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Member Profiles
André de Quadros Professor de Quadros came to Boston University in 2001 from Monash University in Australia where he was Director of Music Performance. During his tenure at Monash University, he built a successful orchestral and choral program and took these ensembles on tours to South East Asia. He was brought up in India, where he completed his undergraduate education. Since the 1990s, his scholarly and performing activities have taken him all over Europe, Asia and North America. His research interests are principally in the areas of multi-cultural music education and post colonial choral music. He performs actively in Indonesia, and is coordinating major choral projects in Kenya, Jerusalem and Singapore. At BU, he has pioneered the world's first online doctoral program in music education. For additional information see: www.bu.edu/cfa/music/faculty/music_edu/dequadros_a.htm |
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Urbain J. DeWinter, Ph.D. Urbain (Ben) DeWinter came to Boston University after 25 years as a professor of Romance Studies and a member of the administration at Cornell University (1972 to 1997). At BU he has executive responsibility for the Division of International Programs, which sends over 2,000 students abroad each year to approximately 20 different countries around the world, coordinates various international exchanges and partnerships, and oversees the Office of International Students and Scholars (ISSO), and the Center for English Language and Orientation Programs (CELOP), which each year bring 4,500 students and 1,200 visiting scholars to Boston University. He chaired the New York State Assembly Task Force on International Education in 1996-97 and has served as a member of the Executive Committee of several international organizations and associations. Dr. DeWinter has a degree in History from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania where he taught and served as Managing Editor of the Hispanic Review. He has written articles and reviews on Spanish literature and thought and on topics related to international education and culture. |
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Paul R. Greene, Jr. Early in 2005, Paul Greene was appointed Assistant Dean for International Initiatives in the Division of Extended Education and Metropolitan College. In this position, he is charged with investigating and developing education sites and potential education partners for delivery of Boston University courses to the international community, including undergraduate, graduate, non-credit, and distance education. Greene has worked in several positions at Boston University involving international projects. While living in Hong Kong from 1991-1995, he established the Boston University Liaison Office for the purpose of counseling prospective university students from Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and acting as a liaison with local educational institutions and Boston University alumni. In 1995, he returned to Boston as Director of International Admissions, a post he held for ten years. In that position, Greene managed all aspects of recruitment, evaluation, and admission of international undergraduate students, and worked with graduate students when appropriate. This included working closely with Boston University's five Liaison Offices (Bangkok, Hong Kong, London, Taipei, and Tokyo) in the promotion of Boston University overseas through international programs, alumni relations, and contacts with government organizations. |
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Jay A. Halfond Dean Halfond oversees Metropolitan College, an innovative academic enterprise which serves about 3,600 students, mostly adult learners, on campus; on various sites throughout New England, in Europe, and on military bases: and through online distance education. The Center for Professional Education and BU Global are also housed in this organization. He also has University-wide responsibilities for distance education, summer term, the Sargent Center for Outdoor Education, and various international initiatives. Prior to coming to Boston University in 1997, he served as Associate Dean in Northeastern University's College of Business Administration, and held various administrative positions at Harvard University. Dean Halfond earned his doctorate from Boston College, his masters from Brandeis University, and a bachelor's degree from Temple University. He served as chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and wrote a monthly column for the Boston Business Journal over a five-year span. |
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Gerald T. Keusch. M.D. Gerald Keusch joined Boston University in January 2004 from the National Institutes of Health where he was Associate Director for International Research and Director of the Fogarty International Center, and responsible for a remarkable expansion in interdisciplinary international research and training on global health. As an internist and infectious diseases specialist, he has been directly involved in basic laboratory and clinical field research on tropical infectious diseases in developing countries for his whole career. He established the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts-New England Medical Center, which grew to 15 faculty and more than 30 research fellows before he left for NIH. Dr. Keusch has published over 300 research papers, chapters and books and he has received all the major awards for excellence of the Infectious Diseases Society. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He is the founding Director of the new university wide Global Health Initiative at Boston University, which links the Charles River and Medical Campuses in common programs for education, research and service activities in global health. For additional information see: www.bu.edu/ghi |
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Jay S. Kim Since 1997, Professor Kim has been the director of Boston University’s International Management Program – Japan, a unique management development program offered with the Sanyo Electric Company. In 1999, Professor Kim was appointed as the Director of International Management Programs, with the primary responsibility in developing the school’s global teaching and research programs. In that capacity, in 2001, he developed a program in Shanghai, IMP-China; in 2002, he created the first management-training program for Chinese government officials by a foreign university; and in 2003, he created the Asia-Pacific Executive MBA program, which serves the global leadership development needs of large Chinese, Japanese, and Korean companies. Professor Kim’s research is focused on developing and implementing global operations and supply chain strategies. He has given lectures on global manufacturing strategy, quality improvement, and new product development to managers of various manufacturing companies, such as Raytheon, Johnson & Johnson, Carrier, Sanyo and Toshiba of Japan, and Korean chaebols like Daewoo, LG, SK Corporation, KEPCO, and Samsung. In 1997, he served as a special advisor for Chairman Kim Woo-Choong of Korea's Daewoo Group. For additional information see: http://smgnet.bu.edu/mgmt_new/profiles/KimJay.html |
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Professor Thomas H. Kunz, Ph.D. Thomas H. Kunz has been on the Biology faculty at Boston University since 1971. His research focuses on the ecology, behavior, evolution, and conservation biology of bats. He has conducted field research in India, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the West Indies, and the United States. In 1996, he founded Boston University’s Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology and its highly successful Tropical Ecology Program in Ecuador. He is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications and editor of several books, including Bat Ecology (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Past-President of the American Society of Mammalogists, and a recipient of the Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. Award and the C. Hart Merriam Award, both for outstanding research in mammalian ecology. His research is largely funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Park Service. He is currently active in developing a university-wide institute at Boston University that focuses on ecosystem sustainability. For additional information see: www.bu.edu/biology/Faculty_Staff/kunz.html |
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Anita M. McGahan McGahan is the author of 60 articles and case studies on strategic issues of competitive advantage, industry evolution, and financial performance. She has experience at McKinsey & Company and at Morgan Stanley & Company, and earned (in two years) her PhD and AM in Business Economics from Harvard University. In 2001, she was named by CIO Magazine as one of 5 international experts on the strategic use of technology. McGahan is on the editorial boards of several leading journals, and was elected in 2005 as Chair-Elect of the BPS Division of the Academy of Management. She holds an MBA as a Baker Scholar from the Harvard Business School, where she taught for several years prior to joining the faculty at Boston University. A passionate advocate of liberal undergraduate education, McGahan has championed the introduction of a history curriculum in Business Schools. Her research most recently emphasizes insights from large-scale statistical analysis. Publications include studies on healthcare delivery, brewing, consumer electronics, insurance, pharmaceuticals, wheelchairs, baseball, telecommunications, network software, airlines, movie theaters, soft drinks, toy retailing, retail banking and high-pressure laminates. For additional information see: http://smgnet.bu.edu/mgmt_new/profiles/McGahanAnita.html |
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Christopher Maurer Christopher Maurer is Chair of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages whose 50 full time faculty offer instruction in fifteen Asian, European, and Near Eastern languages, as well as courses on literature, film and culture. Prof. Maurer’s own teaching and research involve Spanish poetry; translation; textual criticism; and American art. He is the author, translator or editor of 25 books including editions of the poems, letters, and lectures of Federico Garcia Lorca; a book on Spanish poetry; Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi (about a Southern family of painters, potters and poets) and Fortune’s Favorite Child, The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson (the biography of a Southern painter and writer), winner of the 2004 Eudora Welty Award and the non-fiction prize from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. Prof. Maurer came to Boston University in fall 2004 from the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he and his wife Maria Estrella Iglesias organized a program, funded by the Chicago Public Schools and the U.S. Department of Education, to improve teaching in the bilingual (Spanish/English) high school classroom. For additional information see: www.bu.edu/mfll/people/maurer.html |
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James A. Pritchett, Ph.D. James A. Pritchett joined Boston University in 1991 with appointments in the Anthropology Department and the African Studies Center. He long served as a research officer at the University of Zambia, Senior Africa Advisor to Oxfam America and member of the Boards of Directors of the African Studies Association, TransAfrica (Boston) and founding Director of the Boston Pan African Forum. He has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Congo; experimented with tropical agriculture in Guyana and Brazil; and has studied communities of the African Diaspora in the Caribbean, and South and Central America. His scholarship is principally concerned with the ways in which social change is interpreted and validated in accordance with pre-existing belief systems: Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change and Social Transformation in South Central Africa (University of Wisconsin Press 2001) and Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness in South Central Africa (University of Virginia Press, forthcoming). He has taught courses on contemporary Africa, global cultures, anthropological theory, economic development and symbol, ritual and myths. He has established formal linkage agreements between Boston University and institutions in Africa, and has been instrumental in bringing African material into the curriculum of schools in the greater Boston area. For additional information see: www.bu.edu/anthrop/faculty/pritchett/index.html |
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Ronald K. Richardson Ronald Kent Richardson is Director of the Program in African American Studies and Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston University. He received his PhD in modern European cultural and intellectual history from the State University of New York at Binghamton. His intellectual interests include contemporary global relations, global ethics, religious and ethical thought systems and literary fiction. Professor Richardson is the recipient of a Fulbright Teaching/Research Award for Japan and a W.E. B. Du Bois Fellowship at Harvard University both for the 2005-2006 academic year. |
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Dana L. Robert A faculty member in the School of Theology since 1984, Professor Robert is an expert on the spread of Christianity as a global, cross-cultural movement. She has particular expertise on women in world Christianity, African Christianity, and the history of Christian missions. Her former doctoral students hold teaching positions in numerous countries, including China, Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, Estonia, Kenya, Mozambique, India, Philippines, and the United States. She travels regularly to Zimbabwe and South Africa for participation in research and writing projects on the spread of Christianity in that region. Her books include: American Women in Mission (1997); Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Missionary Women in the Twentieth Century (2002); African Christian Outreach, Vol 2: Mission Churches (2003); “Occupy Until I Come”: A.T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World (2003); and co-authorship of the textbook: Christianity: A Social and Cultural History (1997). For additional information see: www.bu.edu/sth/cgcm |
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Professor M. Selim Ünlü, Selim Ünlü has been on the Electrical Engineering faculty at Boston University since he finished his PhD at University of Illinois in 1992. His research interests are in photonic materials and devices focusing on semiconductor optoelectronic devices, especially photodetectors, as well as high-resolution imaging, sensing and spectroscopy of semiconductor structures and biological materials. His research is interdisciplinary with a number of collaborations including colleagues from Switzerland, Germany, and Turkey. These international collaborations have been supported by five different National Science Foundation (NSF) grants. Prof. Ünlü was awarded NSF Research Initiation Award in 1993, United Nations TOKTEN award in 1995 and 1996, and both the NSF CAREER and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards in 1996. Dr. Ünlü has authored and co-authored more than 200 technical articles and several book chapters and magazine articles; edited one book; holds 2 patents; and has several patents pending. Prof. Ünlü is an associate editor for IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. In 2005, he was chosen to chair the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting in 2007 and 2009 and was selected as a recipient of IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Lecturer Award. For additional information see: www.bu.edu/OCN |
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