Mamadou Baro is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, and an Associate Research Anthropologist for BARA (Bureau of Applied Anthropology) which is responsible for many successes in research and outreach presences in the Carribean and sub-Saharan Africa, primarily Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Fasso, Benin, Morroco, Botwsana, South Africa and Tanzania. The African Partnerships Initiative has developed an innovative platform for channeling international assistance to poor Africans in rural and urban settings. Dr Baro has been the key faculty in making this effort successfully. His research interests include: Applied research methodology, household livelihood security, social protection programs land tenure, impact of structural adjustment policies on poor households, and his geographic area of interest is Sub-Saharan Africa. Recently, Dr Baro initiated a volunteer team for Niger Direct that completed an assessment of the impacts of the food crisis in the Tanout region of Niger.

E. LaBrent Chrite (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is the Associate Dean of the Eller College of Management at The University of Arizona, where he oversees the MBA offerings. Prior to his arrival at Arizona in 2003, Chrite was at the University of Michigan Business School, where he served as the assistant dean for global programs and as the managing director of the School’s flagship outreach and research institute, the William Davidson Institute, leading the organization’s efforts in impacting the transformation of public and private sector entities in transition and emerging economies. Dr Chrite also assumed the role of executive director of the University’s South Africa Initiatives Office, forging sustained and reciprocal partnerships between the academic community at Michigan and the academic and private sector communities in South Africa. Dr. Chrite has conducted research, consulted, and taught in many countries around the world including multiple countries in sub Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. He has worked closely with the World Bank, the IFC, Eurasia Foundation and USAID on private sector development issues around the world.

Dr Chrite’s work has focused primarily on leveraging private sector capacities in transition and emerging markets in order to create enabling environments, strengthen and sustain small and medium enterprise creation, and leverage public-private sector partnerships as precursors for growth and human development. Chrite teaches international business, corporate strategy, and courses on the multinational enterprise and emerging markets at The University of Arizona.

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Phone: (520) 621-5465 ; Email: gamal@email.arizona.edu

While on leave from the University of Arizona, Professor Gamal chaired the Arabic and Islamic Studies department and directed the Arabic Language Center at Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 2001 to spring 2004. He also has been the recipient of several research grants, including the US Office of Education, NEH, ARCE, Fulbright-Hays and the Fulbright Commission. He was the Arabic Language Academy distinguished award twice (1996 and 2003). In his areas of expertise, he has authored 11 books and has published nearly 30 chapters and articles in refereed journals. Professor Gamal has served as President of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic and is a consultant to the Board of Directors of the National Library and Archives in Egypt and several other academic institutions.

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Barron Orr

Barron Orr is an Assistant Professor and Geospatial Extension Specialist based in the Office of Arid Lands Studies. He is the Associate Director of the UA/NASA Space Grant Program and is affiliated with International Studies, the School of Natural Resources and the Committee on Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis. His position was created to help join the missions of NASA, USDA and NOAA in order to bridge the digital divide where geospatial technology is concerned. He does this through Cooperative Extension, which serves the Land Grant University mission of translating science-based research into solutions that address current public needs – the model upon which most international development efforts are based. Dr. Orr led a USAID public lands utilization study in Malawi and a desertification control project in the Moroccan Sahara Desert as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He worked for six years in international marketing in the U.S. and Ireland. His current research focuses on land tenure, land degradation, environmental change and a precision approach to natural resource management.

V. Spike Peterson

V. Spike Peterson is a Professor in the Department of Political Science with courtesy appointments in Womens Studies, Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, and International Studies. She edited and contributed to Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory (1992) and co-authored Global Gender Issues (1993, 1999), which was one of the first and still most widely used texts on gender and world politics. Her most recent book, A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies (2003), introduces an alternative analytics for examining intersections of ethnicity/race, class, gender and national hierarchies in the context of today’s globalizing and polarizing dynamics. She has published more than fifty journal articles, reviews and book chapters on the topics of feminist international relations theory, global political economy, nationalism, democratization, heterosexism, human rights, and critical postmodernist and feminist theory.

Kathleen C. Schwartzman is an Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona. (Ph.D. 1985, University of Chicago). Her work examines the economic and political consequences of world-system placement and dynamics. Recent publications include: "Globalization: The New Mechanism of Dependency" in Thomas Reifer (ed). (2004); "Globalization Hits Lisbon: The Rise of Banks from 1970 to 2000". Portuguese Studies Review, 2001); and "Can International Boycotts Transform Political Systems?: The Cases of Cuba and South Africa". In Latin American Politics and Society, 2001. She is currently involved in a four-city comparative project. Her focus (with her coauthor Dr. Silvia Schor, USP-FIPE) is on homelessness in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

In addition to her work in the School of Music, Dr. Sturman works closely with the UA Honors College and the program of Latin American studies and advises International Studies students pursuing the Culture Track. When not at the UA she spends time with her husband Art Weiss and her two children, Michael (16) and Andrea Weiss (14), who both love math and music.

Paul Wilson has been on the faculty in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona since 1982. Professor Wilson’s teaching and research programs focus on the economic dimensions of agribusiness organization and management, irrigated agriculture, environmental management, and global hunger and development. Dr. Wilson has worked in the private and public sectors, including long-term professional activities in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Mexico. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Office of the Governor of Arizona, Arizona Department of Water Resources, the Arizona Board of Regents, and the Mexican Foundation for Rural Development have funded Professor Wilson’s research. Dr. Wilson has published over 150 professional articles and papers. As well, he has been recognized at the college, university and national levels for outstanding teaching and student advising. In 1999-2000 Professor Wilson served as the President of the Western Agricultural Economics Association.