Melanie Brubaker, Trustees Fellow
Jocelyne Chait, Coordinator and Faculty
Glenda de la Fuente, Coordinator
Waly Faye, Coordinator
Sally Frankental, Coordinator and Faculty
Melissa Garcia Lamarca, Faculty
Donzetta Jones, Co-Coordinator

Barbara Knecht, Program Co-Director
Kenneth Kruckemeyer, Program Co-Director
Kalyani Menon-Sen, Coordinator
David Monda, Faculty
Claudia Oxman, Co-Coordinator
Greg Pasquali, Trustees Fellow
Lily Baum Pollans, Faculty

Mieka Ritsema, Faculty
Carolina Rovetta, Co-Coordinator
Ousmane Sene, Coordinator
Virginia Stanard, Co-Coordinator
Hoai Anh Tran, Coordinator
Siddartha Wig, Coordinator

Melanie Brubaker, M.A.
Trustees Fellow, Spring 2011
Melanie Brubaker received her Masters Degree in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations from the SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont. She has a BA in Sociology from Clark University in Worcester, MA where her research focused on how race, class, and gender affect a person’s ability to access educational opportunity and positions of power in society. Melanie has spent the last four years as the Assistant Program Director and Staff Trainer for the SIT Youth Peacebuilding and Leadership Programs. With the Youth Programs she developed curriculum for student cross-cultural dialogue sessions, as well as Current Issues and Leadership Skills workshops on topics ranging from global climate change to gender norms, communication skills to ally behavior. She has traveled extensively with international students from a variety of countries including Iraq, Rwanda, Serbia and Brazil. When traveling internationally Melanie likes to take cooking classes, fumble through new languages and explore the various ways communities are developed. When not working, Melanie trains Capoeira (a Brazilian martial art), is a community gardener and tries to infuse laughter and a sense of adventure into the everyday.

Jocelyne Chait, M.A.
Country Coordinator: New York City, USA

Traveling Faculty, Spring 2011
Jocelyne Chait is an independent planning consultant with extensive experience in comprehensive community-based planning in New York City. She has collaborated with local and citywide organizations and institutions, city agencies and elected officials on a number of planning initiatives and research projects, ranging from Bronx Center, a plan to develop a Bronx “downtown,” to a citywide study of cooperative and condominium conversion activity. She has also written on housing and community-based planning policies and issues. Much of Ms Chait’s work for the past fifteen years has focused on planning under Section 197-a of the New York City Charter, both in terms of developing plans with local communities and promoting a citywide community planning agenda. She is currently evaluating sustainable development and construction practices in the Melrose Commons Urban Renewal Area in the South Bronx, under a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Neighborhood Development pilot program led by the US Green Building Council. Ms Chait was born in Belgium, grew up in South Africa and has lived for the past 31 years in New York City. She has a degree in Architecture from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and a Masters degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College, the City University of New York. She served as IHP traveling faculty in the Spring 2008, Spring 2009 and Spring 2010 Cities programs. In addition to teaching on IHP she has taught land use studios at both Hunter College and the Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment.

Glenda de la Fuente, M.A.
Country Coordinator: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Glenda de la Fuente holds a Bachelor’s degree in Translation and a postgraduate degree from Kings’ College, University of London, on Applied linguistics and teaching of English. Former Professor and Coordinator of the extracurricular English Program at the University of Buenos Aires, she was also in charge of teacher training courses. Since 1987, she has been a member of the Humanist Movement, an international volunteer organization engaged in the promotion of equity and human values worldwide. She has also served as a lecturer and promoter of grassroots groups based on non-violence and non-discrimination principles in Argentina, Paraguay, Spain and Brazil. Born in Argentina, she has lived in São Paulo for the last five years where she works as a free- lance conference interpreter and translator, and promotes humanist education programs in community-based groups and schools. She has been the country coordinator of “Cities” Program since 2007, and next year will also Coordinate the “Health and Community” Program in São Paulo.

Waly Faye, M.A.

Country Co-Coordinator: Dakar, Senegal

Waly Faye is a development manager. He holds a master degree in development projects management. He is the Study Abroad Programs Coordinator at the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal. He has a significant experience in international development and international education. He serves also as Coordinator for many faculty development programs in Senegal. He has experience in planning fieldtrips. He has an understanding of the social, economic and cultural environment of Senegal by working with many NGOs in different areas of development, different sites and locations of the country.

Sally Frankental, Ph.D.
Country Coordinator: Cape Town, South Africa

Traveling Faculty, Spring 2011
Dr. Frankental is a social anthropologist who taught at the University of Cape Town for many years, and where she was also the Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research from 1980 to 1992. Her current research interests are in the areas of migration, identity, ethnicity and citizenship. Her association with the IHP Cities program (since 1999) has been facilitated by her teaching in the anthropology of development and applied anthropology, her supervision of a wide variety of graduate students’ research projects conducted locally, and the consultancy work she has done for the City of Cape Town. Her book South Africa’s Diverse Peoples (with Dr. Owen Sichone) was published by ABC-CLIO in 2005.

Melissa Garcia Lamarca, MSc

Traveling Faculty, Spring 2011
Melissa is a cross-disciplinary urbanist, activist and sustainability consultant who is a passionate believer in the need for bottom-up, inclusive, community driven processes towards more socially just and sustainable cities. Spending her formative years in Mexico City, she studied Geography and Economics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After working in an NGO in Buenos Aires during the 2001 economic crisis, Melissa was driven to collaborate on a grassroots process towards institutionalising ecological, social and economic change at the very urban Concordia University in Montreal, first as a graduate diploma student in Community Economic Development and then for several years as an employee of the university. As a Director with Sustainability Solutions Group workers cooperative consultancy, she received a Commonwealth Scholarship in 2008 to undertake an MSc in Building and Urban Design in Development at University College London. Melissa’s dissertation investigated the institutionalisation of insurgent claims towards rights to the city in urban development processes in theory and in practice in Mumbai, India, based on fieldwork conducted in May 2009. She has worked in Montreal, Canberra, San Francisco, Buenos Aires and Istanbul, and is currently based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Donzetta Jones, MCD

Country Co-Coordinator: Detroit, USA

Donzetta is the Assistant Dean of the School of Architecture as well as the Business Manager for the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy. She is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the SOA and the Design Center. She is the faculty moderator of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS). Donnie is actively involved in the Women’s Studies Program, African American Studies Program, and the curriculum committee for the Master of Community Development Program of which she is a graduate. She is also actively involved in the community group, Re-democratize Detroit, which promotes community involvement in the decision making process as the City moves forward in its redevelopment efforts. Donnie has a BA degree from UDM with a concentration in sociology, is certified in Women’s Studies and African American Studies, has a Masters of Community Development (MCD) and is currently completing her Masters of Liberal Studies with a concentration in History. Donnie has been a resident of the City of Detroit for 30 years.

Barbara Knecht, M.Arch., R.A.
Program Co-Director

Barbara Knecht is an architect and a consultant whose work focuses on improving the social and economic capacity of people and communities. She is co-director of IHP “Cities in the 21st Century” program and she is the Director of Design at the Institute for Human-Centered Design, a nonprofit organization committed to enhancing human experiences through excellence in design. Barbara has worked for the City of New York and consulted for not for profit agencies to produce affordable housing, implement health care programs for homeless families and adults, and conceive employment programs for jobless New Yorkers. She has been a contributing writer on urban issues for magazines and books. Barbara holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. She was awarded a Kinne Fellowship from Columbia University, and a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University. She serves on the Board of Directors of Care for the Homeless, and the Streetscape committee of the Municipal Art Society.

Kenneth Kruckemeyer, B.Arch., AIA, ASCE
Program Co-Director

Ken Kruckemeyer is a neighborhood activist who turned his energies toward the implementation of major public projects, and is now educating a new generation of citizens involved in the creation of great urban places. His early community work as an anti-highway organizer led to the design and construction of Boston’s Southwest Corridor rail transportation facilities and linear park. His experience as a demonstrator for affordable housing was realized in the construction of “Tent City” mixed-income housing in Boston’s South End. For fifteen years, Ken taught Civil Engineering, Urban Planning and Architecture at MIT, and directed student research on transportation projects in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Chicago. He taught a cooperative design studio with MIT students at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He is currently co-Director of the IHP “Cities in the 21st Century” study-abroad program. Ken is a registered Architect with degrees from Princeton University and MIT, and he was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University.

Kalyani Menon-Sen, Ph.D.
Country Coordinator: Delhi, India

Kalyani Menon-Sen is a feminist activist, researcher and writer with over twenty years of experience of working on women's rights issues with a range of constituencies, from grassroots women's groups to government programmes and multilateral development agencies. She has been a Gender Advisor with UNDP in India, and continues to work with UNDP country offices in integrating gender equality concerns into their programmes. Kalyani has been involved for several years in efforts to build economic literacy at the grassroots. Her recent work has focused attention on evictions and resettlement in Delhi to show how urbanisation impacts the lives and livelihoods of working class women who experience multiple vulnerabilities – as migrants, as workers in the informal sector, as members of minority communities and as dwellers on the margins of India's globalising cities.

David Monda, M.A.
Traveling Faculty, Fall 2010

David Monda is a political scientist whose research examines the comparative political economy of post colonial Africa with a focus on Zimbabwe. In his capacity as Associate Professor, David has taught Environmental Policy, American Government, and US Constitution courses online and in the traditional classroom setting. He has been an Honor Research Scholar at the University of Oslo, a Summer Scholar for the National Endowment for Humanities at the City University of New York and a Distinguished Faculty Lecturer at Irvine Valley College. His research interests include Environmental Policy, Public Policy and Urban development in developing nations, Maritime Piracy on the Horn of Africa, Human Rights, Civil Liberties and US foreign and security policy. David has taught at Grand Canyon University, Ashford University, Irvine Valley College and Everest College. He earned his BA and MA degrees in International Relations from Alliant International University and is completing a doctoral program at Walden University’s School of Public Policy and Administration.

Claudia Oxman, B.A.
Country Co-Coordinator: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Claudia Oxman is a linguist and program administrator with interests in Spanish language immersion programs, anthropology, cross-cultural education and international relations. She holds a B.A. in French and a B.A. in Education for Primary School, and a Master's Degree in Linguistics. She has been working for several years as professor of linguistics at Universidad de Buenos Aires as professor of anthropological linguistics and research methods. Her thesis on Interviewing in Social Sciences was published at UBA's publishing house. Ms. Oxman is the executive director of an Argentinean publishing house devoted to Spanish as a foreign language materials. Since 2005 coordinates Cities’ program in Buenos Aires jointly with Ms. Carolina Rovetta.

Greg Pasquali got his BA in Architecture at Yale with a focus on urban planning and design and a strong foundation in environmental science, history and philosophy. His interest in cities is rooted in a love of outdoor adventure and dedication to preserving wild places by ensuring that cities are places where we as a society want to live because they provide services and culture that we can’t get when we live in dispersed communities spread across formerly pristine mountains and agricultural lands. In other words, Greg is equally adept at navigating snowy mountains as urban transportation systems, and loves to consider natural factors that formed ecosystems and the infrastructure systems that support urban systems. In the years since college, he has worked for Habitat for Humanity leading the Habitat Bicycle Challenge, co-founded and run Manna Project International (an international program for college vacation, summer and post-grad volunteer work), worked as an urban planner for 5 years focusing on Smart Growth and sustainable neighborhood development, and worked on and off as a high-end biking and hiking tour guide in Europe for Backroads. He prides himself on his equally fun, socially-responsible and rigorous professional life.

Lily Baum Pollans, MCP
Traveling Faculty, Fall 2010
Lily Baum Pollans is a practicing urban planner and designer. In both urban and suburban contexts, Lily works to transform the built environment through engaging communities in planning processes, prioritizing redevelopment, and fighting for investment in projects that make visible connections to natural systems. In her capacity as a planner for both a city government and a University, Lily has worked on brownfields redevelopment, transit-oriented development, urban agriculture, and place-making. Lily also researches and documents urban infrastructure, and frequently collaborates with local community arts organization to create city-landscape inspired graphics and art installations. Lily has a BA in Urban Studies from Barnard College, a Masters in City Planning from MIT, and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Mieka Ritsema, Ph.D.

Traveling Faculty, Fall 2010

Mieka Ritsema is an urban anthropologist whose research examines socio-economic and historical transformations of Botswana’s capital city, Gaborone. She emphasizes multigenerational experiences of urban development, social (im)mobility, and processes of place-making. Dr. Ritsema has also worked in urban Connecticut as an ethnographer among people with severe mental illness in order to assess vocational rehabilitation programs. Her research interests include migration, economic development and globalization, identity, and socio-cultural dimensions of HIV/AIDS. Dr. Ritsema has taught anthropology courses at the University of Botswana, Yale University, and University of Massachusetts, Boston. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University.

Carolina Rovetta, M.A.
Country Co-Coordinator: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Carolina Rovetta holds a five year degree in Arts from University of Buenos Aires with a postgraduate degree in Contemporary Cinema and Theatre. She has been working in the field of international education for many years. She is in charge of designing academic and immersion programs in Argentina for students and institutions from abroad. Her focus is on the interaction between academic contents and cultural sensitiveness. Due to her main interest in arts and culture, she plays the role of cultural facilitator of Buenos Aires city and has written several pedagogical guides on cultural activities in immersion. Also, she is academic advisor for study abroad students of several US universities. Ms Rovetta became involved with the International Honors Program in 2005 establishing the program Cities in the 21st Century in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the co-coordinator of the program, jointly with Ms Claudia Oxman.

Ousmane Sene, Ph.D.

Country Coordinator: Dakar, Senegal

Ousmane Sene was first educated in Senegal and earned his B.A. and M.A. in English at University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar. Subsequently, he went to Paris, France, to study at the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle and Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint Cloud where he completed a Ph.D. in Commonwealth Literature. Ousmane Sene is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, University Cheikh Anta Diop, where he teaches African and American literatures. Early in his career, he was involved in international education as a resident director for several study abroad programs implemented in Senegal by US universities. He has also been a frequent and regular visiting professor in many universities across the United States. He has a solid experience in administration, first as chair of the Department of English in Dakar for 10 years and now as Director of the West African Research Center (WARC). Professor Sene is a member of several learned societies and was awarded the Fulbright senior research scholarship in 1992. He speaks two African languages along with French and English.

Virginia Stanard, M.Arch., M.U.D.
Country Co-Coordinator: Detroit, USA
Virginia Stanard is an architectural and urban designer who advocates community development through the collaborative design process at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. At the Design Center Virginia has developed economic and physical revitalization strategies for a range of nonprofit clients. In her previous experience she was an architectural designer in Boston and Washington, DC. Virginia serves on the Design Committee of the Southwest Detroit Business Association and teaches at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. Virginia received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. She received her Master of Architecture and Master of Urban Design from the University of Michigan.

Hoai Anh Tran, Ph.D.
Country Coordinator: Hanoi, Vietnam
Tran Hoai Anh was born in Hanoi and trained as architect in Hanoi and has been working as a researcher in Sweden for the most part of the past 20 years. She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and Development Studies from Lund University, Sweden. Her main field of research is urban and housing development, with special focus on transitional societies. Contemporary Vietnam and China have been her main research areas, with focus on the impacts on socioeconomic transformations on urban development and on social and gender equity.

Shanti Avirgan, Faculty

Stefi Barna, Faculty

Sara Bergstresser, Faculty

Zhang Chengping, Coordinator

Christopher J. Colvin, Program Director and Coordinator

Glenda de la Fuente, Coordinator

Jesse DeLaughter, Assistant Program Director

Heather Fukunaga, Trustees Fellow

Mani Kalliath, Coordinator
Lois McCloskey, Consultant

Anh Le Thi Ngoc, Coordinator
Vu Cong Nguyen, Coordinator

Jeremy Ogusky, Coordinator

Lora Sabin, Consultant

Mira Silverman, Faculty

Caroline A. Stierle-Wirz, Coordinator

Jan G. Vermeulen, Coordinator

Emily C. Williams, Faculty

Shanti Avirgan, PhD Candidate, MPhil, MA

Traveling Faculty, Spring Two 2010

Shanti Avirgan is a documentary filmmaker and a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at New York University, where she is completing her dissertation, a comparative ethnography of Brazilian and US HIV/AIDS activism during the antiretroviral era (1996-2006). Shanti also holds a BA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from NYU. On a Fullbright Fellowship, Shanti lived in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil from 1997-99, conducting research on how local popular cultures were being incorporated into emerging HIV/AIDS prevention efforts. As a filmmaker, Shanti has produced and directed several award-winning documentary shorts in Latin America and the US. Her first feature-length documentary, Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement, premiered on the Showtime cable network in 2005 and has since been screened in film festivals, public health conferences, activist workshops and college campuses around the world. Shanti is currently collaborating with veteran filmmaker Jean Carlomusto on Sex in an Epidemic, a feature documentary about the sexual politics of AIDS in the United States. Shanti grew up in Tanzania and Costa Rica and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has taught classes in medical anthropology, the anthropology of gender and sexuality and Latin American studies at New York University and Brooklyn College (CUNY).

Sara Bergstresser, PhD, MPH

Traveling Faculty, Spring Two 2010

Sara completed the PhD in Anthropology at Brown University in May 2004, with a focus on medical anthropology and mental health. Her dissertation, entitled “Therapies of the Mundane: Community Mental Health Care and Everyday Life in an Italian Town,” investigates the history of deinstitutionalization and the current status of nationalized community mental health care in Italy in historical and comparative perspective. She also completed an MPH at Harvard School of Public Health in 2007, and has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School (Department of Health Policy) and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health (Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program). She has participated in international fieldwork and study in Europe, East Asia, and Latin America; her fieldwork in the United States has focused on populations with psychiatric disability and on homeless populations in New York City. She has taught at Brown University, Ramapo College of New Jersey, and Columbia Department of Sociomedical Sciences. She has most recently been Research Scientist at the Center to Study Recovery in Social Contexts at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York.

Country Coordinator, China
Ms. Zhang is an English professor at the Central South University (CSU) in Changsha, China. Ms. Zhang has taught English and American history and culture to Chinese students at CSU for about 30 years. Her research has primarily been in the field of comparative study between Chinese and American cultures. She has participated in and directed nine research projects that mainly focus on improving second language acquisition from the perspective of culture and through the methodology of comparative study. She has published ten books and more than 40 articles on applied linguistics. She has also translated one book, A History of Technology. Ms. Zhang has received numerous awards, including one from China's prestigious Education Administration.

Glenda de la Fuente, MA

Country Coordinator, Brazil

Born in Argentina, Glenda graduated as a Translator in Buenos Aires, then did her post-grad studies at the Kings College, University of London, where she researched in the field of oral production and assessment techniques. Professor and coordinator of the English Extra-Curricular Program at the University of Buenos Aires, she was also in charge of teachers’ training courses. Since 1987, she has been a member of the Humanist Movement, a volunteer international organization dedicated to the promotion of equity and human values worldwide. She has also been a speaker and promoter of grassroots groups based on non-violence and non-discrimination principles for the resolution of conflicts in Argentina, Paraguay, Spain and Brazil. She has lived in São Paulo for the last five years, where she works as a free-lance conference interpreter and translator while promoting a humanist approach toward education through various programs. Since 2007, she has also been Country Coordinator for IHP Cities in the 21st Century.

Jesse DeLaughter, MA

Assistant Program Director

Jesse is the Assistant Program Director for the Health and Community program. Upon graduating from Colby College with a BA in French Studies and Art History, he taught English in Dijon, France and Washington, DC. He served for one year as an Americorps volunteer at the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants in Albany, NY, where he developed and coordinated a citizenship education program as well as a mentor program for newly arrived refugees. He obtained a Masters in International Education from the SIT Graduate Institute in 2008, focusing on administration of study abroad programs. He was previously the Program Coordinator for IHP Health and Community and for IHP Rethinking Globalization.   

Mani Kalliath

Country Coordinator, India

Mani is a long-time public health professional with present interest in the mental health sector. After graduate medical studies, he was involved with small grassroots initiatives in community health in India for over a decade, before completing a Masters program in public health at Maastricht University. He has also been involved with the co-coordinating office of CHAI (Catholic Health Association of India), a national health network that promotes community-based health programs. CHAI was deeply involved in the People’s Health Movement from its inception in 2000. He has done work in the field of HIV/AIDS for over three years as a project faculty with the Christian Medical College, Vellore, in the project's Physician’s (Distance Education) Course in HIV/AIDS, and in a scaling-up project with two other medical colleges. For the past five years, He has been involved in the community mental health and allied disability fields. He currently directs Basic Needs India (BNI), which works in partnership with about twenty NGOs, spread across forty-five districts in eight states of India, integrating and promoting community-based mental health.

Consultant
Dr. McCloskey was the original Program Director of IHP Health and Community and continues to provide vital guidance to the program. As Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health (SPH) and Pediatrics (MED),  she possesses over 25 years of experience in domestic and international health. She began her public health career as an applied anthropologist and educator of community health workers in Nepal. Dr. McCloskey’s Masters in Public Health focused on population studies and international health, and her Doctorate in Public Health on the socioeconomic context of fertility in low-income countries and perinatal epidemiology in the United States. She co-founded the Institute for Urban Health Policy and Research for the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals in 1989 and served as its Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director for 7 years before joining the faculty of Boston University. She maintains close research and practice ties with the Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and many community-based health organizations. Her research and consultation activities focus on race-based disparities in infant mortality, access to and quality of primary health care for women in low-income communities and countries, provider-patient communication, the evaluation of urban health initiatives, and reproductive health policy. Dr. McCloskey is the co-founder of the Women’s Health Committee of the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association and serves on the peer review panels of Public Health Reports, Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, and the Maternal and Child Health Journal. She is Director of the MCH/MPH Program and the MCH Leadership Education Program and represents the department on the school-wide Practice and DrPH Committees. Her courses include Global MCH and Women’s Health Policy-making.

Monique Badham, Faculty
William Cameron, Faculty
Gustavo Esteva, Program Director, Faculty, and Coordinator

Oliver Fröhling, Program Director and Faculty

Peter Horsley, Faculty and Coordinator

Jennifer Jones, Faculty

Derek Shaw, Faculty

Alyse Takayesu, Trustees Fellow

Farouk Topan, Faculty

Alice Brooke Wilson, Faculty

Faculty and Country Coordinator, Tanzania

Trained as a journalist at the Tanzania School of Journalism, Fatma Alloo is based in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Achieving a Master’s Degree in Journalism in England, she has experience in Uganda, Britain, Netherlands, Switzerland and Tanzania working on development communication through print and broadcasting media. She is a founder of Uganda and Tanzania Media Women’s Association (TAMWA) which uses media as a mobilizing force. She is a founder-director of NGO Resource Centre in Zanzibar (NGORC) which works to strengthen civil society through capacity building, training and research. As founder and now Vice-Chairperson of Zanzibar Festival of the Dhow (ZIFF), she engages culture and film as a medium for rethinking globalization and facilitating social change. She is also associate editor of Society for International Development Journal based in Rome and is a council member. She is also involved in World Social Forum processes through the Africa Social Forum and the International Council.

Faculty

Monique has been academically trained in Anthropology (BA, Otago University) and Environmental Studies (Masters, Victoria University). Her key research areas are indigenous issues (sovereignty, resistance and revitalisation), environmental worldviews and other ways of knowing, and co-management strategies, and she has worked on collaborative research projects with her iwi (tribe- Ngati Whatua). Monique has been involved with IHP for three years, and will be part of the Anthropology faculty for Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2011.

William Cameron, MSC(Hons)

Faculty

William Cameron is trained as a molecular biologist. He lives near Motueka in New Zealand where he has for the last decade been involved in working on small scale local projects in agriculture, forestry, and tourism. His philosophical interests include evolutionary ecology, conservation ideology and practice, bioregionalism, and the role of families and peoples in local and global societies respectively. He also has an active interest in food production methods and cooking, particularly the de-industrialization of manufactured goods, and the promotion of regional and seasonal attunement, as a response to the homogenizing effects of globalization, and to promote health, culture and complex human ecosystems. William and his wife Rewa helped to found and build an independent cinema in their local town of Motueka that serves as a focus of community, and a place for people to experience the diverse stories of the globe.

Program Co-Director, Faculty and Country Coordinator, Mexico

A grassroots activist and public intellectual based in Oaxaca, Mexico, Gustavo Esteva is a former civil servant, university professor, and lecturer who has worked for the last 30 years with Indian groups, peasants, and urban marginal. He is part of, and has helped create, many independent organizations and networks in Mexico and other countries to foster social, economic, technological, and ecological alternatives. A columnist in the daily newspaper La Jornada, he has received the National Prize of Political Economics (1978) and an honorary degree from the University of Vermont. He concluded his studies for a BA in Industrial Relations in 1956. He was advisor of the Zapatistas in 1996. The author of 30 books, today he works with Indian groups and autonomous organizations.

Program Co-Director and Faculty

Oliver Fröhling is a geographer by academic training. He lives in Oaxaca, Mexico where he co- founded Universidad de la Tierra, a center for autonomous education. His research interests, which are integrated into his practical activities at Unitierra, include NGOs and neoliberal policy, critical geopolitics, and alternatives to economics. The most important initiative he is currently working on is the creation of a network for food sovereignty and urban agriculture in Oaxaca.

Faculty and Country Coordinator, New Zealand

An environmental activist, lawyer, and academic for 25 years, Peter Horsley taught environmental law and resource management in the School of Resource and Environmental Planning at Massey University, New Zealand. He works closely with Maori and community groups and has particular research interests in exploring links among environmental law, ecosystem concepts, environmental ethics, Maori rights and values, and community participation in planning. His current projects include developing collaborative management models for the Maori, Western and South Pacific communities and government agencies to protect and restore the local environment.

Faculty
Believing life is not lived within disciplines, Dr. Jones is a political ecologist who uses a transdisciplinary approach to explore the relationships between people and other elements of nature. Her interests include biodiversity conservation policy, local livelihoods, animal rights, and food justice. She has served as a Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies at Williams College, and spent five years in South Africa researching the impact of protected areas on local communities. Her teaching and research interests are built on principles of collaboration, interdependence, and consensus. Dr. Jones received her Ph.D. from the University of Pretoria.

Smitu Kothari

The Rethinking Globalization program owes much to the vision and creative efforts of long-time faculty and coordinator, Smitu Kothari. Smitu is dearly missed by our staff and alumni. Read remembrances here.

Faculty and Country Coordinator, India
Savyasaachi teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Sociology at the Jamia Millia Islamia (a Central University) in Delhi. He started to engage with different ways of knowing and of living in the course of living with and learning the language of forest dwellers-the Koitor in Abujhmarh, Chattisgarh in Central India, the Hill Kharias and Kutia Khonds in Orissa, East India. He worked with conservation architects as well. Experience in these fields prompted him to rethink issues of method, decolonisation, social life and culture. In the course of teaching at Jamia Millia Islamia he has been able to work on issues related to learning as opposed to teaching . He has several publications; the most recent one from Penguin India is titled 'Between the Earth and the Sky.'

Derek Shaw, Ph.D.

Faculty

Derek Shaw is an independent philosopher and environmental consultant. Dr. Shaw’s areas of interest include social and political philosophy, international political economy, and environmental ethics. He has taught in a variety of disciplines at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Victoria. Dr. Shaw has worked as a consultant for environmental advocacy groups, First Nations, forest management agencies, and the UNESCO Clayoquot Biosphere Reserve. He has served two elected terms on the municipal council of his hometown of Tofino, BC. Dr. Shaw also owns and operates a research sailboat which he has been using to conduct bird research on the West Coast of Canada every summer for the past 9 years. This research is currently funded by the Canadian Wildlife Service. Dr. Shaw received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1996.

Alyse Takayesu

Trustees Fellow

A past student on IHP’s Rethinking Globalization Program, Alyse Takayesu will participate on the upcoming RG program as Trustees Fellow. Raised on the Island of Maui, Alyse has interests in island ecology, philosophy of nature, ecocriticism and the ukulele. Alyse holds a BA in Anthropology with Environmental Studies from Williams College in Massachusetts and is currently completing an MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College in Devon, England. Her transdisciplinary dissertation is focused on theories of the embodied mind and phenomenology as they relate to epistemological questions about nature. Alyse has worked as a program coordinator at The Sustainable Living Institute of Maui, as a research intern for the Maui County Energy Alliance and as a field intern in ecological restoration at the Maui Coastal Land Trust.

Farouk Topan

Faculty

Farouk Topan was a founding member of the Department of Swahili, University of Dar es Salaam in 1970. His fieldwork was on spirit possession among the Swahili in Mombasa. His publications are on various aspects of spirit possession, Swahili literature, religion and identity in East Africa. He has co-edited (with Pat Caplan): Swahili Modernities. Culture, Politics and Identity on the East Coast of Africa (2004). Topan was Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Africa at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, until 2006 when he retired. He is also a playwright: one of his plays (Mfalme Juha, “The Idiot King”) is currently a set text on the Tanzanian school curriculum.

Alice Brooke Wilson, M.A.

Faculty

Alice Brooke Wilson is a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a co-founder and core group member of Maverick Farms, in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. She specializes in critical food studies, particularly alternatives to industrial agriculture emerging within social movements and constructions of sustainability in the U.S.-Mexico food system. Her research focuses on how conceptions or imaginaries of the future affect and give meaning to contemporary social practices. She combines critical cultural geography and cultural studies with anthropology and agro-ecology to study spaces where food and agricultural practices are embedded within social, ethical, political, and ecological concerns.