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UC Santa Barbara Go Global Newsletter

Title Go Global Newsletter Spring 2002

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Publication Date 2002-05-01

eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California SPRING/SUMMER 2002 Newsletter for Global & International Studies Program • University of California, Santa Barbara Gurinder Singh Mann Conducts Summer Women, Culture Program in Punjab Studies in and Development THE SUMMER PROGRAM in Punjab Program Examines Studies will launch its sixth year this July and August in Chandigarh, India. Chan- Field Research digarh is located in the Punjab, a fertile area of northern India and Pakistan that RESEARCHERS WHO HAD completed serves as a bread basket to both. The sum- fieldwork in regions including Pakistan, mer study program, led by UCSB Profes- India, Palestine, and Russia shared tips on sor Gurinder S. Mann (Religious Studies/ methodological issues during the recent Global & International Studies), offers an conference, Women, Culture, and Develop- exposure to the region’s literary, musical ment: New Methods and Approaches. and religious traditions, including Chaired by UCSB’s Dr. Nancy Gallagher, Sikhism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. speakers included Mary Hancock of US- Students from beginning to advanced CB’s Anthropology Department, Raka Ray levels study Punjabi, an Indo-European Prof. Mann demonstrates tea growing. UC-Berkeley’s Sociology Department, language, which is spoken by over 70 mil- Shahnaz Rouse of Sarah Lawrence Col- lion people around the world. One stu- program has attracted 80 participants lege’s Sociology Department, Alexia Bloch dent commented that the combination of from 39 universities in seven countries of the University of British Columbia’s lectures and weekend tours helped her to representing 19 disciplines. For more in- Anthropology Department, Sondra Hale understand the Punjab region “better formation or to apply, go to: of UCLA’s Anthropology and Women’s than I could ever learn from a book.” The www.global.ucsb.edu/ Studies Department, and Rema Hammami of Birzeit University’s Anthropology and Women’s Studies Department in Palestine. Barbara Bodine and Mark Juergensmeyer Graduate students attending the workshop were advised to understand Talk Terrorism with Jerry Cornfield deeply the culture of the region they will ©2002 Santa Barbara Magazine. Written by Jerry Cornfield, senior editor for Santa Barbara Magazine, study, find a compelling research ques- April 2002. Excerpt only. tion, and “stay true to themselves.” Fur- FOR YEARS, PROFESSOR Juergensmeyer and she pressed Yemeni officials for a ther, they were urged to state their re- has studied why terrorists do what they do, more thorough investigation. Bodine, a search goals at the outset, share their in- while Ambassador Barbara Bodine has UCSB graduate and newly named mem- terviews, field notes, and final projects made a career out of stopping them from ber of the UC Board of Regents, arrived with the people studied and to resist the succeeding. This spring the two are joining on campus last fall as diplomat-in-resi- homogenization of study subjects’ voices. forces – co-teaching a course at UC Santa dence. One day, Juergensmeyer invited Barbara on terrorism, in a world forever her to his class, where the two performed scarred by the events of September 11, an intellectual duet for a couple of hun- Inside this Issue 2001. Juergensmeyer’s most recent book, dred students. “We realized that we had Terror in the Mind of God this kind of natural Fred and Ginger rou- Bodine & Juergensmeyer Interview 4 [University of California Press, tine going,” says Bodine. Si Meng Global Studies Student 5 2000], took him to global hot spots where I sat down with the two of them at he dined with some of the world’s nastiest Nu restaurant for a power lunch about Sikh and Punjab Studies 6 characters. Bodine was Ambassador to teaching and terrorism. G&IS Professors on the Move 7 Yemen when the USS Cole was bombed, MORE ON PAGE 4 2

Volume 2, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2002 UCSB Delegates Attend West Coast GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Model Arab League Conference EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 2002 MARK JUERGENSMEYER ISLAMIC AND NEAR Eastern Studies In addition to learning parliamentary Director, G&IS Program; Chair, Global (INES) Program sent 11 UCSB students, a procedure in the preparatory course, stu- Peace & Security Program faculty advisor and a graduate student dents developed role-playing, writing, RICHARD APPELBAUM mentor to participate in the West Coast speaking, parliamentary procedure, and Chair, Planning Committee, Global and International Studies MA Program Model Arab League Conference at Cali- critical thinking skills. They studied the KUM-KUM BHAVNANI fornia State University in San Francisco in political affairs of the Arab League, as well Chair, Women Culture and Development April, where this year they represented as preparing to represent Tunisia. MARGUERITE BOURAAD-NASH the North African country of Tunisia. Among the course highlights this Associate Chair, Global Peace & Security Two of the student delegates, Nehall Al- year, Ambassador Barbara Bodine provid- Program Taie and Monica Fawzi won delegate hon- ed students with an expert analysis of BENJAMIN J. COHEN Chair, G&IS Planning Committee; Represen- ors, and two, Tyson Borm and Salim Az- Arab League politics, and also helped stu- tative, International Politics zam were elected as committee chairs. dents formulate resolutions to present at GILES GUNN Adrianne Gallarza, a junior in politi- the conference. Dwight Reynolds, INES Chair, Global Studies Advisory Committee cal science at UCSB, participated for the chair and Director of the Center for Mid- RONALD W. TOBIN Chair, European Studies first time in the meeting. She learned par- dle East Studies, initiated students into ALLAN GRAPARD liamentary procedure in the INEST 194 the rules of parliamentary procedure, and Chair, East Asian Studies class taught by Professor Juan E. Campo Garay Menicucci, Assistant Director of SILVIA BERMUDEZ during winter quarter. She appreciated CMES, discussed U.N. resolutions and Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies how much she learned at the conference Palestinian-Israeli peace accords. Students NANCY GALLAGHER “by hanging out with the kids of Arab interested in participating in next year’s Chair, Islamic & Near East Studies descent in the UCSB delegation. They conference, which will again be held in RICHARD HECHT Chair, Jewish Studies were very gracious and generous with April at CSUSF, should enroll in IN- GURINDER SINGH MANN their knowledge.” EST194 in Fall 2002. Chair, Punjab and Sikh Studies BARBARA HOLDREGE Chair, South Asian Studies BARBARA HARTHORNE Latin American Studies News Co-Director, Center for Global Studies, THE LATIN AMERICAN & Iberian Studies Program rocks both north and south of the ISBER border. Professor Silvia Bermudez is offering a course “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the SCOTT COOPER Director, Education Abroad Program Cultures, Languages, and Literatures of Latin America and Iberia” (LAIS 102/202) during spring ’02 in which students, among notions such as “realismo m·gico,” will also learn STAFF about the history of rock and roll in Chile and Argentina as it grew out of the protest BEVERLY MCCLINTOCK Program Manager against the dictatorships in those countries and in Mexico as a statement of despair [email protected] about the economic situation. In the course, students will examine border rock, par- 893-4718 ticularly the “narcocorrido,” as it deals with the culture of drugs, guns and guerrillas. JODI CUTLER Bermudez, who is also Director of the Latin American & Iberian Studies Program, is Undergraduate Advisor [email protected] pleased about the hiring of three new professors with offerings for the department. Pro- 893-7860 fessor Elida Valarini Oliver was hired as a specialist in Brazilian and Portugese literature. ANDREA WOODWARD Professor William Robinson has accepted an appointment in sociology and will offer Newsletter Editor courses with a focus on Latin America. Professor James Brooks in the history depart- [email protected] 893-8410 ment will offer courses which touch on border studies. “We’re quite excited about the growth in the program as we prepare for becoming a so called ‘Big’ program (we already have an MA program). By establishing our own pro- For articles in the September 2002 gram, we’ll be able to influence the hiring of faculty with a focus on Latin America, as issue of “Go Global,” please send materials by Aug. 15 contact Andrea well as offering our students the benefits granted to Departments and Big Programs,” Woodward, 805-893-8410 or email to: Bermudez said. [email protected]. 3 Global & International Studies Welcomes Human Rights Scholars THE GLOBAL & International Studies earned her Ph.D. in law from the University of Ankara, School Program is delighted to have as distin- of Law in Turkey, where she taught on Roman law, comparative guished visiting professors two leading law, international environmental law and women’s legal status. scholars on human rights issues. Pro- In the 1990s, Elver taught environmental diplomacy as the fessor Richard Falk, whose book, Pred- UNEP Chair at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic atory Globalization, has been called Studies in Malta. She also served as Legal Advisor to the Turkish “one of the most important modern government on environmental and women’s issues, later study- works on human rights,” said modestly ing as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann that he “fell into” his role as a leader in Arbor, and as a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. She has Professor Richard Falk human rights. published several articles on environmental law and women Falk explained that the current issues in Turkey. Recently, she has published a book entitled anti-globalization movement is similar to the labor movement of Peaceful Uses of International Riv- the 19th Century. “In the early stages, industrial capitalism was ers: The Case of Euphrates and Tigris very predatory towards workers—long hours, unsafe conditions Rivers by Transnational Publishers. and child labor. The labor movement shifted that,” he said. In the This year at UCSB, Falk taught same way, he expects that protests from both right and left one course on international human against globalization will help to shift the predatory relationships rights and another on a historical ap- between nations. proach to world order in the global Falk’s wife, Hilal Elver, is also a scholar in human rights, fo- studies program. Before coming to cusing on the international women’s rights movement in the UCSB, he served on the faculty of course she is teaching currently at UCSB. “We raise the question Princeton University for 40 years, retir- of whether we should even be using the term ‘women’s rights,’ as ing in June 2001 as Albert G. Milbank Professor Hilal Elver contemporary feminist critics point out that it’s a male dominat- Professor of International Law and ed concept that only protects those who are powerful.” She ex- Practice Emeritus. In recent years, Falk has served on a number plained that the women’s movement in the and of international commissions including the Independent Inter- Europe has focused on recognition and power in the public national Commission on Kosovo, World Independent Commis- sphere, while the emphasis in “the south,” or lesser developed sion on the Oceans, and the U.N. Human Rights Commission countries, has been on involving women in development projects of Inquiry on Violations in Palestine. Among his recent publica- in their local communities. tions are Predatory Globalization (1999); Human Rights Hori- Elver also taught a course on global environmental politics zons (2000); and Religion and Human Governance (2001). His in winter 2002. Previously, she was adjunct Professor of compar- current research and writing interprets the global political im- ative law at Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, N.J. She pact of the events of September 11, 2001. Law & Society Program Hosts Human Rights Conference “CHANGES IN HUMAN rights practices minishing power of sovereign nation-states definition has been expanded from politi- in the field have happened so rapidly that and the increasing enforceability of interna- cal danger to include danger from the academics are just now catching up.” tional law,” Hajjar said. Hajjar added that unavailability of medical care, which has So says Lisa Hajjar, UCSB Law and So- the goal of the conference was to have aca- led to asylum seekers trying to contract ciety professor and organizer of a recent demics fortify some of the positive develop- HIV/AIDS in order to remain in France. symposium entitled “New Directions in ments and offer criticism of negative trends. Other speakers at the symposium Human Rights.” At the two-day UCSB sym- Sometimes the focus on human included Abdullahi An-Na’im, Law and posium sponsored by the Law and Society rights can have negative, unintended con- Religion, Emory University Law School; Program, speakers touched on dramatic sequences. Professor Miriam Ticktin, An- Sally Engle Merry, Anthropology, Welles- changes in treatment of human rights in- thropology, Stanford, and the Society of ley College; Allen Feldman, Anthropolo- cluding establishment of the ad hoc tribu- Fellows, Columbia University, discussed gy, Institute for Humanities Studies; Sus- nals in Rwanda, the arrest of Chilean dicta- the ramifications of France’s policy on an Coutin, Criminology, Law and Society, tor Augusto Pinochet and the establishment political asylum. In France, asylum may UC-Irvine; Lisa Hajjar, Law and Society, of the international criminal court. be granted if the seeker faces danger upon UCSB, and Jennifer Culbert, Political Sci- “These changes demonstrate the di- deportment to his home country. The ence, Johns Hopkins University. 4 Visiting Lecturers Focus on Global Business, Hydrogen & Ethics PAUL ORFALEA, JIM DALTON was LAURIE HARRIS, one of the first women founder of Kinko’s, hired for the 2001- lawyers in the Federal Public Defender’s Office says he’s “really en- 2002 school year as a in Los Angeles, is currently teaching a Global joying” teaching the Lecturer in the Glo- Studies course in which students will examine Spring 2002 seminar bal & International business ethics, including such issues as whis- on global business. Studies Program. He tle-blowing, bribery, environmental responsi- “The students offer a teaches Global Stud- bilities, reparations for slave labor, and child refreshing view of the world as we discuss ies 2: Introduction to Socioeconomic and labor. She graduated from UC-Berkeley’s current events in the context of global Political Processes. In the honors section Boalt School of Law and wrote the ban on business.” Orfalea, who started Kinko’s in of the course, students will be involved in private club discrimination adopted by the 1970 in Isla Vista near the UCSB campus, tan outreach program with the Santa Bar- Los Angeles City Council. She is a co-author grew the business into one of the “Forbes bara School District. Students will teach of the California law barring impeachment of 500 Biggest Private Companies” with local high school students about hydrogen a rape victim at trial with evidence of the vic- over1100 Kinko’s worldwide. One student energy. Currently, Dalton is President of tim's prior relationships. Taking a sabbatical in the course, Claudia Mendoza (senior in Eco Soul, an organization involved in edu- from her law practice, Harris is researching Global Studies and Spanish) raved that it’s cational efforts to provide secondary level and writing about the rise of women in the the best course she’s had all year. “He brings instruction in Fuel Cell technology and the law profession while serving as managing issues that relate to our real lives,” she said. coming Hydrogen Energy Economy. partner of a closely-held family business.

Barbara Bodine & Mark Juergensmeyer Talk Terrorism CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 JC: How has terrorism that everybody else in the govern- changed? ment and academia did not know BB: When I first started doing about it at all. If we had started terrorism and counter-terrorism, doing counter-terrorism on Sep- we were concerned with the Pales- tember 12, we would be dead meat tinian alphabet soup that was So- JC: Mark, since September 11, viet-sponsored, and hijacked you’ve advised the CIA and the planes. State Department. Why? Don’t they JC: Today, passengers wear have the information they need? Professor Mark Juergensmeyer exploding shoes, like Richard Reid, MJ: It’s for their thought pro- Ambassador Barbara Bodine and pilots tell you to jump on the cesses. You need critical thought person next to you if they act suspicious. both within and outside the government and an aware, alert citi- MJ: It’s a troubling situation. But, some would say it’s the zenry is as important to a sensitive government as having sensi- last line of defense. It shows the desperation at this particular tive people within the organization. If you only interact with the moment in history. same kind of people who are doing the same kind of work and BB: It also shows the real limits of profiling. We’ve gone from thinking in the same kind of box that you are, you never get out examining people with passports from countries that had trouble of that box. getting visas, to Saudis, and if we look ahead, guess what, they’ll look JC: Barbara, this will be your first class. Nervous? at those with European passports. Well, Richard Reid has a Europe- BB: Unlike being a diplomat, here, you can’t keep giving the an name, a valid British passport. He is a bit bizarre looking but you same speech over and over again. And you’re dealing with a can be sure that the next terrorist is going to look like Mark. group that has no frame of reference. The Cold War is ancient JC: Many perceive that our leaders started with a blank slate. history. You have to explain what happened five years ago be- BB: Not true. We’ve been working on terrorism since 1978 at cause at that time students were only in junior high school. It’s least. I remember a conference in the early ‘80s on political Islam. kind of scary in that sense. In the State Department, terrorism was never unsexy. We have MJ: Teaching can be frustrating for people who have had embassies blown up on a regular basis. The fact that the Ameri- practical experience. They regale students with wonderful stories can people discovered terrorism on September 11 does not mean and, as class ends, a student asks, “is that going to be on the exam?” 5 Study Abroad Program Benefits Global Studies Students SI MENG HAD just returned the night close your eyes and listen, you can hear before from two weeks in her native vil- fifteen different dialects being spoken on lage of Dushu in southwestern China. She the street. It’s fascinating that way.” missed the first week of spring classes at At the Chinese University of Hong UCSB, staying to oversee a two-week pro- Kong, she studied philosophy and Japa- gram for eight American high school and nese studies. “The Japanese have such a college students living with host families strong presence and heavy investment in in the agrarian village. Hong Kong, so many classes are taught in So, the senior Global Studies student Japanese, English and Chinese. Japan is was rushed but exuberant as she talked practically revered as a model for its eco- about her trip to China, studies in Hong nomic power.” As the only international Kong through the Education Abroad Pro- student in the philosophy class on ethics gram, and plans for graduate school. which was taught in Mandarin, Meng Meng chose to study in Hong Kong found it fascinating to hear the students’ during Fall 2001, because “it’s so different views on hot issues including abortion, Si Meng in China with English teacher. from mainland China where I grew up. We genetic engineering, sexuality, terrorism, talk so much about globalization, but and euthanasia. astounded by the opportunities for em- Hong Kong is a place you can see the his- Meng said that the American stu- ployment in China, even for recent col- tory of population flows in the diversity of dents she’d brought to China to work on lege graduates without much work expe- skin colors walking down the street. If you painting the local primary school were rience. “Besides teaching English, there are really interesting Peace Corps projects in environmental issue or ecotourism,” she said. In addition, she recommended, for job listings, that students look at www.chinanow.com, do a web search for non-governmental organizations, “NGOs in China” and check with the consulates and embassies inside China for place- ments with American corporations work- ing in China. Once Meng completes her under- graduate degree, she intends to pursue a Education Abroad Program participants: (left to right) Russel Wong, UCLA, Si Meng, UCSB, Mark Radigan, Ph.D. in cross-cultural education or de- UCSB, Natalie Yeah, UC Berkeley meet at Hong Kong’s Sai Wan Beach. velopment studies.

Donations Support Foreign Study in Spain, Ghana and India In an increasingly complex global an opportunity to hear from your student can do the most good. environment it is critical to support on what he/she is learning. In 2001-02, the Global & Interna- study abroad, expanding cultural under- A donation of any other amount is tional Studies Program sent 66 stu- standing and broadening the minds of helpful and will be applied to the Director’s dents on the UC Education Abroad Pro- tomorrow’s decision-makers. Fund as undesignated gifts are an essen- gram, the highest level of participation In 2002-03, Global Studies stu- tial source of discretionary funding to en- of any UCSB department. dents will study in Ghana, Spain, India able the Global & International Studies For more information on how you and other countries. Your donation of Director to carry out his vision and provide can make a contribution, please contact $1000 will help to create scholarships freedom to take immediate and innovative the Global & International Studies Pro- for these students, as well as giving you action to allocate resources where they gram at (805) 893-8410. 6 UCSB Has Become Leader in Punjab and Sikh Studies UCSB HAS BECOME one of the leading • Visiting scholars at UCSB, including centers for the study of the Punjab—the Iqbal Qaiser, a Pakistani scholar of Sikh culture that is at the heart of the South- history, Adam Nayar, Director of Lok Vir- Central Asian region stretching from sa, an institute of folklore in Islambad, and to India and including Afghanistan, Paki- Shahid Nadeem, a leading Pakistani dra- stan and Kashmir. The religion of the Pun- matist, and Shinder Thandi, an economist jab, Sikhism, is uniquely featured at UCSB. and editor of The Journal of Punjab Studies Other aspects of Punjabi focus include: • Support for research related to such • Funding from Narinder Singh Kapa- books as Gurinder Singh Mann’s Making ny, a Sikh physicist, philanthropist and of Sikh Scripture (: Oxford Uni- entrepreneur, to create an endowed chair versity Press, 2001), and Mann’s Buddhists, in Sikh Studies Hindus and Sikhs in America, written with • Appointment of Gurinder Singh Paul David Numrich and Raymond B. Mann as Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Williams (New York: Oxford University Global and Sikh Studies in 1999 Press, 2001) and Mark Juergensmeyer’s • A two-day international conference chapter on Sikhs in his Terror in the Mind on “The Sikh Diaspora” attended by over of God (Berkeley: UC Press, 2000) 150 people from the U.S., Canada, En- • New courses on Sikh and Punjab gland, New Zealand and the Punjab Re- Studies including two graduate seminars, gion in India/Pakistan “Religion and Society in the Punjab” and • A conference on “Canon Formation in “The Sikh Tradition,” as well as other the Sikh Tradition” with scholars from courses in which the Sikh tradition fig- Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and ures prominently Punjab University Chandigarh • The only regularly-scheduled classes • An international conference entitled in Punjabi language by Prof. Mann and Professor Gurinder Mann takes students to Khalsa “Guru Gobind Singh: Life and Legacy” Gurdit Singh, a UCSB graduate student in College in Amritsar, India during the Summer Program in Punjab Studies. with 25 presenters from six countries sociology.

Briana Viscarra (Double major with Global Studies Graduates on the Move Spanish, 2001) is working in the Office Joseph Bernardo (Double major tional financial billing internet company in of Development/Annual Giving at UCSB, with Asian American Studies, 2001) is Marina Del Rey as an accounts represen- as well as studying for an MBA at the studying at San Francisco State for a tative translating German. University of LaVerne. master’s in Asian American Studies. Yaniv Snir (2000) has just returned Chris Werner (2001) landed a five- Elizabeth Martinez (Double major from a year and a half in Ghana. The Israe- month internship at the Raoul Wallen- with Spanish, 2001) got her first job out li-born graduate worked for the Peace berg Institute for Human Rights at Lund of college in sales for CNN, Turner Corps on a forestry project in which he University, Sweden, working on the Broadcasting Inc, in Los Angeles, CA. was helping to create a tree nursery. Right-to-Education project, www.right-to- Lisa Park (2001 with Women Cul- James Rudolph (Global Peace & Securi- education.org. He received the Global & ture & Development minor) has been ty minor, 1997) was nominated for the Amer- International Studies 2001 Community working as a corporate trainer and has ican Council of Young Political Leaders. Service Award, which helped pay for his volunteered to coordinate corporate Marc Stein (2001) works on all as- cost of living in Sweden. donations for World Vision. pects for production for VH1’s “Guerilla Jack Zedlitz (Global Peace & Secu- Reid Particelli (2001) is volunteer- Concerts” and “Late World with Zach.” rity, 1997) is teaching at Charlotte Latin ing for the Nuclear Age Peace Founda- Trenton Scott Ulicny (2000) is work- School (CLS), a private high school in tion in Santa Barbara. ing on a Masters of International Affairs North Carolina. This summer he will at- After traveling in Europe, Shaftali w/an emphasis on European Studies at tend classes at Georgetown and plans Patel (2001) took a job with an interna- Aalborg University in Denmark. to return to graduate school. 7 Global & International Studies Professors on the Move

Richard Appelbaum (Sociology/ Smith College, will speak at New York Uni- as editor with Renato Rosaldo, was pub- Global Studies) served as editor with versity on April 26 on the future of revolu- lished this year (Malden, MA: Blackwell William William L.F. Felstiner and Volk- tions and spoke on the same topic recent- Publishers, 2002). The book provides mar Gessner for a new book entitled ly to the sociology department at the Uni- an ethnographic introduction to this “Rules and Networks: The Legal Culture versity of Pittsburgh. Foran also recently world of global flows and interconnec- of Global Business Transactions” (Ox- wrote an article, with Pierre Reed, which tions. The collection of articles focuses ford, England: Hart 2001). The book will be published in “Critical Sociology” both on the large-scale processes seeks to explain the ways business peo- entitled “Political Cultures of Opposition: through which the globe is becoming ple and their legal advisors attempt to Exploring Idioms, Ideologies, and Revolu- increasingly interconnected and on the minimize the difficulties in international, tionary Agency.” In addition, Dr. Foran ways people around the world - from Afri- cross-border transactions, opening up wrote and article with Peter Chua and Dr. can and Asia to the Caribbean and the dialogue beyond the North American Bhavnani. The article entitled “Women, North America - mediate these process- and European perspectives. Culture, Development: A New Paradigm for es in culturally specific ways. Kum-Kum Bhavnani (Sociology), Development Studies?” appeared in “Eth- Since Sept 11, 2001, Mark Juer- who is currently a visiting professor at nic and Racial Studies” in September gensmeyer (Sociology/Religious Stud- Smith College, addressed Yale Universi- 2000. ies/Global Studies) has given over 50 ty’s Center for the Study of Globalization Eve Darian-Smith was recently cho- lectures on religious terrorism, the on “Third World Feminisms: Possibilities sen as the new Chair of the Law & Society theme of his recent book. His public and Prospects” and spoke to World Program. Beginning in Fall 2002, she and lectures included presentations at Emo- Bank personnel as part of National other L&S staff will teach new courses ry, Pennsylvania, Yale, and Harvard Uni- Women’s Month on “Race, Gender and with a global focus, including international versities, and the Berkeley, UCLA, Irv- Development: Prospects for Poverty human rights , globalization immigration ine, Davis and Santa Cruz campuses of Reduction.” and post-national citizenship law in the the University of California. He has been Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies, European Union, capitalism and racism a frequent commentator on CNN, MSN- GISP, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies) and indigenous legal movements. BC, Fox News Channel, and National spent much of the year giving talks on Giles Gunn (English/Global Studies) Public Radio, and has appeared on C- Islam and religious and political vio- was invited to deliver the Martin Luther SPAN, the “CBS Evening News” and lence in the Middle East. Currently, he is King Annual Memorial Lecture, co-spon- ABC’s “Politically Incorrect.” completing work on a book, “Pilgrimag- sored by Stillman College and the Universi- Mattison Mines (Anthropology) is es in Modernity,” a comparative study of ty of Alabama at Tuscaloosa on April 16, currently serving as the UC Education the changes in Islamic, Christian and 2002. His topic was “Rethinking Human Abroad Program Study Center Director in Hindu pilgrimage traditions with the Solidarity: The Difference That Difference . While studying as a Re- emergence of new nation-states, and Makes in a Globalized World.” He also search Fellow at the University of Edin- late 20th Century globalization. spoke at Stillman College on “Art and Oth- burgh, he is writing a book based on Benjamin J. Cohen (Political Sci- erness” and was the subject of an inter- research in Chennai, the former Madras ence) presented a paper on “America’s view in The Hedgehog Review for a special City. He will return to UCSB in Fall 2003. Interest in Dollarization” at a confer- issue on pragmatism. Dwight Reynolds (Religious Stud- ence on the Euro and Dollarization at In addition to serving as conference ies) begins in June 2002 as Education Fordham University in New York on April organizer, Lisa Hajjar (Law & Society/Glo- Abroad Program Study Center Director in 5. He spoke on the same topic in March bal Studies Affiliate) presented a paper on Granada, Spain, returning to UCSB in at the annual meeting of the Internation- “Chaos as Utopia: International Criminal the Fall of 2004. al Studies Association in New Orleans. Prosecutions as a Challenge to State Pow- Ronald Tobin (French & Italian/ In addition, he will have an article on er” at the “New Directions in Human Academic Programs) was elected as dollarization appearing in the Geopoli- Rights Scholarship” conference in April an Honorary Member of the most tics 7:1 (Summer 2002). 2002 at UCSB. prestigious society for French studies John Foran (Sociology/Global Stud- Jonathan Inda’s book “The Anthropol- in Italy, the Seminario di Filologia ies Affiliate), who is also currently at ogy of Globalization,” for which he served Francese at the University of Rome. Global & International Studies Program University of California, Santa Barbara Humanites & Social Sciences Building, Rm. 3044 Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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2002 Graduating Seniors in Global Studies Amy Alton Corianne Butler Kristen Eschner Chris Hubbard Megan Long Robin Pang Talia Shani Sheila Aminmadani Jorge Cabrera Antonio Farias Gena Hunter Maria Lopez Asabi Patterson Michael Shankman Madeleine Amodeo Ryan Camana Kim Feig Marissa Hutter Noah Lowman Reid Particelli Marie Domenica Shiro Theodore Andersen Nina Chang Angela Fergusen Alice Hwang Stephanie Lucca Jennifer Perkins Christine Shih Martha Anderson Jennifer Charles Leslie Ferguson Michael Hyman Paul Lynch Sofia Perazzo Amrita Singh Luke Arno Melodie Chavez Lisa Fotheringham Ken Imamura Matthew MacCalla Jenna Petersen Persis Singh Elizabeth Arnold Jacqueline Chisholm Alexander Fox Michael Ingram Andrea Magee Katie Petersen Rashmi Singh Kathryn Aron Mary Chun Anne Fritzler John Innes Shadee Malekafzali Cory Podielski Jennifer Slater Nicholas Arseniak Kristen Clement Shasta Frye Jason Johnson Ryan Manuel Marissa Pommer Regan Smith Nick Ashjian Lisa Clor Shiho Fukushima Jean-Matthieu Josse Eloise Marszalek Nina Porzucki Derek Stamp Salim Azzam Angela Coady Kazutoyo Furuta J. Scott Julian Adela Mason Natalie Porter Abalone Star Smith Ashley Bank Elena Coburn Aaron Gafni Jonathan Kahn Diana Massopust Kaitlin Post Kellie Smith Jeffrey Baumann Paul Coker Lillian Garcia Meghana Kamdar Kelly Masula David Potter Suzanne Stradley Camilla Baumbach Kathryn Costello Thomas Garvin Derek Karpel Amanda Matey Allison Raaum Michael Terborg Dorothy Becerra Jacob Covarrubias Karen Gee Anna Karrer Holly Mays Raquel Redfield Will Thomas Shana Bempechat Elise Dabby Anthony Gillaizeau Sam Kearney Audrey McMullen Brooke Reese Golriz Vahdani Amy Berberi Brooke D’Acquisto Alexandra Ginder Rose Kesten William Meeker Robert Rinsky Giselle Vallejos Janna Bills Kaija Dankers John Ginder Sarab Khalsa Danielle Mendelson Britt Riss Michael Van Auker Denay Bisceglie Brent Davidson Lauren Glick Samia Khattab Kevin Michael Ana Rizo Jodie Van Horn Erin Boczek Andrew Day Galit Goltzer Jee Hyae Kim Tara Minamoto James Rizos Nicole Van Rossum Cameron Bonney Meredith Dawson Meagan Greene Richard Han Kim Juliet Miyagashima Nyla Rodgers Alexandra Varga Erin Booth Jacob DeSomery Jamie Grenough Lirit King Karina Molthu Abelardo Rodriguez Megan West Stephen Bosse James Di Cesare Mina Greutman William Lang Sonia Mondkar Nika Rogers Hiromi Williams Molly Brassil Anel Diaz Marisa Hahn Peter Lange John Montes Kimberly Saam Allison Willits Monica Bridle Joshua Disraeli Amy Hansen Emma Lauter Holly Morris Ava Sadripour Jennifer Wong Graydon Brown Pedro Dominguez Stephen Hellmers Charlotte Lee Jaime Morse Mitchell Sanchez Alexandria Yarra Kristina Brown Melissa Donnelly Summer Hodson Jennifer Anne Lee Erin Munger Kathryn Sanders Katherine Ybarra Nicholas Brubaker Lisa D’Orazio Patrick Holder Jennifer Han-Mi Lee Marcial Nieto Adrienne Sardy Junyi Ying Elizabeth Buchanan Janell Dusi Lindsay Honkanen Vicky Leung Mark Nolan Charlene Sarmiento Michael Young Aidee Bugarin Cara Dykes Nichelle Hoover Gene Lin Jamie Nunez Jason Schingler Justin Yuda Lindsay Burcham Kathryn Edrington Kenny Hsieh Jana Lind Filip Ostrak Jennifer Schnorr Maria Zavale