Paul B. Foster teaches Chinese at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is the designer and Program Director for the University System of Georgia Summer Study in China. The year 2002 will mark the fourth consecutive year that Dr. Foster has directed or co-directed the USG program. Dr. Foster is updating the 2002 program to include a Business Chinese component
and business site visits. His research interests include modern Chinese literature and intellectual history.

Terence P. Hannigan is the Director of Student Counseling Services and Disabled Student Services at Texas A & M International University in Laredo, Texas. He has studied abroad both as an undergraduate and graduate student in Spain, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chile. He has also been an international student advisor for eleven years. His research
interests include adjustment of international students and other sojourners and vocational development. He teaches courses in Multicultural Issues in Counseling and Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Jennifer Landau graduated from Macalester College in 1999 with a B.A. in Anthropology and Political Science. She is currently working as the African Program Coordinator with the Refugee Resettlement Program at the International Institute of New Jersey in Jersey City.

David Chioni Moore is Associate Professor of International Studies and English at Macalester College, having been educated at Brown, Paris, Dakar, and Duke. He has published on comparative and Black Atlantic literary and cultural topics in Diaspora, PMLA, Research in African Literatures, the Journal of Anthropological Research, the Slavic and East European Journal, Resources for American Literary Study, Transition, and other venues. He is editor of Black Athena Writes Back (by Martin Bernal, 2001) and A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia (by Langston Hughes, forthcoming, though originally published in Moscow in 1934).

Satya R. Pattnayak is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Latin American Studies at Villanova University. He is currently engaged in a cross-national study of globalization, political processes, and poverty rates.

Matthew J. Richard teaches anthropology at Valdosta State University in Georgia.  His current research interests include education, race and racism in the South, and ecotourism in the Caribbean. His doctoral research documented spatial innovations attendant on the social consequences of modernization in Botswana. A returned Peace Corps volunteer, Dr. Richard has resided or worked in 17 African countries. He now directs a field school in Belize and Guatemala every summer.

Robert P. Winston has taught at Dickinson since 1979.  Trained as an Americanist, his current research examines the relationships between popular literature, especially detective fiction, and national cultures. He directed the Dickinson Program in England from 1988-90 and again from 1998- 2000; he spent his own junior year abroad at the University of Exeter.