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Asian Studies Film Series
IGS will be hosting a series of 8 films in support of the new Asian Studies major. All UNCG students are welcome!
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Asian Studes at UNCG
Beginning in fall 2008, IGS will be offering a Regional Studies Concentration in Asian Studies! Click here for more details ...
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Phi Beta Delta - Founding Ceremony
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Check the IGS International Events Calendar for information on upcoming events!
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International and Global Studies (IGS)
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Roberto Campo, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor of French, Director of International and Global Studies, and Director of French Graduate Study. His specialties are 16th century French literature, poetic and aesthetic theory of antiquity and the Renaissance, laughter theory, and orientalism. Dr. Campo is a published author and recipient of UNCG’s University Alumni Teaching Excellence Award. |
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Kathleen Ahern, Ph.D. (UNC- Chapel Hill) is Assistant Professor in the Department of German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese Studies at UNCG. Dr. Ahern's specialty is Modern Russian Literature, and her work in African-American literary ties to Russian intellectual thought was instrumental in UNCG receiving UCEA/Peterson's Innovative Distance Education Program Award in 2000. |
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James Anderson, Ph.D. (University of Washington) is Associate Professor in the Department of History at UNCG. Dr. Anderson's specialty is Imperial China, Modern China, Sino-Vietnamese Relations, East Asia, Southeast Asia. |
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Susan Andreatta, Ph.D. is an applied sociocultural anthropologist, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UNCG. She is interested in human ecology and political ecology as it is applied to small-scale agricultural producers, marketing, resource management and environmental change in the Caribbean, Latin America and Southeastern States. |
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Fabrice Lehoucq , Ph.D. (Duke University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at UNCG. His areas of instruction include comparative politics, Latin American Politics, and the Political Economy of Development. |
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Samuel Miller , Ph.D. (University of Michigan) heads the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at UNCG. His areas of interest include Literacy development, student motivation and teacher education. Dr. Miller is a published author and a recipient of numerous excellence awards for his teaching and research activities. |
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Sharon Morrison, Ph.D. (University of Florida) has research interests that include social aspects of HIV disparities among subcultures of women, particularly women in the African Diaspora. She is examining the role of social capital in HIV risk, transmission awareness and prevention among US African and Latina immigrant women, and young women and girls in the rural Caribbean. She is also interested in the use of media and performing arts for HIV outreach and prevention intervention in South Africa. |
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Penelope J. Pynes, Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill) in Germanic Linguistics. Penelope is presently the Director of Study Abroad & Exchanges at UNCG and Lecturer in German. She is the System-wide North Carolina/Baden-Württemberg Committee Chair. Her specialties are: Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, History of the German language, Comparative Germanic linguistics and Intercultural Communications. Fulbright Scholar to the Universität Heidelberg, 1997-98. |
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Stephen Sills, Ph.D. (Arizona State University) is Assistant Professor in UNCG’s Sociology Department, teaching in the Global Social Problems concentration. His scholarship includes research on the feminization of labor migration, transnational identity, and social networks. Specifically he has been investigating transnationalism, transnational ties, and female migration among Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan. Dr. Sills’ research agenda includes current projects focusing on immigrant access to safe and affordable housing, access to social and health services, and the protection of labor rights for migrants in the United States and elsewhere. |
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Susan Walcott, Ph.D. (Indiana University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at UNCG, Dr. Walcott's academic interests focus on regional economic development based on high technology industrial clusters such as the life science industry and urban growth coalitions. Regional study areas include the American Midwest, San Diego, Atlanta, China, India and Bhutan. She has published articles in a number of journals, a book on science parks in China, and chapters in eight books. |