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Spring 2014 Inside This Highlight: IS Welcomes New Faculty Member, Angela Joya! Global Encounters Newsletter of the University of Oregon Department of International Studies Spring 2014 Inside this Highlight: IS Welcomes New Faculty Member, Angela Joya! The Department of International Studies is pleased this year Issue to welcome their newest faculty member, Angela Joya. Bringing • IS New Faculty Member, with her theoretical expertise in political economy, Professor Angela Joya(1) Joya’s research and professional interests are greatly contributing to expanding the department’s research arenas course offerings. • IS Department Head Angela was born in Afghanistan, but was forced to leave in 1984 Greeting (1) due to the political instability occurring in the country at that time. Her family relocated to Pakistan where they remained until 1996, when • Alumni Commencement they left for Canada. Completing her Bachelor’s studies in Political Speaker, Liesl Science at York University in Toronto, She remained in the same Messerschmidt (1) field. Interestingly, when She initially began her higher education, she was content with receiving her BA and working for the Canadian government. Her first Political Science professor, however, recognized her • IS Undergraduate Alumni aptitude for political theory and convinced her to “stick around” and persue her graduate degree. Profiles (2) See Joya- on page 10 • IS MA Alumni Highlights(3) From the Head • Faculty News (4) Once again - the second time in three years! - the adjunct faculty member, he is creating a new course entire Department of International Studies was on development and social change in Europe for caught up throughout the fall in the search for a us. Combined, they bring an expertise that makes • IS 2014 BA new faculty member, this time with an expertise us all truly excited about our department’s future. Graduates (5) in Global Political Economy. Angela Joya (see story above) is ideal for the position, and brings We have had two • Donor Thanks (6) with her invaluable expertise on the Middle East graduate students, and on the Muslim Brotherhood, in particular. Divya Bajaj and • UO-KIU Historic Given global events during and following the Arab Tariq Rahman, Partnership (7) Spring, her research in Egypt and Syria is indeed receive George & timely. We were thrilled when she agreed to arrive Conni Slape Gradu- •Graduate Research: this spring and teach Globalization and the Global ate Awards this past Divya Bajaj (7) Economy, the large course associated with this po- year. They used their sition. Her husband, Geoffrey Kennedy, who had awards to travel •IS Graduate Awards (8) held a faculty position in the U.K., is bringing his and conduct field expertise on Europe to our department too. As an research in India Anita M. Weiss Professor and Head • Graduate Research: See From the Head on page 6 Tariq Rahman (9) Liesl Messerschmidt to give “No longer shackled by chains but • No Longer Shackled by by our economic conditions” Chains (10) Alumni The struggle for labor and racial justice in the ports of Columbia Commencement Speech by Kristin Yarris and Amy Price Liesl Messerschmidt completed her BA in A group of students, faculty, and community International Studies in the Winter of 1996. When members gathered at the UO Mills International asked to isolate the single most pivotal class in Center in Fall of 2013 to hear first-hand about her undergraduate career, Liesl declared without the adverse effects of U.S. policy on Colombia’s hesitation: Aid to Developing Countries. “It was one Afro-descent communities and, in particular, the of the only practical (rather than theoretical) classes port workers of Buenaventura. Jhon Jairo Castro, I had . it is tangible and gives you exposure to president of the Buenaventura Portworker’s Union, a lot of things that you are going to experience . visited the UO on a speaking tour organized . it prepares you for what you’re getting into.” The by Witness for Peace NW, and co-sponsored ‘what,’ in Liesl’s case, has been an extensive career by the Department of International Studies. in international development. See Liesl Messerschmidt on page 9 See No Longer Shackled by Chains on page 10 Page Global Encounters 2 Newsletter of the UO Department of International Studies IS Undergraduate Alumni Updates Megan Rauscher (BA, 2009) Megan Rauscher started at UO in 2005, health systems through capacity building in pharmaceutical supply and decided to major in International Studies chain management, service delivery to remote areas, management after taking Gender and International training, and other integral components of keeping a healthcare Development. Deciding then and there that system going. international development was her passion, Megan’s work with MSH has included managing virtual Megan went on to study abroad in Senegal leadership development programs and working to develop strategic where she took courses on local history, frameworks for strengthening health systems and innovating. In politics and language and interned with Guyana she facilitated a business planning program for local civil two local NGOs that focused on health and society organizations and taught a local team to use software that education. She graduated with minors in French and African Studies, analyzes the impact of health interventions and linking the impact the requirements for the latter being met with courses taught by to concrete project planning in the Democratic Republic of Congo. professors Dennis Galvan and Stephen Wooten, which she recalls as She currently works in the Center for Pharmaceutical Management being some of her favorites at UO. managing an Ethiopia-based project focusing on improving primary After graduation in 2009, Megan moved to London and completed health care delivery systems to provide services more equitably to a one-year Masters program at the London School of Economics mothers and children. that focused on the political economy of humanitarian interventions Megan considers the most rewarding part of her job is knowing and public health. Her thesis examined the motivations behind that she works for an organization whose goal is saving the lives using force for humanitarian purposes, focussing specifically on of those who are the most vulnerable and where access to health international norms regarding human rights and democracy in care is the lowest. “Knowing that is what I’m putting my day to Haiti. She concluded that though the intentions behind forceful day efforts toward is something that’s really valuable,” she says. humanitarian interventions were often good the outcomes were She also loves the opportunities to travel and experience different generally not. cultures that her work opens up for her. In the future, she may go Megan then relocated to Boston to work with Management Sciences back to school to do a PhD in health economics, but for now she’s for Health (MSH). MSH is a large international NGO – operating focused on seeing her current project in Ethiopia flourish. in over 40 countries around the world – that works to strengthen Liz Sampson (BA, 2008) Liz Sampson graduated from UO in 2008 After the Peace Corps, Liz was accepted to the Elliott School of with a double major in International International Studies at George Washington University where she Studies and Spanish and a double completed an MA focusing on international development studies minor in Business and Latin American with a concentration in public health in Latin America. Integral to Studies. Liz had the opportunity to both her time in the Peace Corps and in graduate school was the explore Latin America in greater depth exposure Liz received in the field of international development during her semester abroad in Chile. in the International Studies department at UO. Courses like From January 2009 to March 2011, Liz Aid to Developing Countries prepared Liz for what to expect underwent what she considers her “rite of in her field of study, “The topics that Dr. Weiss presented were passage,” serving in the Peace Corps. Because of her experience certainly major themes in my graduate program, and I saw these as a lifeguard and her knowledge of Spanish, Liz worked as a issues firsthand during my time in the Peace Corps,” she says. health volunteer in Nicaragua, where her work focused on youth Currently, Liz is working alongside two other Duck alums as and sexual education – she worked with teens to curb unplanned the Assistant Program Officer for Latin America, Caribbean, pregnancies, with pregnant mothers to educate them about Balkans and Caucuses (LACBC) at Mercy Corps (Go pre and post-natal needs, and with men to educate them about Ducks!). She says that she would like to continue working in condom use and safe sexual practices. Despite knowing little international development and hopes to get back in the field in about being a sex educator upon her arrival in the field, Liz says the near future, whether that be in Nicaragua or working with that she came out of the experience being able to talk to anyone a local health program catered towards Latinos and youth. about the issue, even across different backgrounds and cultures. Global Encounters Page Newsletter of the UO Department of International Studies 3 IS MA Alumni Updates Katie Haraguchi (JD/MA, 2008) Katie enrolled in the University of Oregon’s joint degree program with the who has different values than I do, School of Law and the Department of International Studies after considering honestly approaching problems various single-subject graduate programs. “I wanted a program that from different viewpoints, thinking combined professional skills with rigorous inquiry into issues of culture and about all of the resources available politics. The JD/MA program at the University of Oregon was the perfect fit.” to combat a problem—the mental During the four-year program, Katie completed the standard first-year legal flexibility that is cultivated in core, the International Studies core, and numerous electives in both programs International Studies is really relating to nonprofits, organizational communication, indigenous people, valuable for solving client problems.
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