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Dr. Esther Barazzone has served as the president of Chatham College since 1992.  As an active leader in the national higher education community, she has served on the Executive Committee of the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), as Board Chair of the Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN), and the Executive Committee of the Board of the Women’s College Coalition. Dr. Barazzone is the former Chair of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Pennsylvania (AICUP), a Board Member of the Council of Independent Colleges and Universities (CIC), a Board Member of Pennsylvania Campus Compact, and a Board Member of Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU) and the Commonwealth Partnership. Her recent awards and honors include the 2001 University Medal from Fatima Jinnah Women University (Rawalpindi, Pakistan), an honorary doctorate from Seoul Women’s University (Seoul, Korea) in 2000; an honorary doctorate from Doshisha Women’s College (Kyoto, Japan) for her extensive work in international education, where she gave the 1999 Neesima Founder’s Lectures; the 1999 Susan B. Anthony Leadership Award from the Women’s Leadership Assembly; 1999 Vectors Pittsburgh Woman of the Year in Education; the 1996 YWCA Leadership Award in Education, and is listed in various Who’s Who editions, including Who’s Who in America, 54th edition, 2000. In 2001, she was recognized as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania by the Governor.  Dr. Barazzone holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in European Intellectual History from Columbia University, where she was a Fellow of the Faculty. Dr. Barazzone was a Charter Scholar in the first graduating class of New College, earning her B.A. in Philosophy and History. She also was a Fulbright Scholar to Spain and studied at the Wharton School of Business Administration and at Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Management.

Dr. Michael Brintnall is executive director of the American Political Science Association.  He formerly directed the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, the United States national accrediting body for the Masters degree in public administration and public policy.  Previous positions include Vice President for Aca­dem­ic Affairs at Mount Vernon College in Washington, DC, Director of the Economic Development Program Evaluation Office at the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and faculty appointments in political science at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island and Mount Vernon College, in Washington DC.  He received the Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. Research and public policy interests include urban public policy and development, nonprofit organizations and new models of public governance, and international roles of scholarly associations in civil society and development.  He is a founding member of the InterAmerican Network for Public Administration Education.

Dr. William Durden assumed his duties as president of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on July 1, 1999.  Prior to Dickinson, Dr. Durden was president of the Sylvan Academy of Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. and vice president for Academic Affairs of the Caliber Learning network, a joint distance-learning venture of Sylvan and MCI Corporation.  He also serves as a senior fellow of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.  He is a 1971 graduate of Dickinson and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in German Languages and Literature from the Johns Hopkins University.  Previously Dr. Durden was for 16 years Executive Director of the Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth (formerly the Center for Talented Youth), a division of Johns Hopkins, and a member of the university’s Department of German.  He was also senior education consultant to the U.S. Department of State and chaired its Advisory Committee on Exceptional Children and Youth.  Dr. Durden has received a number of academic awards, including the Fulbright at the University of Basle, Switzerland and the Klingenstein Fellowship at Columbia University.  He has held research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and other organizations.  Dr. Durden is author of numerous books, articles, commentaries, and book reviews on topics ranging from literary criticism to American educational policy and practice both at the precollegiate and collegiate levels.

Dr. Leila Fawaz is Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies and director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University. Between 1996 and 2001, she was Dean of Liberal Arts and Jackson for Humanities and Arts and Associate Dean of the Faculty and, before that, she served as chair of the Tufts History department. She holds a dual appointment as Professor of Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Professor of History at Tufts. She also chairs the Fares Lecture Series Committee. She is past president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and of the Alumni Association in North America of the American University of Beirut, and was editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies from 1990 to 1994. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation project on “Individual and Society in the Muslim Mediterranean World,” and, at various times, of committees of the Social Science Research Council. She was also visiting professor at the University of Provence.  Professor Fawaz received a B.A. and M.A. in history from the American University of Beirut (in 1967 and 1968, respectively), and an A.M. and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 1979. Her research interests include the social and political history of the modern Middle East, including the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Her publications include Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (1983); An Occasion for War: Ethnic Conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860 (1994); and (co-editor) Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (2002).

Dr. Eduardo Gamarra received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987.  He has been affiliated with Florida International University since 1986 where he is currently the director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center, a full professor in the department of political science, and the editor of Hemisphere, a magazine on Latin American and Caribbean affairs.  Dr. Gamarra is the author, co-author, and editor of several books including Revolution and Reaction: Bolivia 1964-1985 (Transaction Publishers, 1988); three volumes of the Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record (Holmes and Meier Press); Latin American Political Economy in the Age of Neoliberal Reform (Lyne Rienner Publishers, 1994); Democracy Markets and Structural Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico (Lyne Rienner Publishers, 1995); and Entre la Droga y la Democracia (Freiderich Ebert Foundation. 1994).  The author of over forty articles on Latin America, he has testified before the U.S. Congress on drug policy toward Latin America.  His current research focuses on the political economy of narcotics trafficking in the Andean region and the Caribbean, democratization, and civil-military relations.

Dr. Allan Goodman is the president and chief executive officer of the Institute of International Education.  Prior to becoming President of IIE in July 1998, he served as executive dean and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.  While at Georgetown, Dr. Goodman built the graduate "foreign service" course and its joint degree programs into one of the top programs for training in diplomacy, leadership, and international relations.  He founded the "Women in Foreign Service Program," designed to enhance the operational effectiveness of women in international service careers and the Georgetown Leadership Seminars.  Dr. Goodman also served as Presidential Briefing Coordinator for the Director of Central Intelligence and as Special Assistant to the Director of the National Foreign Assessment Center in the Carter Administration. He was Chairman of the Department of Government and International Relations at Clark University (1971-74).  Dr. Goodman received his MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 1971, and was awarded Doctor of Law Degrees from Mount Ida and Ramapo colleges.

Bette Loiselle received her Master of Science at the University of Illinois and her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1987.  After teaching graduate-level tropical biology field courses for two years in Costa Rica for the Organization for Tropical Studies, she accepted the position as Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  Currently, she is Full Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  From 1997-2003, Loiselle was the Director of the International Center for Tropical Ecology, a collaboration between UM-St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden; she is currently on a two-year leave of absence from the Center’s Director position.   Loiselle is currently an elected member of a number of boards, including The Nature Conservancy-Missouri, the American Ornithologist Union, and the Organization for Tropical Studies and is an associate editor for the premier journal in ecology (The American Naturalist).  Loiselle was a Fulbright Scholar to Argentina in 2004.  Her research interests, in a broad sense, are in the behavioral ecology and conservation of tropical vertebrates.  Her research has focused on comparative studies of the mating systems of birds, the interactions between animals and plants, especially animals that disperse the seeds of tropical plants and contribute to forest regeneration, and the application of Geographic Information Systems technology to biodiversity conservation.  Her studies have direct relevance to the conservation of tropical rain forests.  She conducts her research in the Andes of Colombia, the Amazon of Ecuador, and the highly endangered Atlantic Forests of Brazil.  An important focus of the International Center for Tropical Ecology and Loiselle’s own personal goals is the training of future environmental leaders from developing tropical countries.

Dr. Harold McDougall is professor of law at Howard University in Washington, D.C.  He was a civil rights organizer and voter registrant in his early years and served the NAACP from 1994 to 1997, first as Executive Vice President of a local branch, then as National Legislative Director, operating out of the NAACP Washington Bureau, and later as Senior Policy Consultant for the organization. He was elected to the National Governing Board of Common Cause in June 1997, for a three-year term. He served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, for the fall semester of 1999, and received a special Alumni Award from Fulbright for 2001-2003.  A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Professor McDougall has been a law teacher since 1975, specializing in the areas of urban social and economic development, civil rights, and the workings of state, local, and federal Government. He has written numerous articles on urban, suburban, and rural land development, with an emphasis on the relation between land, law, and community.  Professor McDougall's book, Black Baltimore: A New Theory of Community, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993) pursues these themes and posits the need for small, flexible, information-seeking "base communities" as essential for rebuilding and revitalizing community in the 21st century, particularly in hard-hit urban areas.  He is presently engaged in consulting and in public speaking on these themes, particularly as they relate to revitalization of civic culture and of economic and social structures, at the neighborhood, metropolitan, and international levels.  His latest venture is the founding of an “Invisible College” to provide mentoring and counseling for the progressive movement’s next generation of leadership.  He has worked as a consultant for the Kellogg, Kettering, and Village Foundations.

Dr. Gwendolyn Mikell is professor of anthropology and foreign service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.  Between January 2000 and June 2003, she was also been a Senior Fellow in African Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her research and writing has been focused on political and economic transitions in Africa, and on gender and peace building during African transitions.  She was President of the African Studies Association (1996-1997).  She has held Fellowships at the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Smithsonian Museum of African Art, the Institute for Developing Economies in Tokyo, the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana-Legon, and the Univ. of Natal in South Africa.  Dr. Mikell has held a number of positions at Georgetown, from Assistant Professor through Full Professor.  She helped to create the Africa Program in1981, and she served as chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department (1992-95). Prior to coming to Georgetown, she was an Assistant Professor of anthropology and black studies at Rutgers University, Newark.  She bridges the worlds of academia and international affairs through her work in conjunction with the G8 Workshop on the African Action Plan (Berlin, Washington DC), as well as with the African Center for Strategic Studies on civil-military relations workshops in Botswana, Gabon, and Washington D.C. (2000–).  She is the author of Cocoa and Chaos in Ghana (Howard University Press, 1992; Paragon Press, 1989); and African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1997). Her recent articles are in such journals as Chimera (2003), CSIS series (2000), African Studies Review (1999), Tulsa J. Comparative & Internat. Law (1997),  ale J. Internat. Law (1991), J. Modern African Studies (1989), Ethnology (1988). Her forthcoming book manuscript is on African women’s involvement in peace and war.  She holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Chicago, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University, and a Certificate in French from the National University in Cote d’Ivoire.

Dr. Patricia A. Sullivan is recognized as a distinguished leader in higher education. Prior to becoming the chancellor of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro on January 1, 1995, she held major leadership positions in North Carolina and in Texas.

Dr. Sullivan was among state leaders who campaigned statewide in the fall of 2000 to promote the $3.1 billion N.C. Higher Education Bonds referendum. Voters overwhelmingly approved the bonds, which are providing capital improvements for the UNC system and the state Community College system. Passage of this important bond bill is providing $160 million to UNCG for capital projects that include the Science Building, a new Studio Art Center, a Hall for Humanities and Research Administration, renovation of Aycock Auditorium, and other major projects.  Dr. Sullivan’s awards and honors include: one of 10 recipients of the 2003 Women in Business Awards, presented annually by the Business Journal; 2003 inductee for the Business Leaders Hall of Fame of Central North Carolina Junior Achievement; selected as one of “10 People to Watch in 2004” by The Business Journal. In 1999, she received the honorary Doctor of Pedagogy degree from St. John’s University.  She is a graduate of St. John’s University, and earned her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in biology from New York University. She came to UNCG from Texas Woman’s University, where she was vice president for academic affairs for seven years. She also was interim president there for a year. From 1981-87, she was dean of the college at Salem College in Winston-Salem.

Dr. Anand A. Yang is Golub Chair of International Studies and Director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.  Prior to joining the University of Washington in 2002, Yang taught at the University of Utah and Sweet Briar College.  At Utah he was chair of the History Department for five years and, subsequently, Director of its Asian Studies Program for six years.  Yang is the former editor of The Journal of Asian Studies and Peasant Studies, and has been and is a member of the editorial boards of several journals in Asian Studies and in History.  He is actively engaged in world history projects at the collegiate and precollegiate levels that are aimed at enhancing our historical understanding of our contemporary world.  A member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies and of the Executive Committee of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, he is also active in local community organizations, including the World Affairs Council of Seattle/Tacoma.  In 2006 he will begin his term as the President of the Association for Asian Studies.