Contributors

Hamilton Beck received his Ph.D. in German from Cornell University. He is the author of The Elusive "I" in the Novel. Hippel, Sterne,Diderot, Kant, and "Censoring Your Ally: W.E.B. Du Bois in the GDR," in Crosscur- rents: African-Americans, Africans, and Germans in the Modern Era.

Barbara Burn is Associate Provost for International Programs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her writings about and contributions to the field of international educational exchange are well-known. She is currently serving as co-chair of NAFSA's 50th Anniversary Celebration Research Award and sits on the research committee of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA).

Richard Jurasek serves as Associate Academic Dean and Professor of German at Earlham College. He has published, consulted and spoken widely on the design of on-campus and off-campus curricula. He has co-authored three college-level German textbooks and has designed and conducted many study programs to German- speaking Europe.

Michael Kindler is a lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies in the faculty of Education at the University of Western Sydney-Nepean. Originally from Switzerland, he has been a secondary head teacher for eight years before working in teacher education, where he has just completed his Ph.D. in English curriculum.

Howard Lamson is a Professor of Spanish at Earlham College. He has led many programs in Mexico in which Earlham students engage in ethnographic projects and has helped other institutions develop ethnographic compo- nents for their study abroad programs.

Barbara Jo Lantz is a cultural anthropologist with field experience in Latin America and the United States. She has taught anthropology and writing across the curriculum at Marlboro College, Williams College, Ithaca College and Cornell University. Most recently, she served as Assistant Dean for International Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell.

Wayne Myles is the Director of the International Centre at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. His work and study have taken him for extended periods to Japan, England, Zambia, and Indonesia.

Aaro Ollikainen works at the Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, University of Turku, Finland. He has carried out research on meanings attached to internationalization of higher education and is currently involved in a Ph.D. research project on the education policy of the European Community.

Patricia O'Maley is the Director of International Programs at Earlham College. She coordinates the design and development of study abroad programs and the efforts to link on- and off-campus learning. She has an M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics.

Joseph D. Relich is an Associate Professor and Academic Director of the Inter- national Centre of the University of Western Sydney-Nepean. He taught high school math and science before moving to the tertiary sector and teacher training in the early 1980s. His Ph.D. was under- taken at the University of Sydney Australia where he has resided for the past 20 years.

Joseph R. Stimpfl is assistant dean of international affairs at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and reaches courses in cultural anthropology and qualitative research methods. He is a cultural anthropologist who is interested in cultural change among minorities and the impact of schools on cultural identity. His current research involves the effects of study abroad on personal identity.

Brian Whalen is Director of International Education at Marist College and has taught courses in the Intercultural Relations Program at the Lesley College Graduate School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He spent five years as a resident director in Italy and has published in the areas of philosophical psychology and cultural psychology.