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UC Faculty Abroad Profiles
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 MelbourneProfessor Sharon Block, Study Center Director
UCI, Department of History
January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010 Introduction pending. |
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 SantiagoProfessor Isaac D. Scherson, Study Center Director
UCI, Department of Computer Science
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011 Introduction pending. |
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 BeijingProfessor King-Kok Cheung, Study Center Director
UCLA, Departments of English and Asian American Studies
January 1, 2008 through August 31, 2010 King-Kok Cheung received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and joined the English Department at UCLA in the same year. She is currently Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her interests include American Ethnic Literatures, Asian American Literature, Renaissance British Literature, and Comparative Heroic Traditions. She has received several awards including an ACLS fellowship, a Mellon fellowship, a Fulbright lecturing and research award to Hong Kong, a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to Germany, and a resident fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. Her publications include Articulate Silences (1993), Words Matter (2000), An Interethnic Companion to Asian American literature (1996), and The Heath Anthology of American Literature (2002-2007). She is currently working on a monograph on transnational and interracial approaches to Chinese American literature.
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ShanghaiProfessor Christopher Connery, Study Center Director
UCSC, Departments of Literature and History
January 1, 2010 through August 31, 2011 Introduction pending. |
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 CairoProfessor Fadi A. Fathallah, Study Center Director
UCD, Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2011 Fadi Fathallah is an Associate Professor in the department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis. He is a member of the Biomedical Engineering and the Exercise Science Graduate Groups at UCD. He directs the Occupational Biomechanics Laboratory and a member of the UC Agricultural Ergonomics Research Center, the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, and the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety. His research interests revolve around the assessment and prevention of occupational musculoskeletal disorders, especially among agricultural workers in California and in developing countries. He teaches an undergraduate course on Biomechanics and Ergonomics, and a graduate course on Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders. Prior to joining UC Davis in 1999, he spent four years as a Senior Research Associate at the Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and Health in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
Professor Fathallah received a BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University in 1986, a MS in Human Factors Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1988, and a PhD in Occupational Biomechanics/Ergonomics from Ohio State University in 1995. |
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Bordeaux & ParisProfessor Barbara B. Prézelin, Study Center Director
UCSB, Department of Biology, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology (EEMB)
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010 Introduction pending. |
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 LyonProfessor Christopher Newfield, Study Center Director
UCSB, Department of English
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010 Introduction pending. |
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 GöttingenProfessor Margaret Morse, Study Center Director
UCSC, Department of Digital Arts/Film & Digital Media
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010 Introduction pending. |
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 Immersion ProgramsProfessor Thomas Dandelet, Study Center Director
UCB, Department of History
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011 Thomas Dandelet is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in the history of early modern Italy and Spain. He is the author of “Spanish Rome, 1500-1700” (Yale, 2001), winner of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference Roland Bainton prize for best new book in history, 2002 and co-editor of “Spain in Italy, 1500-1700” (Brill, 2007). He is presently at work on a history of the Colonna family of Rome in the early modern period and a history of Renaissance Empire. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome where he held a fellowship in 1999-2000 and a Guggenheimfellow (2007-2008). Professor Dandelet joined the University of California in 2001. |
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 TokyoProfessor Junko Ito, Study Center Director
UCSC, Department of Literature
July 1, 2009 through July 31, 2012 Professor Junko Ito joined the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz in 1986, and is currently the director of the UCSC Linguistics Research Center. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1986, and has since worked on a variety of topics in phonological theory, and on many aspects of Japanese linguistics. Her book, Japanese Morphophonemics, published by MIT Press (2003), focuses on the structure of the phonological lexicon and the prosodic morphology of Japanese. She has held major grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, DAAD (German Academic Exchange), the Japan Foundation, and the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science).
Professor Ito has long-standing connections with ICU, where she received her BA and MA. She is very much looking forward to renewing and expanding her association with ICU and to working with you and your colleagues.
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 Mexico CityProfessor Max Parra, Study Center Director
UCSD, Department of Literature
September 1, 2008 through December 31, 2010 Max Parra holds a PhD from Columbia University and has taught Latin American literature at UC San Diego since 1990. His scholarly work focuses on Mexican literature and intellectual history, including regional cultures and nation building, photography and literature, and border studies. He has published numerous articles on early 20th-century narratives and popular poetics, as well as on modern political literature. His book, Writing Pancho Villa’s Revolution: Rebels In The Literary Imagination of Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2005), explores the politics of representation of popular subjects in post-revolutionary literature. He is currently writing a book on regional memory and history in northern Mexico, based on personal narratives, ballads, and photographic archives. In 2007–2008 he served on the board of the California Council for the Humanities. He is an affiliated faculty of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD and a founding member of UC Mexicanistas, where he serves on the steering committee. Concurrent with his EAP Study Center Director appointment, he holds the position of Executive Director of Casa de la Universidad de California in Mexico. |
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 MoscowProfessor Anatole Leikin, Study Center Director
UCSC, Department of Music
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011 Introduction pending. |
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 Granada & MadridProfessor Björn Birnir, Study Center Director
UCSB, Department of Mathematics
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011 Björn Birnir is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). He obtained his PhD in Mathematics at the Courant Institute in 1981 and held positions at the University of Arizona Tucson, University of California Berkeley and University of Iceland before coming to UCSB. He served as the UCSB coordinator for nonlinear science from 1985-1990. He is currently the director of the Center for Complex and Nonlinear Science at UCSB. His current research interest are: Stochastic nonlinear partial differential equations and turbulence; dynamical systems theory of partial differential equations; mathematical seismology and geomorphology; nonlinear phenomena in quantum mechanical systems; complex and nonlinear models in biology and applications of the above. The papers from the Center for Complex and Nonlinear Science can be found at the website: http://repositories.cdlib.org/cnls/
Björn was the Chair of the UCSB Graduate Council 2004-2005 and he is currently (2008-2009) the Chair of the Council for Budget and Planning. He is an active member of AMS, SIAM and AAAS and chaired the AMS-IMS-SIAM Selection Committee for Summer Conference from 2004-2006. At UCSB he developed programs in Computational Science and in Applied Mathematics. Björn runs a very active research program at UCSB where he has advised 25 Ph.D. students and Postdoctoral Researchers and authored a large number of research papers and monographs.
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 LondonProfessor Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Study Center Director
UCSB, Department of Sociology
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010 Kum-Kum Bhavnani is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Women, Culture, Development Program (Global and International Studies) at UC Santa Barbara. She has recently disseminated her research in the form of a feature length documentary, THE SHAPE OF WATER, narrated by Susan Sarandon (http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com).
Her previous research includes books published by Cambridge University Press, and edited collections published by Sage, Oxford University Press, Zed Press and Routledge (forthcoming).
She received her B.SC from Bristol University (Soc. Sci., Hons.), her MA from Nottinghma University (in Child and Educational Psychology) and her Ph.D from King's College, Cambridge University (Social and Political Sciences). She has been chair of her campus Planning and Budget Committee and has just completed a 2 year term as Vice-Chair of the UCSB Academic Senate.
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