CONTENTS Spring 2006

Former President of Mongolia Receives Honorary Degree ...... 1 IU Archivist Holds Workshops in Liberia ...... 21 IU President Participates in National Summit on 2007 Reaccreditation Emphasizes Globalization, Internationalization ...... 2 Internationalization ...... 22 Goldman Sachs Foundation Honors Three IU Programs ...... 3 IUB, IUPUI Offer Financial Assistance to International Students .23 Mathers Museum Exhibit Depicts an African Society ...... 4 Renowned School Renamed the IU Jacobs School of Music . . . .24 Education Professor’s Research Projects in China ...... 5 New Dean Leads IU School of Journalism ...... 25 IUPUI Integrates Service Learning and Study Abroad ...... 6 Kelley School Offers Online Courses to Advanced Technologists 27 IU Assists University of Pretoria with American Studies ...... 7 Ptil Yarkur’s Grandson Visits Exhibit ...... 28 Distinguished Professor Emeritus Receives John W. Ryan Award .8 Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Gaza Energizes IUS ...... 30 Professors Win Guggenheim and Fulbright-Hays Fellowships . . . .9 SPEA Establishes Study Abroad Program at Oxford University . .31 SPEA Project for Ukraine Receives USAID Funding ...... 10 National Virtual Translation Center Director Visits IUB ...... 33 IU Education Experts Help Strengthen Afghan Schools ...... 11 ICIP Hosts Conferences on Iraq and Islam in Africa ...... 37 Kazakhstan’s Bolashak Scholars Begin Their U.S. Studies ...... 12 Education School Hosts Science Workshop for Korean Teachers 40 IUPUI Global Citizenship Conference Attracts Student Leaders . .13 Announcements ...... 43 IUB Senior Is Named Mitchell Scholar ...... 14 International Who’s Who ...... 44 IUSB Sociologist Teaches a Semester at Sea ...... 15 Faculty and Staff News ...... 46 Study Abroad Peru ’65 Alumni Reunite at IUB ...... 17 OIA Announces Inaugural Issue of International IUPUI ...... 48 School of Optometry Expands its International Links ...... 18 IUB Welcomes New International Faculty ...... 49 Emeritus Music Dean Promotes U.S. Cultural Diplomacy ...... 19 2005–2006 Visiting Scholars at IUB ...... 53 Workshop Co-Director Travels on Peace-Building Mission ...... 21 New from IU Press ...... 56

ON THE COVER Office of International Programs Indiana University James Vaughan Bryan Hall 104 Home Before Dark 107 S. Indiana Avenue Mandara Mountains, Nigeria Bloomington, IN 47405-7000

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SPRING 2006

IN THIS ISSUE

Former President of Mongolia Receives Honorary Degree

IU President Participates in National Summit on Internationalization

Goldman Sachs Foundation Honors Three IU Programs

African Society Exhibit at Mathers Museum

Education Professor’s Research Projects in China

IUPUI Integrates Service Learning and Study Abroad

Bloomington • East • Fort Wayne • IUPUI • Kokomo • Northwest • South Bend • Southeast International News Spring 2006

Former President of Mongolia Receives Honorary Degree

t Indiana University’s mid-year of universal education, Commencement ceremony which had broken down A that took place on December with the dissolution of 17, 2005, the former president of the Soviet Union. He Mongolia, Natsagiin Bagabandi, successfully steered the received an honorary Doctor of Laws country away from degree from Indiana University in unproductive educa- recognition of the decades-long tional practices by open- relationship between the central ing up avenues with Eurasian country and the university. other countries, and Bagabandi has long been an secured agreements with advocate for modernization in more than 20 nations to Mongolia. He entered politics in offer higher education 1980 and held various political posi- scholarships that enabled tions, leading to his election as Mongolians to receive leader of the Mongolian People’s their education and Revolutionary Party in 1991, the year training abroad. after the collapse of the Soviet sys- Bagabandi has tem (under which Mongolia was a advanced degrees from “satellite” country with a communist Russia and Ukraine and

regime). He served as parliamentary is a trained technologist tesy of Chris Meyer/IU Home Pages speaker and opposition leader in the in the food industry. He Mongolian Parliament. In 1997, he holds a number of was elected as president and served honorary doctorates Photo cour for two terms until 2005. from Japan, Kazakhstan, Former President Natsagiin Bagabandi receives the Mongolia is the only fully demo- South Korea, Turkey, Doctor of Laws degree from IU President Adam W. cratic country in the former Soviet and Ukraine, as well as Herbert. bloc east of the Baltics. Bagabandi from many universities has played a strong role in preserving in Mongolia. Mongolia’s stability, guiding the Indiana University’s connection been continuously taught by native country through controversies, with Mongolia began in 1956 with speakers at IU. including constitutional issues, the creation of an interdepartmental “Mongolia’s ties with Indiana privatization, environmental crises, Uralic and Altaic program—now the University increased rapidly during and contested Parliamentary elec- Department of Central Eurasian President Bagabandi’s years in tions. Mongolia participates in the Studies (CEUS) in which Mongolian office,” says Christopher Atwood, United Nations Millennium Studies resides. Altaic studies were associate professor of Mongolian Development Goals project and is strengthened in 1961 with the arrival studies at IU, who praised the presi- broadly recognized for promoting of Denis Sinor as department chair dent’s active role in promoting democracy and transparency in (see p. 8 for related story). Sinor greater Mongolian-American government, as well as for progress recruited John Gombojab Hangin, relations and in setting a tone of in education. an ethnic Mongol who began teach- openness and accessibility that wel- Early in his presidency, ing Mongolian at IU in 1963. Since comes academic researchers from Bagabandi worked to reclaim then, Mongolian language and cul- abroad. IU’s Mongolian Studies pro- Mongolia’s previously high standards ture, both classical and modern, has gram has three permanent faculty

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1 International News Spring 2006

IU President Participates in National Summit on Internationalizing Higher Education

with top federal officials charged • Less than 8 percent of U.S. undergraduates take foreign language with educational planning, develop- courses ment, and support. President • Less than 2 percent study abroad in any given year George W. Bush used the occasion • Foreign language degrees account for only 1 percent of under- to announce a new $114 million pro- graduate degrees conferred in the United States posal, the National Security • Only 15 public schools now teach Arabic Language Initiative (NSLI), which • Only 2,000 people teach Chinese in American schools would further strengthen national —U.S. Department of Education security through education, especially in developing foreign language n January 5, 2006, a select Columbia. Indiana University skills from K-16. Recognizing that group of American university President Adam W. Herbert U.S. deficits in foreign language O presidents was invited to attended the two-day summit, which competence hampers the nation’s attend the U.S. University Presidents was co-hosted by Secretary of State ability to engage effectively with the Summit on International Education Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of rest of the world, the proposed NSLI in Washington, D.C. This “unprece- Education Margaret Spellings. will be used to train more Americans dented summit” was organized by President Herbert took part in a in “critical” foreign languages like the U.S. Department of State’s panel discussion, “Preparing Globally Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Competitive U.S. Students,” together Korean, Persian, Russian, and Affairs. The goal was to “engage U.S. with Charles Reed, chancellor of Central Asian languages (see Web higher education leaders in a the California State University sys- sites below for further information renewed partnership to strengthen tem, and Walter Massey, president on the NSLI). international education, emphasiz- of Morehouse College. In his The summit focused on how to ing its importance to the national remarks, Herbert stressed the inter- continue attracting foreign students interest.” The meeting attracted national leadership role of IU, par- and scholars to come to the United representatives from all 50 states, ticularly in the depth and breadth of States for study and training and the Puerto Rico, and the District of its area studies programs, foreign many barriers that impede that flow. languages offer- It also dealt with how to encourage ings, especially more U.S. students to enhance their those that are education by studying and working less commonly abroad. Attention was also drawn to taught, and out- the key investments required to reach activities. strengthen U.S. international higher About 120 education, and how to develop leaders from a dynamic strategies that would engage range of public the public and private sectors in a and private uni- shared national vision for the future. versities, commu- Secretary of State Rice stressed nity colleges, that the goal was to “make America historically black more open while still maintaining colleges and uni- our security.” Secretary of Education versities, and Spellings pointed out that learning foreign languages is not simply an Summit participants in the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room. Hispanic-serving institutions met education or economic or civic or

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2 International News Spring 2006

Goldman Sachs Foundation Honors Three IU Programs

here is a shameful and inexcusable gap between “The prestigious Goldman Sachs higher education prize is a splen- “TAmerican students’ knowl- did recognition of Indiana University’s outstanding international activi- edge of other countries, cultures, ties. While the prize recognizes the outreach and teacher training and languages and the escalating programs of the East Asian Studies Center, the Center for the Study of importance of this knowledge to our Global Change, and the Cultural Immersion Projects of the School of nation’s economic prosperity and Education, it also reflects the commitment of so many dedicated people national security,” says Stephanie to fostering a better understanding of the world in which we live.” Bell-Rose, president of the —Patrick O’Meara Goldman Sachs Foundation. The Dean for International Programs foundation, in partnership with the Asia Society, has been working to improve this woeful situation. Since 2003, it has annually offered prizes of $25,000 each in one of five education categories (elementary/ middle school, high school, higher education, state, and media/ technology) that host outstanding international education programs. These prizes recognize innovative approaches that better prepare U.S. teachers and their students to enter Present at the awards ceremony are School of Education Dean Gerardo Gonzales, a globally interconnected world and Cultural Immersion Projects Director Laura Stachowski, EASC outreach coordinator Anne Prescott, Global Center outreach coordinator Deborah Hutton, and OIP Dean workforce. Patrick O’Meara. Three centers and programs at Indiana University Bloomington East Asian Studies Center (EASC), Gerardo have collectively won the prestigious the School of Education and the School of Education’s Gonzales 2005 Goldman Sachs Foundation , attended the awards Cultural Immersion Projects will Prizes for Excellence in International ceremony in Washington, D.C., on share the monetary award. Education, in the higher education behalf of the university. They were In her November letter to IU accompanied by Deborah Hutton, category. The Center for the Study of Vivien announcing the prize, the Global Center outreach coordi- Global Change (Global Center), the Stewart , vice president of educa- nator; Anne Prescott, the EASC tion of the Asia Society, cited IU for outreach director; and Laura its “extraordinary K-12 outreach and Stachowski, director of the Cultural commitment to internationalizing Immersion Projects. The 2005 cycle pre-and in-service teaching training” was highly competitive, including by developing key international nearly 500 applications that were components within different areas evaluated by area and international of the university and providing long- studies experts, language specialists, term capacity-building initiatives. education policy leaders and practi- In December, Dean for Inter- tioners, and philanthropists in Patrick national Programs related fields. Finalists were reviewed O’Meara , accompanied by Dean of by a distinguished jury that included

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3 International News Spring 2006

Mathers Museum Exhibit Depicts an African Society “on the Verge”

verge (steep incline), and at the time concentrated upon a mountain peak Verge sb. Late ME . . . A rod or I studied them, they were on the or dispersed along a plateau. This wand carried as an emblem of verge (edge, order) of changes so topography had important conse- authority or symbol of drastic that one might say the society quences for all the Mandara popula- office . . . The extreme edge of shown in these pictures has virtually tions: no large social or political a cliff or abrupt descent . . . disappeared.” units; localized clans grouped into The brink or border of some- The third small autonomous political units; thing towards which there is sense of people who were independent, progress . . . the word resourceful, and provincial with lit- —Oxford English Dictionary “verge”—its tle knowledge of the world beyond. original dic- The ability of the Margi to tionary exploit their habitat was largely etween mid-September 2005 meaning— based upon their mastery of iron and the end of January 2006, also applies: technology, B Indiana University’s Mathers it is the making Museum of World Cultures exhibited sacred staff small farm- a photographic ethnography, The or symbol of ing imple- Mandara Margi: A Society authority that ments as Living on the Verge, created by the ptil , or well as James H. Vaughan, emeritus pro- chief, carries (as in a 1970s photo- weapons of fessor of anthropology at IU graph above of Ptil Yarkur in con- self-defense Bloomington. With an approximate ventional Muslim attire). by which population of 250,000, the Margi The exhibit included detailed they main- reside near or on top of the Mandara ethnographic descriptions by tained their Mountains, which form a portion of Vaughan. Some of these are independ- the border between Nigeria and excerpted below to accompany a ence from Cameroon. The 51 photographs in selection of his photographs. the intrusive Fulbe who raided and color and black and white are of the enslaved them well into the first vvvv eastern Margi taken during five quarter of the twentieth century. periods of fieldwork ranging from Although the Mandara Mountains Iron technology was intricately tied 1960 to 1987, almost all in Gulak are not high, they are rugged with into the social fabric of Margi soci- District in the villages of Kirngu and volcanic cores and boulders in pro- ety, which was divided into two Humbili that Vaughan knew inti- fusion. Clan communities are situ- castes. The majority farmer’s caste mately. ated only as the topography permits: (mbilim) smelted magnetite into “I did not present ‘photographs stock iron while the ingkyagu caste of Africans;’” says Vaughan, who fabricated the implements and attributes the exhibition’s success to included the society’s potters, his close association with his sub- leather workers, basket-makers, and jects. “These were the pictures of my morticians. The two castes were friends and neighbors, identified by united in a symbiotic relationship. their personal names, in some Margi society is patrilineal, instances described by their person- patrilocal, and polygynous. Men give alities.” authority and structure to the society; As Vaughan explains, “The Margi women give it life and joy. These were, quite literally, a people on a women are not subservient drudges

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4 International News Spring 2006

IU Education Research Projects Show Professor’s Deep Ties to China

eidi Ross, professor in the school students’ photographs Department of Educational and essays. H Leadership and Policy Studies For this particular project, at Indiana University’s School of Ross, who practices a participa- Education, has taught in China and tory ethnography-based is fluent in Mandarin. And now, approach to field research and with a number of concurrent research data gathering, used a specific projects that regularly take her back methodology known as “pho- to China, she is helping others to tovoice.” In this project, her understand China’s complex system method draws out the children’s of education through innovative own perceptions of school and projects that go beyond the textbook. social reality by asking them to A specialist in the social founda- take photographs. Each child is tions of education and comparative then interviewed and asked to Traveling together in Dan Feng County with and international education, Ross talk about why those images local officials are Becky Boyle, Heidi Ross were important and meaningful (second and third on left), and Jingjing Lou researches issues relating to educa- (second on right). tion and society in China, especially to them. those centered on girls’ schooling; Ross started planning the gender-sensitive curricula; rural project in China when she met with the Chinese students’ photographs education; and how economic, social, potential Chinese collaborators. Real and interviews and to share with and environmental issues affect par- work began in May 2005 when she them the parallel work being done Becky Boyle ents and communities in regard to began working with , a by their peer group in Bloomington. the schooling of their children. social studies teacher at Batchelor In late January 2006, Xihe One of her projects, “Imag(in)ing Middle School. Ross gave 14 stu- schoolteachers Xiaoli and Na com- the Voices of Chinese and American dents three disposable cameras each pleted the exchange by coming to Middle School Students,” is part of and asked them to photograph their Bloomington for two weeks. They Pathways to Peace, an IU School of home life, school life, and life in spent their time at several local Education–funded program that pro- general in the surrounding culture. schools and worked with the promotes world peace and understand- In June, Ross, Boyle, and doctoral ject’s Batchelor peer group students Jingjing Lou ing through educational cross-cultural student traveled to and teachers. They compared such exchanges. Ross’ project supports Shangluo to work with two teachers, school aspects as work loads, class Xiaoli Mei Na Li three goals: it facilitates short-term and , at Xihe sizes, course choices, teacher/stu- exchanges of middle-school teachers Middle School in Dan Feng County. dent work habits, and skills pre- between Bloomington, Indiana, and They distributed cameras to a peer paredness. The two visitors shared Shangluo, Shaanxi Province (where cohort of 14 female students, giving the Chinese students’ photographs Ross had previously been a consult- them the same “photovoice” and discussions in group sessions ant on the “Spring Bud Program”— methodology and goals. that were highly interactive and see below); it engages Chinese and Back in Bloomington in early cross-cultural. Boyle and her stu- American middle-school students fall, Ross’s team interviewed the dents felt privileged to have had a and their teachers in an activity that Batchelor students and then tran- firsthand perspective and under- enhances collaborative learning for scribed and translated the Batchelor standing of Chinese schools and peace; and it creates virtual and real interviews into Chinese. Later that Chinese students, far beyond what “sharing our voices” exhibitions of fall, Ross returned to Dan Feng with any textbook could have possibly Lei Wang Chinese and American middle- doctoral student to collect given them.

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5 International News Spring 2006

IUPUI Integrates Service Learning and Study Abroad

n March 2006, IUPUI hosted a two-day workshop to help faculty I and administrators develop campus plans for international service- learning programs and study abroad courses. The workshop drew more than 110 attendees from 50 U.S. institutions. Of these, 19 colleges and universities participated as teams that included key leaders and campus administrators from study abroad, international affairs, and Farthest left facing the group are IPSL President Nevin Brown and Director Barbara service-learning programs as well as Holland of the National Clearinghouse for Service Learning, leading a session on essential faculty members. Institu- faculty development strategies. tions represented were as varied as Yale University, the University of Report and was recently named one Twenty-First Century” moderated by Barbara Holland California–Berkeley, and Cascadia of America’s “Colleges with a , director of the Community College, as well as Conscience” by the Princeton Review National Clearinghouse for Service Portland State University, Alverno and Campus Compact. The work- Learning and an IUPUI senior College, University of Notre Dame, shop built on the campus’s strong scholar. The panel included Humphrey Tonkin and the University of North foundation in both service learning , IPSL vice presi- Carolina—all of which were recog- and study abroad to explore the dent for program evaluation and U.S. News & World Kalyan Ray nized by emerging field of international serv- research; of the IPSL Report for excellent service learning ice learning. In recent years, interna- Kolkata program and the Tagore- Valerian Three or study abroad programs. tional service learning has emerged Ghandi Institute; Irons The workshop, titled Engaging as a driving theme in IUPUI’s study of the Lakota Nation, from the World: Developing a Campus- abroad programs. The addition of South Dakota State University; and Laurie Worrall Wide Approach to International service learning to a traditional study , executive director Service Learning, was coordinated abroad program has many positive of DePaul University’s Sterns Center by IUPUI’s Office for International effects, including an increased con- for Community-Based Service Affairs and the Center for Service nection by students to the communi- Learning. and Learning in collaboration with ties in which they are studying. The Plenary and breakout sessions the International Partnership for approach is particularly well-suited focused on essential elements in Service Learning and Leadership to IUPUI’s many professional school constructing and operating interna- (IPSL), a not-for-profit national students and reflects the campus’s tional service-learning courses and educational organization that serves commitment to civic engagement, programs abroad. IUPUI faculty, students, colleges, universities, and both at home and abroad. administrators, and professionals service agencies worldwide by fos- The workshop was opened were discussants on the following tering study abroad programs that jointly by William Plater, executive topics: link volunteer service to the vice chancellor and dean of the fac- • Broadening the civic engagement community and academic study. ulties, and Nevin Brown, president mission from local to global, Susan Sutton IUPUI has been recognized for of IPSL, followed by a keynote with , associate several years for its service learning panel, “International Service: New dean for international pro- U.S. News & World program by Models of Civic Engagement in the grams, Office of International

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6 International News Spring 2006

IU Assists University of Pretoria with American Studies

mong the expanding list of linkages that Indiana University has been developing A with institutions of higher education in Africa has been an on-going collaboration with the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Over the past two years, IU Bloomington and Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) have been working together to introduce components of an American Studies curriculum to students at the University of Pretoria (UP), where very few courses exist that deal with the United States. To date, the major funding for this American Studies initiative has been provided by the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria. Dan Neher and Patrick O’Meara. In the spring of 2004, Dan Neher, assistant cultural affairs officer of the U.S. Embassy, approached Patrick O’Meara, dean of the story ‘warts and all’ is the best form of public Office of International Programs, to discuss the outreach imaginable.” Maxi Schoeman, head of possibility of linking IU and UP for some intro- political science at UP, was equally appreciative ductory lectures on aspects of American political of Wolf’s contribution in providing much needed life, specifically on the then upcoming November knowledge for South Africans to better under- 2004 national and presidential elections. stand the United States. During the summer, Michael Wolf of In spring 2005, Neher worked closely with IPFW’s Department of Political Science deliv- OIP’s Roxana Ma Newman to develop an inten- ered two broad lectures on the elections process sive one-week institute, the U.S. Studies via videoconferencing, followed by a week-long Program, hosted by the embassy, taught by IU visit to Pretoria during election week in faculty, and aimed at encouraging South African November. There he gave blow-by-blow analyses faculty to consider including aspects of United and explanations of the incoming stream of continued on page 20 data, met with UP students and faculty in classes, and was widely interviewed by the South African media. Wolf returned again in August 2005 under an OIP Exchange Affiliations grant between the two political science departments of IPFW and UP. For one full week, he gave lectures to UP lecturer Nicola de Jager’s introductory political science class, speaking on U.S. political culture and socialization, electoral systems, and voting behavior. Neher summed up that week: “Wolf’s visit here was a great success. His week of lectures and small discussion groups was fully worked into the curriculum . . . and response to Roxana Newman, Nicola de Jager, Michael Wolf, and [his] frank and well-balanced lectures under- Khumisho Moguerane. lines the embassy’s view that telling America’s

7 International News Spring 2006

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Receives John W. Ryan Award at Founders Day

The John W. Ryan Award for Distinguished Studies at Cambridge University. During that Contributions to International Programs and time, he wrote History of Hungary and more Studies was initiated in 1991 and named after than 100 articles and reviews on the linguistics Indiana University’s president from 1971 to and histories of Inner Asia. 1987. In 1962, he moved to the United States, bringing his expertise to Indiana University n 2004, Denis Sinor where he created the Department of Uralic and visited the North Altaic Studies, now Central Eurasian Studies. In I Pole, nearly a century and outside of the department, through scores of after Robert Peary first publications, articles, reviews, and encyclopedia planted the Stars and entries, Sinor worked to promote an apprecia- Stripes in a destination tion of Inner Asia beyond its geographical and that had eluded explor- political neighbors, China and Russia. ers for centuries. Peary “What Herman Wells was to IU’s area stud- was 53 when he com- ies in general, Denis Sinor is to the Department pleted his Arctic adven- of Central Eurasian Studies,” says Kumble R. ture. Sinor was 88. Subbaswamy, dean of the College of Arts and Sinor spent his pre- Sciences. “Professor Sinor took the initial spark Pole days as a trailblazer, leading academics, his- in this study area and nursed it to flame, bring- torians, and students into the lives, languages, ing in grant money, hiring faculty, and expand- histories, and cultures of Inner Asia. He is a dis- ing the course offerings, degree areas, library tinguished professor emeritus in the holdings, publication series, and IU’s inter- Department of Central Eurasian Studies in national reputation.” Uralic and Altaic Studies and was appointed to At IU, Sinor established two key and the Indiana University Bloomington faculty in renowned resources for Inner Asian studies. In 1962. 1967, he founded, and until 1981 directed, the Eurasia stretches from the Baltics, Hungary, Asian Studies Research Institute, known today and Turkey to Central Asia, Tibet, and Mongolia. as the Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies Central Asia itself occupies 1,542,200 square (RIFIAS), whose collection of materials, notes miles of this region, nearly half the area of the Subbaswamy, is “unparalled.” United States. As Sinor’s entry in Encyclopedia Sinor has received many honors within and Britannica explains, Central Asia consists of the outside the United States. He is a member of the republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, French and Hungarian Academies, he is an Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, coun- Honorary Professor of the Oriental Institute of tries and peoples who only since 1936 “have the Russian Academy, was twice the holder of a identified themselves with politically defined Guggenheim Fellowship, and was repeatedly areas and have been recognized by others as honored by UNESCO. The Royal Asiatic Society ethnically and culturally distinct.” of Great Britain has established a medal named Born in Hungary in 1916, Sinor received a after him. rigorous academic training in Altaic linguistics. But perhaps Sinor’s most significant contri- Between 1939 and 1948, he received several fel- bution to Inner Asian studies and Indiana lowships in Hungary and France, where he held University is, since 1963, founding the federally various teaching and research assignments. funded Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource After the war, where he served as a member of Center (IAUNRC). The only one of its kind in the French Resistance and later in the Free the country, the center has helped train and sup- French Forces, he joined the faculty of Oriental port a strong lineage of scholars, while offering

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8 International News Spring 2006

Professors Win Guggenheim and Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowships

The Office of International Programs University of Buenos Aires, with with side trips to libraries at Leeds offers congratulations to the follow- whom he has been working in the and Oxford early in 2007. ing faculty on the Bloomington and community for more than 10 years. Indianapolis campuses who have IUB associ- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research won prestigious fellowships to con- ate professor of Abroad Grants duct research abroad in academic English Deidre For 2006–2007, the U.S. Department year 2006–2007, on the topics Shauna Lynch of Education awarded 25 Fulbright- described below. has won a Hays research grants from a field Guggenheim of 48 faculty applicants and 35 Guggenheim Fellowships Foundation fel- universities. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship lowship to work Sara Friedman, assistant winners for the year 2006 include on a book proj- professor of anthropology at IUB, 187 artists, scholars, and scientists ect entitled “At has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays selected from almost 3,000 Home in Faculty Research Abroad grant to applicants. English: A Cultural History of the conduct research in the People’s Daniel James, Bernardo Love of Literature.” The aim of the Republic of China for her project, Mendel Chair of Latin American project is to offer a cultural history “Citizenship as history at of what it means to love—rather Official and Indiana than, for instance, be instructed or Everyday University moved by—literature. It asks how Practice: Bloomington eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Chinese Marital will use his Anglo-American audiences learned Immigrants in Guggenheim to develop intimate and individu- Taiwan.” Foundation fel- ated relationships with the print Despite increas- lowship to write materials that they obtained in an ingly tense offi- a book based on increasingly impersonal market- cial relations his research place, during an epoch that experi- between China project, “Class, enced a boom in publishing and an and Taiwan since ties were renewed Ethnicity, and Identity Formation increase in readership. Looking at in 1987, the period has witnessed in an Argentine Meatpacking the editions, authorial biographies, more than 200,000 marriages Community” of Berisso in the anthologies, and quotation books between Mainland Chinese and province of Buenos Aires. The city that transformed select texts into Taiwanese. Her project will study was home to two of Argentina’s vernacular “classics” and looking, the impact of these marriages on the largest meatpacking operations—the too, at the commonplace books, formation of citizenship and national Swift and Armour companies from diaries, letters, and the marginalia identity in Taiwan by examining Chicago—from the early twentieth of self-styled “lovers of literature,” how the Taiwanese state and civil century until their closing in the Lynch will investigate the history of society groups cultivate new citizens 1970s. The work force was made up reading practices—the changing and and how would-be citizens claim of immigrants from all over Europe varied ways in which those texts national belonging. The presence of and the Near East and from the were appropriated and used. In Mainland spouses in Taiwan has interior provinces of Argentina. It addition to the unique resources of sparked intense debates about also played a crucial role in the the Lilly Library and of the IU Taiwan’s immigration and citizen- emergence of the social and political Libraries’ purchase of the digital ship policies and the basis of its movement associated with Juan and collection Eighteenth-Century national identity. The project will Eva Peron. The project has been a Collections Online, she will work investigate how cross-Straits joint one with his Argentine col- at the British Library in London, marriages challenge existing league Mirta Zaida Lobato of the definitions of citizenship and how continued on page 32

9 International News Spring 2006

SPEA Project for Ukraine Receives USAID Funding

n September 2005, the trative reform, local government reform, and long-standing Parlia- legislation to facilitate integration into inter- I mentary Development national protocols such as the World Trade Project for Ukraine (PDP), Organization, Palermo Convention, and under the direction of European Union. Charles Wise (School of PDP, a nonpartisan organization with Public and Environmental offices in Kiev and Bloomington, has worked Affairs, IUB), received since 1994 with members of the Ukrainian $500,000 in the form of a Parliament to draft new and reform current cooperative agreement legislation that will allow the country to fully from the United States democratize, to strengthen the parliament as a Charles Wise Agency for International transparent, effective, democratic institution Development (USAID). through improved legislative-executive relations This agreement will help facilitate legislative and increased citizen involvement. It has been reform in Ukraine over its next two parliamen- assisting parliamentarians in these areas by tary sessions and supplements a $4.98 million, engaging in policy analysis, legislative drafting five-year agreement issued to the PDP in 2003 support, regional public hearing support, com- (see International News, December 2003). mittee hearing support, roundtables with U.S. “Extraordinary events have occurred in Congressional representatives, and plenary Ukraine over this past year,” says U.S. Senate consideration support. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman “This agreement will enhance an already Richard Lugar. “A free press has revolted exciting relationship between Indiana University against government intimida- and Ukraine,” continues tion and reasserted itself. An Lugar. “This partnership pro- emerging middle class has vides a wonderful opportunity found its political footing. A for one of Indiana’s top edu- new generation has embraced cational institutions to share democracy and openness. A its research and expertise with society has rebelled against a burgeoning democratic the illegal activities of its gov- nation.” ernment . . . . A secure and Wise’s most recent coau- democratic Ukraine is in the thored article on Ukraine is Demonstrations in Kiev’s national security interests of Independence Square, 2004. “The Ukrainian Orange the United States, NATO, the Revolution Brought More European Union, and Russia.” Than a New President: What The new funds will enable PDP to focus its Kind of Democracy Will the Institutional efforts to advance the role of parliament under Changes Bring?” published in Communist and Ukraine’s new constitution and proportional Post-Communist Studies (vol. 38, 2005). system of election that took place in January 2006. PDP staff will assist parliament in four —Parliamentary Development Project, SPEA areas: legislation to combat corruption, adminis-

For a profile of Charles Wise and the PDP, see www.indiana.edu/~speaweb/magazine/winter05/pdp.html

10 International News Spring 2006

IU Education Experts Help Strengthen Afghan Schools

consortium that includes Indiana restoring the educational sys- University’s Center for Social Studies and tem, which requires qualified A International Education (CSSIE) in the and competent teachers.” School of Education has received a $38 million Cultural fluency will be grant to restore and improve the educational important and challenging as system in Afghanistan. Over the next five years, U.S. educators address demo- IUB faculty will focus on training current and cratic themes that include future Afghan teachers about contemporary enhancing the role of women teaching methods and how to understand and in the educational system and teach English, a key element in the war-torn creating greater equity and country’s international reemergence. participation among the This spring, the U.S. Agency for Inter- many ethnic and linguistic national Development (USAID) awarded the groups. tesy of Khwaga Kakar grant to the consortium consisting of the Much of the project’s Academy for Educational Development (AED), a work will involve improving

Washington, D.C.–based agency that specializes the information technology Photo cour in international educational programming; the infrastructure at 16 teacher Afghan schoolgirls. University of Massachusetts Amherst; and IU education programs in the Bloomington, which will receive $4 million from country to provide a way to the grant. The consortium will send a team to deliver courses to education majors. IU’s part of Afghanistan to work on the project, which the project, however, involves faculty exchanges involves working closely with the country’s between the two countries. At least 24 Afghans Ministry of Higher Education, USAID, the U.S. will travel to Bloomington to pursue master’s embassy, and a variety of nongovernmental degrees in education, with some of them focus- organizations involved with other projects in the ing on teaching English as a second language. country. IU’s Mitzi Lewison, a professor in the For more than 25 years, Mason’s center school’s Department of Language Education, is (until recently known as the Social Studies part of this visiting team and has just returned Development Center) has been developing social from an exploratory trip to Afghanistan. Other studies curriculum and working on a variety of IU faculty and staff are expected to travel to international projects involving social studies Afghanistan to work with teachers. and civic education. Its expanded mission allows “Culturally, economically, socially, and it to follow the lead of both the School of politically, speaking English is a valuable means Education and the university in addressing inter- for communicating in the global community,” national issues. Such a move is important, Mason said Terrence Mason, CSSIE director. He said says. “Politically, economically, in many ways the overall goal of the Afghanistan Higher we’re linked more closely with other parts of the Education Project is to help reestablish teacher world. Events that occur in Central Asia or else- education programs in Afghan colleges and uni- where in the world have implications for our own versities to support the growing demand for sec- security, and our own economic and political ondary schools across the country. “With the development.” political events over the last couple of decades, there have been huge difficulties for schools,” —Tracy James Mason said. “Teachers were dismissed; they fled IU Media Relations the country. Now, refugees are returning. Part of the effort at stabilizing the country involves

11 International News Spring 2006

Kazakhstan’s Bolashak Scholars Begin Their U.S. Studies

group of 28 students from Department Kazakh and Uyghur and is develop- Kazakhstan arrived in of Central ing curricular materials for those A Bloomington just in time to Eurasian languages at IUB’s Center for begin the spring 2006 semester. Studies Languages of the Central Asian This first cohort of Bolashak Program (CEUS). Region (CeLCAR). Scholars comprises 24 undergradu- Elsewhere in the United States, the ate and 4 graduate students. University of Texas and the American “Bolashak” means “the future” Councils for International Education: in Kazakh. Kazakhstan launched this ACTR/ACCELS also serve as official ambitious scholarship program in placement sites for Bolashak 1993, by presidential decree. Ever scholars. Among other host coun- since, the country has been sending tries receiving these scholars are its competitively selected students Australia, England, Germany, and abroad for university study as part South Korea. of a national effort to meet the rap- Of the 28 students at IU, 6 have idly increasing development needs been directly admitted into Univer- of the country. The Kazakh govern- sity Division and 22 are receiving Kazakh students prepare dough for a ment’s grand vision for its Bolashak preacademic training to improve traditional Navruz festival dish. Program is to ultimately have their English language skills, prepar- “3,000 scholars studying all around ing to sit for the TOEFL, GRE, and/ the world, all at the same time.” or SAT exams and submitting their IU’s Bolashak scholars have This prestigious program is university graduate and undergrad- adapted very well to campus life, funded by the Kazakh Ministry of uate applications for placement at having already formed a Kazakh Education and is the culmination of IUB or elsewhere. They plan to enroll Student Association where none months-long negotiations between this fall for full-time academic study existed before. Many of the students the ministry, Indiana University in such fields as informatics, public are signed up with IUB’s host family Bloomington’s Center for Inter- administration, and biotechnology. program known as Bloomington national Education and Development Special gatherings have been Worldwide Friendship. Several of Assistance (CIEDA) in the Office of held in their honor, including a the students, in turn, volunteered to International Programs, and the welcome reception hosted by host other visiting international Patrick scholars for the Department of O’Meara, the Central Eurasian Studies’ 13th dean for Annual Association of Central International Eurasian Studies conference held Programs; this year in early April. They were Charles delighted to have had the opportu- Reafsnyder, nity to participate in the festivities CIEDA director; of Navruz, a traditional Central and Shawn Asian celebration of the beginning of Reynolds, asso- spring that is observed annually at ciate director. IUB, this year in late March. They They had dinner prepared one of their national at the home of Navruz dishes and performed tradi- Talant Kazakh musicians Dana Tulekbayeva and Nurzhan tional folk songs and dances along Mawkanuli Baimurzayev play the dombra at the Navruz festival. , who with students from other Central teaches both Eurasian countries.

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12 International News Spring 2006

IUPUI Global Citizenship Conference Attracts Student Leaders

n February, a one-day Midwest and build an Global Citizenship Conference agenda; learn to I was held at Indiana University write lean and Purdue University–Indianapolis, clear prose; and sponsored by IU’s Conversations stay fit and about Service and Engagement strong (“leaders (CASE), Americans for Informed need tremen- Democracy (AID), IU’s Faculty dous energy”). Colloquium for Excellence in In the after- Teaching (FACET), and IU’s Hutton noon, partici- Honors College. The Indianapolis pants engaged event attracted almost 140 students in workshop Participants at the global conference. and young professionals from 32 sessions to universities representing 12 coun- acquire some of tries. The majority of the students the tools they would need to effec- “global citizenship” was an interest- received full- and half-scholarship tively educate their peers about ing theme, it was perhaps less rele- support from the conference’s spon- global issues. For example, in one vant for their countries given the soring organizations. About 30 fac- session, they were asked to draw up vastly different economies and tech- ulty from IU participated. a list of the world’s most urgent nologies. A Turkish participant won- The busy day of activities aimed problems; they were then asked the dered whether globalization of at inspiring students to be responsi- more difficult task of strategizing democracy was possible or if it could ble global citizens. In the morning, about how they would work to help be exported to other countries. students participated in an interac- solve them. Smith too wonders: tive international videoconference Ken Smith, professor of English . . . if North Americans have that lasted one and a half hours with at IU South Bend, summed up his tended to use the term global peers halfway around the globe. optimism on observing these young citizenship as a call for being They spoke face-to-face with stu- participants, posting his comments more well-informed about the dents from Turkey and from several on an American Democracy Project world, while perhaps people African countries, discussing the Weblog (supported by AID) hosted from other places have hoped meaning of global citizenship and by IUSB: “The students there from that the term [w]as a call for a the impact of globalization on colleges and universities across our deepening of relationships cultural identity. state and beyond its borders were between peoples, a more pro- Participants listened to keynote energized by the conversations. found range of collaborations, speaker Gillian Sorensen, former They had tired of the passivity and a series of institutional assistant secretary general of the instilled in schools, and they thrived changes leading to several kinds United Nations and senior advisor on the chance to measure them- of freedom and opportunity. In of the UN Foundation, talk about selves against real issues. They were other words, I wonder if we in what skills and traits students need interested in complexity, eager for North America have fully under- to become effective leaders and challenges, and willing to take some stood what other people are global citizens. Her advice was: chances. They wanted to play a role hoping for? become an expert in something you in the world.” AID is a nonpartisan organiza- care about; have humor, spirit, and Videoconference participants tion whose mission is to raise global conviction; become comfortable from around the world also had a awareness on more than 500 U.S. with decision making and having chance to post their own postconfer- university campuses in a dozen opinions; build public-speaking ence blogs on the IUSB AID site. countries by helping to coordinate skills; learn how to set a meeting One from Uganda noted that while town hall meetings, hosting

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13 International News Spring 2006

IUB Senior Is Named Mitchell Scholar

ndiana University Bloomington senior icy and ideology—through IU’s Individualized Kathleen Claussen has been named one Major Program. In addition, she has a double I of 12 national recipients of the 2006–2007 minor in political science and West European George J. Mitchell Scholarship. She is the fourth Studies. She has had a life-long interest in serv- IU student to be named a Mitchell Scholar since ice learning and community volunteerism. As a the program was launched in 1998. This year’s sophomore in 2004, Claussen founded the very competition included 236 applicants from 171 successful Conversations about Service and colleges and universities nationwide. Engagement (see p. 42 and International The Mitchell Scholarship recognizes out- News, Summer 2005). standing young Americans who exhibit the high- During her years at IU, Claussen has fre- est standards of academic excellence, leadership, quently represented the university at national and service. Administered by the U.S.–Ireland and international civic engagement conferences. Alliance, the scholarship is named in honor of She has conducted research and interned in var- former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George J. ious countries, including Belgium, Denmark, Mitchell, who chaired the historic Northern Mexico, and, most recently, Trinidad and Tobago. Ireland peace process in the mid-to-late 1990s. In 2005, she was awarded IU’s Palmer-Brandon It is sup- Prize, which she used to fund a study of civil ported by an society in Kosovo. endowment At Queen’s University, she will study the established topics of citizenship and conflict resolution as by the gov- they relate to the concept of identity. Then she ernment of plans to attend a U.S. law school with the goal Ireland and of one day becoming an international judge allows recip- involved in the field of human rights and ients to pur- humanitarian law. sue a year of “The affirmation of universal rights and the graduate simultaneous acknowledgment of sweeping dis- study at any parities throughout the world have compelled one of seven me to marry my passion for knowledge with a universities commitment to action,” Claussen says. “I aspire in Ireland or to live up to Senator Mitchell’s example: to not two in only serve the public good but to assertively Kathleen Claussen in Mexico City. Northern realize positive change. I’ll contribute my experi- Ireland. ence, hoping to inspire others to join in our Claussen will seek a graduate degree in collective vision.’ international politics at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She received a —Ryan Piurek Bachelor of Arts degree in May with a double IU Media Relations major in Spanish and in comparative social pol-

For more information about Mitchell Scholarships: www.us-irelandalliance.org/scholarships.html

14 International News Spring 2006

IU South Bend Sociologist Teaches a Semester at Sea

umankind’s pursuit of knowledge has been The challenge for us then is how to master and harness the forces “Hintricately linked to ships that seem to be running away with the planet—growing inequality, and the sea. From early civilizations spreading violence, and new environmental perils. Can we globalize in to the modern era, the exploration ways that are more humane and more respectful of the home that we of distant lands, the exchange of share? I have become convinced that such a search must be our prime ideas and commodities, and the motivation for overseas study and for international travel. search for knowledge has occurred —Scott Sernau in this manner.” This fundamental observation drives the mission of teaching and research interests Race and Ethnic Relations, and the well-known Semester at Sea include globalization, inequality, Great Cities of the World, all with an (SAS) study abroad program, which and community development, took international flavor and an outline offers credit-bearing fall, spring, and his whole family for a semester at that matched each of the ports summer opportunities for U.S. stu- sea along with almost 700 students where their ship MV Explorer dents and faculty to learn through and 24 other faculty from across the docked. As he wrote at the start of lectures and field trips about global nation, on a voyage of discovery the journey, “One of my greatest concerns—the environment, popula- around the globe that lasted from hopes is to provide a bit of insight tion, foreign policy relationships, September to December 2005. into the great intellectual currents economics—in the context of the There were 10 ports of call, from the themselves that people have sought nations visited, and from the secu- Caribbean, South America, South to explain our changing world, a way rity of a floating campus. Academic Africa and Mauritius, to Southeast to tie together the images and expe- credit and sponsorship of the and East Asia, and returning via riences . . . . Even if [the students] program has been administered Hawaii to San Diego. Sernau wrote forget the details of human ecology, through University of Pittsburgh for detailed journal entries of his 100 political economy, or world systems many years but will be assumed by days, posted from sea on an analysis, I hope they will begin a University of Virginia as of summer American Democracy Project Weblog lifetime habit of thinking deeply and 2006. published by IUSB (see below). caring deeply about the planet that Indiana University South Bend’s Sernau’s task was to teach three is our common home.” Scott Sernau, a sociologist whose courses, International Inequalities, On the long ocean stretches between ports, Sernau and his fellow faculty members, joined by local “interport lecturers,” discussed with students the preceding or prepared them for the next port of call. This SAS voyage happened to have a distinguished interport lecturer, Bishop Desmond Tutu and his wife, who accompanied the faculty and students on the leg between Brazil and South Africa. Students learned about environmental issues in the Caribbean, the petro-economy of Venezuela; the history of West Scott Sernau in Guangzhou, China. African slave labor in Brazil;

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“It is . . . a precarious natural world and the human world. We just narrowly cultural world, but still I balk at escaped the fury of Hurricane the word “tourism.” One of our Katrina as we started south. We daily memos began with this rerouted our voyage due to ter- quote from Daniel Boorstin: rorist threats and later heard of ‘The traveler was active; he an attempted pirate attack on a went strenuously in search of small cruise ship off of Somalia. people, of adventure, of experi- The day we left India, the Asian ence. The tourist is passive; he news was filled with reports of expects interesting things to Two conversations across cultures in Burma. massive flooding in the south happen to him. He goes “sight- and terrorist bombings in north. seeing.”’ My students have just Our goal from the begin- deployment of NOAA (National about completed their semester ning has been to be travelers Oceanic and Atmospheric at sea. Our final student panel rather than tourists . . . . Administration) buoys measuring debates the pros and cons of Students around me take study ocean currents; race and reconcilia- globalization. The truth is, how- breaks on the computers by tion in South Africa; historic trade ever, that we have found few cataloging great volumes of routes and the scramble by colonial alternatives to the forces that amazing digital pictures. Nice powers; the social complexities of are both uniting and fragment- collections all, but will they India; “the beauty” (golden pago- ing the world. Even the ostensi- move beyond “snapshots” to das) and “the beast” (barbed wire) bly communist countries we form a vision for the big picture that is modern-day Burma/ have visited are pursuing for our planet? . . . Can they Myanmar; the multinationals global capitalism with a maintain that enthusiasm as behind Singapore’s success; and, vengeance. The challenge for they go on to tend the amazing almost everywhere, the stunning us then is how to master and natural and cultural heritage contrasts of wealth and poverty. At harness the forces that seem to we have viewed, and to share it each port, the students spent four to be running away with the more equitably with our global five days on field trips that opened planet—growing inequality, neighbors? . . . . their eyes to totally new perceptions spreading violence, and new I share their excitement and perspectives about these coun- environmental perils. Can we about coming home but also tries. Many students also did special globalize in ways that are more know a secret. We never left service projects arranged with local humane and more respectful of home. We need to see the nonprofit government organizations. the home that we share? I have whole planet as our home. And During the long Pacific crossing become convinced that such a we need to straighten up our that took the ship homeward bound, search must be our prime moti- room. It is a beautiful place.” Sernau summed up what he hoped vation for overseas study and he and his students had learned for international travel. —RMN together in his final weblog posting, I am intrigued by travel “Tending the Planet”: that truly encounters both the

For the complete Sernau journal entries: ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/adp/category/C75

For more about Semester at Sea: www.semesteratsea.com

16 International News Spring 2006

Study Abroad Peru ’65 Alumni Reunite at IUB

Note: IU’s Peru study abroad program was first established in 1959 and is the university’s oldest study abroad program. It was suspended in 1990 for a decade due to political unrest and was reinstated in 1999, on the fortieth anniversary of its founding.

hen some people connect, the connection is so strong that nothing—not time, W distance, or career demands—can break it. That is what happened to the 1965 IU Junior Year Abroad in Peru group. Forty years ago, these twenty 20-year-olds were handpicked to Peru study abroad group in 1965. participate in a program run by the Indiana University overseas study committee and supported by the U.S. Department of State. After a two-week orientation on protocols, culture, and academic expectations, the group boarded a plane that carried them to Lima, Peru, and the start of an adventure that changed their lives forever. In July 2005, Peru Group 1965 reunited in Bloomington for their fortieth anniversary—it was as if they had never parted. In fact, they have kept in touch throughout all of these years, initially through an annual newsletter that one of its members, Sharon (Goodnight) Sylvester Peru Study Abroad ’65 group reunited in front of Franklin Hall, with emer- , a Chicago tour director, started in itus professor and group leader George Zucker seated in the middle. the early 1970s. Later, in 1990, that newsletter evolved into a weekend of memory-sharing every five years. the weekend to George and his wife, Jane, who This year, though, was very special: all living passed away three years ago. They presented members of the group (except two who could him with a memory book and a group photo not be found) traveled from as far away as taken that morning, following a walking tour of California and Puerto Rico to celebrate their the IU campus. anniversary. For one, Irene (Gnemi) Melendez According to a memo written several years Merle Simmons of San Juan, Puerto Rico, it was the first reunion ago by , who, beginning in she had been able to attend. It won’t be the last. 1961, directed IU’s overseas programs for many The ‘family’ was together again. years, the Peruvian study-abroad program was “I’ve taken many groups to many different launched in 1959. “It peaked in 1965,” he wrote. places,” says George Zucker, a former IU “Professor Zucker’s was perhaps the most Spanish professor who was the program director successful year.” in 1965. “They were all good and we always had It was a year of many different experiences: a fine time. But this group . . . this group was each student lived with a Peruvian family and special. It was family.” The ‘family’ dedicated attended classes with Peruvian students. They

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17 International News Spring 2006

School of Optometry Expands its International Links

n January 11, 2006, Gerald E.Lowther, program in Thailand. Later this fall, the Thai Rangsan Saengsook dean of IU’s School of Optometry university’s president, , O received an honorary degree, Doctor of is expected to come to IU to sign a renewal of a Philosophy in Human Resource Development, “Memorandum of Understanding” between the from Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok, two institutions. Thailand. The diploma was presented to Lowther On the other side of the world, the optome- at the graduation ceremony by Her Royal try school has had a long-standing program of Highness, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. clinical care in Mexico. Most recently, it is work- Lowther and the optometry faculty have ing with the Department of Infants and Family worked with Ramkhamhaeng University over (DIF) for the Mexican state of Guanajuato, a the past five years to develop the first optometry government unit that provides services for the indigent. The DIF raised about $1 million from the government and private sources to build a new vision clinic in Guanajuato. No university funds were requested for this new clinic, which will be run by the IU school. Looking forward to the completion of the new clinic, Lowther says, “The DIF administration obviously has been very pleased with the services we have provided to thousands of the indigent, many of whom have never had eye care before.” The new facility is much larger than IU’s present facility and will contain 10 to 12 exami- nation rooms, an ophthalmic laboratory, an Dean Gerald Lowther receives his honorary degree from Thailand’s eyewear center, a surgical suite, and reception Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. areas. The surgical suite will allow IU ophthal- mologists to travel to Guanajuato to do cataract and other surgeries that are so badly needed in that region. Many patients have cataracts and other conditions that can be corrected with surgery who currently do not have any access to eye care. Three to four students at a time will go to Guanajuato for 12-week rotations. Lowther counts on the new facility to be “a great clinical experience as well as a cultural experience for IU’s optometry students.” The new clinic is expected to be completed by spring of 2006, and Lowther will attend the grand opening.

The new vision clinic being built in Guanajuato, Mexico. —RMN

18 International News Spring 2006

Emeritus Music School Dean Encourages Greater U.S. Role for Cultural Diplomacy

n 2004, Dean Emeritus Charles aback by the intensity of anti- artifacts from museums in the Webb, who led the Jacobs School American feeling he found. With the Middle East I of Music from 1971 to 1997, was decline in funding after the Cold asked by then Secretary War for cultural exchange programs Another member of the commit- Christopher Merrill of State Colin Powell to serve on a abroad, he says that the “gap in pub- tee, of seven-member congressional com- lic perception [of the United States University of Iowa, concurs: mittee to investigate ways that the was] eagerly filled by those with “Cultural diplomacy, low-key as it is, United States could improve its political agendas at odds with ours— may allow us to get another hearing image abroad through the exchange particularly extremists in the Islamic in the court of world opinion and to of ideas, art, and other aspects of world.” heal the breach with the interna- culture. As Webb says, “The report tional community.” includes many specific recommen- The full 30-page report has dations that in our judgment would been posted on the music school’s help to improve diplomatic relation- Web site, which calls it “a fascinat- ships with other countries and bring ing document that profiles how about a better understanding musicians, dancers, visual artists, between their citizens and the peo- theatre performers and cultural pre- ple of the United States.” Among senters can represent an alternative these are: side to the impression of the United States as a militaristic and self- • increase funding and staff for absorbed international superpower.” cultural and public diplomacy • streamline visa issues, particu- Charles Webb larly for international students • expand international cultural Webb served for 18 months exchange programs, inviting on the Committee to Advise the more Arab and Muslim artists, Secretary of State on Cultural performers, and writers to the Diplomacy. The committee com- United States pleted its report in mid-September 2005, but its official publication and • revamp Al Hurra, the U.S.- dissemination was delayed for sev- funded, Arabic-speaking televi- eral weeks, possibly because of its sion station critical stance and blunt language, • set aside funds for translation says Webb. projects of the most important Charged specifically with inter- works from the United States viewing Muslims and people of Arab and other countries descent, the committee traveled to Oman, Egypt, and England, speak- • require U.S. officials abroad to ing to a broad cross-section of diplo- participate in embassy outreach mats, educators, professionals, and activities —RMN average citizens to gain insight into • encourage U.S. museums to what they thought of the United sponsor tours of artworks and States. Webb says he was taken

music.indiana.edu/publicity/fanfare/2005/2005.10.07/culturaldiplomacy.shtml

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and attended two Bloomington conferences related to their own research fields. Their IUB visit coincided with a course on globalization, regional- ization, and sovereignty being Farm Inn Conference Center. Left to right are Shawn Reynolds, Gerald Wright, Joanne Randall Passet, Christine Barbour, and Patrick O’Meara. taught by Baker of the States history and society in their School of Public curricula. The broad aims were to expansion, slavery, industrialization, and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), “explore various aspects of U.S. his- the civil rights movement, and the two sessions of which were interac- tory, institutions, politics, econom- women’s movement. IPFW’s politi- tive video exchanges with de Jager’s ics, society and culture, past and cal science chair James Lutz spoke and Moguerane’s students at UP. present, in an academic and schol- on America’s role in globalization A second U.S. Studies Institute arly environment.” The institute and, together with Brenda Lutz, on is being planned for July 2006, took place September 26–30 at the terrorism and homeland security. where Baker and IUB historian Farm Inn conference center outside Time was also available for South David Thelen will present lectures. Pretoria and attracted some 50 African professors to reflect on the The emphasis for this institute is faculty participants from a range of content of the lectures from a com- more on recent U.S. history and South African institutions, including parative South African point of view. political culture, from the depres- several from universities in In addition to these were two video- sion through the two world wars, a Botswana, Swaziland, and conference lectures delivered from new world order, foreign policy, and Zimbabwe, and from diverse Bloomington, one on race relations the U.S. role in world economics and departments that included econom- in the United States by Matthew globalization. ics, history, journalism and media Guterl, chair of the American In the meantime, talks have studies, political science, public law, Studies program and history profes- continued between IU and UP and sociology. Participants were sor in the African American and involving the American Studies pro- enthusiastic, describing the week as African Diaspora Studies depart- grams at IUB and IPFW with UP’s “objective, informative, helping to ment, and the other on the pedagogy Maxi Schoeman and Marie Muller, understand ‘where the United States of teaching history by historian dean of the Faculty of Humanities. is coming from.’” David Pace. The goal is to find greater coopera- The institute was an intensive In April 2006, the UP–IPFW tion and financial support for even- introduction to U.S. history and pol- exchange brought two visiting UP tually helping UP develop a fuller itics, the first of its kind to be held lecturers, de Jager from political sci- program of American Studies. Such in South Africa. IUB political science ence and Khumisho Moguerane a program might include short-term professors Gerald Wright and from sociology, for one week each to exchange visits, using new commu- Christine Barbour spoke on con- the Bloomington and Fort Wayne nications technologies to deliver stitutional principles, separation of campuses. At IPFW, they met admin- lectures and online courses, powers, federalism, political institu- istrators, faculty, and students in the exchange of research materials and tions and political processes, and international studies program, gave publications, and a continuation of contemporary U.S. politics. Barbour class lectures, and talked about their the summer U.S. studies institutes. also gave a special lunchtime lecture own research. On the IUB campus, on the politics of food in America. they met African studies and —RMN IU East history professor Joanne American studies faculty, gave guest Passet covered the founding of the lectures to international studies nation, reconstruction, westward major and Global Village classes,

20 International News Spring 2006

Co-director of Workshop Visits West Africa on Peace-Building Mission

ast fall, Amos Sawyer, co- director of the Workshop in L Political Theory and Policy Analysis, was invited to join the advisory board of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). SSRC established the forum in 2000 to assist in strengthening the UN’s knowledge about countries and regions in conflict or at risk of conflict, particularly at moments in the Amos Sawyer (second from right) with leaders of civil society organizations in UN’s policy process when policies Amos Sawyer (right) in Mali with Agona-Swedru, a province in Central Cheibane Coulibaly, president of are being rethought, decisions made, Ghana. Mande Bukari University in Bamako. or operations planned. Sawyer is also very active among experts who participate in workshops to discuss the the University of Liberia in issues organized by the National details of the UN Peace-building Monrovia. He has been at IU and Democratic Institute and the Carter Commission that is to be established the Workshop since 2001. His work Center. He also visited Mali, Nigeria, by the Security Council. on peace-building in West Africa and Ghana to consult on research Sawyer was former interim took him to Liberia twice last fall activities undertaken by workshop- president of Liberia from 1990–1994, where he participated in elections, affiliated colleagues in those as well as former dean of the College preparation workshops, and discus- countries. of Social Sciences and Humanities at sions of post–elections governance

IU Archivist Holds Workshops in Liberia

n January 2006, Indiana University Archivist Philip Bantin led four days of workshops on I archival management for archivists at the Liberian National Archives in Monrovia, Liberia. These workshops were organized as part of a larger IU Liberian Collections Project directed by Verlon Stone and funded by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme (see International News, summer 2005). The grant’s aim is to conduct a pilot study to pre- serve and provide access to the National Archives and the Presidential Archives, in particular the personal papers of Liberia’s longest serving president, William Tubman (1944–1971). The workshops focused on arrangement and Philip Bantin (facing) conducts an archive management workshop at the Liberian National Archives. description of collections, appraisal of records,

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21 International News Spring 2006

IUB’s 2007 Reaccreditation Emphasizes Globalization and Internationalization

ndiana University Bloomington university to prepare themselves to Education, and associate dean of the is preparing for the 2007 campus meet the demands of increased glob- Faculties, will be helping to lead the I accreditation by the North alization. This topic provides the campus reaccreditation process that Central Association (NCA), now opportunity to inform NCA and peer will take place during the 2006– known as the Higher Learning institutions about the rich strengths 2007 academic year. Commission. IUB, through the IU Bloomington brings to research, “I am delighted that Terry has Office of the Dean of Faculties, teaching, and service in the global agreed to chair the steering commit- presented a major plan for the arena; to evaluate the dimensions tee for our globalization self study,” reaccreditation process. In contrast of its traditional international Sept commented. “He brings to previous campus accreditation strengths; and to look for new ways valuable international and global efforts, and because of recent devel- to grow to meet the global chal- perspectives and an impressive opments in the NCA process, IUB lenges the institution will face in the array of research, teaching, and will focus much of its self-study next few decades. service experience to this task.” efforts during this cycle on the spe- Dean of the Faculties Jeanne For further information about cial emphasis topic of “globalization Sept has announced that Terrence the 2007 accreditation, send an and internationalization.” One of the Mason, associate professor of edu- e-mail to [email protected]. central themes will be the capacity cation, director of the Center for of all schools and units within the Social Studies and International

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In the fall of 2006, CIEDA looks forward to welcoming an additional 18 students to the Bloomington campus and hosting another 28 who have been placed at IUB by other U.S. universities. The presence of the Bolashak scholars on the Bloomington campus will thus continue as CIEDA expects to receive several more cohorts over the course of the next several years. For more information about the Bolashak Program Scholars, contact the program coordinator at CIEDA, Robin Charpentier: tel: (812) 855-0353; [email protected]. Welcoming the Bolashak scholars (second from left) is Patrick O’Meara, flanked by Charles Reafsnyder and Shawn Reynolds, CIEDA director and associate director, respectively. —RMN

22 International News Spring 2006

IUB and IUPUI Offer Financial Assistance to Incoming International Students

ndiana University Bloomington awards may range from $1,500 to International students at IUPUI offers several forms of financial $20,000, payable over a 10-month may also compete for a Bepko I assistance to new international period. Assistantships usually include Scholars and Fellows Scholarship. undergraduate students. Through the a full fee scholarship, which pays for This highly selective program pro- Faculty Awards Program, interna- all but $500 per semester of tuition vides on-campus housing for the tional freshman students are consid- and fees. Awards are limited and freshman year, in-state tuition, fees ered, along with U.S. undergraduate usually require service to the depart- and book expenses for 4 years, and students, on a competitive basis for ment that makes the award. Awardees $5,000 per year for up to 4 years of modest scholarships ranging from must meet a very high level of graduate or professional study on $1,000 to $7,000. Students must English proficiency, especially for an the IUPUI campus. have excellent scores on the SAT or associate instructor (AI) position. All The Schools of Engineering and the ACT and an outstanding academic AIs must have a 550 or higher TOEFL Technology, Liberal Arts, Informatics, record to be considered for an aca- score and must also pass the special Nursing, Public and Environmental demic scholarship award on the Test of English Proficiency for Affairs, Physical Education and basis of their application materials. International Associate Instructor Tourism Management, Science and For the 2006–2007 academic Candidates in Bloomington before the Herron School of Art each offer year, admitted international fresh- they begin teaching. scholarships open to international men who are nonresidents will At Indiana University–Purdue students for their beginning majors. receive at least a $1,000 award. This University Indianapolis, several The Incentive Scholarship pro- award is renewable for 4 years. undergraduate scholarships managed gram at IUPUI provides $1,000 Depending upon the student’s aca- by the Office of Student Scholarships awards for each of 4 years to begin- demic record and his or her standard- are open to international students, ning undergraduate international ized test scores, this award could including Valedictorian-Salutatorian students or one-time $2,000 awards increase in value to $7,000 per year Scholarships ($4,000 for each of 4 for transfer international students. for up to 4 years. Admitted interna- years), Distinguished Scholarships All new international students on tional transfer students who are ($3,500/year renewable through 4 IUPUI-sponsored student visas are nonresidents will receive a one-time years), Outstanding Scholarships included in the Visa Fees Voucher $2,000 award. This award is not ($3,000/year renewable for 4 years), Program, a $200 award in the first renewable. Freshman Service Scholarships semester at IUPUI. For international graduate stu- ($2,000), Academic Excellence IUPUI international graduate dents, many graduate programs will Scholarships ($1,500/year for 4 students participate in the competi- reimburse international students up years), and Dean of Faculties Schol- tive graduate assistantships for to $200 for their SEVIS and visa arships ($1,250/year for 4 years). teaching or research through their application fees. Some schools and Qualified international students also schools and the graduate fellowship departments offer fellowships and receive Honors Scholarships program managed by the Graduate associate instructorships/assistant- ($1,500/year for 4 years). School. ships to graduate students. These

For more information at IUB: www.indiana.edu/~iuadmit/international/costs www.indiana.edu/~intlserv/Content/Students/Financial_Aid

For more information at IUPUI: Undergraduate: www.iupui.edu/~oia/AD/uscholarshipinfo.html Graduate: www.iupui.edu/~oia/AD/admission_step1.html

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World-Renowned School Renamed the IU Jacobs School of Music

n November 2005, Indiana distribution of income earned on the University President Adam W. gift in these areas. I Herbert announced the naming “This extraordinary gift will add of the IU School of Music in honor even greater luster to one of Indiana of the late David H. Jacobs and his University’s brightest jewels,” wife, Barbara Jacobs, of Herbert said. “We are profoundly Cleveland. The school will be known grateful to Barbara and David Jacobs as the Indiana University Jacobs for their generosity, which will School of Music in recognition of enable our School of Music to attain Barbara and David Jacobs’ long his- even higher levels of excellence in tory of leadership and service to IU performance, scholarship, and cre- and to the IU Foundation, as well as ative activity. It is with great pride Photographs of Barbara and David their gift of $40.6 million for the that we name one of the nation’s Jacobs. school. It is the largest single gift for best music schools in their honor.” a school of music at a public univer- Jacobs School of Music Dean sity. It is also the largest single gift Gwyn Richards said, “It is impossi- able to pursue a superb musical ever given by individuals to IU. ble to overstate the meaning of this education because my mother The Jacobs gift to the School of Music. It pro- cared.” School of vides for student support, faculty Charles Webb, who served as Music, which chairs, and discretionary funding dean of the School of Music from will begin its that when coupled with university 1973–1997, said the Jacobs gift will second century matching funds creates an extraor- make it possible for the school to in 2010 and is dinary resource with which to real- continue its tradition of leading the considered one ize the aspirations of our school. The world in music education, perform- of the world’s Jacobs have placed in our hands a ance, and research. “This gift will preeminent more certain future, freeing us to greatly enhance the quality we’ve institutions for plan long term, extend our reach, always considered central to our the study of and strengthen core values. We are mission,” Webb said. “When you music, will use indebted to them for their foresight, attract first-class students and the $20 million of for their commitment to public edu- best faculty available and provide the gift to endow graduate student cation, and for their interest and them with world-class facilities, you fellowships and $10 million to dedication to the cultural life of our have a school that’s absolutely with- endow undergraduate scholarships. nation.” out peer.” The school has been The gift also establishes endowed The Jacobs’ son David Jacobs ranked first in the nation by Change faculty positions, including the Dean Jr., who was instrumental in inspir- magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Charles H. Webb Chair in Music, the ing the gift, said, “As a former stu- Education and U.S. News & Henry A. Upper Chair in Music, and dent of Indiana University School of World Report. the David H. Jacobs Chair in Music. Music, I have observed many great With more than 1,600 students— Additional funds will be used to sup- triumphs of the school over the past approximately half of whom are port a number of varied initiatives 30 years. I hope that my mother’s undergraduates—and more than within the school. The Jacobs gift gift will ensure that the excellence 1,100 performances a year, the qualifies for matching funds set for which the school is known will Jacobs School of Music is among the aside by IU for the purpose of sup- continue long into the future. largest institutions of its kind in the porting endowed scholarships, fel- Nothing would be more gratifying to world. Its graduates include some of lowships, and faculty positions. This me than to know that talented and the world’s most successful perform- will effectively double the annual deserving young musicians will be ers, conductors, composers, music

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24 International News Spring 2006

New Dean Leads IU School of Journalism

radley J. Hamm is the new dean of the In looking for a School of Journalism, succeeding successor to Brown, B Trevor Brown, who had served as dean the search committee for the past 20 years. He received a B.A. in com- sought a candidate munications from Catawba College, North who could lead the Carolina, an M.A. in journalism from the school through a University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. in period when many mass communication research from the veteran faculty mem- University of North Carolina. bers are expected to Formerly an associate dean and associate retire and the school professor of communications at Elon University will face funding challenges and facil- in North Carolina, Hamm helped build the new Bradley J. Hamm communications school at Elon into a respected, ity needs. The com- up-and-coming program with 29 current full- mittee also sought a time faculty members, including a Pulitzer candidate who could lead the school into a new Prize-winner. In 1999, he was a project coordi- media era. nator and consultant for the New York Times Hamm says he is honored to have been Regional Newspaper Group on a project involv- selected as the journalism school’s next dean. “It ing its three newspapers in North Carolina, “Left has such a wonderful history, and I think that Behind,” that won a Chairman’s Award from journalism and Indiana University have always New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger gone together in my mind.” I think of people like and second place in the Southern Journalism Ernie Pyle and Roy Howard and I think of how Awards presented by the Institute for Southern famous that program has been. So it’s just an Studies. Hamm has taught at Elon since 1989 honor to be included.” and was appointed as associate professor in His goals for the IU school “always will be to 2000. Elon’s program includes journalism, have one of the finest journalism programs in broadcasting, film, advertising, and public rela- the nation. We need to consider the future of tions and has an undergraduate program that is journalism . . . what the qualities of journalism similar in size to IU’s. are, what we are teaching people to do, remem- bering that, regardless of the form, journalism is essential to democracy.”

IU Jacobs School of Music continued from previous page educators, scholars, and managers of arts organizations. The school’s vibrant, cosmopolitan atmosphere attracts students from all 50 states and more than 50 foreign countries. Each year, approximately 350 international students come to the school to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees. IU celebrated the official moment of its new identity as the Jacobs School of Music with a “Naming Concert” in February 2006 that featured a brass ensemble, the Pro Arte Singers, and a chamber trio, with musicians representing students, faculty, and alumni. Dean Gwyn Richards (center, facing) greets guests at the Naming Concert. —IU Media Relations

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Ties to China continued from page 5

For Ross, the project’s educa- China Women’s Federation and women among whose wealthy stu- tional and cross-cultural objectives Dream Corps for Harmonious dents were the three famous Soong are significant: it centers the lives Development. The Spring Bud sisters, as well as girls from often and voices of children in the social Project is a national movement in poor Christian families. After com- studies and global education cur- China to ensure that impoverished pleting her Ph.D., Ross started cor- riculum, while fostering communi- girls have the opportunity to attend responding with alumnae from this cation and deeper understanding school. In October 2005, she and school, amassing thousands of pages between Chinese and American Wang pretested a survey to be dis- of life histories. These histories form school children and their teachers. tributed this summer to 1,000 the basis of a prospective book proj- All the students’ work from Batchelor eighth-grade girls participating in ect. and Xihe schools are expected to be the Spring Bud Project in the cities “It’s a really interesting project exhibited on a Web site hosted by of Ankang and Shangluo. because there are several ways that I the School of Education. In addition, Ross traveled to can go with it,” says Ross. “I could Last summer, Ross worked on Xian, Shaanxi, to work with col- pass on the narrative of the lives of another nongovernmental project in leagues on a Ford Foundation initia- the various women I know, and they China, the Shaanxi Spring Bud tive that examines the challenges would tell us a lot about China at the Project coordinated by Shaanxi All faced by administrators and teach- time as well as about how they have ers at China’s private gone out into the world since their colleges and universities school days. Or, I could talk about as the country shifts its the school from a more academic per- higher education system spective, looking at the implications from an elite to a mass of how this school is similar to or dif- enterprise in order to ferent from other schools at the time. cope with the burgeon- In many ways, the lives of these Num- ing demand for higher ber Three Girls School alumnae have education. During her become intertwined with my own, so October trip, Ross also deciding how to put this research on went to Beijing to partic- paper is a little overwhelming.” ipate in a conference, In addition to her research proj- First International ects, Ross found time last summer Forum on Children’s to accompany Richard Rubinger Development, cospon- (East Asian Languages and Cultures) The front entrance of Xihe Middle School. sored by the Soong on an undergraduate study tour Ching Ling Foundation looking at educational reform in and UNICEF. Japan and China. After that tour, Another project that she stayed on with IU doctoral stu- Ross is concurrently dent Lijing Yang to assist Laura working on concerns a Stachowski, director of the School historic school that she of Education’s award-winning learned about when she Cultural Immersion Projects, in set- was teaching English in ting up a teaching opportunity for Shanghai just after her IU graduates in Shandong Province bachelor’s degree. The (see p. 39). Victorian-style structure Ross’s multiple projects and known as Shanghai activities attest to her deep commit- Number Three Girls ment to understanding China’s edu- School was once an elite cational system and the sweeping missionary school run socioeconomic changes it is undergo- Heidi Ross speaks with a student at Xihe Middle School. by Southern Methodist ing. She says that her collaborations

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26 International News Spring 2006

Kelley School Offers Online Courses to Advanced Technologists Worldwide

elley Direct Online Programs nondegree, and certificate program their members with the world-class in Indiana University’s Kelley classes, as well as the array of online programs we offer.” K School of Business is partner- graduate programs, including the Moshe Kam, IEEE vice presi- ing with the Institute of Electrical M.B.A. degree and a M.S. degree in dent for educational activities, and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), finance, global supply chain man- welcomed the Kelley School to the the world’s largest technical profes- agement, and strategic management. growing number of IEEE Education sional society, to offer educational Kelley Direct courses are taught by Partners, saying that “access to reli- programs to its 365,000 members the same faculty who teach in the able and prescreened information worldwide. Dedicated to the advance- school’s other full- and part-time of this kind is of increased value in ment of technology, IEEE publishes M.B.A. programs. these times of increased globaliza- 30 percent of the world’s literature “Senior managers in many tion and competitiveness . . . . in the electrical and electronics engi- organizations today are looking to Modern professionals are in need neering and computer science fields hire and promote people that have of such information in real time in and sponsors or cosponsors more technical skills coupled with a sound order to retool, get updated in exist- than 300 international technical understanding of business princi- ing areas, learn about the emergence conferences each year. ples,” said Daniel C. Smith, dean of of new areas, and identify the latest Under the new agreement, the the Kelley School. “IEEE is the pre- in professional areas of interest and Kelley School becomes an official miere professional association for in business climate trends.” Kam affiliate of the IEEE Education electrical engineers in part because adds, “We look forward to growing Partners Program and will provide of their concern with providing cooperation with the Kelley School IEEE members with online courses opportunities for their members to of Business as the program evolves.” that meet their professional devel- develop a complete portfolio of opment needs. Members will have skills. It is an honor to have them as —IU Media Relations access to Kelley Direct’s degree, an educational partner and to serve

For more about Kelley School offerings for IEEE members: www.ieee.org/portal/pages/education/partners/eduPartners.html

Ties to China continued from previous page with Chinese colleagues and her awareness of the be a small part of the fundamental transforma- complex personal obligations that are present tions that are taking place: “My efforts to under- and shape her cross-cultural scholarship are stand the processes of Chinese schooling and essential to her own learning and thinking as a culture constantly challenge my ‘taken-for-grant- comparative educator. By traveling to China eds’ regarding teaching, learning, and living.” annually to study the interrelationships involving schooling, gender, social class stratification, —RMN reform, and other issues, Ross feels fortunate to

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Museum Exhibit continued from page 4

women’s laughter, no gossip so fre- the photo at right, stacks of pots are quent as the stories of wives eloping bound in cornstalk racks at termi- with lovers. nals along the roadside to be picked Pottery is the exclusive domain up by trucks chartered exclusively of ingkyagu women. The quality of for the pottery trade. This change in the pots was excellent, and their sale the marketing of pottery was far provided a reliable though modest more than economic; it became cash income. A woman would typi- revolutionary when Margi middle- cally produce 20 or 30 pots a week to sell in a local market. Sometimes an itinerant entrepreneur would buy trapped in polygynous marriages; 16 to 20 pots, load them on a donkey, they are frequently co-wives who and then walk more than 100 miles conspire to outwit their husbands. to the large northeastern market of Nor are they without options. More Maiduguri to sell them. In the 1960s, than three quarters of all divorces— a local mbilim man had the brilliant in 1960 the Margi divorce rate was idea of “special ordering” a larger six times the U.S. rate—are initiated number of pots and shipping them by women. No sound is so charac- by truck to Maiduguri, and the pro- teristic of village life as the sound of duction of pots rapidly increased. In

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Ptil Yarkur’s Grandson Unexpectedly Visits Exhibit

ver the past 30 years, James Paul and Roxana Newman, who are interested in African cultures. Vaughan had kept in contact visited the Vaughan family in Margi With support from the Mathers O with Waziri Ahmadu, one of country during the 1970s. Museum, the African Studies the Margi he knew as a boy, and had As he was touring the exhibit, Program, and the Office of informed him about the exhibit. Ahmadu remarked that it would International Programs, Vaughan Now an agricultural development have delighted many people back in hopes to launch the Web site by the official with the Nigerian govern- Nigeria if only they could have seen end of summer 2006. For further ment, Ahmadu happened to be in it. This comment inspired Vaughan information on the exhibit or Web the United States on business and to realize that he could actually put site, contact James Vaughan at came to Bloomington for a day, just the entire exhibit on a Web site that [email protected]. when Vaughan was unfortunately the Margi themselves could access –RMN out of town. Instead, his son, because computers Richard Vaughan (second from are now available in left), a librarian in the IU School of many schools and Law—Bloomington, took him to the offices in Nigeria. exhibit, where Ahmadu was thrilled The Web project to see photographs of his grandfa- would reach out to ther, Ptil Yarkur, his mother, and the largest audience many other relatives and friends. Of possible, not only the traditional rural life depicted the Margi and other there, Ahmadu said nostalgically, “A Nigerians, but also lot of the scenery, the way of life, it’s students and schol- gone now.” Also shown here are ars worldwide who

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IUPUI Integrates continued from page 6

Affairs and Chancellor’s director of international Foundation. Teams and individuals Professor of anthropology and curriculum; were also given time to begin strate- James Perry, director of the • Cross-cultural issues, with gic plans for international service American Democracy Project Claire King, director of learning at their own campuses. and Chancellor’s Professor of Community Outreach and Participants found the confer- public and environmental affairs; Partnerships in Service ence extremely beneficial and • Introduction to service learning, Learning, IU Bloomington; engaging. John Merrill, from The with Robert Bringle, director • Understanding culture and cul- Ohio State University, commented, of the Center for Service and tural understanding, with John “I found the range of topics and the Learning and Chancellor’s Parrish-Sprowl, chair of the opportunities to interact with many Professor of psychology and Department of Communication other colleagues most valuable .... philanthropic studies; Studies, and Hilary Kahn; The workshop was an eye-opener for • Designing and organizing inter- • Scholarships and financial aid, me as to the amount of interest national partnerships, with Ian with James Fidler, associate there is and the amount of scholarly McIntosh, director of inter- director of financial aid; work that has been done to date.” national partnerships; • Programs for graduate and pro- Another participant noted, “The • Curriculum design, including fessional students, with Julie time to plan for the future with my reflection and engaging the dis- Hatcher, associate director of team was extremely valuable. This ciplines, with Kathleen Sideli, the Center for Service and would not have happened had we associate dean for international Learning; not physically removed ourselves programs and director of IU’s • Strategic planning on campuses, from the school.” Diane Foster, systemwide Office of Overseas with Trudy Banta, vice chan- coordinator of service-learning and Study, and Steve Jones, coor- cellor for planning and institu- civic engagement at St. Louis dinator of the Center for Service tional improvement. Community College commented, and Learning; “The workshop was a champagne • Legal, visa, and other adminis- Before the meeting, participants launch into the wide world of inter- trative challenges, with received articles, an institutional national service-learning—top-notch Stephanie Leslie, coordinator survey, and Service-Learning speakers, challenging topics, and for study abroad, and Kathleen across Cultures: Promise and superb accommodations.” Sideli; Achievement edited by Humphrey • Uses of technology for orienta- Tonkin (IPSL Press 2004), an inter- —Cathie Carrigan tion, reflection, program devel- national service-learning research Communication and Research opment, with Hilary Kahn, study funded by the Ford Specialist, OIA

For more on international service learning: www.ipsl.org www.servicelearning.org

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Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Gaza Energizes IU Southeast

n the fall of 2005, IU where he gave personal views of daily life in the Southeast benefited in Gaza Strip, and to community organizations like I multiple ways from the the Rotary Club and the local chapter of the presence of Hassan Abu- American Civil Liberties Union. He was also the Jarad, a visiting Fulbright guest speaker at an IUS symposium on the scholar from the Palestinian future of Palestine, sponsored by the School of Territories who came to New Social Sciences, where he discussed internal Albany on the relatively new political issues, relations with Israel, and Fulbright Visiting Specialists economic concerns of the Palestinian people. Program: Direct Access to the Muslim World. As a result of his presentations, IUS The program provides opportunities for U.S. students said they had dramatically increased higher education institutions to host specialists their understanding of Islam, the politics of the from the Muslim world for short-term programs Middle East, and the Palestinians in particular, of intensive lecturing and public outreach. The from perspectives they had never before heard. ultimate goal of the program is to increase an Moreover, Abu-Jarad’s participation in classes understanding in the United States of the changed their views about their roles in the Muslim world and civilization. world as global citizens. Nearly half of the stu- Abu-Jarad, an associate professor of applied dents in the class on nationalism were moved to linguistics at Al-Azhar University of Gaza, record video messages for Abu-Jarad to take received his Ph.D. in applied linguistics in 1986 back and share with his students in Gaza. As a from Ball State University and was a Visiting result of his visit, the IUS political science and Fulbright Scholar at St. John’s College in international studies programs are hoping to Annapolis in 1994. He is a member of the establish on-going, real-time meetings with Abu- Palestinian Delegation for Negotiation on the Jarad through video-conferencing technology, so Issue of Displaced Persons. He also works exten- students on both campuses could discuss issues sively with Palestinian youth and is the director of mutual interest. of the Creative Thinking through Discussion In summing up his visit, Deborah Finkel, Program for the Palestinian Youth Community intermin associate vice chancellor for academic in which he is supervising a project partnered affairs, praised him as an excellent and eager with Save the Children and funded by USAID. speaker: “He was engaging, articulate, well-pre- His broad background made him a welcome pared (with PowerPoint presentations on gender guest speaker at many IUS venues. He gave pre- roles, Palestinian politics, etc.), passionate about sentations in a dozen different courses ranging his topic, and diplomatic with those who dis- from classes on nationalism, U.S. foreign policy, agreed with him. In short, a great addition to religion and society, the sociology of gender our campus this semester.” roles, education and social issues, and journalism. He spoke off-campus to several schools, —RMN

30 International News Spring 2006

SPEA Establishes Study Abroad Program at Oxford University

he School of Public and Environmental and anthropology to develop an overall under- Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University will standing of decision making. And the second T begin offering IU at Oxford, a new summer course, the study of governance, is a perfect program for undergraduates in July 2006. complement to the study of group decision mak- The program at Oxford University, directed ing,” said Richards. by SPEA’s Kenneth Richards, will run from The program is open to all IU undergradu- July 8 to August 5. The courses will focus on ates. Richards hopes to attract IU students who public policy, bring in guest lecturers from the are studying political science, journalism, and Oxford faculty, and include possible field trips to business as well as SPEA students. “We worked the Oxford Museum, the British Parliament in very hard to keep the program affordable,” London, and the museum that houses one of the Richards explained, “but we did not want to original copies of the Magna Carta. compromise on quality. We are going to be “This is going to be a great program for IU living right in the city of Oxford and enjoying a undergraduates,” said Richards. “Oxford wonderful variety of meals. There will lots of University is such an inspirational setting, and great activities. It is an ancient city but with all the faculty members there are outstanding. The of the modern amenities.” field trips, which should be a lot of fun, are also The school maintains continuing relation- designed to complement the course content.” ships with a large number of public agencies at IU at Oxford comprises two SPEA courses: all levels of government; public and private hos- Decision Making in Public and Private Contexts: pitals and health organizations; and nonprofit The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; and Gover- organizations and corporations in the private nance of Private and Public Organizations: sector. SPEA has earned national distinction for Herding Cats. Both courses, according to innovative educational programs that combine Richards, are designed to be useful not only to administrative, social, economic, financial, and SPEA students, but to anyone who wants to environmental disciplines. explore how organizations, including govern- For further information about the ment, are run. program, contact the IU Office of Overseas “We will be looking at how individuals and Study; telephone: (812) 855-9304; e-mail: groups make simple decisions and how they [email protected]. make far more complex decisions. We will draw on economics, political science, psychology, law, —Jenny Cohen, SPEA

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Professors Win continued from page 9 cross-Straits couples experience actions relevant to infrastructure on the Homeland, 1920–1970.” The the effects of large-scale political (port expansion, freshwater distri- project investigates the effects of processes in their intimate bution, sewage, flood control); water emigration and return migration on relationships. use practices at work sites; and the twentieth-century Mexico. It high- Stephanie function and meaning of the coastal lights the national impact of the Kane, associate landscape. By studying the material Bracero Program (1942–1964), a professor of and symbolic dimensions of water bilateral migratory labor accord that criminal justice security across local, regional, and sent five million migrants to the at IUB, has won transnational scales, the project United States and established an a Fulbright- aims to reveal opportunities for emigration culture and migratory Hays Faculty enhancing public health and ecologi- networks that persist today. This Research cal sustainability in the global trans- transnational history of Mexican Abroad grant port niches upon which world trade emigration combines analyses of for her project, relies. state policymaking and international “Water Security in Global Port Michael relations with regional histories of Cities of the South Atlantic: An Snodgrass, two key sending states, Guanajuato Ethnographic Approach.” It is an associate pro- and Jalisco. Based upon archival ethnographic study of the use and fessor of history research and oral history interviews, management of fresh and marine at IUPUI, has it documents Mexico’s shifting and water resources in four South won a Fulbright- controversial emigration policies Atlantic port cities that are being Hays Faculty and their effects on U.S.–Mexican dramatically reshaped by the con- Research relations. It then examines return tainer shipping industry (Santos, Abroad grant migration’s effects on the economic, Salvador, and Recife in Brazil, and for his project, political, and cultural development Buenos Aires in Argentina). “Across the Border and Back Again: of the sending regions. Fieldwork will focus on legal inter- Mexican Emigration and its Effects

National Summit continued from page 2

social or national security issue: “. . . it’s every- state, and the secretary of education is particu- body’s issue,” and she exhorted the participants larly significant.” to be mindful: “I hope you will also think about IU’s Dean for International Programs how well you’re preparing students to under- Patrick O’Meara said of the summit, “I am stand the global economy and what resources delighted that international education is being you’re devoting toward this goal.” given such prominence. It is a reflection of the President Herbert summed up the impor- crucial importance of languages and knowledge tance of the meeting: “Because of Indiana of other cultures to our national priorities.” University’s long-standing international stature, this meeting with the president, the secretary of —RMN

For information on the proposed NSLI: chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i19/19a02601.htm www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2006/58733.htm

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Director of National Virtual Translation Center Visits IUB

verette Jordan, and more. The challenge of working on high- director of the U.S. priority projects with real-world applications E National Virtual attracts many people to the center’s work. Translation Center (NVTC) An additional attraction of NVTC is the visited the Indiana Univer- ability to work from home and to supplement sity Bloomington campus another part- or full-time job. All translators on November 15 to describe work on contract, so they can take on as much the center’s mission and or as little translation work as they prefer. This recruit translators from flexibility allows the government to meet its among qualified students. The Russian and East changing needs as the priorities of government European Institute (REEI) coordinated his visit, agencies evolve. Currently, NVTC is actively following up his first meeting with students by recruiting translators of more than 25 languages, interactive videoconference during the summer. from Albanian to Uzbek, and the center continu- More than 40 students from five language and ally accepts applications in all world languages. area studies centers crowded into a lecture hall Director Jordan emphasized during his lec- to hear him describe the opportunities available ture that IU presents a natural recruiting pool for translators in nearly every language for NVTC because of the many languages taught imaginable. through its area studies programs and across its Established in February 2003, NVTC pro- curricula. In an informal survey during his lec- vides translations of foreign intelligence to all ture, he discovered that the students in atten- elements of the U.S. intelligence community. It dance spoke more than 10 languages, including acts as a clearinghouse for interagency use of critical need languages such as Arabic and less translators to augment existing government commonly taught languages such as Uyghur. translation capabilities. The center is quickly Jordan even raised the possibility of creating a building a team of linguists and translators who “pipeline” to channel talented student transla- work in locations nationwide and virtually con- tors into NVTC. An internship program already nect to the program office in Washington, D.C. exists, and IU students are competitive candi- “[The center’s translators] work part time and dates for those positions. Once the internships full time, and they work on languages from are complete, most interns continue on as con- across the globe,” Jordan said. tract linguists for the center. Expanding the Translators receive assignments through relationship between NVTC and IU would pro- NVTC from a wide variety of government agen- vide a steady stream of new translating talent in cies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, service to the United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and National —Neil Gipson Security Agency. They translate written docu- REEI ments, audio and video, articles from the press,

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At the graduation ceremony are (left to right) Ravdangiin Bold, Sukpantar Altantsetseg, and Baasan Ragchaa.

At the Lilly Library are (left to right) Breon Mitchell, Christopher Atwood, Patrick members, comprising the interna- O’Meara, former President Natsagiin Bagabandi, and Baasan Ragchaa. tionally known Mongolist György Kara, who specializes in old Mongolian, Manchu, and Evenki IU is also home to the Mongolia society sponsors a speaker series, an texts and philological studies; Society, the oldest and largest aca- annual meeting, and periodical pub- Atwood, who concentrates on demic society related to Mongolia in lications related to Mongolia, and it Mongolian nationalism and the the United States, brought to IU serves as a general resource in the modernization of Mongolian culture from Columbia University by United States about Mongolia. and regularly serves as an official Hangin. It is a private, nonprofit, During his two-day visit to interpreter for the U.S. Department nonpolitical organization whose Bloomington, Bagabandi was of State; and Tserenchunt Legden, aims are to promote and further the accompanied by Ravdangiin Bold, the current lecturer in Mongolian study of Mongolian history, lan- the Mongolian ambassador to the language and culture. guage, and culture. Each year, the United States; Sukpantar Altantsetseg, the second political secretary at the Mongolian Embassy in Washington; and a Mongolian journalist, A. Avirmed. Also joining the presidential party were Baasan Ragchaa, currently a visiting scholar in CEUS who served as the official translator for the visit, and visiting scholar M. Saruul- Erdene from the National University of Mongolia. The group met with Buddhist monks at the Dagom Geden Tensung Ling Monastery in Bloomington. Later that day, Bagabandi gave a public lecture sponsored by the Lilly Library, where director Breon Mitchell had organized a special exhibit that Former President N. Bagabandi receives congratulations on behalf of the Mongolia included Buddhist texts written in Society from the society's manager, Suzie Drost. early Mongolian script and a hand-

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IU's György Kara presenting gifts to the former President.

written account of Marco Polo’s travels to Mongolia. Bagabandi addressed a full audience, stressing Mongolian musician playing the morin the deep ties of respect khuur (horse-head fiddle). binding Mongolia to IU and his future hopes for the development of even greater activities of mutual benefit. In an interview following his address, he stressed the educational needs of his country and IU Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis the particularly useful role (right) spoke words of welcome to Former President of informatics and com- N. Bagabandi at a luncheon in his honor. puters in a vast country with a sparse, still largely nomadic population who would ben- O’Meara, dean for international efit from such innovations as distance programs, for a WFIU program that education and medical diagnosis at a was aired in February. The final distance. Bagabandi describes him- event of the two-day visit was a for- self as a pragmatist in international mal evening reception highlighted relations, aware of maintaining good with a musical performance by six relations with Mongolia’s two large musicians from Chicago who played neighbors, China and Russia, while traditional instruments and an exhi- reaching out to “third neighbors” bition by a contortionist—a very like the United States. As he coun- popular spectacle in Mongolia—who seled, “There is a saying in performed before an enthusiastic Mongolia: The person with a change audience. of horses can go a long way.” Mongolian contortionist. Later that day, Ambassador —RMN Bold was interviewed by Patrick

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efforts of the outreach coordinators A Sample of Past ISIS Outreach Programs of IU’s 11 area and international • Exploring East Asia through Storytelling: popular folktales from China, studies centers, with central organi- Japan, and Korea told by professional storytellers. zation provided by the Global Center • Plate Tectonics: for geography classes, discussing active volcanoes outreach staff and that of the Virtual and an earthquake profile of the Japanese islands, using graphs and Indiana Classroom network. photos of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. The Global Center was also cited • The Codices of Mexico: hands-on introduction to the Codices demon- for its annual summer institutes for strating how Aztec history was recorded and preserved without teachers that tackle such important words. Teams of students make their own codices while other teams international topics as trade, agri- interpret them. culture, global climate change, pop- • Hungarian Gypsy Music: materials and audiocassettes of gypsy ulations at risk, and conflict culture and performances sent to help students prepare for an resolution. Each summer, between international fair. 40 to 50 middle and high school • Adinkra Cloth of Ghana: textile arts through slides showing how teachers from the United States and hand-stamped adinkra cloth is made, social contexts for wearing it, abroad gather for two weeks of train- and symbolic meanings of its designs. ing and learning designed to infuse • Middle Eastern Foodways: step-by-step process where students international themes and activities actually prepare hummus from fresh ingredients (lemons, garlic, into the social studies curriculum. tahini, chickpeas) to be eaten for breakfast, typically on Fridays. EAST ASIAN STUDIES CENTER prominent government leaders as through interactive video technology. Like the Global Center, EASC places well as senior representatives from The center’s International Studies in great emphasis on reaching out to U.S. educational foundations, busi- Indiana Schools (ISIS) program teachers through two annual flag- ness, and industry. helps teachers supplement social, ship programs, both supported cultural, or foreign language studies through a major grant from the CENTER FOR THE STUDY by featuring virtual “live visits” by Freeman Foundation. In conjunc- OF GLOBAL CHANGE members of those cultures who are tion with the National Consortium A central mission of the Global drawn from IU’s large pool of for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), Center has been to provide outreach international students, visitors, and EASC is engaged in a national programs that offer international faculty experts. Interactive video multiyear program to improve the training and programming to activities can vary widely (see side- teaching of East Asia in America’s Indiana’s K-12 teachers by connect- bar). This successful program is a schools. The NCTA seminars consist ing them to IU’s extensive resources university-wide collaborative effort of 30 hours of training over a in international and area studies that depends on the combined 10-week period and are held in different locations throughout the Midwest and South so as to provide opportunities for the greatest number over a broad geographical area. Three main elements comprise the program: the 10-week, 30-hour seminar; completing classroom implementation of three lesson plans on China, Japan, and Korea; and a follow-up report on the implementation phase. These in-depth seminars, led by major scholars in the field, have enriched the knowledge of East Asia for nearly 1,000

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ICIP Hosts Conferences on Iraq and Islam in Africa

he Indiana Consortium for Later in October, International Programs (ICIP) ICIP sponsored a faculty T is a group of 35 colleges and development workshop, universities in Indiana and Kentucky “Teaching about Islam devoted to encouraging and support- in Africa: Historical and ing international dimensions among Cultural Dimensions,” its member institutions. All eight that offered an introduc- campuses of Indiana University are tion to the topic and a members. ICIP’s goal is to improve forum for discussing faculty competence, encourage pedagogical strategies greater student achievement and and resources for teach- awareness, develop curriculum, and ing about Islam in a provide services to assist member range of courses. The Robert Olson, Sherri Hilgeman (IU Southeast), Liam institutions in their individual efforts focus was on the history Anderson, Zaineb Istrabadi (IU Bloomington). to internationalize their campuses. of Islam in Africa and on Fall 2005 was a busy semester the ways it is lived and expressed in and Jonathan Reynolds (Northern for the ICIP, which helped sponsor various cultural forms. Each of the Kentucky University) spoke about several events from academic meet- presenters has extensive research the history of Islam in Africa and ings to outreach events. In early experience in West and East Africa. how he integrates the topic into his Kelly Askew October, it sponsored a one-day (University of world history courses. The seminar Perspectives on Iraq, conference, Michigan), an anthropologist and was organized by the African Studies at Indiana University Purdue musician, focused on popular cul- Program at IU Bloomington. Ousseina Alidou University–Indianapolis to discuss ture and Islam; In addition, the ICIP sponsored the current situation in Iraq. Presen- (Rutgers University), a sociolinguist, its annual intercollegiate Model Zaineb tations were given by discussed how Sahelian women rein- United Nations Security Council Istrabadi (Near Eastern Languages terpret colonialism and modernity; (UNSC) simulation at the University and Cultures, IUB) on religion in Iraq; Sherri Hilgeman (Anthro- continued on next page pology, IU Southeast) and Jan Gabbert (Classics, Wright State University) on the national museum ICIP’s International Grant Opportunities Robert Olson in Baghdad; (History, In addition to the yearly events that ICIP helps sponsor, it awards University of Kentucky) on Turkish grants to encourage internationalizing activities at the various member nationalism and Iraqi Kurdistan, campuses. Twice a year, ICIP accepts grant applications for individual or Liam Anderson and (Political institutional programs that will help create or enhance international Science, Wright State University) educational opportunities at member institutions. These grants gener- on constitutional issues in post- ally run up to $1,000 per project. ICIP institutions and their faculty may “Operation Freedom” Iraq. The con- apply for financial assistance to promote the following activities through Thomas ference was moderated by ICIP grants: Wolf , professor emeritus of political • visits of outside consultants on institutional internationalization science (IU Southeast), with local • conferences and seminars on international themes Susan arrangements organized by • speakers’ honoraria Sutton (Office of International Affairs, IUPUI). A large number of Instructions and forms for applying for ICIP grants can be found at students from Anderson University, the ICIPWeb site, which is hosted by the University of Indianapolis. ICIP IU Kokomo, IUPUI, and IU member institutions and individual faculty interested in applying for any Southeast attended. During lunch, of these grants should consult the Web site. They also may contact the the participants were entertained by ICIP executive director, Karen DeGrange at Rose-Hulman Institute of three members of Salaam Band of Technology, e-mail: [email protected]. Bloomington.

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Workshops in Liberia continued from page 21 reference service, and records man- staff to current standards, method- For Bantin, education and train- agement activities. The workshops ologies, and best practices and pro- ing for the archives staff are among introduced the Liberian archives vided them with a basic foundation the highest priorities in reestablish- from which to seek more advanced ing the Liberian National Archives training. as a vital and trusted repository for Bantin faced a number of formi- the country’s records. However, dable challenges in implementing several other essential activities also these workshops. Because of the must occur with education and long years of civil war and the lack training. These include additional of maintenance, Liberia’s infrastruc- financial support from the Liberian ture has been heavily damaged. For government, the transfer of the example, electricity is not provided archives to a better facility for stor- by the country’s power grid, but is ing and providing access to the only available to those who can records, and the appointment of afford to purchase generators. trained and dedicated professionals Consequently, in order to provide to lead and administer the archives. access to PowerPoint slides and to Regarding his experience in the the Internet at the training sessions, Liberian archives, Bantin said, “It project staff had to purchase a gen- was a difficult trip, but I was glad I erator to power the computer and went. I was amazed that despite all buy the hardware needed to access the poverty and suffering most of the Internet. Access to the Internet the Liberians I met were upbeat and was especially appreciated by the optimistic about the future. I hope Liberian Archives staff because none that in some small way I have con- of them had ever actually “surfed the tributed to Liberia’s development The Tubman papers stacked and in disarray in the Presidential Archives Web.” and rebirth.” Annex.

For recent update on IU activities in Liberia: www.slis.indiana.edu/news/story.php?story_id=1132

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of Indianapolis. As in past years, the two-day program featured several parallel councils, each consisting of 15 two-person teams representing the UNSC member states. This year’s agenda items included UN and Security Council reform; African issues (Sudan/Darfur, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia/Eritrea); nuclear weapons and Iran; U.S. embargo of Cuba; and Israel/Palestine. The conference was organized by Allen Maxwell of IU Kokomo.

ICIP Web site: www.uindy.edu/~icip Kelly Askew, Ousseina Alidou, and Jonathan Reynolds.

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Goldman Sachs Foundation continued from page 36 educators from middle and high these preservice schools who remain committed to teachers spend an incorporating East Asia components additional eight weeks into their curricula. teaching in primary The second annual workshop and secondary schools program, Teaching East Asian abroad, teaching their Literature in the High School, is an area subjects in intensive summer workshop for high English and living school teachers of world literature with host families. interested in incorporating Chinese, Partnerships with Participants from the 2005 Teaching East Asian Literature Japanese, and Korean literature into schools and education in the High School workshop. their curricula. Because of the officials now include geostrategic importance of East 12 host countries. In Asia—defined here as China, Japan, addition to traditional North and South Korea, and English-speaking Taiwan—Americans are now looking countries such as New at these cultures with new interest. Zealand and Wales, While there has been an increase in the latest additions teaching about East Asia in the include many non- social studies curriculum, there has English-speaking not yet been a similar effort in the nations such as Costa language arts. In the literature Rica, India, Kenya, workshop, held on the Bloomington Russia, and Spain. campus, participants develop lesson Such immersion expe- Orientation session attended by some 150 students sign- plans for at least one of the literary riences allow these ing up to teach abroad in the School of Education’s works covered in the workshop. student teachers, at a Overseas Student Teaching Project. formative phase of CULTURAL IMMERSION PROJECTS their training as K-12 tional financial support from EASC The third IU program recognized by teachers, to learn about educational through its Freeman Foundation the Goldman Sachs award is the systems abroad and expand their funds. Although designed primarily School of Education’s Cultural perspectives on how others view the for teacher education majors, the Immersion Projects, which include world, educate their children, and Cultural Immersion Projects’ inter- the Overseas Student Teaching carry out their daily tasks of life. national placements are also open to Project. The project is an optional Most recently, China has been non-education majors interested in supplement to conventional student added as a host country, with the seeking “school internships” abroad teaching requirements that offers Shandong city of Zibo now being a and to education majors from other preservice teachers a chance to ful- placement site for the immersion IU campuses and other Indiana fill part of that requirement abroad. program. Stachowski, the program public institutions, such as Purdue Around 150 student teachers sign up director, worked with Heidi Ross of and Ball State Universities. each year for this teaching option. the school’s Department of Following an in-depth, year-long Educational Leadership and Policy —RMN preparation and a minimum of 10 Studies to facilitate the placement weeks of in-state student teaching, and arrangements and sought addi-

For more information on these programs: www.indiana.edu/~global/isis.htm www.indiana.edu/~global/institute.htm www.indiana.edu/%7Eeasc/taa_seminar/index.htm www.indiana.edu/~easc/lit_workshop/index.htm www.indiana.edu/~cultural/overseas.html

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School of Education Hosts Workshop for Korean Science Teachers

arly last fall, Indiana University’s School of activities compared to greater focus on examina- Education held an intensive five-week tion results, as is the case in Korea.” They found E workshop that was tailored to a group of that U.S. teachers have more individual power in competitively selected mid-career elementary developing their curriculum and greater freedom science teachers from South Korea. The goal of choice among different methodologies, and was to train them in the latest methodologies they admired the U.S. spirit of individualism. for teaching science subjects, such as biology, In turn, the workshop organizers were very chemistry, physics, geology, and astronomy. pleased: “This has really been a successful pro- The Korean teachers especially wanted more gram for us,” said Terrence Mason, director of exposure to learner-centered and collaborative the school’s Center for Social Studies and learning approaches in teaching. International Education who, with Jane Henson, associate director, organized the workshop. Also participating were Bobae Park, a visiting Fulbright scholar who is the deputy director of the International Education and Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development in Seoul, South Korea, and Carthell Everett of the school’s grants and awards section. In addition, some of the participants were science teachers from IUPUI’s education division. The delegation of 20 Korean teachers was led by Yong Ju Kwon of the Korea National University of Education. Funding for the workshop was provided by the Korean Ministry of Education, which has been supporting such training pro- Elementary school science teachers from South Korea. grams for several years at different universities in Australia, Canada, and United Kingdom. This The teachers’ comments were very positive was the first time the program has been brought about the workshop: “We are clearly impressed to the United States. with the methods that U.S. teachers use, with greater emphasis on creative problem-solving —RMN

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ate local food, shopped in the bodegas, and made two grandchildren. Nancy teaches English as a local friends. They traveled into the majesty of second language (ESL) to Spanish-speaking chil- the Andes. And they climbed the ancient ruins of dren in southern California. the Incas. But they also experienced what it felt Most school reunions are formally arranged; like to live under martial law when guerrilla not so with this group. By informal consensus warfare exploded in the city. They learned to they agreed to meet periodically, usually the accept as normal the armed guards who rode on weekend closest to July 4, with a volunteer who every city bus. They shook their heads at a two- organized all the details. This year, the primary class socioeconomic system. They experienced organizer was Cheri (Biddle) Engber, a retired what it felt like to be outsiders. IUB linguistics professor. Richard Lee, a retired “The year changed my life,” says Coleman Bloomington High School Spanish teacher, Dirhan, a now-retired international banker from arranged the main get-together meal at the Pennsylvania. “If it hadn’t been for that year, my Legacy of the Incas, a Peruvian restaurant. And career would have taken a different route com- Linda (Jefferson) Segall of Jacksonville, Fla., pletely.” Coleman had originally planned to wrote the dedication plaque to George and Jane become a concert violinist. Although not every- Zucker. David Clapp, director of international one’s career would have been different, each studies at Wabash College, was able to access agreed that the year had changed them. “We the Simmons’ memorandum from Kathleen learned so much about different cultures and Sideli , the current director of IU’s Overseas about ourselves,” says Wynn Ellen (Gruber) Study, which referenced the success Marcum. “I know we look at the world differ- of the 1965 group. It provided some history that ently.” Winn Ellen teaches Spanish at The Ohio the group had been missing. State University Newark campus. The group is not going to wait another five For at least one, it was not hard to see how years. They are already planning their next the year had affected them. Nancy (Jones) reunion—this time in Lima in 2007. de Villalobos fell in love with her Peruvian ‘brother’ that year. She returned to the United —Linda Segall States, finished her degree, and then returned to Peru Group 1965 Alumna Lima to get married. Her husband died in 1980, but he lives on through their four children and

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sustained instruction in such languages as “To put it succinctly, there is no other per- Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Mongolian, son currently on campus who has worked so Persian/Tajik, Tibetan, Turkish and Uzbek. long and tirelessly to maintain IU’s presence in IAUNRC “is certainly recognized as the best in diverse international fora while simultaneously the nation, if not in the world,” notes University playing a crucial role in developing IU’s preemi- Chancellor Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis. nence in what is now one of its most important As his adventure to the North Pole indicates, international units, the Department of Central Sinor hasn’t slowed in his quest for knowledge Eurasian Studies,” says Elliot Sperling, chair of or his mission to increase awareness and appre- the Department of Central Eurasian Studies. ciation of diverse cultures. He remains active in various national and international scholarly —Adapted from Founders Day Program societies and currently works with UNESCO, the U.S. Department of Education, and other government organizations.

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leadership retreats, and Global Change, created and directed by IU publishing opinion pieces Bloomington senior Kathleen Claussen (see and reports on issues of article, p. 14). It utilizes the scope and power of global importance. The videoconferencing technology to connect stu- hope is that such efforts dents from around the world for lively interac- will help build a new gen- tions and conversations about pressing global eration of globally con- issues. Of the conference, Claussen was enthusi- scious leaders who can astic: “We were overwhelmed by the positive shape an American foreign responses to the conference! There were so policy appropriate for an many good ideas flowing by the end of the day— Kathleen Claussen increasingly interdepend- I know that our conversations have already led ent world. AID is sup- to committed action on different campuses ported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Open worldwide. We could not have asked for a more Society Institute, DarMac Foundation, Hewlett thoughtful and intellectually stimulating envi- Foundation, Connect US, and its many partici- ronment, and I am so grateful to all the IU pating universities. Collectively, they offer schol- administrators who made it happen.” arships to students attending AID-sponsored events such as the conference at IUPUI. —RMN CASE, which did most of the organization for the meeting, is an innovative program within Indiana University’s Center for the Study of

For more information about CASE: www.indiana.edu/~case

For postconference blog browsing: globalcitizenconference.wordpress.com

For postconference blogs at IUSB: ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/adp/blog/optimism_and_global_citizenship/

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men and ingkyagu potters began to adopting Muslim robes as well as intermarry, leading to the eventual Western attire. Perhaps the most dissolution of the caste system. important impetus for cultural With the independence of change came when the ptil con- Nigeria in 1960 and an emerging verted to Islam, for he then ceased regional identity, the horizons of to engage in any traditional rituals, Margi men expanded. Many con- effectively ending Margi public reli- verted to Islam or, in fewer cases, to gion. With this, the entire society, Christianity, and that inevitably even the most remote villages, brought about many changes in cus- became vulnerable to change. One toms as they adopted behaviors that might say that the society depicted they associated with “modernity.” in this exhibit has virtually disappeared. James Vaughan They eschewed customs that they now thought of as “pagan,” eventu- —James Vaughan ally doing away with slavery and

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

OFFICE OF THE DEAN HAS MOVED Franklin Hall 315, IUB; telephone: (812) 855-7557; The Office of the Dean for International Programs has fax: (812) 856-3851; e-mail: [email protected]. Full moved from upstairs to downstairs. OIP Dean Patrick information and descriptions of the awards and applica- O’Meara, Assistant Dean for Administration Judith Rice, tion materials can be found on the Council for Assistant to the Dean Edda Callahan, and Administrative International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) Web site at: Assistant Kim Foust have new offices in Bryan Hall, Suite 104, 107 S. Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN www.cies.org 47405. All telephone and fax numbers remain the same as before (see OIP Directory, back inside cover).

OIP GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR FACULTY AND INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL POLICY FOR STUDENTS LIBRARIANS, AND FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS The Office of International Programs’ “Policy Statement Each year, the Office of Inter- on International Travel by Students,” effective August 15, national Programs offers a 2006, has been posted on its Web site (see below). The broad range of systemwide travel policy applies to IU students traveling on univer- funding opportunities for IU sity-sponsored and organized instructional programs, faculty and librarians who including faculty-led instruction and other sponsored hold tenured or tenure-track course work, for undergraduate and graduate/profes- appointments, as well as for sional students. These are facilitated and monitored by graduate students studying or the IU Office of Overseas Study. conducting research abroad. It is also applicable for individual travel by under- Information on all these grant graduate or graduate/professional students planning to opportunities is available pursue research, study, or other university-related busi- through brochures and described at the OIP Web site ness. The policy prohibits use of IU funding to support (see below), as well as names of people to contact for travel to countries under U.S. State Department Travel assistance. Warnings and mandates a waiver form be signed by For IU faculty systemwide: individuals opting to travel to these countries. www.indiana.edu/~intlprog/fac.html

www.indiana.edu/~intlprog/students.html For IU graduate students systemwide: www.indiana.edu/~intlprog/grad.html

FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM GRANTS FOR NEW INTERNATIONAL JOB SEARCH SITE 2007-2008 NOW AVAILABLE Indiana University’s Arts and Sciences Career Services in Applications are now being accepted for the 2007–2008 the Career Development Center has a new subscription Fulbright Scholar Program for U.S. faculty, administra- Web site, “Going Global,” for American students who tors, professionals, artists, and independent scholars who want to work overseas. Students can access it through are U.S. citizens and wish to lecture or conduct research the Web site listed below. Click on the first bullet, overseas. Each year, about 800 opportunities are avail- Subscription Job Listings, then authenticate with your able in 140 countries. Awards may vary from three university e-mail and password. On the next page of months to one academic year. While foreign language subscription databases, click on the second one listed, skills are needed in some countries, most lecturing Going Global. You will need to reauthenticate before assignments are in English. access The deadline for applications is August 1, 2006. will be For more information contact your IU international www.iub.edu/~career/students/find/other granted. campus representative or contact Rose Vondrasek, OIP,

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INTERNATIONAL WHO’S WHO

In October 2005, Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan and a nationally noted scholar and commentator on the Middle East, delivered the Wadie Jwaideh Memorial Lecture in Arabic and Islamic Studies on “The Roots of Shiite Power in Iraq.” He is shown here (left) with John Walbridge, chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at IU Bloomington.

In January 2006, IU Bloomington’s Global Village (GV), an international living-learning residence, held its 2005–2006 banquet, with a record turnout by villagers and faculty teaching in the program. In addition to a selection of international foods, a student-produced slide presentation, a show of appreciation from the community president, and words of wisdom from Director Herbert Terry (Telecommunications), there was an official unveiling of the colorful GV mural, painted by student Lisa Ferguson, and a musical performance by Fenix de los Ingenios, an early music ensemble with musicians John Lenti and Anna Marsh from IU’s Jacobs School of Music.

A. B. Assensoh (African American and African Diaspora Studies, IUB) participated in a leadership conference at the University of Ghana in December 2005. He is seen (left) meeting Ghana’s President John A. Kufuor and holding a copy of the president’s biography, Between Faith and History, for him to autograph.

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Gathered together is a group of students and their families from Kazakhstan and other Central Asia countries, at the end of a day of festivities celebrating the traditional spring holiday of Navruz that took place on March 26 at IU Bloomington.

Mongolian musicians from Chicago perform on traditional instruments for the formal reception honoring Mongolia’s former president, Natsagiin Bagabandi, who received an honorary Doctor of Laws at the December 2005 Commencement at IU (see p. 1).

In summer 2005, IU Bloomington’s Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, in conjunction with the University of Guyana in Georgetown, Guyana, sponsored an undergraduate/graduate study abroad course titled “Afro- Guyana.” It combined five weeks of study in Bloomington followed by two weeks in Guyana led by faculty member Matthew Guterl. The aim was to introduce students to the history of race- relations in the only English-speaking country in South America. They were introduced to third world politics and the history of the Caribbean; the struggle against colonialism; notions of impe- rialism and Pan-Africanism; and contemporary Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese art, culture, and music. Here, IUB students pose on the terrace of the parliament building, with Guterl standing (tallest) in the last row. Guterl is planning to do a similar program in the Dominican Republic in the near future.

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FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS

In November 2005, Randall Baker (SPEA, IUB) was from the USAID Global Livestock Research Support honored with the rank of distinguished professor at the Program for a three-year project to enhance nutrition in New Bulgarian University in Sofia, a university he has HIV–inflected women and children in Kenya. The proj- long been associated with. Rector Sergei Ignatov presided ect involves the collaboration of colleagues at Moi over the ceremony. Baker had previously been awarded University Faculty of Medicine in Kenya and at an honorary doctorate at NBU in 1996. His inaugural University of California–Los Angeles. address, entitled “Scholarship or Expertise, Wisdom or Paul Foster Learning: the Need for the Liberal Arts Approach,” is (CeLCAR, IUB) has been appointed the new available online at classwebs.spea.indiana.edu/ director of IUB’s Center for Languages of the Central bakerr/Honors_page.htm. Asian Region, a Title VI national language resource center, and is also a senior lecturer in the College of Arts and Christopher I. Beckwith Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Slavic cultures from (Central Eurasian Studies, IUB) Columbia University and has years of experience in completed his 2004–2005 materials development for less commonly taught lan- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research guages, especially South Slavic and Balkan languages Abroad Fellowship in Tokyo this (Macedonian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian). Before com- past summer and began a new ing to CeLCAR, he served most recently as director of research project under his postgraduate programs and research from 2001–2004 at Guggenheim Fellowship South East European University (SEEU) in Tetovo, (awarded 2004, deferred to Macedonia, under IU’s U.S.–Macedonia Linkage project. 2005–2006). He edited a book, Medieval Tibeto-Burman Jane Fulcher (Jacobs School of Music, IUB) has just The Composer as Intellectual: Music and Languages II (Brill, 2005), in which he authored three of published Ideology in France, the chapters. His book on the Koguryoic language, pub- 1914–1940 (Oxford University lished by Brill in 2004, is currently being translated into Press, 2005). She has also been named as musical advi- Korean and eventually Japanese. sor to the advisory board for the forthcoming PBS film series, Paris—the Luminous Years: the Making of the Modern. Harbans S. Bhola (Emeritus, Education, IUB) won the UNESCO–UIE International Award for Literacy Paula Girshick Research for 2004–2005. His winning entry, entitled (Anthropology, “Adult Literacy for Sustainable Development: IUB) has been honored as the Knowledge-Based Discourse for Course of Action,” was 2006 recipient of the African Art anchored in two United Nations global initiatives: United Recognition Award by the Nations Literacy Decade, 2003–2012; and United Friends of African and African Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable American Art of the Detroit tesy of Chris Meyer/IU Home Pages) Development, 2005–2014. It “successfully develops a Institute of Arts. In conferring strong and visionary argument in favor of a more serious the award, the institute recognized Girshick’s innovative consideration of development and the purpose of (Photo cour literacy.” The award announcement was made by the research and scholarship, exten- director-general of UNESCO in Paris on International sive publications, and fine record of teaching in the field Literacy Day, September 8. of African arts. She will present a public lecture as part of the award ceremony, to take place in Detroit in October. Maria Bucur (History, IUB) has co-edited, with Nancy Henry Glassie M. Wingfield, Gender and War in Twentieth–Century (Folklore and Ethnomusicology, IUB) The Stars of Ballymenone Eastern Europe (Indiana University Press, 2006). has published (Indiana University Press, 2006). Judith Ernst (Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Medicine, IUPUI) received a grant for almost $749,000

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Jane E. Goodman (Communication and Culture, IUB) Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist has published Berber Culture on the World Stage Discourses (Praeger/Greenwood, 2005) and, with co- (Indiana University Press, 2005). editor Joy Ezeilo, Engendered Human Rights: Cultural and Socioeconomic Realities in Africa (Palgrave Iliya Harik (Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Macmillan, 2005). Cultures, IUB) spent two months in the fall of 2005 on a Fulbright Specialist grant as a consultant for establishing William Pridemore (Criminal Justice, IUB) edited a course on the study of democracy at the Lebanese Ruling Russia: Law, Crime, and Justice in a American University. Changing Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

Nadene Keene (English, IU Kokomo) has been awarded David Ransel (History, IUB) co-edited the volume a Sasakawa Fellowship to participate in the National Polish Encounters, Russian Identity (Indiana Univer- Faculty Development Institute at San Diego State sity Press, 2005). University next summer to incorporate Japanese studies into the undergraduate curriculum. Mark Roseman (Jewish Studies, IUB) has co-edited, with Neil Gregor and Nils Roemer, German History Scott Kennedy (EALC, Political Science, IUB) has from the Margins (Indiana University Press), to appear published The Business of Lobbying in China in 2006. (Harvard University Press, 2005), which documents the rising influence of business, both Chinese and foreign, on Alan Rugman (Kelley School of Business, IUB) has national public policy in China. authored and co-edited several books that appeared in the past year. The Regional Multinationals: MNEs and Teresa Kubiak (Jacobs School of Music, IUB) was hon- “Global” Strategic Management (Cambridge ored by her alma mater, the Grazyna and Kiejstut University Press, 2005) shows that most multinationals Bacewicz University of Music in ~Lód´z, Poland, with an operate regionally rather than globally; European- honorary doctorate in May 2005. American Trade and Financial Alliances (Edward Elgar, 2005), co-edited with Gavin Boyd and Pier Carlo Hyo-Sang Lee (EALC, IUB) has co-authored two fifth- Padoan, is about the nature and extent of trans-Atlantic year Korean textbooks, Integrated Korean: High policy coordination; and New Perspectives on Global Advanced 1 & 2 (University of Hawai’i Press), with Governance—Why America Needs the G8 (Ashgate, Sungdai Cho of SUNY Binghamton and Hye-Sook Wang 2005) co-edited with Michele Fratianni (IU), John of Brown University. Kirton, and Paolo Savona is a collection of papers presented at the G8 Preconference held at the Kelley School Matthias B. Lehmann (History, IUB) has just published of Business in June 2004. a book, Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture (Indiana University Press, 2005). It Marci Shore’s (History, IUB) translation from the was named as a runner-up for the 2005 National Jewish Polish of Micha~lG~l owi´nski’s memoir appeared in Book award. August 2005 from Northwestern University Press under the title The Black Seasons. James Lutz (Political Science, IPFW) has published his second book on the subject, Terrorism: Origins and In recognition of his services and long-standing relations Evolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), with Brenda with the institute, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Lutz (Sociology, IPFW). Denis Sinor (Central Eurasian Studies, IUB) was appointed this past summer as an Honorary Professor of Obioma Nnaemeka (World Languages and Cultures, the Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Women’s Studies Program, IUPUI) has edited two new in Moscow (see article on Ryan Award, p. 8). books, Female Circumcision and the Politics of

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Patricia A. Steele, a leader in statewide library associ- in peace and conflict resolution for 25 teacher educators. ations and longtime Indiana University librarian, was The primary emphasis of her work is to show how an named Ruth Lilly Interim Dean of University Libraries informed understanding of colonization/neocolonization for a two-year appointment. can be used, not avoided, in peace work. She guided the teachers in working collaboratively to integrate peace- Lynn Struve (EALC, History, IUB), edited Time, building strategies into college-level curriculum. Her sec- Temporality, and Imperial Transition: East Asia ond trip under this award is scheduled for April 2007 from Ming to Qing (University of Hawai’i Press, 2005). where she will again work with the same group of teachers, providing more focused instruction, guidance, and Susan B. Sutton (International Affairs, IUPUI), associ- resources to ensure that the new curricula are being ate dean for international programs and Chancellor’s carried out. Professor of anthropology, has been elected for a three- Christopher J. Viers year term from 2006 to 2008 to the Executive Committee (International Programs, IUB), of the Association for International Education Adminis- associate dean for international programs and director of trators (IAEA), a national organization dedicated to the Offices of International Services, has been elected to advancing the international dimensions of higher the executive committee of NAFSA: Association of education. International Educations, to serve for three years as vice president of education and professional development for Chalmer Thompson (Education, IUB) has been international education professionals. NAFSA has nearly approved as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in education 9,000 members at 3,500 institutions worldwide in 94 and took her first assignment in April 2006 to Kyambogo countries. University in Kampala, Uganda, to conduct a workshop

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Susan B. Sutton, associate dean for International Programs at IUPUI’s Office of International Affairs has announced the publication of the inaugural issue of its online newsletter, International IUPUI, available on their Web site. Volume 1, Issue 1 has 19 pages of articles and photographs. It will appear twice a year in e-format and is intended as a forum for exploring IUPUI’s many international initiatives and reflecting on the global forces that are reshaping both academia and society. International IUPUI contains reports and articles of greater length and depth to compliment the brief notices disseminated through OIA’s IntlNews listserv. For further information about the publication or the listserv, contact Cathie Carrigan, OIA’s communication and research specialist, at [email protected]; telephone: (317) 274-2199. www.iupui.edu/~oia

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IUB WELCOMES NEW INTERNATIONAL research interests include nineteenth and twentieth- FACULTY FOR 2005–2006 century Russian, Polish, and East European literature’s engagement and culture, dealing with issues of compara- Akinwumi Adesokan (Comparative Literature) received tive literature, film and visual arts, gender studies, his Ph.D. in 2005 from Cornell University with a disser- Romanticism, postcommunist cultures, national and tation entitled “Worlds that Flourish: Postnational authorial identity, issues of memory and collecting, auto- Aesthetics in West African Videofilms, African Cinema, biographical writings, marginal genres, and the idea of and Black Diasporic Writings.” He began his writing the West. She is currently revising her book-length man- career as a journalist and critic. In 1996, he won the uscript “The Album in the Age of Russian and Polish Association of Nigerian Authors’ Prize for Fiction for his Romanticism: Memory, Nation, Authorship,” and first novel, Roots in the Sky (published in 2004). In preparing articles on Romantic memory, on Witold 1998, he received the PEN West Freedom-to-Write Gombrowicz’s idea of the West in his diaries, while also Award, honoring “writers who have produced work in editing a guidebook on Gombrowicz. the face of extreme adversity and have defended freedom Kelly Caylor of expression and fought against censorship.” He also (Geography) joins IU after spending the co-edits Glendora Review: An African Quarterly on last two years at Princeton University, where he was a the Arts and has published chapters in African Drama postdoctoral research associate working with Dr. Ignacio and Performance and The People’s Poet: Emerging Rodriguez-Iturbe in the Water Resources group within Perspectives on Niyi Osundare. His other areas of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. research include global postcoloniality, contemporary He earned his Ph.D. in environmental sciences from the global cinemas, nonfictional prose, and cultural theory. University of Virginia in 2003, under the mentorship of Dr. Herman H. Shugart, and his B.A. from the University Jeffrey Bardzell (School of Informatics) received his of Virginia in 1996. Caylor’s research interests are highly Ph.D. in comparative literature in 2004 from IUB. He interdisciplinary, but are focused on understanding cou- leverages research and practice from the fields of the plings between mechanisms of spatial pattern formation philosophy of language, ancient and medieval literature, and temporal dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems across a postmodern critical theory, semiotics, multimedia wide range of scales. He addresses these interests authoring, and learning theory, to discover the phenome- through the use of ecological models, remote-sensing nological relationships between media and consciousness. analysis, and field observation, with a particular focus on His other interests include approaches to integrating southern African savannas, and the strong interactions diverse information-media experiences (e.g., communi- between vegetation structural pattern and surface hydro- cations, data, interactive components, video), narratolog- logical dynamics at both local and regional scales in ical approaches to interaction design, and the emerging semi-arid ecosystems. field of ludology. He has designed, developed, and con- Deborah Deliyannis sulted on large learning and e-learning projects for the (History) is a specialist in the his- Indiana Department of Education, Macromedia, Inc., tory of the Middle Ages with a particular interest in art. and, at IU, UITS and HPER. He has authored books and She earned an undergraduate degree from Yale articles on e-learning application development, educa- University and a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Historiography in the Middle Ages tion policy, ancient epic, and multimedia authoring, writ- She has edited Archaeology in Architecture: Studies ing for such publishers as O’Reilly, Macromedia Press, and co-edited in Honor of C.L. Striker. Wiley, and Corwin. Since 2004 she has served as the executive editor of The Medieval Review. She is Justyna Beinek (Slavic Languages and Literatures) currently writing a book on Ravenna in Late Antiquity. received her Ph.D. in Russian and Polish literature from Martinus (Mark) Deuze Harvard University in 2001 and an M.A. in comparative (Telecommunications) holds a literature from the University of California at San Diego. B.A. in journalism from the Tilburg School for Her dissertation was entitled “The Album in the Age of Journalism, The Netherlands, has an M.Phil. in history Romanticism: Memory, Nation, Authorship.” Her and communication studies from the University of

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Johannesburg, South Africa, and received his Ph.D. in University of Chicago with a dissertation entitled “Paths the social sciences in March 2002 from the University of to a Visionary Politics.” He has published various articles Amsterdam. In 2002–2003, Deuze was a Fulbright on multicultural politics, indigenous movements, cultural Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California’s property rights, and environmental issues based on sev- Annenberg School for Communication. He has lectured eral years of research in Peru. Other topics he is inter- widely at various schools and departments in journalism ested in include social/cultural theory, race, political and communication and media in The Netherlands, economy, sustainable development, and human rights. Germany, Finland, Portugal, South Africa, and the His appointment is part of the CTE initiative on United States. He specializes in teaching large-scale Development Studies with a focus on Latin America. overview and introductory courses in media and communication theories, and seminars on topics related to new Christiane Gruber (Fine Arts, Art History) received a media and (global) society. His research interests include Ph.D. in the history of Islamic art from the University of the cultural and technological convergence of media cul- Pennsylvania in 2005. While pursuing dissertation ture in general and the creative industries in particular. research in Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and Europe, she exam- Publications of his work include three books, and articles ined scores of Islamic manuscripts for her dissertation, in journals such as Journalism Quarterly, New “The Prophet Muhammad’s Ascension (Mi‘raj) in Media & Society, Journalism Studies, and Media Islamic Art and Literature, c. 1300-1600,” and has now Culture & Society. published several articles related to this topic. She is currently working on a monographic study to accompany a Shannon Gayk (English) received her Ph.D. from Notre facsimile edition of The Book of Ascension (Mi‘raj- Dame in 2005. She specializes in medieval literature and nama), due for publication by Patrimonio Ediciones in culture, especially 14th- and 15th-century writing. Her Spring 2007. In December 2005 her catalogue of Islamic research and dissertation on the status of images in calligraphies in the Library of Congress appeared as an Middle English texts are already of great interest to online exhibition on the library’s Web site. She is offer- scholars and predicted to reshape the ways in which ing classes in Islamic art and architecture, Persian paint- scholars consider that period. She also works at the ing, paleography and codicology, and urban history. intersections of religion and literature in the Middle Ages. She was recognized with Notre Dame’s Presidential Ho-Fung Hung (Sociology) received his Ph.D. from and Distinguished Graduate Student awards in 2005. Johns Hopkins University in 2004. Hung researches and publishes on contentious politics, globalization, national- Ilana Gershon (Communication and Culture) received ism, and social theory. He is currently working on two her B.A. in the history and philosophy of social sciences projects. The first, an extension of his dissertation, deter- from Stanford University in 1993, her M.Phil. from mines China’s particular trajectory to its current form of Cambridge University in social anthropology in 1994, and modernity by examining how the neo-Confucianist ideol- her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in cultural ogy shapes the paths of state formation and social anthropology in 2001. Her dissertation is entitled “Making protests from the eighteenth century to the present. The Differences Cultural: Samoan Migrants Encounter New second traces the changing conception of nationhood Zealand and the U.S. Governments.” Her research inter- and frontier in China since 1949 in the light of Beijing’s ests include anthropology of democracy, indigenous self interaction with such intractable regions as Tibet, Hong representation, multiculturalism, globalization, migra- Kong, and Taiwan. Besides these two major projects, he tion, kinship, and anthropology of knowledge, with field also writes about the rise of Asia in the modern world- research in Oceania, New Zealand, and the United States. system, orientalist construction of non-Western civiliza- She is teaching courses in ethnicity, class and the Model tions in modern social theory, and the globalization of U.S. citizen and on the cultures of democracy, as well as epidemics, among others. an introductory course on international studies. Pamela Laucella (Kinesiology, School of Health, Landon Shane Greene (Anthropology) received his Physical Education, and Recreation) completed her Ph.D. Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology in 2004 from the in 2004 at the University of North Carolina–Chapel

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Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication sponsored newsreels and documentaries imagine where her research focused on media portrayals of race national identity to how film and video artists negotiate and gender. Her dissertation, “An Analysis of Mainstream, their personal identities through recourse to others.” His Black, and Communist Press Coverage of Jesse Owens in research interests include questions of gender, genre, the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games,” elucidates the interplay and historical authority on sports television as well as between journalists, media content, and 1930s culture, questions about relationships between technology, mar- revealing the potency of journalistic language and dis- keting, audiences, and aesthetics. He is offering a broad course in influencing readers’ perceptions of history, range of courses including Film and Propaganda, The events, and individuals, specifically Nazi Germany, the History of Documentary Film, and some documentary Berlin Olympic Games, and Jesse Owens. Most recently, film production classes. she has worked at Christopher Newport University as assistant professor of communication studies, where she Eden Miller Medina (Social Informatics, School of taught sports communication, presidential politics and Informatics) completed a dissertation on the history and communication, diversity and the media, research meth- social studies of science and technology and her under- ods, and public speaking. She specializes in sports jour- graduate degrees in electrical engineering and women’s nalism and sports history and has worked as project studies at Princeton University. Her work addresses the coordinator for the NFL Players Association’s Native historical development of information technologies in Vision Life Skills camp. She is also a freelance sports Latin America, particularly the role these technologies writer and reporter. have played in creating new forms of governance and advancing state ideological projects. She is affiliated with Dan Li’s (International Business, Kelley School Of IU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her Business) research focuses on the management of multi- broader interests include the study of information tech- national enterprises, particularly in the areas of interna- nologies in the non-western world and how analyses of tional strategic alliances. Her research appears or is technology in these regions can further an understanding forthcoming in the Journal of International Business of historical processes. She has received grants from the Studies, Journal of Management, Management Social Science Research Council, the American Council International Review, Group and Organization for Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, Management, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, and the Charles Babbage Institute, and has spent the past and Research Methodology in Strategy and two years as a Graduate Fellow at the Dibner Institute for Management. the History of Science and Technology.

Lauren Morris MacLean (Political Science) received David Oldenkamp (Main Library) received his M.L.S. her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. from Syracuse University and has a M.A. in international She has received support for her research from the relations from the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the U.S. Department Citizenship and Public Affairs. Before joining IU he was of Education, the Social Science Research Council, and the social sciences reference librarian at Muhlenberg the National Science Foundation. Her research and College’s Trexler Library. As international studies teaching interests include the politics of poverty, the wel- librarian at IU, his principal duties include serving as the fare state, health policy, state formation and citizenship liaison and outreach librarian for the new international in Africa and the United States. studies interdisciplinary major, and providing instructional support in IU’s new residential program, the Joshua Malitsky (Communication and Culture) Global Village Living-Learning Center. He will serve as received his M.A. in communication studies from the collections and public services specialist for the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and his Ph.D. United Nations depository collection, international from Northwestern University. His dissertation, “Post- documents, and selected nongovernmental agencies. Revolution Non-Fiction Film: Building the Soviet, Ghanaian and Cuban Nations,” examines “how docu- Bradley Ritts (Geological Sciences) is the Robert R. mentary film articulates identity ranging from how state Shrock Professor of Sedimentary Geology. He received

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his Ph.D. from Stanford University and worked for Ron Sela (Central Eurasian Studies) is a specialist in the Chevron Overseas Petroleum and Utah State University history of Central Asia. He received his B.A. in history in before joining the IU faculty. His research is primarily 1995 from Tel Aviv University and his M.A. and Ph.D. focused on the mechanisms and history of continental degrees from Indiana University. He taught at the deformation and non-marine basin formation, as well as University of Michigan and during the past year as a non-marine petroleum systems. His research is mostly post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Asian and African conducted in eastern and central Asia with an emphasis Studies at Hebrew University. His research is based on on the Himalayan–Tibetan mountains, north China, and the use of a variety of primary sources produced within more recently the Russian far east. He teaches classes in Central Asia written in several languages and is aimed at sedimentary geology, petroleum geology, field mapping, achieving a broader and more detailed understanding of and tectonics. rulership, politics, and society in Islamic Central Asia. Robert A. Schneider (History) earned his undergradu- Ayana Smith (Musicology, Jacobs School of Music) ate degree from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University in University of Michigan. He formerly taught at the Catholic 2001. She is a former lecturer and instructor at Yale University of America. The winner of a Guggenheim in University and Southern Connecticut State University. In 1995, he has published extensively in the area of French addition to receiving a predissertation research grant and cultural history. In 1995 Princeton University Press pub- a dissertation fellowship, both from Yale University, she The Ceremonial City: Toulouse lished his book, was earlier awarded the Peter Gram Swing Prize in Observed, 1738–1780. Public He has also authored Music from Swarthmore College. Her dissertation was Life in Toulouse, 1463–1789 and is completing a titled “Opera in Arcadia: Rome, Florence, and Venice in study of cultural and intellectual forces in France in the the Primo Settecento.” Her papers have been presented ‘Age of Richelieu.’ In addition to joining the history fac- at the Mellon Fellows Conference at Rice University and American Historical ulty, he becomes the editor of the at the Yale Dissertation Colloquium. Her research inter- Review. ests are in 18th-century Italian opera, 19th–century art song, and music and literature. Dorothea Schulz (Religious Studies) received her Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from Yale University in Daniel Suslak (Anthropology and Center for Latin Habilitation 1996 and her (second doctoral degree American and Caribbean Studies) is a linguistic anthro- required for promotion in the German academic system) pologist whose work has focused on language and gener- from the Free University in Berlin, Germany in 2005. ational differences in linguistic change in the Mixe Her research, publications, and teaching are centered on Highlands of Mexico. He received a joint Ph.D. in Islam in Africa, gender studies, media studies, public cul- anthropology and linguistics from the University of ture, and the anthropology of the state. She has extensive Chicago. His field experience with Chiapas Zoque and field research experience in West Africa, particularly in highland Mixe and his long-term involvement with the urban and rural Mali, where she is currently working on Project for the Documentation of the Languages of new Muslim networks which stretch beyond the confines Mesoamerica make him an outstanding contributor to of the nation-state and promote a relatively new concep- questions of indigenous language documentation and the tion of publicly enacted religiosity (significantly dis- broader cultural and political environment in which lan- played in feminized signs of piety). This work draws on guage often becomes a key indicator of identity and the anthropology of religion, on media studies, and on strategy for success in a rapidly changing world. scholarship that examines gender and religion as modes of producing difference in a transnational context. She Michiko Suzuki (East Asian Languages and Cultures) has a strong background in critical theory, political received her Ph.D. in Japanese with a minor in compara- anthropology, and the anthropology of social organiza- tive literature from Stanford University in 2002. She also tion and has received numerous awards and fellowships, holds an M. Phil. and an M. A. in English renaissance lit- including a 2005–2006 Fellow from the Society for the erature from Cambridge University and the University of Humanities at Cornell University. continued on page 55

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The Office of International Programs welcomed the Ananda Lal is a professor in the Department of English following visiting scholars at IUB for the academic year at Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India. His research 2005–2006. project is on contemporary American performance in theatre and music. His visit was for the academic year FULBRIGHT VISITING SCHOLARS 2005–2006. His contact was Sumit Ganguly in the India Fekade Azeze Adamu is an associate professor in the Studies Program. Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. His visit was for the Mahmoud M. Lawal is a senior lecturer in the academic year 2005–2006. He conducted research on Department of Political Science at Bayero University in folklore in Amharic and his contact was John Johnson, Kano, Nigeria, who was affiliated with the Workshop in Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Political Theory and Policy Analysis. His visit was from September 2005 to March 2006. He is pursuing his doc- Abdulrashid Alisherov is a lawyer in the Department torate at Ahamdu Bellow University in Zaria, Nigeria. He of Organizational Control at the Namangan Regional conducted research on two specific projects, the status of Authority, Namangan City, Uzbekistan. He is researching human rights and democratic self-governance in Nigeria, the U.S. judicial system in criminal procedures, espe- examining citizens’ role in defending fundamental cially on a comparative analysis of American legal pro- human rights and promoting self-governance in a ceedings and judicial reforms of Uzbekistan. His visit democracy, and assessing the current privatization of was for the academic year 2005–2006, and his contact two key utility state-owned agencies in Nigeria within the was Lisa Farnsworth, Department of Graduate Legal context of on-going globalization. Studies at the IU School of Law—Bloomington. Shahin Mustafayev is deputy director of the Institute Ainur Baisakalov is a senior lecturer in the Department of Oriental Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Linguistics at Ablai Khan Kazakh University of Inter- of Azerbaijan in Baku, Azerbaijan. His research focuses national Relations and World Languages in Almaty, on the history of Turkic peoples, and particularly of the Kazakhstan. His visit was for the academic year 2005– Ottoman Empire and Azerbaijan, on which he has pub- 2006. His research project is “African American Blues: lished a number of books. His special field of interest is An Anthropological Study of the Formation of the the publication of Ottoman manuscripts and archival American Nation.” His contact was Ayana Smith in the documents of the Russian colonial period concerning the Jacobs School of Music. Southern Caucasus and Azerbaijan. His visit was for the academic year 2005–2006, and his contact was Shahyar Lola Dodkhoudneva is a senior scientist in the Daneshgar in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Department of Paleography at Tajik Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Her research project is “Secular Hajer bent Abdessalem Oueslati is an assistant pro- and Spiritual Authorities in Pre-Mongol Central fessor in the Department of English and American stud- Mawarannahr according to the Epigraphic Monuments ies at the University of Manouba in Manouba, Tunisia. of Samarqand and Written Sources.” Her visit was from Her visit was for the academic year 2005–2006. Her January to May 2006. Her contact was Devin DeWeese research project is “Desert Crossings in U.S. Literature in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies. and Visual Arts: A Comparative Reading.” Her contact was Matthew Guterl in the American Studies Program. Sergejs Kruks is a lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Latvia in Riga, Latvia. His Viktor Pylypenko is an associate professor in the research project is “Discourses on Latvian Identity: Department of Ethnology and Study of Local Lore, in the Balancing between Ethnocultural Sameness and Post- Faculty of History at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University modern Differentiation.” His visit was for the academic in Kyiv, Ukraine. His research was on “Urban Anthro- year 2005–2006, and his contact was Inta Carpenter in pology: Theories, Methods, and Approaches to Exploring the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. the City.” His visit was from September 2005 to

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February 2006, and his contact was Sarah Phillips in the should have power in the field of education. One of Department of Anthropology. Mamedov’s primary goals is to find ways Turkmenistan can increase access to higher education, curriculum, and Hermanus Jacobus Wasserman is a senior lecturer in standards. the Department of Journalism at the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch, South Africa. His research Artur Tashmetov is from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He has project is “Toward a Critical Normative Framework for taught history of Kyrgyzstan and philosophy at the South African Journalism.” His visit was from September International University of Kyrgyzstan and American through December 2005, and his faculty contact was University of Central Asia, as well as twentieth century Maria Grabe in the School of Journalism. history of Asia and Africa at Bishkek Humanities University. His primary interest is in comparative history INNER ASIAN AND URALIC NATIONAL RESOURCE of nomadic societies, mathematical modeling of their CENTER VISITING SCHOLARS social processes, and the development of nonsedentary Nazim Hasan-zada is a professor and lecturer on med- benchmarks for that modeling. He seeks approaches to ical psychology and psychiatry in Baku, Azerbaijan, at nomadic history that depend neither on Soviet Marxist the Khazar University and the Azerbaijan State Institute models still popular in Kyrgyzstan nor on the prevalent for Doctors’ Advanced Training. His research and teach- Western notion of nomadic and sedentary societies as ing focus on pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy and elec- mutually exclusive, rather than symbiotic. troencephalography, as well as on clinical psychology, addiction psychiatry, post-traumatic stress disorder, and Gulmira Yemkullova hails from the city of Taraz in neuroscience. He is the author of numerous articles on Kazakhstan where she teaches English as a second lan- alcoholism, depression, and stress disorders, and while guage methodology at Turkish-Kazakh International in Indiana, his work includes using electroencephalogra- University. Because Kazakhstan’s education system is phy to observe how schizophrenics respond to stimuli. undergoing massive change, with primary education moving to a 12-year program and universities adopting Munara Mailybekova directs the Humanitarian the American system of credit hours, she hopes the new Lyceum of Talas State University in Kyrgyzstan. She is methods and approaches that she is learning at IU, as especially interested in comparative literature and well as the new ways of organizing teacher-training pro- exploring the relationship between Kyrgyz and Native grams, will be useful to her colleagues in the Association American literature. In addition, she is particularly skilled of English Teachers in Taraz. Her 13-year old son Azat is at performing the komuz, a Kyrgyz national instrument with her and is attending Tri-North Middle School. belonging to the lute family, and singing traditional songs. Last spring she assisted the Jacob School of WORKSHOP IN POLITICAL THEORY Music’s Mary Goetze in creating the Kyrgyz installment AND POLICY ANALYSIS VISITING SCHOLARS of Global Voices in Song, an interactive series with Antonio M. Jaime Castillo is assistant professor of video, music, and text introducing the history, instru- sociology at the University of Granada, Spain, whose ments, folk traditions, and major composers of other research activities deal with trust and cooperation and countries. how people can coordinate to solve social dilemmas through institutional arrangements. At the Workshop, he Serdar Mamedov is from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, will be working on different papers about trust, institu- where he is affiliated with the Turkmen State Medical tions, and social networks. He will also participate in an Institute. There he teaches classes on the environment, experimental research about public goods and common nutrition, and health and safety in the workplace and pool resources, coordinated by Elinor Ostrom and James home. While in the United States, Mamedov is studying Walker. how a democratic state approaches higher education. Specifically, he is interested in such questions as what Peters Eseosa Omoregie is a doctoral student of envi- share of a nation’s resources should be allocated to edu- ronment and development geography at the University of cation, who should bear the cost of education, and who Ibadan, Nigeria. He was a fellow of the Centre for

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Studies in Social Science, Calcutta, India, for the SEPHIS Audun Sandberg is associate professor at Bodo Netherlands sponsored South-South Exchange Program University College in northern Norway. He is working on on “History of Development,” and a grant recipient and institutional analysis of the governing of natural fellow of START/Packard project on Vulnerability to resources and the evolution of property rights. While at Global Environmental Change. In the fall of 2004, he the Workshop, he presented a paper on the constitu- was a trainee of the International Forestry Resources and tional aspects of Sámi indigenous rights in northern Institutions (IFRI) under the Workshop. His research is Europe and is now working on the property rights focuses on the vulnerability of forest communities to aspects of ecosystems and socioecological systems. deforestation under different property rights regimes in southeast Nigeria. Uta Schuchmann is a doctoral candidate at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Free University Irene Ramos Vielba received her doctoral degree in of Berlin and a research fellow at the Global Governance political science and sociology from Complutense Project, a joint program of German and Dutch research University of Madrid, Spain. The core part of her disser- organizations. Her dissertation concentrates on political tation focused on the use of the Internet for political institutions that regulate the local governance of marine communication from the Spanish Parliament to Spanish resources, analyzing the role of these institutions in pro- society from a comparative approach. In her second aca- moting or hindering conservation and sustainable use of demic year as a postdoctoral visiting scholar at the coral reefs. She did her fieldwork in rural coastal areas in Workshop, she is working on two projects. The first one Palawan, Philippines. She is working on a paper on the deals with political blogs and their impact on democratic relationship between political institutions, social struc- participation, especially gathering evidence from Portugal tures, democracy, and sustainable collective action. She and Spain. The second one centers on an evaluation of also intends to study the interplay of decentralization of the main outcomes of a recent rural Internet program authorities for the governance of natural resources on launched in Spain. the one hand and global trade on the other hand, and their synergetic chances and risks for ecosystems, food security, and self-governance of local communities.

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Tokyo. Her current book project, ‘Becoming Female in Vijay Yerramilli (Finance, Kelley School of Business) Modernity: Discourses of Love in Japanese Women’s obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He Writing, 1910-40,’ examines novels by prewar Japanese is a native of India, where he received his B. Tech. degree women writers and the way such narratives represent lit- from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and his erary and sociohistorical discourses regarding same-sex M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, love, marital love, and maternal love. Her research Lucknow. His research interests are in the areas of finan- focuses on the dynamic intersection of literature, history, cial contracting, entrepreneurial finance, and corporate and culture, particularly as manifested in women’s writ- finance. He has taught courses on corporate finance and ing, popular literature, magazines, and newspapers. She international finance. teaches courses on Japanese language, literature, film, gender and popular culture.

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These new Indiana University Press publications focus Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian on international themes and are listed in the current Travel Writings catalogs for 2005–2006. For more information, please Edited by Tabish Khair, Justin Dedwards, contact IU Press directly or find them online. Martin Leer, and Hanna Ziadeh Opens the reader to a new world of travel writing. iupress.indiana.edu Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana Julie Livingston AFRICA A penetrating look at changing perceptions of health, Tongnaab: The History of a West African God illness, and debility. Jean Allman and John Parker Links the history of an African god to Ghanaian Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic modernity. Resources in Southeast Africa Edited by Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West Africa’s Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and How healers and patients broker the landscape of Making the Self healing in southeast Africa. Edited by Karin Barber A private and personal look into the world of every- Making Men in Ghana day Africans as they put pen to paper. Stephan F. Miescher Looks at changing notions about men and masculin- Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel ity in Ghana. Barbara Cooper An intimate look into the work of an evangelical Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Christian mission in Muslim Africa. Tenure and the Legal Imagination Steven Pierce Murambi, The Book of Bones Challenges notions of land tenure and colonial rule Boubacar Boris Diop , translated from the French in northern Nigeria. by Fiona Mc Laughlin The first English translation of this powerful and Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a disturbing novel. Nation, second edition John Ruedy A Dirty War in West Africa A thoroughly up-to-date revision of a landmark text- Lansana Gberie book. A hard-hitting firsthand narrative on the crushing war in Sierra Leone. EAST ASIA Two Kinds of Truth: Stories and Reportage from Berber Culture on the World Stage China Jane E. Goodman Lin Binyan, edited by Perry Link Examines Berber cultural identity and performance China’s most distinguished journalist looks back at in Algeria, France, and on the world music scene. China’s modern history and its place within an evolving global context. Journey of Song: Public Life and Morality in Cameroon Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Clare A. Ignatowski Travel Writings Explores ritual performance as an expression of Edited by Tabish Khair, Justin Dedwards, competing social values. Martin Leer, and Hanna Ziadeh Opens the reader to a new world of travel writing.

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EURASIA German History from the Margins Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, Edited by Neil Gregor, Nils Roemer, and Mark and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond Roseman Theodore Levin Valentina Süzükei with Reshapes our understanding of the role of regional The lives and music of Tuvan throat-singers, includ- diversity and ethnic and religious minorities in ing Huun-Huur-Tu, and other nomadic musicians modern German history. from inner Asia (CD/DVD included). Performing Folklore: Ranchos Folclóricos from EUROPE: EASTERN, CENTRAL, AND WESTERN Lisbon to Newark The Excavations at Ancient Halieis: Volume 2—The Kimberley DaCosta Holton Houses: The Organization and Use of Domestic Investigates the importance of revivalist folklore to Space national identity in the face of globalization. Bradley A. Ault The second volume of a new series on the archaeo- The Excavations at Ancient Halieis: Volume 1—The logical findings from ancient Halieis on the Argolid Fortifications and Adjacent Structures peninsula in the Pelopennesus, conducted by Marian Holland McAllister, with contributions by University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University. Michael H. Jameson, James A. Dengate, and Frederick A. Cooper Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in The first volume of a new series on the archaeologi- Germany, 1800–1870 cal findings from ancient Halieis on the Argolid Benjamin Maria Baeder peninsula in the Pelopennesus, conducted by How Judaism became feminized and domesticized in University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University. 19th–century Germany. Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, Politics, and Social Exclusion and Postwar Germany Tricia Danielle Keaton, foreword by Manthia Dagmar Barnouw Diawara War, guilt, and memory in contemporary German Explores the life worlds of Muslim girls and youth of life. African origin in French society.

Religion and the Self in Antiquity Abraham Geiger’s Liberal Judaism: Personal Edited by David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow, and Meaning and Religious Authority Steven Weitzman Ken Koltun-Fromm Explores the concept of the self within the religions Demonstrates the relevance of Geiger’s thought to of the ancient Mediterranean world. issues in contemporary Jewish life.

Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany: The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous Text as Spectacle 1942 Expedition Edited by Gail Finney Robin Neillands The first comprehensive treatment of visual culture The harrowing story of the catastrophic 1942 British- in twentieth-century Germany. Canadian raid on the French port town of Dieppe.

The Stars of Ballymenone The Battle of Heligoland Bight Henry Glassie Eric W. Osborne A moving portrait of the people, songs, and tales of The story of the first naval battle in World War I Ballymenone (with accompanying CD). between Germany and Britain.

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Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History, and an Island ~Lód´z Ghetto: A History in Conflict Isaiah Trunk, translated and edited by Robert Edited by Yiannis Papadakis, Nicos Peristianis, Moses Shapiro, with introduction by Israel and Gisela Welz Gutman Provides social, cultural, and historical context for The first English translation of Isaiah Trunk’s monu- understanding one of Europe’s longest-running mental study of ~Lód´z Ghetto. conflicts. INDIA The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and In Amma’s Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Legitimation, 1918–2005 Islam in South India Sabrina P. Ramet Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger Explains why three Yugoslav states have failed in the Ethnographic study of a charismatic Muslim woman twentieth century. healer whose practice crosses gender and religious boundaries. The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of John C. Shively Dignity in a South Indian Village A vivid account of some of the fiercest fighting in the Diane P. Mines war with Japan. A vivid account of ritual, power, and social inequality in rural India. Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Andrea L. Smith Chaube and William Crooke Explores the impact of decolonialization on the for- Sadhana Naithani mer settlers of Algeria. Reveals the previously unknown scholarship of a colonial Indian folklorist. Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Robert W. White, with foreword by Ed Moloney New Negroes from Africa: Slave Trade Abolition A revealing biography of a major figure in the Irish and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth- Republican Movement. Century Caribbean Rosanne Marion Adderley Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Cutting-edge scholarship on emancipated African Europe slaves in the British Caribbean. Edited by Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria Bucur Integrates gender into the broader narrative of the Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality world wars in Eastern Europe. Edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel HOLOCAUST STUDIES Haitian scholars and practitioners examine the inter- Using and Abusing the Holocaust sections of Vodou and Haitian society. Lawrence L. Langer Examines a range of important issues in the study of MIDDLE EAST Holocaust history, literature, and memory. Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel’s Foreign Policy, 1948–1967 Uri Bialer

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Investigates the attitudes and events that shaped Vivid ethnography of a Russian village during the Israeli foreign policy toward the Christian world dur- Soviet and post-Soviet eras. ing the state’s formative years. Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Rebel between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Soviet Union, 1923–1939 Sainthood, and Authority in Islam Anna Shternshis Scott A. Kugle Explores the formation of a unique Soviet Jewish The life and teachings of a Muslim saint. identity.

Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic TRANSNATIONAL, GLOBAL, CROSS-CULTURAL Culture STUDIES Matthias B. Lehmann Geomodernisms: Race Modernism, Modernity Views tradition and modernization among Sephardic Edited by Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel communities in the Ottoman Empire through the Exciting new scholarship on the globalization of lens of rabbinic literature written in Ladino. modernist literature and culture.

Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Bringing the World to our Neighborhood: The Lotus Africa World Music and Arts Festival Edited by Ussama Makdisi and Paul A. LuAnne Holladay Silverstein A colorful photographic retrospective and CD Explores the relation between histories of violence sampler of more than a decade of Bloomington, and their contemporary commemoration. Indiana’s popular Lotus Festival.

RUSSIA Human Security and the UN: A Critical History Moscow Stories S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong Loren R. Graham A hard-headed analysis of the role of the UN in The adventures of a distinguished historian of translating ideas about human security from theory science, observing life in the Soviet Union from 1960 into practice. to 2005. Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Russia’s Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Quest for Equality and Justice Boomers Talk about Their Lives Devaki Jain, with foreword by Amartya Sen Translated and edited by Donald J. Raleigh Shows how women’s contributions have changed The lives and views of average educated Russians in and shaped development thought and practice at the second half of the twentieth century. the UN.

Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere Revolution Inside Edited by Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors Edited by Christine Kiaer and Eric Naiman Examines the public presence of religion in the How Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internal- information age worldwide. ized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives. International News in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Chris Paterson and Annabelle Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Sreberny Village A multifaceted analysis of the globalization of news. Margaret Paxson

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Globalizing Tobacco Control: Antismoking Regulated Self-Regulation as a Form of Modern Campaigns in California, France, and Japan Government Roddey Reid Wolfgang Schulz and Thorsten Held Traces the culture and politics of antismoking efforts Proposes a new form of corporate governance for the in the three sites with distinct social histories. global marketplace.

Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and and the Other Side of Globalization Social Justice Edited by William van Schendel and Itty Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Abraham Emmerij, and Richard Jolly Examines the “dark side” of globalization. Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and 71 other UN professionals speak out about international cooperation and the ideas that have shaped the accomplish- ments of the UN.

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