Following are biographical sketches of the scholars and artists participating in the 2007-2008 Visiting Scholars and Artists Program. Dates are subject to change. For information about specific topics, detailed schedules for each scholar or artist, and specific times and locations of events, please contact the sponsoring departments.
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| NIU Shuwen |
| Sponsors: School of Social Work, Gender & Women’s Studies, Cultural Connections |
| Mr. NIU Shuwen is a former Director of the Institute of Agricultural Zoning and Territory Management of Gansu Province, China and is currently a professor at the College of Resources and Environment at Lanzhou University. His research specialties are in the areas of rural development, resources economics, mathematical modeling, and natural resources management. He is well-known in China for his work on comprehensive assessment of the carrying capacity of energy and natural resources and the sustainable development of the upper reaches of the Yellow River in northwestern China. He serves as Director of the Quantitative Geography and Rural Geography Committee and the Chinese Geographical Society, and he has served as advisor on numerous provincial, national, and international projects. |
| DATES:September 1-30, 2007 |
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| Margaret A. Gallego |
| Sponsor: The Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology |
| Margaret A. Gallego is a professor at San Diego State University in the School of Teacher Education. Her research has focused on the sociocultural influences within learning environments, including schools and after-school clubs that support second-language learners’ English literacy development. She has also published in the areas of teacher/staff development, heterogeneous classrooms, writing and learning disabilities, multiple literacies, and feminist and action research. Her writings have been geared toward expanding what counts as literacy and identifying ways to help children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds learn literacies of power while maintaining their own community and cultural uniqueness. Gallego serves as co-editor for the Social and Institutional Analysis section of the American Educational Research Journal. |
| DATES: September 12-14, 2007 |
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| Harry B. Gray |
| Sponsor: The Department of Chemistry |
| Harry Gray is one of the leading scientists in modern organic chemistry and has significantly contributed to the understanding of the underlying physics and chemistry that control electron transfer processes in metalloproteins. He has applied his knowledge of inorganic chemistry to biological processes, specifically how electrons move in proteins that have a metal, like iron or magnesium, in their structure such as hemoglobin in human blood. Among his numerous awards, Dr. Gray has received the National Medal of Science and 2007’s Wolf Foundation Prize (Israel). He is a member of the American Chemical Society, National Academy of Sciences, and American Philosophical Society, to name a few. |
| DATES: September 17-18, 2007 |
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| Rita P. Wright |
Sponsor: The Department of Anthropology |
| Dr. Rita P. Wright received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University and has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. A John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow from 1988-1993, Dr. Wright has had research support from the Archaeological Institute of America, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Geographic Society, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Currently the director of the Beas River Settlement Survey in the Upper Indus Valley, Dr. Wright is a recognized authority on Near Eastern and South Asian archaeology and the study of early technologies, gender systems, urbanism, and state formation. |
| DATES: October 22-23, 2007 |
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| William LaFleur |
| Sponsors:The Department of Comparative Religion, Soga Center Japan, and the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society |
| Dr. LaFleur is the E. Dale Saunders Professor in Japanese Studies at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at Penn’s Center for Bioethics. Much of his work deals with comparisons between Japan and the United States—especially in the areas of religion, public philosophy, and social ethics. Among his books are The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan; Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan; and Buddhism: A Cultural Perspective. In 1989 he was the first non-Japanese to be awarded the Watsuji Tetsuro Culture Prize. Most recently, he has been the principal editor of Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research. His books have been published in Japanese, Russian, and German. |
| DATES: September 20-22, 2007 |
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| Cecilia E. Rouse |
| Sponsors:The Department of Economics |
| Cecilia Elena Rouse is the Theodore A. Wells Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is currently Director of the Industrial Relations Section and is the Founding Director of the Education Research Section. Her expertise is in labor economics with a focus on the economics of education. Her current research evaluates Florida’s school accountability program, the use of technology-based programs in schools, and the impact of student loans on post-college occupational choices. Professor Rouse has published in major journals in her field such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Labor Economics. She is an editor at the Journal of Labor Economics and a senior editor of Future of Children. She served as a Special Assistant to the President of the United States from 1998 to 1999 and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1992. |
| DATES: January 22-24, 2008 |
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| Gracie L. Lawson-Borders |
| Sponsor:The School of Communication |
| Gracie Lawson-Borders is Director of African American Studies and Associate Professor in Communication and Journalism at the University of Wyoming. Her recent book, Media Organizations and Convergence: Case Studies of Media Convergence Pioneers, focuses on convergence as a concept and a process. Her research concentrates on media management, convergence, regulations, and new technologies as well as examines media coverage of minority groups and issues. Lawson-Borders is a member of the editorial board of Communication Studies. She has published in American Behavioral Scientist, International Journal of Media Management, and Journal of Media Economics. A former journalist, Lawson-Borders has worked as a reporter and editor at the Akron Beacon jounal, the Oakland Press and the Chicago Tribune. |
| DATES: February 5-6, 2008 |
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| Donald Deshler |
| Sponsors: The Department of Special Education and Literacy Studies |
| Don Deshler, Ph. D. is director of the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. Under his guidance, KU-CRL developed the Strategic Instruction model (SIM), a comprehensive approach to adolescent literacy that addresses the need of students to be able to read and understand large volumes of complex reading materials as well as to express themselves effectively in writing. Dr. Deshler’s interests lie in program design and implementation of strategic-based interventions for students at risk for failure and in assisting schools and professionals in the process of educational change and professional growth. His current research projects include the following: learning disability assessment and identification, literacy instruction for adolescents and adults, multimedia supports for SIM components, and improving the results of adolescents with disabilities in general education curricula. |
| DATES: Spring, 2008 |
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| Arnold Antonin |
| Sponsors:The Department of Foreign Languages |
| Arnold Antonin is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter from Haiti. He is known for his social engagement, in regard to social policy or culture. After serving as a member of the jury of several of the most prestigious international festivals of cinema of the Third World (Havana, Namur, Ouagadougou, etc.), he was honored with a lifetime achievement award and for his documentary Courageous Women with the Price Djibril Diop Mambety, at the International Festival of Cinema of Cannes in 2002. He currently teaches at the Haitian National School of Arts and the Human Faculty of Science. His latest film Does the President Have AIDS? won the Paul Robeson award for best film from the African Diaspora at the largest African film festival, the Fespaco, in 2007. |
| DATES: March 17-24, 2008 |
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Dipesh Chakrabarty |
| Sponsors: Anthropology, History, English, Modern Languages, Women’s Studies |
| Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Dr. Chakrabarty has been a visiting faculty member and scholar at numerous universities and research centers worldwide. He is the author of three books—Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (2002), Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2002), and Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 (1989). Chakrabarty’s books are celebrated for their originality and the manner in which he challenges Eurocentric historical narratives and the construction of identity and historical agency. His scholarship is broadly interdisciplinary and critical and therefore of great importance to scholars and students interested in the politics of representation and global inequalities. |
| DATES: April 3-5, 2008 |
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| Peter Machamer |
| Sponsor: The Department of Philosophy |
| Peter Machamer is a professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, with affiliations in the Philosophy Department, the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, the Cognitive Program in Psychology, and the Rhetoric of Science Program. He is also a Research Associate in the Learning Research and Development Center. He has edited a number of books, including Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Science (With Michael Silberstein), Motion and Time, Space and Matter, the Cambridge Companion to Galileo, and Studies in Perception. He has written many articles on topics in the history and philosophy of science. He works primarily on 16th and 17th-century topics, especially Galileo, Descartes, and Hobbes, and in the philosophy of psychology and neuroscience, and social science, and on values and science. He does empirical work in cognitive psychology. |
| DATE: To be announced |
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| Neve Gordon |
| Sponsor: The Institute of Government and Politics of the Department of Political Science |
| Neve Gordon is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. His work deals with human rights, military occupations, and political theory. Professor Gordon is the author of Israel’s Occupation: Sovereignty, Discipline, and Control, forthcoming from the University of California Press, along with articles in professional journals including Political Studies, Polity, Democratization, Constellations, and the International Journal of Human Rights. Gordon is also a contributor to publications of general circulation such as The Nation, In These Times, and the National Catholic Reporter. His op-eds have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian. Professor Gordon holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Hebrew University and masters and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Gordon will give a public talk, entitled “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Revisited,” on April 2nd at 7:30 p.m. and a seminar, entitled “From Colonization to Separation: Making Sense of Israel’s Occupation,” for A & S faculty and graduate students on April 2nd at 3:00 p.m. |
| DATES: April 2, 2008 |
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