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Australia Melbourne Professor Russell L. Jones, Study Center Director UCB, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2008 Russell Jones completed his BSc and PhD degrees plant biology at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. After a postdoctoral at the Michigan State University Plant Research Lab, he joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty as an Assistant Professor of Botany in 1966. At Berkeley Professor Jones teaches undergraduate classes in biology and plant physiology as well as graduate seminars in plant biochemistry. He particularly enjoys mentoring both undergraduate and graduate students. Jones was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 to study at the University of Nottingham, received an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist award in 1986 to study at the University of Gottingen, was a RIKEN Eminent Scientist at RIKEN, Japan, in 1996, and was awarded a Sir Frederick McMaster Research Fellowship to study at the CSIRO, Canberra in 2006. In addition to his research program that focuses on how plant hormones function to regulate growth and development, Jones has served as an editor of several journals and has co-authored a successful textbook on plant biochemistry and molecular biology. He is currently working on a revision of this book and on a new volume directed at undergraduates in plant biology. Jones chaired the Botany Department at UC Berkeley from 1981 to 1986 and was president of his professional society, the American Society of Plant Biologists, from 1993-1994. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001 and a Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biology in 2007. He has received Honorary Doctorates from the Mendel University of Agriculture, Czech Republic and the University of Toulouse, France.

Brazil Rio de Janeiro Professor Steven M. Helfand, Study Center Director UCR, Department of Economics August 1, 2006 through July 31, 2009 Steven Helfand received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. He was a UC EAP student in Mexico City as an undergraduate, and a Fulbright scholar in Brazil as a graduate student. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Economics at UCR since 1995. His research focuses on rural poverty and agricultural policy in Brazil. In April, 2007 he organized a large international conference in Brasilia on “Rural Poverty in Brazil: the Role of Public Policy.” Several recent publications include: “The Impact of Policy Reforms on Rural Poverty in Brazil: Evidence from Three States in the 1990s,” “The Impact of Sector-Specific and Economy-Wide Policy Reforms: The Case of Brazilian Agriculture, 1980-98,” and “Farm Size and the Determinants of Productive Efficiency in the Brazilian Center-West.”

Chile Santiago Professor Heidi Tinsman, Study Center Director UCI, Department of History January 1, 2007 through June 30, 2009 Introduction pending.

China Beijing Professor King-Kok Cheung, Study Center Director UCLA, Departments of English and Asian American Studies January 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009 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.

China Shanghai Professor John C. Jamieson, Study Center Director Emeritus, UCB, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures July 1, 2004 through December 31, 2009 John Jamieson is Emeritus Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Berkeley where he received academic degrees through the PhD. His scholarly focus is on 9th through 13th century China, in particular cultural influences between China and northern neighbors who would occupy China in whole or part for nearly all of the last millennium. His collateral focus on applied linguistics has produced several widely used Chinese language texts. He studied as a graduate student at National Taiwan University, Seoul National and Koryo Universities, and has been Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Kyoto and Peking Universities as well as at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In service to the Education Abroad Program, he was founding director of the Peking University (1986-88) and Shanghai Study Centers (2004-present) as well as of the California House – Shanghai (2007-present). He also chaired a committee that led to the establishment of the Yonsei University Center in the early ‘90s. On secondment from Berkeley at the time diplomatic relations were reestablished between the US and China, he served for two years in Beijing at the US Embassy (1979-81) as Academic Attaché.

Egypt Cairo Professor Nuha Khoury, Study Center Director UCSB, History of Art and Architecture July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2008

France Bordeaux Professor William M. Chandler, Study Center Director UCSD, Department of Political Science July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008 After completing his undergraduate education at Cornell University, William Chandler studied in France for two years, first at l’Université de Caen, and then at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971. His research has concentrated on the study of European politics, with special interests in French, German, and Italian government as well as the European Union. Publications include Public Policy and Provincial Politics, Federalism and the Role of the State, and Challenges to Federalism: Policy-Making in Canada and West Germany, plus numerous journal articles and book chapters on party government, Christian Democracy, party system change, European integration and immigration policy. Prior to joining the Political Science Department at UCSD in 1997, Professor Chandler chaired the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada. He also has served as guest professor in Germany, at Tübingen and Oldenburg Universities. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of German Politics and The Journal of European Integration. He was previously Research Director for the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, and served as President of the Conference Group on German Politics, 2002-2004, the national association for specialists on German politics. During 2004, while on leave in Paris, he focused on Europe’s New Populism. In 2005-06, Chandler served as Interim Director of the Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies at UCSD. (wchandler@ucsd.edu).

France Lyon Professor Robert Maniquis, Study Center Director UCLA, Department of English July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2008 Professor Robert Maniquis has been a UC faculty member since 1967. He works primarily on late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English, French, and German literature and has written or edited books and essays on Diderot’s Encyclopédie, British radical culture, drugs and literature. He also writes book and film reviews for the French journal Critique. He is currently working on a study of violence and sacrifice in literature of the late eighteenth century. He has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Currently he is a Research Associate at the Centre d’Etude de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe at l’Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne).

France Paris Professor Efrain Kristal, Study Center Director UCLA, Departments of Comparative Literature, Spanish & Portuguese July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2008 Professor Efraín Kristal joined UCLA in 1991 and is currently chair of UCLA's Department of Comparative Literature. His scholarly interests range from Latin American literature to French Philosophy and aesthetics. His most recent book, Invisible Work: Borges and Translation, studies Jorge Luis Borges's translations from French, English, German, and Italian to understand the creative process of a major twentieth century writer. He is currently working on a project on aesthetics and literature that engages the writings of French, German, and Anglo-American philosophers. Professor Kristal is an alumnus of the UC-EAP program in France. He attended the University of Montpellier in 1978-79 during his Junior Year Abroad from UC-Berkeley while working on his BA in comparative literature. Subsequently he studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (rue d'Ulm), and received a Masters's degree in philosophy from the University of Rouen. He holds a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from Stanford University. Professor Kristal has been a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow a the Institute for Advanced Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia, a Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Göttingen, and a Visiting Scholar at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

Germany Göttingen Professor Todd Kontje, Study Center Director UCSD, Department of Literature July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2008 Todd Kontje received his PhD in German Literature from Princeton University in 1984. After teaching for several years at Columbia University in New York, he joined the Literature Department at UCSD in 1991, where he is Professor of German and Comparative Literature. He has taught German literature of all periods and has published books on the German novel, realism, women writers, and Orientalism. Kontje has received research grants from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim foundation. His most recent scholarship focuses on the work of Thomas Mann.

Hungary Budapest Professor Colin Quigley, Study Center Director UCLA, Department of World Arts and Cultures July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2008 Colin Quigley joined the Dance Department faculty of UCLA in 1987. He is currently an Associate Professor in World Arts and Cultures as well as the Department of Ethnomusicology. Quigley has research interests in European and European-American traditional music and dance, and specializes in folklore, ethnochoreology, and ethnomusicology. He has taught in the Folklore Department of Memorial University, Newfoundland, and was a post-doctoral research fellow at its Centre d'Etudes Franco-Terreneuvien. Quigley has taught and performed Anglo-, Celtic-, and Franco-American traditional music and dance throughout the United States and Canada. His monograph, Close to the Floor: Folk Dance in Newfoundland (1985), is an investigation of relationships between dance forms and dance events. Quigley's book, Music From the Heart (1995), examines the interplay of creativity and tradition in the composition of French Newfoundland fiddle music. Quigley was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to Romania during 1997-98, and served as curator for the Romanian program in the 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. He is currently investigating the impact changes in ideologies of national and ethnic identity have on folklore performance in post-communist Europe. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Memorial University, Newfoundland.

India Delhi Professor, Vinay Lal, Study Center Director UCLA, Department of History July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2009 Vinay Lal joined the history faculty at UCLA in 1993 after earning his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He holds a joint appointment in Asian American Studies and is also Chair of the South Asia Interdisciplinary Program (IDP). Vinay was raised in India, Japan, Indonesia, and the US, and, appropriately enough, among his present interests is the question of how to theorize diasporas, and the particular trajectories taken by the worldwide Indian diaspora. He also writes widely on Indian history, the popular and public culture of India, global politics, and the politics of knowledge systems. He also has a column on American affairs in the "Economic and Political Weekly", India's most respected left-wing journal. His most recent books include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (London: Pluto Press, 2002), The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Oxford, 2003), Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture (Penguin, 2005), Introducing Hinduism (London: Icon Books, 2005), and, co-edited with Ashis Nandy, The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century (Viking Penguin, 2005).

Italy Immersion Programs Professor Marina Pianca, Study Center Director UCR, Department of Hispanic Studies July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2009 Professor Marina Pianca joined the University of California Riverside in 1990. She is currently Professor of Latin American Studies, Theatre, Film and Visual Culture and former Chair of the Latin American Studies Program. She came to UCR after having taught in Universities in Argentina, Panama, and the Eastern United States. Professor Pianca received her Ph.D from UCLA in Romance Linguistics and Literatures. While at UCLA she also pursued an MFA in Film and Television. Also trained at the Université d’Aix-Marseille and at the Sorbonne, she is well versed in the articulations of Latin American, European and United States cultures. After serving as co-curator of the First International Latin American Theatre Festival in San Francisco, California, in 1972, the American Theatre Association awarded her a Letter of Commendation for “having established the first bridges between Latin American and Chicano/Latino theatres in the United States” thus joining the pioneers of a then emerging discipline in the United States: Latin American Theatre. Since then she has published several books on Latin American Theatre and Cultural Studies, including Testimonios de Teatro Latinoamericano which enters into dialogue with the theatre and performative practices that emerged in extreme circumstances: concentration camps in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, war zones in Nicaragua and Peru, women’s prisons, exile and neo-exile. Since 1984 she is founder and editor of the journal Diogenes: Anuario Critico del Teatro Latinoamericano. Professor Pianca also undertook Full Psychoanalytic training and practiced for close to a decade in California. Her current book project, The Dislocated Self addresses the many forms of dislocation present in this “globalized” Post-Cold War era –from psychic dislocations produced by profound violence to hope, to geographic, historical, cultural and ideological disarticulations of previous places of attachment, In this work, she explores both the causes and the impact of these dislocations on memory, identity, cultural production, social engagement and power.

Italy Rome Professor Marguerite Waller, Study Center Director UCSC, Department of Literature August 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008 Marguerite Waller is Professor of Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside, where she has been on the faculty since 1990. She previously taught at Amherst College. She received her B.A. from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her international experience includes three Fulbright Grants, the first to Italy, the second to France, and the third to Hungary. She has co-organized two major international conferences at UC Riverside, and she convened a transnational feminist resident research group at the UC Humanities Research Institute in 1999. Her research interests include Dante, Petrarch, Renaissance Italian literature, transnational film and media, feminist and critical theory, and contemporary women’s activism around the world.

Italy Siena Professor Antonio Artese, Associate Study Center Director UCSB, Department of French and Italian Effective July 1, 2003 Antonio Artese, born in Italy in 1961, is the founder and Musical Director of the international Adriatic Chamber Music Festival, which is held in Termoli and Bonefro, Italy each summer. He has been much sought after in Europe as a professional pianist and as a chamber music and lieder recitalist. A former student of Maestro Massimo Marzi and Bianca Maria Orlando in Rome and of the great Romantic virtuoso Sergio Fiorentino, in Naples, he captured First Prize in the Rachmaninov International Piano competition (1985) and received similar distinction by the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation (1992) in Santa Barbara. After earning his diploma in piano performance from the Conservatorio "Santa Cecilia" in Rome (1983), he studied Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Chieti, Italy (Laura Magna cum Laude, 1986) and subsequently branched into musicology at the University of Bologna (1987-91). In December 2000, Mr. Artese has been awarded the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance by the University of California at Santa Barbara. Composer and arranger, he has recorded several albums and participated in various musical projects, in the United States and in Europe.

Japan Meiji-Gakuin Professor Janet S. Shibamoto Smith, Visiting Professor UCD, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Group in Linguistics April 1, through July 31, 2008 and September 1, through December 31, 2008 Janet Shibamoto Smith is Professor of Anthropology and a member of the Linguistics Group at the University of California, Davis, where she has been on the faculty since 1978. Her academic specialty is Japanese language, gender, and sexuality, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic interaction between ideology and practice. She also is involved in a project aimed at elucidating the cultural models of romantic love through textual analyses of popular print and televisual materials spanning the period 1970 to the present. Recent publications include the edited volume Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People (with Shigeko Okamoto, Oxford University Press 2004). She is currently at work on a book entitled, Texting True Love: Romance in Japan.

Japan Tokyo Professor Susan Blakeley Klein, Study Center Director UCI, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2009 Susan Klein joined the East Asian faculty at UC Irvine in 1992. She is currently an Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, and from 1999 to June 2007 she was Director of the Religious Studies Program, which she helped to found. The main focus of her research has been on the ways that literature and theater attempt to symbolically resolve certain cultural problematics. In so doing, she pays close attention to both thematic and performative aspects of the texts, and how those aspects may be symptomatic of their historical context. As a feminist scholar she is particularly interested in identifying the blind spots and limitations of contemporary western theory when confronted with texts from differing temporal and cultural contexts. She began her scholarly career examining the political and social context for the emergence in the early 1960s of the postmodern dance form Ankoku Butoh (Ankoku Buto: The Premodern and Postmodern Influences on the Dance of Utter Darkness, 1989); she then turned her research focus back in time to medieval Japan and Noh Theater. She is currently working on a two-volume research project. The first volume, (Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan, 2003) examines the development of a group of thirteenth century secret esoteric commentaries that religiously allegorize two tenth-century secular texts, The Tales of Ise and the first imperial waka poetry anthology Kokinwakashu. The second volume (Dancing the Dharma) will be on the use of those commentaries by fifteenth and sixteenth-century playwrights to create Noh plays which function as complex religious and political allegories. In the future she hopes to return to a project (which she began working on in 1989) on changing constructions of gender and subjectivity in Japanese literature and theater, with special attention to the historical development of ghosts and other supernatural creatures. She has been the recipient of a number of fellowships and grants from the Fulbright program (to Japan), Woodrow Wilson/Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian Literature was granted by Cornell University.

Mexico Mexico City Professor Hector Calderon, Study Center Director UCLA, Department of Spanish and Portuguese July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2008 Professor Calderon has been a UC faculty member since 1991. He teaches courses in Spanish American, Mexican and Chicano literature. At UCLA he was founding Chair of the Cesar Chavez Center (1994). He has a doctorate in Latin American Literature with a minor in Comparative Literature from Yale (1981). Prior to coming to UC, he was on the Yale faculty where he also served as Director of Undergraduate Studies for Spanish. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Humanities Center (1986-87) and Visiting Professor at Harvard (1997). Professor Calderon has published widely on Latin American literature, Chicano narrative, and border studies. His current research interests include Mexican popular culture and Mexican American fiction of Los Angeles.

Netherlands Utrecht Professor Emeritus Mattison Mines, Study Center Director UCSB, Department of Anthropology July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008 Mattison Mines (UCSB, Anthropology) has been a UC faculty member since 1970. He has long-time experience teaching about other cultures to undergraduates and has received a number of teaching awards. Professor Mines has served EAP in various capacities including as the Study Center Director of the UK/I Edinburgh Study Center, 2001-2003. Over the years he has served the University in numerous administrative capacities, including serving as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Chair of the Asian Studies Program. A specialist in South Asia, he has published extensively about different aspects of south Indian society. He has been a recipient of many fellowships over the years, including the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1998. Most recently he was a Visiting Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M), in Chennai.

Russia Moscow Professor Viktor K. Zhivov, Study Center Director UCB, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2009 Viktor Zhivov joined the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCB in 1995. He previously taught at Moscow State University, Russia, and, as a visiting professor at UCLA and several German and Italian universities. He retains a position at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since his Berkeley appointment, he has taught there graduate and undergraduate courses in Slavic historical linguistics, and history of Russian literature and culture, history of Orthodox culture (mainly of the medieval and early modern periods) and has participated in various departmental activities (serving as a chair of the Teaching committee, as a member of the Admissions committee and so on). His scholarly interests are broad ranging; they include Russian and Byzantine cultural history, Orthodox Church history and history of medieval Christian religious culture, Russian and Slavic historical linguistics, and language typology. In these fields he has published more than ten books and over two hundred other scholarly contributions. He is presently working on two major projects. One of them is a monumental two-volume history of the Russian written language (the project is now in its final stages); the other deals with sin, salvation and penitential discipline in Orthodox religious history.

Scandinavia (Denmark and Sweden) Copenhagen and Lund Professor W. Mike Martin, Study Center Director UCB, Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2008 Professor Mike Martin has been at UCB since 1992 in the Architecture Department of the College of Environmental Design. He served as the Undergraduate Dean of CED for 11 years and has recently completed a three-year term as Chair of the Department. His teaching and research focuses on the study of practice, collaborative design, work-studies of practice, and storytelling as a means of knowledge transfer. He received a B.Arch. University of Colorado, a M. Arch. University of Washington, Seattle, and a PhD. Arch, University of California-Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a recipient of the 2005 AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Fellowship for Research. He served as President Elect of the San Francisco Chapter of the AIA. Served as editor of Architecture California (AIACC). Received an Honorable Mention in the 2002 NCARB Prize for his Building Stories: A Case Study Analysis of Practice. Current writings include Fundamental Processes in Concurrent Design and Construction, Progress Through Partnerships: The Changing Profession/Changing the Profession, and a book on Building Stories: A Case Study Approach to Practice. He has previously served as Head of Pre-Design Professions Department at Kansas State University, Undergraduate Dean University of Colorado, Boulder, and Head of the Architecture Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Spain Barcelona Professor Jordi Aladro-Font, Study Center Director UCSC, Department of Literature July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2009 Professor Jordi Aladro has been on the UCSC faculty since 1992. He received his Masters´degrees from the University of Barcelona in Spanish Literature (1983) and Comparative Literature (1985) and he earned his PhD from the University at Albany, State University of New York in Spanish Golden Age Literature (1992). He is a member of the Focused Research Group in Pre- and Early- Modern Studies at UCSC, and a member of the Cervantes Society. His scholarly interests are literatures of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, with special focus on Cervantes and religious iconography. He has published numerous articles on Don Quijote, sermons and society, the picaresque novel, female figures of the Bible, etc. He also published several books ranging from Pedro Malon de Echaide to the History of Printing in Girona; his main research interest, however, lies in the figure of Mary Magdalen and the multiple re-readings, manipulations and interpretations through the Reform and Counter Reform periods. He has published widely on this topic.

Spain Granada Professor Natalia Molina, Study Center Director UCSD, Department of Ethnic Studies August 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008 Natalia Molina is a historian by training and has a joint appointment in two interdisciplinary departments, Ethnic Studies and Urban Studies at UCSD. She earned B.A.s in History and Women’s Studies from UCLA and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. Her first book, Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (University of California Press, 2006), explored ways in which race is constructed relationally and regionally and argues that race must be understood comparatively. Her current book project uses an array of archival sources to extend that argument to a different site, immigration law, during a period of peak immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century. Although she has been at UCSD since 2001, she remains a loyal Los Angeles Dodger’s fan.

Spain Madrid Professor Giorgio Perissinotto, Study Center Director UCSB, Department of Spanish and Portuguese January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2009 Giorgio Perissinotto is Professor of Hispanic Languages and Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Santa Barbara. He joined the UCSB faculty in 1976. A native of Italy, he studied in Italy, Spain, Mexico and the United States (Columbia University, M.A., Ph.D.). He moved to California in 1977 and has been Department Chair as well as Member and Chair of several Academic Senate Committees. He has published widely in the fields of Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics, with an emphasis on language variation and the formation of Spanish-speaking communities in the Western United States and in Mexico.

United Kingdom/Republic of Ireland Edinburgh Professor Peter Schiffman, Study Center Director UCD, Department of Geology July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2008 Peter Schiffman has been a UC faculty member since 1980. He received a Ph.D. in Geology from Stanford University in 1978 and a B.S. in Geology from Union College in 1973. He studied at the University of Edinburgh in 1971-1972. Prior to joining the Department of Geology at UC Davis, he taught in the Geology Department at UC Riverside from 1980-1983. He also held a National Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship at NASA’s Johnson Space Center from 1978-1980. At UC Davis, he has been an advisor for the Geology major and the Global and International Studies Minor. He served as Chair of UCD’s Committee on International Studies and Exchanges and as a member of the UC-wide Committee on the Education Abroad Program. He also was Campus EAP Director for UCD from 2002-2006. Professor Schiffman’s research and teaching interests are in volcanology.

United Kingdom/Republic of Ireland London (Bloomsbury) Professor Michael Cowan, Study Center Director UCSC, Department of American Studies July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2008 Michael Cowan is Professor of American Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He has been on the UCSC faculty since 1969. A former Chair of the Universitywide Academic Senate, he has served as a Faculty Representative to the UC Board of Regents and as Chair of the Intersegmental Committee of Academic Senates. He was also a member of the President's Council on the National Laboratories, the Presidential Commission on the Humanities, and the Presidential Commission on Graduate Growth and Support. He has held various administrative positions at UCSC, including Dean of Humanities, Chair of the campus's Academic Senate, and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor. He is a former President of the American Studies Association and a former delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. In 1987 he received the Bode-Pearson Prize from the American Studies Association for distinguished contributions to American Studies. In 1998 he became the first recipient of the Dean E. McHenry Award for distinguished leadership of the UCSC Academic Senate. In 2006 he received the Oliver Johnson Award from the Universitywide Academic Council for outstanding leadership in the Academic Senate. He is presently serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of California Trust (UK). Professor Cowan's primary research areas are in American cultural and literary studies and in academic institutional culture. He has written extensively on American Studies as a cultural and institutional movement.

United Kingdom/Republic of Ireland London (California House) Professor Andrew Hewitt, Study Center Director UCLA, Departments of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2008 Introduction pending.

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