Semester at Sea Faculty 2007

Hi:

I'm posting some of the pics I've received or found, so you can "see" each other before we formally meet in June. Let me know if I've found a picture of someone else, or if you'd like me to switch it (send it to me). Here goes:

Dawn Leigh ANDERSON (Registrar, Assistant Dean)
Dawn is the Director of Diversity and Mentoring in the UVA Women's Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Georgia, and graduate certificates in Women's Studies and Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies. Her dissertation research, which won a national award, focused on understanding adolescent girls' experiences in a feminist mathematics classroom. In her current faculty position at the UVA Women's Center, she devotes her time to the coordination and development of mentoring and diversity programs sponsored by the Women's Center, and teaches courses on women and girls psycho-educational development and local and global feminist activism. She sailed as a faculty member with Semester at Sea in 2002, and spent January 2004 in Thailand on a Fulbright. She also cotaught a course on gender issues in South Korea in summer 2005. Currently she is codeveloping a study abroad program in El Salvador on women's community activism.In her leisure time, she enjoys exercising, spending time with her partner, Timothy Brazill, traveling the world, reading literary fiction, volunteering for the arts, and advocating for social justice.

Jeffrey BLICK (Anthropology)
Jeffrey Blick holds a PhD in Anthropology and Latin American Archeology from the University of Pittsburgh. Currently Associate Professor at Georgia College and State University, where he has served as Latin American Studies Program Coordinator, he has held numerous grants for work in San Salvador, Bahamas and Colombia. His publications, in English and Spanish, include studies on climatic change, vertebrate faunal remains, and pre-Hispanic societies.

Max BRANDT (Musicology)
Max Brandt is Professor of Ethnomusicology (Emeritus) at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his PhD from the Queen's University (Belfast) and served as Senior Academic Officer and Director of International Field Programs of the Institute for Shipboard Education since 1979. He taught Music in Latin America at the University of Pittsburgh and has conducted extensive fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, and Folklore.

Anna BRICKHOUSE (English)
Anna Brickhouse is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She holds a PhD from Columbia University. Her book, Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (Cambridge 2004) won the Gustave Arlt Award as well as an honorable mention from the American Studies Association. She has published in PMLA, American Literary History, and African American Review, among other venues.

John BURKOFF (Executive Dean)
John M. Burkoff, a graduate of the University of Michigan (A.B., J.D.) and Harvard University (LL.M.), is a prolific author, teacher, public speaker, lawyer, and expert witness. Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh since 1976 and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from July, 2000 to January 2004, he has published eighteen books (number nineteen will be published later this year) and over sixty articles in the areas of criminal justice and legal ethics. He was awarded the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award by the University of Pittsburgh, and has been involved with projects relating to human rights, criminal justice, legal ethics, and legal education all over the world. He also holds a faculty appointment at the University of Ghent (Belgium) Faculty of Law, where he has taught most recently as the Chair in Foreign Law. Under the auspices of the U.S. State Department and Embassy in Reykjavik, Burkoff has lectured at the University of Iceland School of Law, the Iceland Bar Association, and the Iceland Judges Association. He has also taught at the University of Belgrade, the University of Nairobi, and Moi University (Kenya), and worked for our Embassies in Burundi and Kenya, and as a consultant for the governments of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ethiopia. He taught legal ethics to Eastern European lawyers in Slovakia in 2005 for US Steel, and worked on a State Department project in Albania last summer, consulting with government officials and training senior police command officers at the National Police Academy. Burkoff has sailed on SAS as a faculty member on the Spring 1990 Voyage, as Academic Dean on Fall 96, and as faculty and Director of the "Law at Sea" Program on Summer 01. Burkoff was a Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard Law School, a past Chairperson of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools, the first Chairperson of Pittsburgh's Citizen Police Review Board, and is currently a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Judicial Independence. He does consulting and expert work today for many American law firms.

Bob CHAPEL (Theater)
Robert Chapel is former Chair of the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, and has been Artistic Director of the Heritage Theater since 1995. He has directed over 100 plays and musicals, including Sweeney Todd, King Lear, Guys and Dolls, Man of La Mancha, Cabaret, and Fiddler on the Roof, and has taught and directed at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (having just received a Fulbright to direct "Sweeney Todd" in Moscow). He has also been visiting professor at the University of Tazmania. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Actors Equity and the Screen Actors Guild.

Leo CHAVEZ (Anthropology)
Leo Chavez is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He holds his PhD from Stanford and has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the National Cancer Institute. In 1993 he won the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association. His publications include Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Harcourt Brace 1992) and Covering Immigration (California 2001), along with several dozen articles and book chapters.

Richard COLLINS (Urban Planning)
Richard C. Collins is Sydney Lewis Jr. Professor of Architecture and Planning (Emeritus) at the University of Virginia. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado and taught at Oregon, Berkeley, and Seattle before coming to UVa, where he founded the Institute for Environmental Negotiation. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and has written extensively on urban and environmental planning and policy issues, including Development Expectations and the Zoning Power (1992) and America's Downtowns: Growth, Power, and Preservation (1991).

Jean COOPER (UVa Librarian)
In her nearly twenty-five years as a librarian at UVa, Jean Cooper has worked as a technical services librarian, a systems librarian, as associate director of Interlibrary Services, and currently, as Library Grants Officer and Genealogical Resources Specialist. She earned her Bachelor's degree in history and Spanish from Alma College, in Alma, Michigan, and her M.L. (Master of Librarianship) from the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, SC. Jean enjoys travel, and has visited (among other places) South Africa, Egypt, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Romania, Czech Republic, and rounded Cape Horn in 2002. In the meanwhile, Jean has been interested in library services for distance education for some time, and presented a paper entitled "A Model for Library Support of Distance Education in the U.S." at the 6th (1999) International Conference on InterLending and Document Supply in Pretoria, South Africa; and "Library Service for Distance Learning Programs in Engineering" at the 1999 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, at Clemson University. Her most recent publications are Virginia Genealogy; A Guide to Genealogical Resources at the University of Virginia (2005) (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/genealogy/), and A Genealogical Index to ... Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations (2003). She is currently working on a book entitled Charlottesville and Albemarle County; an Historical Guide to Central Virginia.

Steven DICKSTEIN (Business)
Steven Dickstein is Senior Lecturer at the Fisher College of Business of the Ohio State University. He holds an MBA from Rutgers, and has had more than thirty years' experience in industry, including 19 years as Director of Planning and Business Development in Latin America, Asia, and Europe for Borden, Inc. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Aerospace Engineering.

Chris DUNLAP (TA, Latin America Today)
Chris Dunlap holds his MA in Latin American History from the University of Virginia, where he recently completed his thesis on the intellectual and political beginnings of Mexico's peaceful atomic energy policy. Though he studied in Valencia, Spain, in fall 2004, he has never been south of Nogales, Mexico. An avid pianist, Chris also enjoys the intake and output of music in many forms.

Karen FRAZIER (TA, Spanish conversation)
Karen Frazier, a native of North Carolina, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Spanish and Psychology in 2000. Before beginning her M.A. at the University of Virginia in 2005, she conducted research on studies related to education and public health. In 1998, she spent a semester in Sevilla, Spain, and has completed master's level coursework at Middlebury College's Summer Language School. Since beginning the M.A., Karen has had experience teaching both introductory and intermediate levels of Spanish at UVa. Specific areas of research interests include modern Latin American and Spanish narrative and film.

José FUENTES (Environmental Sciences)
José Fuentes is Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences and Cavalier's Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia. Winner of the 2006 State Council of Higher Education Award for excellent teaching, he holds a PhD from the University of Guelph and has published widely in journals such as the Journal of Applied Meteorology, Journal of Geophysical Research, International Journal of Biometeorology, and Ecological Applications.

Carmen GARCÍA ARMERO (TA, Spanish conversation)
Carmen García Armero is a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. García Armero holds a BA from the University of Valencia (Spain), and an MA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has extensive experience teaching courses in Spanish language, literature, and culture; in 2004-2005 she won the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Award from the University of Virginia's Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Her principal area of interest, as well as her recent research, has been in the field of contemporary Peninsular narrative. Her other research interests include 20th - and 21st-century Spanish fiction, the relationship between literature and the visual arts, film, and gender studies. In addition, she has taught in the University of Virginia’s program in Valencia and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s program in Madrid.

David T. GIES (Spanish, Dean)
David T. Gies is Commonwealth Professor of Spanish and former Chairman of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. Professor Gies holds a BA from Penn State University and an MA and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. An expert on the literature of Enlightenment and Romantic Spain, and contemporary Spanish film, Professor Gies has published twelve books and critical editions of Spanish literature, including ‘The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture’ (1999), ‘Theatre and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Spain’ (Cambridge, 1988) and ‘The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain’ (Cambridge, 1994; Spanish version, 1996), which won honorable mention from Phi Beta Kappa in Virginia. He has authored more than eighty articles and one hundred book reviews, and has lectured at universities in the US, Canada, England, Italy, Germany, France, Argentina and Spain. He edits ‘DIECIOCHO’, a journal dedicated to the study of the Spanish Enlightenment, and has been awarded numerous grants from agencies such as the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Spanish Ministry of Culture. In 1992 he won the University of Virginia Outstanding Teaching Award. In 1999-2000 he served as Chair of the Faculty Senate, and in October 2000 he was awarded the highest recognition presented to a member of the University of Virginia community, the Thomas Jefferson Award. His most recent publication is the ‘Cambridge History of Spanish Literature.’

Janna O. GIES (Assistant Librarian)
Janna Gies holds a BA from Hamline University (St. Paul) and an MLS from Shippensburg State University. A Peace Corps Volunteer in 1968-1970 (Philippines), she has been a librarian, a teacher, and a field director for student trips. Currently, she serves as Assistant to the Editors of the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Ray HERNÁNDEZ-DURÁN (Art History)
Ray Hernández-Durán is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico. He holds a PhD in Colonial Latin American Art History from the University of Chicago and has twice been a Fulbright-Hays Scholar (Nigeria, Mexico). He has served as Curatiorial Assistant at the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Board Member of the Arts of the Americas Institute in Albuquerque. His publications include refereed articles on eighteenth-century Colonial art; he is finishing a book titled El origen del arte entre nosotros: A Historiography of Colonial Art History in Mexico and the United States, 1855–1959.

Alicia LOPEZ-OPERE (TA, Spanish conversation)
Alicia López-Operé comes from Madrid, where she received her B.A. in Spanish Linguistics and Literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2001. She has also studied in summer programs in Paris and Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Her teaching experience includes all levels of language classes; in addition, she has taught in the University of Virginia's program in Valencia (Spain). She received her MA degree from UVA in 2004 and she is currently a Ph. D. candidate (ABD) in Spanish Literature, concentrating in 21th-century Spanish poetry. She has acted in various independent theatre groups in Madrid and is an active member of the Spanish Theatre Group and the Spanish Poetry Workshop at UVA.

Brian OWENSBY (History)
Brian Owensby is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He earned a JD from the University of Michigan Law School and his PhD from Princeton. He has published Intimate Ironies: Making Middle-Class Lives in Brazil (Stanford 1999), as well as articles in the Hispanic American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Urban History, etc. He has been won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and was awarded the UVa Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Prize in 1999.

Ricardo PADRON (Spanish Literature)
Ricardo Padrón is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. With a BA from Virginia, he went on to earn a Masters in Divinity from the University of Chicago and a PhD from Harvard. His book, The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain, was published by the U Chicago P in 2005. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Representations, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Colonial Latin American Review, and Hispanic Review, among other journals. He is Chair-elect of the University of Virginia Faculty Senate.

Patricia (Tricia) REAGAN (TA, Latin America Today)
Patricia Reagan received her B.A in Spanish and Secondary Education from Hood College in Maryland and her M.A. from UVA; she is currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Spanish Literature, with a concentration in contemporary Latin American Literature. Her research interests include the role of the narrator in contemporary fiction, as well the work of Cortázar, Borges and Rulfo. Her article on Cortázar is forthcoming in Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature. She has studied in both Spain and Argentina. Her teaching experience ranges from 100-400 level Spanish courses in language, literature and writing as well as a January-term course on Hispanics in the United States.

Agustín REYES-TORRES (TA, Latin America Today)
Agustín Reyes teaches in the Hispanic Studies Program of the University of Virginia in Valencia. He is currently a doctoral candidate in English Philology at the Universitat de València and is working on his dissertation on the construction of African American subjectivity in the Ethnic American Detective novel. He also holds the M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa, where he concentrated on Chicano literature. He has taught English and Spanish Courses at UVa, Middlebury College, Florida State University, Caxton College, and the University of Iowa, where he was a course coordinator and master teacher. He was a 2000-2001 recipient of the University's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Peter RODRIGUEZ (Economics)
Peter Rodríguez is Associate Professor of Commerce at the Darden School of the University of Virginia. He holds an MA and PhD from Princeton University. He has been an Excellence in Diversity Fellow at the University of Virginia, and has won grants from the British-American Project of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Ford-Rockefeller group at Princeton University. Two teaching awards (Texas A&M and Princeton) recognize his skills in the classroom. He has authored articles and chapters in the Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, International Journal of Business and Economics, and other refereed publications.

Peter SANCHEZ (Politics)
Peter Sánchez is Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas, and is the author of Panama Lost? US Hegemony, Democracy and the Canal (Florida 2007). His articles have appeared in International Politics, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, The Latin Americanist, The International Journal on World Peace, and other journals. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Panama in 1997-1998.

Kinnon SCOTT (Economics)
Kinnon Scott is Senior Economist at the World Bank in Washington, where she specializes in development economics and poverty. She holds a BA from Colby College and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to many years experience working in Central and South America, she has taught at Pitt and published numerous papers and articles on credit, health care, poverty, larbor earnings, and financial markets. She served in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica.

Judith SHATIN (Music)
Judith Shatin is William R. Kenan Professor of Music and former Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Virginia. She earned an M.M. from the Julliard School and a PhD from Princeton University. Recipient of dozens of awards and commissions for her musical compositions, she is the Founder of the Virginia Center for Computer Music. She has earned fellowships from the Virginia Foundation for Creative Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, the McDonald Artist Colony, the Yaddo Artist Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her published work (CDs) include Songs of War and Peace, Sea of Reeds for Clairnet and Electronics, Glyph, Piping the Earth, and Wind Songs, among others.

Stephen SILVERSTEIN (TA, Spanish conversation)
Steven Silverstein (the one on the right) received his BA in Spanish Literature from Rutgers University in 2001. Before beginning graduate studies in Spanish Literature in 2005 at the University of Virginia, he taught high school Spanish. Stephen has been awarded the President's Fellowship and the Summer Foreign Language Institute Fellowship while at UVa.

Luis VALLEJO (Engineering)
Luis Vallejo is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. With a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, he has been a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge. He is the editor of Fracture Mechanics Applied to Geotechnical Engineering and Engineered Contaminated Soils and published more than 125 refereed journal articles and chapters on engineering and the environment. He is a member of the editorial board of Engineering Geology.

Top picture: Janna GIES (Assitant Librarian) in front of the Explorer