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INGS Program Committee
Professor Charles Brockett, INGS Chair (Political Science): The recipient of three Fulbright awards (Mexico, research, 2004; Guatemala, lecturing & research, 2000; South America Today, 1996) and three National Endowment for the Humanities awards (a Summer Stipend and two Summer Seminars), Brockett has taught at Sewanee since 1979. He has been strongly committed to the importance of international study since living with an Argentine family for six months and attending the local high school through the American Field Service. He is equally committed to interdisciplinary study, having served also as one of the architects of Sewanee’s Environmental Studies program. Brockett is the author of two books on Central America (Westview Press 1990 &1998 and Cambridge University Press, 2005) and numerous articles in professional journals on Central America and on forest policy.
Professor Elwood Dunn, Global Relations track (Political Science): Born and raised in Liberia, Professor Dunn was educated there, in France and the USA. He has held positions at Seton Hall University (1970-74), Government of Liberia (1974-1980), and Sewanee (1981 to present). Professor Dunn teaches comparative politics and international relations. His research interests cover society and politics of Liberia and other West African countries. He is currently working on a book on "Relations Between Liberia and the United States During the Cold War."
Assistant Professor Roger Levine, Africa (History). A graduate of Yale College with a B.A. in African Studies and Environmental Studies and of Yale University with a Ph.D. in African History, Professor Levine teaches introductory classes in African history, environmental history, and southern Africa, and upper-level seminars in African religious history, comparative slavery, African environmental history, and historical methodology and the writing of history. Levine’s scholarly work seeks to grapple with the historical issues that emerge in colonial situations - particularly in southern Africa - and examines how Africans and other native peoples showed remarkable personal and cultural innovation and resiliency in the face of dramatic economic, social, political, religious, cultural, and environmental change. Levine has published contributions to two major edited collections: “’African Warfare in all its Ferocity’: Changing Military Landscapes and Precolonial and Colonial Conflict in southern Africa,” in Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward and Environmental History of War (2004) and a study of the diplomatic and evangelical work of an African intermediary named Jan Tzatzoe in the first mission to be established among the Xhosa of South Africa’s eastern Cape frontier.
Professor Yasmeen Mohiuddin, International Development (Economics): Professor Mohiuddin, the Ralph Owen Distinguished Professor of Economics, was educated in Pakistan and the USA, and earned her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. She has been teaching at Sewanee since 1981. She teaches courses on gender, economic development, and macroeconomics. She directs the Summer-in-China and the Summer-in-South Asia study-abroad programs of the university. Mohiuddin is the author of the book, Pakistan: A Global Studies Handbook, and has published contributions to several edited collections and scholarly articles focusing on economic development and gender issues. As a consultant to the World Bank, the USAID and the UN, she has designed and evaluated projects and programs related to agricultural development, credit and micro-finance, gender issues, and education and training in Yemen, Turkey, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, the Philippines, and China. She has presented papers at several conferences in more than 15 countries all over the world.
Assistant Professor Donna Murdock, Latin America (Anthropology). Professor Murdock earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Emory University, and has been teaching at Sewanee since 2003. Her dissertation research has been published in several articles and a book entitled "When Women Have Wings: Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia" forthcoming from the University of Michigan press. Her current research focuses on Latina/o communities in the area surrounding Sewanee.
Professor Ruth Sánchez Imizcoz, Hispanic World (Spanish). Professor Sánchez received her Ph. D. and M.A. from the University of Kentucky and her B.A. from Sewanee. A native of Valencia, Spain, she spends most of her time between Spain and Sewanee, where she has been teaching since 1995. Her scholarly work deals with the 17th Century Spanish Drama, mostly with the entremeses and with the works of Agustí Moreto in Spanish and in translation. She is the author of the book, El teatro menor en la España del siglo XVII: La contribución de Agustín Moreto and has written several scholarly articles that deal with race, the influence of Don Quijote in British literature, and the presence of women in the 17th century.
Professor Reinhard Zachau, Germany (German). Reinhard K. Zachau (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is Professor of German at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He chairs the Consortium for German in Southeast and has directed several Consortium summer programs. His research is in twentieth century German culture and literature with focus on German film and GDR literature. Zachau has publications on Stefan Heym, Hans Fallada, Heinrich Böll, on the Holocaust and on German film. He is currently working on a book about Berlin literature.
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