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Volume XVI (2005)

Contributors

Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he teaches courses in U.S. foreign policy, Latin American politics, and Latino/a politics. He is the Assistant Director of the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies at UNO, as well as the President of the Board of Directors of the Chicano Awareness Center. He is the author of Power to the People: Energy and the Cuban Nuclear Program (Routledge, 2000) and Cuba’s Energy Strategy: Economic Considerations. Technological Choices and Sustainability (University of Florida Press, forthcoming). He can be contacted at jalvarado@mail.unomaha.edu.

Cynthia T. Cook is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at SUNY Rockland
Community College. Her areas of research and teaching include medical sociology, medical anthropology, and global health. She has published articles on social factors affecting maternal health in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing world. Her most recent article on cultural competency was published in the Journal of the National Medical Association. This piece is the author’s first publication in the International Third World Studies Journal and Review. She can be contacted at ccook@sunyrockland.edu.

Ghaleb Darabya has worked as the Counselor for Political and Congressional Affairs at the Palestinian Mission to the U.S. since October 2001. Prior to this assignment, he served as Assistant to the Palestinian Foreign Minister and was one of the founders of the Palestinian Diplomatic Training Department. In addition, he was a lecturer at the Jerusalem Open University and worked for the Middle East Broadcasting Center in London. Currently, Darabya is studying in the mid-career MPA program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He holds a MA in Diplomatic Studies from the diplomatic Academy of London, as well as a BA in Political Science from the University of Essex. Darabya has appeared on many TV shows and news channels in the U.S. and abroad as an analyst on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He can be reached at ghaleb_darabya@ksg06.harvard.edu.

David T. Jervis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rockford College (IL). His fields of teaching and research interest include American foreign policy, political change in the non-Western world, and American conflict resolution efforts in Africa. In addition to his traditional academic duties, Jervis spent a year in Croatia as a Fulbright Scholar and two years in Germany working for the American embassy. He can be contacted at jervisdt@yahoo.com.

Teresa Trumbly Lamsam is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and member of the Native American Studies faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She teaches courses in news editorial and media studies and her professional background includes more than 10 years as a print journalist and communication specialist in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia. Lamsam’s research areas include the Native American tribal media, Native community development, and development communication, with an emphasis in health and education. Since beginning her career in education and research, Lamsam’s goal has been to use research to advance projects in the Native American community. Currently, she is working with a rural community to assess attitudes toward tourism as an alternative for economic development. Lamsam is an Osage who grew up on her reservation in Northeastern Oklahoma. She can be
reached at tlamsam@mail.unomaha.edu.

Melanie Lewandowski has recently completed a Masters in English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she focused on the study of linguistics. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Spanish at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As a language instructor in the United States, she has taught both English and Spanish classes to promote bilingual language proficiency in work environments. As a language instructor in Poland and Tajikistan, she taught ESL and EFL. Currently, she works as an adjunct instructor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She can be reached at mlewandowski@mail.unomaha.edu.

Owen G. Mordaunt is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he teaches courses in linguistics, ESL, ESL methods, cross-cultural communication, and black short fiction since 1986. His previous experience includes high school teaching, both in Swaziland and the U.S., and teacher training and university teaching in Swaziland, where he also worked for the Ministry of Education as Senior Inspector of Schools responsible for English. He is the Book Review Editor for the International Third World Studies Journal and Review. He has published articles on literature and linguistics in Africa Focus, Educational Studies, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Tesol Reporter, Tesol Journal, and International Third World Studies
Journal and Review. He can be contacted at mordaunt@mail.unomaha.edu.

Michael J. Nojeim is Associate Professor of Political Science at Prairie View A & M University, where he teaches courses on American government and international relations. He is a member of the Board of Director of the Decade of Nonviolence-Houston, as well as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Second Annual Conference on Mahatma Gandhi sponsored by the Gandhi Institute in Memphis, TN. He is the author of Gandhi and King: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance (Praeger, 2004) and is currently working on a new book (coauthored with David P. Kilroy) entitled Days of Decision: Milestones in U.S. Foreign Policy (Lynne Reinner). He can be contacted at mjnojeim@pvamu.edu.

Michael J. Siler is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Los Angeles. He earned the B.S. in Political Science and M.A. in African Studies from UCLA (1975, 1977); M.P.A. in Public Administration from the University of Washington (1979). He earned the Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Southern California (1992). His academic interests include international security analysis, comparative nuclear proliferation in the Third World, global terrorism and WMD proliferation, American foreign policy, African strategic security, and international relations. His most recent publications include Strategic Security Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography (Praeger, 2004). He can be contacted at msiler@calstatela.edu.

Richard R. Super is Associate Professor of History at Creighton University. Since earning his doctorate at Arizona State University in 1975, Super has pursued teaching and research in twentieth- century Chile, the comparative Americas, and the Dominican Republic during the Trujillo regime. Academic travels have taken him to the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico, El Salvador and Chile (relative to this review, dissertation research was conducted in Allende’s Chile in 1973). He has also served in a number of administrative capacities at Creighton, most recently as Director of the Montesinos Center for the Study of the Dominican Republic. He can be reached at super@creighton.edu.

Ann R. Tickamyer is Professor of Sociology, Director of International Development Studies, and Presidential Research Scholar at Ohio University. She does research on gender, work, and rural poverty and development in both the U.S. and in Indonesia, and is currently completing a book on gender and power in Javanese villages. She can be contacted at tickamye@ohio.edu.

Paul A. Williams is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he teaches courses in world religions, African religions, New Testament, and the history of Christianity. Born in Congo (Kinshasa), his general area of research is the history of religions in North America and in Central Africa. He has conducted research both in the United States and in Congo. Arriving in Kinshasa during the opening of the national conference in August 1991, he remained in Congo through the events of September and October. His current research concerns the role of American Protestant missionaries in the Congo Free State, the history of Islam in Congo, and the war in Congo. He has an article published in Annales Aequatoria. He can be contacted at pwilliams@mail.unomaha.edu.

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