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International Expertise Database
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New Search Dr. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru
Associate Professor
Advertising/Public Relations
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
Contact Information:
222 Journalism Bldg.
ATHENS GA 30602
706-542-5680
706-542-2133
cacosta@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Venezuela
Research on Latin American telenovelas
Dr. Mary Anne Alabanza Akers
Associate Professor
School of Environmental Design
Contact Information:
609 Caldwell Hall
Athens GA 30606
706-542-3848
706-542-4485
makers@uga.edu
Other International Interests: Culture and environment
Capacity building for community-based development
Languages Spoken: Tagalog
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: The Philippines
Research on street vendors (integrating environment, economics and health)
Technical assistance in urban planning and design
Dr. Casimir C. Akoh
Distinguished Research Professor
Food Science & Technology
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
Food Science Building
Athens GA 30602-7610
706-542-1067
706-542-1050
cakoh@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/fst
Specialization: Lipids
Other International Interests: Phytochemical research - bioavailability and effect on cancers, immune system, and cardiovascular diseases
Phytosterols and phytosterol esters - effect on blood lipids
Genetically modified oil crops
Enzymatic synthesis and applications of structured lipids
Lipid analysis
Languages Spoken: Igbo
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil
Collaborative research, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, May-August, 2004 Conference organization, Taichung, Taiwan, October, 2005
Brazil, exchange student to UGA, 2002-2003
Malaysia, faculty collaborative research to UGA, Feb-May, 2003
Turkey, student exchange to UGA, March-September, 2004
Nigeria, staff/student exchange to UGA, 2003
Mrs. Holly Alderman
Staff
International Business Programs
Terry College of Business
Contact Information:
265B Brooks Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-3801
706-542-0617
alderman@uga.edu
www.terry.uga.edu/ib
Other International Interests: program development, promotion of study abroad and exchange programs, recruitment of international students and scholars
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China, Fiji, New Zealand
The experince highlighted is in coordinating study abroad and exchange programs. The bulk of my experience has been in China (Beijing, Shanghai and Dalian). The primary research area of my MPA work is in international education within higher ed.
Mr. Boanerges Aleman-Meza
Computer Science
Franklin College
Contact Information:
415 Boyd GSRC
Athens GA 30602-7404
706-542-4772
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baleman@uga.edu
lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~aleman/
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Mexico
Dr. Christopher Allen
Associate Professor
Department of International Affairs
School of Public and International Affairs
Contact Information:
322 Candler Hall
Athens GA 30602-1492
706-542-2984
706-583-8266
csallen@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/~csallen
Other International Interests: Associate Director, UGA à Paris Study Abroad Program
Visiting Lecturer, UGA South Pacific Study Abroad Program, Christchurch, New Zealand: 2004-06.
Languages Spoken: German, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Observer, 2005 German Bundestag Election. Project funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the Göthe Institute in cooperation with the British Association' for the Study of German Politics, University of Birmingham, UK., September 14-19, 2005
"Ideas, Institutions and the Exhaustion of Modell Deutschland?" Paper Presented at the Canadian Center for German and European Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, February 12, 2004.
Member, "Germany and the Citizens Europe: Labor, Social and Educational Policies in Germany and in Europe"; an annual information visit on current developments in Germany for North American policy experts and decision-makersSponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the University of Bonn. June 7 - 25, 2001.
"Institutions and Political Reform: Eastern German Lessons for Mexico?" Paper presented at Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo AC, Mexico City, October 31, 1997.
Panel Discussant, "The Viability of the German Model," at the Conference on Economic Adjustment and Mutual Learning: USA-Germany, Wissenschaftszentrum-Berlin, Berlin, Germany, December 15-16, 1995.
Countries: Belgium, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Sameh Aly
Postal Assistant I
Campus Mail Services
Contact Information:
P. O. Box 81234
Athens GA 30608-1234
706-542-5286
706-795-0195
samehaly@charter.net
Languages Spoken: Arabic, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia
- Arabic language proficiency equivalent to that of a highly articulate well-educated native speaker
Countries: Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia
- Arabic language proficiency equivalent to that of a highly articulate well-educated native speaker and reflects the cultural standards of the country where the language is natively spoken.
- Considerable ability to communicate in Spanish effectively on topics relating to particular interests and special fields of competence with limited Working proficiency.
Dr. Alex Anderson
Assistant Professor
Department of Foods and Nutrition
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Contact Information:
261 Dawson Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7614
706-542-5059
anderson@fcs.uga.edu
Specialization: Maternal and Child Nutrition/Health
Public Health Nutrition
Breastfeeding/Lactation
Other International Interests: Improving the health and nutrition of children and women.
Languages Spoken: French, Akan
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Ghana
Infant feeding research and nutritional assessment of communities
Ms. Kimberly Anderson
Public Service Asst.
Fanning Institute and Georgia 4-H
University of Georgia
Contact Information:
1240 S. Lumpkin
Athens GA 30602-3552
706-583-0930
706-542-7007
kanderson@fanning.uga.edu
Specialization: youth leadership development
training and facilitation
Other International Interests: Have an interest in partnering with others on programs regarding youth development.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Travel seminar through Int'l Public Service and Outreach to explore the education and culture of the country.
Gisele Andrade
Research Professional
School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Contact Information:
DW Broks Drive
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1264
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gisele@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil
I am a professional skilled in Plant Genetic and Molecular Biology research, and I have worked on research projects involving tissue culture and genetic engineering of crops (cassava, maize, soybean) and trees (Eucalyptus, Pine, Cottonwood, American Chestnut) since 1994. My professional experience and education as a Research Scientist was initiated in Brazil, my native country, working with EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation) and then, Aracruz Celulose S/A, Brazil’s large wood pulp manufacturing company. I am fluent in written and spoken Portuguese, and have a working knowledge of Spanish.
Mr. Peter Appel
Associate Professor
Law
School of Law
Contact Information:
Herty Drive
Athens GA 30602-6012
706-542-5097
706-542-5556
appel@uga.edu
www.law.uga.edu/academics/profiles/appel.html
Specialization: Environmental law
Natural resources law
Other International Interests: Pollution control, water allocation
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Lithuania, Mexico
Participated in Baltic Sea initiative
Dr. Jay Aronson
Professor of Management Information Systems
Management Information Systems
Terry College of Business
Contact Information:
307 Brooks Hall
Athens GA 30602-6273
706-542-0991
706-583-0037
jaronson@uga.edu
www.terry.uga.edu/people/jaronson/
Specialization: Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Collaborative Computing, Decision Support Systems, Optimization, Network Optimization, Linear Programming, Mathematical Modeling
Other International Interests: Modeling real-world environments and systems.
Development of knowledge management systems both within the business arena and scientific disiplines.
Languages Spoken: Dutch, French, German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China, France, Germany, Israel, The Netherlands
Beijing, PRC, 3 extended periods in the 1990s: Economic Modeling of Major Hydrological Systems.
Lyon, France, 2003 - present: Research on Decision Making and Systems to Support It in the Medical Area for Catastrophic Illness.
Rotterdam, The Netherlands: 2002-2004: Development of Business Intelligence Teaching Materials.
Ms. Betsy Arrington-Tsao
Study Abroad Advisor
Office of International Education
Office of International Affairs
Contact Information:
203H Barrow Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7903
706-542-6622
betsyarr@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/oie
Other International Interests: program development
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City
Help University of Georgia faculty develop study abroad and exchange programs.
Dr. Jorge Atiles
Associate Dean for Outreach & Extension
Housing and Consumer Economics
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Contact Information:
224 Dawson Hall
Athens GA 30602-3622
706-542-4860
706-542-4862
jHatiles@uga.edu
www.fcs.uga.edu/outreach
Specialization: Planning, Housing education, policy and financing.
Other International Interests: Cultural awareness and competency for UGA faculty, students and staff. Multinational agreements and programs for public service and extension.
Languages Spoken: Italian, Spanish, Very little French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico
Dominican Republic: Public policy, housing policy, banking and finance, urban development. Technical assistance.
Costa Rica: Study abroad, housing and environmental issues
Mexico: Study abroad, cultural training for faculty, migration-related research
Dr. Julia Atiles
Senior Academic Professional
CHFD and EDEC
FCS and COE
Contact Information:
123 Dawson Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4164
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jatiles@uga.edu
Specialization: Education of children zero to age eight.
Sencond Language acquisition.
Teacher education/preparation
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Italy
Mexico
Mr. Arnab Bagchi
Full-time MBA - Class of 2007
Business
Terry College Of Business
Contact Information:
362 Brooks Hall
Athens GA 30602-6264
706-254-4746
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arnab@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Bengali, Hindi
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: India
Bangalore, India, 2001-2002: Indian Space Research Organization. Application of algorithms for better Interpretation of Satellite Images.
Chennai,India 2002-2003: Software Consultant, Cognizant Technology Solutions: Software Development Lifecycle, Financial Services
Calcutta,India, 2003-2004: Software Consultant, Cognizant Technology Solutions,
Software Development Lifecycle, Retail and Hospitality
NJ, USA, 2004-2005: Software Consultant, Cognizant Technology Solutions - Business Development, Offshore Outsourcing
OH,USA, 2006 : IT Portfolio Management
Jamie Baker Roskie
Managing Attorney
Land Use Clinic
School of Law/College of Environment & Design
Contact Information:
School of Law
Athens GA 30602
706-583-0373
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jroskie@uga.edu
www.law.uga.edu/landuseclinic/
Specialization: Land use law
Other International Interests: I am interested in collaborating on research, writing and service learning opportunities in Africa or Latin America on land use, environmental, and land tenure issues (particularly related to women).
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Kenya, Mexico
Health clinic construction in Kenya; language and cultural study in Mexico
Mr. Thomas Bass
Public Service Representative
Depts. of Bio and Ag Engineering & Animal and Dairy Science
Cooperative Extension - CAES
Contact Information:
Driftmier Engineering Center
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2735
706-542-1886
tmbass@engr.uga.edu
www.agp2.org/
Other International Interests: Program Areas of Interest
-General Environmental issues in agriculture
-Animal waste and soil (nutrients, organics, pathogens, sediment/erosion)
-Rural water quality
-By-product use for sustainable systems
-Meat and food safety
-Pesticide safety (water quality, worker protection)
-General pollution prevention (household and some small business)
Personal Goals
-Continue to develop Spanish language skills and attain a conversational level of fluency
-Enhance ability to work with Latino farm laborers in GA and the U.S.
-Continue to understand impacts of globalization on agriculture and the environment
-Observe and learn about other models of environmental management in agriculture from other proactive countries (e.g. France, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark…)
-Observe and learn about limited resource agriculture in lesser developed countries and regions
-Enhance Extension and traditional instruction experience by conducting programs abroad or teaching U.S. students in a study abroad setting
Languages Spoken: , some Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Feb 2005 “An Approach to Nutrient Management Planning in Georgia”. 33rd Symposium on Actual Tasks in Ag Engineering
June 2002 "Cross Cultural Outreach Seminar, Xalapa, Veracruz, MX
2004 two speaking engagements in Canada, "Ag Pollution Prevention Programs"
Countries: Canada, Croatia, Mexico
Feb 2005 “An Approach to Nutrient Management Planning in Georgia”. 33rd Symposium on Actual Tasks in Agricultural Engineering, Opatija, Croatia.
Feb 2005
Dr. Michael Beck
Executive Director
Ctr. for International Trade and Security
SPIA
Contact Information:
120 Holmes Hunter Bldg.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2985
706-542-2975
mikebeck@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/cits
Languages Spoken: Russian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Palau
Export control training and outreach in Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Albania, U.K., Ukraine, Poland, Slovenia.
Dr. Clanton Black
Distinguished Research Professor
Biochem. & Mol. Biol.
A & S
Contact Information:
Life Sciences Bldg.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1778
706-542-1738
ccblack@bmb.uga.edu
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Specialization: Biochemistry of plants
Other International Interests: Same as above
Languages Spoken: , none
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Uzbekistan
Research on plant biochemistry , environmental physiology, pollution, sound environmental & ecocological development along with science based policies, global climates both current and over ancient time periods.
Teaching biochemistry and molecular biology in countries such as Mongolia and China.
Mr. Daniel Bodansky
Woodruff Professor of International Law
Law
Law
Contact Information:
Rusk 209, School of Law
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7052
706-542-7404
bodansky@uga.edu
www.law.uga.edu/~bodansky/
International Experience and Expertise:
Consultant for Pew Center on Climate Change, 2001-present
Climate Change Coordinator, US Department of State, 1999-2001
Consultant to WHO on tobacco control convention, 1998-1999
Attorney-Adviser, US Department of State, 1985-1989
Deborah Borden
Public Service Representative
Biological & Agricultural Engineering
University of Georgia
Contact Information:
101 Driftmier Engineering Cent
Athens GA 30606
706-542-6099
706-542-8806
dborden@engr.uga.edu
www.engr.uga.edu/service/outreach
Other International Interests:
I am very interested in becoming involved with international water related projects that encompass applied research, technical assistance, capacity building, and service-learning.
Languages Spoken: French, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Canada, Costa Rica
I assisted in the design of a constructed wetland for wastewater treatment at the University of Georgia Ecolodge San Luis & Research Station. The wetland was intended to treat wastewater for several newly constructed buildings at the Ecolodge. In addition, I developed a recommendation manual for monitoring wetland performance as a service-learning opportunity for students at the Ecolodge. The wetlands system may also be used as a demonstration project for building capacity of surrounding communities for designing, constructing, and operating constructed wetlands for community wastewater treatment. These activities encompassed international applied research, international technical assistance, capacity building, and international service-learning.
Dr. Marie-Claude Boudreau
MIS
Terry College of Business
Contact Information:
Athens GA
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mcboudre@terry.uga.edu
Specialization: Management of Information Systems (MIS)
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Canada, France
Mr. Robert Brewer
CEC
Cooperative Extension
Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
P.O. Box 369
Hiawassee GA 30546
706-896-2024
706-896-8523
rbrewer@uga.edu
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Ireland, Kenya, United Kingdom
Ireland: 2002: 1. Attended apicultural congress and served as judge's steward in Irish National Honey Show, Gormanston (first from the US to do this). 2. Gave lecture on American Beekeeping and Hive Management in Donegal;2004: Provided educational materials and guidance for an Irish satelite/sister version of the Georgia Master Beekeeper Program; 2005: 1. Attended Apimondia in Dublin, presented a poster describing the Georgia Master Beekeeper Program. 2. Spoke on honeybee queen rearing and hive management in Hillsboro. 3. Paper on The Greater Wax Moth published on the Institute of Northern Ireland Beekeepers web site.
England: 2002: Attended the British National Honey Show in London and served as a judge's steward (first from the US to do this); 2005: 1. Presented a lecture on Control of Varroa Mites and Small Hive Beetle in Somerset. 2. Article on the spread and control of hive pests published in the British Beekeepers Association Newsletter; 2006: Article on Apicultural Education fro Youth and Non-Beekeeping Audiences submitted for publication in the British Beekeepers Association Newsletter.
Wales: 2003: Aritcle on Wax Moth Control published in the Royal Welsh Beekeepers Association Newsletter; 2005: Judged the Royal Welsh Honey Show in Bleuth. Also sat for and passed the Senior Welsh Honey Judge Exam (first from the US to do this).
Kenya: 2004: Spoke to Kenyan fact finding group on American honey quality, regulations and marketing.
Dr. George Brook
Merle C. Prunty Professor of Geography
Geography
Franklin College of Arsts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Department of Geography
GA 30677
706-542-2322
706-542-2388
gabrook@uga.edu
Other International Interests: I am particularly interested in any work in Africa, Egypt and Mexico relating to the landscape or archaeology.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Botswana, Canada, China, Congo, Egypt, India, Madagascar, Mexico, Namibia, Oman, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe
I undertake research on past changes in climate in several countries including China, Egypt Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, India, Mexico etc. I have also been the PI of a Binational Fulbright agreement between Ain Shams University Geography Department and Geography at UGA. My research explores the relict landforms that are indicative of past climates. I am particularly interested in desert and cave environments. I also work with archaeologists in S. Africa, Namibia, and Botswana to reconstruct environments relating to their findings.
I currently collaborate with officials of the Namibian National Museum in Windhoek, Namibia, the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, S. Africa, and the Florisbad Museum in Bloemfontein, S. Africa.
Dr. Paul Brooks
Director
Continuing Education and Outreach
Pharmacy
Contact Information:
Office of CE and Outreach
Athens GA 30602
706-542-5343
706-542-3912
pbrooks@rx.uga.edu
www.rx.uga.edu/ce.html
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: India, Jordan
Curriculum development and distance delivery of health related topics (pharmacy, medicine) and pharmaceutical/biomedical regulations in manufacturing and clinical trials; technology transfer.
Dr. Rusty Brooks
Professor and Assistant Director
International Center for Democratic Governance
Carl Vinson Institute of Government
Contact Information:
1242 South Lumpkin Street
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7502
706-542-6594
rbrooks@cviog.uga.edu
www.icdg.uga.edu
Other International Interests: Rural development
Sustainable development
Community development
Citizen participation
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Georgia, Mexico, Slovenia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe
Dr. Brooks' program in the International Center for Democratic Governance focuses primarily on assisting government, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector in work related to sustainable rural economic development policies and practices. He has expertise in strategic planning for economic development and in the development of policies and practices that support rural development and heritage tourism related development activities. Dr. Brooks’ economic development work has had significant impact in Georgia and the world resulting in the creation of innovative economic development organizations, new jobs, and a tangible economic development infrastructure. Dr. Brooks has conducted over 100 community-level economic development studies in Georgia and generated over $2,350,000 to support his work program. Dr. Brooks has extensive international economic and community development experience in Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Republic of Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe.
Dr. Corrie Brown
Professor
Veterinary Pathology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Contact Information:
501 D.W. Brooks Drive
Athens GA 30602-7388
706-542-5842
706-542-5828
corbrown@vet.uga.edu
www.vet.uga.edu/vpp/ia/index.php
Languages Spoken: French, Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Afghanistan, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, The Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Uganda
With the advent of the World Trade Organization, international commerce in agricultural animal products has increased dramatically. Today, the only barrier to being able to export live animals, meat, milk, or eggs, is sanitary. Consequently, controlling animal diseases and ensuring adequate surveillance have become priorities for departments and ministries of agriculture. My involvement has been to work developing adequate awareness and expertise surrounding these issues.
Mr. Winchester Brown
IT Professional Associate
Student Activities
Tate Student Center
Contact Information:
325 Tate Student Center
Athens GA 30602
706-542-9868
706-542-8550
wxbj78@uga.edu
Specialization: Information Technology
Business Administration
Management
Other International Interests: I am interested in interacting with students from the Caribbean as a mentor or a tutor of some kind.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Jamaica
I was born in Jamaica and lived there for 14 consecutive years. I return at least once per year, in which I have been tutoring neighborhood students on basic computer concepts and skills. I am not affiliated with any organization in this endeavor.
Mr. Michael Brugger
Physician Assistant
Health Service
Univrsity Health Center
Contact Information:
Athens GA 30602
706-542-8666
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mbrugger@uhs.uga.edu
www.arches.uga.edu/~mbrugger/manioc.html
Other International Interests: Experienced in the use of solar cookers, box or panels. Solar cookers are a very environmental friendly and inexpensive way to cook food, just about anywhere in the world.
I am also interested in delivering health care to developing countries.
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Gabon
Peace Corps volunteer in Gabon 11/1979 to 11/ 1981, taught inland fisheries raising Tilapia nilotica
Mr. Brent Buice
Senior Admissions Counselor
Graduate Admissions
Graduate School
Contact Information:
Boyd GSRC
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4817
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babuice@uga.edu
www.gradsch.uga.edu/Admissions/index.html
Specialization: Academic credential evaluation
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Bahamas, France, Germany, Guatemala, Jamaica, New Zealand, Nigeria, United Kingdom
I have participated in a number of training workshops focused on the evaluation of international educational credentials. I have over four years experience in analyzing foreign academic documents for UGA.
Jose Buitrago
Assistant Professor
College of Environment and Design
School of Environmental Design
Contact Information:
407 Caldwell Hall
Athens GA 30602-1845
706-583-0942
706-542-4485
buitrago@uga.edu
www.sed.uga/people/faculty/buitrago.htm
Specialization: Landscape Architecture,
Environmental Design,
Hurricane Damage Assestment,
Hurricane Restoration,
Eco-Tourism, and
Heritage Tourism.
Other International Interests: Work/field design experience of Eco-Tourism landscape architecture projects.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Barbados, Dominican Republic, Mexico
Landscape Architecture design work experience through out the Caribbean Basin dating back to 1997. Research on the environment, culture, history, economy of the Caribbean Basin and it's application in landscape architecture design work. Fully bilingual (English and Spanish). Expert on Hurricane damage assestment and it's application to restoration of landscape architecture design work. Research on heritage tourism as a mechanism to promote historic preservation and economical development in the Caribbean Basin. Special interest in research topics related to the US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Calvin Burgoyne
Lecturer
Mathematics
Arts & Science
Contact Information:
Boyd Graduate Studies
Athens GA
706-542-5021
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burgoyne@math.uga.edu
Specialization: Mathematics/Physics
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil, Japan, Malaysia, Micronesia
College of Micronesia: 8 yrs, chair Division of Mathematics & Sciences. Brazil: taught in Astrophysics Institute. Japan and Malaysia: taught math/physics for University of Maryland
Christine Burgoyne
Public Service Assistant
Georgia Center Grants & Contracts
Georgia Center
Contact Information:
1197 S. Lumpkin
Athens GA 30602-3603
706-542-6473
706-542-6465
christine.burgoyne@gactr.uga.edu
www.gactr.uga.edu
Specialization: Grants and Program Development: educational programs, second language acquisition, multicultural youth, Latino, service learning
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Georgia, Micronesia
College of Micronesia, Pohnpei: three years administration and teaching (English) 1991-1993, Marine Sciences Education grant project 1995, ongoing contacts. Georgia: current education project with Grigol Robakidze University, Tbilisi.
Dr. Gary Burtle
Associate Professor Extension Specialist
Animal & Dairy Science
Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
Animal Science
Tifton GA 31793-0748
229-386-3364
229-386-3219
gburtle@uga.edu
www.cpes.peachnet.uga.edu/aquaculture/
Other International Interests: Cooperation with international groups involved in technology utilization projects involving the culture of fish and crustaceans. Specific knowledge of catfishes, freshwater prawn, tilapia and carp. Also interested in projects related to pond construction for water harvesting and integrating aquaculture with animal and plant agriculture.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Czech Republic, Germany, Panama
Aquaculture research in Panama concerning alternative feedstuffs for rural tilapia farms.
Fish parasite issues in the Czech Republic and Germany specifically those caused by myxosporeans.
Project reviewer for the International Foundatin for Science primarily for Aftrican projects.
Dr. Miguel Cabrera
Professor
Crop & Soil Sciences
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
3111 Miller Plant Sci. Bldg.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1242
706-542-0914
mcabrera@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
Applied research in Uruguay, graduate teaching in Argentina, technical cooperation in Brazil
Dr. Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann
Assistant Professor
Language and Literacy Education
Education
Contact Information:
125 Aderhold Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-583-8127
706-542-4509
cahnmann@uga.edu
www.coe.uga.edu/lle/faculty/cahnmann
Specialization: Bilingual Education, Immigrant Education, Arts-Based research, qualitative research, anthropology and education
Other International Interests: I am extremely interested in a variety of international work, particulary as it relates to education (bilingual education and arts education)
Languages Spoken: Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey
Primary research in Mexico. Outreach in Veracruz, Mexico.
Travel and professional presentations in Turkey, Spain, Israel.
Dr. Brad Cahoon
Associate Director
Distance Education
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
Contact Information:
1197 South Lumpkin St.
Athens GA 30605
706-542-7428
706-542-6720
brad.cahoon@gactr.uga.edu
www.arches.uga.edu/~cahoonb/
Specialization: Distance education
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Tunisia
In April, 2005, I was a member of a UGA delegation to Tunisia. We made presentations to policy makers and conducted workshops for faculty involved in the development of the Virtual University of Tunisia.
Dr. John Carroll
Assoc. Prof
Forest Resources
Contact Information:
WSFR 3-409b
Athens GA 30602
706-542-8356
706-542-8356
jcarroll@smokey.forestry.uga.edu
gamebird.forestry.uga.edu/
Specialization: Wildlife Conservation
Other International Interests: I am collaborating with quite a few faculty and units on campus. Mainly I am interested in bird conservation--especially relative to agriculture.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Austria, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda
Much of my experience relates to conservation of wildlife relative to impacts of agriculture and other land use. Most of it is research. However, I have done a study abroad course in South Africa for a number of years and I just started one in Rep of Georgia. I am also Chair of one of the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Specialist Groups which keeps me somewhat involved in policy issues.
Dr. Kathleen Cason
Director, Public Relations
Office of the VP for Public Service and Outreach
Contact Information:
1234 S. Lumpkin St., UGA
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2512
706-542-6278
kcason@uga.edu
Specialization: media, communications, science writing; agriculture, bioscience
Other International Interests: I have broad interests in international outreach, particularly in Latin America, the Philippines and China.
Languages Spoken: French, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, T
1982-1984: agriculture extension in Honduras; primarily in the Comayagua Valley but provided services to other regions including La Mosquitia
1999-2001: communications coordinator for the SANREM CRSP, a program in sustainable agriculture that was funded by U.S. AID. Partner countries included Mali, Ecuador and the Philippines.
Mr. Pratt Cassity
Director
Center for Community Design, Planning and Preservation
College of Environment and Design
Contact Information:
325 So. Lumpkin Street
Athens GA 30602-1861
706-542-4731
706-583-0320
pcassity@uga.edu
www.sed.uga.edu/pso
Other International Interests: Eco-tourism, environmental engineering, nutrition, public administration, strategic planning and job creation.
Languages Spoken: Spanish, (some) Twi
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, United Kingdom
Global Service-Learning studios in Slovakia, Ghana, Mexico, Croatia and Thailand
Training and research in England, Slovenia and Austria
Instruction for Italy, Dominican Republic, Slovakia.
Student leadership and public service in Mexico City.
Dr. Oscar Chamosa
Asistant Professor
Department of History
Franklin College of Art and Sciencies
Contact Information:
239 LeConte Hall
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-2539
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chamo01@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina
Ms. Rebecca Cheney
Program Assistant
Honors Program, CURO
Honors Program, CURO
Contact Information:
Moore College
Athens GA 30602-6127
706-542-4053
706-542-5472
rcheney@uga.edu
Specialization: International Education, Intercultural Relations, NGO/NPO Management
Other International Interests: * Interested in working with Spanish-speaking communities in North America, South America, and Europe
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Mexico, Spain
* Study abroad in Spain, Spring semester 1997
* Travel in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Canada, Mexico, and Spain
* Master's degree in International & Intercultural Management from the School for International Training
* Conducted research on healthcare, communication, and university-community partnerships with Spanish-speaking communities in U.S.
Mr. Jonathan Clayton
Security System adminstrator
Police Department
Contact Information:
286 Oconee Street
athens GA 30605
706-542-0103
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Jclayton@uga.edu
Specialization: Risk management, alarm, CCTV, Access Control
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bahamas, Belize, Mexico
Dr. Timothy Cleaveland
Associate Professor
History
Franklin College of Liberal Arts
Contact Information:
LeConte Hall
Athens GA 30602-1602
706-542-2479
706-542-2455
tcleave@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/history/
Other International Interests: I am interested in collaborating in any area of West and Northwest Africa, or along the Swahili Coast, especially Kenya. My current research focuses on how race, ethnicity, gender and religion shaped slavery in pre-colonial West Africa, and how these same factors affected the slow process of abolition during the period of European (mainly French) colonialism.
Languages Spoken: Arabic, French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Cameroon, France, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal
I specialize in the history of Islamic West Africa, and have spent about two years conducting research in Mauritania and Mali. I have also conducted research for short periods in Senegal, Morocco, France, and Kenya. My primary research languages (reading) are Standard Classical Arabic and French. I speak French with near fluency and have intermediate skills in Hassaniyya Arabic (Mauritania) and basic conversational skills in Standard Classical Arabic, Kiswahili, and West African Pidgin English (Cameroun and Nigeria). From 1984 through 1986 I served in the Peace Corps in Cameroun, after being trained for three months in eastern Zaire. After my Peace Corps service I traveled through West Africa for several months. From 1990 through 1992 I conducted dissertation research in the southern Saharan regions of Mauritania and Mali. Since 1992 I have conducted research in several African countries for short periods during the summers.
Dr. Kim Coder
Professor of Community Forestry & Arboriculture
Warnell School of Forest Resources
Contact Information:
4-432 School of Forest Resourc
Athens GA 30602
706-542-9050
706-542-3342
kcoder@uga.edu
Specialization: urban forest ecology, forest based environmental management, ecological sustainability, tree health care, arboriculture
Other International Interests: Outreach and extension
Technology transfer
Certification of skills and knowledge
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Norway, United Kingdom
Educational outreach of technical skills and information
Outreach program establishment and support
Graduate student training
Graduate student classes
Establishment of national institutions / organizations
International certification processes
Tree health care programs
Dr. Michelle Commeyras
Professor
Language and Literacy Education
Education
Contact Information:
309 Aderhold Hall
Athens GA 30605
706-542-4621
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pulane@uga.edu
www.coe.uga.edu/lle/faculty/commeyras/index.html
Specialization: Reading education
Other International Interests: Interested in collaborative teaching and research opportunities in Africa.
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Botswana, Kenya
Fulbright Lecturer on Gender Issues in Education at the University of Botswana 1997-1998
Co-authored with Hellen Inyega an Integrative Review of Research on Teaching Reading in Kenyan Primary Schools (forthcoming).
Dr. Barbara Cooper
Lecturer
Romance Languages
Arts & Sciences
Contact Information:
245 Gilbert Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-9358
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brcooper@uga.edu
Specialization: Languages and Literature
Languages Spoken: French, German, Italian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy
Dr. Bonnie Cramond
Assoc. Prof.
Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology
Education
Contact Information:
Torrance Center for Creativity
Athens GA 30602-7143
706-542-4248
706-542-4659
bcramond@uga.edu
Other International Interests: I am very interested in developing a conference and a course at the UGA facility in Costa Rica. I would like to organize an international creativity conference in Costa Rica in January, and I would like to have a summer course for teachers there to learn Spanish and about gifted children.
I am very interested in collaborative research with individuals in other countries and in developing collaborative training opportunities for teachers from the U.S. and their countries.
I am interested in participating in other UGA education abroad activities.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Austria, Barbados, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom
I have tried to select countries in which I have had some professional experiences--either through conferences or collaborative research.
My most extensive foreign experiences have been most recently with South Korea. I have spent the last two summers there doing teacher training in collaboration with several universities, school systems, and the Korean educational institute, KEDI. From this, UGA now has a sister university in South Korea and UGA has hosted 8 groups of Korean educators for training here. I am in the planning process of associating the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development with an Educational Corporation there, too.
The next most extensive experience has been with Finland. I taught a class there at the University of Tampere in Hameenlinna, gave talks there for two summers, and did some collaborative research.
Dr. Markus Crepaz
Associate Professor
Department of International Affairs
School of Public and International Affairs
Contact Information:
The University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2947
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mcrepaz@uga.edu
www.arches.uga.edu/~mcrepaz/
Languages Spoken: French, German, Italian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Sweden, Switzerland, Austria
Dr. Elaine D'Sa
Research Coordinator
Foods & Nutrition (Extension)
FACS
Contact Information:
328 Hoke Smith Annex
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4954
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elaine.dsa@gmail.com
www.uga.edu/nchfp
Languages Spoken: Hindi
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Canada, India
Food Safety advising, collaborating with local food safety agencies and research centers on food safety and preservation problems, 2002-2009
Dr. Nick Dale
Professor
Poultry science
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
310 Poultry Science Bldg.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-9134
706-542-8383
ndale@uga.edu
Specialization: Poultry Science
Nutrition
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Chile, Ecuador, Mexico
Peace Corps, Chile, 1968-1970
Innumerable talks to industry professional groups in Latin America, 1979-Present
Dr. K.C. Das
Associate Professor
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Contact Information:
Driftmier Engineering Center
Athens GA 30602
706-542-8842
706-542-8806
kdas@engr.uga.edu
Other International Interests: My expertise is in the engineering aspects of biomass conversion. Specifically [1] the design and implementation of organic waste collection and composting systems for cities; [2] use of biomass for the extraction of energy and value added products; and [3] carbon cycling in agriculture.
Languages Spoken: Hindi, Tamil
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil, Colombia, India
Worked as consultant to research, outreach, and developmental projects in Brazil and India. Projects included solid waste composting, biomass energy, and soil remediation. Primary partners were NGOs and local Universities. Worked on a research/outreach project with the Colombian Palm Oil industry on reuse of residues - work ongoing.
Dr. Jeffrey Dean
Associate Professor
Forest Resources
Contact Information:
220 Riverbend Rd.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-17101
706-542-8356
jeffdean@uga.edu
www.forestry.uga.edu/Members/dean
Other International Interests: The Sirex woodwasp-fungus complex is a major problem for commercial conifer production worldwide and I welcome research partners from any country wishing to be involved on this nascent project.
Family and personal matters take me to Brazil on a regular basis -- at least once each year. This personal connection has provided me with a strong interest in developing research projects and exchanges with researchers in Brazil and other parts of South America. Projects related to any of the fields of specialization noted above would be of interest.
Languages Spoken: Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil, South Africa, Uruguay
With funding provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF PASI program) I organized and hosted an intensive two-week bioinformatics training workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay in 2004. Instructors were experts in agricultural genomics and bioinformatics recruited from academic and private research organizations in South America and the United States.
Current efforts are focused on developing a cooperative research project with researchers from the Forest and Agriculture Biotechnology Institute (FABI) at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) to use functional genomics approaches to understanding the molecular and genetic interactions between North America pine tree species (Pinus taeda), the European woodwasp (Sirex noctilio), the fungal pathogen spread by the wasp (Amylostereum areolatum), and the nematode used as a biocontrol agent for the wasp-fungus complex (Deladenus siricidicola).
Dr. Katrien Devos
Associate Professor
Crop and Soil Sciences, Plant Biology
University of Georgia
Contact Information:
3111 Miller Plant Sciences Bui
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0925
706-542-0914
kdevos@uga.edu
www.cropsoil.uga.edu/faculty1/devos.htm
Specialization: Cereal genetics; comparative genomics
Languages Spoken: Dutch, French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: India, Kenya, Uganda
Collaborative research with scientists from India (since 1995), Kenya (since 2002) and Uganda (since 2002).
In 2005: Visiting scientist from Kenya conducting research at UGA
Mrs. Shefali Dhar
Application Analyst Specialist
Office of Vice President for Instruction
Office of Vice President for Instruction
Contact Information:
Suite # 301D Franklin House
Athens GA 30602
706-583-0745
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shef@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/ovpi
Specialization: Design, develop software applications
Languages Spoken: Hindi
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: India
Mr. Job Dieleman
Senior Int'l Business Consultant
International Trade Center
Small Business Development Center
Contact Information:
Chicopee Building
Athens GA 30602-5412
706-542-6661
706-542-6803
jdieleman@sbdc.uga.edu
www.sbdc.uga.edu (int\'l business)
Specialization: International business consulting, Exporting, International trade, International economic development projects
Other International Interests: International economic development projects, international business consulting and export training in any country.
Languages Spoken: Afrikaans, Dutch
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kenya, The Netherlands, South Korea, Uganda, United Kingdom
- Citizen of The Netherlands (US green card ). Grew up and was educated in Iraq, The Netherlands, Egypt, Italy and USA.
- 1981-88: Private sector international business experience in Canada, Caribbean, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Chile, England (lived in London for 2 years)
- 1988- present:
Assisted US companies export all over the world. Travelled with clients to Germany, Taiwan, S. Korea.
Participated in international economic development projects in Brazil, Croatia, Kenya, Uganda.
Dr. Richard Dluhy
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Franklin College of Arts & Sciences
Contact Information:
474A Chemistry Building
Athens GA 30602-2556
706-542-1950
706-542-9454
dluhy@chem.uga.edu
www.chem.uga.edu/dluhy
Languages Spoken: German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: France, Germany, United Kingdom
International Collaborative Research Grant Awarded between UGA and University of Leipzig, Germany, Funded through U.S. National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Research Center
Professeur Visité, Centre de Physique Moléculaire Optique et Hertzienne, Université Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institut für Kolloid und Grenzflächenforshung, Potsdam, Germany
Alexander von Humboldt - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany
Dr. Roberto Docampo
Professor
Cellular Biology
Franklin College
Contact Information:
621 Biological Sciences Build.
GA 30602
706-542-8104
706-542-4271
rdocampo@uga.edu
Other International Interests: Tropical Diseases Research
Languages Spoken: Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Finland, France, Paraguay, Peru, Sweden, United Kingdom, Venezuela
Past International Collaboration Awards (NIH) with groups in Argentina and Brazil. Current research collaborations with groups in Venezuela, Finland, France, Unitred Kingdom, and Sweden. Taugh courses in Paraguay and Peru.
Richard Dunham
Associate Professor
Theatre and Film Studies
Franklin College
Contact Information:
Fine Arts Building
Athens GA 30605
706-524-8273
706-542-2080
rdunham@uga.edu
Specialization: Theatrical Design
Other International Interests: Related interests in European theatre...both historical and contemporary trends.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: India
Cultural Diversity of Indian Performance Studies....specifically related to theatrical design and training. Part of a Board of Regents delegation of a three-week system-wide exchange program of professors from a wide range of disciplines that traveled and studied throughout Inida during the summer of 2001. Have been a part of recipricated programs of exchange of Indian professors and artists on several occassions here in the US. Have designed for several performance events based on recreations/simulations of Indian cultural and religious dramas. Have co-authored a feature article with Professor Farley Richmond on Indian drama and performance customs.
Dr. Dan Durning
Director
International Center for Democratic Governance
Carl Vinson Institute of Government
Contact Information:
1242 S. Lumpkin
Athens GA 30602
706-542-6203
706-542-6594
durning@cviog.uga.edu
www.icdg.uga.edu
Languages Spoken: German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine
Ukraine: 1995 - 1998. Director, university partnership project with Uzhgorod National University; 2000 - 2003, managed Community Partnership Project between Athens and the city of Kamianets-Podilsky; 2003 - 2005, managed project to assist the Regional Training Centers of the US-Ukraine Foundation to develop a certificate training program for local government managers.
Georgia: 2000 - present. Manage program to assist the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs to improve its MPA program and develop new programs (funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Dept of State).
Russia: 2001 - 2004. Managed program to assist the Orenberg Institute of the Moscow State Law Academy to improve its MPA program (funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Dept of State).
China: 1999 - present. Participation in design and implementation of training programs for public managers in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Xining, Nanchang, and Chengdu. Managed a faculty exchange program between UGA and two Chinese partners: Shanghai Administration Institute and Fudan University. UGA hosted eight faculty members for extended stays and sent six faculty members to China for month-long stays.
Kyrgyzstan: 2005. Assisted with training program for village managers.
Dr. Steven Elliott-Gower
Associate Director
Honors Program
Contact Information:
215 Moore College
Athens GA 30602
706-542-6206
706-542-5472
segower@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/honors
Other International Interests: I am interested in how international education (and different types of international education) experiences affect students' intellectual and personal development.
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: United Kingdom
I have planned and implemented short-term study abroad programs a number of countries, including England, Hungary, and South Korea, and have taught or otherwise participated in study abroad programs in Australia, France, Italy, and New Zealand.
Dr. James Epperson
Professor
Ag & Applied Economics
Coll of Ag & Environ Sciences
Contact Information:
301 Conner Hall 7509
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0766
706-542-0739
epperson@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/agecon/faculty/epperson/index.htm
Other International Interests: Any project in need of economic input in Latin America.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago
Colombia 1994-1995: Research at CIAT -- economics of germplasm preservation.
Taiwan 11/1995: Lectured on agribusiness topics at several universities.
Trinidad 2/1996: Lectured on futures and options and reviewed the graduate program in agricultural economics and agribusiness.
Mr. Robert Erwin
International Business Consultant
SBDC International Trade Center
Business Outreach Services
Contact Information:
1000 University Lane
Lawrenceville GA 30043
678-407-5385
678-407-5386
berwin@sbdc.uga.edu
www.sbdc.uga.edu
Specialization: I have over 20 years of experience in senior management positions involving international trade. These have included Director of the International Trade Division at the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade & Tourism, Executive Director of the American Building Products Export Council (DC), and British Commercial Vice-Consul (Atlanta), etc. I have directed major private and public sector marketing and business development programs in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. I am also a registered architect.
Other International Interests: I believe my practical experience with international marketing and business development could prove an assest to projects with such elements. This might also include projects requiring in-country training in enterprise and/or construction technology.
I have also authored a number of successful proposals to the US Department of Commerce and USAID for such work totaling over $4.5 million. This might prove useful to proposal development teams.
Finally, my masters thesis was on solar energy building design, and during the Carter Administration I served as the Head of Building Research Applications at the Southern Solar Energy Center, in Atlanta. Under that program, we built more than 250 solar and low energy buildings throughout the Southeast US, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, United Kingdom
My international experience since 1984 has primarily focused on the global marketing of goods and services. I have held both private and public positions, and have performed work on behalf of numerous private clients and the Finnish, British, US, and State of Georgia governments. This work has included assessing product export potential; adapting products to meet foreign standards and preferences; establishing international sales & distribution networks; and identifying overseas business partners, distributors, representatives, and acquisition targets.
I have also directed major overseas enterprise and technology transfer programs for the US Department of Commerce (1989-1994), including post-communist enterprise development in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This work involved over 125 major US building product manufacturers, and included in-country demonstration construction projects, as well as vocational and business training.
My complete resume is available upon request.
Dr. Richard Fayrer-Hosken
Professor
Large Animal Medicine
College Veterinary Medicine
Contact Information:
Large Animal Medicine
WINTERVILLE GA 30683
706-542-3223
706-542-3223
rfh@vet.uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Afrikaans, French, Zulu
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Italy, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Dr. Jack Fincham
A.W. Jowdy Professor of Pharmacy Care
Clinical and administrative Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy
Contact Information:
Room 262 DW Brooks Drive
Athens GA 30602
706-542-5311
706-583-0034
jfincham@uga.edu
www.takingyourmedicine.com
Specialization: -Health care systems
-Health economics
-Medication compliance
-International health care comparisons
-Pharmacy
Other International Interests: -International health care comparisons
-Health economics
-Public health issues
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Canada, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vietnam
Consulting, presenting information, research contacts dealing with health care systems, patient behaviors, health economics, and pharmacy practice.
Dr. Esendugue Greg Fonsah
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Contact Information:
P.O. Box 1209 - RDC
Tifton GA 31793
229-386-3512
229-386-3440
gfonsah@uga.edu
www.agecon.uga.edu/faculty/gfonsah/index.html
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bangladesh, Barbados, Cameroon, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, Haiti, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, The Philippines, St. Kitts and Nevis, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom
China - taught international economics/trade in agricultural product to the Central China Agricultural University and Wuhan Institute of Technology, 1988.
The Philippines - Provided international service-learning, development, technical assistance to the banana and pineapple projects in Davao, Bugo, Cagayan de Oro city,Mindanao province and Makatti, July-August 1993.
Costa Rica - Participated in International service-learning and participatory research outreach agricultural project in Carmin, Seguiris, Limon Ports, San Jose etc., November 16-21,1997.
Guatemala - Participated in participatory research, policy analysis and international technical cooperation project in Bandegua and Guatemala city Nov.10-15, 1997.
St. Maarten, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago - Participated in International marketing applied research.
Haiti, Bangladesh, Indonesia - Farmer-to-Farmer program, 2000, 2001 and 2005 respectively.
South Africa, Nigeria, Cameroon - International applied research, international service learning, technical assistance and collaboration with foreign partners.
Germany, Thailand, Spain - International applied research and vacation.
France and Britain - involved in international applied, participatory, marketing research and technical assistance.
Mr. Brian Freese
Assistant to the Director of Graduate Programs for Applicant Services
Department of Public Administration & Policy
School of Public and International Affairs
Contact Information:
104D Baldwin Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2932
706-583-0610
bfreese@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/padp
Specialization: Economic Development, Public Finance, Public Budgeting, Economic Development Finance, Bond Financing, Tax Reduction Strategies, Local Government Administration.
Other International Interests: Brian Paul Freese joined the Department of Public Administration & Policy with the School of Public and International Affairs at The University of Georgia in the summer of 2005 after a ten-year career in local government and economic development. He now serves as the Graduate Applicant Services Coordinator and Assistant to the Director of Graduate Programs. He is also pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy degree in with a research emphasis on the role and economic impact of higher education in regional and state economic development through the advancement of human capital.
Freese has a Master of Public Policy and Administration from Mississippi State University where he graduated with distinction and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Studies from the College of Charleston, South Carolina. He has also completed post-graduate coursework at the University of Mississippi at Oxford.
Before joining UGA, he served as Director of Economic Development for the City of Marietta, Georgia from 2001 until 2004. That position followed six years in public service as Economic Development Administrator and in other professional capacities for the Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia from 1996 to 2001.
Freese also served as the interim Executive Director of the Marietta Redevelopment Corporation from inception in winter 2002 until fall 2003. As interim Executive Director, he managed the day-to-day operations of the public-private partnership and successfully initiated the local government's first Tax Allocation District for the redevelopment of two former public housing sites near the city-center.
Freese graduated in 2005 from the University of Oklahoma’s Economic Development Institute, the premier economic development training program in the nation. He also graduated from the 32nd Annual Economic Development Course at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. He is a certified by the National Development Council as an Economic Development Finance Professional. The International Economic Development Council endorses this certification.
Freese has been contributing his time in support of The University of Georgia since coming to Athens in 1996. In 1999, he served on the Committee on Research and the Undergraduate Experience as part of the 1999-2000 Self-Study for Reaccreditation. From 1999 through 2001, he volunteered his time as a loaned executive with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government to participate with International Center for Democratic Governance’s consulting efforts in Kamyanets-Podilsky, Ukraine under the direction of Dr. Dan Durning.
Freese is also an active member of the International Economic Development Council, the Southern Economic Development Council, the Georgia Economic Developers Association, and the American Planning Association. As a member of the Georgia Economic Developers Association he has served on a number of policy committees including Transportation and Existing Industry.
Freese owns a home in Athens, Georgia.
International Experience and Expertise:
The US-Ukraine Foundation 2001 Loaned Executive for Athens Delegation Visit to Kamyanets-Podilsky through Vinson Institute of Government; 1999-2001 Community Partnership Program (US AID-funded project for international development).
Rotary International 2000 Group Study Exchange Program to Romania.
Dr. Karl Friday
Professor
History
Contact Information:
LeConte Hall
Athens GA 30605
706-542-2537
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kfriday@uga.edu
Specialization: Japanese history
Languages Spoken: Japanese
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Japan
Premodern Japanese history; samurai history & culture
Ms. Jennifer Frum
Assistant Director
International Public Service & Outreach
Public Service & Outreach
Contact Information:
Cobb House
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7887
706-542-7891
jfrum@uga.edu
Other International Interests: Pursuing PhD in Higher Education. Other international interests include institutional capacity building at foreign public and private colleges and universities, particularly in the areas of faculty development, public service and outreach, and external relations.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Slovakia, South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago
Expertise in international project development and implementation of donor-funded training, exchange, and applied research projects. Have developed and administered projects funded by the US State Department, USAID-TIES, the Association Liaison Office, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Countries: Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Croatia, Germany (Fulbright for International Education Administrators), France, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Australia
Extensive experience in Africa: Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa.
Dr. Robert Galen
Professor and Interim Head
Health Administration
Public Health
Contact Information:
Environmental Health Science
Athens GA 30602
706-542-5770
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bobgalen@uga.edu
Specialization: Health Policy and Management, Telehealth, TEchnology Assessment
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China, Vietnam
study abroad, maymester, and research collaboration with scientists in China and Vietnam
Dr. Gennaro Gama
Technology manager
OVPR- UGA Research Foundation
OVPR
Contact Information:
624 Boyd Grad. Studies Res. Ct
Athens GA 30602-7411
706-583-8088
706-542-3837
GJG@ovpr.uga.edu
www.ovpr.uga.edu/qau/
Specialization: Chemistry;
Technology Transfer;
Intellectual Property Asset Management;
Business
Languages Spoken: Portuguese
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil
Dr. Axel Garcia y Garcia
Postdoctoral Research Asssociate
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
CAES
Contact Information:
1109 Experiment Street
Griffin GA 30223
770-229-3436
770-228-7218
agarcia@griffin.uga.edu
www.engr.uga.edu/people/agarcia/
Other International Interests: International Research
Rural Development and Cooperation
Languages Spoken: French, Portuguese, Spanish, Queqchi (Mayan Lenguage)
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil, Costa Rica, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Spain
Dr. Ervan Garrison
Professor
Anthropology; Geology
UGA
Contact Information:
GG Building
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1479
706-542-2425
egarriso@uga.edu
Other International Interests: Senior Fulbright Scholar
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Croatia, Switzerland
Dirrector, 1999-present, Studies Abroad Switzerland, France & Spain
international research, archaeology 1985 -1988; 1993; 2004: Switzerland
international technical assistance, archaeology - France, 1990-1991
Dr. David Gast
Professor, Special Education
Communication Sciences and Special Education
Education
Contact Information:
521 Aderhold Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-5069
706-542-2929
dlgast@uga.edu
www.csse.uga.edu/spe
Other International Interests: Interested in consulting with special education programs and other agencies serving individuals with autism or mental reatrdation worldwide, particularly in developing countries; interestd in developing resaerch partnerships with those interested in studying interventions for individuals with autism and/or learning difficulties
Languages Spoken: Spanish, intermediate - I do not present/consult in spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Ireland, Peru
Peru: Conduct teacher training and consultation to special education and related service professionals in Peru serving children with developmental disabilities (autsim, mental reatardation) via Centro Ann Sullivan del Peru (Lima) since 1993; direct study abroad program is Peru since 1995; conduct classes on applied clinical/educational research methodology (single subject research design) to professionals in Peru
Ireland: Developing 6 week service-learning study abroad in copperation with COPE Foundation, Cork, Ireland (start date June-July 2007)
David Gattie
Associate Professor
Biological & Agricultural Engineering
CAES & Faculty of Engineering
Contact Information:
University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602-4435
706-542-0880
706-542-8806
dgattie@engr.uga.edu
www.engr.uga.edu/people/dgattie/
Other International Interests:
International technical cooperation and service-learning within transdisciplinary groups where I can provide expertise in natural resource engineering and management. I am particularly interested in developing long-term programs that integrate research and education to foster critical thinking skills and broad knowledge foundations for faculty and students with regard to the complex global issues they will face after graduation.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica, Thailand
Service-learning with Chiang Mai University and Kasetsart University in Thailand (December, 2005 - Present). Water resource technical assistance and service-learning for EARTH University and neighboring communities in Costa Rica (Current and ongoing).
Mr. Peter Gess
Public Service Assistant
International Center for Democratic Governance
Carl Vinson Institute of Government
Contact Information:
1242 S. Lumpkin St.
Athens GA 30605
706-542-8112
706-542-6594
pgess@cviog.uga.edu
www.icdg.uga.edu
Specialization: environmental policy and managment
international development
NGOs
policy analysis
Languages Spoken: Polish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Mexico, Poland, Ukraine
technical assistance and training for foreign government officials and NGO leaders; mostly local and sub-national levels
Dr. Warren Gilson
Extension Dairy Scientist
Animal & Dairy Science
Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
425 River Road
Athens GA 30602
706-542-9105
706-542-9316
wgilson@uga.edu
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Colombia, Georgia
June, 2006 Republic of Georgia. Conducted training for veterinarians and producers in artificial insemination. Conducted workshops in conjunction with CARE, International through the auspices of ACDI/VOCA.
June, 1989. Bogota, Columbia. Presented lectures on genetic seletion of dairy cattle and the comparison between countries of dairy cattle sire evaluations.
Dr. SILVIA GIRAUDO
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
FOODS AND NUTRITION
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCI.
Contact Information:
280 DAWSON HALL
ATHENS GA 30602
706-542-6977
706-542-5059
SGIRAUDO@UGA.EDU
Specialization: NUTRITION, NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
OBESITY
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela
Ms. Ashley Goodrich
Administrative Specialist
Biological Agricultural Engineering
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
314 Driftmier Engineering Ctr
Athens GA 30602
706-542-3166
706-542-8806
ashleyag@uga.edu
Other International Interests: international service-learning, international university-community partnerships
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Israel, Tanzania, United Kingdom
Study Abroad in Oxford England, 2000;
Global Service-Learning Program in Tanzania, 2003: collaborated with faculty, students, and community to implement community education center, tutoring program, women's group, and youth program;
Administrative specialist for UGA-Tunisia Educational Partnership;
Co-founder and former leader of Globally Aware and Active People, a student service-learning advocacy group
Dr. Ted Gragson
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Franklin College
Contact Information:
250 Baldwin Hall
Athens GA 30602-1619
706-542-1460
706-542-3998
tgragson@uga.edu
coweeta.ecology.uga.edu
Other International Interests: Living landscapes; identify and democracy - France/Spain border areas, lowland South America.
Languages Spoken: French, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela
Training and development of MS/PhD students in ecological anthropology - Paraguay
Conservation program evaluation - Paraguay, Bolivia
Agricultural development, institutional capacity, organizational systems - Dominican Republic
Service-learning in applied historical ecology - France
Ms. Jocie Graham
Grants Assistant
Anthropology
Franklin College of Arts & Sciences
Contact Information:
250 Baldwin Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1433
706-542-3998
jagraham@uga.edu
anthro.dac.uga.edu/people/staff.html
Specialization: crocodilians (capture, handling, and ecology), airboat operation, education
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Belize
Conducted crocodilian capture and handling workshop for governmental and non-governmental personnel at Lamanai Outpost Lodge in Belize (2002). I have four years of intensive experience handling all sizes of crocodilians and operating airboats.
Assisted with GIS/GPS training course for governmental and non-governmental personnel in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Mexico (2001).
Dr. Christine Haase
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Slavic and Germanic Langs.
Franklin College
Contact Information:
110 Joe Brown Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2456
706-583-0349
chaase@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/~gslangs/
Specialization: German literature, intellectual history, and film; cultural studies, cultural globalization esp. in regard to the cinema (i.e. German and Hollywood film cultures); Holocaust studies
Languages Spoken: German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Austria, Germany
Dr. Bruce Haines
Assoc Prof
Plant Biology
Franklin of Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Miller Plant Science Bldg
Athens GA 30602-7271
706-542-1837
706-542-1805
haines@plantbio.uga.edu
Specialization: Plant Ecology
BioGeochemistry
Forest Regeneration
Plant Ecological Physioloyg
Sustainable Civilizations
Environmental degradation
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
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Dr. Edward Halper
Professor
Department of Philosophy
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Department of Philosophy
Athens GA 30602
--706-542-0668
--706-542-2839
ehalper@uga.edu
www.phil.uga.edu/faculty/halper/
Languages Spoken: German, French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Germany
2005 UGA at Oxford on-site faculty member. In addition I gave eight lectures at various academic institutions, including Oxford, in Britian
2002 (spring semester) J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar, Germany I did research and taught at Ruhr Universitaet Bochum. In addition, I gave lectures at academic institutions throughout Germany
2001 Research at the Hegel Archiv in Bochum, Germany (six weeks)
Frequent participant in international conferences, most recently in Finland, Greece, Turkey, and Israel
Dr. Jaroslava Halper
Associate Professor
Pathology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Contact Information:
The University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602
706-542-5830
706-542-5828
jhalper@vet.uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Czech
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Canada, China, Czech Republic
Czech Republic: attended first few years of medical school, Charles University, Prague. Canada: finished medical school at University of Toronto, currently research collaboration with Dr. Andrew Bateman, McGill University, Montreal. China: visiting scientist in Jinan, Nanjing and Shanghai.
Dr. Linda Harklau
Associate Professor
Language & Literacy Education
College of Education
Contact Information:
125 Aderhold Hall
Athens GA 30605
706-542-4521
706-542-4509
lharklau@uga.edu
www.coe.uga.edu/lle
Other International Interests: Currently concluding a 5 year study of schooling experiences of Latino adolescent immigrants from Mexico, El Salvador, and Colombia. Interests and expertise to lend in partnerships promoting increased high school graduation and college enrollment for immigrant youth in Georgia.
Languages Spoken: Thai
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Thailand
Will offer summer program in teaching English to speakers of other languages at UGA's San Luis, Costa Rica facility beginning 2006. Lived one year in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Ms. melissa harshman
associate professor
art
franklin college
Contact Information:
visual arts building
athens GA 30602
706-542-1643
706-542-0226
mharshma@uga.edu
www.art.uga.edu
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Italy
i have taught several times in cortona, italy.
i am familiar with several print opportunities in italy as well as belgium.
David Hazinski
Assoc.Prof./Head, Broadcast News
Telecommunications
Grady College
Contact Information:
University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4976
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hazinski@uga.edu
intelligentmc.com
Other International Interests: Have an interest in helping to communicate science and prepare them and political and business leaders to both deal with the media and get their message out correctly.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Austria, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Have assisted with all aspects of launching television networks and leading the training of staffs for Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, Star Ananda and India Broadcast News-CNN in India, GEO News and GEO Entertainment in Pakistan and U.A.E., Alsumaria in Beirut and Baghdad, and Puls in Vienna. Have also consulted for VOA, TVB in Hong Kong and Gramedia in Indonesia on technology issues and broadcasting.
Also a former NBC News foreign correpondent with experience in Central America and a former co-host of "World Business Review with Caspar Weinberger" seen in 22 countries.
Mr. Vahe Heboyan
Ag & Applied Economics
CAES
Contact Information:
306 Conner Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0856
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vheboyan@uga.edu
vheboyan.myweb.uga.edu
Other International Interests: Fields of interest:
- economic development
- poverty reduction
- education reform
- monitoring and evaluation
- policy analysis
- rural development
Skills:
- project design, planning, budgeting
- project implementation (on-site) and management
- project evaluation
- impact assessment
- policy analysis
- strategic planning
- monitoring and evaluation capacity building
Languages Spoken: Armenian, Russian
International Experience and Expertise:
Overall experience: more than 5 years
Development economist with 3 years of experience of designi
Overall experience: more than 5 years
Development economist with 3 years of experience of designing, implementing, and evaluating international development projects. Worked for the USDA rural development project in Armenia - Marketing Assistance Project.
More than 2 years of applied experience in training governmental and NGO representatives in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) issues and assisting development organizations with strategic planning and project management and M&E software design.
Countries: Armenia, Georgia
I have work for 3 years (2001-2004) for the USDA Marketing Assistance Project in Armenia as a marketing specialist and at the Agribusiness Teaching Center (ATC) of the Armenian State Agrarian University (ASAU), which is sponsored by USDA MAP.
At USDA MAP, I was in charge of designing and implementing various marketing projects aimed at introducing and promoting new agricultural products in the Armenian market and coordinated the operations of the Masters Cheese Makers School in one of the regions in Armenia and the only one in the Caucasus region that attracted trainees from both Armenia and Rep. of Georgia.
While part of the ATC’s faculty, I was teaching two courses (Microeconomics and International Trade and Policy), directing student internships and field trips, and was actively involved in the process of finalizing ATC’s curriculum, strategic plan and operational policies. More specifically, I was working with the faculty/administration of the ASAU to finalize ATC’s curriculum, course syllabi, and the format and content of the State examinations for the seniors. Additionally, I was part of the ATC team that traveled to Rep. of Georgia to develop cooperation between ASAU/ATC and Georgian State Agrarian Universities in Tbilisi and Batumi.
In 2003 I was the co-author (with Ms. Susanna Mezhlumyan) of the project proposal to DAAD that took 30 students from the ATC for a 2 week-long internship and tour to the German agribusinesses.
In 2004 I was the co-author of the grant proposal for establishing the first Career Center among State Universities in Armenia at ASAU. The proposal developed by me and my colleague (Ms. Susanna Mezhlumyan) has been funded for 3 years by the Eurasia Foundation and the Cafesjian Family Foundation. In its early months of operation, I worked with the alumni and Center administration as well as other parties to strengthen the potential of the Center. Later I served as the Advisor to the Center.
Currently I am assisting UGA ISPO Director, Dr. Glenn Ames, in the development and management of the UGA Study Abroad Program in Armenia.
Dr. Andrew Herod
Professor
Geography
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Department of Geography
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2856
706-542-2388
aherod@uga.edu
www.ggy.uga.edu/people/faculty/aherod/
Specialization: Economic and political geography;
Labor studies;
Africa;
Western Europe;
France
Other International Interests: Currently developing a multi-continent (North America, Europe, Australasia) research team to investigate the impacts of globalization on workers.
Languages Spoken: French, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, F
Director, UGA à Paris study abroad program.
Teaching experience in: France, UK, Australia, Tanzania, Croatia.
Research on impacts of globalization on workers in: Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Honduras, Cuba, Switzerland, Guyana.
Mr. Mel Hill
Stephens Fellow in Law and Government
Institute of Higher Education
Contact Information:
116 Meigs Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-583-0048
706-583-0281
mbhill@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/jheoe
Specialization: State and federal constitutional law, local government Law, higher education law
Other International Interests: European Union initiatives
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Ukraine
Lectured in Ukraine in 1996 as part of a cooperative project with Uzhgorod State University to create a Center for Public Administration and Policy. Received Diploma from Ministry of Science and Education of UkraIne in recognition of impact on the development of friendship and cooperation between Uzhgorod State University and the University of Georgia.
Dr. Jodi Holschuh
Assitant Professor
Division of Academic Enhancement
Contact Information:
225 Milledge Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0457
706-542-0476
holschuh@uga.edu
Specialization: Learning to learn, content area reading, reading education
Other International Interests: Post-secondary education in former Soviet countries; reading, writing, and critical thinking; creating study abroad opportunitie for UGA students to former Soviet countries
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary
I was a volunteer in the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking (RWCT) project in Estonia. This was a joint three-year project between the International Reading Association and the Soros Foundation to implement strategies for critical thinking. I presented critical thinking courses to teachers, met with representatives of the Ministry of Education and university faculty to discuss wider implementation of the program, and conducted research in the Estonian educational system. I have also served as a trainer for the Critical Thinking in Higher Education Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic. I also presented seminars on critical thinking in higher education for professors, graduate students, and pre-service teachers in Tallinn, Estonia, and in Budapest, Hungary.
Dr. Gerrit Hoogenboom
Professor
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Contact Information:
1109 Experiment Street
Griffin GA 30223
770-229-3438
770-227-7218
gerrit@griffin.uga.edu
www.GerritHoogenboom.com
Specialization: Agrometeorology, Decision Support Systems, Information Technology, Computer Modeling, Natural Resource Management, Climate Change, Climate Variability
Languages Spoken: Dutch
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Iraq, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, The Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam
Dr. Arthur Horne
Distinguished Research Professor
Counseling and Human Development Services
College of Education
Contact Information:
380 Red Fox Run
Athens GA 30605
707-542-4107
706-542-4130
ahorne@uga.edu
Other International Interests: Interested in conflict resolution, peace-building, and family enrichment in other parts of the world. Would be pleased to participate with others, such as from the insititutes on campus, independent projects, the Carter Center, and other related programs.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: New Zealand
I have worked with groups of academics and researchers in Turkey, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Germany, and Russia on reducing violence and aggression in schools and families.
Dan Horton
Professor
Entomology
CAES
Contact Information:
463 Bio Sc Bldg
Athens GA 30602
706-542-9030
706-542-3872
dlhorton@uga.edu
Other International Interests: fruit pest management
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Croatia
Visited Croatia as part of a large group in the fall of 2003. Collaborated with faculty from Zagreb University as they examined the potential of using selected aspects of US style univeristy outreach. I focused on agricultural/rural development opportunities, with a specific interst in their potential for fruit production and fruit pest management needs.
Dr. Su-I Hou
Assistant Professor
Health Promotion and Behavior
College of Public Health
Contact Information:
309 Ramsey Center
Athens GA 30602
706-542-8206
706-542-4956
shou@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/publichealth/hpb/dept/hou.html
Specialization: Health promotion and health education; public health; HIV/AIDS prevention; cancer screening education; International health (particularly the Asian population); survey development, program evaluation, intervention mapping
Languages Spoken: Chinese-Mandarin, Taiwanese
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China, Taiwan
International outreach experiences and expertise:
1. Trainer of the Sino-American Joint Training Program in Public Administration, International Center for Democratic Governance, Carl Vinson Institute at UGA. Provided a 15 hour training session on “Introduction to Public Health & HIV/AIDS Global Epidemics” at the Institute of Sichuan Administration, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Oct., 2005).
2. Sarah H. Moss Fellowship Award (2005-2006) for junior faculty career development, OISD / UGA. Visiting scholar and research collaboration at National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Facilitated the official signing ceremony of international coop agreement and exchange programs between NCKU and UGA. See more here: http://www.uga.edu/publichealth/hpb/news/index.html
INVITED PRESENTATIONS:
1. Invited Speaker, various special topic presentations at National Cheng-Kung University (Dept of Statistics, Institute of Education, Dept of Public Health, School of Nursing, Institute of Allied Health, etc.), Tainan, Taiwan (May, 2005).
2. Keynote Speaker, Community Based Learning Workshop, School of Nursing, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (June, 2004).
3. Keynote Speaker, Community AIDS Prevention Workshop, Center for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan (July 2002).
4. Chair and Speaker, Workshop on Program Conceptualization and Evaluation, Nurse Association at Taipei, Taiwan (July 2002).
Professional experience:
06/02 – 08/02 Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, The Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Taught a summer course on
Mrs. Jacquie Houston
Library Associate
Reference -- Science Library
Libraries
Contact Information:
Science Library
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0693
706-542-6523
jahoust@uga.edu
Other International Interests: East Africa
Languages Spoken: , Chichewe
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Malawi
Malawi -- Agricultural College -- teaching and maintained the campus library through VSO and locally employed by Malawi gov't
African Studies Institute -- acts a Library liaison; cataloged library collection.
Dr. Hui-Chin Hsu
Associate Professor
Child and Family Development
Family and Consumer Sciences
Contact Information:
McPhaul Center
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2636
706-542-4489
hchin@fcs.uga.edu
www.arches.uga.edu/~hchin
Specialization: infant development
Languages Spoken: Chinese-Mandarin
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Taiwan
(1) Fulbright Research Scholar. September 1, 2005 to July 31, 2006. Taipei, Taiwan. Collaborating with faculty at the School and Institute of Physical Therapy of the College of Medicine, University of Taiwan, and pediatricians of the National Taiwan University Hospital on a research project examining the differences in social interactions between full-term and preterm infants and their mothers. Supported by the Fulbright Scholar Exchange Program.
(2) Visiting Scholar. September 1, 2005 to July 31, 2006. Taipei, Taiwan. Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on infant development and human development at the School and Institute of Physical Therapy of the College of Medicine, University of Taiwan. Supported by the National Science Council in Taiwan.
(3) Co-Principal Investigator. January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2009. Taipei, Taiwan. Collaborating with faculty at the School and Institute of Physical Therapy of the College of Medicine, University of Taiwan, and pediatricians of the National Taiwan University Hospital and the McKay Memorial Hospital on an early intervention project with preterm infants and their mothers. This project is funded by the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan.
Dr. Yao-wen Huang
Professor
Food Science and Technology
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
Dept. of Food Sci. & Tech.
Athens GA 30602-7610
706-542-1092
706-542-1050
huang@uga.edu
www;uga.edu/fst
Other International Interests: As certified trainer for the food safety certification programs for the food manufacturing and foodservice industries, I am curently providing HACCP and SSOP workshop, with scientist in Marine Extension Service, to the seafood industry; with the Georgia Food Safety Task Forces and the Georgia Asian Restaurant Council, I have been providing food safety training course for the foodserviice industry; as a New Product Development Professional (NPDP), I would like to collaborate with other scientists in the university for providing expertise services to the food industry at home and abroad.
Languages Spoken: Chinese-Hakka, Chinese-Mandarin, Chinese-Min, Japanese
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, China, Egypt, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand
I have been providing expertise and technical assistance to the food industry and universities in China since 1991 (in that year, I was a Foreign Expert of the United Nation Development Program); During past twenty years, I have been invited and elected to serve as Condultant Professor for the collaboration of different research and instruction programs in the following universities: Shanghai Fisheries University, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hainan University, Shanghai Jiangtung University, and Shanghai Institute of Technology. I was also to serve as an Advisor for the Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Science and the Fujiang Inspection and Quarantine Technical Center. In addition, I have been providing expert advises to the instruction and research programs for the undergraduate and graduate programs at universities in different countries including Argentina, Egypt, and Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand.
Mr. Yecheng Huang
Scientific Computing Specialist
Research Computing Center
OVPR
Contact Information:
180 Whisperwood Ln
Athens GA 30605
706-542-9071
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yatchin@gmail.com
Languages Spoken: Chinese-Mandarin
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China
William Hubbard
Southern Regional Extension Forester
Extension Administration
Forest Resources
Contact Information:
4-402 Forest Resources Buildin
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7813
706-542-3342
whubbard@uga.edu
www.sref.info
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: France, Italy, Zaire
Assist in international forestry and forest restoration activities. Particularly interested in and have experience with Extension methodologies, adult education theories and practices and policy/decisionmaking/conflict resolution.
Brad Hunt
Executive Director of IT
Office of It
Terry College of Business
Contact Information:
109 Brooks
Athens GA 30602
706-583-8450
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bjhunt@uga.edu
www.terry.uga.edu/oit
Specialization: Information Technology
Languages Spoken: Russian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom
Resident Turkey 2 yrs
Resident Nigeria 3 yrs
Resident Kazakhstan 2 yrs
Dr. Patricia Hunt-Hurst
Associate Professor
Textiles, Merchanidising and Interiors
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Contact Information:
321 Dawson Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4891
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phunt@fcs.uga.edu
Specialization: history of textiles and costume, West African, American, African-American
Other International Interests: open to activities in other parts of Africa as well as Eastern Europe and Asia
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: United Kingdom
Ghana Study Abroad program, workshop with fabric artisans in Cape Coast/Elmina, Ghana; London Study Abroad program - supervise student internships with a variety of international organizations and businesses in London.
Mr. Kris Irwin
Public Service Associate
Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources
Contact Information:
University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602-2152
706-542-7412
706-542-3342
kirwin@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: , Ilakano (Philippine dialect)
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica, The Philippines
Agroforestry demonstrations, forest tree nurseries and reforestation, potable water systems - Philippines
Environmental education outreach - Costa Rica
Dr. Sujata Iyengar
Professor
English
Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Park Hall
Athens GA 306026205
706-542-1261
706-542-2181
iyengar@uga.edu
Specialization: British Literature; Shakespeare
Languages Spoken: French, Russian, Tamil
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: United Kingdom
Dr. Kristina Jaskyte
Assistant professor
School of Social Work
Contact Information:
Tucker Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-583-0533
706-542-3282
kjaskyte@uga.edu
www.arches.uga.edu/~kjaskyte/
Specialization: Nonprofit Management and Innovation
Other International Interests: I would like to get involved in the Global Service Learning initiative and collaborative projects that involve nonprofit organizations. I would also be interested in providing technical assistance to foreign nonprofits (e.g., conducting workshops on variety of topics dealing with nonprofit management, creativity and innovation, and organizational change).
Languages Spoken: Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Lithuania
I conducted two studies on creativity and innovation in Lithuanian nonprofit organizations. I am originally from Lithuania and having local contacts proved to be extremely helpful.
I also spent two months in Argentina as an accompanying faculty member for our study abroad program. I had a chance to interview the executive directors of nonprofit organizations on their perceptions of innovative teaching.
Dr. Dorje Jennette
Clinical Psychologist
Counseling & Psychiatric Services (CAPS)
University Health Center
Contact Information:
370 River Road
Athens GA 30602-1755
706-542-2273
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dmj@uga.edu
www.uhs.uga.edu
Other International Interests: Cross-cultural psychotherapy/counseling. Access to healthcare among underserved cultural groups.
Languages Spoken: , Conversant and literate in Nepali (Nepalese)
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Nepal
Nepal: Conducted research in 1998 on the treatment of depression by practitioners of Tibetan medicine in the Mustang District and Katmandu Valley.
Dr. Cecil Jennings
Adjunct Professor & Unit Leader
GA Coop. Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Warnell School of Forest Resources
Contact Information:
University of Georgia
GA 30602
706-542-4837
706-542-8356
jennings@uga.edu
Other International Interests: General Fisheries related work in throughtout the Caribbean, Latin America, and South America.
International Experience and Expertise:
I have conducted research on a variety of topics related to coral reef fishes and the commercial and recreational fisheries they support. This work was done and continues in conjuction with local governmental agencies (e.g., Virgin Islands Division of Fish and Wildlife; University of the Virgin Islands) and collaboratively with local colleagues. I also have experience on grant administration and college-level curriculum development (natural resources) in both the US and British Virgin Islands. I have some knowledge (and very limited experience) about natural resources management in Puerto Rico.
Mr. C. Donald Johnson
Director
Dean Rusk Center
School of Law
Contact Information:
Dean Rusk Hall
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-5135
706-542-7822
johnsocd@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/
Specialization: International Trade Policy and Law
Other International Interests: We are interested in partnering and collaborating with any other UGA unit on international trade, business, political, or governmental issues with a sufficient legal foundation.
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Egypt, India, Macedonia, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
USAF Attorney in NATO base in Turkey 1974-76; LL.M. degree at London School of Economics in international economic law 1977-1978; international banking projects in Latin America and Middle East in late 70's -early 80's; as a member of US Congress, member of North Atlantic Assembly (NATO's legislative advisory body) 1993-94 - attended meetings in Berlin and Copenhagen and monitored the first parliamentary (Duma) elections in Russia in December, 1993; conducted seminars for new members of parliament in Bangladesh under a U.S. State Department grant and gave lectures in Ukraine and Slovakia to new elected parliamentary representatives on democratic process in 1995. From 1998 through 2000 served as chief textile negotiator with the rank of Ambassador in the Office of U.S. Trade Representative in the Executive Office of the President and negotiated trade agreements with around ten countries and several trade disputes under the procedures of the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Among the countries where I spent significant time during this period on bilateral trade issues were China, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Turkey, Macedonia, Romania, India, and Pakistan. I was on the negotiating team that brought China into the WTO in 1999. In private practice from August 2000 until June 2004, I represented a number of foreign business groups and soveriegn interests including the government of Hong Kong and interests in Turkey and Bangladesh. In December of 2001, I attended the WTO Ministerial meeting in Doha, Quatar, as a member of the Bangladesh Delegation acting as an advisor to their government.
Since arriving at the Rusk Center in July of 2004, I have concentrated on trade and China issues. We have held a conference, co-sponsored with the College of Agriculture, on Agriculture and the WTO in November of 2004 and a conference on US-China Trade in April of 2005. We have participated with International Public Service and Outreach on a project in Uganda to assist its textile producers in taking advantage of the provisions of the U.S. Africa Growth and Opportunity Act.
We are presently creating a study abroad program in China at Tsinghua University in Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai beginning next summer (May29-June16). It will be a 3 credit hour program for the study of trade law and an introduction to Chinese commercial law.
Mrs. Kelly Jones
Senior Accountant
Bursar's Office
UGA
Contact Information:
424 E. Broad St.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1625
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kellyliz@uga.edu
Specialization: Business
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, France, Greece, Grenada, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Monaco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, Vatican City, Venezuela
Visited many countries, worked in Australia, studied abroad in U.K.
Dr. Martin Kagel
Associate Professor
Germanic & Slavic Languages
Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
207 Joseph Brown Hall
Athens GA 30602-6797
706-542-2446
706-583-0359
mkagel@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/gslangs
Other International Interests: As my research in the eighteenth century involves both Germany and France, I would like to develop a relationship that would allow for exchanges with a university in France.
I would also be interested in developing programs aimed at exchanges with Poland.
Languages Spoken: French, German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Germany
Collaborated with University of Vechta (Germany) on a project involving faculty and graduate students from both universities. The project was comprised of two simultaneously taught classes (on German author Rolf Dieter Brinkmann) whose students shared and criticized each other's work via a UGA based WebCT site (Fall 1999). It culminated in an international conference at the University of Vechta in May of 2000.
Countries: Germany
Dr. Trish Kalivoda
Associate Vice President
Public Service and Outreach
Contact Information:
Treanor House
Athens GA 30602
706-542-6125
706-542-6125
tlk@uga.edu
Other International Interests: My interests are in faculty and instructional development, comparative studies of higher education systems, and the role of universities in addressing societal issues, particularlly through applied research, outreach programs and activities, and teaching (especially teaching to enhance civic engagement such as service-learning).
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Guatemala
Dr. Edward Kanemasu
Director of Global Programs and Assistant Dean
Office of Global Programs
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
218 Hoke Smith
ATHENS GA 30602
706-542-0812
706-542-7905
ekanema@uga.edu
uga.edu/globalprograms
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil
Ms. annur karaca
research technician
POPULATION HEALTH
Veterinary medicine
Contact Information:
125 woodhaven st.
athens GA 30606
706-613-1152
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asa05@hotmail.com
Specialization: epidemiology, microbiology, veterinary medicine
Languages Spoken: Indonesian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Indonesia
Dr. William Terry Kelley
Extension Horticulturist
Horticulture
College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
Rural Development Center
Tifton GA 31793
229-386-7495
229-386-7374
wtkelley@uga.edu
Other International Interests: International interests are broad and would be willing to assist wherever my expertise and experience could be beneficial.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Canada, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan
Japan (1994) - extensive service-learning experience of vegetable industry across Japan. United Kingdom (1999) - technical cooperation with agricultural chemical industry on new product introduction. Canada (1998) - extensive service-learning experience of vegetable industry in Quebec. Mexico (1995) - extensive service-learning experience of vegetable industry in the Culican area. Kyrgystan (2000) - invited instructor at the Kyrgyz Agrarian Academy. Uzbekistan (2002) - invited to provide technical assistance to local growers in the Ferghana Valley region.
Dr. Gary Kenneth
University Professor and Director
Center for International Trade and Security
School of Public and International Affairs
Contact Information:
120 Holmes Hunter Academic Bld
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2985
706-542-2975
gbertsch@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/cits
Other International Interests: Have set up counterpart programs and centers in many countries in the former Soviet Union and Asia. Now expanding relations with countries in the Middle East.
Languages Spoken: Croatian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, India, Japan, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan
Applied research and assistance to governments and military industrial enterprises worldwide in setting up trade and security policies that facilitate international commerce and technology transfer while protecting national and international security (primary experience with national security export controls which are intended to keep weapons and weapons related technology out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states).
Dr. Igor Khripunov
Center for Int. Trade and Security
SPIA
Contact Information:
120 Holmes/Hunter Academic
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2985
706-542-2975
igokhrip@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/cits
Other International Interests: psychlogical implications of radiological terrorism;
disaster management.
International Experience and Expertise:
Export control training for Russia's nuclear sector managers;
Security culture training for nuclear officials from several countries
Collaborative research with international experts on G-8 Global Partnership
Joint research into Russia's nuclear security;
Arms control and security studies training for Indian officials
Jean Ngoya Kidula
Assistant professor
Musicology/Ethnomusicology
Music
Contact Information:
Hugh Hodgson School of Music
ATHENS GA 30602
706-542-2791
706-542-2773
jkidula@uga.edu
Other International Interests: Teaching Ethnomusicology at UGA, I am interested in music and music instruments from all parts of the world and am very interested in collaborative activities not just with Europe and Africa but also with Asia and South/Central America where I do not have enough exposure. These include study abroad, participatory research, service learning and international development participation.
Languages Spoken: French, Swahili, Logooli (Luyia), Luo,
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire
I have lived, taught and worked in Kenya (am a Kenyan), Tanzania (since 1980), Sweden (since 1988) and Sudan ( in June-July 2001). I have carried out research in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Sweden. My primary research deals with a music genre and music activities in Kenya and Tanzania. The comparative aspect involves North America and Sweden. Part of my performance studies since undergraduate have involved Uganda. I studied in France for 2 months as part of my teaching certificate in French in 1983. I have been involved in participatory research in South Africa (since 2003), Ivory Coast (In 1992) and Sweden (since 1988). I was involved with the Congo as an adjuct teacher in 1992.
Dr. Richard Kiely
Assistant Professor
Lifelong Ed, Admin & Policy
College of Education
Contact Information:
850 College Station Rd
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1189
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rkiely@uga.edu
Specialization: Service Learning
Community Development
Qualitative & Participatory forms of Research
Other International Interests: Research on Global Service-Learning including but not limited to:
Student, faculty, institutional and community impact
Interdisciplinary partnerships
Program Planning
Global Citizenship
Participatory Action Research
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Mexico, Nicaragua, Sweden, Tanzania
1994-Present Global Service-Learning Program in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua
Service-Learning Activities Implemented by Faculty, Students and Community members include:
Health Clinics
Participatory Action Research
Educational Workshops
Hospital Workshops
Community Development
2005 Global Service-Learning Program in Tanzania
Service-Learning Activities Implemented by Students and Community Members Include:
Establishment of Community Education Center
Women's group, tutoring program and recreational program support
Creation of Service-Learning Advocacy Organization
Dr. Robert Bruce King
Regents' Professor
Chemistry
Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Chemistry Building Annex 422
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1901
706-542-9454
rbking@chem.uga.edu
Specialization: Theoretical and Mathematical Inorganic Chemistry
Other International Interests: Although I will retire from my University of Georgia faculty position at the beginning of 2006 (after more than 39 years at the University of Georgia) I will be part of a very active research group at the University of Georgia for another two years and expect to continue an active research program after that in various areas of theoretical and mathematical inorganic chemistry and related areas.
Languages Spoken: French, German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Romania, Singapore, United Kingdom
I currently have active scientific collaborations with research groups in Roumania and China and am an adjunct professor at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Roumania. In the past I have had major research collaborations (extended visits and/or research grants leading to joint publications) with groups in Belgium, Germany, Hungary, and the United Kingdom. I served a two-year term as an External Examiner in Chemistry for a university in Singapore. In 1981 I did a six-week lecture tour in Japan sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 1969 I gave a two-week course at the University of North Queensland in Townsville, Australia. I have participated in four scientific conferences in Russia since the downfall of the Soviet Union. I have also made a scientific trip to the State University of Moldova (2001) but my efforts to get research funding for collaboration with Moldova have not yet been successful.
Dr. William Kisaalita
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
Driftmier Engineering Center
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0835
706-542-8806
williamk@engr.uga.edu
www.engr.uga.edu/profile.php?User_ID=30&active=People
Other International Interests: I would like to work with partners to commecialize the technology developed with my collaborators in Africa.
Languages Spoken: Swahili, Luganda
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda
I have on-going projects in Uganda (development of milk cooler for rural dairy farmers with no access to electricity), Burkina Faso (development of a solar energy powered incubator for poultry farmers), and Morocco (development of approprite technology for Argan nut cracking). I involve undergraduate students in these projects.
Dr. Jessica Kissinger
Assistant Professor
Genetics
Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
Contact Information:
C210 Life Sciences
Athens GA 30602
706-542-6562
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jkissing@uga.edu
mango.ctegd.uga.edu/jkissingLab
Other International Interests: Developing funded research exchange opportunities with countries afflicted by endemic parasititc diseases.
Languages Spoken: Portuguese
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Nigeria
All of my international experience is as a parasitic disease researcher and teacher of bioinformatics. I lived in Belo Horizonte Brazil for two years and I am a fluent speaker of Portuguese. My training activities have taken me to India and Africa (Nigeria and Cameroon) several times for visits of a week or more. I currently have formal collaborative relationships with the FIOCRUZ in Brazil and am the PI of a grant to help facilitate the creation of a sustainable computational biology infrastructure there. Most of my international bioinformatics training has been sponsored by the World health Organization, WHO.
Dr. Warren Kriesel
Assoc Prof
Ag and Applied Economics
Ag and Environmental Science
Contact Information:
312 Conner Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0748
706-542-0739
wkriesel@uga.edu
www.georgiastats.uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Malay Bahasa Melayu
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Malaysia, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago
US Peace Corps, Malaysia, 1978-1980
Visiting Professor, University of West Indies, 1996
Dr. Michael Kwass
Assoc Professor
History
Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Dept of History
GA 30602
706 542-2477
706 542-2455
kwass@uga.edu
Other International Interests: International Economics
International Political Economy
Economic History
Consumer Economics
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: France
Have conducted research in libraries and archives throughout France
Have contacts at the Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
Received Bourse Chateaubriand from French government
Received Fulbright award for research in France
Dr. Ming-Jun Lai
Professor
Mathematics
Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Department of Mathematics
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2065
706-542-5907
mjlai@math.uga.edu
www.math.uga.edu/~mjlai
Specialization: multivariate splines, wavelets, numerical analysis, computational mathematics
Languages Spoken: Chinese-Mandarin
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China
I went to Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China almost every year for last ten years.
Mainly, I gave my lectures and discussed mathematics problems with graduate students
there.
I have also made several visits to City University of Hong Kong.
In addition, I have known several Chinese scholars at other universities in China.
Dr. Gilbert Landry
Professor & Coordinator
Center for Urban Agriculture
Agriculture
Contact Information:
1109 Experiment St.
GA 30223
770-233-6108
770-233-6109
glandry@uga.edu
www.gaurbanag.org
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Greece, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Panama, South Korea, Spain, Thailand
I have spoken at conferences and workshops on turfgrass management and made consultation visits in China, Japan, Israel, Australia and New Zealand
Mr. Bradley Langford
Accountant
Contracts & Grants
Contact Information:
155 Pine Ridge Trace
Athens GA 30605
706-353-6931
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langford@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Russian, Ukrainian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Russia, Ukraine
I worked for a Humanitarian Aid organization in Ukraine for 5 years. I worked in Dnepropetrovsk for 2 years and the capitol city of Kiev for 3 years. I was there from 1997 to 2002. I was the manager for all the fiscal operations of the organization. I also traveled throughout the country to distribute aid as needed. A couple times a year we would travel to Moscow, Russia for conferences with other humanitarian aid organizations.
Dr. Keith Langston
Associate Professor
Germanic and Slavic Languages
Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
201 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Athens GA 30605
706-542-2448
706-583-0349
langston@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Bosnian, Croatian, Russian, Serbian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Croatia, Russia
Ms. Colleen Larson
Study Abroad Advisor
Office of International Education
Contact Information:
209 Barrow Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7903
706-542-6622
clarson@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/oie
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ghana
Peace Corps Volunteer Service, Dominican Republic, 1991-1993
Peace Corps Volunteer Service, El Salvador, 1994-1995
Dr. Kasee Laster
Associate Director of Study Abroad
Office of International Education
Contact Information:
209 Barrow Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-8194
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klaster@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/oie
Specialization: British literature, British studies, currently working in administration of study abroad programs
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: United Kingdom
Study abroad - faculty-led groups, non-traditional programs and externships.
Knowledge of British culture, particularly of higher education system.
Ms. Sherri Lawless
Public Service Assistant
Public Service & Outreach
Carl Vinson Institute of Government
Contact Information:
201 N. Milledge Avenue
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2736
706-542-9301
lawless@cviog.uga.edu
www.cviog.uga.edu
Specialization: Public Administration- practitioner experience; adult education experience;
management and leadership development training topics
Other International Interests: Would love to travel to China. Please let me know if you would like my CV
Languages Spoken: , elementary Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Croatia, Georgia, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine
Pretoria, South Africa, May 2001: techinical assistance to South African National Treasury- developed municipal monitoring manual; US AID contract
*Tblisi, Republic of Georgia, June 2001 (full month), June 2003 (full month), technical assistance to Georgian Institute of Public Affairs: primarily assisted with practitioner curriculum development, conducted seminars for English speaking students working with GIPA executive board, and GIPA's rector.
*Orenburg, Russia, September 2002 (full month): provided techincal assistance to Moscow Law Academy, practitioners' program, also conducted seminars for practitioers and English-speaking students.
*Zagreb, Crotia, July 2004: evaluated UZ/UGA joint economic sustainability program for Rusty Brooks.
*Kiev, Ukraine, March 2004, June 2004, January 2005, June 2005, September 2005: working with US-Ukraine Foundation regional training centers to train trainers and offer techincal assistance for municipal management program.
Met with Ukrainian and Chinese deledgations in US through the International Center for Democratic Governance.
* Traveled through CVIOG's International Center of Democratic Governance
Dr. Tom Lawrence
Temporary Assistant Professor
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
CAES
Contact Information:
Driftmier Engineering Center
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4322
706-542-8806
lawrence@engr.uga.edu
Specialization: Sustainable design of buildings and industrial processes
Languages Spoken: German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Austria, Germany, Mexico
Before joining UGA and the academic world, I did engineering projects in these countries.
We are also in the process of trying to form a chapter of
Dr. Monique Leclerc
Professor
Lab. for Environmental Physics, Crop and Soil Sciences
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
1109 Experiment St
Griffin GA 30292
770-228-7279
770-228-7305
mleclerc@griffin.uga.edu
www.griffin.uga.edu/grf/station/mleclerc/
Other International Interests: Developing relationship with Australian scientists.
Development of project for Tibet
Currently very immersed with work with Russians
Languages Spoken: French, Italian, Spanish, French, Spanish, Italian, English-- learned 4 years of Latin and Classical Greek
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China
South Korea: Yonsei University; Dept. Atmospheric Sciences - 2005- Invited scientist at KoFlux ( Korean Flux Network); give talks at Yonsei - technical cooperation
Finland: University of Helsinki; Physics Dept-2004 and 2005- Official "Opponent" to a PhD defence in the atmospheric science group of the Physics Dept"; invited lectures, joint international commitees, joint articles, joint supervision of Russian post doc; links with the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki; invited guest; planning of Fulbright visitor; technical advising
China: repeated guest of Peking University, Environmental Sciences Dept. 1996-2000-2004, student advising, invited lectures; joint publications; hosting of PKU scientists at UGA by me six times; joint proposal for Tibetan plateau experiment; cooperation for Inner Mongolia Observatory upcoming research; technical advising on scientific experiment design; Endowed Chair at PKU has come here to UGA approximately four times- Professor came on sabbatical here
Russia (SIberia): planning of an experiment in summer 2005 (permissions in progress) in Yakutsk jointly with Japanese scientists and Russian Scientists; current collaboration with Russian colleague at Helsinki - technical advising
Thailand: Chiang Mai University; Suyanaree Technological University 2003 and 2004. Royal Jubilee Program co-advisor; adjunct professor; supervising of graduate students; considerable scientific advising and international help; creation of flux network within Thailand; capacity building of micrometeorologists in Thailand; student advising; building of an Asian network to assist Thailand in its emergence in science
Germany: Bayreuth University 2000, 2003, 2005. writing book jointly with German colleague; graduate student advising; seminars; joint publications
Canada: McGill University; Agri-Food Canada; multiple times each year: joint grants; technical advising, technical cooperation and support, joint publications; graduate student advising
Brazil: CIMEPAR, University of Curitiba, and IAPAR, Londrina. 2003-2004. joint grant with Brazilian colleagues; joint experiment; joint preparation of workshop; training of Brazilian scientists in micrometeorology/agricultural meteorology/flux measurements
Mexico: Narro University, Saltillo. Hydrology and Agronomy Dept. Visiting scientist on sabbatical
Dr. Ari Levine
Assistant Professor
History
Franklin College of Arts & Sciences
Contact Information:
312 Le Conte Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-8272
706-542-2455
adlevine@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Chinese-Mandarin
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China, Taiwan
Dr. Denise C. Lewis
Assistant Professor
Child and Family Development
Family and Consumer Science
Contact Information:
262 Dawson Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0254
706-542-4389
dlewis@fcs.uga.edu
Specialization: family gerontology
Languages Spoken: , Khmer
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Cambodia
Ms. Tammy Lyskowinski
International Faculty and Staff Advisor
Office of International Education
Academic Affairs
Contact Information:
209 Barrow Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4614
706-542-2490
tammyl@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/oie
International Experience and Expertise:
2005 International Administrators Fulbright Recipient – Germany and Poland
Participated in a group
Countries: Germany, Poland
2005 International Administrators Fulbright Recipient – Germany and Poland
Participated in a group seminar on German and Polish higher education and society designed for U.S. university, college and community college administrators whose responsibilities have a direct relation to international exchanges in higher education. The program includes briefings, selected government appointments, campus visits and cultural events.
Selection Committee Member for the 2005-2007 Eurasian Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, US Department of State and administered by IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board)
Dr. Surya Manandhar
Post-doc Research Associate
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The University of Georgia
Contact Information:
Life Sciences Building, A322
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1713
706-542-3719
surya@uga.edu
Specialization: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Languages Spoken: Hindi, Russian, Nepali
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Germany, Japan, Russia
Year Research area and University
June 2004-to-date
Post Doctoral Research on “Lungs and Periodontal Diseases” Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, USA
April 26-July 24, 2002 (3 months)
Post-Doctoral Research on
Njeri Marekia-Cleaveland (J.D.)
International Center for Democratic Governance
Carl Vinson Institute of Government, UGA
Contact Information:
1242 S. Lumpkin St.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0996
706-542-6594
njeri@cviog.uga.edu
www.icdg.uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Kikuyu, Swahili
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, China, Kenya, Liberia, and Uganda
Dr. Diana Martin
Post-Doctoral Fellow
CTEGD
Contact Information:
626 Biosciences Bldg
Athens GA 30602
706-542-3396
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zigra@uga.edu
Specialization: Parasite Immunology
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina
Fall 2002 Field research examining immune responses in endemic areas of northern Argentina.
Dr. Karina Martino
Assist. Prof. and Ext. Specialist
Food Science and Technology
Ag. and Env. Sciences
Contact Information:
240E Food Sci. Bldg.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-6673
706-542-9066
kgmart@uga.edu
Other International Interests: I would like to participate in either trainings sessions, outreach, and/or research related to the areas of food processing, food safety, food engineering, value-added processing of fruits, vegetables, meat and poultry, risk assessment.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
I grew up in Asuncion, Paraguay, and got my BS in chemical engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, I have contacts there for future cooperation/collaboration. I also worked there for a couple of years in the areas of essential oils and food processing.
I know the region very well (Argentina, Uruguay, Brasil, Paraguay), the culture and the people.
Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
Countries: Paraguay
I grew up in Asuncion, Paraguay, and got my BS in chemical engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, I have contacts there for future cooperation/collaboration. I also worked there for a couple of years in the areas of essential oils and food processing.
I know the region very well (Argentina, Uruguay, Brasil, Paraguay), the culture and the people.
Milton Masciadri
Professor
Hugh Hodgson School of Music
Franklin College
Contact Information:
530 Music
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2779
706-542-2773
mmasciad@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/music/bass
Languages Spoken: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Uruguay
Direct International Programs in Argentina Brazil and Italy as well as involved in performances world wide. Intense activities through UNESCO as Artist for Peace
Dr. Laura Mason
Associate Professor
History
Arts & Sciences
Contact Information:
Leconte Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2484
706-542-2455
lmason@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: France
Mr. Jesus Mata-Acosta
IT Professional
OIT
CAES - Griffin Campus
Contact Information:
Flynt Bldg.
Griffin GA 30223
770-229-3473
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jmata@uga.edu
Specialization: Information Technology
Languages Spoken: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico
Dr. Mary Matthews
Research Associate
Globis Center
SPIA
Contact Information:
Globis Center, SPIA
Athens GA 30601
706-542-6633
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mmm@uga.edu,mary.matthews@tethysconsultants.com
www.tethysconsultants.com
Other International Interests: Integrated Water Resource Management Strategies
Languages Spoken: Russian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Transboundary Water Management Strategies for UN and GEF. Focus on Public Involvement and Stakeholder Participation in UNDP International Water Projects. Work with UN, USAID, World Bank, EBRD, GEF, IFC and ACOPS, CHF International, Environmental Law Institute, IW:LEARN, and other private clients
Dr. Paul Matthews
Co-Director
Center for Latino Achievement & Success in Education (CLASE)
College of Education
Contact Information:
G6 Aderhold
Athens GA 30602-7101
706-542-3368
706-583-8207
pmatthew@uga.edu
www.coe.uga.edu/clase or www.coe.uga.edu/oasis
Languages Spoken: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Australia, Belize, Germany, Mexico, Turkey, Zimbabwe
Xalapa, Mexico-- Summer 2001-- UGA-Veracruz program through College of Education-- faculty co-sponsor (with Dr. Jim McLaughlin)
Dr. Bryan McCullick
Associate Professor
Kinesiology
College of Education
Contact Information:
355 Ramsey Center
Athens GA 30602
706-542-3621
706-542-3417
bamccull@uga.edu
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Germany
Keynote speaker at Congresses in Germany and Turkey (upcoming in 2007).
Dr. Steven McCutcheon
Member of the Faculty of Engineering
Contact Information:
Driftmier Enginerring Center
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1455
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stevenmc@uga.edu
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Uk
Victoria Collins McMaken
Program Coordinator
Office of Global Program
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
214 Hoke Smith Building
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7803
706-542-7905
vcollins@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/globalprograms
Other International Interests: International education, Community-based conservation
Languages Spoken: French, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Austria, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, Honduras, Italy, Morocco, Nepal, Spain, Thailand, Turkey
Georgia McPeak
International Affairs
Contact Information:
GA
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Languages Spoken: French, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Haiti, Mali, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Zaire
Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali (87-90); Relief Worker for World Vision in former Zire, Burundi, Bosnia-Herzegovian (93-97); Peace Corps Agro-Forestry Technical Trainer in Haiti (97-98); NGO Consultant in Central America, based in Guatemala (99-00) United Nations Program Officer in Bangladesh (00-01); HIV/AIDS Project Manager in Eastern Europe, based in Bucharest covering Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania; currently graduate student in International Affairs, Peace Corps Representative for Athens.
Dr. Yoko Mimura
Research Professional I
Housing & Consumer Economics
College of Family and Consumer Science
Contact Information:
GA
706-542-4758
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ymimura@fcs.uga.edu
Specialization: family economics, consumer economics,
Other International Interests: My area of interests are demographic trends and public policy as they relate to family economic well-being in Japan.
Languages Spoken: Japanese
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Japan
Dr. Ignacy Misztal
Professor
Animal and Dairy Science
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0951
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ignacy@uga.edu
nce.ads.uga.edu/~ignacy
Other International Interests: Interested in national policies and their effect on scientific activities (reduction of old-boy networks and increase in quality)
Areas to collaborate would be mainly in animal production and in genetic improvement of animals
Languages Spoken: German, Polish, Russian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Swede
Knowledge of Polish fluent; German and Russian need refresh
Countries include mostly those visited profesionally and with contacts available
Taught short courses on 5 continents
Have extensive email contacts with scientis in many countries due to being an author of a popular software package
Mr. Paul Montello
Research Professional II
School of Forest Resources
Contact Information:
School of Forest Resources
Athens GA 30602
706-542-6515
706-542-8356
montello@forestry.uga.edu
Specialization: plant tissue culture
somatic embryogenesis of hardwood and softwood forest trees
Other International Interests: I am also very intersted in history, archeology, and culture of Italy.
Languages Spoken: Italian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Italy
I have spent over 8 weeks travelling in Europe, mostly in Italy. I have only visited for vacations but would welcome the chance to do research or teach biology in Italy.
Dr. Masaki Mori
Associate Professor
Comparative Literature
Arts & Sciences
Contact Information:
228 Joseph Brown Hall
Athens GA 30602-6204
706-542-2360
706-542-2155
mamo@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/~cml/mori.html
Languages Spoken: Japanese
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Japan
Study Abroad & Exchange Programs with multiple institutions in Japan. Internet space used for language education with a Japanese university.
Dr. Lioba Moshi
Professor
African Studies and Comparative Literature
Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
321Holmes/Hunter Academic Bld.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-5314
706-583-0482
moshi@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/afrstu
Other International Interests: The development of sutainable service learning in Africa and a teaching, research, and outreach center where students, faculty, and development agencies could meet and share knowledge and expertise on issues that dirrectly affect the ordinary citizens of the world.
Languages Spoken: Swahili, Chagga
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zimbabwe
My main outreach experience is associated with the development of study abroad programs in Africa, locating resources to suport faculty to travel to Africa to establish study abroad and service learning programs, and inter-university exchanges, technical cooperation, research collaboration and general faculty development in key areas, and organizing workshops that allow African sscholars, and technical experts to meet and discuss African issues.
Dr. Rebecca Mullis
Professor and Head
Foods and Nutrition
Family and Consumer Sciences
Contact Information:
280 Dawson Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4875
706-542-5059
rmm@fcs.uga.edu
Other International Interests: I would like to continue to work with community partners regarding health and nutrition issues.
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Georgia, Ivory Coast, Sweden, Thailand
I have provided international technicial assistance related to community intervention to reduce chronic disease in Sweden. I have provided training and technical assistance in nutriton survey methods to the International Institute of Ivorian Tropical Technology in Cote D'Ivoire. I have worked with the University of Teblisi in Russian Georgia to establish training programs for health professional. Most recently I visited Thailand to initatite the establishment of service learning opportunities for students.
Dr. Luke Naeher
Assistant Professor
Environmental Health Science
College of Public Health
Contact Information:
Env Health Science Bldg
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4104
706-542-7472
lnaeher@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/publichealth/ehs/dept/people/naeher.html
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Guatemala, India, Peru, The Philippines
International Programs
• Cusco, Peru study and new collaboration: In collaboration with colleagues from Cusco and Lima, Peru, my technician and students (two EHS undergrad EHS intern and 1 EHS MS graduate student) and I conducted a 4-week “service-based learning” research study of air pollution in Cusco in summer 2005.
• Arequipa, Peru study and new collaboration: In collaboration with colleagues from Arequipa and Lima, Peru, my student (1 EHS MS graduate student) and technicians and I conducted a 4-week “service-based learning” research study of air pollution in Arequipa in summer 2004.
• Trujillo, Peru study and new collaboration: In collaboration with colleagues from Trujillo and Lima, Peru, my technicians and students (several undergraduate and graduat students) and I have conducted several “service-based learning” research studies of air pollution and biomarkers of environmental chemicals of exposure in Trujillo in summers 2002, 2003, and 2004, and in fall 2003.
• Bombay, India study and new collaboration: In collaboration with colleagues from Bombay, UGA, and CDC, my graduate student and I conducted a 1.5 year “service-based learning” research study of childhood blood lead contamination and related air pollution in Bombay in 2003 and 2004.
• Baguio City, Philippines study and new collaboration: In collaboration with colleagues from the UGA College of Environment and Design (Dr. Mary Anne Akers Alabanza) and Kennesaw State University, my students (two EHS MS graduate students and one undergraduate EHS intern) and I conducted a Dec 2004 study titled: Ambient and Residential Air Pollution Exposure Assessment in Baguio City, Philippines. The study went very well. We are exploring the possibility of using the data we collected to develop a proposal for WHO and or other potential sources of funding to study human health related to air pollution exposures in this heavily polluted city.
• Advisor for Ms. Lisa Buttner, Clean Energy Group, Winrock International – for Peru-based cookstove intervention study funded by U.S. EPA and NIH through Winrock International. February 2005 - present.
• Delivered an invited presentation to a panel of experts visiting the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Georgia. The experts included the Mental Health Staff from the Carter Center Health Program in Atlanta, GA, the Director of “Respect International”, and the Director and an expert from The Romanian Center for Independent Journalism. The presentation was on the topic of a May 2004 journalism workshop in Trujillo, Peru sponsored by the UGA Grady School of Journalism and Trujillo City Hall on the topic of health communication in the media (see below). June 21, 2005.
• Contributed to the development of and participated in and contributed to a journalism workshop in Trujillo, Peru sponsored by the UGA Grady School of Journalism and Trujillo City Hall. The workshop was on the topic of health communication in the media. May 2004.
• Reviewer for Canadian Lung Association/Canadian Thoracic Society, provincial Lung Association Grant in Aid applications. Mar 2004.
• Contributed to the development of an air pollution exposure assessment protocol for a study Ecuador (PI: Dr. Eduardo Asanza, UGA, Ecology). Feb 2004.
• Reviewer, for Dr. Rachel Kaufmann, Senior Public Health Specialist, CDC / World Bank Liaison for Environmental Health – for cookstove project proposal in Mongolia titled: Determination of Indoor Air Pollution Levels – Comparison of Traditional and Altered Stoves in Ulaanbaatar, August, 2002.
• Contributor, WHO Work Group on Childhood Pneumonia and Air Pollution in Third World (9/93-2/96).
• Co-Coordinator, Conference on Environmental Health in Latin America--Yale University (12/94-4/95).
Mr. Quint Newcomer
Director
UGA Costa Rica
OIE
Contact Information:
207 Barrow Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-583-0303
706-542-6622
quintn@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/costarica
Other International Interests: As Director of UGA's Costa Rican campus, I hope to collaborate with UGA faculty from many disciplines and departments to develop a broad range of study abroad, on-going research, and internship possibilities.
We are interested in receiving proposals for demonstrations of how instructional technology can be integrated into our "living classroom" experience, enhancing the educational opportunities for UGA students and for Costa Rican students visiting the UGA campus.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Lived and worked in Costa Rica 1991-present.
Ph.D. research (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies) evaluated adoption of Payment for Environmental Services Program, and effectiveness as a tool for implementation of Path of the Tapir Biological Corridor in southwestern Costa Rica.
Teaching Fellow and co-editor of "Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services", a Yale graduate seminar and subsequent special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Forestry (in press), focusing on the Panama Canal Watershed (Spring 2005); collaboration with STRI and Native Species Reforestation Program in Panama.
Executive Director of Monteverde Institute (1995-1998); hosted study abroad programs, research, and various community outreach projects in Monteverde and surrounding communities.
Represented Ocean Conservancy (formerly Center for Marine Conservation) as Country Coordinator for International Coastal Cleanup (1994-1998); represented Costa Rica at international marine debris conference and working group focusing on Marpol legislation (1996).
Environmental consultant and Certification Manager for international wood products company based in Costa Rica (1998-2000); focused on corporate environmental policy and procedures for FSC certification (forest management and chain of custody).
Countries: Costa Rica, Panama
Dr. Dmitriy Nikonov
Senior Research Associate
Center for International Trade and Security
School of Public and International Affairs
Contact Information:
120 Holmes/Hunter Academic Bld
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2985
706-542-2975
mudmn3@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/cits
Specialization: International relations and security, comparative politics, arms control, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Languages Spoken: Russian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Moldova, Morocco, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Ms. Gwen O'Looney
Program Coordinator III
Institute on Human Development and Disability
College of Family & Consumer Sciences
Contact Information:
G-35 River's Crossing
Atlanta GA 30602-4806
706-542-6089
706-542-4815
GOLooney@IHDD.UGA.edu
www.IHDD.UGA.edu
Other International Interests: Community Based Rehabilitation is an international approach to inclusion which appears at first understanding to be a very appropriate and effective approach for implementation in the United States. A better understanding and evaluation is a goal of Full Futures for All.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China, Vietnam
Employed by the American Red Cross in the Service to Recreational Areas Overseas from April 1969 to July 1970 in support of military personnel in Cam Ranh Bay, An Khe and Danang, Vietnam.
Responsible in May 2000 for one session of UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government training in government administration for mayors of provincial capitals in Xian and Beijing, China.
Partnered with Centre for Research and Development of Community Health in the development and submission of "Full Futures for All," a USAID proposal to assure the inclusion of Vietnamese with disabilities in educational and employment programs in July of 2005.
Scheduled to go to Vietnam in April or May of 2006 to build on the relationship with Centre for Research and Development of Community Health and establish service learning opportunities for UGA students.
Dr. Akinloye Ojo
Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature
Arts & Sciences
Contact Information:
147 Joe Brown Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7730
706-542-2155
akinloye@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin English
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Nigeria, Tanzania
Dr. Emanuel Ornelas
PhD
Economics
Terry
Contact Information:
Brooks Hall 5th Floor
Athens GA 30602
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eornelas at uga.edu
www.terry.uga.edu/~eornelas
Languages Spoken: Portuguese
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil
Dr. Pamela Orpinas
Associate Professor
Health Promotion and Behavior
Public Health
Contact Information:
319 Ramsey Center
GA 30602
706-542-4370
406-542-4956
porpinas@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/publichealth/hpb/dept/orpinas.html
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Chile
Worked in Central and South America in several teaching and research projects related to injury and violence prevention.
Dr. Ynes Ortega
Assistant Professor
Food Science and Tehcnology
Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
1109 Experiment St
Griffin GA 30223
770-233-5587
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ortega@uga.edu
Specialization: food safety
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: India, Mexico, Peru
Food Safety
Parasitology
Public Health
Dr. Marisa Anne Pagnattaro
Asst. Professor
Legal Studies
Terry College of Business
Contact Information:
213C Brooks Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-583-0459
706-542-4295
pagnatta@terry.uga.edu
www.terry.uga.edu/profiles/?person_id=491
Other International Interests: Employment/Labor in the global context.
International Experience and Expertise:
Research on international labor standards, labor provisions in free trade agreements (including CAFTA), the use of noncompete contracts for international employees, and corporate codes of conduct in the global workplace.
Primary Regional Areas: China, CAFTA Countries and the European Union
Mrs. Sarah Park
Academic Advisor
Grady Undergraduate Services
Grady College
Contact Information:
Grady College
Athens GA 30602
706-542-9255
706-542-2183
slpark@uga.edu
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom
Rodney Parks
Associate Registrar
Academic Affairs
Registrars Office
Contact Information:
102A Holmes/Hunter Academic
Athens GA 30602
706-542-8762
706-583-0319
rlparks@uga.edu
www.arches.uga.edu/~rlparks
Specialization: Applied Sociology
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica, Egypt, Italy, Peru
Lived in Sicily with the armed forces for two years. Lived in Egypt for 7 months with the military. Adventure traveler, numerous trips to Costa Rica as well as hiking the Inca trail in Peru.
Dr. Joel Paz
Public Service Assistant
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
UGA-Griffin Campus
Contact Information:
1109 Experiment St.
Griffin GA 30224
770-228-7399
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jpaz@uga.edu
www.arches.uga.edu/~jpaz/
Languages Spoken: Tagalog
International Experience and Expertise:
Philippines (1985-92): Agricultural production technology; irrigation systems; water resources inven
Countries: Israel, The Philippines
Philippines (1985-92): Agricultural production technology; irrigation systems; water resources inventory
Israel (6/92-7/92) : Post-graduate training in irrigation and agro-production in desert ecosystems
Mr. Joshua Pendergrass
Research Engineer II
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
CAES
Contact Information:
Driftmier Engineering Center
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4626
706-583-0875
jpender@engr.uga.edu
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bahamas
Dr. Robert Phillips
Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Chemistry
Franklin
Contact Information:
Chemistry Building
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1996
706-542-9454
rsphillips@chem.uga.edu
tryptophan.net
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Russia
I have active research collaborations with scientists in France, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Russia. I have visited these countries frequently, for conferences and to work in the laboratories. In additions, scientists from there have visited me and performed research in my laboratory. I will be a visiting professor in June, 2006 at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Ms. Julie Range
Program Specialist II
COE-Dean's Office
Dean's Office
Contact Information:
315 Aderhold Hall
Athens GA 30606
706-542-3997
706-542-2502
jrange@uga.edu
Other International Interests: I helped with the recent Russian teacher visit with Dr. Ames in IPSO office and with Heather Edelblute of the COE. I am interested in helping when other international scholars come to campus.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Thailand
I have been working with scholars from Thailand in the College of Education since May 1, 2005 with Dr. Michael Padilla. I have helped these scholars with any at UGA and in Athens while they are here for one year.
Dr. Diana Ranson
Associate Professor
Romance Languages
Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Gilbert Hall
Athens GA 30602-1815
706-542-7323
706-542-3287
dranson@uga.edu
www.rom.uga.edu/directory/faculty/ranson.htm
Specialization: Romance linguistics
Languages Spoken: French, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: France, Spain
I conducted linguistic field work in Southern Spain, especially around the town of Puente Genil, in the summer of 1987 and I am still analyzing these conversations to gain insight into various phenomena in Spanish. In the summer of 2005 I conducted linguistic field work in Southern France, specifically Montpellier, and have begun analyzing these conversations and using them in my classes.
Dr. Mac Rawson
Director
Sea Grant College Program
Office of VP for Research
Contact Information:
208 Marine Sciences Bldg.
Athens GA 30602-3636
706-542-5954
706-542-3652
mrawson@uga.edu
www.gasg.org
Other International Interests: My interest are in application of science through research, education and outreach programs for sustainable development in marine and coastal environments. Expertise includes marine and freshwater fisheries biology, aquaculture, aquatic ecosystem-based management and policy. Areas of interest include South and East Asia and South America.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China, South Korea
International research includes coastal ecosystem modeling and management by applying ecosystem model. In 1997, 2000, 2002 and 2004, I was a member of the U.S. delegation to the U.S.-China Joint Coordination Panel on Living Marine Resources and the 1st and 2nd U.S. Korea First Joint Planning Conference, and in 2004 was a member of U.S.-Japan Natural Resources (UJNR) Aquaculture Panel. I also was a principal investigator in projects to develop an ecosystem model of Jiaozhou Bay, P.R. China and research to use ecosystem modeling to evaluate the impacts of aquaculture on Xincun Lagoon, Hainan Province, P. R. China (1997-2002) and the impact of pollutants on aquaculture in Gamak Bay, Republic of Korea (2002-2006).
Countries: China, South Korea
International research includes coastal ecosystem modeling and management by applying ecosystem modeling to integrated aquaculture (polyculture) in S. Korea and China. In China (1997 to 2002), ecosystem models were used to study the impact of aquaculture on Jaozhou Bay, Shandong Province and Xincum Lagoon, Hainan Island. Currently (2002 to 2008), a joint study is being conducted in Gamak Bay, S. Korea to determine the impact of pollution and stocking densities on aquaculture in the bay in cooperation with the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute.
Dr. Thomas Reeves
Professor
Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology
Education
Contact Information:
604 Aderhold Hall
Athens GA 30602-7144
706-542-3849
706-542-4032
treeves@uga.edu
it.coe.uga.edu/~treeves
Other International Interests: Instructional technology in developing countries
I am a member of the Tunisian project led by Dr. Takoi Hamrita
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Peru
Fulbright Lecturer Peru 1979-80
14 visits to Australia since 1991 lasting 2 weeks to 5 months - consulting on distance and flexible learning project
Invited speaker in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, England, Finland, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Taiwan
Dr. Romdhane Rekaya
Associate Professor
Animal and Dairy Science
CAES
Contact Information:
348 Animal and Dairy science
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0949
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rrekaya@uga.edu
www.ads.uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Arabic, French, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Norway, Spain, Tunisia
Dr. Robert Rhoades
Professor
Anthropology
Franklin College
Contact Information:
Dept. of Anthropology
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1042
706-542-3998
rrhoades@uga.edu
Specialization: Anthropology
Agriculture
Development
Mountains
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Other International Interests: climate change in mountainous regions
agricultural development
migration research/policy
Languages Spoken: German, Spanish, Nepali
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bhutan, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Nepal, Peru, The Philippines
Nepal. 1962-64, 1979-93 development
Philippine, 1967-68, 1987-1990, agricultural development
Peru 1979-1991, international agriculture research
Spain 1975-76, 1984, research
Ecuador, 1993-2005, sustainable development
Dr. Leara Rhodes
Associate Prof.
Journalism
Grady College
Contact Information:
Journalism Building
Athens GA 30602
706-542-5025
706-542-2183
ldrhodes@uga.edu
www.grady.uga.edu
Specialization: journalism training, media development and role in society
Other International Interests: interested in environmental journalism beginning with Trinidad and Tobago and then Kenya
interested in women in media in developing countries (Trinidad, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, etc.)
interested in journalism training in developing countries
interested in growing a journalism program in Tanzania
Languages Spoken: French, Spanish, reading not fluent
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Haiti, Jamaica, Rwanda, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago
media workers training in Trinidad (1991-94), Antigua (1998 & 2004), Barbados (2000) classroom, newsroom, subeditors, photographers, and management.
school of journalism in Tanzania (2001)
journalism training and research in Haiti since 1986
journalism workshops and speeches in Antigua, Barbados, Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica, Bahamas, Dominica, Curacao
Dr. Patricia Richards
Assistant Professor
Sociology, Women's Studies
Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Baldwin Hall 314
Athens GA 30683
706-542-3235
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plr333@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Taiwan
Ethnographic Fieldwork in Ecuador (1992-93), Bolivia (1997), Chile (1999-present)
Dr. Lloyd Rieber
Professor of Instructional Technology
EPIT
Contact Information:
603C Aderhold Hall
Athens GA 30602-7144
706-542-3986
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lrieber@uga.edu
it.coe.uga.edu/~lrieber
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Germany, The Netherlands
I am on the international scientific committee for Kaleidoscope, a European Union initiative in educational technology. The overall objective of Kaleidoscope is to address the future of learning with digital technologies, and integrate existing research to develop new concepts and methodologies from a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. The members of Kaleidoscope include approximately 400 European researchers representing about 80 institutions.
Dr. Mark Rieger
Professor
Horticulture
CAES
Contact Information:
1111 Plant Sciences
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0783
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mrieger@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/fruit
Specialization: Environmental stress physiology;
fruit crops;
agroecology and sustainable agriculture
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, St. Kitts and Nevis, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan
International outreach - Mexico, Nigeria, Talikistan, Guatemala. Orchard crops technical assistance, consulting;
Study abroad teaching - Costa Rica, Guatemala;
Research collaboration - Italy, Guatemala
Richard W. Riley
Instructor
ADPR
Grady College
Contact Information:
University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602-3018
706-542-2409
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rwriley@grady.uga.edu
www.grady.uga.edu
Specialization: Advertising & Public Relations
Other International Interests: Anything concerning advertising and/or public relations of a global interest.
Languages Spoken: , none
International Experience and Expertise:
Retired advertising and public relations agency principal with over 15 years experience in global brand communications. During this time I work with agencies in Western Europe, North American, Latin America, South America, Australia, Singapore and China through a member network of agencies for in-country member clients, both in the U.S. and their native countries. Also, developed communications for my clients to be placed throughout the world.
Dr. Frederick Richard Rohs
Professor and Extension Specialist
ALEC
CAES
Contact Information:
109 Four Towers
Athens GA 30602
706-542-8828
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frrohs@uga.edu
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: United Kingdom
I have conducted several Extension workshops for faculty (Extension and outreach)on the application of Soft Systems Methodology on designing and improving post-harvest technology systems problems as well as developing Extension Systems and advanced degree programs. These programs and presentations were primarily in the countries of Thailand(Bangkok and Chaing Mai, Brazil and Mexico(Xalapa, Vera Cruz and Chihuahua). Workshops,presenations and guest lectureships on various topics relating to Extension Program Planning, Evaluation and leadership have been given in the countries of Australia,United Kingdom,Ireland and Canada.
I have also conducted workshops for the Clark Atlanta University Caribbean Community Development Project as well as several International extension Training Programs between 1993-1997.
Several Extension and Research Faculty have sought my counsel as part of exchange programs with The University of Georgia. These included faculty from the Poland Extension Faculty Exchange Program, The Churchill Fellowship Exchange Program and other faculty from Nepal, Turkey, Israel, Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Dr. Amy Ross
Assistant Professor
Geography
Franklin College
Contact Information:
204 GG Building
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1617
706-542-2388
rossamy@uga.edu
www.ggy.uga.edu/faculty/aross/
Specialization: human rights; impunity and accountability; trauma and healing in post-conflict societies; institutions of truth/justice; the dialectics of the construction of space and power.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Chile, Guatemala, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, Peru, South Africa, Uganda, Yugoslavia
Geographic: Generally Africa and Latin America, The Hague (and the international community), Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Peru, South Africa, Israel, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Broadly: truth commissions, international tribunals, and universal jurisdiction. The tension between impunity and accountabilty, and the spaces and places created in the struggle to prevent future violence.
Dr. Donald Rubin
Professor
Department of Speech Communication, Department of Language & Literacy Education, and the Program in Linguistics
Arts & Sciences and College of Education
Contact Information:
110 Terrell Hall
ATHENS GA 30602-1725
706-542-3247
706-542-3245
drubin@uga.edu
Other International Interests: Health communication training, evaluation, and campaigns
TESOL teacher training and curriculum development, emphasizing oral as well as written communication
Intergroup conflict resolution, prejudice reduction
Capacity building in social science research
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Israel, Kenya, South Korea, Taiwan
Since 2000 at UGA I have supervised classes for international teaching assistants to improve classroom communication competence for non-native speakers. I taught similar classes at University of Cincinnati. I have published and consulted extensively on that topic as well.
At UGA I also teach a class in written and oral English for scientific communication for non-native speakers.
Since 1982 I have taught undergraduate and graduate classes in Intercultural Communication and have published in that area.
Scholar in Residence, Tel Aviv University School of Education, Israel, 1985--lecturing and research technical assistance
Collaborative research on health communication, Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya, 2004-current.
Collaborative research on English for Academic Purposes, Tainan National Teachers College, Taiwan, 2000-current
Mr. Carlos Ruiz
Research Professional I
Food Science And Technology
Agriculture
Contact Information:
Food Science Dept
Athens GA 30602
706-542-1064
706-542-1050
cmsruiz@uga.edu
Specialization: Poultry Production
Meat Processing
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Colombia, Cuba
Dr. John Ruter
Professor
Horticulture
Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
4604 Research Way
Tifton GA 31794
229-386-3907
229-386-3356
ruter@tifton.uga.edu
Other International Interests: Work with Food Science on developing camellia oil as a domestic crop. Work with the School of Pharmacy, Vet School, and the Medical College of Georgia or external partners on the nutraceutical values of camellia oil and its byproducts.
International Experience and Expertise:
1998 - South Korea. Provided botanical interpretation for Holly Society of America tour. Visited several arboreta and gardens.
2002 - China. Visited Zhejiang Province to learn about camellia oil (Camellia oleifera) production. Establish relationship with Subtropical Forestry Research Institute in Fuyang.
Dr. Maria Saenz
Lecturer
RL
School of Arts and Science
Contact Information:
Department of Romance Language
Athens GA 30302
706-542-3160
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asaenz@uga.edu
Other International Interests: I would like to collaborate in an international students exchange program. I am also very interested in study abroad programs.
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: United Kingdom
Mr. Larry Sanburn
Contact Information:
PO Box 80665
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2127
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greymonk@uga.edu
Specialization: Information Technology
Languages Spoken: German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Germany
Dr. Kevin Sanville
Staff Physician
University Health Center
Medical & Allergy/Travel Clinics
Contact Information:
370 River Road
Athens GA 30602
706-542-8666
706-542-0275
ksanville@uhs.uga.edu
www.uhs.uga.edu/clinics/travel.html
Specialization: Primary Care Practice with board certification by the American Board of Family Medicine
Other International Interests: The UGA Travel Medicine Clinic offers the travel medicine consultation by appointment to all UGA units and the general public. The clinic may be reached by calling 706-542-5575.
The clinic offers travel health information and appropriate vaccinations to students, faculty, staff and the general public. Registered nurses provide consultations offering CDC recommended immunizations, medical precautions, travel safety and tips on accessing emergency medical care. Information is provided on general health risks of travel, risks of contracting diseases related to international travel and methods of prevention including vaccinations. Consultations include an updated computerized report about health issues to consider while planning your trip, and resources for maintaining your health while abroad.
The clinic also provides vaccinations against common diseases such as MMR (measles/mumps/rubella), influenza and hepatitis B. Appointments are necessary.
Phone: 542-5575
APPOINTMENTS
Full travel consultation appointments require up to 30 minutes, and should be made four to six weeks prior to travel to insure adequate time for immunizations and preparation. Please call to make an appointment.
FEES AND INSURANCE
This is a fee-per-visit service. Individual fees for service vary depending on your comprehensive consultation and the number of vaccinations required. Payment is requested at the time of the visit. If your insurance company covers these charges, you may provide us with your insurance information and we will bill your carrier. Please call for more specific fees.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Jamaica
Javier Sayago
Lab Tech II
Cooperative Extension Service
Soil Plant and Water Laboratory
Contact Information:
2400 College Station Rd
Athens GA 30602
706-542-5350
706-369-5734
sayago@uga.edu
aesl.ces.uga.edu/index.html
Other International Interests: Water conservation
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Venezuela
Dr. Paul Schliekelman
Assistant Professor
Statistics
College of Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4241
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pdschlie@stat.uga.edu
Specialization: biomathematics, statistics, genetics, ecology
Languages Spoken: , cameroonian pidgen (also common in Nigeria)
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Cameroon
I lived in Cameroon for two years while working for the Peace Corps. I taught physics and math in a government high school in the small town of Nwa in the Northwest Province. I have also travelled a fair bit throughout West Africa.
Dr. Peter R. Schreiner
Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Franklin
Contact Information:
Athens GA 30603-2556
706-542-1953
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prs@chem.uga.edu
www.chemie.uni-giessen.de/home/international/schreiner
Languages Spoken: German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom
international basic research in chemistry and nanotechnology
Dr. Sara Schweitzer
Associate Professor
School of Forest Resources
School of Forest Resources
Contact Information:
School of Forest Resources
Athens GA 30602-2152
706-542-1150
706-542-8356
schweitz@smokey.forestry.uga.edu
Specialization: wildlife ecology and management; natural resources based tourism
Other International Interests: Research interests include conservation and study of migratory wetland dependent bird species, as well as coastal species. Secondly, development of natural resource based tourism ventures, and research into impacts of these activities on natural resources.
My international experience has been in Eastern Europe, but other areas would be of interest too.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bulgaria, Croatia
BULGARIA
2000. Invited seminars on research associated with migratory shorebirds at the Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS).
2002-2003. Fulbright position during which I taught a course in natural resource conservation history and approach at Sofia University, and within the BAS, I initiated research on Bulgaria's development of a national strategy for ecotourism, and on management of wild populations of Russian wild boar and their hybridization with domestic swine.
2004-2006. Development of a study abroad, service learning course with faculty from Sofia University and others, concentrating on natural- and cultural resource based tourism and its impacts on rural communities.
CROATIA
2002. Provided technical assistance and advice to several biologists and NGOs who are developing natural and cultural resource based tourism opportunities.
2003. Provided invited seminars to faculty, students, and staff of the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Veterinary Science and Faculty of Forestry. Topics included management strategies used to conserve and increase declining populations of wildife.
2003. Provided techinical assistance to NGOs and university faculty and administrators interested in development of university service and outreach programs for the country's citizens, in particular, rural communities. Focused on forest and wildlife resource needs.
Dr. Claire Seymour
Postdoctoral Associate
Physiology and Pharmacology
Veterinary College
Contact Information:
501 D.W. Brooks Drive
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0316
706-542-3015
seymourc@uga.edu
Specialization: Neuropharmacology
Languages Spoken: French, Irish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Ireland
I am an Irish Citizen and have only been living in the US since April, 2005. Therefore, I have wide ranging knowledge of Irish society and culture.
I attended University College Dublin which is the largest university in the Republic of Ireland and have friends and colleagues which have attended many of the other main universities and colleges (including Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Cork, National University of Ireland in Galway, National University of Ireland in Maynooth, Dublin Insitiute of Technology).
I have a broad knowledge of the Scientific field in Ireland including the main funding agencies (such as The Health Research Board and Science Foundation Ireland), the Government departments involved in scientific research and regulation (such as the Department of Health and Children and the Department of Agriculture) and scientific societies based in Ireland (such as the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and the Neuroscience Network).
I was involved in an EU 5th Framework funded project on
Stephen Shewmaker
Executive Director of Legal Affairs
Office of Legal Affairs
Contact Information:
Lustrat House
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0006
706-542-3248
sshew@uga.edu
Specialization: Legal issues: Former Circuit Judge (16 years); 6 years University counsel; involved in all aspects of educational law and many litigation issues. Experience in advocacy with legislatures; educational oversight boards; athletic issues; cooperative foundations that support educational institutions.
Languages Spoken: French, some french
International Experience and Expertise:
some international travel; would be willing to lend my knowledge, expertise, and excellent communication skills to any endeavor where I might be helpful.
Dr. Kathy Simpson
Associate Professor
Kinesiology
COE
Contact Information:
330 River Road
Athens GA 30602-6554
706-542-4385
705-542-3148
ksimpson@uga.edu
www.coe.uga.edu/kinesiology/exs/labsbiom.html
Specialization: biomechanics, physical activity, kinesiology
Other International Interests: I also am interested in helping collaborate with other UGA units that are interested in curriculum and pedogogy as related to exercise science in other countries.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: South Africa
Worked with providing computer-based learning on a collaborative USAID grant with University of Zululand, South Africa and the (formerly known as) UGA Dept. of Recreation & Leisure Studies and Warnell School of Forest Resources in 2003.
Also, at that time, tried to set up potential collabortions with U.Z.'s equivalent to our kinesiology department for student exchange and research programs. Am still interested in trying to do this, but I need some help with this.
Dr. Leticia Sonon
Program Coordinator
Agricultural and Environmental Services Labs
Contact Information:
2400 College Station Road
Athens GA 30602
706-542-5350
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lsonon@uga.edu
Specialization: Soil Fertility, Soil Chemistry, Soil Testing and Plant, Water Analysis
Other International Interests: I would like to be involved with soil fertility research in South/Latin America, Southeast Asia. My expertise in soils research and soil testing can be of great use to these developing countries. I can be a resource person as a seminar speaker or be a collaborator in research.
Languages Spoken: Tagalog, Cebuano
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: The Philippines
Leyte State University, Leyte, Philippines - former faculty member doing soil fertility research and involved in classroom instruction
International Rice Research Institute, Philippines - collaborator with rice-soil fertility/soil chemistry research
Ms. Maritza Soto Keen
Director, Latino Initiative
OVPPS&O
Contact Information:
1224 Lumpkin Street
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7898
706-542-7891
soto@uga.edu
Specialization: nonprofit administration and program development; outreach to and provision of services to Latino community
Other International Interests: K-12 and higher educational attainment in Latin American countries and other developing countries
research and practice in second language acquisition - youth and adult learners
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica, Mexico
Dr. Patricia Sullivan
Assistant Professor
International Affairs
School of Public and International Affairs
Contact Information:
Candler Hall
Athens GA 30602-1492
706-542-2693
706-583-8266
tsulli@uga.edu
Specialization: international relations - conflict and security studies
Other International Interests: The focus of my research has shifted from international political economy to conflict and security studies over the years, but I do still teach broad courses on international relations and global issues. In the future, I would be interested in collaborating with other UGA units and/or external partners on international service-learning opportunities in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia or Africa.
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico
My experience is in developing and directing international service-learning programs for students at Rice University in 1996-1998. Students took a service-learning course during the regular academic year where they studied the causes and consequences of poverty in a specific country and worked with immigrants and refugees through local agencies in Houston. During Spring Break and in the summer, I took the students on a one to two week trip to the focus country where they volunteered with an agency serving the local population and met with a variety of local experts.
Mr. Michael Swaim
Executive Chef
Food Services
Georgia Center
Contact Information:
1197 S. Lumpkin St.
athens GA 30602
706-542-2508
706-583-0717
michael.swaim@gactr.uga.edu
www.gactr.uga.edu
Specialization: culinary
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Spain
Research of foods and wines of Catalonia and the Basque country. Worked with Grup Pons olive oil producer, Masia Duch and Ithica wineries in the Priorat. Conde de Valicourt artesianl cava producer. Oriol Balaguer- pastry chef and Jaume Brichs- chef instructor Barcelona.
Dr. Anne Sweaney
Professor and Head
Housing and Consumer Economics
Family and Consumer Sciences
Contact Information:
215 Dawson Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4877
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asweaney@fcs.uga.edu
Languages Spoken: Norwegian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: India, Norway, Oman, United Kingdom
Just returned from New Delhi, India (2005) where I was involved with a NSF project on housing.
Lead the study abroad experience in London (1992 and 2000)
Was invited to Oman by a former student whose grandfather was the founder of the University. 2000
Dr. Rick Tarleton
Distinguished Research Professor
Cnt Tropical & Emerging Global Diseases
Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
626 Biological Sciences Bldg.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-3362
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tarleton@cb.uga.edu
Specialization: Tropical Infectious Diseases, Chagas Disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, Immunology
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala
Biggest and most current experience/expertise is in Argentina, continuing a >10 yr project on immunology of human Chagas disease. Mostly in Buenos Aires and limited work in Santiago del Estero. Project includes frequent exchange trips by members of our U.S. lab at UGA and our Argentine-staffed lab in Buenos Aires. Currently (11/2005) assisting undergraduate students to plan a summer 2005 service/educational trip to Salta.
Dr. Michael Tarrant
Professor
Forest Resources
Contact Information:
1-301A Forest Resources
Athens GA 30602
706-583-0901
706-542-8356
tarrant@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/oie/southpacific/tarrant
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, Belize, Fiji, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Study abroad programs in sustainable development in Antarctica, Australia, Belize, Fiji, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom (see www.uga.edu/oie/southpacific for more information)
Dr. Armando Tasistro
Research Associate
Agricultural and Environmental Services Laboratories
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
2400 College Stn. Rd.
Athens GA 30602-9105
706-542-5350
706-369-5734
tasistro@uga.edu
Specialization: soil science, environment, crop management
Other International Interests: I am interested in educational projects because educational activities have occupied the majority of my career. I am also interested in advising in the organization of research activities, which could be at a specific project level or at higher organizational levels (institutional, regional, or national).
Languages Spoken: French, Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay
1984-1992: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT, Mexico). Agronomist and Training Officer in Experiment Station Management. Participated in On-Farm Research projects in Mexico, Honduras, and Panama. Advisor to National Agricultural Research Systems.
1992-2001: Independent International Agricultural Consultant. Advised national government and private organizations (Bank of Mexico, Rockefeller Foundation, sugar cane producers, crop protection companies, international research companies).
Scott Thomas
Associate Professor
Institute of Higher Education
Contact Information:
Meigs Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0577
805-456-3844
slthomas@uga.edu
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica, Croatia, United Kingdom
Dr. Jaroslav Tir
Assistant Professor
International Affairs
SPIA
Contact Information:
303 Candler Hall - SPIA
Athens GA 30602-1492
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tir@uga.edu
www.arches.uga.edu/~tir/
Languages Spoken: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Dr. Cecilia Tojo Soler
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Biol. & Agric. Eng.
UGA- Griffin Campus
Contact Information:
1109 Experiment St
Griffin GA 30224
770-229-3436
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ctojo@uga.edu
www.engr.uga.edu/people/ctojo/
Languages Spoken: Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Uruguay and Brazil
Countries: Brazil, Uruguay
I have experience in Agricultural Research in Brazil and Uruguay
Dr. Phillip Tomporowski
Associate Professor
Kinesiology
Education
Contact Information:
300 River Road
Athens GA 30602
706-542-4183
706-542-3148
ptomporo@uga.edu
Specialization: Exercise psychology
Other International Interests: Physical activity in children and its relation to cognition, academic achievement, and behavior.
Languages Spoken: German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: United Kingdom
Co-investigator on a research project that is evaluating the effects of physical activity on children's mental abilities. (2005-2006)
Mr. Gregory Topp
Director
Planning and Decision Support
Enterprise Information Technology Services
Contact Information:
276 Computer Sciences Annex
Athens GA 30602
706-542-7617
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gtopp@uga.edu
Other International Interests: Cultural, Business, or Information Technology Exchange or Planning Missions
Interested in working with International Student Groups
Open to serving as an additional resource to help with initatives that reach out to the Global Community
General Interest
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, The Netherlands, South Korea
Internationl Business Experience - Due Diligence and IT Systems Consulting
Carrier Refrigeration
Brazil 2001
Germany, France, The Netherlands 1999-2001
Mexico 1998 - 2000
Canada 1995 - 1999
Military - South Korea, UN Forces Special Weapons Assignments 1970-71
Germany NATO, S2 and Communications Security 1971-72
Dr. Dorset Trapnell
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Plant Biology
Franklin School of Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
2502 Miller Plant Sciences
Athens GA 30602
706-542-0281
706-542-1805
dorset@plantbio.uga.edu
Specialization: Conservation genetics
Languages Spoken: Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica
I have conducted field research in Costa Rica, Panama and Mexico.
Dr. Tesfai Tseggai
Research Scientist
Pathology
College of Veterianry Medicine
Contact Information:
Agriculture Drive
Athens GA 30602
706-207-8178
706-542-5828
tseggai@vet.uga.edu
Specialization: Veterinary Vaccine Development, and Diagnostics, especially
Rabies vaccine QA, R&D and diagnosis.
Other International Interests: I would like to bring the University of Georgia into the interantional arena of collaboration in research of viral and bacterial vaccines and diagnostics. I am interested in collaboration with other universities involved in the creation of start up laboratories for vaccine R&D, QA, manufactruring, or diagnostic tool development. I would like to collaborate with scientists of developing countries in matters of research in rabies vaccine and/or diagnostics research (my specialization) as well as other viral and bacterial pathogens.
Besides English and French, I also speak fluently two African languages. I have lived in both East and West Africa and am familiar with cultures of those regions. I believe this background is important in opening communication between the University of Georgia and other universities of the Anglophone and Francophone countries of Africa.
Languages Spoken: French, Italian, Tigrigna (Eritrean language), Amharic (Ethiopian language)
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Germany
I schooled in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria (undergraduate:1968-1973), and France (1980-1983: post-graduate). I worked as a field veterinarian (1973-1978) and as head of Animal Resources and Fisheries (1978-1980) for the Eastern part of Ethiopia, in the Ministry of Agriculture for that country. While with the Ministry of Agriculture I organized, planned and conducted vaccination campaigns in collaboration with international veterinary missions from the UK and France under a pivotal program of the Organization of African Unity and Food and Agricultural Organization (UN). From 1983 to 2004, I worked as a diagnostician and vaccine development senior research scientist for major Bio-pharmaceutical companies in Europe (France) and the United States. I have developed several veterinary vaccines and diagnostic kits currently in the US market. I worked as a leader in projects involving in-process analysis of vaccine components. I am currently conducting research on new generation of rabies vaccines.
Dr. Marc van Iersel
Associate professor
Department of Horticulture
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
1111 Miller Plant Sciences Bui
Athens GA 30602-7273
706-583-0284
706-542-0624
mvanier@uga.edu
www.hortphys.uga.edu/
Languages Spoken: Dutch, French, German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Germany, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, South Korea
Conducted three months of research in Israel in the mid 80's
Hosted visiting scientists from South Korea and Italy
Grew up and went to school in the Netherlands
Teach study-abroad courses in western Europe (garden history)
Mrs. Susan Varlamoff
Program Coordinator
Office of Environmental Sciences
Agricultural and Environmental Scinces
Contact Information:
109 Conner Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2151
706-542-1119
varlamof@uga.edu
unit.caes.uga.edu/oes
Specialization: environmental outrach - communications
Other International Interests: Personnally, I think as a land grant institute, we have a great mechanism to take research from the laboratory and extend it to the greater community to handle some important issues like environmental. This is so critical as we face tough issues like global warming, water scarcity, water pollution, species loss, etc.
My expertise is raising up the problem, showing the science that can help solve it and using the media to raise public opinion and ask people to make changes in life styles. It takes time but I have done it on several environmental issues.
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Hungary, Iran, Russia, Spain
I have lived in Belgium for approximately 1 year and 3 1/2 yrs. in Iran where I understand both cultures. I worked on a small project in Tehran to assist an Iranian diplomat working on UN project to determine who had jurisdiction over the sea floor.
In Costa Rica, I assisted the College in the Young Scholar Program teaching environmental science to gifted high school students.
I have also submitted a poster for a Russian conference on how we transfer research to the general public using a program I developed - Gardening to protect Water Quality.
Dr. William Vencill
Associate Professor
Crop & Soil Sciences
College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
3111 Miller Plant Sciences
Athens GA 30602-7272
706-542-3117
706-542-0914
wvencill@uga.edu
Specialization: weed science, pesticides, genetically modified crops, invasive weeds
Other International Interests: I would be interested in any collaborations involving research or teaching involving weed science, pesticide isssues, and issues surrounding genetically-modified crops.
Languages Spoken: German
International Experience and Expertise:
I have no international experiences at this time.
Ms. Stephanie Walsh
Project Director
Kinesiology
Education
Contact Information:
10 Royal Oak Drive
Athens GA 30607
706-583-0692
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sdwalsh@uga.edu
Specialization: Nutrition and health, Public Administration, Non-profit sector,
Other International Interests: I am highly intersted in the study of nutrition in the third world country. I am particularly intrigued by vegetarian diets and the effect these diets have on the global heatlh and the environment.
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Thailand
In June of 2005 I spent two weeks in Thailand for a international service-learning program. I traveled with a group called Earth Expeditions, a collaberation project with Miami University and the Cincinnati Zoo. The subject of study was ecology and Buddhism. Looking at both the environmental movement of the past and the present.
Dr. Mary Wandera
Program Director
Institute on Human Development & Disability, Americorps Program
Faculty of Arts and Consumer Sciences
Contact Information:
850 College Station Road
Athens GA 30602
404-384-8318
706-542-4815
mwandera@ihdd.uga.edu
www.ihdd.uga.edu
Other International Interests: I am very interested in collaborating with other UGA units and external parties on research on underlying issues that mitigate international migration; research on levels of humanitarian assistance towards immigrants with disabilities; how international service learning can be used to promote greater awareness/sensitivity about international migration and developing/implementing service learning opportunities for immigrants with disabilities. I am also interested in developing service learning exchange trips to East Africa to initiate awareness programs for people with disabilities who are stigmatized.
Languages Spoken: Afrikaans, Swahili, Luyhia and Luo
International Experience and Expertise:
Coordinated technical assistance and humanitarian relief for refugees and displaced persons through non governmental organizations. Program management for federally funded grant programs in national service.
Mrs. Mary Wandera
Program Director
Institute on Human Development & Disability, Americorps Program
Faculty of Arts and Consumer Sciences
Contact Information:
850 College Station Road
Athens GA 30602
404-384-8318
706-542-4815
mwandera@ihdd.uga.edu
www.ihdd.uga.edu
Other International Interests: I am very interested in collaborating with other UGA units and external parties on research on underlying issues that mitigate international migration; research on levels of humanitarian assistance towards immigrants with disabilities; how international service learning can be used to promote greater awareness/sensitivity about international migration and developing/implementing service learning opportunities for immigrants with disabilities.
Languages Spoken: Afrikaans, Swahili, Luyhia and Luo
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom
Coordinated technical assistance and humanitarian relief for refugees and displaced persons through international development programs with AREP Foundation/UNHCR in Kenya; technical assistance with International Cooperation for Development (ICD) in Namibia, gender sensitive translation and cultural capacity to the Refugee Council in United Kingdom and resettlement services to refugees with International Rescue Committee in United States.
Dr. Jace Weaver
Professor
Religion and Law, Institute of Native American Studies
Franklin College
Contact Information:
120 Summerplace Court
Winterville GA 30683
706-542-1492
706-542-6724
jweaver@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/inas
Specialization: Native American Studies, Religion, Constitutional Law
Other International Interests: I am especially interested in teaching US constitutional law in China and/or Vietnam. China, in particular, is undergoing great legal changes and focusing on what they call
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China, Denmark, France, Vietnam
I have taught US constitutional law to Chinese students and faculty at three Chinese Universities (Beijing Foreign Studies University, Northeast Normal University, and Xiamen University) in May/June 2001 and March 2002. I have lectured on the topic at several other universities in China and in Vietnam. I also taught Asian students and faculty in the subject for two summers at Yale University in the Yale-China Program.
I have organized a UGA study abroad in vietnam for Maymester 2006.
I am in the process of organizing faculty and student exchanges with Universite Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, France and the University of Aarhus in Denmark. In 1977-1978, I attended the Universite of Paris IV.
Dr. Karen Webb
Senior Associate Director
Undergraduate Admissions
Academic Affairs
Contact Information:
105 Stonybrook Place
Athens GA 30605
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kawebb@uga.edu
www.admissions.uga.edu
Other International Interests: Evaluation and analysis of higher education policies and practices in international countries.
Languages Spoken: French, Haitian, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jam
Educational Policy Analysis.
Conducting Technical Assistance workshops on US higher education and how to achieve transferability.
Applied research on higher education systems in international countries.
Mrs. Joanna West
Research Professional I
Center for Family Research
Institue of Behavior Research
Contact Information:
1095 College Station Rd.
Athens GA 30605
706-425-2993
706-425-2985
jren@uga.edu
Specialization: Social Research, Foreign Language Teaching
Other International Interests: Business liasion between mainland China and the U.S.
Languages Spoken: Chinese-Mandarin, Chinese-Wu, Japanese
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China, Japan
2002-2003 Osaka Japan -- Teaching Chinese Mandarian as a second language.
2003-2004 Assist to reccuit native English speaking college graduates to teach English at a private language school in Suzhou, China.
Dr. Mark Wheeler
Professor
Department of Dance
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Contact Information:
302 Dance Building
Athens GA 30602-3653
706-542-4435
706-542-4084
mwheeler@uga.edu
Other International Interests: Along with having interest in continuing my collaborations with dancers in Brazil, I have an interest in taking the re-inventing nature of social dance and the barriers-crossing nature of tap dance to people in eastern Europe and elsewhere. The origins of tap dance and swing dance in the rhythms of Africa; their development in the multi-ethnic tenements of New York City and other cities of the northeast U.S.; their place in the history of jazz music; their "creole" nature, i.e., their very existence as products of the coming together of opposing political-geographic-racial-ethnic forces - these characteristics permit tap dance and swing dance to be wonderful vehicles of personal re-invention and of community-building in regions where people are burdened by ethnic tensions, current and latent. I welcome UGA colleagues and potential external partners to consider how we might collaborate.
Languages Spoken: Portuguese
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Brazil
I have made four visits to Brazil, spending a total of nine weeks introducing Brazilian social dancers to specific styles of ballroom dance/dancesport taught in the international syllabus originating in England in the 1920's and increasingly danced around the world, and studying samba de gafieira, the samba danced by social dancers in the dance halls of contemporary Brazil.
I have an ongoing relationship with students and alumni of the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife. Two students whom I taught in a four-week workshop in 1997 - Manoel Rodrigues and Luiza Helena - have founded a dancesport academy and performance company in the Cordeiro section of Recife. In 2005 I filled a two-week residency with them, setting two pieces of my choreography and consulting them: 1. related to their goals of developing in Brazil an interest in international style dance competition (currently the rage in many parts of the world and a possible Summer Olympic event), and 2. related to their interest in introducing to social dancers in other parts of the world the samba de gafieira (noted above).
Both goals 1. and 2. above will be furthered through the couple's one week residency in the Dance Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT and three week residency in the Dance Department-Ballroom Performance Group, University of Georgia March 13-April 5, 2006. The entire project is funded through grants I have received from the Georgia-Pernambuco Partners, Partners of the Americas, Washington, D.C.; and from Ethel Tison Chaffin, Athens, GA.
Approximately 350 University of Georgia students of dance will have contact with the Rodrigueses during their visit, as will 100 students at BYU and fifty non-UGA social dancers in Athens and Atlanta.
Dr. Fred White
D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor
Agricultural and Applied Economics
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Contact Information:
301 Conner Hall
Athens GA 30602-7509
706-542-0764
706-542-0739
fwhite@agecon.uga.edu
www.geocities.com/fwhite.geo/
Specialization: agricultural economics,
agricultural policy,
economics
Other International Interests: International applied research
Policy analysis
International technical assistance and technical cooperation
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, The Philippines, United Kingdom
International service-learning
Honduras 1993-2005
Mexico 2000-2003
Costa Rica 2006
Cuba 2006
Dr. Andrew Whitford
Associate Professor
Public Administration and Policy
Public and International Affairs
Contact Information:
204 Baldwin Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-2898
706-583-0610
aw@uga.edu
arches.uga.edu/~aw
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Germany, Singapore
Rotary Foundation International Graduate Scholarship, National University of Singapore, 1991-92.
German-American Fulbright Program German Studies Scholarship, “Environmental Protection and Alternative Forms of Energy,” 1999.
Numerous research projects on comparative public policy, including environmental policy, reguatlion, public health, civil society, and political and economic development.
Dr. Howard Wiarda
Department Head & endowed Dean Rusk Chair
International Affairs
Public & International Affairs
Contact Information:
Candler Hall
Athens GA 30602-1492
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uga.edu/intl
Languages Spoken: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
International Experience and Expertise:
Longtime consultant to the Department of State, Department of Defense. International applied research in Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia, South Africa, and Israel. Policy Analysis, Risk Analysis, International Traiing for Businesses, U.S. Foreign Policy.
Dr. Juergen Wiegel
Prof.
Microbiollogy
Art & Sciences
Contact Information:
1000 Cedar Street
Athens GA 30602-2605
706-542-2651
706-542-2651
jwiegel@uga,edu
personal www under construction; Dept.:www.uga.edu/mib/
Specialization: Thermophilic Bacteria => Anaerobes, => Alkalithermophiles and Haloalkalithermophiles: Biodiversity/systematic, Physiology, Ecology, Enzymology, Biotechnology.
Isolation and characterizationof novel bacteria with enzymes of biotechnological potential.
Other International Interests: Any form of cooperation on projects and/or teaching including hands-on courses and classes.
Languages Spoken: German
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Chile, China, Egypt, Germany, Russia, Taiwan
GERMANY Born & raised in Berlin, and Study and PH D (Dr. rer . nat, Dr, habil inMicrobiology, dipl.chem inorganic chemistry) Univ.of Goettingen. Cooperations presently only on a limited scale.
CHILE: visted twice. Samples taken from hot springs, cooperating with Foundation (Jenny Blamey).
EGYPT: Visited twice. Cooperations with Suez Canal University and Institute Mubarak City; Research Project on saline lakes Wadi An Natrun and enzymes from thermophiles
CHINA: Cooperation with Prof. Weilan Shao, Normal University in Nanjing. Hold in 2005 a hands-on workshop 3 weeks,
Dr. Nancy Rothenberg Williams
Associate Professor; Faculty Associate
School of Social Work
Contact Information:
419 Tucker Hall
Athens GA 30602
706-542-5428
706-542-3282
nwilliam@uga.edu
Specialization: clinical social work practices
conflict resolution
service-learning
resiliency/trauma recovery
Other International Interests: I am assuming the leadership of the Argentina program which was formerly under the directorship of Dr. Paul Ammons who is retiring. I will be accompanying the group to Argentina in June
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Argentina, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, United Kingdom
Designed, developed and implemented a service-learning course in Northern Ireland at a peace and reconciliation center focusing on the historical
Ms. Denise Wilson
Information Analyst
Main Library
Systems
Contact Information:
1170 Ashland Drive
Statham GA 30666
770-725-1188
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dfaun@uga.edu
Specialization: computer programming/
training
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Bahamas, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
To this point, my experience in the countries that I have listed has been as a visitor. I love to travel and I would like the opportunity to use my technical and teaching expertise internationally.
Dr. Sarah Workman
Assistant Research Scientist
Office of Global Programs
CAES
Contact Information:
312 Hoke Smith Bldg.
Athens GA 30602
706-542-9737
706-542-7905
swokrman@uga.edu
Other International Interests: Collaborative work in Thailand and SE Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia etc.); ATROC in Tanzania.
Interactive programs with Zamorano and other institutions in Central America.
The Caribbean is a region of interest. I would like to promote greater interaction with institutions and greater representation of students from the islands.
Languages Spoken: French, Spanish, Bambara, a little Hindi
International Experience and Expertise:
Focus on enhanced research, instruction and outreach activities for UGA and CAES to assist with docu
Countries: Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Nepal, The Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, The Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, U.S. Virgin Islands
Focus on enhanced research, instruction and outreach activities for UGA and CAES to assist with document review, research and preparation of grant proposals - especially for Thailand & SE Asia and for Tanzania. Work with USDA, the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), CATIE, and others to promote agroforestry and promote global outreach for Soil and Water Conservation.
History: USDA Hurricane Mitch Reconstruction Project, Nicaragua; Scientific Cooperation with the Pan-American University (Zamorano); USAID-Panama, Environment Office, Review of Agroforestry Activities in the Panama Canal Watershed; US Department of Agriculture National Agroforestry Center, Coordinated global program for technical assistance and outreach in agroforestry; included mid-term assessment of SANREM activities in the Philippines; Participation in SE Asia Alternatives to Slash and Burn workshop in Bogor Indonesia; Field assessment of USAID activities in Uganda; Assistance with program development in Western Rwanda, Consultation with program staff in Guatemala, Haiti, Albania/ Chemonics International, USAID-Romania, Eastern Europe Bureau and Global Bureau; West Africa with Winrock International Institute for The On-Farm Productivity Enhancement Program (OFPEP) in Senegal and The Gambia; Research Associate, Instituto Nacional da Pesquisas Amazonas and Smithsonian Institution, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil; Research Associate, Institut Senegalaise de Recherche Agricoles, Dakar, Senegal; Burkina Faso, Peace Corps Volunteer.
Dr. Xiaobai Yao
Assistant Professor
Geography
Franklin
Contact Information:
Room 204, GG bldg
Athens GA 30602
706-583-0326
706-542-2388
xyao@uga.edu
www.ggy.uga.edu/people/faculty/xyao/
Languages Spoken: Chinese-Mandarin
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: China
Research experience ( on decision support systems) with Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Land Use Planning and Administration. 1996-1997
Mr. Andrew Zawacki
Assistant Professor
English & creative writing
Franklin College of Arts & Sciences
Contact Information:
Department of English
Athens GA 30606
706-542-3434
706-583-0806
zawacki@uga.edu
Specialization: Poetry
Languages Spoken: French
International Experience and Expertise:
Countries: Australia, France, Ireland, Slovenia, United Kingdom
I have studied in England (1994-1996 at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar), Scotland (1996-1997 in St. Andrews), Australia (2000-2001 as a Fulbright Scholar in Melbourne), and France (2004-2005 on an exchange fellowship at Paris IV-La Sorbonne). I also held a literary fellowship in Slovenia (1997) and traveled throughout the former Yugoslavia. | 
