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Dr. Francis Adams
Francis Adams is an associate professor of Political Science and the Associate Director of the Graduate Programs in International Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University in 1992 and has been teaching at Old Dominion University since 1995. His course include International Political Economy, Third World Politics, and Latin American Politics. His current research focuses on United States economic assistance to Latin America. |
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Dr. Jie Chen
Jie Chen is an associate professor of Political Science. He received his B.A. in Journalism at the Institute of International Politics, Beijing, China, 1982, his M.A. in International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 1987, and his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1991. He teaches courses in International Relations, Asian Studies, Chinese Politics, and Comparative Politics. He has authored and co-authored two books: Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy: Case Studies in U.S. China Policy (1992), and China Since the Cultural Revolution: From Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism (1995). He also published numerous articles on contemporary China. Currently, he serves as the director of the Asian Studies Institute at Old Dominion University. |
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Dr. Christine Drake
Chris Drake is a professor of Geography teaching courses in Cultural and Political Geography, World Resources, Development Issues, Africa, and Asia. She has a B.A. (first class honors) from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from Rutgers. She has written several books and numerous articles and book chapters on Indonesia (where she lived for five years in the 1970s and returned on a Fulbright in 1996), Oman, water and other resources, women in the developing world, etc. She has been awarded four grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to run summer institutes for high school French teachers on the literature and geography of the Francophone world, with a focus on West Africa, the latest two including overseas experience in Senegal. She was awarded a university professorship in 1998.< |
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Maria Fornella
Maria Fornella is a lecturer in political science and has been the director of Model United Nations since 1993. She received her Licensia en Letras (International Law/English/French) from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1989, she received an M.A. in International Studies from Old Dominion University. She teaches courses in International Relations and International Organizations (Model UN). Her major interests are Human Rights and International Organizations. |
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Dr. Maura Hametz
Dr. Maura Hametz is an associate professor of History and Director of the International Studies Undergraduate Program. She specializes in Italy and Central Europe after World War I. She is currently teaching core courses in the history of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for the International Studies undergraduate program. She earned her Ph.D. at Brandeis University in 1995 in the comparative history program and has a B.A. from Colgate University in history/international relations. Her current research projects include a book focusing on Trieste's ties to Central Europe after World War I and several articles examining the impact of nationalist Fascist legislation on Italian borderlands.< |
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Dr. Donald Zeigler
Dr. Donald Zeigler holds the Ph.D. from Michigan State University and has taught at Old Dominion University since 1980. He holds the rank of professor of geography and teaches courses on the Middle East, Ethnic Minorities, Political Geography, and Cultural Geography. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and regularly leads groups of teachers to various countries of the region. In 1997, he served as President of the National Council for Geography Education. |
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