Spring 2008 International Opportunity Grant Recipients
Please click on the name of a recipient for a more complete descripton of the project.| Recipient | School/Department | Purpose of Travel | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Bolender Associate Professor |
Arts & Sciences: Chemistry and Biochemistry |
Environmental Monitoring: Ensuring the safety of a Children’s Malaria Hospital | Uganda |
| Alana Cordy- Collins Professor |
Arts & Sciences: Anthropology |
Research: Pre-Columbian Andean Seafaring | Chile, Ecuador |
| Jane Georges Associate Professor |
School of Nursing | Chairing a symposium and paper presentation: "Ethical Implications of Nurses’ Actions at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp" | England |
| Kevin Guerrieri Assistant Professor |
Arts & Sciences: Languages and Literatures |
Paper Presentation: Contemporary Colombian Narrative | Canada, Peru |
| John Halaka Professor |
Arts & Sciences: Art |
Research: Contemporary Palestinian Art | Israel, Palestine |
| Jerome Lynn Hall Associate Professor |
Arts & Sciences: Anthopology |
Research: "A crude 1st century boat," centered in the archaeology of the occupation | Israel |
| Frank G. Jacobitz Associate Professor |
School of Business Administration: Engineering |
Research: Wavelet-Based Coherent Vortex Extraction Applied to Sheared and Rotating Turbulence | France |
| Joseph Jonghyun Jeon Associate Professor |
Arts & Sciences: English |
Research for novel: Scenes from the Uninhabited Present: Korean Film at the End of History | South Korea |
| Maria Kniazeva Assistant Professor |
School of Business Administration | Research: "Facelift Chinese Way- Marketing a Country" | China |
| Kathleen A. Kramer Professor |
School of Business Administration: Engineering |
Paper presentation: "Controller Modification Using Non-Linear System Identification from a Neural-Extended Kalman Filter" | China |
| Lesley McAllister Associate Professor |
School of Law | Research: Environmental law | Mexico |
| Elena McCollim Program Officer |
Institute for Peace & Justice | Research: social, political, and economic assessment | Guatemala |
| Vidya Nadkarni Professor |
Arts & Sciences: Political Science |
Paper Presentation: CISS Millennium Conference on Global Conflict, Cooperation, and Integration | France |
| Emiko Noma Editor |
Institute for Peace & Justice | Research: Women PeaceMakers Documentary Series Project | Cameroon |
| Rodney G. Peffer Professor |
Arts & Sciences: Philosophy |
Paper Presentations: XXII World Congress of Philosophy | China, South Korea |
| Mark Peters Assistant Director |
University Ministry | Establishing partnerships: Ateneo University de Manila | Philippines |
| Barbara Schatzer Director |
Risk Management | Conference Presentation: Developing a University Business Continuity Plan | Australia |
| Yi Sun Asssociate Professor |
Arts & Sciences: History |
Paper Presnetation: “Ironies of Modernization: The Resurgence of Confucian Influence in the Lives of Chinese Women in the Reform Era” | China |
James Bolender, Ph.D.
College of Arts and Sciences: Chemistry and Biochemistry
bolender@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
Dr. Bolender traveled to Uganda to establish and conduct the environmental monitoring in and around the site of a Children’s Malaria Hospital in Mbarara. This project was in conjunction with Dr. Anita Hunter (Hahn School of Nursing) and Dr. Patricia Vasquez (School of Business) to assist the Archdiocese of Mbarara and the Holy Innocents Foundation in the establishment of this hospital. The establishment of the Children’s Malaria Hospital in Mbarara, Uganda is an interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional undertaking that spans the Archdiocese of Mbarara, the Holy Innocents Foundation (an NGO), and three schools from the University of San Diego. This undertaking was initiated by Dr. Anita Hunter of the Hahn School of Nursing to assist the Archdiocese and the Holy Innocents Foundation, and has expanded to include faculty and graduate students from the School of Business and faculty (Drs. Bolender and Boudrias) and undergraduate students from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Alana Cordy-Collins, Ph.D.
College of Arts and Sciences: Anthropology
alanacc@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The proposed research began on Easter Island, focusing on stone carving technology and petroglyphic iconography. The goal was to produce a digital photographic database of both categories to compare with mainland prehistoric examples, such as Inka stone masonry from the Cuzco region. Dr. Cordy-Collins followed a similar approach in the Galapagos, first by photographing artifact collections, mainly of ceramic wares in museums, that she could compare to a photo database of north-coast mainland Peruvian-Ecuadorian pottery that she has compiled over the last three decades. She envisions the proposed research as the first stage in a larger, on-going investigative program that she hopes will lead to student collaboration.
Jane Georges, Ph.D., RN
School of Nursing
jgeorges@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The proposed trip will allow Dr. Georges to chair an important international symposium in the area of nursing involvement in the Holocaust and present a paper using analysis based on the work of Agamben (a relatively unexplored approach for nursing), allowing for a deepening of the professional ties she has established with the research team. She has been able to publish three peer-reviewed journal articles with members of this team in the past two years and it is her goal that this symposium will allow for future publications, planning and grant projects.
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Kevin Guerrieri, Ph.D.
College of Arts & Sciences: Languages and Literatures
kevin2@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
Dr. Guerrieri attended and presented papers at two international conferences: the VII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica in Cusco, Perú and the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) Congress in Vancouver, BC). I will be presenting two different papers on works that form a part of my current primary research project, a book-length study on the contemporary Colombian novel. This study focuses on the interrelation of three major topics in the contemporary Colombian novel as they are expressed in narratives situated in major urban centers: displacement, configurations of urban space, and subject formation. In addition to the introduction and conclusion, the book is organized into four main chapters, each centered on a different city: Paris, Madrid/Barcelona, New York, and Bogotá. In each chapter two or three novels published within the last two decades are analyzed in depth in the context of their spatial transnational contexts--with exception to the final chapter, which turns the study back to Colombia's capital city and the topic of internal displacement. In conjunction with this spatial approach, the analyses are placed in dialogue diachronically with previous Colombian and Latin American novelistic production in general as it relates to the indicated urban centers. In this sense, the project combines two overall approaches, mapping both time and space, in the analysis of the aforementioned topics. For the two conference papers included in this grant proposal, Dr. Guerrieri will be focusing on works by Laura Restrepo, Arturo Alape, Fernando Vallejo, and Héctor Abad Faciolince.
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John Halaka
College of Arts & Sciences: Art
jhalaka@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
Dr. Halaka is currently in the process of developing a series of documentary films that underscore the intersection of personal, cultural and political identity in the production of contemporary Palestinian art. He plans to return to Palestine and Israel to continue research in contemporary Palestinian art and to interview an additional group of artists.
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Jerome Lynne Hall, Ph.D.
College of Arts & Sciences: Chemistry and Biochemistry
jeromeh@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The purpose of travel to Israel was to finalize ongoing research on a 1st-century CE boat extracted from the Yam Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) in 1986. The Dr. Hall has spent a total of nine months at the site documenting the hull of this vessel for a final publication scheduled to go to press in 2011. Specifically, requested monies were used to travel to Kibbutz Nof Ginosar on the western Galilee and remain there for a period of two weeks in order to finalize measurements in the after section (stern) of the Kinneret Boat and to photograph the vessel for final publication.
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Frank H. Jacobitz, Ph.D.
School of Business Administration: Engineering
jacobitz@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The main purpose of this travel is the continuation of an ongoing research collaboration with Professor Kai Schneider from the Universite de Provence, Aix-Marseille I. The collaboration considers turbulent flow subjected to shear and rotation based on computational methods for both the simulation of turbulent flow and the interpretation of the data. Dr. Jacobitz's collaborator, Dr. Kai Schneider, has developed a mathematical framework based on wavelets to distinguish between highly correlated and random-like motion in turbulence fields. Through this collaboration, they will revise a journal manuscript currently under review at the Physics of Fluids. This manuscript is based on results of previous visits to Marseille and a visit by Dr. Kai Schneider to USD. The Physics of Fluids is one of the top journals in its area. They also plan to approach a new project and accomplish initial computer simulation software development.
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Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, Ph.D.
College of Arts & Sciences: English
jjeon@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The purpose of travel for Dr. Jeon was to conduct Archival Research at the Korean Film Archive for his novel, Scenes from the Uninhabited Present: Korean Film at the End of History, which examines the recent boom in South Korean Cinema in the context of the traumatizing 20th-century history of the nation. Arising in a context of occupation by Japan and then by the United States as well as a bloody war that divided the country, both geographically and ideologically, modern Korean history is often defined as traumatic. In the recent films he has examined, however, the trope of forgetting becomes increasingly prominent, which fundamentally conflicts with the narratives of trauma that pervade the nation. Dr. Jeon has already published the first chapter of the book in the major journal in his field and this grant will help fuel the momentum generated toward the completion of the manuscript.
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Maria Kniazeva, Ph.D.
School of Business Administration
kniazev@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The first objective of this project is to extend Dr. Kniazeva's research into international marketing by utilizing video ethnographic research methods. The second objective is to extend her international collaboration by attending the Global Marketing Conference in Shanghai and presenting the paper, "Facelift Chinese Way- Marketing a Country."
Kathleen A. Kramer, Ph.D.
School of Business Administration: Engineering
kramer@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
Dr. Kramer will be presenting her paper, "Controller Modification Using Non-Linear System Identification from a Neural-Extended Kalman Filter" and chairing a related session at the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008) in Hong Kong June 1-6, 2008.
Lesley McAllister
School of Law
mcallister@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
With the grant, Professor McAllister is hoping to initiate a long-term research project on the implementation and enforcement of environmental laws in Mexico. He has written a book about environmental enforcement in Brazil, “Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil,” (forthcoming 2008, Stanford University Press) and he would like to develop complementary research in Mexico.
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Elena McCollim
Institute for Peace & Justice
emccollim@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The purpose of this travel is to provide the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice with information regarding the current social, political, and economic context in Guatemala to determine whether and how the IPJ might undertake a project in the country. Guatemala is about to usher in a new government, which brings new opportunities and challenges. The assessment trip would entail getting to know those civil society organizations with whom the institute could collaborate.
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Vidya Nadkarni, Ph.D.
College of Arts & Sciences: Political Science
nadkarni@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The purpose of Dr. Nadkarni's travel iwa to present a paper at the Eighth International CISS Millennium Conference on Global Conflict, Cooperation, and Integration in Paris, France. She is currently working on a book project on Strategic Partnerships in Eurasia and has completed three chapters of this book. This section of her project sought to examine the potential or lack thereof for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) led by India, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) led by China and secondarily Russia, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) led by Russia to serve as springboards for the realization of a cooperative vision of Asian and Eurasian security. These organizations together cover the regions of Central and South Asia and Eurasia. This examination forms part of a larger study examining the moves of major powers in the Asian/Eurasian region—China, India, and Russia—to forge strategic partnerships with each other and to meet in trilateral forums to discuss common positions on issues of international import.
Emiko Noma, Ph.D.
Institute for Peace & Justice
nomae@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The purpose of the proposed travel to Bamenda, Cameroon is to document, on film, the work of Susana Tenjoh-Okwen, an IPJ Woman PeaceMaker in 2007. Collaborating with long-time IPJ partner Sun & Moon Vision Productions (SMVP) – a local San Diego nonprofit organization – as editor at the IPJ, Dr. Noma will help produce the fourth installment of the Women PeaceMakers Documentary Series Project. Noma’s work in Cameroon will include conducting on-the-ground interviews with Tenjoh-Okwen, her family, members of the community, and her colleagues at the Moghamo Women’s Development Association, the Ashong Cultural and Development Association, and the Cameroon Association of University Women. Dr. Noma will coordinate all pre-departure and in-country logistics for SMVP (1-2 staff members), log and transcribe all interviews and footage, and assist in scriptwriting and editing of the documentary.
The Women PeaceMakers Program brings four women from conflict-affected regions of the world to the IPJ for a two-month residency each fall, primarily to share their stories of war and peacebuilding with the USD and San Diego communities, and to have those stories documented in narrative form and on film.
Rodney G. Peffer, Ph.D.
College of Arts & Sciences: Philosophy
peffer@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The purpose of Dr. Peffer's trip was to participate in the XXII World Congress of Philosophy in Seoul, South Korea and, subsequently, to undertake a three-week lecture tour of major universities (and Academies of Social Science and Philosophy) in China. For the upcoming XXII Congress, Dr. Peffer will present on "Rawlsian Theory, Critical Theory, and Global Justice," "Socialism & Democracy: Socialist Political Philosophy Today" and “Just War Theory and Contemporary Military Conflicts.”
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Mark Peters
University Ministry
markp@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The purpose of Mark Peters' travel is to explore the possibility of establishing an ongoing partnership with Ateneo University de Manila in the Philippines for both a comprehensive cultural study abroad experience for USD students as well as a possible exchange program between USD and Ateno University for students who wish to matriculate either at Ateneo University or at USD. An in-person visit is particularly helpful in order to begin building a strong partnership, to make personal connections, to explore local service-learning opportunities, and to evaluate residential options for students during their study abroad experience.
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Barbara Schatzer
Risk Management
bschatzer@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
The purpose for travel is to attend the Australia University Risk and Insurance Management Society's Annual Conference 2008. Barbara Schatzer has been invited to presentat an overview of the structure and utilization of USD’s emergency response management plan, focusing on the design, development, maintenance and utilization of the business operations continuity plan.
The presentation will also include USD’s work in developing a pandemic response plan, with particular emphasis on the impact of a pandemic on international programs and students. In addition to participating in the conference, Barbara has been invited to universities in Melbourne and in Adelaide to discus risk management and environmental health and safety plans and compare other university's plans with those of USD.
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Yi Sun, Ph.D.
College of Arts & Sciences: History
ysun@sandiego.edu
Description of Project/Purpose of Travel
Dr. Sun's purpose for traveling to China was to attend the First International Conference of Chinese Historians in Shanghai. She has been invited to present her paper, “Ironies of Modernization: The Resurgence of Confucian Influence in the Lives of Chinese Women in the Reform Era,” which is based on an ongoing study of the changing experiences of Chinese women. The paper that she presented at the conference is based on extensive research that has been conducted over the last few years, and is part of a larger project on the study of the changing experiences of Chinese women. The multidisciplinary conference, which was attended by many scholars in the field of women’s studies, including a number of internationally renowned experts, provided an intellectually stimulating environment in which Dr. Yin was able to engage in scholarly exchange of ideas with colleagues from a variety of academic disciplines.