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-> Dominican Republic
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-> Nicaragua
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-> Trinidad and Tobogo
-> Argentina
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-> Trinidad and Tobago

Argentina
William Morris, Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC
Lecturing/Research: Enhancing Training of Argentine Graduate Students in Quantitative Population Ecology; Assessing Impacts of Climate Change, Human Activities, and Species Interactions on Plant Populations
Host Institution: National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
Dates of Grant: March 2008–June 2008

Elaine Schlefer, Head, Preservation Department, New York Academy of Medicine Library, N.Y.
Lecturing: Art, Fundamentals of Book and Paper Conservation
June 2000-August 2000

Barbados
Syed Akhter, professor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Discipline: Business Administration
Lecturing/Research: Globalization and the Performance of Caribbean Firms
Host: University of the West Indies--Cave Hill, Barbados
September – December 2006

Brazil
Anna C. Roosevelt, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL
Lecturing/Research: Field Course on Environmental Archaeology in the Lower Amazon, Brazil
Emilio Goeldi Museum, Belem, Brazil; and Federal University of Para, Belem
September 2001 - December 2001

Robert Voeks, Professor, California State University-Fullerton
Lecturing and Research: Geography, Ethnobotanical Errosion
March 1999-August

Canada
Alice Nash, assistant professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, MA
Distinguished Lecturing/Research: Deerfield 1704: A Spiral History Approach to Early American History; Council Fires and Cooking Fires: A Comparative Study of Gender and Colonization at Kahnawake and Odanak, 1700-1850
Host: University of Montreal, Quebec
September 2003-June 2004

Costa Rica
Armond T. Joyce, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New Orleans, La.
Lecturing and Research: Environmental Sciences, Environmental Assessment with Remote-Sensing Technology Combined with Land-Use Change; Forest Ecology
September 1998-June 1999

Joseph Vitone [Web Site]
Professor, Department of Photocommunications, St. Edward's University, Austin, TX
Lecturing/Research: Art, Photography of Small-Scale Primarily Family-Based Costa Rican Agriculture; Advanced Topics in Fine Art Photography and Media
Host:University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
January 2001 - June 2001

Dominican Republic
Alan McPherson, Associate Professor, Department of History, Howard University, Washington, DC
Discipline: History (non-U.S.)
Lecturing/Research: U.S.-Latin American Relations; The Dominican Response to U.S. Occupation, 1916-1924
Host Institution: Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
August – December 2006

Ecuador
John B. Fink, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
Lecturing: Teaching Mathematics
Host: University of San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador
August 2003 - December 2003

El Salvador
Elyse Levine, Marketing and Communications Consultant, USAID, San Salvador, El Salvador
Lecturing and Research: Introducing Social Marketing Curricula to Public Health Students in El Salvador via Lectures and Related Research Assignments
Host: Jose Simeon Canas Central American University, Department of Public Health, San Salvador
July 2000-April 2001

Guatemala
Matthew Anderson, Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College, N.Y.
Lecturing and Research: Medical Sciences, HIV/AIDS
January 1999-July 1999

Mexico
Irasema Coronado, associate professor, University of Texas at El Paso
Discipline: Political Science
Lecturing/Research: Development of Program of Study: Politics in the Paso del Norte Region
Host: Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Aug. 2004 - May 2005

Cecile Garmon, Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University
Lecturing and Research: Communications and Journalism, Communication Behaviors in Multinational Business Settings
January 2000-May 2000

Carol Ventura, Associate Professor, Department of Music and Art, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN
Lecturing: Pre-Columbian Art, Printmaking, Computer Graphics, Glass, Ceramics, Photography, Metals, Fiber Art, Woodworking and Art History
Host: State University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato
January 2001-June 2001

Nicaragua
Philip Dennis, Professor, Texas Tech University
Lecturing and Research: Anthropology and Archaeology, Medical Anthropology; Traditional Healing
July 1999-January 2000

Peru
Inez Avalos Heath, Ph. D.. Professor
Valdosta State University
Lecturer and Research: Education, English Language/Culture Ed.Technology
August-December 2000
“Link to Lima” www.valdosta.edu/~iheath/lima.html

Trinidad and Tobogo
Dorothy Roberts, Professor, Northwestern University, Illinois
Discipline: Law
Lecturing/Research: Feminist Perspectives on Masculinity and Sexuality; Impact of Constructions of Sexuality on HIV/AIDS Law and Policy
Host: University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobogo
September 2002 – June 2003

Argentina
Julio Durand , Director, Department of International Relations, Austral University, Buenos Aires
Research: Higher Education, Education, the Tenure System and Working Conditions of American Professor, and the Academic Career in Argentina's New Private Universities
Host: Boston College,Chestnut Hill, MA August 1999-March 2000

Carlos Enrique Peruzzotti, Professor, Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina
Research: Challenging Corruption: The Politics of Societal Accountability in the New Latin American Democracies
Host: Columbia University, Institute for Latin American Studies, NY
March 2002-June 2002

Bolivia
Ricardo Estrada Zamorano, Professional Singer Lecturing: Theater and Dance, Latin American Culture and Music; Spanish Zarzuela
Host: University of Central Arkansas
Scholar-in-Residence Program
January - June 1999

Brazil
Maria Cavalcanti, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Research: Anthropology and Archaeology, Anthropology and Folklore: A Comparative Study of Contemporaneous Urban Rites
Host: Columbia University, N.Y.
August 1998-August 1999

Ecuador
Yolanda Teran, National Coordinator, Department of Education, National Council of Indigenous Women, Quito
Lecturing: The Development of Cultural Awareness
Host: Sisseton Wahpeton Community College, Office of Instruction, Sisseton, South Dakota
August 2000-June 2001
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Mexico
Lucia Guadaloupe Lamarque Arilez, Associate Professor, Autonomous University of Baja California
Lecturing: Business Administration, Training Future U.S. Business People for Working in Mexico
Host: San Diego State Univeristy, Ca.
September 1998-May 1999

Jorge Ibáñez, Professor, Department of Science, Iberoamericana University
Lecturing: Instrumental Analysis Lab, General Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry Lab
Research: Electroosmotic Transport and Monitoring of Pb in Soils
Host: Loyola University Chicago, IL
July 2000-July 2001

Trinidad and Tobago
Richard Bruce Martin Escalante, lecturer and information technology officer, University of the West Indies—St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Discipline: information science
Research: Technology and the Legal Protection of Public Information in Developing Caribbean Societies
Host: University of Washington, Washington
September – December 2005

Tyrone Ferguson, professor
University of the West Indies
Lectureship: Senior Lecturer, Political Science
Host: Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
2001-2002

Derek Chadee, lecturer, University of the West Indies--St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Research: A Social Psychological Evaluation of the Fear of Crime
Host: CUNY--Hunter College, New York, NY
July-December 2004

 

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