KU AFRICANIST FACULTY

Index of biographies by last name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Naima Boussofara Omar
Assistant Professor, 2000-present
Director of Arabic Summer Institute in affiliation with Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, 2002 -present
Language Coordinator, 2003-present
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, 1999
M.Ed., Education, University of Exeter, The United Kingdom, 1991
Diplome de Fin d'Etudes Superieures en Lettres Angalises, Ecole Normale Superieure, Tunis, Tunisia, 1976
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Sociolinguistics, Language Change and Language Variation in the Arab World, Arabic Diglossic Switching in Political Discourse and in the Media, Language Ideology and Linguistic Choices in Political Discourse in Tunisia, Applied Linguistics, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Impact of New Technology on Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Revisiting Arabic diglossic switching in light of the MLF and its sub-models: The 4-M model and the Abstract level model. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 6(1), 2003, 33-46.
Neither third language nor middle varieties but Arabic diglossic switching. In press, Zeitschrift fur arabische Linguistic/ Journal of Arabic Linguistics.
Diglossia. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Brill Academic Publishers. Under Review.
Political Transition, Linguistic Shift: How a Political Communiqué (bayaan) has come to be what it is. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XVIII. Under Review
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Arabic
Culture in the Arab World
Language & Culture in Arabic-Speaking Communities
Unveiling the Veil
LANGUAGES:
Tunisian Arabic (native language), Classical Arabic / Modern Standard Arabic, English, French
DISTINCTIONS:
Member, The Arabic Linguistics Society
Member, The American Institute for Maghreb Studies
Member, The American Association for Teachers of Arabic

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Dorthy Pennington
Tenured Associate Professor, AAAS and Communication Studies; at KU since 1974
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Speech Communication and Human Relations, University of Kansas, 1974
M.A., Speech Communication and Human Relations University of Kansas, 1970
B.A., English, Rust College, 1968
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Intercultural communication, interracial communication, women's studies and African American studies
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
"African Diunality in the Discourse of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Case of 'I Have a Dream,'" In The African Presence in America, ed. J.U. Gordon, African World Press, Inc. 2004
"The African Concept of Time and Its Relationship to Development Planning," in Die Rolle der Zivilgesellschaft und der Religion bei der Demokratisierung Afrikas, ed. L. Imunde, Druck: Bertelsmann, Germany, 2003
"The Discourse of African-American Women: A Case for Extended Paradigms," in Understanding African American Rhetoric, ed. R.L. Jackson II, and E.B. Richardson, Routledge, 2003.
"Contextualizing the Success of African-American Students in Predominantly White Communication Departments", in Included in Communication: Learning Climates That Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Ed. By Judith Trent, 2001
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Intercultural Communication
Rhetoric of Black Americans
Rhetoric of Blacks and Hispanics
Interpersonal Communication
The Black Woman
African and Western Cosmologies
Black Male and Female Communication
African American Culture
DISTINCTIONS:
Distinguished scholar and mentor in intercultural communication, 1995, Feminist & Women's Studies Division of the National Communication Association
Teaching Award, Teachers on Teaching Division of the National Communication Association, 1997
Teaching Excellence Award, KU Center for Teaching Excellence, 2002
Steeples Service to Kansans Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, KU, 1999.

Andrew Townsend Peterson
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; at KU since 1993
EDUCATION:
B.S., Department of Zoology, Miami University, 1985
M.S., Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 1987
Ph.D., Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 1990
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Tropical ornithology, with a focus on systematics, geography of bird distributions, and disease systems including Chagas Disease, malaria, dengue, leischmaniasis, and ebola/Marburg. His research also focuses on aspects of the geography of biodiversity. His work with tthe geographic and ecology of species' distributions, however, has takend him into other fields, including conservation biology and planning, invasive species biology, and disease transmission systems. In the latter field, his workhas focused on numerous disease systems as previously mentioned.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Peterson, A.T., N,H.Rice, and A.G. NAvarro-Siguenza. 2004g. Geographic Variationin in the Rosy Thrush-tanager(Rhodinocichla rosea)complex of MesoAmerica (Aves:Passeriformes). Biota Neotropica, 4:electronic publication(http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br)
Peterson,A.T., R. Scachetti-Pereira, and W.W. Hargrove. 2004c. Potential geographic distribution of Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera:Cerambycidae) in North America. American Midland Naturalist, 151:150-178.
Soberon, J. and A.T. Peterson. 2004. Biodiversity informatics: Managing ans applying primary biodiversity data. Philisophical Transactons of the Royal Society of London B. 359-689-698.
Thomas, C.D., S.E. Williams, A. Cameron, R.E. Green, M. Bakkenes, L.J. Beaumont. Y.C.Collingham, B.F. N. Erasmus, M. Ferreira de Siqueira, A. Grainger, L.Hannah, L. Hughes, B, Huntley, A.S.Van Jaarsveld, G.F. Midgely, L.Miles, M.A. Ortega-Huerta, A.T. Peterson, and O.l. Phillips. 2004b. Thomas et al.. reply. Nature, 430:1-2.
Peterson, A. T., J. T. Bauer, and J. N. Mills. 2004a. Ecological and geographic distribution of filovirus disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10:40-47. View the PDF file.
Peterson, A. T., D. Carroll, and J. N. Mills. 2004. Potential mammalian filovirus reservoirs. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10:2073-2081. View the PDF file.
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