrgyz, Arabic,
Begench Karayev is a Fulbright and Russian. His faculty contact is Edward Lazzerini
scholar whose main subject of research (IAUNRC).
is the contemporary political processes
and problems of democratization in Central Asian soci- Yelena Moisseyeva is a teacher of English and linguis-
ety. He has a Ph.D. from Moscow State University and is tics at Kokshetau State University, Kazakhstan, and a
the author of two monographs concerning relevant Junior Faculty Development Program fellow for the
methodological issues of political analysis of Central 2004–2005 academic year. She is affiliated with the
Asian society. He is head of the Foreign and Political Department of Linguistics. Her goal is to explore new
Information and Analysis Department of the Ministry of ideas in teaching and research and to develop new
Foreign Affairs in Turkmenistan. He is affiliated with the courses for her home university. Her faculty contact is
Department of Political Science, where his faculty Samuel Obeng (Linguistics).
contact is Henry Hale.
Asan Saipov is an instructor of the history of Islam at
Zarangez Karimova is a fellow in the Junior Faculty the Islamic University of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He is at
Development Program supported by the American IUB this fall as part of the Social Science Research
Councils for International Education. She is a teacher of Council faculty exchange program to study how the his-
English at the Tajik State Pedagogical University in tory and philosophy of religion is taught at American
Tajikistan. She is currently developing a course on teach- universities. He speaks Kyrgyz, Turkish, Arabic, and
ing academic reading and writing. Her faculty contact is Russian. His faculty contact is Edward Lazzerini
Bruce Leeds (TESOL and Applied Linguistics). (IAUNRC).

Yelena Kondaurova is an associate professor in the Saurjan Yakupov is the director of the Sharh va Tavsiya
Theory of Music Department of Kazakh National Sociology Center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and a visiting
Conservatory in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and has a Ph.D. in
art criticism. She is a Junior Faculty Development Fulbright scholar for the academic
Program fellow for 2004–2005 and is a visiting scholar year. He is working on a research proj-
in the Arts Administration Program of the School of ect, “Ethnogenesis in Uzbekistan:
Public and Environmental Affairs. Her project is to work Ethnic Continuity of Titular Nations Compared to the
on arts administration curriculum, in particular, a course Histories of Ethnic ‘Others.’” His faculty contact is Nazif
on arts management for musicians. Her SPEA faculty Shahrani (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program,
contact is Sally Gaskill (Arts Administration). IUB).

Munara Mailybekova is a senior lecturer and the head INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
of the English Department at Talas State University, S. Japhet, a professor of law at the National Law School
of India University in Bangalore, India, is one of the

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leading intellectuals in the Dalit movement, focusing on KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (KSB)
creating identities for Dalits and advancing their strug-
gle for social, religious, economic, and political status in Ivan Damir Anic, a senior researcher at the Institute of
India. Japhet’s work provides a comparative framework Economics in Zagreb, Croatia (KSB’s exchange partner in
for the study of the struggles of African Americans in the the International M.B.A. program, see page 2), is
United States and of blacks in South Africa. During his
four-week visit, he collaborated with Kevin Brown (Law, spending the academic year at IUB as
IUB) and consulted with his IUB and IUPUI colleagues a visiting Fulbright scholar working on
in law, criminal justice, and African American studies. a project, “Towards a New Retail
Strategy for Emerging Markets: Developing a Sustainable
Robert Juepner is a professor of hydraulic engineering Competitive Advantage in Croatia.” It deals with the
at the Magdeburg University of Applied Sciences, strategy and concept of competitive advantage in food
Germany, and director of the Institute for Water retailing in the United States and Croatia, combining
Management and Ecotechnology. He conducts research research concepts on consumer behavior, marketing
on watershed management and ecological restoration of management, and strategy. His faculty contact is
rivers. During a three-week visit to IUB, he worked with Rockney Walters (Marketing).
Henk Haitjema and Christopher Craft, both of the School
of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), and Deok Hee Hahn, a researcher for the National Pension
explored developing student exchanges with faculty Corporation in Seoul, South Korea, is spending the aca-
members in SPEA, West European Studies, and Geology demic year at IUB where he’ll focus on empirical investi-
at IUB, and with colleagues at IUPUI. gations of market efficiency and options and futures. His
faculty contact is Robert Jennings (Finance).
An Naderveen Pieterse, a sociology professor at the
University of Illinois–Urbana, is an internationally Soon-Young Huh, a management information systems
acclaimed expert on such issues as empire, race, eco- professor at the Graduate School of Management in the
nomic development, and globalization. He has held Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
numerous positions in the Netherlands, Ghana, Indonesia, (KAIST), conducts research on customer relationship
Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Thailand. During his two-week management systems, data mining, Web-based recom-
stay in Bloomington, he collaborated with Patrick mendation systems, intelligent query-answering systems,
Brantlinger (English) and other colleagues in American and flexible model management systems for financial
studies, cultural studies, education, and sociology. derivative trading systems. His faculty contact for the
academic year is Ramesh Venkataraman (Information
Per Nordahl, who directs the Swedish Emigrant Systems).
Institute in Växjo, Sweden, is an acclaimed scholar in the
field of labor unions, ethnic diversity, and Swedish emi- Taro Ishibashi is from Shizuoka University in Japan,
gration. His visit is a result of an ongoing research col- and has been a visiting scholar since October 2003,
laboration with IU faculty members on the subject of the working with applied microeconomics, industrial organi-
study of diversity in the membership of labor unions and zation theory, game theory, and the economics of infor-
other workplace organizations. During his three-week mation to study a firm’s reputation, especially regarding
visit in November, he conducted research in the study of the tourism industry. His faculty contact is Eric
unions and diversity and collaborated with Lynn Duggan Rasmusen (Business Economics and Public Policy).
(Labor Studies) to analyze the impact of immigration on
women, work, and unions in America. He also consulted Heejoon Jeong, from Jeonju University in Jeobunk,
with other like-minded colleagues in the School of Public South Korea, is a visiting scholar for the academic year.
and Environmental Affairs, sociology, and West His research interests have centered mainly on the fixed
European Studies at IUB, IUPUI, and IU Northwest. income market of South Korea, including comparative
studies between that of South Korea and the other coun-
tries. His recent work focuses on the analysis of the rela-
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bond markets, and the real sector of economy. His fac- Her research project is “Contrastive Analyses of Verbal
ulty contact is Robert Jennings (Finance). and Nonverbal Communication in American and Kyrgyz
Culture.” She is on the Bloomington campus from
Sung Min Kim, a professor of finance at Hanyang
University in Korea, has been conducting research at IUB September 2004 to February 2005.
since January 2001. His faculty contact is Robert Her faculty contact is Martha Nyikos
Jennings (Finance). (Language Education).

Jae Yi Lee is a team leader from the Korean Deposit Meei-Hwa Jiang is a visiting scholar for the academic
Insurance Corporation in Seoul, South Korea, who has year from the Department of Chinese Language
been a visiting scholar since December 2002. His faculty Education at National Hualien Teachers College, Taiwan.
contact has been Robert Klemkosky (Finance). She is exploring first-language learning processes of chil-
dren in terms of a holistic and inquiry-based curriculum
Baoming Li, of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, is and is working with Jerome Harste (Language
spending the academic year at IUB. His faculty contact is Education).
Eric Rasmusen (Business Economics and Public Policy).
Tirussew Teferra Kidanemariam, a professor of spe-
Roberto Mosca, a doctoral candidate from the cial needs education at Addis Ababa University in
University of Naples, Italy, is applying an industrial Ethiopia, has been at IUB since March 2004 conducting
organization theoretic approach to investigate the comparative research on U.S. attitudes toward disability
renewed Basel Agreement designed to improve the sta- in comparison to Ethiopia, and compiling a book of read-
bility of the international banking system and reduce ings on the topic. His faculty contact is Samuel Odom
competitive inequality across countries, and to consider (Curriculum and Instruction).
the consequences of its implementation on the markets’
competitiveness. His faculty contact for the academic Ya-Chen Su, of Chang Jung Christian University in
year is Andrew Ellul (Finance). Tainan, Taiwan, spent August and September at IUB
conducting research on text and political ideology in
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION relation to children’s literature. Her faculty contact was
Kwang Hee Han, from the Department of Psychology at Jesse Goodman (Curriculum and Instruction).
Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, has been con-
ducting research on Web-based learning, cognition, Suksan Suppasetseree, of Suranaree University of
human–computer interaction, and statistics and will Technology in Thailand, is conducting research for the
leave in February 2005. His faculty contact is Donald academic year on the development of an instructional
Cunningham (Counseling and Educational Psychology). systems model for a remedial English course via the
Internet. His faculty contact is Elizabeth Boling
Gyun Heo, from Seoul National University, Korea, is (Instructional Systems Technology).
conducting research for the academic year on the topic of
the visualization process. His faculty contact is Elizabeth SCHOOL OF LAW—BLOOMINGTON
Boling (Instructional Systems Technology). Qinlang Bai, from Southwest University of Political
Science and Law in Chongqing, China, will be a visiting
Myunghui Hong from Seoul National University of scholar at IUB in January 2005. Her area of interest is
Education, Korea, is doing research for the academic labor law. She may be contacted through Lesley Davis
year on advanced education using computer technology. (International Programs).
His faculty contact is Elizabeth Boling (Instructional
Systems Technology). Hee Woo Cho is a court clerk and the registration officer
of the Dangjin Registry Office, Daejon District Court,
Bumairam Ismailova is docent in the Department of Korea. He is one of two court clerks chosen by the
World Languages, Osh State University, in Kyrgyzstan. Supreme Court of Korea to spend a year conducting legal
research in the United States. His interests include U.S.

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legal history and labor law. He may be contacted through 2004 conducting research on electronic records manage-
Lesley Davis (International Programs). ment at IUB’s University Archives. His administrative
contact was Philip C. Bantin.
Byung-Moon Choe is a professor of law and director of
the Law Institute at Sangji University in Korea. He WORKSHOP IN POLITICAL THEORY
earned his LL.M. from the IU School of Law—
Bloomington in 1997. He returned to IUB in 2002 and AND POLICY ANALYSIS
has since been a visiting scholar. He works with Joseph
Hoffmann (Law), and his area of expertise is criminal James C. Cox is on sabbatical leave
law. from his appointment as Arizona Public Service
Professor of Economics and director of the Economic
Kun-Lung Chuang is a doctoral candidate from Fu Hsing Science Laboratory at the University of Arizona. While at
Kang College in Taipei, Taiwan, who will spend the cal- the Workshop, he will write a chapter for the book titled
endar year 2005 at IUB doing research on national secu- Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: Towards
rity law. His faculty contact is Joseph Hoffmann (Law).
a New Research Agenda for Scholarly
Rovshan Ismayilov is a visiting Fulbright scholar from
Baku State University in Azerbaijan, who will spend Communication (C. Hess and E. Ostrom, eds.) and con-
January through August 2005 doing research on tinue his work on several ongoing research programs.
“Political Rights in Transition States.” His faculty contact The book chapter will focus on EconPort: A Digital
is Patrick Baude (Law). Library for Microeconomics Education (www.econ-
port.org) that was created under a National Science
Dong Seok Kim, the presiding judge Foundation grant to the Economic Science Laboratory to
for civil cases in Daegu District Court be a component of the National Science Digital Library
in Daegu, South Korea, was chosen by (www.nsdl.org). Cox’s ongoing research programs
the Supreme Court of Korea to spend the academic year include work on theoretical modeling and laboratory
at IUB. His research interests include family law and experiments with trust, reciprocity, and altruism; small-
immigration law. He may be contacted through Lesley and large-stakes risk aversion; group versus individual
Davis (International Programs). rationality in common value auctions; e-commerce with
combinatorial demands; multiunit incentive-compatible
Hyeogsang Sohn is a doctoral candidate from Yonsei auctions; and centipede games versus Dutch auctions.
University in Seoul, South Korea, who will be at IUB
from December 2004 until August 2005 studying Oliver Curry recently completed his Ph.D. in the
antitrust law. His faculty sponsor is Robert Heidt (Law). Government Department of the London School of
Economics. The topic of his Ph.D. was the evolution of
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS human moral sentiments. During his stay at the
(SPEA) Workshop he plans to clarify the different ways that biol-
Daina Bara is a Fulbright scholar from the Deparatment ogists and economists use rational choice and game the-
of Political Science at the University of Latvia, Riga, ory and to clear up some of the theoretical and
Latvia. Her research project is on public relations and its methodological confusion that these differences create.
role in government. She is a visiting scholar at the SPEA, He plans to turn some of the predictions that evolution-
where her faculty contact is Charles Wise. ary theory makes about human moral psychology into
tractable economics experiments, and put them to the
UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES test.
Savumthararaj Gopal is an archivist
in the Electronic Records Branch of the Andreas Duit is a senior lecturer at the Department of
National Archives of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. He was Political Science and research fellow at the Center for
on the Bloomington campus from August to October Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (CTM),
Stockholm University. During his stay at the Workshop,
Duit will be working on projects concerning social capital
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and social change, and normative questions in contem- Project of the BCLD to promote ideas and practices of
porary environmentalism. polycentric governance in future Burma’s democratic
federal union. The second project is revising his disserta-
Sheldon Gellar has completed his book-length manu- tion to publish as a book or series of journal articles. His
script on “Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics dissertation is titled “Strength of ‘Weak’ Forces in
in Africa,” which he is preparing for publication by Multilayer Environmental Governance: Cases from the
Palgrave-McMillan, while working on articles applying Mekong and the Rhine” and examines the origins of the
Tocquevillian analytics to the study of democratization power of non-state actors in influencing institutional
processes. He also will be working closely with Amos transformation at three layers—local, national, and
Sawyer on a project to prepare a volume on self-gover- transnational—of both the Mekong and the Rhine River
nance in Africa and to promote the Consortium for Self- basins.
Governance in Africa (CSGA) network.
Peters Eseosa Omoregie is a Ph.D. student at the
David Langat is a researcher at the Kenya Forestry University of Ibadan (Nigeria). A START/Packard fellow
Research Institute (Kenya) and member of IFRI/CRC-K on the Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change in
(Collaborative Research Center–Kenya). His background Washington, D.C., he is a visiting scholar at the
is in the field of forestry and socioeconomics. His work at Workshop for the International Forestry, Resources, and
the research station is on understanding how rural forest- Institutions (IFRI) Research Program. While here, he is
adjacent communities relate to forests in terms of rules taking training on IFRI research methodology, which he
and property rights and how the traditional rules and is using for his present social vulnerability project with
norms can be applied in sustainable management of for- START and his Ph.D. dissertation. His work is centered
est resources for the benefit of the people and the envi- in assessing the degree to which forest communities are
ronment. He is attending the International Forestry, vulnerable under diverse property rights arrangement in
Resources, and Institutions (IFRI) training course at the southeastern Nigeria.
Workshop to equip him with skills on institutional
analysis and IFRI Research Methodology. Michael Price received his Ph.D. in biosocial anthropol-
ogy from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His
Lutz Laschewski is a lecturer for Agricultural and dissertation research, conducted in the Ecuadorian
Environmental Policy at the University of Rostock Amazon and California, focused on psychological adapta-
(Germany). His research is about rural development and tions for collective action participation. While at the
agri-environmental policies in Europe, in particular the Workshop, he will use lab experiments and computer
former socialist countries. During his five-week visit, he models to further study the evolution of collective action.
wants to study the Workshop’s Institutional Analysis and
Development framework and develop an understanding Irene Ramos-Vielba received her doctorate in political
of its broader intellectual roots to rethink and review his science and sociology from Complutense University of
recent research about the design and implementation of Madrid (Spain). The core part of her dissertation focused
agri-environmental policies in East Germany. He is on the use of the Internet for political communication
working on summarizing his conclusions in a draft from the Spanish Parliament to Spanish society from a
paper. comparative approach. While at the Workshop, she
hopes to achieve the right framework (the Workshop’s
Tun Myint is a senior fellow at the Burma Center for Institutional Analysis and Development) to pursue her
Law and Democracy (BCLD) at the School of Law, and postdoctoral research on “Information and
received his Ph.D. in Law and Social Sciences in the joint Communication Technologies (ICTs), Communication
SPEA/law program at IU Bloomington. He will be work- Strategies and Representative Institutions in the
ing on two projects. The first project is to develop a European Union Countries.” She also will be working on
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a chapter on “e-Government in Spain, Results and wants to start an IFRI collaborative research center in
Prospects” for a forthcoming book. Nigeria. Therefore, his main interest in the International
Forestry, Resources, and Institutions (IFRI) training is to
Utiang P. Ugbe is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of deepen his knowledge on the theoretical foundations of
Community Economic Development, Southern New the study of common-pool resources, the IFRI frame-
Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire. work and protocol, as well as the IFRI relational data-
His proposed dissertation research is on the communal base and its applicability to the study of forest
management of dawadawa (African locust bean) trees management and human well-being of forest communi-
and seeds in Obudu area of Cross River State, Nigeria. ties in Nigeria.
He is studying the effect of two variables (entrepreneur-
ial acumen and social networks) on the economic benefit
(in financial terms) derived by the dawadawa resource
appropriators. He wants to find out if the strength of
these variables—and consequently the amount of eco-
nomic benefit derived by resource appropriators—differs
among the women, men, and youths in the study com-
munity. After completing his doctoral studies, Ugbe

Choir Performs continued from page 11

Their last performance was a videotaping at The choir sings as guests of WTIU’s children’s series, The Friday Zone.
IU’s Radio and Television Services as guests of
The Friday Zone. This weekly television show, Shawn Reynolds, associate director of the
hosted by Echo Shappell, is WTIU’s Emmy Center for International Education and
Award-winning children’s series airing on Public Development Assistance; telephone: (812) 856-
Broadcasting Service stations covering the 5861; e-mail: [email protected].
Indianapolis metro area and south-central
Indiana. —RMN

The choir spent their last full day in Indiana
at IU East and offered an evening concert held
at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Richmond.
Tim Williams, director of the Office of
Multicultural Affairs that sponsored the event,
says, “This is just an example of the inter-
national reach of Indiana University, and it is an
honor for IU East to assist in hosting our
talented visitors from Namibia.”

The UNAM Choir’s visit to Indiana
University was made possible through the aus-
pices of the Office of International Programs,
African Studies Program, Office of the Vice
President for Institutional Development and
Student Affairs, and the Office of the Chancellor
at IU East. For further information, contact

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In May, four students from the Burmese Refugee In September, a group of 13 Russian
Scholarship Program (BRSP), administered for many university administrators and Ministry
years by the Office of International Programs, grad- of Education officials, sponsored by
uated from IU. Salai Thla Hei (left), earned his B.S. the U.S. Department of State’s
in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs International Visitor Leadership
(SPEA) from IUPUI. Tun Myint (center) received a Program, spent several days on the
joint Ph.D. in law and social science from the School Bloomington campus. They came to
of Law—Bloomington, the first-ever recipient of this learn more about foreign student
new degree, and in environmental science from administration and exchange services,
SPEA. Van Hnem Bualteng (right) earned her B.A. with the view toward increasing
in elementary education from the School of greater participation of U.S.-to-Russia
Education. The fourth, Soe Aung (not shown), student exchanges. They were hosted
received his B.A. in political science from IUB. at a reception sponsored by IUB’s
Emeriti House, where they were able
50 to discuss academic issues with many
of IUB’s knowledgeable retired faculty.

In August 2004, the ninth group of
BRSP grantees arrived from India.
Shown here with program director
Carol Myint (center), they have
already planned what and where
they want to study. (Left to right) Ro
Ding intends to stay in Bloomington
to work for an M.P.A. degree at
SPEA. Van Lal Mawi wants to study
social work at Vincennes University.
Mang Tin Tial also hopes to study
social work at IUPUI. Ye Win Latt is
interested in studying economics
either at IUB or Ball State University.