Meet Our Staff, Affiliates & Executive Committee

Faculty Affiliates

Ann Abbott, Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Ruth Aguilera, Dept. of Business Administration
Kathryn Anthony , School of Architecture
Mary Arends-Kuenning, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Maimouna Barro, Center for African Studies
Werner Baer, Dept. of Economics
Kathryn Baylis, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Monica Bielski Borsi, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Merle Bowen, Dept. of Political Science; Dept. of African Studies
Cynthia Buckley, Dept. of Sociology
Jorge Chapa, Dept. of Sociology
Lynne Dearborn, School of Architecture
Norman Denzin, Institute for Communications Research
Pradeep Dhillon, Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership
Jean Due, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Hadi Esfahani, Dept. of Economics
Marianne Ferber, Dept. of Economics
Karen Flynn, Dept. of African American Studies and Gender and Women Studies
Paolo Gardoni, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Alma Gottlieb, Dept. of Anthropology
Laura Hastings, Dept. of Political Science; International Programs and Studies
Geoffrey Hewings, Dept. of Geography and IGPA
Heidi M. Hurd, College of Law
Cindy Ingold, Social Sciences, Health and Education Library
Ezekiel Kalipeni, Dept. of Geography
Earl Kellogg, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Monica McDermott, Dept. of Sociology
Robert McKim, Dept. of Religious Studies and Philosophy
Paul McNamara, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Faranak Miraftab, Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning; Dept. of Gender and Women's Studies
Chantal Nadeau, Dept. of Gender and Women's Studies
Radha Nandkumar, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Robert Pahre, Dept. of Political Science
Elizabeth Powers, Dept. of Economics, Institute of Government and Public Affairs
Marcela Raffaelli, Dept. of Human and Community Development
Jesse Ribot, Dept. of Geography
William Rose, School of Architecture
Clifford Singer, Dept. of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Burt Swanson , Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Angharad Valdivia, Institute for Communications Research
Madhu Viswanathan, Dept. of Business Administration

Ann Abbott, Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese

Annie Abbott is Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also directs the Spanish and Illinois program which includes curricular and extra-curricular opportunities that bring together University of Illinois students, Illinois enterprises and Hispanic communities to form mutually beneficial relationships. Her work with community-based learning in Spanish courses moves students beyond the university and into the local Spanish-speaking communities and the organizations that serve them. Her research projects concentrate on the effects of community-based learning on both students and the communities with which they work. Additionally, she works with community-based learning and social entrepreneurship initiatives in Spain and in Costa Rica. return to top of page

Ruth V. Aguilera, Business Administration and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations

Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Prof. Aguilera earned her Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees in economics from the College of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Barcelona. She also pursued graduate study in business analysis at the Management School at Lancaster University, U.K., and completed her Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University in December 1999, specializing in economic sociology and comparative methods. Prof. Aguilera has spent considerable time conducting research at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) in Berlin, the Università Luigi Bocconi in Milan, the Juan March Institute in Madrid and, the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI-MITI) in Tokyo. Professor Aguilera’s research interests lie in the intersection of economic sociology and international management. She is currently conducting research on comparative corporate governance, intercorporate relations, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Her research has been published in the European Sociological Review , Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies and several conference proceedings and book chapters. She has recently co-edited a book with Michal Federowicz entitled Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment: Trajectories of Institutional Change , (Palgrave McMillan; Forthcoming 2004). At the University of Illinois, Professor Aguilera has taught courses in international management and comparative international management to undergraduates, MBA students, and Global Executive (MSBA) students. In addition, she teaches a course in comparative employment systems to Masters in Human Resources Management and a seminar on corporate governance at the European Union Center. Professor Aguilera is a fellow of the European Union Center and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois and was a Beckman Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2002). return to top of page

Kathryn Anthony, School of Architecture

Kathryn Anthony is Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) , former Chair of the Design Program Faculty and the Building Research Council. She also serves on the faculty of the Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Dept. of Landscape Architecture. The longest-serving woman faculty at the UIUC School of Architecture, she holds a Ph.D. in architecture and a Bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of the 2009-10 Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and other national awards. Throughout her academic career, Dr. Anthony has served as a catalyst to challenge and change architectural education and practice, inspiring faculty to create more humane learning environments, architects to create more humane working environments, and stduents to empower themelves. Her teaching, research, writing, and service have educated hundreds of architecture students, faculty, and practitioners -- and the public -- about the critical importance of designing for diversity, designing spaces for people, and research design. Dr. Anthony has made a national impact as a spokesperson about architectural issues on National Public Radio (NPR); Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC); Media Tracks national syndicated radio program, KIIS FM Radio in Los Angeles, and WILL Radio in Urbana. Her print media interviews include the Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, Time.com, U.S. News & World Repor t, and the Wall Street Journal . Following her interview in April 13, 2009, The New York TImes featured her words as the Quotation of the Day . return to top of page

Mary Arends-Kuenning, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Mary Arends-Kuenning is Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois. She received a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, she was a Berelson Post Doctoral Fellow at the Population Council in New York City. Dr. Arends-Kuenning's research examines economic and demographic issues in developing countries, focusing on issues with important gender dimensions. The subjects of her research include child labor and children’s schooling, programs that pay children to attend school, family planning programs, and the transnational migration of health care workers. She has published articles in a variety of journals and books including Demography, World Development, Population and Development Review, Studies in Family Planning and Economics of Education Review . She has experience living and working in Nicaragua, Bangladesh, Brazil, Peru, and South Africa. She has worked as a consultant for the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Population Council. Current research projects include investigating why children’s schooling improved in the 1990s in Brazil, examining how women learn from each other about contraceptive use in Bangladesh, and evaluating the role of foreign-trained doctors and nurses in the U.S. health care system. Dr. Arends-Kuenning teaches ACE 451 Economics of Agricultural Development and ACE 474 The Economics of Consumption at the undergraduate level and ACE 502 Demand, Supply, Firms and Households and ACE 570 Family and Consumption Economics at the Ph.D. level. She seeks to use her work experiences to interest students in learning more about developing countries. return to top of page

Maimouna Barro, Center for African Studies

Dr. Maimouna Barro is Associate Director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois. She received a Master's in African Studies, a doctoral degree in education, as well as a minor in Gender Relations in International Development (GRID) from the University of Illinois. In her role as Associate Director in charge of academic programming and curriculum development, Dr. Barro teaches undergraduate and graduate core courses in African Studies and oversees an undergraduate minor, a graduate minor, a Master of Arts degree, as well as a joint degree in African Studies and Library Information Science. Her research interests include issues related to women, gender, education, and social change in Senegal and West Africa. Her current research addresses questions related to a more people-centered approach to regional integration and focuses on the importance of women's informal networks in the regional integration project in West Africa. She is the author of various articles and a book: The Role of Literacy in Enhancing Women's Agency and Well-Being: A Qualitative Inquiry of the Effects of the Tostan Educational Program on the Lives of Women in a Rural Community in Senegal.

Werner Baer, Economics

Werner Baer is the Lemann Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois. He specializes in Development Economics, with emphasis on Latin America. The sixth edition of his book, The Brazilian Economy , was published in 2008. He has taught in a number of Brazilian universities, inncluding the University of Sao Paulo, the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and at IBMEC. He is the recipient of a number of honorary doctoral degrees in Brazil and Portugal, and was awarded the Order of the Southern Cross by the government of Brazil.

Kathryn Baylis, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Kathy Baylis is an assistant professor in Agriculture and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois. She joined the department after several years as an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia where she is still an adjunct. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003, where she specialized in agriculture and trade issues. Kathy has worked in agricultural policy in both Canada and the United States. In 2001-02, she was the staff economist in charge of agriculture for the Council of Economic Advisors in the White House, and in the mid-1990s, she worked as Executive Secretary with the National Farmers Union in Canada. She has published a number of journal articles on agricultural trade and environmental policy and has coauthored a textbook on Canadian-U.S. agricultural policy. Among her publications are: Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness and Rent-Seeking Behaviour with A.Schmitz and W.H.Furtan,(2002) and "Expanding Horizons: Can Women's Support Groups Diversify Peer Networks in Rural India?" with E. Kandpal, 2013, and working papers such as "Empowering Women Through Education and Influence: An Evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya Program" with E, Kandpal and M. Arends-Kuenning, 2013.

Monica Bielski Boris, School of Labor and Employment Relations

An assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Labor and Employment Relations, Professor Bielski Boris received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management from Rutgers University and a B.A. in Government and Labor Studies from Oberlin College. Her research focuses on diversity issues within unions; union organizing under neutrality agreements; strategies of central labor bodies for community outreach and dispute resolution in unionized settings. Professor Bielski Boris has been published in Advances in Industrial Relations; Labor Studies Journal; Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society and by the Labor and Employment Relations Association. She is actively working on developing new online undergraduate courses in Global Labor Studies and teaches an online course LER 320: Gender, Race, Class and Work. Professor Bielski Boris also works extensively with labor unions and teaches labor education courses on a variety of topics including sexual harassment and diversity awareness. return to top of page

Merle Bowen, Political Science and African Studies

Merle L. Bowen is the Director of the Center for African Studies and a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois. She also holds an appointment in the Gender and Women's Studies Program (GWS) and is an affiliate in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP). Her research and teaching interests include politics in Africa and the African Diaspora, race, ethnicity and gender, agrarian and rural issues, and social movements and globalization in the postcolonial world. She is the author of The State against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique , as well as numerous journal and book chapters. Her current book project focuses on land tenure reform, the state, and black rural communities in Brazil and Mozambique. Professor Bowen has been awarded fellowships from the Frederick Douglass Institute, the University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll, and Northwestern University. At the University of Illinois, she has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study and the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society. She is the recipient of several grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as the Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal. return to top of page

Cynthia Buckley, Department of Sociology

Cynthia Buckley is a Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She also serves as a consultant on Eurasia for the Social Science Research Council. A social demographer, Buckley presently serves as the co-chair of the U.S./Russian Federation CSPP (Civil Society Private Partnerships) Committee on International Migration. She has served, or current serves, on the editorial boards of the Nationalities Papers, Central Asian Survey, Slavic Review, Sociological Research, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and has served as a U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist (on Migration) in Dushanbe. Publications from her previous research projects cover issues of rural development, population aging, maternal and child health, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, appearing in journals including Demographic Research, the Gerontologist: Social Science, International Migration Review, Studies in Family Planning, International Family Planning Perspectives and Europe-Asia Studies. The lead editor of, Migration, Homeland and Belonging in Eurasia (Johns Hopkins Press, 2008), she is presently writing a book on the socio-cultural implications of male labor out migration in the southern Caucasus. Buckley is also the Primary Investigator on the project, "People, Power and Conflict in the Eurasian Migration System". Funded through the DoD/NSF Minerva initiative, this three-year project examines the geopolitical implications of Russia emergence as an international migration destination state. return to top of page

Jorge Chapa, Department of Sociology

Jorge Chapa became the first permanent Director of the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on July 16, 2006. Before moving to UIUC, Chapa was Professor and founding Director of Latino Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington and had held this post since 1999. From 1988 through 1999, Chapa was a faculty member of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He also served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Director of the Graduate Opportunity Program at UT Austin. In the first three years of his appointment the proportion of Latinos entering graduate programs increased by 25% and the African American proportion increased 15%. In the fourth year, the Hopwood decision ended race-conscious affirmative action in Texas. In response, he along with other professors and legislators formulated Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan. His education includes a B.A. in Biology with Honors from the University of Chicago and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology and a separate M.A. in Demography from U. C. Berkeley. He has scores of publications reflecting his research focus on policy issues pertaining to Latinos and other groups with low incomes and educational levels. His latest book, Apple Pie and Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest (Ann Millard, Jorge Chapa, et al. University of Texas Press, 2004) has been nominated for the Senior Book Award of the American Ethnological Society. He has taught the following courses among others: Introduction to Latino Studies, Latinos and Other Immigrants, Latino Immigrants in US Society, Race and Ethnic Relations with a Focus on Latinos, Transnational Perspectives on Latino Migration, and, Latino Policy Issues. In March of 2004, Dr. Chapa received the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award. return to top of page

Lynne Dearborn, Architecture

Lynne M. Dearborn is an assistant professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Illinois where she teaches design and theory courses focused on cultural change and social justice in relation to human settlement patterns. Her research interests include the residential choices of marginalized populations, the built environment and social (in)justice, residential environments of immigrant and minority populations, and healthy, sustainable residential environments. These research and teaching interests have led Professor Dearborn's research in Hmong immigrant communities, Native American communities, and African American communities in the US and Highland villages in Thailand and Laos and includes such publications as: "Homeownership: The Problematics of Ideas and Realities," "Supportive Housing Environments: Design and Development Links with Resident Well-being," "Reconstituting Hmong Culture and Traditions in Milwaukee, Wisconsin," and Inconvenient Heritage: Erasure and Global Tourism in Luang Prabang, Laos . Her teaching, research, and service has also linked to The East St. Louis Action Research Project (ESLARP). Professor Dearborn is a member of ESLARP's Campus Advisory Committee and for several years taught the interdisciplinary ESLARP studio with faculty in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. Through ESLARP, she has conducted investigations of predatory lending and mortgage fraud in the East St. Louis area and has worked with homeless shelter providers. Professor Dearborn received her professional Bachelor of Architecture degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a licensed architect. She received her Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2004. return to top of page

Norman Denzin, Institute of Communications Research

Norman K. Denzin (Ph.D., 1966, Sociology, University of Iowa) is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology and Humanities, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books, including Performance Ethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture, Screening Race: Hollywood and a Cinema of Racial Violence; Performing Ethnography ; and 9/11in American Culture. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of The Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2/e , co-editor of Qualitative Inquiry , editor of Cultural Studies--Critical Methodologies , editor of Studies in Symbolic Interaction , and founding President of the International Association of Qualitative Inquiry. return to top of page

Pradeep Dhillon, Education, Organization and Leadership

Pradeep A. Dhillon currently holds the title of Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies/Linguistics at UIUC. She is also Editor of the Journal of Aesthetic Education, and serves as the Chair of Education for the American Society for Aesthetics. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy of education at Stanford University in 1991. Her research interests straddle philosophy of language, both analytic and continental, mind, aesthetics, cognition, and human rights education. Currently, she is working in the areas of Kant's theory of judgment and neuro-aesthetics, neurophilosophy, education and environmental aesthetics. Among her publications are:The Theater of Meaning: Aesthetics in Semantic Theory (2006), "Postmodernism and Globalization," in the Encyclopedia of Global Studies (2012), and "The Role of Education in Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right," in a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Vol.43, #4, April 2011). return to top of page

Jean Due, Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Jean Due, professor emeritus in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics, did not know that when she came to the University of Illinois to earn a Master's and PhD in Economics in 1949, she would be here for the next sixty years. Due's professional work has focused on agricultural development in Africa. In 1980, Due was chosen as co-principal investigator of a USAID-funded study of beans in Tanzania and South America. Due's work with faculty and students at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania encouraged African students to come to the University of Illinois for graduate work. Post-retirement, Due continued writing about her research for five more years. Her publication history includes articles on women farmers, micro-financing, sustainable nutrition, and privatization. Due is also involved with women's issues and assists in bringing African women to the University of Illinois. Due feels particularly proud when students she worked with return to their countries to give back. She says, "It is so rewarding to be able to help students from a developing country go back and improve things." Due is excited about the work that she has done at the University. return to top of page

Hadi Salehi Esfahani, Department of Economics

Hadi Esfahani is Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also worked for the World Bank as a visiting staff economist and a consultant. He has received B.Sc. in engineering from Tehran University in 1977 and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. His research focuses on the theoretical and empirical issues of the political economy of development, partly focusing on Middle Eastern economies. He has published many articles in scholarly journals on the role of politics and governance institutions in the formation and outcome of fiscal, trade, and regulatory policies. return to top of page

Marianne Ferber, Economics

Marianne Ferber, professor emeritus in the Department of Economics, is a feminist economist and the author of many books and articles on the subject of women's work, the family, and the construction of gender. In her thirty-eight years as professor at the University of Illinois, she was twice the director of Women's Studies (1979-1983 and 1991-1993) and was devoted to scholarship, research, and teaching on behalf of women. She served on WGGP's executive committee and has worked closely with the unit. Together with Professors Jean and John Due, she established the Due and Ferber International Research Award offered by WGGP to support graduate research. She is noted for her work as co-editor with Julie Nelson of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics and her book The Economics of Women, Men and Work co-authored with Francine D. Blau and Anne Winkler. Highly regarded for her role as a central figure in the development of feminist economics, Ferber has written a great deal to expand the literature on women's presence in relation to the economy. In 1998 she was awarded the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, which was created to honor a person who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession through example, achievements, increasing the understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or the mentoring of others. Ferber was a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics and served as its president as well as president of the Midwest Economics Association. Additionally, she has served as an associate editor for Feminist Economics, Review of Social Economics, Women and Work and other journals. return to top of page

Karen Flynn, African-American Studies Program

Karen Flynn is an Assistant professor in the African-American Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in Women's Studies from York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada where she completed her dissertation, "Race, Class and Gender: Black Nurses in Ontario, 1950-1980." She received her Master's & Bachelor's degrees in History from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests includes women, work, family, racism, health, migration, feminist and critical anti-racist theory, and post-colonial studies. Her current research focuses on Caribbean migrant and Black Canadian born women during the post World War II era. Dr. Flynn is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled: Caring at Home and Abroad: Black Nurses in the American Diaspora. Dr. Flynn has received numerous awards including the 2004 International Program and Studies, William and Flora Hewlett International Research Travel Grant; the 2003 CARE Initiative Bremer Foundation Grant awarded to the Committee on Diversity in Education (CODE); and in 2000, the Hannah institute of Medicine Doctoral Fellowship, the Ramsay Cooke Fellowship, the Ethel Armstrong Bursary, and the Lillian Sholtis Brunner Summer Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing). Dr. Flynn has published several refereed academic articles, and has several book chapters in a number of edited collections. In addition, she has published numerous editorials in Share , Canada's largest ethnic newspaper, which serves the Black & Caribbean communities in the Greater Metropolitan Toronto area. Dr. Flynn is also a free-lance writer for Canada Extra. return to top of page

Paolo Gardoni, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Paolo Gardoni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a Laurea (equivalent to a B.S. and M.S.) in Structural Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, a Master of Engineering in Structural Engineering from the University of Tokyo, a Master of Arts in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering also from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to Illinois, Prof. Gardoni was an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, during the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting Professor at Princeton University and prior to joining Texas A&M University, Dr. Gardoni worked as a consultant in the management consulting company ZS Associates in Princeton, NJ. His teaching and research are at the forefront of developing a new kind of engineer and researcher that has interdisciplinary knowledge and, as a result, the unique skills required to solve the most pressing global challenges of the 21st century. To achieve this, Prof. Gardoni has developed a new paradigm in co-advising students with faculty from diverse areas of expertise, thereby making his teaching and research cross-cutting and interdisciplinary. He has established successful collaborations working with several faculty members from the Colleges of Engineering, Liberal Arts and Science and Public Policy at both national and international universities. Prof. Gardoni's areas of expertise include sustainable development and planning; reliability, risk and life cycle analysis; decision making under uncertainty; performance assessment of deteriorating systems; ethical, social, and legal dimensions of risk; policies for natural hazard mitigation and disaster recovery; and engineering ethics. return to top of page

Alma Gottlieb, Department of Anthropology

Alma Gottlieb is Professor of Anthropology, Gender and Women's Studies, African Studies, Global Studies, and European Union Studies at the U o f I. She has also taught and held research appointments at Princeton University (fall 2013), the École des Hautes Études (Paris), Katholieke University of Leuven, the Instituto Superior da Ciências Sociais e Políticais (Lisbon), and other campuses. Her teaching and research specializations include feminism, infants and children, religion, humanistic anthropology, and ethnographic writing. She has conducted fieldwork in Côte d'Ivoire and, more recently, with Cape Verdeans on and off the islands (in Europe and the U.S.). She has authored and edited eight books, including The Afterlife is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa and A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies (with Judy DeLoache), and with her writer-husband Philip Graham, two memoirs of their life with the Beng, Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa and Braided Worlds. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, Social Science Research Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, and other agencies. return to top of page

Laura A. Hastings, Political Science and International Programs and Studies

Laura A. Hastings joined the University of Illinois' Department of Political Science in fall 2007 as adjunct professor. She received her PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and an AB in Russian and Soviet Studies from Harvard College. She has been assistant professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, Associate Dean of its College of General Studies, and adjunct professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Associate Director of the International Relations program at Carnegie Mellon University. Her teaching interests span topics in International Political Economy. return to top of page

Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Department of Geography

Geoffrey J.D. Hewings is Professor of Geography, Professor of Economics, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, and Director of Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Birmingham (England) in 1965, a Master of Arts in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Washington in Seattle. His major research interests lie in the field of urban and regional economic analysis with a focus on the design, implementation and application of regional economic models. He has devoted considerable time to the way in which these models might become useful in policy formation and evaluation. In addition to the continuing development of regional econometric-input-output models for a number of US states and metropolitan areas, Professor Hewings is working on several modeling projects in Brazil, Colombia, Japan, Korea and Indonesia. Recent work in the Midwest, Brazil and Korea has focused on linking regional macro models with transportation network models to explore impacts of unexpected events (earthquakes), expansion of transportation infrastructure and the impacts of port efficiency. At the metropolitan scale, attention has been directed to the estimation of intra-metropolitan flows of good, people, income and consumption expenditures within the Chicago region to measure the changing degree of interdependence. Theoretical work remains directed to issues of economic structure and structural change interpreted through input-output, social accounting and general equilibrium models. Dr. Hewings is responsible for the overall direction of REAL, coordination with funding agencies and clients and supervision of graduate students who work for REAL on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. return to top of page

Heidi M. Hurd, College of Law

Heidi M. Hurd, the David C. Baum Professor of Law and Philosophy, served as the University of Illinois College of Law's 11th and first woman dean from 2002 through 2007. As a scholar and teacher, Professor Hurd focuses on the areas of criminal law, torts, evidence, environmental ethics, political and moral theory, general jurisprudence, political philosophy and global justice. She is the author of Moral Combat, and has two co-authored books forthcoming entitled Debts and Demands of Conscience and Essays in Criminal Law Theory. Her articles have appeared in the nation's top law and philosophy journals, and she has given well over 150 lectures and paper presentations worldwide. She provided testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on the proposed Hate Crime Prevention Act of 1999. Her work on hate crime legislation has since been the topic of several international conferences and symposia, and she has made frequent guest appearances on national radio and television programs discussing high-profile hate crimes. return to top of page

Cindy Ingold, Women and Gender Library

Cindy Ingold, Women and Gender Resources Librarian and Associate Professor, works in the Education and Social Science Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of several articles on women's studies librarianship. In 2005, Cindy co-edited Women's Studies: A Recommended Bibliograpphy , 3rd ed., which was honored with the ACRL Women's Studies Section/Routledge Press Award for Significant Achievements in Women's Studies Librarianship. Professionally, Cindy is active in the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) where she has served on and chaired several committees. She is also a member of the national Women's Studies Association. Cindy recevied a BA in History and an MA in English from Western Illinois University, and an MLS in Library and Information Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She worked at the Penn State University Libraries before coming to Illinois in 2002. return to top of page

Ezekiel Kalipeni, Geography and African Studies

Ezekiel Kalipeni is Associate Professor of Geography and African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds both Ph.D. & MA degrees in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a population/medical/environmental geographer interested in demographic, health, environmental, and resource issues in sub-Saharan Africa. He has in the past taught at the University of Malawi (1986-1988), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1988-1991), and Colgate University (1991-1994). His research interests focus on health care issues in Africa, population, the environment and medical geography. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals. His books include: Population Growth and Environmental Degradation in Southern Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994); Issues and Perspectives on Health Care in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa (Edwin Mellen Press, edited with Philip Thiuri, 1997); AIDS, Health Care Systems and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Rethinking and Re-Appraisal (special issue of African Rural and Urban Studies , Michigan State University Press, Vol 3(2) edited with Joseph Oppong, 1996); Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels: African Economic and Cultural Landscapes (Africa World Press edited with Paul T. Zeleza, 1999); HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology (Blackwell Publishers, edited with Susan Craddock; Joseph Oppong; and Jayati Ghosh, 2004). HIV/AIDS in Africa: Gender, Agency and Empowerment Issue s (special issue of Social Science and Medicine , Vol. 64(5), pp. 1015-1150, guest edited with Assata Zerai and Joseph Oppong); Global Studies: Africa (McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, co-authored with T. Krabacher and A. Layachi, 2009); Strong Women, Dangerous Times: Gender and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (Nova Publishers, co-edited with K. Flynn and C. Pope, 2009); and Geographic Approaches to HIV/AIDS Risk in Africa and the Developing World (Special issue of GeoJournal, guest edited with C. Pope, forthcoming). return to top of page

Earl Kellogg , Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Earl D. Kellogg is Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and Director of International Affairs Ermeritus at the University of Illinois. Dr. Kellogg has provided leadership for expanding and enriching the international dimension through the university, supervising eleven international academic and administrative units, including the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program. His previous positions have included Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Winrock International (1992-1997) and Executive Director of the Consortium for International Development (1985-1992). He was a professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois from 1971-1985 and Associate Provost for International Affairs and Director of International Programs and Studies from 1997- 2004. He has extensive research and teaching experience related to the economics of agricultural development, technology development and transfer systems, the international dimension of the university and the effects in the U.S. of agricultural development in developing countries. He has worked in more than 15 countries for numerous international and U.S.institutions including USAID, FAO, CGIAR, IFPRI and the Ford Foundation. He is Chair of the Advisory Council to the Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa -- a group of universities, government agencies, NGOs and research institutes in the U.S. and Africa. He has provided unswerving dedication to international women's issues and steadfast support of WGGP pograms. return to top of page

Monica McDermott , Department of Sociology

Monica McDermott is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, having received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 2001. She is the author of Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations (2006), an ethnographic study of interracial interactions and white identity in Atlanta and Boston. She has also conducted participant observation research in new immigrant destinations, focusing especially on the impact of the Immigrant Rights marches of 2006 on the attitudes of native-born whites towards Latina/o immigrants. In addition, she has authored articles on white racial identity and attitudes, race and neighborhood contexts, and the black middle class. return to top of page

Robert McKim , Program for the Study of Religion

Robert McKim is Director of the Program for the Study of Religion and Professor of Religious Studies and of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Philosophy from Yale University and has been a member of the UIUC faculty since 1982. His major research interests include philosophy of religion, the history of early modern philosophy (especially Berkeley), and applied ethics. He has recently taught courses in philosophy of religion and in environmental ethics. He is currently writing a book on the implications of religious diversity. Recent publications include Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2001); "The Goodness of the Real" Sophia, 2003; "Berkeley's Notebooks" in The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley edited by Kenneth Winkler (Cambridge University Press, 2005); and "Berkeley", forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy , Second Edition, edited by Donald Borchert (New York: Macmillan, 2005). return to top of page

Paul McNamara, Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Paul McNamara is Assciate Professor of Consumer and Family Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. McNamara is a health eonomist and consumer economist and his research addresses policy-relevant questions facing consumers and society. His research concentrates on health-related themes and it seeks to inform public debates and discussions surrounding nutrition and food policy issues. His food safety research (joint with Professor Gay Y. Miller and several co-authors) applies a general social welfare analysis framework to organize a set of sub-analyses concerning the gains to pork producers and the potential costs and health risks to cnsumers from the use of antibiotics in feeds at low levels of concentration (sub-therapeutic use) and to examine food safety issues in the pork system. Their model raises a number of potential policy approaches, which have not received much attention in the animal antibiotic use debate. Their analysis raises the possibility that, in addition to bans or restrictions on sub-therapeutic use in pork production, information-based strategies (including targeted permits and taxes) also might lead to overall social welfare gains. Their farm-to-fork simulation model has yielded estimates of the risks posed by pork-borne salmonellosis and they have applied it to the evaluation of measures aimed at reducing food safety risks in pork (Miller et al. 2005, McNamara et al., forthcoming). In the area of food policies and dietary behaviors, Wilde et al. (AJAE 1999) investigated the impact of participation in the Food Stamp Program and the WIC program on the likelihood of a person's adherence to the dietary guidelines as expressed in the Food Guide Pyramid. Findings indicated that there were small positive impacts on dietary quality, particularly for the WIC program. return to top of page

Faranak Miraftab, Urban and Regional Planning and Gender and Women's Studies

Fanark Miraftab is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interest concerns social aspects of urban development. In this broad area, she is interested in how low-income groups and women in particular access housing and basic urban services. Key concepts in her research include debates on community-based strategies and mobilizations, non-governmental non-profit organizations and grassroots social movements, participatory planning processes, empowerment, citizenship and development. A native of Iran, she completed her undergraduate education at the College of Fine Arts at the Tehran University. While in political exile in Trondheim, Norway, she graduated with a Masters degree in Architecture at the Norwegian Institute of Technology and then completed doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Over the years, her research and teaching has spanned several countries including Chile, Mexico, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the United States. Her teaching covers multi-cultural understanding of cities as social processes; community development and the role of grassroots mobilizations; transnational urbanism; migration and development nexus; the reconfigured state-society relations of basic services and housing within the dominant global neoliberal policy framework. She also serves as the coordinator of The Transnational Planning Stream at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois.return to top of page

Chantal Nadeau, Gender and Women's Studies

Chantal Nadeau is Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also affiliated with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory. Her research interests intersect queer theory; gender, sexuality, and nationalist rhetoric; visual cultures and sexuality; and contemporary queer legal cultures in nationalist and transnational contexts. She is the author of Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot (Routledge 2001). She is currently completing two book manuscripts: Beastly Politics: Queer, Rights and Democracy (contracted with University of Minnesota Press), and Ma Vie En Rose: A Queer Film Classic (contracted with Arsenal Pulp), and is co-editing with Martin F. Manalansan IV, Richard T. Rodriguez and Siobhan B. Somerville a special issue of GLQ on "Queering the Middle: Sexual Diasporas, Race, and a Queer Midwest". In her pre-UI life, Nadeau was Graduate Program Director and Director of the Joint Ph.D. Program in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec) for ten years.return to top of page

Radha Nandkumar, National Center for Supercomputercomputing Applications

Dr. Radha Nandkumar joined the staff of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Illinois in 1985, after completing her doctoral degree in Physics at UIUC. She also completed an Executive M.B.A. at the University of Illinois. Her thesis research in the area of condensed matter physics extrapolated to astrophysical systems has extended to theoretical modeling and computational science. She has more than ten publications in peer-reviewed journals related to her research work. She is currently the Program Director in charge of NCSA’s Campus Relations and International Affiliations and she has two decades of leadership and program management experience in computational science, strategic planning, and facilitating outreach on national and international levels. Dr. Nandkumar has managed computational resources, data, customer relations and information management on supercomputing research projects, resource allocations, peer review processes and technology transfer. She has given more than 100 technical presentations related to NCSA’s High Performance Computing infrastructure, The TeraGrid, applications research and information technologies. She is well recognized for her leadership roles in events promoting women in computing and in coalitions to diversify computing. Her current interests are related to high performance computing and grid computing, cyberinfrastructure and their impact on computational science research and society at large. In spearheading the International Affiliates Program for NCSA, Dr. Nandkumar identifies the synergy between activities at NCSA and academic institutions abroad, in the areas of cyberinfrastructure, high performance, cluster and grid computing, and applications sciences, and brokers relationships. Under her guidance, NCSA has established affiliations with sister institutions in Australia, Brazil, China, India, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, Singapore, South Africa, and the CCLRC in UK, and the UK eScience Program. NCSA is also a member institution in the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA). In addition to this, she also hosts international research and management teams regularly at NCSA and represents NCSA abroad. She also serves on the advisory committees of several academic institutions both within the U.S.A. and around the globe for enabling science, computational science alliances, and cyberinfrastructure. Prior to her Ph.D, she worked at the University of Chicago’s Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research and at the Indian Space Research Organization’s Indian Scientific Satellite Project for conducting observations of X-ray astronomical objects using satellite and rocket borne payloads. return to top of page

Robert Pahre, Department of Political Science, European Union Center

Robert Pahre is currently Director of the European Union Center and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA and a B.A. in Intenational Relations and German Studies from Stanford University. His research focuses on the European Union; transboundary cooperation in wildlife and the environment; two-level games; and the politics of international trade. He is the author of Leading Questions: How Hegemony Affects the International Political Econom y and Politics and Trade Cooperation in the Nineteenth Cenury: The "Agreeable Customs" of 1815-1914 as well as several edited volumes and numerous book chapters and journal articles. return to top of page

Elizabeth Powers, Economics, Institute of Government and Public Affairs

Elizabeth Powers is an associate professor of Economics and a faculty member in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining the University of llinois in 1996, Elizabeth was an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and a junior staff economist with President George H.W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Vassar College. Elizabeth is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and has served on the editorial boards of Economic Development Quarterly and National Tax Journal . The recipient of fellowships and awards for her scholarship from the University of Pennsylvania, Vassar College, the Brookings Institution and the University of Illinois, she has been a principal investigator on numerous grants. In addition to research on incentive effects of U.S. welfare programs, her work on the effects of child health on maternal labor supply (appearing in the Journal of Human Resources and American Economic Review ) has been widely cited. Ongoing research projects are in the areas of child wellbeing, work disability, and development disabilities. She currently serves as a consultant on early child development to the Inter-American Development Bank. In this capacity, she is conducting a study of the impact of family member economic migration on children's cognitive development. For the past decade, Elizabeth has taught the course, "Health, Education, and Human Capital" to Ph.D. students, as a complement to the Development and Labor Fields. This course focuses on issues of fertility, investments in child quality (including education and health), the returns to schooling, and health behaviors. She has also advised and served on the committees of many Ph.D. students in the labor, development, and public fields. return to top of page

Marcela Raffaelli, Department of Human and Community Development

Marcela Raffaelli, Professor in the Department of Human and Community Development, studies child and adolescent development in culturally and economically diverse families. She received her B.A. from Williams College and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1990. She held post-doctoral positions at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers, where her work focused on HIV/AIDS prevention projects for Brazilian street youth and ethnically diverse residents of U.S. inner cities. Her current interests center on issues of gender and sexuality, immigrant adaptation, and child development under conditions of extreme poverty. She is a long-time member of the Center for the Psychological Study of Street Youth at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. She travels regularly to Brazil to participate in the Center’s training and outreach activities and has an active program of research in collaboration with colleagues at the Center. Professor Raffaelli recently created a study abroad course on Brazilian families. return to top of page

Jesse Ribot, Department of Geography

Jesse Ribot is a Full Professor in Geography at the University of Illinois. He has an appointment in the School of Naturel Resources and Environmental Studies and is Director of the campus-wide Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy Initiative. He was a Senior Associate in the Institutions and Governance program at the World Resources Institute from 1999-08. He has been a visiting professor in Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York, and a or fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Yale Program in Agrarian Studies, and was a MacArthur Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. From 1991-94 he was a lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He has also advised foreign governments and international development agencies. He conducts research in Africa on sub-national democracy; natural resource tenure and access; distributional equity along natural resource commodity chains; and vulnerability in the face of climate and environmental change.return to top of page

William Rose , School of Architecture

William Rose is Research Architect for the Building Research Council in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University and his A.B. degree from the University of Notre Dame. He is a licensed architect and his current research focuses on the Healthy Homes Initiative of HUD. His recent publications include Water in Buildings (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), “Should the walls of historic buildings be insulated?” APT Bulletin (Association for Preservation Technology) 2005, and T echnology assessment report: A field study comparison of the energy and moisture performance characteristics of ventilated versus sealed crawl spaces in the south, Rose, W., et al. 2002. US Department of Energy/Advanced Energy. return to top of page

Clifford E. Singer, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering

Clifford E. Singer is Professor of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois, and is currently co-director of the College of Engineering Initiative on Energy and Sustainability Engineering. Singer received a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois, a Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. He subsequently did research in plasma physics, advanced space propulsion, and the computational simulation of thermonuclear plasma performance at the University of London, Princeton University, and the University of Illinois. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institutes for Strömungsforschung and Plasmaphysik at Göttingen and Garching in Germany and is a member of American Physical Society and the American Nuclear Society. Singer has worked extensively on issues related to the cessation of production of nuclear materials for nuclear explosives programs, including related matters dealing with outer space and the future of nuclear explosives stockpiles. He is currently supervising research on global energy economics with emphasis on spent nuclear fuel management, sources of energy for transportation, and greenhouse gas emissions. Prior to completing a recent sabbatical leave at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Center for Technology and Security Policy in Washington, DC, he was the Director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS). return to top of page

Burt Swanson, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Burton E. Swanson is Professor Emeritus of Rural Development Coordinator, Worldwide Study of Agricultural Extension and Advisory Systems, UIUC. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1974. In research, he was the "Team Leader" in Assessing the Ethiopian Agricultural Extension System for the International Food Policy Research Institute, and most recently, the coordinator of the Worldwide Study of Agricultural Extension Systems. In 2008, he developed an eLearning Course on Agricultural Extension for the World Bank. This internal course helped World Bank staff members identify key constraints within national agricultural extension systems, so they can design, supervise and evaluate projects that will address key policy issues and resource constraints that will improve system performance with the goal of increasing farm household income and improving rural livelihoods. Among his many publications are: Global Review of Good Agricultural Extension and Advisory Service Practices (2008), and Strengthening Agricultural Extension and Advisory Systems with R.Rajalahti (2010). return to top of page

Angharad Valdivia, Institute of Communications Research

Angharad Valdivia is Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Media Studies, Professor of Latina/Latino Studies, Professor of Unit for Interpretive Criticism, and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies Her primary areas of interest are Gender and ethnicity in popular culture, especially U.S. Latina/o and Latin American; Media Studies; International communications; and feminist studies. Professor Valdivia's research combines the areas of gender and feminist studies with ethnic studies. She brings these together in the examination of contemporary mainstream popular culture in an approach that explores the tension between agency and structure. She has conducted field research in Nicaragua, Peru, and Chile. Current research projects include hybridity theory as it applies to Latina/o Studies, ambiguity as a strategy of ethnic representation, and differentiation within Latinidad. She is working on a book length manuscript entitled "The Gender of Latinidad" and several other projects. Professor Valdivia is the author of A Latina in the Land of Hollywood [Arizona, 2000]and the editor of The Media Studies Companion [Blackwell, 2003]; Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities [Sage: 1995]; the communication and culture section of the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women [2000] and co-editor of Geographies of Latinidad [Duke, 2006]. She has published essays in the Communication Review, Global Media Journal, Journal of Communication, the Journal of International Communication, the Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, the International Journal of Inclusive Education, Women and Language, Chasqui, and in many edited anthologies. Professor Valdivia is an affiliate faculty member with Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. return to top of page

Madhu Viswanathan, Business Administration

Madhu Viswanathan, Professor of Business Administration, has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, since 1990. His research programs are in two areas; measurement and research methodology, and literacy, poverty, and subsistence marketplace behaviors. He has authored books in both areas: Measurement Error and Research Design (Sage, 2005), and Enabling Consumer and Entrepreneurial Literacy in Subsistence Marketplaces (Springer, 2008, in alliance with UNESCO). His research program with a methodological orientation on measurement and research design paralleled many years of teaching research at all levels. It culminated in a book directed at the social sciences that provides a most detailed conceptual dissection of measurement error. This work is a striking departure from the existing literature, which emphasizes a statistical orientation without sufficient elucidation of the conceptual meaning of measurement error. His research on subsistence marketplaces takes a micro-level approach to gain bottom-up understanding of life circumstances and buyer, seller, and marketplace behaviors. This perspective aims to enable subsistence marketplaces to move toward being ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable marketplaces. His research is synergized with innovative teaching and social initiatives. He teaches courses on research methods, and at the intersection of subsistence and sustainability - on sustainable product and market development for subsistence marketplaces, and on sustainable marketing enterprises. He directs the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative (www.business.illinois.edu/subsistence). His research is applied through the Marketplace Literacy Project (www.marketplaceliteracy.org), a non-profit organization that he founded and directs. return to top of page