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
Gitti Salami
Acting Assistant Professor, History of Art & African & African-American
Studies
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2005
M.A., University of Iowa, 1999
B.A., San Francisco State University, 1997
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Ms. Salami's academic expertise lies within the cultural region of Cross River
State in southeastern Nigeria. She studies the new yam festivals of the Upper
Cross River and the culture of Yakurr people in particular.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Book Review, :The Nsukka Artists and Nigerian Contemporary Art,"
"Ubi Artist: Tribute to a Yakurr Artist from Mkpani,"
Yakurr X-Ray 2:16 (2002): 8 and 2:17 (2002): 8.
"Popular Painting and Sculpture of Haiti : The Appeal of the Creole to
the Post-modern Consciousness of Industrialized Nations," Baobob (1998):
17-29.
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Introductory and advanced courses on African Art history
West African, Central African, South and East African, and Contemporary African
art.
Graduate seminars on body art (global perspective) and on the art of Southeastern
Nigeria will be offered in the future. She has also taught a course on Caribbean Art with a focus on Haiti.
LANGUAGES:
Native German speaker, English, French, introductory Lokaa.
DISTINCTIONS:
Member, African Studies Association
Member, Arts Council of the African Studies Association
Member, College Art Association
Fulbright-Hays Award, 2001-2002
Distinguished Thesis Award of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools,
2000
Samira Sayeh
Assistant Professor of Francophone Literature snd Culture at KU (tenure track)
EDUCATION:
Ph. D. in French and Francophone Studies
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
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Philip A. Schrodt
Tenured Professor, Political Science; at KU since 1988
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Political Science, Indiana University, 1977
M.A. Mathematics, Indiana University, 1974
B.A. Political Science and Mathematics, Indiana University, 1971
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Quantitative International Relations, International Conflict in the Middle East
and Africa, Foreign Policy Decision-Making, United States Defense Policy
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
"An Event Data Analysis of Third-Party Mediation." Journal of Conflict
Resolution 48,3: 310-330 (June 2004) (with Deborah J. Gerner)
"Cluster-Based Early Warning Indicators for Political Change in the Contemporary
Levant." American Political Science Review 94,4: 803-818 (December 2000)
(with Deborah J. Gerner)
"Pattern Recognition of International Crises using Hidden Markov Models." pp. 296-328 in Diana Richards (ed.) Political Complexity: Nonlinear Models of
Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
"Into the New Millennium: Challenges Facing Palestinian Higher Education
in the Twenty-First Century." Arab Studies Quarterly 21,4:17-33 (1999).
(with Deborah J. Gerner)
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Introduction to International Relations
International Conflict
U.S. Foreign Policy
Political Science Research Methods
U.S. Defense Policy
Quantitative Methods for Research in International Studies
LANGUAGES:
English, native fluency; Arabic, basic speaking, reading; French, good speaking,
reading; Spanish, basic reading
DISTINCTIONS:
National Science Foundation, Political Science Program Panel, 2000-2002
Fulbright Lecturing Grant, Bir Zeit University, West Bank. 2002-2003;
National Science Foundation Political Science Panel (2000-2002);
American Political Science Association Conflict Processes Section (1985-88,
2001-2004);
International Studies Association Foreign Policy Analysis Section (president,
2000-2001);
H.O.P.E. Award Finalist, 1998 (senior class teaching award)
Terry Slocum
Associate Professor, Geography
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Cartography, University of Kansas, 1980
M.A., Cartography & Quantitative Methods, State University of New York at
Albany, 1976
B.A., Geography, State University of New York at Albany, 1974
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Geographic visualization, animation, data exploration
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
2005. Thematic Cartography and Geographic Visualization. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education( with Robert McMaster, Fritz C.Kessler, Hugh H. Howard).
2004 "A Qualitative Evaluation of MapTime, A Program for Exploring Spatiotemporal Point Data," CArtographica 39:3,pp.43-68(with Robert S. Sluter, Fritz Kessler, and Stephen C. Yoder).
2003. "Evaluating the Usability of a Tool for Visualizing the Uncertainty of the Future Global Water Balance, " Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 30:4 pp.299-317. (with D.C. Cliburn , J.J. Feddema, and J.R. Miller). [based on Africa.]
2002. Design and Evaluation of a Decision Support System in a Water Balance Application. Computers and Graphics, (in press) Vol. 26, No. 6 (with Daniel Cliburn, Johan Feddema, and James Miller).
2001. ACognitive and Usability Issues in Geovisualization,@ Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 28:1, pp. 61-75 (with Connie Blok, Bin Jiang, Alexandra Koussoulakou, Daniel R. Montello, Sven Fuhrmann, and Nicholas R. Hedley as junior authors).
2000. AMapTime: Software for Exploring Spatiotemporal Data Associated with Point
Locations,@ Cartographica, 37:1, pp. 15-31 (with Stephen C. Yoder, Fritz C.
Kessler, and Robert S. Sluter as junior authors).
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Data Handling and Map Symbolization;
Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Geography;
Visualizing Spatial Data
Principles of Geographic Information Systems;
Applied Multivariate Analysis in Geography;
Seminar in Cartography
DISTINCTIONS:
Teacher Appreciation Award by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), University
of Kansas, 1998;
Research trip to Zambia, Summer, 2002, collaboration with Zambian geographers.
David Smith
Tenured Associate Professor of Sociology; at KU since 1990
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1988
M.S., Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1977
B.A., University of California - Berkeley, 1974
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Sociological theory (classical, critical, contemporary); Social Psychology (personality,
prejudice, child development); race and ethnicity ("race" and racism,
ethnicity and ethnocentrism); comparative historical sociology (authority, capitalism,
fascism, genocide).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
"The Rhetoric and Reality of 'Mass Destruction:'" How Genocide Became an International Social Problem." Pp. 368-388 in George Ritzer, ed. Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative international Perspective: London and Beverly Hills:Sage Publications, 2004
Globalization and Genocide: Inequality and Mass Death in Rwanda." Pp. 149-172 in Isidor Walliman & Michael N. , Dobkowski, eds. On the Edge of Scarcity: Environment Resources, Population, Conflicts and Survival. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2002
The Psychocultural Roots of Genocide: Legitimacy and Crisis in Rwanda." Pp 743-753 in The Amercian Psychologist 53; 7(July 1998)
"Authoritarian Aggression and Social Stratification." With Christopher
W. Gunn. Social Thought & Research 20:4, Fall 1999.
"The Psychocultural Roots of Genocide: Legitimacy and Crisis in Rwanda," pp 743-753 in The American Psychologist 53;7 (July 1998).
"Postcolonial Genocide: Scarcity, Ethnicity and Mass Death in Rwanda," pp. 220-244 in Isidor Wallismann and Michael Dobkowski, eds, The Coming Age
of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the 21st Century. Syracuse;
Syracuse University Press, 1998
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Sociological Theory
Elements of Sociology
Cross-Cultural Sociology
Self & Society
Social Conflict
The Rise of Social Theory
Critical Theory
DISTINCTIONS:
Teacher Appreciation Award, University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence,
1999.
William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, KU, 1997.
Silver Anniversary Award for Outstanding Classroom Teaching, Kansas Alumni Association
and Chancellor's Office, 1995.
Outstanding Educator Award, KU Mortar Board Senior Honors Society, 1993.
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