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Study Center Liaison Officers and Staff
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 St. MichaelProfessor Peter Wickham, Liaison Officer
University of West Indies
Introduction pending |
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 VancouverCatherine Beaumont, M.Ed Program Liaison Officer
University of British Columbia
Katherine has led Go Global since 1998. In the past five years the program has doubled in size, moved to a new location and expanded to include traditional exchange, study abroad, UBC terms abroad, international co-op and internships and international service learning. Katherine also works closely as a member of the International Management Team in the VP Students portfolio at UBC, guiding internationalization programming at UBC and providing direction and advice on international initiatives related to UBC students. UBC coordinates the U21 Student Mobility Network through Go Global.
Prior to this role, she was Associate Director at the UBC Centre for Intercultural Communication where she led the development of the UBC Postgraduate Certificate in Intercultural Studies (CIS) and consulted for the corporate and educational sectors. CIS is a combination face-to-face and online postgraduate program for professionals practising internationally or in multicultural communities. The face-to-face components of the program have been offered across Canada, in Australia, France and the United States. Participants come from around the world to understand the dynamics of intercultural relations and build practical skills to participate effectively in intercultural workplaces and communities.
Corporate projects included the recruitment and retention of diverse staff and career pathways for minority staff in multinational organizations. Educational projects included the training of staff, internationalization strategy, and customized programs. Katherine has published intercultural coursework and pedagogical materials in English and in French used in the Canadian school system.
Her research interests include: international learning outcomes, cultural competencies, internationalization and |
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 ConcepciónProfessor Emilio Rivano Fischer, Liaison Officer
Universidad de Concepción (UDEC), Chile, Spanish Department
Director, Programa de Lengua y Cultura, Facultad de Humanidades y Arte, UDEC
EAP Liaison Officer, EAP
Professor Rivano Fischer earned his Ph.D. from the University of Lund, Sweden, where he taught during the eighties and early nineties. He was a Visiting Scholar and Research Associate at UC-Berkeley in the late eighties. He has been Professor of Linguistics at UDEC Spanish Department since the mid nineties, where he's held several positions, such as director of the Ph.D. and the M.A. Programs of Linguistics and Director of Government and World Bank Educational Development Projects. His areas of interest include linguistic theory, semantics, cognition, and philosophy of language. Some recent books of his are: De la Argumentación (1999), Contra Humanistas (1999), Seven Lessons on Metaphor (2002), De las Palabras (2003), Semántica, Discusión General y Glosario Básico (2003), Lenguaje y Cognición (2004), Lógica Uno, de los Términos y de las Proposiciones (2004), De las Expresiones Idiomáticas (2004.) |
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 San JoséProfessor Jeanina Umaña, Liaison Officer
Universidad de Costa Rica
Professor Jeanina Umana was on the faculty at the University of Costa Rica (School of Modern Languages and Graduate Programs in General
and Applied Linguistics)until she retired in 2003. Her fields of interest
include cross-cultural communication, translation, and both EFL and SFL.
Professor Umana studied in the U.S. and Europe and has been associated with several exchange programs at the University of Costa Rica, both as a language instructor and as a cultural advisor to foreign students. She has coordinated EAP's Intensive Language Program since its inception in 1987. She is currently with EAP on a full time basis and remains active as a professional translator. In may 2001, Professor Umana attended the Study Center Director's General Orientation in Santa Barbara. |
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MonteverdeDr. Frank Joyce
Monteverde Institute
Introduction pending |
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 LegonProfessor Irene Odotei, Liaison Officer
University of Ghana
Prof Irene Korkoi Odotei is an associate professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Ghana, Legon and held Research fellowships at some universities including University of Leiden, The Netherlands, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Universities of Trondheim and Bergen, Norway, and University of California, Los Angeles, U. S. A. among others. She was Acting-Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, and Legon, 1998-2002, Senior Tutor of Volta Hall for eleven years and Hall Warden of Volta Hall for six years. She is the President of the Historical Society of Ghana, a member of The Judicial Council of Ghana, and a member of the Presidential Commission on Chieftaincy Affairs. She is also the Vice President of the United Bible Societies, Africa Region. She has directed many research projects such as the Asafo History Program, Tradition and Modernity in Ghana's History and Development Project, (a collaborative project between University of Ghana and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim) Governance, Culture and Development Project among others. Her research interests and publications include; Translation of Danish sources on Ghana's History; Archival research on Afro European relationships from the fifteenth to the twentieth century; The Artisanal Marine Fishing Industry; and Traditional Governance in Africa.
She has convened and participated in several conferences, workshops, organized exhibitions, and produced documentaries on traditional governance and chieftaincy in Africa.
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 CUHKProfessor Siu Wah Yu, UOEAP Liaison Officer
Music Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Siu Wah Yu had five years of working experience in the Hong Kong media and music circle before he went abroad for his graduate studies in the early 80's. He holds an M.A. in ethnomusicology from Queen's University, Belfast, and a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University. As a graduate student, Yu served the Harvard International Office as their Orientation Officer every summer. He returned to Hong Kong in 1993 and began teaching at his alma mater, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Yu is now an associate professor in music and the program coordinator of the International Asian Studies Programme and Liaison Officer for EAP at CUHK. His research interests range from organology, instrumental music, Qing music history, and the music of Cantonese opera to the music of Hong Kong popular culture in relation to politics and identity. He has been teaching courses on Chinese Music History, Ethnomusicology, Instrumental Music and Musical Instruments, and Music and Literature. In May 2002, Professor Yu attended the Study Center Directors' General Orientation in Santa Barbara. A frequent lecturer and performer in the campuses of US, Yu was a Freeman Artist In Residence of the Music Department, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, in November 2004. |
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 Seoul, South KoreaProfessor Young-Seok Kim, Liaison Officer
Yonsei University, Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Professor Young-Seok KIM has been supervising the Seoul Study Center for more than 15 years and is a distinguished scholar of journalism and mass communication in Korea, publishing many articles and papers in his related field. He also participates in many activities and organizations associated to communication, domestically and internationally. He obtained his B.A. in Mass Communication at the College of Social Science in Yonsei University and a M.A. and Ph.D. at the Department of Communications in Stanford University. While performing his role as the Liaison officer he currently holds the position of Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Yonsei University as well as the President of The Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies.
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MoreliaProfessor Miguel Garcia Silva, Resident Program Director
Summer Program Introduction pending |
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AucklandProfessor Ivan Reilly, Liaison Officer
Born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand, Professor Ivan Reilly has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a higher doctorate, DSc, in Mathematics from Victoria University of Wellington. He has been a member of the academic staff of the University of Auckland since 1971. He has held Visiting Fellowships at three British Universities - Warwick, Oxford and London (University College), and at the University of Michigan. In 1987 he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UC Davis. His teaching and research interests are in Mathematics (Topology) and Mathematics Education. He has been the Liaison Officer for the New Zealand EAP Study Centre since January 1996. |
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 Quezon CityProfessor Donald D. Goertzen, Liaison Officer
Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA
Donald D. Goertzen has lived and worked in the Philippines for a number of years and is currently conducting research for his Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. His dissertation deals with the "moral language" of Christian clergy in the Philippines who supported the underground revolutionary movement in the 1970's and 1980's. He holds a Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley in addition to a B.A. in Religious Studies from Fresno Pacific University. In May 2001, Professor Goertzen attended the New Study Center Directors' General Orientation in Santa Barbara. |
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SingaporeAlbert Teo
National University of Singapore
July 1, 2005 Albert Teo is an associate professor in the Department of Management & Organization, NUS Business School, and National University of Singapore. He concurrently holds a joint appointment in the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore, and serves as the assistant director of that programme. He obtained his PhD from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. |
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 NatalProfessor Elizabeth Oehrle, Liaison Officer
University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban
Professor Elizabeth Oehrle, Academic-Liaison Officer for Univ. of Calif in Durban since 2001, is Honorary Research Associate of the Music School at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban. Her career began as Associate Dean of Students at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York where she completed a BMUS. along with a BA History from Hood College and an MA Education from Syracuse. The urge to travel took her to Africa where she earned a PhD from UKZN, and an affair of the heart kept her in Africa. Publications and research focus on the promotion of intercultural education through music and creativity. A few of her many initiatives while at UKZN are the establishment of the Community Arts Project for historically disadvantaged people, the raising of funds for the first African Music/Dance Post in South Africa, and the organization of the first National Music Educators Conference of all tertiary educators in South Africa in 1985.She chaired International Commissions and served as president of national music organization in South Africa. Recently her most exciting assignment was that of lecturer on board the Floating University of the Institute of Shipboard Education out of the Univ. of Pittsburgh, her home town. |
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Professor Bill Guest, Academic Liaison
University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg
W.R.(Bill) Guest has worked in the University of KwaZulu-Natal (formerly the University of Natal) for 38 years and is in his second year with the Study Center.As an historian his research and teaching specialization has been South African history, with a particular interest in the Natal and Zululand region.He is a Professor Emeritus of the University and is currently teaching in the Humanities Access Program, which is designed to bridge the gap between high school and university admission for academically disadvantaged students.' |
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Nick Shepherd, Academic Liaison
University of Cape Town
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BarcelonaProfessor John C. Wilcox, Study Center Director
University of Illinois
July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2006 Professor of Spanish and Head of Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000-2004). Vice-President President (2004) and President (2005) of the American Association of the Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. President of the 20th-Century Spanish Association of America (1998-2001). Recipient of the LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, (1999-2000), and of LAS Council Award for the "Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor" (1987-88). Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (1976). B.A. (Hons) University of Bristol, England (1965). Resident Director of the California-Illinois Year Abroad program in Barcelona, Spain (1986-88, 1994-96). Actively involved in the yearly-review and periodical creation of programs in Spain and Spanish-speaking America, and in advising UIUC undergraduates to incorporate study abroad in a Spanish speaking-country into their curricula.
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TaipaiProfessor Li-Ling Tseng, Liaison Officer
National Taiwan University
Prof. Li-ling Tseng has been on the faculty of Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures, National Taiwan University, since 1988. She has been teaching undergraduate courses like "Freshman English," "Research Writing," "Fiction," "British Literature since 1900," and graduate seminars on Samuel Beckett and James Joyce. She has been involved in EAP core course teaching (i.e. "Contemporary Taiwanese Fiction") since 1997 and assumed the position of director since 2001. Her research interest includes modern Irish fiction, British modernism, and modern Taiwanese fiction. To date, she has won twice outstanding teaching awards and research grants for many consecutive years since 1998. |
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 BangkokThanet Makjamroen, Liaison Officer
Thammasat University
Thanet Makjamroen has been teaching at the Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, since 1992. He received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from UC Berkeley in 1991 with full financial support of the Anandhamahidol Foundation, M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Asian Institute of Technology, and B.A. in Economics (First Class Honors) from Thammasat University. His areas of interest include quantitative methods in Economics and Operations Research. He also serves as the Deputy Director of Thailand APEC Study Center and is currently working in a team of advisors to the Royal Thai Government on the Free Trade Agreements with US and Japan. He has been the Liaison Officer for Thailand UC Study Center since 2003. |
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AnkaraProf. Erol Arkun, Liaison Officer
Bilkent University
Introduction pending |
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 AnkaraProf. Dr. Nezih Guven, Liaison Officer
Middle East Technical University
Dr. Guven has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey for almost twenty years. Since 2000, he has been also serving as the Assistant to Rector, responsible from academic programs, Registrar's Office, international students and exchange programs. He is currently a member of Interuniversity Council of Turkey and a member of the National Bologna Promoters Team. His current research interests include the design, analysis and operation of electric power systems. He received his BS degree from METU, MS and PhD degrees from Ohio State University all in EEE. |
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 HanoiMr. Gerard Sasges, Associate Study Center Director
UCB PhD Candidate, History Department
July 1, 2002 Mr. Gerard Sasges is a Candidate in History at UC Berkeley. He received his B.A., with honors, from the University of Victoria and a Masters in Philosophy from Cambridge University. His research interests are in modern Vietnamese and Southeast Asian history. At this time he has spent two years in Vietnam carrying out his graduate research. As a graduate student, he has acquired considerable teaching and advising experience of undergraduates at UC Berkeley. |
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