Dr. Michael Adas is the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor and Board of Governor’s Chair in the Department of History at Rutgers University at New Brunswick.  His graduate work at the University of Wisconsin was centered on comparative and global history with specialized area study of South and Southeast Asia.  His research and publications in the early 1970s included The Burma Delta: Agricultural Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1974) and numerous articles, which were concentrated on European colonialism, agrarian development, and peasant responses, particularly in South and Southeast Asian societies.  The latter themes were more readily apparent in his subsequent studies of peasant protest movements involving millenarian and avoidance strategies to offset the power of technologically superior, industrialized colonial powers, such as those analyzed in Prophets of Rebellion(University of North Carolina Press, 1979; Cambridge University Press, 1987) and articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, The Journal of Social History, and The Journal of Peasant Studies.  Over the past two decades his teaching, lecturing and research have been centered on the impact of Western science and technology on European and American colonization and post-colonial interventions in Asia and Africa.  His recent books include Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of WesternDominance, (Cornell University Press, 1989), which won the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology and the NJ-NEH book award, and Dominance by Design: Technology, Social Engineering and America's Civilizing Mission (Harvard University Press, 2006).  He has edited two volumes of essays on World History for the American Historical Association, and authored over forty articles and essays for refereed journals and edited collections.  With Peter Stearns and Stuart Schwartz, Adas has written college and AP editions of World Civilizations: The Global Experience and Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the Twentieth Century.  He is currently working on Hegemons’ Folly: Western Front, Vietnam Quagmire, and the Decline of Great Powers in the Twentieth Century.

http://history.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=95&Itemid=140

Areas of Expertise: World War I and its Global Impact

Dr. Rosanne Altshuler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University.  Most of her research and teaching concentrates on the economics of taxation.  She has written extensively on international taxation issues including the consequences of home and host country tax policies on the behavior of multinational corporations and the reform of cross-border taxation.  Her work in the area of international taxation has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and books.  She recently served as Senior Economist to the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform.  Prior to joining the Tax Reform Panel, she was acting as a Special Advisor to the Joint Committee on Taxation.  She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Tax Association and as editor of the National Tax Journal.  She is an International Research Fellow of Oxford University’s Centre for Business Taxation and a member of the Statistics of Income Advisory Panel of the Internal Revenue Service.  She is currently working on studies of tax competition between countries, international tax reform and the evolution of corporate tax revenues.

Areas of Expertise:  Public finance, Fiscal policy, Tax policy, Tax reform, International taxation, Tax competition

Dr. Rudolph Bell is a Professor of History who specializes in Italian history. He spends his summers on the eastern Istrian coast of Croatia, where he and his wife have modernized the seafront village home in which she was born.  While there, he cultivates his olive trees. He is the author of a variety of books on different aspects of Italian history, beginning with a series of local studies in Sicily, Calabria, Campania, and Emilia-Romagna that looked at the impact of changing demographic experience on villagers’ cultural expectations and perceptions.  He is best known for Holy Anorexia, translated into Italian, French, and Dutch, a study of female saints and their emotional development from the 13th to the 18th centuries. More recently, his work has focused on popular advice manuals in early modern Italy and subsequently a study of the 20th century saint Gemma Galgani, co-authored with Cristina Mazzoni of the University of Vermont. Currently he is doing research on widows in 16th century Palermo.  His teaching includes introductory courses on the history of love and death in Europe and Japan (co-taught with Prof. Donald Roden) and more specialized courses on “The History of Italy’s Peoples” and “Father/Daughter Conflict in Verdian Opera.”

Areas of Expertise:  Italy, Renaissance, Popular Religion, Saints

Dr. Trevor Birkenholtz is a cultural and political ecologist who studies the politics of access to and control over groundwater for irrigation and domestic uses in Rajasthan, India. He has been working since 2001 near the city of Jaipur in an attempt to understand the impact that tubewell/groundwater led agricultural development has on agrarian life. Specifically, he is interested in the tensions between local and state forms of groundwater and irrigation expertise. The interaction of these often divergent but sometimes complementary environmental knowledges results in new forms of formal and informal groundwater management institutions, and also feeds into recursive ecological change. Together, these processes inform the creation of formal state regulation of groundwater, which is now being considered. He intends to further his current interests through ongoing research, while also expanding research into issues of water, equity and governance in South Asia’s urban areas.

Areas of Expertise:  Political Ecology, Development, South Asia, Water Resources, Social Theory

Dr. Charlotte Bunch, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University, has been an activist, author and organizer in the women's, civil, and human rights movements for four decades.  A Board of Governor’s Distinguished Service Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, Bunch was previously a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a founder of Washington D.C. Women's Liberation and of Quest: A Feminist Quarterly.  She is the author of numerous essays and has edited or co-edited nine anthologies including the Center’s reports on the UN Beijing Plus 5 Review and the World Conference Against Racism. Her books include two classics: Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action and Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights.  Bunch's contributions to conceptualizing and organizing for women's human rights have been recognized by many and include: her induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame in October 1996; President Clinton's selection of Bunch as a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights in December 1999; her receipt of the "Women Who Make a Difference Award" from the National Council for Research on Women in 2000; and being honored as one of the "21 Leaders for the 21st Century" by Women's Enews in 2002 and also received the “Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence in Research” in 2006 at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey . She has served on the boards of numerous organizations and is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division, and on the Boards of the Global Fund for Women and the International Council on Human Rights Policy. She has been a consultant to many United Nations bodies and recently served on the Advisory Committee for the Secretary General’s 2006 Report to the General Assembly on Violence against Women.

Areas of Expertise: Women’s Global Leadership, Violence Against Women, 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, Women’s Human Rights, Leadership Development

Dr. Barbara J. Callaway, Professor of Political Science, has had over forty years of experience conducting researh in West Africa on issues of political and economic development, democratization, women and politics, women and development, and women and Islam. Professor Callaway's books include "Local Politics and Political Development in Nigeria," "Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria," and "Women and Islam in West Africa."

Areas of Expertise: West Africa, Political and Economic Development, Democratization, Women and Development, Women and Islam

Dr. Barbara Cooper is a social and cultural historian of francophone West Africa specializing in Niger.  Her research has focused largely upon the twentieth century and has explored shifts in gender, family life, and agricultural practices.  Her first book, Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa society in Niger (Heinemann 1997) set out how men and women in this Sahelian region negotiated the rapidly changing political economy through reinterpretations of marriage.  Her second book project focused upon the history of religion in Niger.  Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel (Indiana University Press 2006), which was awarded the African Studies Association Melville J. Herkovits prize for the best book published in 2006 in African Studies, offers a history of the interactions of evangelical missionaries, French administrators, and Muslim communities as a small but vibrant Christian community in Niger emerged.  More recently she has begun work on a study of the history of debates about fertility, population, and reproduction in the Sahel from 1900 to the present.

Areas of Expertise: Niger, gender, religious competition, French West Africa, missions, marriage, reproduction

Dr. Lee Cronk is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and a member of Rutgers Center for Human Evolutionary Studies.  He uses evolutionary theory to study human behavior, culture, and society.  Some of the specific topics he has examined are culture change, social norms, cooperation, parental behavior, kinship, descent, stratification, and courtship signals.  He has conducted fieldwork among the Maasai-speaking Mukogodo people of Kenya, on the Honduran Bay Island of Utila, and in Jamaica.  He is founder and president of the Mukogodo Fund, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization that supports educational and development efforts in the Mukogodo area of Kenya.

http://anthro.rutgers.edu/faculty/cronk.shtml
http://www.mukogodofund.org

Areas of Expertise:  Human behavioral ecology, Africa, Caribbean

Dr. Uri Eisenzweig is a Professor in the Department of French and in the Program of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.  He is also the Director of the Rutgers Center for European Studies and of the Rutgers Transliteratures Project.  His research deals with the relation between literary forms and political events in 19th and 20th century Europe.  His latest book is Fictions de l’anarchisme (Paris: Christian Bourgois, 2001). A Spanish translation, Ficciones del anarquismo, was published in 2004 (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica). Uri Eisenzweig has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Tel-Aviv, Yale, and Paris 7.  He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996-7.

Areas of Expertise: Literary Analysis, Modern France, Anarchism, Zionism, Terrorism, Detective Fiction

Dr. Leela Fernandes is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.  Her most recent book, India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform (2006) examines the political implications that the rise of the Indian middle class has had for Indian democracy and the politics of globalization. She is also the author of Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (1997) and Transforming Feminist Practice (2003).  Her research focuses on questions of cultural politics, gender and political economy. She has published articles on labor, gender, cultural politics, nationalism, human rights and globalization and has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, American Institute for Indian Studies, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.  Leela Fernandes is currently working on two research projects. The first project on religion and politics in India focuses on developing a historical and philosophical understanding of  the relationship between religion, social movements and the state.  The second project represents a series of theoretical essays that examines the relationship between ethics, politics and knowledge.  She is also currently the South Asia Editor of the journal Critical Asian Studies.

http://fas-polisci.rutgers.edu/fernandes

Areas of Expertise: a, b, c, d, e

Dr. Angus Kress Gillespie is a Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. A Yale University graduate, and a New York Time bestselling author, he has written several books and numerous articles.  Gillespie’s international interest has been in three areas—Northern Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. With regard to Northern Europe, he received a Fulbright Award to teach American Studies at Agder University in Kristiansand, Norway, during the 2002-2003 academic year.  During that year he was able to travel, study, and lecture in Denmark, Sweden, and England. Gillespie made a follow-up visit to Norway in 2005, and lectured at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy and the University of Oslo.  In Asia Gillespie received a Fulbright Award to teach American literature at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, for the 1985-1986. During that time he was able to conduct folklore fieldwork in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. He made a follow-up trip to the Philippines in January 1998 with a U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grant to consult with the faculty of the University of the Philippines to establish a program in American Studies. In March of 2007, he received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant to present lectures at Chunbuk National University in Cheongju, South Korea.  In the Caribbean Gillespie received two travel grants to Haiti awarded by the Partners of the Americas to conduct folklore fieldwork, first in August of 1990, and later in March of 1993. Later in 1997 he was sent to the University of the West Indies in Trinidad by the U.S. Information Agency to develop a curriculum in American Studies.

Areas of Expertise: Norway, Philippines, South Korea, Haiti, Trinidad, Folklore, Folklife, Traditional Culture, Ritual, Ceremony

Dr. Arnold Glass is a Professor in the Department of Psychology.  He does research on basic mechanisms of learning and its application to instruction.  He is well known throughout the world for his textbook, Cognition.  He has been a visiting scientist at the applied psychology unit of Cambridge University, England, a visiting Professor at the University of Bergen, Bergen Norway, and a Fulbright visiting Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway.  His recent research has demonstrated the central role of distributed practice in long-term retention.  The brain appears designed to retain traces of routine events while discarding traces of unique ones.

Areas of Expertise: Learning, Memory, Distributed Study, Testing Effect

Dr. Daniel Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Latin American Studies program at Rutgers University. A political and legal anthropologist, he studies the effects of political democratization, economic globalization, and the law on poor, indigenous residents of a Bolivian city, exploring the often unintended consequences of global processes for the daily lives of these people. Ethnographic research in Bolivia enables Goldstein to theorize about the lives and cultures of marginalized urban peoples in contemporary global society. Currently, his work focuses on problems of insecurity for urban residents and market vendors in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and the impacts of crime and violence on local lives and livelihoods. Dr. Goldstein’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, among others. He is the author of numerous articles and a book, The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia, published by Duke University Press.

Areas of Expertise: Latin America, Democracy, Violence, Indigenous People, Social Movements, Urban Life, Human Rights

Dr. Sumit Guha is Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and Director of the South Asian Studies Program.  His current research deals with the intellectual and social history of early modern and medieval India. His publications include Health and Population in South Asia Delhi and London: Permanent Black and C. Hurst and Co., London 2001, Environment and Ethnicity in South Asia 1200-1991 Cambridge University Press, 1999 (paperback edition, 2006) and The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan 1818-1941 New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985

Areas of Expertise: Intellectual and Social History of Early Modern and Medieval India, and Identity

Dr. Jack Harris is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology.  He is one of the world’s foremost Paleoanthropologists studying the earliest stages of human origins. In particular, he studies the time interval 2.5 million to 1.5 million that sees the earliest evidence for stone tool manufacture and use, the incorporation of meat into the diet, the emergence of the genus Homo and the ranging patterns of our earliest ancestors to Eurasia.  More recently, he has begun work with some of the world’s most distinguished Primatologists. He has initiated collaborative inter-disciplinary studies of the behaviors of modern chimps and monkeys, particularly their use of stone tools in foraging and food sourcing as models for the behaviors of our earliest stone tool using hominid ancestors.  Harris focuses his research on the African Continent and is a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. He coordinates three international anthropology field schools under Rutgers Study Abroad in Kenya (in paleoanthropology, Primatology, and Swahili studies) which provide opportunities for internships at the National Museums of Kenya.  Dr. Harris has over 125 publications including numerous co-authored publications in Science, Nature and more recently the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Dr. Harris’ research has been supported by numerous sources including the National Science Foundation, Leakey Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Areas of Expertise:  Africa, Paleoanthropology, Human origins, Primatology, Wildlife ecology and conservation

Angelique Haugerud is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology.  She has conducted a half-dozen years of research in East and Central Africa, as well as several years of ethnographic research on the cultural politics of wealth and satirical activism in the United States.  One of her current research projects explores how people in Kenya have coped with increasing economic and political volatility.  Families included in this longitudinal study include both small-scale coffee farmers in the foothills of Mt. Kenya, and migrants from those families who have moved to Nairobi.  This research focuses on the personal experiences and everyday lives of individuals who animate the abstractions we debate as globalization, economic neoliberalism, migration, land tenure reform, social and economic differentiation, democratization, and modernity.  A second project nearing completion is an ethnographic study of globalization activists and a satirical grassroots political network whose members critique growing economic inequality in the United States by spoofing the ultra-rich. This study explores American discomfort with class, satire as political critique, the subjectivities and emotions of protest, political agency, protest as performance, histories and internal dynamics of particular groups, complementarity of cyber-networking and social connectivity as modes of organizing, media images of protest, innovation in protest tactics, media and official representations of dissent, and the effects of media coverage on activists' strategies and internal group dynamics.   Professor Haugerud has been awarded research fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, American Philosophical Society, and Rockefeller Foundation, among others. She was editor of the scholarly journal Africa Today (1996-1998) and has been elected to the executive boards of the American Anthropological Association's General Anthropology Division (2002-2005), the African Studies Association (1999-2002), the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (1997-2000), and the Society for Economic Anthropology (1992-1995).  She is the author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya (Cambridge University Press, 1995); co-editor (with Marc Edelman) of The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005); and co-editor (with M. Priscilla Stone and Peter D. Little) of Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).

Areas of Expertise: Africa, U.S., globalization, democracy, cultural politics, ethnicity, social movements, satirical activism, neoliberalism, politics of development, political anthropology, economic anthropology, political ecology, and land tenure

Dr. Dorothy Hodgson is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. She is also President-elect of the national Association for Feminist Anthropology.  She has worked for over 20 years in Tanzania, primarily among Maasai pastoralists. As a historical anthropologist, her research topics include gender, ethnicity, cultural politics, colonialism, nationalism, modernity, the missionary encounter, transnational organizing, and the indigenous rights movement. She is the author of Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development (Indiana, 2001) and The Church of Women: Gender, Power and Missionary Encounters in Tanzania (Indiana, 2005) and editor of Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives (Palgrave, 2001), Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist (James Currey & Ohio 2000), and, with Sheryl McCurdy, “Wicked” Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa (Heinemann, 2001).  She recently co-edited a special volume of WSQ (formerly Women’s Studies Quarterly) with Ethel Brooks on Activisms, and is currently completing a book about the dynamics of civil society, transnational advocacy and the state in Africa tentatively titled Positionings: Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World. Her work has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, American Council for Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, American Philosophical Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

http://anthro.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=95&Itemid=136

Areas of Expertise: Gender, Ethnicity, Development, Missions, Religion, Colonialism, Nationalism, Social Movements, Indigenous Rights, Pastoralists, Tanzania, East Africa

Dr. Allen M. Howard is Professor of History and Vice Chair for Graduate Education in the Department of History. He specializes in African, Atlantic, and Global and Comparative History. His research and writing deal with the history of African cities, ethnicity, and trade and traders, including the slave trade, primarily from 1780 to 1920 and with a focus on Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ghana. He has also published on the application of spatial analysis to African history (including The Spatial Factor in African History, co-edited, Brill, 2005) and on recent African urban history (including an edited special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies, 2003). He currently is writing a history of Atlantic cities and completing a volume on trade, accumulation, and power in Sierra Leone and Guinea. He has taught and done extensive field work in West Africa. At Rutgers, he teaches Atlantic History and a wide variety of African history courses (Modern, West, Southern, Cultural, Cities) at the undergraduate level and Colloquia and Seminars in Global and Comparative and in African History at the graduate level. With Michael Adas, Howard developed the field of Global and Comparative History, in which many students have been trained. He has run numerous workshops on African and World History for secondary educators, and from 2005-2007 was the co-director of a Fulbright-Hays-supported project on the internal slave routes of West Africa that developed curricular materials in collaboration with New Jersey educators. He served as Acting Director of the Center for African Studies, and for five years was Program Chair and a member of the Executive Committee. He was active in the anti-apartheid movement and is presently involved in various advocacy groups.

Areas of Expertise: West Africa, Atlantic history, Global history, cities, spatial analysis, ethnicity, slave trade, workshops for educators

Dr. Tao Jiang is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion,teaching Buddhism, classical Chinese religions and philosophies and comparative philosophy. He received his doctorate from the Department of Religion at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, in 2001. He is the author of Contexts and Dialogue: Yogacara Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind (University of Hawaii Press, 2006). His articles have appeared in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Philosophy East & West, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Journal of Indian Philosophy, and Continental Philosophy Review, and several edited volumes, etc. He has served on the Committee on the Status on Asian and Asian American Philosophies and Philosophers under the American Philosophical Association and co-chairs the seminar, “Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective,” a program unit at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion.

http://www.religion.rutgers.edu  

Areas of Expertise:  Buddhism, Chinese philosophy, Chinese religion, Comparative philosophy

Dr. Charles Keeton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University.  He studies the mysterious "dark matter" that surrounds galaxies and pervades the universe. Each galaxy's gravity acts as a gravitational lens to distort our view of the universe behind the galaxy. Professor Keeton observes gravitational lensing with the Hubble Space Telescope and various telescopes on the ground, and analyzes the observations to map the invisible dark matter in distant galaxies. Some physicists have suggested that the universe could contain a fourth spatial dimension that has never been seen.  Professor Keeton recently suggested a way to test this idea with gravitational lensing by microscopic black holes, which might even exist in our own Solar System. This research was featured by media such as MSNBC.com, National Public Radio, and Nova online. In his free time Professor Keeton enjoys singing choral music. He has performed with the Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and he sings early music with the Rutgers Collegium Musicum.

http://redfive.rutgers.edu/~keeton

Areas of Expertise: Astrophysics, Dark Matter, Black Holes

Dr. Noemie Benczer Koller is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University.  She is interested in nuclear structure physics, and more specifically in the magnetic structure of nuclear excited states.  She carries out experiments at accelerators at Yale University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  As a scientist, she travels widely and collaborates with colleagues in many countries.  She has been a strong supporter of activities designed to guarantee human rights of physicists the world over.  She Chaired the APS Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists and is a member of the AAAS Committee for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, and of the New York Academy of Sciences Human Rights Committee.  She was recently elected to be the Vice Chair-elect of the APS Forum for International Physics.

Areas of Expertise:  Nuclear structure physics, Nuclear magnetic moments, Ion-solid interactions, Hyperfine interactions

Dr. Casimir A. Kulikowski is Board of Governors Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science, teaching and carrying out research on biomedical informatics, artificial intelligence (pattern recognition, clustering and imaging), and the societal impact of computers and informatics.  He is also a member of the Waksman Institute and the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering.  He received his PhD from the University of Hawaii in 1970 and the BE and MS from Yale University.  He is author of over 200 papers, two books and co-editor of six others.  He is editor of the Yearbook of Medical Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association, Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence in  Medicine Journal, and on the Editorial Board of Methods of  Information in Medicine.  He is a Vice-President of the International  Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).  International collaborations include the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland, Braunschweig Technical University, Germany, the Lawry Institute, Munich, Germany, Tula University,  Russia, and Jilin University, China.  He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (IOM-NAS), Founding Fellow of the American Academy of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

http:///www.cs.rutgers.edu/~kulikows/

Areas of Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Medical Informatics, and Bioinformatics

Dr. Robin M. Leichenko is Associate Professor and Graduate Director in Geography at Rutgers. Leichenko received a Ph.D. in Geography (1997) and an M.A. in Economics (1995) from Penn State University.  Leichenko’s research explores the social and economic effects of global change processes on cities and regions in advanced and developing countries. In 2004, Leichenko was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo, Norway where she worked on the development of conceptual models of regional vulnerability to global change.  She has also conducted empirical studies of the impacts of environmental change and globalization in India, Mozambique, Pakistan, and the United States. Leichenko has published scholarly articles on global change in journals such as Global Environmental Change, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Economic Geography, and Regional Studies. Her forthcoming book (co-authored with Dr. Karen O’Brien of the University of Oslo) is entitled Double Exposure: Global Environmental Change in an Era of Globalization (Oxford University Press).

http://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/leichenko/

Areas of Expertise: Globalization, Global Environmental Change, Vulnerability, Urban Regions

Dr. Roy Licklider is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Senior Associate at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.  His most recent research has been on how civil wars end and how people who have been killing one another with considerable enthusiasm and success can sometimes form working political communities with one another.  His books on this topic are Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End and Living Together After Ethnic Killing.  Article titles include Outcomes of Civil Wars, Democracy and the Renewal of Civil Wars, Comparative Studies of Long Wars, Obstacles to Peace Settlements, The American Way of State-Building, Conflict Among Allies After Civil War Settlements, and The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars.  He is currently studying how merging military forces have been integrated after civil wars.  His earlier books were on nuclear weapons policy formulation (The Private Nuclear Strategists) and the Arab oil embargo in 1972-73 (Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon).  He has been a member of the Workshop on Contentious Politics at Columbia University for twenty years and is a consultant for the Political Instability Task Force.  He has had visiting appointments at Princeton University and the New School for Social Research and was a member of the Experts Group on Intractable Conflicts at the United States Institute of Peace.  He regularly teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in international relations, American foreign and military policy, civil wars, and research design.  His doctoral degree in international relations is from Yale University.

Areas of Expertise: Civil Wars, Foreign Policy, Military Policy, Terrorism, Ethics

Dr. Julie Livingston is an African historian with interdisciplinary training in public health and anthropology. Working mainly in Botswana, southern Africa, she is interested in questions about the human body in social, experiential, and moral terms. Her research explores a range of issues from how bodily symbolism is grounded in daily experiences of health, to the history of African therapeutics, to contemporary questions about medical citizenship, HIV/AIDS care, disgust and its affect on care for people with chronic diarrhea or necrotic wounds, and pain and palliation in resource poor contexts. Her first book, Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (Indiana University Press, 2005) chronicled the history of bodily vulnerability in southeastern Botswana and the shifting politics of daily care within the home. She has also co-edited (with Keith Wailoo and Peter Guarnaccia) A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, The Bungled Transplant, and the Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (UNC Press, 2006). This project draws together scholars from a range of disciplines to analyze critical issues in American and global medicine. Professor Livingston is currently working on two projects. The first is on suicide among young people in Botswana. The other is based on ethnographic research in one of the few public African oncology wards. This research will form the basis for her new book project tentatively entitled: The Other Cancer Ward: Pain and Laughter in an African Oncology Clinic.

Areas of Expertise: Southern Africa, International Health, Medicine, Gender, the Human Body

Dr. Martin-Márquez's research and teaching center on modern Spanish Peninsular cultural studies and Spanish-language film; she also offers courses on world cinema. Her film-related books include Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen (Oxford University Press 1999) and the collaborative project, Cinema and the Mediation of Everyday Life: An Oral History of Cinema-Going in 1940s and 1950s Spain (Berghahn Books, forthcoming). Her most recently completed book, Disorientations: Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity (Yale University Press 2008), scrutinizes the anxious reformulations of national identity resulting from Spaniards' post-Enlightenment rediscovery of their medieval Andalusi past, precisely at a time in which "scientific racism" rose to dominance. The study details how the conjunction of these two phenomena with Spain's compensatory neo-colonial project in Africa, as well as with the rise of peripheral nationalisms, produced a complexly-layered negotiation of identities that continues up until the present day.

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~susanmm

Areas of Expertise: Modern Spanish Peninsular Cultural Studies, Postcolonial and Gender Theory, Spain and Africa,  Spanish-language and "world" cinema, Film Theory

Dr. Sarah Blake McHam is Professor of Art History at Rutgers University specializing in Italian Renaissance art. Her articles have focused on Italian fifteenth- and sixteenth-century painting, sculpture, and manuscripts, and dealt with artists like Donatello, Giovanni Bellini, Tullio Lombardo, Titian, and Giambologna. Her interests center on patronage and the political and religious contexts in which works of art were produced. Her books include The Chapel of St. Anthony at the Santo in Padua and Venetian Renaissance Sculpture and Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture, both published by Cambridge University Press. She is involved in the exhibition, “An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture,” to be held at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., in summer 2009. She is also interested in the effects of Greco-Roman literature and art in the Renaissance and has recently completed a book about the Roman Pliny the Elder’s influence on art and theory entitled Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: The Legacy of the Natural History.

http://arthistory.rutgers.edu/faculty/bios/mcham

Areas of Expertise: Italian 13th- 16th-century painting and sculpture; classical heritage in the Italian Renaissance

Dr. Jawid Mojaddedi, assistant professor in the Department of Religion, is a native of Afghanistan who was raised in Great Britain, where he completed his education.  He joined Rutgers University in 2003, after having previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study and Columbia University.  Based in the Rutgers Department of Religion, he regularly offers courses on Rumi, Sufism, and Islam.  Dr Mojaddedi’s most recent book is his translation of Rumi’s Masnavi.  The first volume was published in 2004 by Oxford University Press as an Oxford World’s Classics edition, and was awarded the Lois Roth Prize for excellence in translation by the American Institute of Iranian Studies.  This book is now available as a podcast audiobook at podiobooks.com, recited by Dr Mojaddedi with traditional Persian musical accompaniment.  The second volume, The Masnavi:Book Two, was published, also as an Oxford World’s Classics edition, in July 2007. His previous books include The Biographical Tradition in Sufism (Richmond, 2001) and Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature (London, 2003), which are based on his earlier research on early and medieval Islamic historiography and intellectual history.  He is currently preparing a monograph exploring Rumi’s notion of the perfect mystic, for the Religion series of Oxford University Press. 

http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jawid

Areas of Expertise: Sufism, Rumi, Classical Islam, Medieval Persian Literature

Dr. Catherine Puglisi, Professor of Art History, specializes in Italian Baroque painting and sculpture.  Her comprehensive monograph Caravaggio (Phaidon Press) appeared in hardback in 1998, was reissued in soft cover, and translated into Italian and French.  She is also wrote a  monograph and catalogue raisonné on the Bolognese painter Francesco Albani (Yale University Press, 1999).  “Albani in France” was the subject of Louvre exhibition in Paris (Sept. 2000-Jan. 2001), on which she collaborated in the planning and contributed an introductory essay to the catalogue.  Her publications in journals and museum catalogues include studies on Guido Reni, Carracci drawings, Venetian 18th-art, and most recently on the iconography of the Man of Sorrows.  Recipient of a J. Clawson Mills fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2005-06 academic year, she conducted research on a collaborative book project in progress on “The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art from ca. 1260-1650,” and is currently planning an exhibition around the theme for the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City to open in 2011.  As former chair of the University Committee on Italian Studies, Dr. Puglisi oversaw the creation of the major and minor, and launched the Italian Hours program, highlighting Italian history and culture.

Areas of Expertise:  Baroque Painting in Italy, Spain and France, Caravaggio, Bolognese art, Venetian art

Dr. Joanna Regulska is a Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Geography, and the Dean of the Office of International Programs, School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers. She is the founder and director, since 1989, of the Local Democracy Partnership (formerly Local Democracy in Poland) Program. Most of her research and teaching concentrates on women’s agency, political activism, grassroots mobilization and construction of women’s political spaces. She has also conducted extensive work on the impacts of political and economic restructuring on the process of democratization, citizens’ participation and decentralization in central and eastern Europe.  Her current project with Dr. Beth Mitchneck, funded by the NSF focuses on everyday practices and livelihood strategies of the internally displaced people (IDPs) in Georgia. Dr. Regulska has published over 90 articles, chapters and reports. The Ford Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers and the Pew Charitable Trusts among others have funded her research, activism and policy work. She is an author and co-author of five books, most recently Women and Citizenship in Central and East Europe Jasmina Lukic and Darja Zavirsek, (Ashgate Publisher, UK 2006). Currently she is completing several collaborative book manuscripts: Shaping Women’s Agenda and Public Discourses in the Enlarged Europe (in English); Cooperation or Conflict: State, the European Union and Women (in Polish) and with B. Smith, Reinventing Gender of Europe. For her contributions to the development of local democracy, local government reform and empowerment of women in public life she has been awarded, by the President of Poland, in 2004 the Knight Cross of the Order of Restitution of the Republic of Poland and in 1996 The Cavalier Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Areas of Expertise:  Women's Agency, Displacement, Political Space, Caucasus, Central and East Europe

Dr. Nicholas Rennie is an Associate Professor of German in the Department of Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures and an affiliate member of the Program in Comparative Literature. He has taught courses on German and European intellectual history, German drama, literature of the Age of Goethe, the Frankfurt School, contemporary literary theory, and theories of the visual. He studied at Princeton University, the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), and Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. He has received numerous awards, including a School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship supporting his work at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (2002-2003) and the Free University Berlin (2007-2008). He is the author of Speculating on the Moment: The Poetics of Time and Recurrence in Goethe, Leopardi, and Nietzsche (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2005), and has published articles on Lessing, Goethe, Leopardi, Nietzsche, and Benjamin. He is currently working on a book project entitled Forbidding Images: Writing and the Visual in German Theory 1766/1939.

Areas of Expertise: Germany, Literature, Literary Theory, Intellectual History, Philosophy, Aesthetics

Dr. Ed Rhodes joined the Department of Political Science in 1986.  His research explores the cognitive and cultural roots of U.S.U.S. naval policies; deterrence theory; and U.S.-European, particularly U.S.-Baltic, relations.   Recent publications include “The National State and Identity Politics;” “The Good, the Bad, and the Righteous: Understanding the Bush Vision of a New NATO Partnership;” “The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda;” Presence, Prevention, and Persuasion: A Historical Analysis of Military Force and Political Influence; “A World Not in the Balance;” and “America, the Baltic States, and Russia: The U.S. Northern Europe Initiative and Hanseatic Models of Security.”  Rhodes received his A.B. from Harvard and his MPA and Ph.D. from Princeton, and has held appointments at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Cornell, as a Council on Foreign Relations fellow, and as a Fulbright fellow.  From 1997 to 2003 he was Director of the Center for Global Security and Democracy, and from 2003 to 2006 served as Dean for the Social and Behavioral Sciences.  He is a member of the Department of State’s Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, which oversees the preparation of the official history of American foreign policy, The Foreign Relations of the United States.

Areas of Expertise: U.S. Naval Policies, Deterrence Theory, Foreign Relations, and U.S. - Baltic Relations.

Dr. Yana Rodgers is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She teaches courses on quantitative methods in feminist research; gender and economic development; women and global labor movements; economics of the family; and women, culture, and society. Her research interests encompass women in the labor market, the gendered impacts of international trade, and economics and children. Many of her studies have focused on women and development in East and South Asian economies, and she has travelled to and lived in Asia to pursue her research agenda. Dr. Rodgers is active with the International Association for Feminist Economics, and she serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Feminist Economics. She maintains a regular consulting relationship with the World Bank and the United Nations. She received her BA in economics from Cornell University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1993.

Areas of Expertise:  Feminist Economics, Wage Gaps, Asia, Labor Standards, Maternity Leave,Women Workers, International Trade, Gender

Dr. Liliana Sanchez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and  Portuguese.  She specializes in Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition Theory,  Spanish and Quechua Syntax. She is the author of Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism: Interference and Convergence in Functional Categories (2003) Amsterdam: John Benjamins and Demanda y Necesidad de Educación Bilingüe: Lenguas Indígenas y Castellano en el Sur Andino (2000) in collaboration with M. Zuñiga and D. Zacharias, Lima: Ministerio de Educación del Perú. Her articles have appeared in journals such as International Journal of Bilingualism, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and Probus, as well as in edited collections on Romance linguistics. She continues to work on several research projects focusing on the acquisition of syntax in bilingual and language contact environments in the US and abroad.

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lsanchez

Areas of Expertise:  Bilingualism (Quechua-Spanish, Spanish-English), Second language Acquisition, Syntax

Dr. Louisa Schein is Associate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies. She has conducted research for over two decades on gender and ethnic politics among the Hmong/Miao in China, the US and more recently Southeast Asia. She is the author of Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics (Duke 2000) and has published articles in journals such as Modern China, Journal of Asian Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Social Text, Provincial China, Postcolonial Studies, Positions, and Identities. She is currently writing a book, Rewind to Home: Hmong Media and Gendered Diaspora, on media, transnationalism and sexuality/gender in the Hmong/Miao diaspora and her work on Asian immigration has resulted in a co-authored work, “Occult Racism,” with Va-Megn Thoj on Asian race in the U.S. published in American Quarterly. She is co-editing a volume on media, erotics and transnational Asia with Purnima Mankekar and collaborating on documentary film projects with Va-Megn Thoj as well as a documentary sequel with Peter O’Neill following the lives of Hmong immigrants from Rhode Island that she had documented 25 years ago.

Areas of Expertise: China, Southeast Asia, Asian Immigration, Asian Americans, Refugees, Hmong, Cultural Politics, Ethnicity, Minorities, Film, Media, Gender, Sexuality

Dr. Derek Schilling is Associate Professor of French and Cinema Studies. His current research focuses on the relationship between literary representation and built space, with an emphasis on the emergence of the modern Paris suburb between the wars. In the Department of French Professor Schilling has offered courses on collective memory and the Great War, the German Occupation, suburban violence and immigration, and on the cinema, theater, and novel in France since 1950. He is the author of Mémoires du quotidien: les lieux de Perec (Septentrion, 2006), which examines George Perec's literary sociology of everydayness, and of the comprehensive monograph Eric Rohmer (Manchester UP, 2007).

Areas of Expertise: Modern and Contemporary France, Literary and Cultural Analysis, Cinema, Suburban Studies

Dr. Richard Schroeder is an Associate Professor in the Geography Department, where he teaches courses on Africa, development and the environment.  He was also the founding director of the Rutgers Center for African Studies, where he currently serves as Associate Director.  An economic and environmental geographer, his research has emphasized the social, cultural and political impacts of policy interventions in a range of natural resource management domains, including horticulture (The Gambia), community forestry (The Gambia), wildlife tourism and trophy hunting (Tanzania, Southern Africa), non-timber forest products (USA), and gem stone mining (Tanzania).  His publications include Manifest Ecological Destinies: Local Rights and Global Environmental Agendas (a co-edited special issue of the journal, Antipode, 1995); Shady Practices: Gender and Agroforestry Politics in The Gambia (University of California Press, 1999); Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa (co-edited w/V. Broch-Due; Nordic Africa Institute, 2000); Political Ecology in North America: Discovering the Third World Within? (a co-edited special issue of the journal, Geoforum, 2006); and Third World Environments, Third World Justice? (a co-edited special issue of the journal, Society and Natural Resources, forthcoming).  His most recent research project, which was funded by a Fulbright fellowship, examines the dramatic rise of South Africa as a regional economic power in post-apartheid Africa.  Specifically, this project explores controversies surrounding race and national identity that have been spawned in the wake of heavy South African investment in Tanzania.

Areas of Expertise: Environment, Development, Africa, Gender, Race

Dr. Richard VanNess Simmons is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, where he teaches Chinese language, linguistics, and literature.  He holds a Master’s degree in Chinese literature, and a Ph.D. in Chinese linguistics from the University of Washington, Seattle. Simmons’ research activities include extensive fieldwork experience investigating and mapping the dialects of Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces in China. He has received numerous grants and awards to support his scholarship, including a multi-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation U.S. China Cooperative Research Program. In 2005 he received the Jiangsu Friendship Award in recognition of his scholarly contributions to the Province of Jiangsu in China. This is a competitive award that was conferred by the provincial government to Simmons as for his cooperative research with of Nanjing University. Since Summer 2002 Simmons has directed the Rutgers Summer Chinese study abroad language program in Nanjing, a program he developed and initiated. Simmons’ publications include Chinese Dialect Classification -- A Comparative Approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999), Issues in Chinese Dialect Description and Classification (Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series, Number 15, 1999), Chinese Dialect Geography: Distinguishing Mandarin and Wu in Their Boundary Region (Shanghai: Shanghai Education, 2006), and Handbook for Lexicon Based Dialect Fieldwork (Beijing: Zhonghua, 2006).

Areas of Expertise: Chinese dialectology and historical linguistics, Chinese sociolinguistics, Chinese Oral Literature

Dr. Camilla Stevens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.  She specializes in Latin American drama, theater and performance studies theory, and pan-Caribbean cultural studies. Her book, Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama (University Press of Florida, 2004), analyzes the role of theater in the cultural politics of constructing, defining, and remembering collective identities.  Her current research focuses on contemporary Dominican plays and performances that address the experience of migration and challenge hegemonic notions of citizenship and national belonging.  She also has a long-term pan-Caribbean project that examines the interrelationship of race, colonialism, and performance in the Hispanophone, Anglophone, and Francophone Caribbean.  She is a member of the editorial board of Latin American Theatre Review and her articles have appeared in journals such as Gestos: Revista de teoría y práctica del teatro hispánico, Hispania, Latin American Theatre Review, Modern Drama, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, and Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures.

Areas of Expertise:  Latin America and the Caribbean, Theater and Performance, Colonialism, Cultural Nationalism, Transnationalism

Dr. Eugene N. White is Professor of Economics at Rutgers University and a Research Associate of the NBER.  His most recent book is Conflicts of Interest in the Financial Services Industry: What Should We Do About Them? (ICMB/CEPR, 2003) with Andrew Crockett, Trevor Harris and Frederic Mishkin.  He has written extensively on stock market booms and crashes, deposit insurance, banking regulation, and war finance.  He is currently at work on studies of the evolution of the microstructure of the New York and Paris stock exchanges, war economies and stock market bubbles.

Areas of Expertise:  Monetary and Financial History