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Volume XVI (2005)

Contributors

Edward Abplanalp is a member of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at theUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha. He is ABD in philosophy at the University of Nebraskaat Lincoln. His area of specialization is ethics. His dissertation presents a Kantian non-anthropocentric conception of environmental justice. He can be reached at eabplanalp@mail.unomaha.edu.

Phani Tej Adidam is currently the Executive Education Professor of BusinessAdministration in the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has published more than 15 research articles on international strategy-related topics in journals such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Social Science, Journal of Applied Business Research, and Journal of Innovative Marketing. Currently, Adidam teaches global marketing policies and strategies in the MBA, Executive MBA, and undergraduate programs. Prior to joining the academic community, he consulted with several large- and medium-size companies based in India, Singapore, and Europeon strategies for developing and implementing executive information systems. He can be reached at padidam@mail.unomaha.edu.

Joseph K. Adjaye is Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Public/InternationalAffairs, and Director of the Africana Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. His teaching and research specializations include African diasporan studies, African history and culture, Caribbean history and culture, and popular culture. He is the author of four books, including most recently, Boundaries of Self and Other in Ghanaian Popular Culture (Praeger 2003) and over 30 articles, book chapters and review essays in refereed journals. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Fulbright Senior Scholar (1999–2000), National Endowment for the Humanities (1989),and Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (1985, 1986, 1989, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005). Adjaye has also given over 400 invited lectures and presentations to college, community, and service groups in cities across the U.S., and in the Caribbean, UK,and Africa. He can be reached at jadjaye@pitt.edu.

Rami Arav is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has directed numerous archaeological excavations, including the excavationof the Biblical city of Bethsaida, and is the director of the Consortium of the Bethsaida Excavations Project at UNO. Arav has published extensively in both scientific and popular literature on matters pertaining to archaeology and the history of the Land of Israel and of Bethsaida in particular. He can be reached at rarav@mail.unomaha.edu.

Salvatore Bizzarro is Professor of Romance Languages at the Colorado College, having also served as Director of the Italian in Italy Program from 1990 to the present, and having participated twice in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Program in Florence, Italy, devoted mostly to Renaissance Art and Literature. He has written an important volume on the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Pablo Neruda / All poets the Poet, published by Scarecrow Press in 1979; has contributed as author and Associate Editor to an equally mportant publication on Latin America, Latin America During Nixon’s Second Term, published by the American College in Paris (1976); and his third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Chile (first published by Scarecrow Press in 1972; with a second edition in 1986 and the third in 2005) is a truly major reference work, with excellent-crossreferences that balance entries on history, geography, politics, economics, literature, art, and biography, giving us a view of ancient and modern Chile. He has contributed several sections to Encyclopedias and numerous articles for scholarly journals. He can be reached at sbizzarro@coloradocollege.edu.

Rory J. Conces is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, a member of the International Studies faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and has been the Editor of International Third World Studies Journal and Review since 1994. He is the author of a monograph entitled Blurred Visions: Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in a Troubled World (1997), and has published articles in numerous journals, including Studies in East European Thought, Theoria, The Locke Newsletter, Southwest Philosophy Review, Review Journal of Philosophy and Social Science, Acta Analytica, Dijalog, Sociajdemokrat, and International Third World Studies Journal and Review. Currently, his research focuses on ethnic nationalism, identity, and conflict management; and the ethics of intervention. He has lectured at numerous universities in China, the Balkans, and Northern Ireland, including South China Normal University, Zhoushan, Hangzhou Teachers College, University of Sarajevo, University of Rijeka, University of Tuzla, The University of Džemal Bijedić of Mostar, University of Prishtina, University of Priština (Kosovska Mitrovica), and Queen’s University of Belfast. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Sarajevo during the Spring term of 2001. He returned to the Balkans during the Summer term of 2006 to lecture on civil society building and ethnic nationalism, and other topics. He can be reached at rconces@mail.unomaha.edu.

Ofra Greenberg is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Western Galilee Academic College in Acre, Israel. Her research interests include folk and alternative medicine, ethnicity and mecial behavior, organ transplants in Israel, and small community studies. She is the author of numerous journal articles, as well as three books: Women in Jail in Israel (1982), A Development Town Visited (1989), and NesAmmim: Life Amid Contradiction (1999). She can be reached at ofra_gr@netvision.net.il.

Larry Hubbell is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wyoming. In addition to Cambodia, he has conducted research and taught classes in China, Taiwan, Russia,South Africa, and Dominca. Recently, he has been published in Administration and Society, Rural Mental Health, CUPA HR Journal, The Public Manager, OD Practitioner, Public Voices, and Qualitative Report. He can be reached at hubbell@uwyo.edu.

Buba Misawa is Associate Professor of Political Science at Washington and Jefferson College. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh (1992–94), and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Saint Mary’s University Extension Program, Banjul, Gambia, in 1999. Before coming to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, Misawa taught in the Department of Political Science, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. His research interests include Nigerian Politics and Foreign Policy, Conflicts and African Security, and U.S. Foreign Policy toward Africa. He is the author of numerous journal articles and is currently working on an edited volume on “Security, Democracy, and Development in WestAfrica.” He can be reached at bmisawa@washjeff.edu.

Christa Salamandra is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, City University of New York. She can be reached at christa.salamandra@lehman.cuny.edu.

Betty Smith is Associate Professor of Geography at Eastern Illinois University. She has conducted research in Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, and Spain on urban topics, regional land use, indigenous textiles, ecotourism, and migration. She is vice-president of the Latin America Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers 2004–07 and served three times as president of the Midwest Association of Latin American Studies between 1999 and 2005. She can be reached at cfbes@eiu.edu.

John Stansbury is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has professional experience conducting risk assessments and risk-base devaluations at numerous hazardous waste sites. He is currently an instructor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Risk Assessment training program. Stansbury has published in numerous journals, including Public Administration Review, Journal of WaterResources Planning and Management, and ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering. He can be reached at jstansbury@mail.unomaha.edu.

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