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Tara
Aziz is program officer at the Washington
Kurdish Institute in Washington, DC. After graduating
from ND she returned to Iraqi Kurdistan, where she worked
for the United Nations Office for the Humanitarian Coordinator
for Iraq (UNOHCI), UNICEF and other international humanitarian
agencies. In these positions, she worked extensively
with local and international NGOs, developing and analyzing
a wide range of programs. In 2000 Tara participated in the
establishment of a local NGO that promotes women's empowerment
in Iraqi Kurdistan. She moved to the US in 2001.
Email: <taraaziz@hotmail.com> (10/04)
Mioara
Deac has a postdoctoral appointment in the history
department at the University of Notre Dame, where she is teaching
three courses,
history
of psychiatry, Victorian England, and science and religion. She
earned her PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science at
Notre Dame in 2005 with a dissertation titled, Mirror
of the World or Submerged Unconscious? Hallucinations and
the Victorians (1853-1901). Mioara writes, "My work is at the
intersection between history of psychiatry, cultural studies,
and religion. My dissertation analyzes the way in which the
issue of 'hallucinations' (the psychological manifestations
that apparently have no ostensible referent 'out there') was
used by various groups of Victorians in order to support their
social affinities, political beliefs, and religious convictions." During 2004-05 she taught two courses at Notre
Dame, first year composition and history of psychiatry. "
The approaches that I use and the intellectual perspectives
that I employ in my teaching of the history of psychiatry
course have been tremendously shaped by the year that I spent
as an MA student in Peace Studies. I have been able to integrate
the History of Psychiatry within the larger issue of social
justice. I have been also able to analyze the way in which
the fluid and controversial field of psychiatry has been used
to attach the 'insignia of difference' to marginal groups
(women, homosexuals, social outcasts, and politically undesirable
people)." Email: <mdeac@nd.edu> (7/05)
Mike
Deemer serves as legal counsel for the Ohio Senate
Democratic Caucus. He completed law school at Ohio State
University Moritz College of Law with honors in June 2002,
and earned the first Michael E. Moritz Leadership Award for
the graduating class. He then undertook a two-year fellowship
at Equal Justice Works of the Ohio State Legal Services Association,
focusing on ways to stop predatory lending practices, and
worked with the Unitarian Church to help clear land mines
from Afghanistan. Email: <mwdeemer@yahoo.com> (5/04)
 Betsy
Erbaugh is a PhD candidate and course instructor
in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Mexico
in Albuquerque. She is completing a dissertation titled,
Queering Anti-Violence Politics: LGBTIQ Organizing to
End Intimate Partner Violence and expects to earn her
PhD in 2006. She writes, "I am a founding member
of the Peace Studies Program Committee at the University of
New Mexico, and as of this year, the student advisor for Peace
Studies at UNM. I am also a founding member of a project
to address violence and racism affecting members of the LGBTIQ
women's and trans community in Albuquerque. In this role I
facilitate meetings and workshops to promote healthy LGBTIQ
relationships. In the spirit of collaboration we practiced
at IIPS, I designed a new course at UNM with a colleague --
"Queer Theory/Queer Lives" -- and have co-taught it for three
years. In addition I teach courses in Gender, Women
Studies, Dynamics of Prejudice, Deviant Behavior and Sociological
Research Methods." Email: <erbaugh@unm.edu>
(1/06)
Helena
Hofbauer is executive director of Fundar, a center
for analysis and research dedicated to the promotion of democracy
in Mexico and other countries. The center works to build capacities
in civil society in Mexico and more than ten other countries
of Latin America, by holding governments accountable for use
of public funds. Emphasis has been on gender-related issues
and social programs for the poor, with additional work on
broader topics like transparency, accountability and access
to information. “We have a staff of 15-20 people. If people
are interested in our lines of work, I would love to offer
opportunities for internships at Fundar," Helena writes. More
information on Fundar can be found at www.fundar.org.mx.
Email: <helena@fundar.org.mx> (5/04)
 Jian
Yi is a freelance filmmaker and photographer based in Beijing. Recent clients include the Carter Center, which hired him to photograph a village election. In his previous work for the EU-China Training Programme on Village Governance, he organized the nation's first photo contest on village democracy. He also contributed to a major documentary on the subject, which he screened and discussed at the 2006 Peace Conference at Notre Dame. (See sample
photos.) In 1999 Jian Yi received his MA in International
Journalism from the Communications University of China, and for five
years he lectured in the International Journalism department
of the university. Email: < mr.jianyi@gmail.com>
(7/06)
 Anne
Monaghan is public liaison manager with HMC (Highway Management Construction) based in Belfast. She works with communities, politicians, the media and authorities regarding the redevelopment of Belfast's Westlink. Anne is also a member of Belfast's District Policing Partnership and the Northern Ireland Parades Commission, which considers contentious parades. In 2005 she is starting her PhD part-time at the University
of Ulster, in connection with INCORE (International Conflict Research), using Mediation Northern
Ireland as a case study of the role of civil society in inter-communal
conflict and peace making in Northern Ireland. E-mail:
<anne@online.ulst.ac.uk> (8/06)
 Tilla
McAntony, based in Geneva, leads the Business Alliance Against Chronic Hunger, a new public-private partnership managed by the World Economic Forum. Initially focusing on Kenya, its action plan was prepared by business and public leaders, including the heads of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the African Development Bank, World Food Programme and UNICEF. The forum seeks to apply business skills and market power to improve food production, nutrition, and incomes in hungry regions of Africa. Email: <blue2050@hotmail.com> (10/06)
 Shushanik
Papanyan is visiting assistant professor of economics
at the University of Texas at Arlington, where her research
focuses on time series econometrics and international economics.
She earned her PhD in economics from the University of Houston
in May 2005, with a dissertation titled, Essays on Measuring
International and National Business Cycles. Email:
<papanyan@uta.edu> (1/06)
 David Reyes is a PhD candidate at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His dissertation focuses on the natural resource aspects of indigenous peoples' rights. He is also a consultant, dealing mainly with corporate responsibility in extractive sectors, especially where there are preexisting social and political tensions. "And, when consulting fails to pay the bills, I do small-scale home restoration and remodeling."
E-mail: <davidmreyes@yahoo.com> (8/06)
Ithai Stern
is assistant professor of management at Kellogg School of
Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
He earned his PhD in Business Strategy from McCombs School
of Business at the University of Texas at Austin in May 2005.
Email: <i-stern@Kellogg.Northwestern.edu>
(6/05)
Jason
Subler
is a correspondent for Reuters
in Beijing, covering China's economy. Jason
has lived in China since 2000, during which time he has worked
for a number of media outlets as an editor and reporter.
His most recent articles can be found here.
Email: <jsubler@yahoo.com> (1/06)
Kriszta Tihanyi (’98) is chief operating officer for Market Matters, Inc., in Ithaca, NY, a small nonprofit organization that has grown out of Cornell's Emerging Markets Program. It works with small and medium-size agribusiness companies, located primarily in Southern and East Africa. Kriszta is also a visiting scholar at Cornell University's Peace Studies Program, and author of Blending in the Rainbow Nation: The Racial Integration of Schools and Its Implications for Reconciliation in Post-apartheid South Africa (Lexington Books, 2006), based on her dissertation thesis. Email: <kzt1@cornell.edu> (7/06)
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