Speakers and Presenters
Featured Speakers
Eugene Hickok, Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Bobby Inman, Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy, LBJ School, UT-Austin, Admiral (Ret.), USN.
Nan Keohane, President, Duke University
G. Richard Wagoner, President & CEO, General Motors Corporation
David Ward, President, American Council on Education
Presenters
Soji Akomolafe, LeMoyne-Owen College
Ann Betteridge, University of Arizona, NCASA
Gilles Bousquet, University of Wisconsin
Mark Chichester, Institute for International Public Policy
Shirley Daniel, University of Hawaii
Randy Folks, University of South Carolina
Madeleine Green, American Council on Education
Dan Hazen, Harvard College Library
John Heyl, Old Dominion University
John Hudzik, Michigan State University
Deborah Jakubs, Duke University
Miriam A. Kazanjian, Coalition for International Education
Ben Kedia, University of Memphis
Michael Kennedy, University of Michigan
David Larsen, Arcadia University
Margaret E. (Meg) Malone, Center for Applied Linguistics
JoAnn McCarthy, University of South Florida
Scott McGinnis, National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages
Gilbert Merkx, Duke University
Nicole Norfles, Council for Opportunity in Education
Benjamin Rifkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christine E. Root, Michigan State University
Nancy Ruther, Yale University
Ann Schneider, International Education Consultant
Elizabeth Welles, Modern Language Association
David Wiley, Michigan State University
Eugene Hickok, U.S. Department of Education
Dr. Eugene W. Hickok is the United States Under Secretary of Education. President Bush formally nominated Dr. Hickok on March 30, 2001, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 10, 2001. In his role as Under Secretary, Dr. Hickok is one of the Education Department's top three ranking officials and will serve as a principal adviser to U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige.
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Hickok was Pennsylvania's secretary of education, responsible for overseeing the state's education system—kindergarten through college. A powerful advocate for parental choice and accountability in education, Dr. Hickok helped implement a sweeping education reform agenda. Pennsylvania now has higher standards for students and teachers; a strong accountability system; locally designed charter public schools; stronger reading, literacy and library programs; and a model education technology initiative. He also served on the boards of trustees of Pennsylvania's four state-related universities, and on the state system of higher education's board of governors. During his six years as secretary of education, Dr. Hickok also testified before the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the U.S. Congress about Pennsylvania's education policies and initiatives.
Dr. Hickok also was a founding member and chairman of the Education Leaders Council, a group of reform-minded education chiefs who oversee 30 percent of the nation's K-12 public school students.
For 15 years, Dr. Hickok taught political science at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and served as director of the college's Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Issues. He also was an adjunct professor at the Dickinson School of Law. He was recognized as an outstanding teacher and was twice awarded Dickinson's prestigious Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching—in 1985 and 1990.
Dr. Hickok also was an associate director of the political science department at Mississippi State University, and the director of financial aid for Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.
An expert on public policy, the U.S. Constitution and Federalism, Dr. Hickok has published numerous articles and books on government and public policy and has made presentations on these topics before myriad local, state and national organizations. In 1991, Dr. Hickok was a consultant to the governments of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia regarding constitutional, political, and economic reform.
In 1986 and 1987, Dr. Hickok served as a special assistant in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. He also has served as an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, where he was a resident scholar in 1990 and 1991.
He was elected as a member of the Carlisle Area School District Board of Directors and served until his appointment in 1995 as education secretary.
Dr. Hickok is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He also received his master's and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
Bobby Inman, Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy, LBJ School, UT-Austin, Admiral (Ret.), USN.
Admiral Bobby R. Inman, USN (Ret.), graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1950 and from the National War College in 1972. He became an adjunct professor at UT Austin in 1987. He was appointed as a tenured professor, holding the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy in August 2001.
Admiral Inman served in the U.S. Navy from November 1951 to July 1982, when he retired with the permanent rank of Admiral. While on active duty he served as Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. After retirement from the Navy, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas, for four years and Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Westmark Systems, Inc., a privately owned electronics industry holding company, for three years. Admiral Inman also served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1987 through 1990.
Admiral Inman’s primary activity since 1990 has been investing in start-up technology companies, where he is a Managing Partner with Gefinor Ventures. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Fluor, Massey Energy Company, Science Applications International Corporation, SBC Communications and Temple Inland. He serves as a Trustee of the American Assembly, the Center for Excellence in Education and the California Institute of Technology. He is a Director of the Public Agenda Foundation and is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Nan Keohane, President, Duke University
Nannerl O. Keohane became Duke University's eighth president on July 1, 1993, coming to Duke from the presidency of Wellesley College.
The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Dr. Keohane was born in Blytheville, Arkansas, and grew up in Arkansas, Texas, and South Carolina. She is a 1961 graduate of Wellesley, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors in political science. Following graduation from Wellesley, she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford University, where she earned the B.A.-M.A. with First Class Honours in philosophy, politics, and economics. She earned her Ph.D. in political science on a Sterling Fellowship from Yale University in 1967. Before assuming the presidency of Wellesley in 1981, she taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University, where she was chair of the faculty senate and won the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Keohane, who also holds the rank of professor of political science, has written extensively in the fields of political philosophy, feminism, and education. She is the author of Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Princeton University Press, 1980) and co-editor of Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology (University of Chicago Press, 1982). She was vice president of the American Political Science Association from 1988 to 1990.
Dr. Keohane currently serves on the boards of IBM, the National Humanities Center, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and chairs the Overseers Committee to Visit the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees by numerous colleges and universities. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in October 1995, and won the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1998.
G. Richard Wagoner, President & CEO, General Motors Corporation
G. Richard "Rick" Wagoner, Jr., was named president and chief executive officer of General Motors on June 1, 2000. He also serves on the Board of Directors. Wagoner has responsibility for the strategic and operational leadership of General Motors, and is chairman of its Automotive Strategy Board. He previously served as president and chief operating officer since 1998, and prior to that he was executive vice president and president of North American Operations since 1994. He served as chief financial officer from 1992 to 1994, and also had responsibility for worldwide purchasing from 1993 to 1994.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, on February 9, 1953, and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Wagoner received a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University in 1975 and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University in 1977.Wagoner began his GM career in 1977 as an analyst in the Treasurer's Office in New York. While there, he held several positions, including manager of Latin American financing, director of Canadian and overseas borrowing, and director of capital analysis and investment.
In 1981, Wagoner became treasurer of GM do Brasil in Sao Paulo. In 1984, he became executive director of finance for that unit. He moved to GM of Canada Limited in 1987 as vice president and finance manager. In October 1988, he became group director, strategic business planning for the former Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM of Canada Group.
Wagoner served as vice president in charge of finance for General Motors Europe, based in Zurich, from June 1989 to July 1991, when he was named president and managing director of GM do Brasil. In Brazil, Wagoner was credited with turning the unit around by modernizing the product lineup.
Wagoner is a member of the Board of Trustees of Duke University and Detroit Country Day School, and of the Board of Dean's Advisors of the Harvard Business School. He is chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers A World in Motion Executive Committee, and a member of The Business Council and The Business Roundtable.
David Ward, President, American Council on Education
A leading spokesperson for American higher education, David Ward became the 11th president of the American Council on Education on September 1, 2001. Ward is chancellor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received his doctorate in 1963. Prior to becoming chancellor at UW–Madison, Ward also served as associate dean of the graduate school from 1980 to 1987 and as vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost from 1989 to 1993.
Ward's service to higher education includes the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, a nonprofit group that spearheaded the development of Internet 2. He also has chaired the Government Relations Council of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and served on the Committee on Undergraduate Education of the Association of American Universities, the Science Coalition, and the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities.
During his four years as provost of UW–Madison, Ward led the development of a strategic plan that improved the quality of undergraduate education there; added to the campus research facilities; enhanced the connections between the university, the city, the business community, and the state; and creatively combined public and private support for the institution. These changes gave new expression to the Wisconsin Idea, the venerable philosophical framework for the university's role in public service and knowledge transfer.
Ward also held the Andrew Hill Clark Professorship of Geography at the university, served as chair of the geography department from 1974 to 1977, and was president of the Association of American Geographers in 1989. As an urban geographer, he pioneered research on English and American cities during their rapid industrialization in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and held visiting appointments at University College London; The Australian National University, Canberra; Hebrew University, Jerusalem; and at his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Leeds.
Soji Akomolafe
Olusoji Akomolafe is the Director of International Programs and Associate Professor of Political Science at LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis, Tennessee. He received a doctorate from the Center for Black African Studies at the University of Bordeaux in France. His research interests focus on Minorities in International Education, with particular emphasis on the role of African Americans in the foreign policy establishment. He is Associate Editor of African Journal of International Affairs and Development. He is currently writing a book on homeland security and the plight of international students in the United States. Dr Akomolafe has worked and traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Anne H. Betteridge
Anne H. Betteridge is Interim Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona. She was the Executive Director of the Middle East Studies Association of North America for twelve years (1990-2002), during which she also taught at the University of Arizona. She has served on the Executive Council of the Society for Iranian Studies; the Board of Directors of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies; and the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, where she represented the ACLS Conference of Administrative Officers.
Gilles Bousquet
Gilles Bousquet is widely regarded as a leading innovator in international interdisciplinary education. Before becoming the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dean of International Studies in January 2002, he was Chair of the Department of French and Italian and former director of the UW’s European Studies Program, one of four member programs of the European Studies Alliance. He co-founded the Capstone Professional French Master’s Program, a professional degree track for students who want to use their French in careers outside of academia. Through the construction of a public-private partnership, he was instrumental in establishing the UW’s Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies, one of about 20 such centers nationwide. He has published internationally on contemporary French social and cultural issues, as well as in language studies, and has been recognized for his contributions by the French government.
Mark Howard Chichester, Esq.
Mark Chichester is the Director of the Institute for International Public Policy (IIPP) at the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation (UNCFSP). Located in the Washington metropolitan area, the Title VI funded IIPP provides international training, technical assistance and institutional development assistance to minority students, colleges and universities. Mr. Chichester is also Of Counsel to the D.C.-based consulting firm, The Horizon Group, LLC and to the law firm of Jackson Chichester & Thaxton, PLLC.
Shirley J. Daniel
Shirley J. Daniel, Ph.D., Henry A. Walker, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Business Enterprise, is Professor of Accountancy and Director of the Pacific Asian Management Institute (PAMI) in the College of Business Administration at the University of Hawaii. She is also currently Executive Director of the University of Hawaii Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and is President of AIBER, a national organization created by the 30 major universities that have received CIBER grants. She works closely with organizations in Hawaii to promote international business and economic development as well as education and training programs in Hawaii.
William R. Folks
William R. Folks, Jr., is Professor of International Business and Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the University of South Carolina. He served as the first Chair of the International Business Department at the Moore School of Business, was a developer and first director of the Masters of International Business Studies (MIBS) program, and currently serves as the Chair of the Undergraduate Program Executive Committee. His primary research interest is foreign exchange risk management, but he has also written widely on curricular issues in international business education, and was the founding President of the Association for International Business Education and Research, the association of Title VI funded CIBER business schools.
Madeleine F. Green
Madeleine F. Green is vice president and director, Center for Institutional and International Initiatives at the American Council on Education (ACE), a membership association of 1800 member institutions and associations. She currently oversees ACE’s international agenda, which has a major focus on research and good practice in internationalization. She has written widely on management, leadership, and international issues in higher education. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Sweet Briar College (VA) and chair of its Educational Programs Committee, and a deputy member of the board of the International Association of Universities. She holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Radcliffe College/Harvard University, and the M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University, in French literature.
Dan Hazen
Dan Hazen is librarian for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, Widener Library Collection Development, Harvard College Library. He currently serves as Visiting Program Officer for the Global Resources Program of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
John D. Heyl
John D. Heyl is Executive Director of International Programs at Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Virginia. He leads a comprehensive international support office including study abroad, international student and scholar services, international student recruitment and admission and the English Language Center. He is a European historian by academic training and a specialist in modern Germany (BA Stanford University 1964, PhD Washington University-St. Louis, 1971). He is Past-President of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), the national/international professional association of campus international leaders. He is the co-author (with Manfred Thullen and Blaine Brownell) of The Chief International Education Administrator (CIEA) as an Agent of Organizational Change (AIEA, 2000) and has written numerous articles on German history and comparative intellectual history.
John K. Hudzik
John K. Hudzik, is the Dean of International Studies and Programs (ISP) at Michigan State University. He has administrative responsibility for the University’s diverse international undergraduate and graduate curricula, research, and project and service activities worldwide. These activities are supported through twenty-five ISP centers, institutes and offices. He is a member of several boards, including the Board of Directors of the Australian Education Office, President of the Association of International Education Administrators, and a member of the Advisory Council to the USAID Association Liaison Office Policy Board.
Deborah Jakubs
Deborah Jakubs is Director, Collections Services, Duke University Libraries, and former Director (1996-2002) of the AAU/ARL Global Resources Program. She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University (Latin American History), and an MLIS from the University of California at Berkeley. Between 1996 and 2002 she served as the Associate Director/Director of the Title VI National Resource Center of the Consortium on Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina and Duke. She served on the Group of Advisors of the National Security Education Program (NSEP) 1999-2002, and as Chair 2000-2001.
Miriam A. Kazanjian
Miriam A. Kazanjian is an international education and government relations specialist in Washington, DC, where she has worked in the fields of education policy and government relations for three decades. She has represented the states of New York and California, as well as numerous organizations and education institutions. In the early 1990s, she was instrumental in organizing the Coalition for International Education, a group of 28 national higher education associations engaging in policy development and advocacy activities for the U.S. Department of Education's international education programs, especially HEA-Title VI and Fulbright-Hays. In 1997, she organized the first national policy research conference on HEA-Title VI and Fulbright-Hays, and was co-editor and contributing author to the subsequent publication, International Education in the New Global Era: Proceedings of a National Policy Conference on HEA-Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs, UCLA, 1998. She has presented and published widely on federal education policy issues.
Ben L. Kedia
Ben L. Kedia holds the Robert Wang Chair of Excellence in International Business and is Director of the Wang Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at The University of Memphis. He has also taught at Louisiana State University and Texas Tech University. His teaching and research interests include International Business Strategy, and Cross-Cultural and Comparative Management.
Michael Kennedy
Michael Kennedy is vice provost for international affairs, director of the International Institute, and professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. Among other publications, he is the author, editor or coeditor of five books, including Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland (1991), Envisioning Eastern Europe (1994), and the Articulation of the Nation (1999), Globalizations and Social Movements (2000) and Cultural Formations of Postcommunism: Emancipation, Transition, Nation, and War (2002). His current scholarship focuses on the sociology of globalizing knowledge across professions and disciplines. In 1999, Poland's President Aleksander Kwasniewski presented Professor Kennedy with the Gold Cross of Merit to recognize the contributions he has made to scholarship and education about Poland.
David C. Larsen
David Larsen has been involved with international education for nearly four decades. He taught at the secondary school and the university level in Maine in the 1960's, was a Fulbright lecturer and then executive officer of the Fulbright Foundation in Greece in the 1970's, directed an administrative division of the Institute for International Education in New York and then the Center for International Education at the University of Tennessee in the 1980's. Since 1988 he has served as vice president of Arcadia University (formerly Beaver College) and director of its Center for Education Abroad.
Margaret E. (Meg) Malone
Margaret E. (Meg) Malone (Ph.D., Georgetown University) is Senior Testing Associate in the Language Testing Division at the Center for Applied Linguistics. Her work focuses on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the On-line Distance Learning Rater Training Project, the National Capital Language Resource Center and the web-delivered Oral Proficiency. Test in Chinese and Korean. Before re-joining CAL in 2000, she directed language testing for Peace Corps-Worldwide, designed and delivered technical assistance to language programs in Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia, and taught graduate level courses in language testing and teaching methods at Georgetown and American Universities.l
JoAnn McCarthy
JoAnn McCarthy is currently Dean of International Affairs at the University of South Florida. A former professor of French, she holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University. She has served on both the executive boards and editorial boards of the Association of International Education Administrators and the Council on International Educational Exchange and is currently chair of AIEA’s Public Policy Committee. A member of AASCU’s Task Force on Global Priorities and Responsibilities and the ACE ad hoc Design Team for the Internationalization of U.S. Higher Education, she has also organized and served as President of statewide higher education consortia for international education in Illinois and Virginia. Dr. McCarthy is widely traveled and a frequent writer, speaker, and consultant on internationalizing the faculty and curriculum.
Scott McGinnis
Scott McGinnis (Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1990) is Executive Director of the National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages at the National Foreign Language Center in College Park, Maryland. His seventeen years of teaching have included a decade of experience as director of the Chinese language programs at the University of Oregon and University of Maryland. He has authored or edited four books and over a dozen articles on language pedagogy and linguistics for the less commonly taught languages in general, and Chinese and Japanese in particular. He has twice served as President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, and is presently serving as chair of The College Board Chinese Language Test Development Committee.
Gilbert W. Merkx
Gilbert W. Merkx is Vice Provost for International Affairs and Development and Director, Center for International Studies, at Duke University. He formerly was Professor of Sociology and Director of the Latin American Institute at the University of New Mexico and has been a faculty member at Yale and at Göteborgs Universität in Sweden, as well as a visiting scholar at the Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires and the Latinamerika Institut in Stockholm. He was editor of the Latin American Research Review from 1982-2002. His research has focused on public policy formation in developing countries.
Nicole Norfles
Nicole Norfles currently serves as Special Assistant to the President of the Council for Opportunity in Education. She also serves as Research Fellow in the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, focusing on providing data relevant to issues concerning post-secondary educational policy, finance, and student access. She has served as a member of the Education Trust Advisory Committee in 2001, as an Associate in the first National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education Associates Program in 2000, and as an External Reviewer for Current Issues in Comparative Education Journal (CICE). Her recent publications include “Financing the First Year of Graduate School” (The Pell Institute, 2002); “Closing the Divide: Technology Use in TRIO Upward Bound Projects” (The National TRIO Clearinghouse, 2001); “Transformation and Pedagogy: Expressions From Vista and Zululand Universities” (Pergamon, 2001); and “TRIO And Globalization: Are We Ready?” (Journal of Educational Opportunity, 2001).
Benjamin Rifkin
Benjamin Rifkin (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Middlebury Russian School. Rifkin is one of two ACTFL-Certified Oral Proficiency Interview Trainers in Russian. President-Elect of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Teachers of Russian, he is the author of a Russian-language textbook (published by McGraw-Hill), a Russian-language CD-ROM, and numerous articles on foreign language education, second language acquisition and contemporary Russian cinema in Foreign Language Annals, Language Learning, Modern Language Journal, Russian Language Journal, Slavic & East European Journal, and Slavic Review. He is the co-editor with Olga Kagan of The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures (Slavica, 2000) and the director of a major foreign language technology initiative at UW-Madison.
Christine Root
Christine Root is a Specialist at International Studies and Programs at Michigan State University since 1998 where she has coordinated the South Africa - U.S. Higher Education Partnership Project and the website on Resources on South African Higher Education and South Africa-U.S. Higher Education Partnerships Project. With a graduate training in Economics, she has been a freelance researcher and writer, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Durban-Westville (South Africa, 1994-95); Project Manager of the Health Care for All Project (1992-94); Legislative Analyst for the State of Michigan House of Representatives Democratic Caucus (1985-87); Research Analyst for the Center for International Policy, Washington (1984); and Associate Director of the Washington Office on Africa (1972-81). She has authored a number of works on Southern Africa, U.S. healthcare, and environment and development in South Africa.
Nancy Ruther
Nancy Ruther is Associate Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies since 1988 and Lecturer in Political Science since 1994. She began her career as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development serving in La Paz, Bolivia (1974-1979). Her book, Barely There, Powerfully Present: 30 years of US Policy in International Higher Education (Routledge, 2002), compares the impacts of the Higher Education Act, Title VI and USAID programs on internationalizing the US higher education system from 1958-1988. In 1995, she co-authored a monograph for the Association of Professional Schools of International, Undergraduate International Studies on the Eve of the 21st Century. She served on the Group of Advisors of the National Security Education Program from its inception to 1997. She has a doctorate in higher education and leadership from the University of Massachusetts, an MS in agricultural economics from Cornell University, both a MPIA and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. At the University of Pittsburgh she received an NDFL Fellowship for Quechua. and Andean Studies.
Ann Imlah Schneider
Ann Imlah Schneider is an international education consultant, currently working on a Title VI research study of the prospects for internationalizing teacher education, focusing on the preparation of secondary school teachers. She was recently a principal researcher for a report on the long-term impact of the Title VI Undergraduate International Studies Program ("Federal Funding for International Studies: Does It Help? Does It Matter?") and before that was a senior program officer at the U.S. Department of Education for many years. She also has experience at the Department of State and the Committee International Exchange of Scholars.
Elizabeth Welles
Elizabeth Welles is the Director of Foreign Language Programs and the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) at the Modern Language Association and is the editor of the ADFL Bulletin. Previously (1987-93) she served as a program officer in the Division of Education Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. She received her PhD from Yale in Italian Literature, which she taught for fifteen years in several colleges and universities; her scholarship focuses on the Renaissance.
David Wiley
David Wiley is a sociologist and director of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, having conducted research on urban and rural environments in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and South Africa. He is a member of the Higher Education Forum of the U.S./South Africa Bi-National Commission; has been President of the African Studies Association; and chairperson of international committees of the National Science Foundation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Sociological Association. He was Vice-Chairperson, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. He is author of a number of works on Southern Africa, African film, and international education. He was Rapporteur for the National Conference on the Future of Foreign Language and Area Studies Programs in Higher Education, (UCLA, 1996) and wrote “Building the Nation’s International Expertise for a Global Future: Forty Years of the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Education Programs,” Chapter in Changing Perspectives on International Education, as well as edited Group Portrait: Internationalizing the Disciplines.
