Global Literacy Conference Participants

Associate Professor of Political Science

Yale University

 

Dr. Cheibub is an expert in comparative politics, political economy, and democratic institutions. In addition to teaching and conducting research at Yale University, he served for several years as Director of Undergraduate Studies for their International Studies Program. He is co-author of Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990 (2000) and co-editor of The Democracy Sourcebook (2003). He has published in several edited volumes and in journals such as World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, Journal of Democracy, and Studies in Comparative International Development. Currently he is completing a book manuscript on The Stability of Democracy under Parliamentarism and Presidentialism. He is also working on projects on the "electoral connection" in proportional representation systems and on the relationship among economic performance, elections, and alternation in power in democratic regimes. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, Dr. Cheibub was Janice and Julian Bers Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago, his MA in political science from the IUPERJ (Institute for Academic Research) in Brazil, and his BA in history from Fluminense University, which also is in Brazil.       

 

 

Grossman Professor of Economics

Colby College

 

Dr. Franko is Grossman Professor of Economics at Colby College, where she also has served as Chair of both the Department of Economics and the International Studies Program. Specializing in development economics and Latin America, she teaches classes in international finance, in contemporary economic development in Latin America, and in microeconomic principles. She also serves on the advisory board of Colby’s programs in both International Studies and Latin American Studies and has been active as a consultant to the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies and the National Academy of Sciences.   A former Pew Fellow in International Affairs, she also serves on the Board of the Mid-Maine Global Forum, an organization promoting public understanding of international issues. Dr. Franko is the author of The Brazilian Defense Industry: A Case of Public-Private Collaboration (1990), Toward a New Security Architecture for the Americas: The Strategic Implications of FTAA (2000), The Puzzle of Latin American Economic Development (1999, 2003), and (with S. Stamos and J. Pool) The ABCs of International Finance (1991), as well as numerous articles and reviews. She is currently working on a project on corporate social responsibility in Latin America and a new book on The Transatlantic Economic Divide. Dr. Franko received her BA from Bucknell University and her MA and PhD from Notre Dame University.

 

 

Senior Vice President

Civic Leadership Development

City Year

 

Colonel Gordon recently retired from a distinguished career in the United States Army and joined the leadership team at City Year, a member of the AmeriCorps network, an organization he helped found when he was a White House Fellow and Director of Special Operations for the Office of National Service. Prior to joining City Year, Colonel Gordon was Academy Professor of Social Science and Director of American Politics at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has held a number of command and staff positions, including a tour in Germany, and taught at both the National War College and the Federal Executive Management Center. He also has served as a Center for Public Management Fellow at the Brookings Institution and has been actively involved with national civilian service, co-founding the Service America program at West Point, advising foreign governments on national service systems, and serving as a judge of the President of the United States’ 1998 Service Awards. His awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two awards of the Meritorious Service Medal, six awards of the Army Commendation Medal, the Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, two awards of the Honorable Order of Saint Barbara, the Parachutist Badge, and the Ranger Tab. He is a member of the French-American Foundation and selected to its Young Leaders Program. A graduate of the National War College and the Army Command and General Staff College, Colonel Gordon received his BS from the United States Military Academy and an MA in public affairs from Princeton University.   

 

 

Charles Warren Professor of History, Emeritus

Harvard University

 

Dr. Iriye specializes in international history and the Asia-Pacific region. He received a BA in English history from Haverford College and a PhD in US and East Asian history from Harvard. After receiving his doctorate, he served an Instructor and Lecturer in history at Harvard. He then taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Rochester, and the University of Chicago before accepting an appointment as Professor of History at Harvard University, where he became Charles Warren Professor of American History in 1991 and served as Chair of the History Department. Dr. Iriye has written extensively on American diplomatic history and Japanese-American relations. Among his more than thirty books are After Imperialism: The Search for a New Order in the Far East, 1921-1931 (1965); Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American Expansion, 1897-1911 (1972); Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 (1981); Fifty Years of Japanese-American Relations (in Japanese, 1991); China and Japan in the Global Setting (1992); The Globalizing of America (1993); Cultural Internationalism and World Order (1997); and, most recently, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (2002). Dr. Iriye has received a Guggenheim fellowship and the Yoshida prize in Japan for the best book in public history in 1979. He also has been active in the national movement to promote history education, serving on the National Council for History Standards, and has a recurring visiting scholar position at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.  

 

 

President

Global Studies Foundation

 

Dr. Harth serves as President of the Global Studies Foundation and oversees its operations, including research, educational outreach programs, and philanthropy. His background includes teaching at the secondary and college levels; academic administration and teacher education; curriculum design; and policy planning. Among the numerous subjects he has taught are international relations, national security, foreign policy, strategic studies, philosophy, anthropology, comparative religion, and history (including world, US, East Asian, European, and Russian), as well as writing, developmental reading, and study skills. He earned his BA at Hobart College, with a double major in political science and international affairs, and received his MA and PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. He has received multiple teaching awards and fellowships, including the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served as the Teacher-Education Coordinator for The Writing Program. Dr. Harth has extensive research experience and has conducted policy-planning research at both academic and government institutions, including the United States Department of the Treasury. Before founding and leading GSF, Dr. Harth’s most recent positions were as an Exchange Scholar in the Department of Government at Harvard University and as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bucknell University.     

 

 

Professor of Geography

Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences

University of Oregon

 

Dr. Murphy specializes in cultural and political geography, with a regional emphasis on Europe. A former Chair of the Department of Geography, he currently is Professor of Geography and holds the James F. and Shirley K. Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Dr. Murphy is the immediate Past President of the Association of American Geographers, a Vice-President of the American Geographical Society, and an editor of both Progress in Human Geography and Eurasian Geography and Economics. In the late 1990s, he chaired the national committee that oversaw the addition of Geography to the College Board’s Advanced Placement program. Dr. Murphy is the author of more than sixty articles and several books, including The Regional Dynamics of Language Differentiation in Belgium (1988), and (with Harm de Blij) Human Geography: Culture, Society, and Space, 7th ed. (2002). He also is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Fulbright-Hays Research Grant in 1985, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1991, a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in the mid-1990s, and a National Council for Geographic Education Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001. Dr. Murphy holds a bachelor’s degree in archaeology from Yale University, a law degree from the Columbia University School of Law, and a PhD in geography from the University of Chicago.

 

 

Associate Professor of Political Science

United States Military Academy

 

Dr. Silverstone is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy, where he directs the American foreign policy program, teaches international relations and political analysis, and serves as faculty advisor for the West Point Model United Nations Team, which has won several national and world championships. He also is a Research Fellow with Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. He is an award-winning educator and author of two books on American foreign policy: Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic (2004) and Preventive War and American Democracy: The Normative Dimensions of Strategic Choice (forthcoming). Dr. Silverstone also is a former officer in the US Navy, serving in numerous posts overseas (including the western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, and East Africa) and in the Pentagon, where he was involved with US operations in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Haiti, and Kosovo. Prior to his appointment at West Point, Dr. Silverstone taught at Williams College and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served as Assistant Director of the Browne Center for International Politics. He earned his BA in political science from the University of New Hampshire and his MA and PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.    

 

 

Daniel Webster Professor of Government

Dartmouth College

 

Dr. Stam is Daniel Webster Professor of Government and Coordinator of the War and Peace Studies Program at Dartmouth College. He also is an Associate at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Dartmouth faculty in 2000, he taught at Yale University and American University. Before completing his undergraduate degree, he was a communications specialist in the United States Army Special Forces. He attained the rank of Captain in the US Army Reserves, where he served as an armor platoon leader, an armor battalion transportation officer, and an infantry basic training company executive officer. Specializing in international conflict and US foreign policy, Dr. Stam teaches classes in international relations, quantitative analysis, national security policy, international law, international organization, and international political economy. He has written widely in the field and received several grants and awards for his research, including two from the National Science Foundation and the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award for making the most significant contribution through a body of publications to international relations and peace research. Among his numerous publications are Win, Lose or Draw: Domestic Politics in the Crucible of War (1996), Democracies at War (2002), The Behavioral Origins of War (2003), and (with R. Tammen, J. Kugler, and D. Lemke) Power Transitions: Strategic Policies for the 21st Century (forthcoming), as well as articles in the American Political Science Review, International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Science Quarterly, and International Studies Perspectives. Dr. Stam received his BA from Cornell University and his MA and PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.  

 

President

Otho Tucker Educational Services, Inc.

 

Dr. Tucker is President of Otho Tucker Educational Services and Assistant Professor of Education at North Carolina A&T State University. He has extensive experience in educational administration at the secondary level and is a national leader in the charter school movement, having served as chair of the National Charter School Institute Advisory Committee and on National Association of Charter School Authorizers Board of Directors. Prior to founding his own company, Dr. Tucker was Senior Vice President of Mosaica Education. He also was Director of the Office of Charter Schools for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, where he was responsible for oversight of 100 charter schools, 1,250 teachers, and 21,500 students residing across the state, as well as being directly involved in the creation and implementation of State Board of Education policy. Previously, he served as Headmaster at Burlington Day School and at Chatham Charter School, an institution he helped establish. He also taught at both the secondary and postsecondary levels and served as a dean of students, athletic director, and upper school head. Dr. Tucker received his BS from the University of Illinois (where he was an Academic All-American and drafted by the Boston Celtics), his MA in education from University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and his PhD in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis on cultural studies from University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  

 

 

Director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding

Dartmouth College

After a distinguished thirty-six year career as a diplomat and member of the Senior Foreign Service in the United States Department of State, Ambassador Yalowitz recently joined the faculty of Dartmouth College as Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. Prior to his appointment at Dartmouth, he served as US ambassador to Belarus from 1994-1997 and to Georgia from 1998-2001. His other foreign assignments included duty in Moscow, The Hague, and the US Mission to NATO in Brussels. His domestic assignments included country director for Australia-New Zealand Affairs, deputy director for economics of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs, and Congressional Foreign Affairs Fellow. He has won several awards for conflict prevention and overall diplomatic performance, including the 2000 Ambassador Robert Frasure Award for peacemaking and conflict prevention for his work to prevent the Chechen war expanding into Georgia. Since arriving at Dartmouth, Ambassador Yalowitz has overseen the dramatic expansion of the Dickey Center and launched several new program initiatives, including in Global Health and International Studies. He holds a Russian Institute Certificate, MA and Master of Philosophy degree from Columbia University. 

 

 

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