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Albania
Vladimir L. Kvint, Professor, Graduate School of Business, Department of Management Systems, Fordham University, New York, NY 10023
Lecturing: Economics
Host: University of Vlora, Vlora
March 2001 - June 2001

Armenia
Mary Resing, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Active Cultures Theatre, Washington, DC
Discipline: theater
Lecturing/Research: Developing Long Range Strategies for Armenian Theater in the World Marketplace
Host Institution: Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinematography, Yerevan
September 2005 – February 2006

Austria
Jay Geller, Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Lecturing/Research: The Search for W--Jewish Social Networks and Freud's Dream of Irma's Injection; "Antisemitism and Jewish Identity" and/or "Freud and Judentum"
Sigmund Freud Society, Vienna
March 2001 - July 2001

Cecelia Porter, Independent Scholar, MD
Research: Music, Critical Assessments of Music by Women Composers in Vienna, 1910-60
Host: Institute for Music Sociology, Vienna May 2000-July 2000

Anna Nagurney, John F. Smith Memorial Professor
Department of Finance and Operations Management
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Lectureship: Distinguished Chair, economics
Host: University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck
March 2002 - July 2002

Belarus
Melinda Hickman, Assistant Professor of Business, DeBusk School of Business Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee
Lecturing: Law
Host: Belarusian State Economics University, Minsk
August 1998-July 2000

Caroline Linse, Independent Scholar
Discipline: TEFL/applied linguistics
Lecturing: Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Host: Minsk State Linguistics University, Belarus
September 2001 – July 2002

Lemuel Watson, Professor and Chair, Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
Lecturing: Higher Education Administration
Host: National Institute of Higher Education, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus
February 2004-May 2004

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Keith Doubt (Web site), Sociology Department, Wittenberg University, Ohio
Lecturing: Reflections from Sarajevo: Images and Notes
Host: University of Sarajevo, Bosnia
2000-2001

Ellen McMahon, associate professor, National-Louis University, Chicago, Illinois
Discipline: business administration
Lecturing: Strategic Planning for Organizations
Host: University of Sarajevo
October 2005 – March 2006

Maureen Taylor, Assistant Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick, New Jersey
Discipline: Communications
Lecturing/Research: Media Development
Host: University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
February – July 2001

Bulgaria
Douglas Harms, professor, DePauw University, Indiana
Discipline: computer science
Lecturing: Workshops, Pedagogy, and History of Computing
Host Institution: University of Rousse
August 2004 – May 2005

Steven R. Plotkin, Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal Fourth Circuit
Lecturing: Law, American Law and Legal Institutions: A Judicial Perspective
September 1999-January 2000

Kenneth Rosen, Professor, University of Southern Maine
Lecturing: American Literature, American Studies
September 1998-February 1999

Greg Knight, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
www.geog.psu.edu/faculty/gregK.html
Lecturing:
1994-1995

Ted Schwalbe, Professor, SUNY College at Fredonia
Research: Communications and Journalism, Bulgarian Private Radio Development.
Host: American University in Bulgaria
August 1997-December 1997

Timothy Singleton, Lee Anderson Professor
of Management, North Georgia College and State University
Lecturing: Business Administration, Entrepreneurship
1999-2000

Cyprus
Benjamin Broome, Professor, Arizona State University
Lecturing and Research: Communications and Journalism, Conflict Resolution Between the Greek and Turkish Communities
1994-1996

A. Marco Turk, Professor, University of California-Irvine
Lecturing: Conflict Resolution
1997-1999

Czech Republic
Mark Ludwig, Director and founder of the Terezin Chamber Music Foundation
Member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra viola section
Research: Silenced Voices: The Composers of Terezin
March 1996-July 1996

Denmark
Norma Fay Green, Acting Chairperson and Director of Graduate Program, Journalism Department, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Lecturing and Research: Modern American Journalism
Host: University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Odense University, Odense
August 2000-December 2000

Judith Wagner, professor, Whittier College (CA) and Director, Broadoaks Children's School of Whittier College
Discipline: Education
Lecturing/Research: Ethnic Identity Development; Peer Relationships among Minority and Majority Children in Denmark
Host: Paedagogiske Universitet, Denmark
February 2003 - July 2003

Finland
Stephen G. Rabe, Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, Department of History, University of Texas--Dallas, Richardson, TX
Distinguished Lecturing and Research: American Studies
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
August 2005 - June 2006

France
Robert Almeder, Professor, Philosophy Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Lecturing/Research: Philosophy, Recent Work on Truth
Host Institution: Université Paris IV, Sorbonne
Grant Year: 2004-05

Richard Blatchly, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire
Research: Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry Using Foldamers
Host Institution: Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Bordeaux
Grant Year: 2004-05

Susan Davidson, director and professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Research: Semantic Mediation of Biomedical Data
Host: French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), Rocquencourt, France
January-July 2004

Karin E. Limburg, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY-- College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY
Research: Documenting Declines of North Atlantic Diadromous Fishes, and Progress in Otolith Microchemistry
Host:National Center of Agricultural Mechanization, Rural Engineering, Water, Forest, Bordeaux, France
September 2006 - December 2006

John Roger Tennant, General Counsel, San Jose Police Officer's Association, San Jose, CA
Research: How Can Unions Bridge the Divide Between the Police and Minority Populations?
Host: University of Paris
October 2002 - January 2003

Cindy Lee Van Dover, Associate Professor, Biology Department, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Research: Biological Science, Collaborative Studies on the Ecology of Deep-Sea Chemosynthetic Ecosystems
Host Institution: Ifremer, Brest
Grant Year: 2004-05

Germany
Thomas Howard Geoghegan, Lawyer, Despres, Schwartz and Geoghegan, Chicago, IL
Lecturing: Living Like a European: Exploring the Counter-Life
Host: Humboldt University, Berlin
March 2001 - July 2001

Hungary
Steven Stralser, Adjunct Instructor
University of Arizona
Lecturing: Business Administration
September 1999-February 2000

Iceland
John P. Allegrante, Professor, Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Columbia University, New York, New York
Discipline: Public/Global Health
Lecturing/Research: Health Behavior and Academic Achievement in Icelandic School Children
Host: Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland
September–December 2007

Italy
Grant Heiken, Volcanologist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M.
Research: Geology, Integrated City Models, Infrastructure and Volcanic hazards
January 1999-July 1999

Hashim Al-Tawil, Instructor, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan
Discipline: Art History
Research: The Arabic Calligraphy of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo and Other Related Buildings in Sicily During the Norman Reign
University of Catania, Catania, Italy
May-September 2007

Latvia
Dan Fellner
Faculty Associate and PR consultant, Arizona State University
Lecturing: Journalism and Public Relations, Riga
Sept. 2001-June 2002
(will be returning on a renewal grant for 2002 fall semester)

Edward Rhodes, Director and Associate Professor, Center for Global Security and Democracy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ
Lecturing: Constructing Democracy, Identity and Security in Multiethnic Societies: Baltic and American Experiences
Host: University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia; and Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Riga
September 2000-February 2001

Margaret Rung, Associate Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois
Lecturing: American and North American History
Host: University of Latvia, Riga
September 2000-June 2001

Lithuania
Patricia A. Cholewka, Ed.D, MPA, MA, RN, BC
Assistant Professor, New York City College of Technology–CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
Field: Public/Global Health
Host Institution: Vilnius University, Institute of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania
Dates of Grant: August 31, 2007 to January 31, 2008

Moldova
Christopher Grant, Assistant Professor and Director, Department of Government and Sociology, Georgia College and State University, Georgia
Discipline: Political Science
Lecturing: Exploring the Transitioning to Modern Democratic Administration
Host: State Institute for International Relations, Chisinau, Moldova
January – July 2006

John Calvin Ronald, Editor/Publisher, The Commercial Review Ind.
Lecturing: Communications and Journalism
1998-1999

Netherlands
Benjamin S. Lawson, Professor, Department of English and Modern Languages, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia
Lecturing: American Literature
Host: University of Utrecht, Utrecht
June 2000-June 2001
(Walt Whitman Chair)

Norway
Charles Bussey, professor, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Discipline: American History
Lecturing/Research: American Studies
Host: Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway
August 2003 – June 2004

Polly Kaufman, Adjunct Professor, University of Southern Maine
Lecturing: American History, American Studies
August 1999-May 2000

Romania
Sana Loue, Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
Lecturing: Medical Sciences, Program Development in Epidemiology and Ethics in Science
February 1999-June 1999 with extension in 2000

Russian Federation
Mark W.M. Bannatyne, Associate Professor, Department of Technical Graphics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Lecturing: Problem-Solving Strategies and Techniques for Developing Solid and Surface Computer-Generated Models
Host: Tula State Mechanical University, Tula
January 2000 - June 2000

Sacvan Bercovitch, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
Research: Popular Culture and Classic American Literature
University of Moscow, June 2002 and visits to various institutions in the Czech Republic
March 2003

Anthony Gerritsen, lecturer, University of Nebraska—Kearney, Nebraska
Discipline: business administration
Lecturing: Incorporating American Accounting Systems in Russian Universities
Host: St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance, Russia
September 2004 – June 2005

TyAnna Herrington, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lecturing: Communications and Journalism, Electronically Linked Global Classroom Development Project
September 1999-February 2000

Yung-Tse Hung, Professor, Cleveland State University, Ohio
Lecturing: Environmental Sciences, Principles and Practice of Biological Waste Treatment
February 1999-July 1999

Johannes Nitsche, Professor, SUNY--University at Buffalo, New York
Discipline: Engineering
Research: Comprehensive Theory of Continuous-Deformable-Body Diffusion, With Application to Biological Pore-Transport Processes
Host: Far Eastern State Technical University, Russian Federation
May – August 2003

Serbia
Melissa Hilliard Potter, Program Officer, College Art Association, New York, NY
Discipline: Art
Lecturing/Research: The Art of Hand Papermaking and Its Applications in Serbia
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
March - May, 2006

Slovak Republic
Myron A. Levine, Department of Political Science, Albion College, Albion, Michigan
Discipline: political science
Lecturing: American Studies; Political Science
Host Institution: Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
October 2004 – June 2005

Spain
Geta LeSeur, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Missouri--Columbia, Columbia, MO
Lecturing: Rethinking, Remembering, Rereading and Reconnecting: Black Literatures of the Middle Passage; Fictions of Childhood in the Old and New South Africa
Host: University of Seville, Seville
February 2000 - July 2000

Sweden
James J. DeCaro, Dean, National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY
Lecturing/Research: Attitudes of Parents, Teachers, and Deaf Adults Regarding Careers for Deaf Youth: Potential Impact of the Swedish Parliamentary Decision of 1981
Linkoping University, Linkoping
Grant dates: March 1999 - July 1999

Ukraine
Benjamin L. Abramowitz, Retired Instructor, Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida—Orlando, FL
Discipline: Business Administration
Lecturing: Business Ethics and Leadership and How They Relate
Host: National University “Ostroh Academy”, Ostroh, Ukraine
January – May 2006

Arthur M. Holst, Ph.D.
Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Manager, Philadelphia Water Department, Philadelphia, PA
Lecturing: The Evolution of American City Government
Kharkiv State Academy of Municipal Economy, Kharkiv
September 2001 - January 2002

Dennis D. Miller, Associate Professor,
Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio
Lecturing: Business Administration
Host: Ternopil Academy of National Economy, Ukraine
September 1999-June 2000

Kyra Janssen, Adjunct Faculty, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California
Lecturing: TEFL/Applied Linguistics
Host: Kharkiv State Polytechnic University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
September 1999-June 2000

Hortense Simmons, professor emeritus, California State University (Sacramento)
Discipline: American Literature
Lecturing: African-American Literature
Host: Petro Mohyla Mykolayiv State University, Mykolayiv, Ukraine (fall 2004) and Horlivka Padagogical Institute of World Literature, Horlivka, Ukraine (fall 2005)
September 2004-January 2005
Renewed Sept. 2005 - Dec. 2005

United Kingdom
Margaret Rice, Associate Professor, New York University, New York
Discipline: Medical Sciences
Lecturing/Research: Behavior of Extrasynaptic Dopamine and Other Biogenic Amine Transmitters in Midbrain Cell Body Regions
Host: University of Oxford, United Kingdom
October 2002 – June 2003

Ross Swope, Commander, Homicide Division, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, D.C.
Research: Public Administration, Police Strategies to Enhance Quality of Life
United Kingdom
U.K. Professional Police Studies Award
September 1999-December 1999

Ernest Vendrell, police officer/trainer, Miami-Dade Police Department
Research: Public Administration, Preparing for the New Millennium: A Comparative Analysis of Successful Emergency/Disaster Management Professional Development Strategies for the Police Service
Host Institution: University of Leicester
April 2000 to June 2000

Albania
Arben Kumbaro, President, Albanian Artists of Theater, and Professor, Academy of Dramatic Arts in Tirana
Lecturing: Theater and Dance, Theater of Crisis and Commitment
Host: Berry College, Ga.
Scholar-in-Residence Program
August 1999-May 2000

Armenia
Karine Markosyan, Research Analyst, Department of Public Health, Center for Health Services Research, American University of Armenia, Yerevan
Research: Exploration of Issues Surrounding Effective School Health Programs in the United States: Development of a Culturally Appropriate Health Program for Armenian Schools
Emory University, School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Atlanta, GA
c/o Dr. Jennifer Hirsch
August 2000-May 2001

Belarus
Maryia Aleinik, Associate Professor, Minsk State Linguistics University, Minsk
Host institution: Pennsylvania State University-University Park, University Park, PA
Research: Electronic Learning as an Educational Innovation and a Possibility of Language Teacher Training
September 2004-January 2005

Belgium
Jan Vranckx, Medical Specialist, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Leuven University Hospitals, Leuven
Research: Tissue Engineering and Gene Transfer for Wound Repair.
Host Institution: Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Laboratory of Wound Repair and Gene Transfer, Boston, MA
August 2000-August 2001

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mevludin Glavic, Assistant Professor, University of Tuzla
Research: Engineering, Development of Modern Curricula and Teaching Methods in Electric Power System Engineering
Host: University of Wisconsin-Madison
September 1999-March 2000

Bulgaria
Stefka Koeva, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Free University of Varna
Lecturing: Economics, Eastern Europe of the 1990s
Host: Gettysburg College, Pa.
Scholar-in-Residence Program
August 1999-May 2000

Czech Republic
Ivo Budil, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, and assistant professor, University of West Bohemia
Research: Anthropology and Archaeology, Totalitarianism: An Anthropological Perspective
Host: Johns Hopkins University, Md.
December 1999-March 2000

Jana Cemusova, Instructor, Institute of Language and Professional Preparation, Charles University, Prague
Lecturing: Communicative "Torture": A Cultural Approach to Teaching Czech
Host: University of Kansas, Center for Russian and East European Studies, Lawrence, KS, c/o Dr. Maria Carlson
August 2000-May 2001

Matyas Havrda, researcher, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Research: Hippolytus' "Refutatio Omnium Haeresium": Investigating the Sources and Intentions of Heterodox Christianity and Hellenic Judaism in the First Two Centuries A.D.
Host: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
September 2003-July 2004

Georgia
David Darchiashvili, Director and Professor, Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Georgia
Research: Security Sector Reform: Problems With Implementation of the Best Practices in Newly Independent Transitional Countries
Host: Johns Hopkins University--School of Advanced International Studies, Baltimore, Maryland
September 2002-June 2003

David Lordkipanidze, Head, Georgian State Museum, Georgia
Research: Bio-Cultural Adaptive Strategies and Early Human Disperals Out of Africa
Host: Harvard University
January 2002-May 2002

Tamara Shioshvili, Head, American Studies Department, International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Host Institution: George Washington University, Washington, DC
Research: American Studies in Georgia
September 2004-February 2005

Latvia
Gunta Locmele, Faculty of Modern Languages
Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting University of Latvia
Research: Cross-Cultural Differences of Latvian and American Discourses: Advertising
Host: Kent State University, Ohio
September - June 2001

Malta
Robert Farrugia [Web Site], Engineer, Institute for Energy Technology, University of Malta
Lecturing/Research: Developing and Implementing a Strategy to Enhance the national Database of Wind Measurements Host: James Madison University, Virginia
August 2002-November 2002
www.um.edu.mt/pressreleases/
2002/rnf.html

Moldova
Oleg Stiopca, Home Institution: State Agricultural University of Moldova
Host Institution: Pennsylvania State University-University Park
Project Title: Building Education and Training Agendas for Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development in Moldova
September 2004-April 2005

Norway
Anne Moen, Research Fellow, University of Oslo
Research: Information and Communication Technology: New Opportunities to Disseminate and Tailor Health Information to Patient Needs
Host: University of Wisconsin-Madison
January 2002-June 2002

Poland
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Adjunct, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
Research: American Literature, Victims, Witnesses and Observers: Responses to the Holocaust in Polish and American Literature
Host: Brandies University, Mass.
September 1998-June 1999

Dorota Jarosinska, Assistant Professor, Outpatient Clinic of Environmental Medicine, Institute of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, Sosnowiec, Poland
Research: Clinical Validation of Cut-Off Values Used in Environmental Lead Screening Programs in Children
National Institutes of Health, Epidemiology Branch, Research Triangle Park, NC
c/o Dr. Walter Rogan
October 2000-July 2001

Marek Wasilewski, Assistant Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Multimedia Communication
Lecturing: Communications and Journalism, Experimental Video
Host: Florida Atlantic University, Fla.
Scholar-in-Residence Program
December 1999-May 2000

Romania
Nicolae A. Bibu, Associate Professor, Department of Business Management, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of the West, Timisoara
Research: Transferring Organizational Change Management Knowledge and Skills from U.S. Companies to Romanian Companies
Host: SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook,
New York
October 2000-May 2001

Russian Federation
Leonid Yablonskiy, Professor, Department of Scythian-Sarmatian, Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Lecturing: Early Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes
Host: University of California-Santa Barbara, California
October 2000- June 2001

Maria Tysiachniouk, Chair, Center for Independent Social Research
Research: Environmental Sciences, Building Sustainable Communities in the United States and Russia
Host: Ramapo College of New Jersey
January 1999-September 1999

Slovak Republic
Josef Glasa, Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate School of Medicine
Research: Medical Sciences, General Specialization in Oncology for University Medical Students and Student Nurses
Host: University of Pittsburgh, Pa.
August 1999-February 2000

Grigorij Kogan, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Research: The Role of Cell Wall Polysaccharides from Pathogenic Yeast in Modulation of Innate Immunity
East Tennessee State University, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Johnson City, TN
c/o Dr. David L. Williams
October 2000-January 2001

Spain
Maria de la Luz Cayuela Garcia, postdoctoral researcher, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Murcia
Discipline: agriculture
Research: Applying Olive Mill Waste Compost as a Soilborne Pathogen Suppressor in Organic Farming
Host: United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland
September – December 2005

Turkey
Marwan Mousa, Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul
Research: Magnetic and Magneto-Transport Measurements on Thin Films of Amorphous Magnetic Alloys
Host: Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, TX
c/o Dr. D.G. Naugle
September 1999-March 2000

Ukraine
Ivanna Ibragimova, Deputy Director, Center for Legal Reform and Legislative Drafting
Ministry of Justice
Research: Information Systems to Support Public Administration
Host: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
September 2000-May 2001

Valentina Pidlisnyuk, chair and professor, National Agricultural University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Research: Governmental Policies and Practices for Environmental Management: Status and Perspectives for Ukraine
Host: University of Georgia, Athens, GA
October 2003-May 2004

Sergiy Zibtsev, Assistant Professor, National Agricultural University, Kyiv
Research: Institutional Political Framework for Ecological Monitoring, Fire Management and Close-to-Nature Silviculture in Public and Private Forests of the United States and Ukraine: A Comparative Analysis
Host: Yale University, New Haven, CT
August 2004-April 2005

United Kingdom
Alan Davey, Royal Commission of Long-Term Care for the Elderly, Department of Health Research: Public Administration, Comparison of Long-Term Care in the United States and Europe
Host: University of Maryland- College Park
February 1999-January 2000