Contributors

Richard Beach is Distinguished Service Professor and the former Director of the Center for the study of Canada and the Center for International Programs and Exchanges at Plattsburgh State University of New York. He is President of the American Council for Quebec Studies, and the recipient of the Donner Medal in Canadian Studies from the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. He has also received the 1996 Certificate of Merit from the International Council for Canadian Studies.

Russell Bova is Professor of Political Science, Coordinator of the Russian Area Studies Program, and Chair of the Russian Department at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He teaches courses in comparative politics and international relations, and he is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Soviet and Russian politics. His current research interests focus on democratization in Russia as well as on issues of democracy and democratization in comparative perspective.

James Citron is currently Dean of International Studies and Programs and Assistant Professor at Endicott College. He has directed over a dozen study abroad and service learning projects in Mexico for U.S. students, has taught Spanish and intercultural communication on the high school, college and graduate levels, and has authored articles and chapters on second language acquisition and international education.

Ann Curthoys is Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University and chair of its undergraduate and graduate Australian Studies programs. She has published widely on aspects of Australian history, questions of national identity and historical writing. Her most recent publications include (as editor) Journalism: Print, Politics and Popular Culture; and Writing Histories: Narration and Imagination.

Jane Edwards has directed International Studies for Wesleyan University since 1994. Co-author of The World in the Curriculum, she has published and presented widely on issues in international education, and continues to teach courses in Hispanic and Latin American literature and cultural anthropology.

Richard Falk is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1961. His books include Predatory Globalization: A Critique and a forthcoming volume entitled Religion and Humane Governance to be published in 2001.

Nancy Kanach is Director of the Study Abroad Program and the Associate Dean of the College at Princeton University. She has a Ph.D. in Russian literature from Cornell University and has taught at both Cornell University and Princeton University.

Philip Khoury is Professor of History and Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author and editor of five books on Middle Eastern history and politics. In 1998, he served as the elected President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).

Katharine Krebs is Director of International Education at Binghamton University (SUNY). With a background in Spanish language and literature and Latin American Studies, she has extensive study program management experience in Spain, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe. She has participated in the Fulbright International Education Administrators program in South Korea, published articles on international education and been an active member of NAFSA. She serves on the editorial board of Frontiers.

Gregory Kulacki is currently Director of External Studies for Pitzer College. Formerly the Director of Academic Programs in China for the Council on International Exchange (CIEE), he spent more than ten years in China working to promote educational exchanges with the People’s Republic. He has traveled extensively in China, visiting thirty-eight cities and towns in twenty-two provinces and territories, including Taiwan and Hong Kong.

David Lloyd is Associate Professor of African History and the Chair of the History Department at St. Lawrence University, where he has been extensively involved in the development of the African Studies Program and the Kenya Semester Abroad Program. He has lived, taught and conducted research for more than ten years in Africa, particularly in Nigeria, Zaire, Tanzania and Kenya. He coedited and contributed to the publication African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum.

David Ludden is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His research concerns social and economic history in South Asia. He was a member of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)/American Council of Learned Societies Joint Committee on South Asia in the early 1990s. He has chaired the SSRC South Asia Regional Advisory Panel, whose goal is to foster international research collaboration, particularly in South Asia. He has also chaired the Fulbright Senior Scholars Selection Committee for South Asia and served on the Fulbright Program Advisory Board. He has been elected to become the President of the Association for Asian Studies in 2002.

Michael Monahan is Director of the International Center at Macalester College. His international education work experience includes directing study abroad programs in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and Mexico; independent study in Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland, and Quebec; and faculty seminars in Hungary, Brazil and South Africa. His articles relating to liberal learning and study abroad have appeared in the Macalester International, The Association of International Educators Guide to Education Abroad, and the Phi Beta Delta International Review. He assisted in the founding of Frontiers and is presently one of the three Associate Editors.

James Petras is Bartle Professor [Emeritus] at Binghamton University and a renowned expert on Latin America and the Caribbean. He is the author of thirty-four scholarly books and over 250 refereed articles in professional journals. His latest book is called The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America.

Thomas Ricks is both the Director of International Studies and an Associate Professor of History in the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University. He is a former Peace Corps Volunteer (Iran, III), an active member of the Middle East Studies Association, the Middle East Institute, and the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis, and has published widely in Iranian, Palestinian, Middle East and International studies. He has served as the chair of the Senior Fulbright Scholarships for the Middle East/North Africa area and was the American Council of Learned Societies representative on the Fulbright National Advisory Board. He assisted in the founding of Frontiers and is presently one of the three Associate Editors.

George Sherman teaches economics and government at the secondary school level and is the Associate for Outreach at the Center for the Study of Canada, Plattsburgh State University of New York, where for 19 years he has co-edited Teaching Canada, an annual journal for educators. His publications include The Canada Connection in American History; Teaching About the Canadian Parliamentary System; O Canada (textbook), essays in the Center’s Occasional Papers series, and more than a dozen articles. He is active at regional and national conventions, workshops, academic conferences, and often comments on Canadian affairs in the media.

Richard E. Stryker is Executive Associate Dean, International Programs, Director of Overseas Study, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the National Chair of IES (Institute for the International Education of Students) and a member of the IES Board of Trustees and Academic Council. His academic field is Comparative and International Development, and he has received the President’s All-University Award for distinguished teaching at Indiana University.