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Mark Behr is assistant professor of English at the College of Sante Fe, New Mexico.  His 700-page second novel, Embrace, was published in paperback in 2003 (Abacus).  Email: <mbehr@csf.edu> (5/04)

 

Jasmin Habib is assistant professor of global studies and Canadian studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Wateroo, Ontario, Canada, where she is teaching in the Peace and Conflict stream as part of a small (mostly new) faculty in the fastest growing program on campus. Her book, Israel, Diaspora and the Routes of National Belonging was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2004.  Jasmin earned her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from McMaster University in 2000, and taught peace studies at McMaster.  Her interests include the study of violence, militarism and the cultures of nationalism, transnationalism and diaspora relationships particularly to Israel and Palestine.  Email: <jhabib@wlu.ca> (5/04)

Abir Khater is associate director for advising and exchange programs for AMIDEAST in Cairo, where she manages several several scholarships, fellowships and Exchange programs between the US and Egypt.  Email: <akhater@amideast.org> (6/05)

Igor Krivoshekov is a corporate attorney in the Moscow office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P., one of the world's largest law firms with more than 625 lawyers practicing in 13 cities in the U.S. and in nine other countries across the globe.  Email: <ikrivoshekov@llgm.com> (5/04)

Nguyen Thai Yen Huong is deputy dean of the Faculty of Mid Career Training and Post Graduate Studies of the Institute for International Relations (IIR) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam.  Huong writes, "I am now in charge of mid-career training courses for staff of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other ministries and also the M.A. Program in International Relations of IIR.  I am also a lecturer of American Studies for B.A and M.A students at IIR.  I plan to open a M.A program in American Studies for IIR."  From 1993-2004, she served as deputy director of the Centre for Euro-North American Studies of IIR.  Her research focus is the American political system, American foreign policy and its bilateral relations with other major powers.  In 2003 Huong earned a Ph.D. in History from National University in Hanoi.  Her most recent publications include Humanitarian Interventions and US Foreign Policy (Gioi Publishing. 2005) and The United States, Its Socio-cultural Characteristics (National Political Publishing House, 2005), based on her Ph.D. thesis. Email: <NTYHuong@mofa.gov.vn> (6/06)

Marc Michaelson teaches seventh grade reading and directs the Encore! Program at Amistad Academy, a college-preparatory public charter school serving middle school students from throughout the city of New Haven, Connecticut.  After ND, Marc worked as a program manager for Save the Children in The Gambia and spent two years as a writer and photographer in the Horn of Africa as a Fellow of the Institute for Current World Affairs.  (5/04) 

Connie Molusi, appointed in 2003 group chief executive officer of Johnnic Communications Ltd, is the first black person to lead a significant media company in South Africa. A career journalist, he worked in the public sector for four years, joining the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications & Broadcasting as a ministerial advisor during Nelson Mandela's presidency, and later serving as general manager of support services. He served as project manager for the African Connection Project, a plan to increase the level of connectivity across Africa. In 2000, Connie moved to the corporate sector as CEO of Johnnic Publishing, publisher of The Sunday Times, South Africa's best-selling national newspaper, and in 2003 was appointed group CEO of the entire media and entertainment company. He serves on the board of the World Association of Newspapers and is chairman of the Newspaper Association of South Africa. Email: <molusic@johncom.co.za> (5/04)

Julie McKay is a Program Manager at CDR Associates, an international collaborative decision-making and conflict resolution firm in Boulder, Colorado (http://www.mediate.org). Julie has worked for ten years as a mediator, trainer, and conflict resolution program designer; at CDR she specializes in organizational conflict management, training, and mediating complex, multiparty consensus-building processes. Email: <jmckay@mediate.org> (5/04)

Svetlana Morozova is a senior associate with Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, an environmental investment research advisory firm, in Toronto, Canada.  She completed her PhD in political science at Claremont Graduate School in 2004, with a dissertation entitled Political Economy of Energy Taxation: OECD, 1973-1995.  Email:  <svetlana.morozova@cgu.edu>  (12/04)

Rosette Muzigo-Morrison, from Uganda, is the longest-serving legal officer with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), having worked with the ICTR in The Hague, Arusha, Tanzania and Rwanda.   She is currently "on loan" for up to two years to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where she is responsible for the establishment of a Sub-Office for the Prosecution of Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia. She oversees all legal issues including coordinating aspects of court management, detention issues, rendering legal advice to the SCSL adminstrative office and the handling of all legal issues relating to the SCSL in The Netherlands.   Rosette writes, "Following the death of Milosovic, Charles Taylor is the only head of State to be brought before an International Court to face justice.  I will be working in the office of the Registrar and will work with witnesses (my favourite part of my work, dealing with real people and helping them find meaning in the trials, this usually comes with a chance to start thinking about forgiveness and reconciliation).  I will also work with the accused person, so I have to once again to appreciate the fundamental theory of presuming him innocent until the Prosecutor proves otherwise."  Rosette is also studying for a PhD in International Human Rights Law through the Irish Center for Human Rights. ( 8/07)


Winnie Romeril is a paramedic in Corning, New York and a nonviolence trainer with Peace Brigades International and other international peace teams, working primarily in Europe and Asia.  She encourages all interested to apply for an annual International Training on Nonviolence hosted each August by Kurve Wustrow in Germany, for which she is one of the trainers.  She writes, "The participants generally are folks living in conflict zones around the world and working with/on refugees, human rights, and nonviolence in its various forms."  She also serves as a volunteer with the American Red Cross on national disasters.  Winnie continues to redirect part of her US income tax to peaceful organizations and publish this in local papers and send a letter to the IRS.  "We expect to get collected on for last few years of resistence one of these days and local friends plan to organize a 1040 party to help us when the IRS garnishes our wages."  Email: <wromeril@empacc.net>  ( 5/06)


Elena (Rakhimova) Sommers is a lecturer in the department of language and literature at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.  Her courses include Dangerous Texts, Women in Literature, and The Masters of 20th-century Russian Literature.  She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Rochester in 2001, with a dissertation titled, The 'Ona' (She) of Nabokov's Hereafter: Female Characters as Otherworldly Agents in Nabokov's Fiction.  Email:  <ersgla@rit.edu>  (7/05)
 

David Steele is vice president of SteeleTech, a technology training and development firm with specialties in web and software development, in Savannah, Georgia.  In 1998 he mounted a fulfilling but largely unsuccessful bid for an Indiana seat in the United States Congress (he won a three-way primary but "got clobbered" by an incumbent in the general election).  He is currently very active in progressive politics in Georgia, serving as vice chairman of the Chatham County Democratic Party and as a member of Georgia's state Democratic Central Committee and as an advisor to various local, state and federal campaigns.  Email: <SavannahDave@hotmail.com> (10/04)

Fran Teplitz is managing director of the Social Investment Forum, the nonprofit membership association for socially and environmentally responsible investing (SRI), and is the SRI director for Co-op America. Co-opAmerica is a nonprofit membership organization that involves consumers, businesses and investors in economic strategies to advance positive social and environmental change. Fran worked with Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund for seven years before joining the Social Investment Forum and Co-op America. Peace Action is the largest, U.S. grassroots organization dedicated to disarmament and economic justice. She now serves on the Board of Directors of the Peace Action Education Fund.  Email: <franteplitz@socialinvest.org> (2/05)

Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is an educator and an independent scholar living in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband and children.   Kaye teaches ancient, world and American history at the West Baltimore Middle School.  She is also a master teacher with the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for History Education. Kaye was selected as Maryland's 2006-2007 Preserve America History Teacher of the Year through the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and also was recently awarded a Maryland Historical Society Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship to continue her research on 19th Century Free Black Women. Email: <KLJ2WISE@aol.com> (7/06)

Dimostenis Yagcioglu has moved to Athens after receiving a PhD in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University in May 2004.  His dissertation is titled From Deterioration to Improvement in Western Thrace, Greece: A Political Systems Analysis of a "triadic" Ethnic Conflict. Email: <dimostenis@rocketmail.com> (11/04)

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