DR. KOZY AMEMIYA

Born in Tokyo, Dr. Kozy Amemiya graduated from Hitotsubashi University, after which she moved to California in 1973. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at UC San Diego, and has been studying about Okinawan and Japanese immigration to Bolivia for the last 15 years.


 

DOUGLAS BROOKES

Douglas Brookes received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1998 in Near Eastern Studies, specializing in Ottoman Turkish cultural history and language. He teaches courses in Ottoman and Middle Eastern culture and history at U.C. Berkeley Extension. Doug has traveled extensively throughout Turkey and Eastern Europe and recently completed his second book, The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem, a translation of the memoirs of three ladies in the Ottoman imperial harem between 1876 and 1924. This will be Doug's second trip to Turkey with Cal Discoveries.

SUSANNE CAMPBELL

Susanne Campbell was executive director of the UC Berkeley—St. Petersburg University (Russia) School of Management Program at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley for sixteen years, ending in 2008. This partnership with UC Berkeley was instrumental in founding and developing what has become the leading business school in Russia. In 2006, Campbell was invited to the ground-breaking ceremony for the larger Graduate School of Management campus in which she met President Vladimir Putin and was honored to have the dean's conference room named in her honor. She looks forward to introducing travelers to the St. Petersburg Graduate School of Management while in St. Petersburg.

JOSEF CHYTRY

Josef Chytry is Senior Adjunct Professor of Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts, Oakland/San Francisco, and Managing Editor of the Oxford journal Industrial and Corporate Change at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a lecturer in the humanities at the University of California Extension program since 1989. Professor Chytry received a BA in international relations from George Washington University, a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in politics and European intellectual history from the University of Oxford. He has authored five books and is presently working on a book manuscript regarding the Civilization of Greater California. Among the subjects he regularly teaches are: Ancient Greek Culture, the Italian Renaissance, the European Enlightenment, Modernism & Postmodernism. Josef was named the UC Berkeley Extension Honored Instructor for 2009–2010.

COREY COOK

Corey Cook serves as director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, and Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of San Francisco. He joined the University in 2006 after having earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where he spent time visiting Door County) and stints at San Francisco State and Rutgers University. Cook has published academic articles in the California Journal of Politics and Policy, American Politics Research, DuBois Journal of Social Science Research on Race, and Presidential Studies Quarterly in addition to several book chapters. His expertise is in American politics and campaigns and elections. Corey received his BA from UC Berkeley in Political Science in 1993.

TIM DUANE

Professor Tim Duane, former UC Berkeley faculty (1991–2009), is now on the faculty at UC Santa Cruz as associate professor of environmental studies. Professor Duane has also taught at Vermont Law School, where he continues to teach as an adjunct professor during the summer session. He is an expert on renewable energy development, land use planning, and natural resources management and the author of Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West (University of California Press, 1999) as well as many articles on energy, land use, resource management, and environmental planning and policy. Tim has traveled to over forty countries and conducted research with UC Berkeley graduate students in over 15 countries.

HELEN ETTLINGER

Helen Ettlinger recently retired from an administrative position at UC Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from UC Berkeley in 1988. Prior to that, she was an independent scholar doing research, giving lectures and publishing in the field of Italian Renaissance art history. She has spent much time traveling abroad. She was an assistant professor at Central Michigan University and has also taught at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. In addition to writing numerous articles on history and art history, she has also co-authored two books with L.D. Ettlinger: Botticelli (Thames and Hudson, 1976) and Raphael (Phaidon Press, 1987).

DR. PATRICK LLOYD HATCHER

Dr. Patrick Lloyd Hatcher earned his Ph.D in history at UC Berkeley, where he taught in both the History and Political Science Departments. He is currently the Kiriyama distinguished Fellow at the University of San Francisco's Center for the Pacific Rim. Dr. Hatcher appears often on San Francisco Bay Area television as an international relations news analyst. He is a popular Cal Discoveries lecturer who has led many previous Cal Discoveries trips.

ALEXANDER J. HORNE

Professor Alexander J. Horne retired after 32 years, and continues to teach, do research, and seek solutions to problems in aquatic ecosystems worldwide. A native of England, Professor Horne's interest in lakes began in the English Lake District, continued at Lake George in Uganda, and later in Antarctica's small lakes and wetlands. In California, he has focused on Clear Lake, Lake Tahoe, most of the state's larger reservoirs, and San Francisco Bay. Currently, Professor Horne is involved in the fish versus water level debates on Oregon's Upper Klamath Lake, the restoration of fisheries in Nevada's large Walker Lake, the diversion of the Ebro River in Spain, and currently the Arabian Gulf, where he is working on the after effects of the world's largest crude oil release in Kuwait in 1991. His best selling undergraduate text, Limnology, (the study of lakes) includes a section on the Laurentian Great Lakes.

LYNNE KAUFMAN

Lynne Kaufman, MA is an award winning playwright and novelist. She has had thirteen full-length plays produced in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C, at such theatres as The Magic Theatre, Theatreworks, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Abingdon, The Fountain Theatre and Florida Studio Theatre. Her awards include Best New Play in California, Best New Play in San Francisco, New Voices in Playwriting from the William Inge Theatre Festival, and the Kennedy Center/NEA Fund for New American Plays. Kaufman teaches writing at both the UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University Osher Foundations. Lynne is currently Director of Special Events for the Joseph Campbell Foundation, a trustee of the California Institute of Integral Studies and was Director of Travel/Studies at U.C. Berkeley Extension from 1980–2004.

DR. LAURENCE MICHALAK

Dr. Laurence Michalak is a cultural anthropologist with extensive experience in the Middle East and North Africa. He has done research in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, and Eritrea and is a specialist in North Africa. He retired after 23 years as Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley where he organized Berkeley's academic programs related to the Middle East. He also taught and was Faculty Advisor for the Middle Eastern Studies Program. Dr. Michalak received his BA from Stanford in 1964, his MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in 1970, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. He is the editor of books about social legislation in the Middle East; his most recent research is about Muslims in Europe and North America.

VINCENT H. RESH

Vincent H. Resh has been a professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at the University of California, Berkeley since 1975. He recently co-authored a book on evaluating environmental problems in the St. Petersburg region of Russia, and has conducted extensive research in Scandinavia on the ecology of rivers. Professor Resh has been an advisor to the World Health Organization and other United Nations Organizations for over 15 years evaluating human impact on water resources in developing countries in Asia and Africa. He received the University of California's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1995.

SHELDON ROTHBLATT

Sheldon Rothblatt is Professor of History Emeritus and former department chair and Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education on the Berkeley campus. He specializes in Modern European History and he has held visiting appointments at Oxford University, Stanford University, Columbia University Teachers College, Monash University in Australia, the University of Oslo, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He holds an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University and is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the body that awards most of the Nobel Prizes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Britain and a member of the National Academy of Education (US), and has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2010, he was knighted by the Swedish king.

STEVE RUZIN

Steve Ruzin received his Ph.D. from Cal in 1984 in Botany. He currently directs a core microscope facility, the CNR Biological Imaging Facility (BIF), and is Curator of the Golub Collection of antique microscopes at UCB. Steve teaches three classes at Cal, directs the teaching and research efforts in the BIF, and maintains the Golub collection as well as its website. Steve is knowledgeable in natural history and biogeography, especially plants of many areas of the world and is particularly interested in the biology of geophytes (bulb plants), especially tulips and the bulb plants of South Africa.

ALEX M. SARAGOZA

Alex M. Saragoza has served as Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (1994-1997), and subsequently as Director of International Education Programs (1997-1999). He is a member of the systemwide UC-Cuba Initiative, and a member of the Cuba Working Group at the Berkeley campus. Professor Saragoza regularly teaches a course on Cuba, and has visited the island several times over the last ten years. He led two UC Berkeley Extension tours to the island, before the Bush administration imposed restrictions on travel in 2003. He worked on a collaborative project with the Center for Hemispheric Studies and of the United States (Centro de Estudios Hemisfericos y sobre los Estados Unidos) of the University of Havana from 2006–2009, including a two-day symposium with Cuban scholars that he organized and was held in Mexico City in 2009. Professor Saragoza is currently conducting research for a comparative study of the tourist industry in Mexico and Cuba. Along with Professor Barry Carr of Melbourne University (Australia), he is editing a volume on tourism and Latin America. He is a professor of history in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

BETH SZUHAY

Prior to launching her textile conservation consultancy, Beth Szuhay worked as a Textile Conservator for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for ten years. She holds an MS from the Winterthur/Universtiy of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, and a BA in International Studies from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Beth has had the privilege of collaborating on several projects with conservators at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, most recently the conservation of a Greco-Roman crocodile mummy. Beth is active in the conservation community, as a member of the American Institute of Conservation, and the Western Association for Art Conservation, and serves on the board for the North American Textile Conservation Conference. As a conservator, Beth has studied traditional textile weaving and dyeing techniques from around the world.

FREDERIC TUBACH

Frederic "Fritz" Tubach is Professor Emeritus of German and a former director of the University of California Education Abroad Programs in Göttingen, Bordeaux, and Toulouse. In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bordeaux in recognition of his strong personal and academic relationships to both German and French cultures. As a medievalist and folklorist, he brings a variety of perspectives to this major European river with its lovely landscapes, rich cultural traditions and sometimes tortured history—a river that has been the historical divide between Germany and France. Raised on the Main River, a tributary of the Rhine, Fritz will impart "the authentic feel and enthusiasm of the native" to the various locales on our itinerary. Aside from academic publications, he has written widely acclaimed books for a general readership, including Germany 2000 Years: From the Nazi Era to the Present, a Cultural History of Modern Germany; and the double memoirs An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust.