Global Virtual Faculty: New in Fall 2002

SWITZERLAND – Richard Cranowski is an M.D., M.P.H. Swiss Medical Association, Dept. Quality and Health Technology. Dr. Cranowski’s interests include Health Echnology Assesment, Diffusion of Medical Innovations, Transformation of Health Care Systems in Eastern Europe (former Head of HTA and Public Health Project in Poland, Council of Europe Expert for Georgia). His experience is in the area of Health Policy, Access to Care, Coverage, Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and Medical Innovations and Patients Safety.

SOUTH AFRICA – Dr. William Futter is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, South Africa. His teaching experience is in the areas of management, communication, health related behavior and interventions in health systems, aspects of drug supply management and education. Dr. Futter is interested in innovative teaching and learning activities – he recently set up an electronic journal to publish undergraduate research (J.R.A.T.S.).

UNITED KINGDOM – James Gallagher is a member of the British Academy of Forensic Science and Forensic Science Society. He retired from the Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard) after thirty four years of police service. He worked as a Detective Crime Scene Coordinator. His areas of expertise include crime pattern analysis, body recovery, fire scene investigation and offender profiling. Mr. Gallagher is currently a consultant in the fields of training and development for crime scene management, crime scene investigation, interpretation and examination. He has been a lecturer to the Metropolitan Police Service, The National Crime Faculty, Bramshill; Hellenic National Police, Greece; Abu Dhabi Police, United Arab Emirates; Civil Police, Brazil; Kings College, University of London, England; University of Glasgow, Scotland; and Fairleigh Dickinson University.

DENMARK – Dr. Thomas Kennedy is an American writer who has been living in Denmark since the 1970s. He holds a B.A. from Fordham University in English language and literature, an M.F.A. from Vermont College, and a Ph.D. from Copenhagen University. His books include seven works of fiction (most recently the novels Kerrigan's Copenhagen, A Love Story (2002) and The Book of Angels (1997) and story collection Drive Dive Dance & Fight (1997). A new novel, Bluett's Blue Hours, A Winter Tale is forthcoming in 2003. His other books include a collection of essays on the craft of writing, Realism & Other Illusions (2002) and several anthologies and volumes of literary criticism (including book-length studies of the short fiction of Andre Dubus and Robert Coover). His stories, essays, poems, travel writing, interviews, and translations from the Danish appear regularly in American and European periodicals and anthologies and have won numerous awards, including the Charles Angoff Award, the O'Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and story competitions such as The European and the Gulf Coast.

JAMAICA – Dr. Petsy Lewis is a historian with specialization in International Relations/Contemporary History. Dr. Lewis is currently working as a Fellow at Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies at the University of West Indies, Jamaica. Her professional career includes a number of posts in Jamaica and abroad, including a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Social Science at the University of West Indies, Rockefeller Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan where she pursued research on the Windward Islands’ banana industry as part of the African Peoples in the Industrial Age project. Dr. Lewis published a number of articles. Her book Surviving Small Size: Regional Integration in Caribbean Ministates (University of West Indies Press: Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago) is currently in press. Dr. Lewis holds a Ph.D. in History from Trinity College, Cambridge University, England.

ITALY - Linh Dinh was born in Saigon, South Vietnam, 1963, and educated at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 1982-1986. His books include Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction From Vietnam (New York: Seven Stories Press 1996), which he edited and co-translated; Drunkard Boxing (Philadelphia: Singing Horse Press 1998), poetry, and Fake House (New York: Seven Stories Press 2000), short stories. His poems and stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Sulfur, American Poetry Review, Denver Review, Sonora Review, New American Writing, and many others. He is also an editor and translator. He is currently residing in Italy.

AUSTRALIA – Dr. Amir Mahmood is an economist from Australia. Dr. Mahmood is currently a director of Australasia International Development Consulting. Dr. Mahmood worked as a Director of Research and Research Training at the Graduate School of Business, University of New Castle, Australia as well as Director of Doctoral Program. Dr. Mahmood was a visiting scholar at universities in Canada, Pakistan and Malaysia. He has published numerous articles in journals, books and internet publications. His most recent research includes Economic Integration, regional production Networks and Competitiveness of the ASEAN Economies; Structure, Conduct and Performance of the Malaysian Automobile Industry; Physical Infrastructure, Economic Growth and Competitiveness of the Malaysian Economy. Dr. Mahmood holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Manitoba, Canada.

SOUTH AFRICA – Brenda Mallinson is a Lecturer at the Department of Information Systems, University of Rhodes, South Africa. Professor Mallinson runs community based Computer Literacy Programs, facilitating literacy courses for rural teachers, and other disadvantaged adult learners. She has been involved in the field of interactive multimedia development since 1994.

AUSTRALIA – Russel McDougal

UNITED STATES - Ameena Meer, born in Boston of Indian parents and educated in Britain, has published short stories in Flaming Spirit and New Writing 3 and the novel Bombay Talkie. In his review called it a "vivid, funny, graceful first novel," noting that "Her touch is deceptively light, the surface effervescence of the writing only gradually opening up tensions and complexities of cultural and generational collision."

EGYPT – Dr. Samia Mehrez is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the American University in Cairo Egypt. Professor Mehrez published a number of articles and books. Her publications include Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim and Gamal al-Ghitani as well as Spoken Egyptian Arabic. Dr. Mehrez received a number of awards which include Distinguished Visiting Professorship from Northwestern University and Faculty Fellow at Cornell University where she worked as an Assistant Professor or Arabic Language and Literature. Professor Mehrez is currently working on two books: Arab Women Writers and the Nation (English) and The Complete Works of Labiba Hashim (1880-1947) with Critical Introduction (Arabic). Professor Mehrez holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA.

INDIA – Dr. Shridhar Rajesawaran worked as an Assistant Professor of English at the Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Hodeidah, Yemen and a visiting lecturer at universities in India. His numerous articles and papers were published in India, Germany and Austria. Dr. Rajeswaran also wrote several plays for radio and stage. He is currently working on his book From Idea to Ideology – Historicising the Philosophy of Ideas. Dr. Rajesawaran holds a Ph.D. in English, University of Mumbai, India.

UNITED STATES - Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, the award-winning Indian novelist, was born in Goa in 1925 when it was still a Portuguese colony, but he counts English among one of his three mother tongues. Having migrated to Bombay in 1939, his short stories were first published in the late 1940s and early 50s in the British Indian press; more recently they have been featured in three of America's top international literary journals — the North American, Iowa, and Literary Reviews — as well as in the Indian-American. The New York Foundation for the Arts awarded him its fiction fellowship in 1991; seven years later, his first novel, Tivolem, earned him the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, awarded each year to the best work of literary fiction published by Milkweed Editions of Minneapolis; Booklist, the influential journal of the American Library Association, picked Tivolem as "one of the twenty notable first novels" of 1997-98. A subsequent book tour and readings took him to eight states and to Toronto, Canada. Penguin's paperback edition was short-listed for India's prestigious Crossword Book Award, and remained on that nation's bestseller list for several months.

UNITED STATES - Bino A. Realuyo was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. He has a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the School of International Service of The American University in Washington, D.C. and Universidad Argentina de la Empresa in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His poetry and fiction have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies in the U.S. and the Philippines including The Kenyon Review, Manoa, New Letters and The Nation. He received the 1998 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from Poetry Society of America and 2000 New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for fiction. He edited The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writings in New York City published by the Asian American Writer's Workshop and Temple University Press in 1999 (awarded PEN Open Book Award 2000). His acclaimed debut novel, The Umbrella Country was released in March 1999 by Ballantine Reader's Circle, Random House. The novel was included in Booklist's "Top Ten First Novels of 1999," a finalist for Barnes and Noble's "Discover Great New Writers Award" and a recipient of an Asian American Literary Award 2000. He is an educator in adult literacy and lives in Manhattan.

SOUTH AFRICA – Dr. Chris Stones is a Associate Professor of Psychology at Rhodes University, South Africa.

INDIA – L.N. Vijayaraghavan is Secretary to Government of Tamil Nadu, Department of Rural Development, Chennai, India. Mr. Vijayaraghavan has been working in various areas such as Education, Housing and Urban and Rural Development, Poverty, Rehabilitation of Refugees, Population, Health and Nutrition, Planning, Child Labor, Women Empowerment, Energy and Community Development. His work involves close relationship and active interaction with international organizations, such as World Bank, UNICEF and UNDP. Mr. Vijayaraghavan holds a Masters Degree in Commerce, University of Delhi, India.