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SBS DEVELOPMENTS 2010 A Publication for Alumni and Friends of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Message from Steve Lynn Welcome to SBS Developments.
http://sbs.arizona.edu Lori Harwood, editor-in-chief and writer Christine Scheer, design and layout
My name is Steve Lynn, and I am the new chair
Steve Lynn, SBS Advisory Board Chair.
of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Advisory Board. I’m also a proud alumnus of SBS, with a bachelor’s degree
Ginny Healy, senior director of development
in political science and a master’s degree in communication. My position outside
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the University is vice president of communications and governmental relations for
Jennifer Bailey, associate director of development Jennifer Rascon, development operations manager Johnathon Hanson, student assistant
UniSource Energy Corporation and its subsidiary, Tucson Electric Power Company. I have agreed to serve as the chair of the SBS Advisory Board because I want to help SBS raise funds and increase awareness of the College. I am also really excited
Inquiries may be addressed to: SBS DEVELOPMENTS The University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences P.O. Box 210028 Tucson, Arizona 85721 520-626-3846
to be working with the new dean of SBS, J.P. Jones III. You can find out more about J.P. on the next page. As the dean of SBS, J.P. has a most difficult job ahead of him — insisting on excellence within the College in the face of unprecedented budget reductions. But I believe J.P.’s up to the challenge, and I’m certainly up to helping him achieve that goal. In this magazine, you will find stories about donors who made gifts to SBS for a
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Cover art: This painting is by University of Arizona student Orlando Montenegro, who is earning a Master of Fine Arts. SBS Developments felt his painting was suggestive of both the collaborations and the network research being undertaken by the new School of Government and Public Policy and the Department of Sociology (see page 16), as well as the SBS outreach in the Tucson community. To see more artwork by Montenegro, go to http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/StudentArt/ ast_id/25240.
variety of reasons: because they are thankful for their education, because they want to help students who are struggling financially, because they are passionate about an area of research or study, or because they want to honor a loved one. I support this College financially because, to me, the social sciences have been — and continue to be — at the very heart of any university. And I believe that gifts to education are an investment in the people who will become the leaders of tomorrow. Thank you for joining me in helping the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences carry out its mission to educate and to make advances in research that can improve many facets of our society. Sincerely,
Steve Lynn SBS Advisory Board Chair
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inEducation A Discussion with New SBS Dean, John Paul Jones III Photo by Ari Palos.
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In January 2010, John Paul Jones III began his job as the dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Jones was formerly the director of the School of Geography and Development. He succeeds Beth Mitchneck, who served as the interim dean, and Edward Donnerstein, who stepped down from the deanship in 2009 to return to the faculty. SBS Developments talks to the new dean about his background and his vision for SBS. You received your degrees in geography. What attracted you to that field? I had an epiphany one day. I had always been inclined to the social sciences, and as an undergraduate at the University of Florida I had toyed with history, anthropology and economics, and had pretty much settled into journalism by the middle of my sophomore year. And then one day my roommate came home with a syllabus from a cultural geography class, and I was hooked. The syllabus spoke directly to me — really, it was something like a religious conversion. Here was an integrative way to understand society that looked at people’s history, culture, economy, social differences and environmental contexts together. I also appreciated that geographers, along with other social scientists, have something to say about real world problems today. Whether its economic decline, water scarcity, climate change, or access to health care, a geographic perspective is vital. After you received your Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 1984, you began your career as an assistant professor at San Diego State. How has university life changed since then? I’d say the biggest change is at
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the undergraduate level. When I began teaching, it was fairly easy to be an integral part of students’ lives; the faculty-to-student ratios back then were much higher. As universities have gotten larger without a corresponding increase in the number of faculty, it’s become a struggle for departments to maintain that sense of family — “you’re a geographer or anthropologist or sociologist; welcome to the family.” It’s more difficult to carve out that time for students on a one-on-one basis. And yet, our faculty still manage to do it, and they work on it every day. There’s not a faculty member in SBS who doesn’t owe their present success to a faculty mentor who drew them into a discipline, a lab, a field site, or a new way of seeing the world. And our faculty want to pay back on that experience, or they wouldn’t be faculty.
both efficient and give students a quality experience: It might be in someone’s lab, as part of a research team in the field, in a small reading group, or as part of collaborative learning, like internships. Third, I would like to see us contribute more to our communities in southern Arizona and to our state. We already do so much, and it’s difficult because we are stretched very thin in terms of resources. And we can advertise what we do accomplish a bit better perhaps. But there are also ways that we can “deputize” our faculty and students, graduate and undergraduate, to
What are your goals for the next year as dean of SBS? My goal is similar to that of a department head, but with a college-wide responsibility: preserving and maintaining quality so our departments are nationally recognized. Top 20 is a good goal. There are a lot of metrics for this: reputation, citation indexes, research funding, student placement, faculty awards and others. And we might quibble over the details, but most of us know where we stand. It’s vitally important that ranked programs remain intellectually healthy, retain quality faculty, and move forward, especially in times like these. And I would say holding on to that intensity of the undergraduate experience that I mentioned earlier — that would be a second goal. It will be as hard as the first, simply because of the numbers. But we can find ways to be
A student working in the zooarchaeology laboratory. In SBS, there are many opportunities for hands-on experience: Students can help produce newspapers, participate in archaeological digs, assist in research labs, and work with social service agencies. Photo by Christine Scheer.
UA journalism alumnus and donor Richard Gilman visits with students. Exchanges between students and professionals in the community help prepare students for their careers. Photo by Kate Flynn.
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be out there in communities, offering You’re a vocal supporter of the aspect of philosophy, you’d soon run their help, but also listening and quality of SBS and the value it out of money. But our philosophy learning, bringing the community into brings to the University of Arizona. department is among the top state. the We already do so and it’s termsWhy of their the larger arts and You’ve spoken aboutininvesting in University, andmuch, vice versa. do role you in think the research internationally political philosophy difficult because we are stretched very sciences tradition in that made universities specific strength inofeach conducted SBS is vital to the andareas in theofphilosophy cognitive thin inThe terms of resources. And country best thecommunity? world. We department. elaborate. budgetary woes ofwe thecan state in thisentire UAthe and to in the science. 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Nothing is outside of of society, we have a first-rate institution within the state Arizona. out of important, forward looking areas good investment already, and within our disciplines. people don’t give because we have wonderful they want to people help uswho bridge give regularly to their favorite budget cuts. They give departments. One idea you plan to because what we do helps implement is to create more them fulfill their dreams The College also answers, has a great interdisciplinary minors? Why? — finding applying group knowledge, of Magellan inspiring Circle members – these are sustaining donors Our students need training students, changing lives.who support our faculty research and in the College’s traditional students – and we of have disciplines. They gain SBS is one thea first ~ Dean John Paul Jones III rate Advisory Board. But people an identity: “I’m an colleges in the new won’t give because Arizona won’t anthropologist” – that’s a Colleges of Letters, Arts or can’t support higher education. great thing for our graduates and Science (CLAS), They give for includes their dreams to be able to say. But at which SBS, the – finding answers, applying the same time, we need College of Fine Arts, knowledge, inspiring students with strong interdisciplinary the College ofstudents. Humanities and theor removed from social implications. at in this way, about our research College of Science. What does thisLooked You’ve spoken investing in perspectives to be able to tackle responsibilities are asof large as anyin each problems that don’t reside within one change really mean to SBS? specific areas strength SBS is one of the colleges in the new college in this university. Whether discipline. Environmental sustainability, department. Please elaborate. Colleges of Letters, Artsgradually and Science social justice, community development, It means we will come to you’re in the biological sciences, the (CLAS), which includes SBS, College oruse theof environmental think of ourselves as a the team. We will physical It’ssciences, not a wise our public funds safety and security – these are just of Finehave Arts,our theown College of Humanities people to arebuild always there. in a few of the many challenges our identity, but our faculty,sciences, to attempt excellence and the College of Science. that respect, SBS is central notin graduates will face. Finally, I think staff and students willWhat over does time learnAnd inevery area of every department this change really meanoftotheir SBS?role in the only to the intellectual mission of theour students will be better prepared for fluid to think in terms the College. We need to focus but to the public mission larger arts and sciences tradition thatUniversity, investments in pockets of excellence. job markets if they have the flexibility It means we universities will gradually to thinkthe of theIn institution the the State of provided by interdisciplinary training. made in come this country fact, this within has been College’s of ourselves a team. our Arizona. best inas the world. We We will will have collaborate, strategy for some time, and it explains own identity, but our staff and cross-train, andfaculty, preserve resources why we can point to top 10 and even students will over time learn to think in together. The CLAS deans are already top five areas of strength in our SBS
“I think of SBS as the people college. Our research is about people and it’s for people.”
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working this way. But it’s a culture change — it will take some time.
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departments. Take philosophy for example. It’s one of the oldest fields known to humankind. If you tried to build a department around every
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dissect the world. But at the same time, we need students with strong interdisciplinary perspectives to be able to tackle problems that don’t reside within one discipline. Environmental sustainability, social justice, community development, safety and security — these are just a few of the many challenges our graduates will face, and they won’t come to them packaged in disciplines. Not only this, but students will be better prepared for fluid jobs markets if they have the flexibility provided by interdisciplinary perspectives.
Do you have any final comments?
Change
There’s excellence up and down this College — from our staff to our faculty to our students. Everywhere I turn I find people who are smart, creative, innovative and hard working. If you’re in the College, be proud of what has already been accomplished and let’s roll up our sleeves. If you’re in the community — whether you’re an alumnus or simply a friend of the University — get in touch, be involved, and help make us even better.
SBS – At a Glance
As part of the University of Arizona Transformation Plan, there have been several changes in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences: • SBS is now one of the colleges in CLAS (the Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science), along with the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and the College of Science. • The Department of Anthropology became the School of Anthropology. The School of Anthropology now includes the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA), as well as archaeologists from the Department of Classics and curators from the Arizona State Museum. • The Department of Geography and Regional Development became the School of Geography and Development. • The Mexican American Studies & Research Center was renamed the Department of Mexican American & Raza Studies. • The Department of Political Science joined with the School of Public Administration and Policy (formerly in the UA Eller College of Management) to create the School of Government and Public Policy in SBS. • The Department of Psychology and the Cognitive Science Program joined the new School of Mind, Brain, and Behavior located in the College of Science. • The Department of Women’s Studies was renamed the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.
Photo: Regents’ Philosophy Professor Julia Annas has a discussion with a small group of students. Faculty-student interaction is a key component to a quality educational experience. Photo by Christine Scheer.
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New Life for University Indian Ruins Four years ago,
in this publication, we reported on an $8 million gift to the UA School of Anthropology by A. Richard Diebold, Jr., Ph.D., and his Salus Mundi Foundation. Part of the gift was earmarked for the stabilization and renovation of the historic University Indian Ruins property located in east Tucson. These renovations have now been completed.
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As part of the renovation, the adobe residence, archaeological laboratory, and guest house were stabilized and reroofed, and new electrical, heating and cooling systems were installed.
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But what’s important about these changes is that this historic site can now be used to teach students the practices of archaeology.
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The 13-acre property was a gift to Anthropology in the 1930s and includes one of the last remaining Hohokam Classic Period platform mound sites in the Tucson Basin (ca. A.D. 1325-1450). Because of its historical significance, University Indian Ruins is now being used for the Archeological Field School, directed by Professors Paul and Suzanne Fish. In the refurbished lab, students can wash, analyze and classify artifacts they find at the site. “The upgrades are wonderful,” says Professor Suzanne Fish. “The lab wasn’t even usable before. It was used for storage.” With the new renovations, the School of Anthropology will also be initiating a University Indian Ruins Residential Scholar Program to bring visiting faculty to the UA. The scholar will stay at the adobe residence and teach in the School of Anthropology.
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“The University Indian Ruins archaeological site has provided me valuable opportunities,” says Rachael Byrd, an anthropology graduate student. “Students are provided crucial training in advanced excavation techniques that can only be taught by having access to the archaeological record and the setting where it is found.”
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“At this site, I learned how to map a site, search for and identify features using ground penetrating radar, conduct an organized surface collection, and distinguish diagnostic artifacts. I am very grateful that I had the chance to participate in this field school and for the renovations that made it possible. This experience was exactly what I needed to affirm my desire to go into archaeology.”
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Digging into the History of University Indian Ruins In order to complete a National Register Nomination Form for University Indian Ruins, Professor T.J. Ferguson’s class researched the history of the site. Some interesting facts: • The Hohokam culture flourished in the valleys of the Salt and Gila Rivers in central Arizona for more than a thousand years. The Hohokam irrigated large areas of desert river valley to grow corn, beans, squash and cotton. During the Classic Period, the overall geographic area occupied by the Hohokam decreased. Instead of subterranean pit houses, they began creating large groups of adobe rooms with shared walls. • Three periods of archaeological excavation were undertaken at University Indian Ruins between 1930 and 1941 by Professors Byron Cummings, Emil Haury and Julian Hayden. • Cummings’ excavations yielded a large collection of ceramics that he analyzed as Gila Polychromes. His team also identified up to 23 cremations. Unfortunately, much of his data was lost due to a garage fire at Cummings’ home in the 1960s. • Under the direction of Cummings, University Indian Ruins became the first site in the United States at which archaeologists used helium balloon aerial photography. • Emil Haury and UA students worked on the site in 1938 and 1939 and focused on building a strong ceramic chronology for the purposes of dating. • The last major excavation was done between 1940 and 1941 by Julian Hayden. Hayden worked to understand the formational history of the site, especially the construction sequence of the adobe architecture and subsequent remodeling. • The roles that women played in the early University Indian Ruins excavations were revolutionary. Instead of being consigned to washing artifacts, the female students excavated and participated in the curation of artifacts. Photos: a) The renovations included restoration of the historic adobe residence. BWS Architects provided the plan with Division II, the general contractors. b) Suzanne and Paul Fish, directors of the Archaeological Field School, with students Ariel Myers and Emily Fioccoprile. c) Broken pottery from excavations hold important information about the dates of occupation and the kinds of activities that took place at the site. d) Emily Fioccoprile and Ariel Myers screen soil from excavations to recover artifacts. e) Dylan Imre, Rachel Hessick and Ashley McDonald expose the shallowly buried bases of the walls of an adobe room. f) Suzanna DeFriez and Rachel Hessick assemble samples of obsidian (volcanic glass) for chemical analysis. g) Men and women performing field work at University Indian Ruins some time between 1939 and 1941. Source: Arizona Historical Society. Photos a-f by Lori Harwood. 2010 ISSUE
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These faculty and student projects were recently supported by funds from the Magellan Circle, SBS’s donor society: • Laura Briggs and Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies received funds to support graduate student travel to the Tepoztlan Institute for Transnational History in Mexico this summer. • T.J. Ferguson, professor of practice in the School of Anthropology, received funds to help bring Susan Bruning to the UA to interact with students and to present a guest lecture on anthropology, American Indians, and the law. • Benjamin Irvin, assistant professor in the history department, received funds to support undergraduate research on the lives of disabled veterans in the early United States. • Liz Kennedy in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies received a grant to bring Margaret Randall, noted poet, photographer and oral historian, to speak on campus and to work with students.
• Jay Rochlin in the School of Journalism received Magellan Circle funds to send five student journalists to Hermosillo, Sonora, to provide multimedia coverage of a clinic where U.S. doctors performed surgeries on 30 impoverished Mexican children to repair cleft palates and cleft lips. • Robert Schon in the School of Anthropology received a Magellan grant to help four students travel to Sicily this summer to participate in the Marsala Hinterland Survey, which is an archaeological survey of one of Sicily’s most important and threatened historical areas. • Kamran Talattof in the Department of Near Eastern Studies received a grant to support the visit of Marta Simidchieva to give four talks in Persian and Iranian studies. • Natasha Warner in the Department of Linguistics received funds to bring in two guest speakers from the speech technology industry to visit her Speech Technology course.
“As a student who went on the field research training trip for the Latin American studies class, I want to thank the Magellan Circle. I think one of the most interesting parts of the experience for me was meeting with the professors at the Colegio de Sonora. It was really fascinating and eye-opening!” ~ Brenda Pecotte, master’s student in Latin American studies
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2009 Teaching Awards • Christine Dykgraaf, Near Eastern Studies Magellan Circle Award for Lower Division Instruction Dykgraaf taught “Middle Eastern Humanities,” a course with an enrollment of 500 to 700 students a year. “Christine consistently goes beyond any ‘normal’ teaching role in advising and mentoring students by spending time and energy to help undergraduates in her courses grasp the curricula in a meaningful way,” wrote Michael Bonine, head of the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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• Dana Mastro, Communication Magellan Circle Award for Upper Division Instruction Mastro documents depictions of race and ethnicity on television — with an emphasis on Latinos — and assesses the extent to which viewing influences stereotyping. “I can attest to the fact that Dana is a perfect model of an instructor who maintains high standards in her classes, who is impeccably fair in her teaching, and yet maintains the respect and admiration of her students,” wrote Chris Segrin, head of the communication department. • Laura Briggs, Gender and Women’s Studies Magellan Circle Award for Graduate Instruction Briggs, former head of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and new associate dean of SBS, is the author of “International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children.” Her research interests include eugenics, reproductive technologies, and education and technology. “There is no way to convey the depth of Dr. Briggs’ commitment to her students or the revolutionary experience of being in her classroom,” wrote graduate students Mari Galup and Erin Durban.
Student Andres Navarro in Mexico as part of the International Journalism Program
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Large photo: Assistant Professor Margaret Wilder in the Center for Latin American Studies received a Magellan grant to provide students with field research training in the southern Arizona-Sonora border region. This photo is a view of an Alamos Biosphere Reserve UNESCO site. Photo opposite page: As part of the field research training, students in Wilder’s class visited a research and alternative development project led by Diane Austin, assistant professor in the School of Anthropology. In this photo, Don Guadalupe Melendez demonstrates how to make “papercrete” blocks as part of an affordable housing initiative. Photo this page, top: During a trip funded by the Magellan Circle, journalism student Aleksa Brown took this photo as part of her coverage of St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic, where doctors repair cleft palates and cleft lips. Photo this page, bottom: Last spring, UA journalism professor and best-selling author Alan Weisman received a Magellan Circle grant to help take a group of students to Mexico to learn international journalism.
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2009 Magellan Circle Earl H. Carroll Fellows Three distinguished faculty members have been named Magellan Circle Earl H. Carroll Fellows. Professors Gary Goertz, Jake Harwood and Thomas Sheridan received one of the highest honors that SBS can bestow on its faculty. Each award consists of a one-time stipend of $5,000. This award is made possible by one of our founding Magellan Circle members and board members, Judge Earl H. Carroll.
Gary Goertz School of Government and Public Policy Professor Gary Goertz works on problems of international conflict and conflict resolution and on advancing social science research methodology. Goertz has written three books, has co-authored two more, and has authored or co-authored 50 articles and book chapters. His research has had a significant impact on the study of international conflict. Along with collaborator Paul Diehl, he is responsible for introducing into the field the now widely used concept of “enduring rivalry,� the phenomenon of long-standing and often violent confrontations between the same pairs of states.
Jake Harwood Department of Communication Professor Jake Harwood is an international expert on intergroup relations and communication and aging. Harwood, former director of the UA Gerontology Graduate Program, recently finished a
term as editor of Human Communication Research, the flagship journal in the field of communication. He has authored or edited three books and published an additional 80 book chapters and journal articles. He has earned nine research awards and two university-wide teaching awards.
Thomas Sheridan Southwest Center and School of Anthropology For 25 years, Professor Tom Sheridan has been a distinguished scholar, teacher and mentor at the UA, first at the Arizona State Museum and then with the Southwest Center and the School of Anthropology. He is an expert in ethnohistorical methods, the anthropology of history, Arizona history, and environmental and ecological anthropology. Sheridan, a prolific writer, directs the Hopi Documentary History Project and serves on commissions dedicated to conservation. He has received several grants, most recently from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Photos above (l-r): Gary Goertz, Jake Harwood and Thomas Sheridan.
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2009 Magellan Circle Scholars We are pleased to announce our 2009 Magellan Circle scholars! Due to the generosity of their Magellan Circle patrons, each scholar received $500 and the chance to meet their patron at a breakfast in November 2009. Deon Benton History Patrons: Margaret Houghton & Bert Falbaum Dane Betts Near Eastern Studies Patrons: Jerry & LaDona Geise Johann Chacko Near Eastern Studies Patron: Mike Bonine Evan Cygler Communication Patron: Benjamin Menges Morgan Decker Sociology Patrons: Bruce & Edythe Gissing Laura Ek Anthropology Patrons: Ken & Linda Robin Paco Galvan Regional Development Patrons: Earl & Louise Carroll Danielle Gartner Anthropology Patrons: Barbara Mills & T.J. Ferguson
Sean Harvey History and Political Science Patrons: Michael & Nancy Honkamp
Lizette Perez Latin American Studies Patron: Leo Roop
Austin Smith History Patron: Anonymous
Megan John History Patrons: Earl & Louise Carroll
Michelle Rascon Mexican American & Raza Studies Patron: Melody Robidoux
Leanne Trujillo Latin American Studies and Political Science Patrons: Bruce & Edythe Gissing
Brian Kelley Geography Patrons: Jerry & Sandy DeGrazia
Taylor Reak Near Eastern Studies Patrons: Adib & Vivi Sabbagh
Gerard Lopez Regional Development Patrons: Alberto & Gesine Moore
Adriana Reyes Sociology Patrons: John & Helen Schaefer
Magda Mankel Anthropology Patrons: Tom & Reenie Keating
Recynthia Robinson Political Science Patrons: Bruce & Edythe Gissing
Jaycie Martin Linguistics Patrons: Chuck & Pat Pettis
Chaela Rodgers Sociology Patrons: Michael & Nancy Honkamp
Jazmin Massee Communication Patron: Gwen Weiner
Alberto Moore with Diane Harvey and Magellan Circle scholar Sean Harvey. Sean was the student speaker at our Magellan Circle celebration. Moore has just completed five years as the chair of the SBS Advisory Board.
Chase Velasquez Political Science Patrons: Bruce & Edythe Gissing Brigette Walters Geography Patron: Bonham Richardson Paul J. Wright Communication First recipient of the Edward I. Donnerstein Magellan Circle Graduate Fellowship award
Michelle Monroe Journalism Patrons: Jacqueline Sharkey & Bill Wing
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2010 Magellan Circle Honor Roll An enthusiastic thank you to our Magellan Circle members for their ongoing support of SBS faculty and students. We value your commitment! Circumnavigators (Lifetime members)
Anonymous (2) Rowene Aguirre-Medina and Roy Medina Paul and Alice Baker* Tom and Olga Bever* Larry and Jana Bradley Arch and Laura Brown Earl H. and Louise Carroll* Joseph and Ruth Cramer* Donald and Joan Diamond Ruth and Steve Dickstein A. Richard Diebold* Agnese Haury* Frederick W. Henninger, Jr. Jim and Joanne Hunter Thomas and Reenie Keating Ken and Randy Kendrick Lessner Family Trust William Longacre* Roy Mankovitz and Kathleen Barry–Mankovitz Fletcher McCusker Elinor Olsen* Melody Robidoux, the Melody S. Robidoux Foundation James and Beverly Rogers Ronald and Beverly Rose John and Helen Schaefer* Sherwin Scott Irving Silverman Luda Soldwedel* Duane and Linda Whitaker*
Patrons — $1,500 (Student scholar donors)
Anonymous (1) Michael Bonine* Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation Esther Capin* Raúl H. and Patricia Castro Michael Chihak and Hilda Oropeza* Jerry and Sandra DeGrazia Richard and Mary Rose Duffield Bert Falbaum and Margaret Houghton* Gerald and LaDona Geise Bruce and Edythe Gissing (in memory of) Mary A. Goodman* Pam Grissom* Michael and Nancy Honkamp
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Jack Jewett Alfred Kaszniak and Mary Ellen Beaurain* G. Alfred and Anna Kennedy Benjamin Menges* Barbara Mills and T.J. Ferguson Alberto and Gesine Moore Susan E. Newman John W. Olsen and Ovadan Amanova-Olsen* Charles and Patricia Pettis* Conrad and Ann Plimpton Revell Rayne Bonham Richardson Ken and Linda Robin Leo A. Roop* Adib and Entisar “Vivi” Sabbagh* Chuck Strub and Doris Chapel Anthony and Joan Vuturo Gwen Weiner Bill A. Wing and Jacqueline Sharkey*
Beth Mitchneck and Paul Carter Eleanor L. Olsen Evie Pozez Jack and Doris Riehm Marjory C. Slavin James Studwell and Ginny Healy* Lucia Uihlein J. Edward Wright* Carla Zingarelli-Rosenlicht
Corporate Patrons
Cox Communications Rosemont Copper Tucson Newspapers Association * Founding Member
Explorers — $1,000
Paul Allvin and Rhian Evans Allvin Dennis and Sherrill Bambauer* Theodore and Karen Borek Garry Bryant and Margy McGonagill M. Virginia Clyde* Edward Donnerstein and Deborah Levine Donnerstein* Greg and Lisa Fahey* Lillian Fisher Adel Gamal LouAnn Gerken Andrew Greeley* Frederic and Gayle Jandrey John Paul Jones III* Susan Karant-Nunn* Dale Kunkel and Leslie Kent Kunkel* Todd and Carole Lundmark Steve and Nancy Lynn* J. Christopher Maloney and Judith Nantell* S. James Manilla Gary Marcus Selma Paul Marks* Sallie Marston
“I support the Magellan Circle because small gifts fuel big dreams when desire is not enough. A Magellan grant could provide the means to live a life by design and not by default.” ~ George Kennedy (right), with wife, Anna Kennedy, and Magellan Circle scholar Johann Chacko.
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Funding the Exploration This year, one long-time Magellan Circle couple ramped up their Magellan Circle giving to students, and a new corporate member, Rosemont Copper, became the title sponsor of our annual Magellan Circle celebration.
Above: SBS graduates. Large photo: The Santa Rita Mountains, Tucson, Ariz. Photo courtesy of kimste.com. At left: Dan Ryan, community relations director for Rosemont Copper, and Rod Pace, president and CEO of Rosemont Copper. Photo by Christine Scheer.
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One of the highlights of being a Magellan Circle patron is meeting the student whose life has been impacted by your gift. One Tucson couple, who wish to remain anonymous, enjoyed the experience so much that they have donated $20,000 to support multiple students throughout their undergraduate careers. “Without support, many able students would not reach their potential,” said the donors, who are particularly interested in supporting minority students. “The students have to work their tails off too. We are just trying to help them along the way.” The extended support they are providing to students is deeply appreciated. “The assistance and continued generosity from my patrons has granted me peace of mind and security,” said a Magellan Circle scholar. “They have made me feel valued, and their financial and emotional investment in my education is tremendously motivating.”
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“Education is a top priority for Rosemont’s giving program, with STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields at the core of our support initiatives,” said Rod Pace, president and CEO of Rosemont Copper. Rosemont Copper has supported the University of Arizona in several ways. They funded a five-year, $537,000 study by the UA School of Natural Resources and the Environment to identify the best plants for the reclamation of the proposed mining site in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. The researchers are evaluating techniques that would return the mined area into a thriving ecosystem. The corporation has funded grants through the Arizona Science Foundation scholarships at the UA School of Mining; provided funding and mentoring of the UA student chapter of the Society of Mining, Metallury & Exploration; and supported SBS’s Women in Science and Engineering program. They are also talking with the UA’s Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy about using solar energy at Rosemont’s site. In addition to supporting education, Rosemont Copper focuses its philanthropic giving on the environment and community development. A portion of Rosemont Copper’s gift to SBS will go toward funding need-based student scholarships. “Rosemont felt that since the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is one of the University’s largest colleges, there was ample opportunity to support a diverse student population,” said Pace.
SBS is pleased to welcome Rosemont Copper as the title sponsor of SBS’s 2010 Magellan Circle celebration.
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Profile: Earl Carroll SBS Advisory Board and Magellan Circle Member “I was very poor when I was growing up,” says federal judge Earl Carroll. “I went to an accommodation school in Yavapai County with five or six other students. I came to the conclusion that without education you are not going to go very far in the world.” Earl Carroll was born in 1925 in Tucson. He served in the U.S. Navy’s V-12 College Training Program from 1943 to 1946 and attended UCLA and Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff. In 1946, he was appointed as an ensign in the Supply Corps. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science in business administration in 1948. In 1951, he received his law degree from the UA, graduating second in his class.
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SBS board member and founding Magellan Circle member Judge Earl Carroll has been a long-time supporter of SBS and the UA. He recently made a $50,000 gift to the Magellan Circle to support faculty fellows and scholarships.
After law school, Carroll went to work as a law clerk at the Arizona Supreme Court for Justice Evo DeConcini. In 1952, he joined the Phoenix law firm of Evans, Hull, Kitchel and Jenckes as an associate. Carroll also served three years as an Arizona Board of Regents. In 1980, he was appointed to the U.S. District Court of Arizona by President Jimmy Carter. Although now on senior status, Carroll still maintains a case load. His passion for justice developed at an early age. When Carroll was a boy, the Saturday Evening Post ran stories about fictional lawyer Ephraim Tutt, who used his legal skills to help the disadvantaged. These stories inspired Carroll’s interest in becoming a lawyer. Carroll’s appreciation for the social sciences stems back to the days when was the editor of the Coyote Journal in his Phoenix high school. Today, Carroll is interested in all the units in SBS, especially the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies. Carroll is a member of the SBS Advisory Board and is a founding Magellan Circle member. He recently gave the Circle $50,000 to support faculty fellows and scholarships. He particularly enjoys meeting the students he supports at the annual Magellan Circle scholars event. Carroll, who also donates to the UA James E. Rogers College of Law, understands the importance of giving to higher education and believes that the social sciences are critical. “I think all of the program SBS has are important,” says Carroll. “Many of them are cultural and encourage people to be better individuals.”
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Profile: Peter Johnson Creating a Legacy in Latin America A planned gift by alumnus Peter Johnson will help students immerse themselves into the culture of Latin America. Peter Johnson has spent his career studying and traveling to Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Johnson believes his education at public universities played a major role in his success. So when it came time to write his will, Johnson decided to support students who wanted to travel to Latin America for their research. “Latin America should not be an abstract or purely textual experience for students,” says Johnson. “To understand the physical landscape and human engagement with it requires observation and study, ideally with sufficient time to begin to understand the forces that shape the region’s history, culture, socioeconomic conditions and environment.” Johnson received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington-Seattle in 1967, a master’s degree in history from the University of Arizona in 1968, and a second master’s degree in library science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969. All three institutions have been named in his estate plan. “I think it is the responsibility of someone who is a product of a state institution to help others also receive some of the rewards and opportunities that come with higher education,” says Johnson. “The gift is also in recognition that a state university receives, in point of fact, very little financial support directly from the state in terms of overall budget.”
posed to Mexican culture, and to various professors “who motivated me to think about Latin America in a variety of ways.” Johnson worked at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities for nine years and then went to Princeton University where he was the bibliographer for Latin America, Spain and Portugal for 24 years and then the interim director of the Program in Latin American Studies. He now does consulting about Latin America for various corporations. Johnson regularly traveled to the region for research, to secure publications and suppliers, and to build a collection of correspondence, diaries and literary papers by Latin America 20th-century intellectuals and writers. His research interests included revolutionary social movements and the role of nongovernmental organizations in society. Johnson also helped create a nonprofit organization called Princeton in Latin America (PiLA), which places recent graduates from all over the country in year-long internship positions with nonprofits in Latin America.
The Peter T. Johnson Endowment Fund for the Center for Latin American Studies will support field research in Latin America and the Caribbean for undergraduate honors theses, master’s degree theses, and doctoral degree dissertations. The fund can be used by students in any discipline. Johnson attributes his love of Latin America to both growing up in rural Southern California where he was ex-
Peter Johnson at Muleshoe Ranch near Wilcox, Ariz. Photo by T. Paino.
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The University of Arizona Center for Latin American Studies was thrilled to discover the planned gift. “This generous endowment provides an invaluable boost to the Center for Latin American Studies’ efforts to promote and provide support for field research in Latin America,” says Scott Whiteford, director of the Center. “It will benefit ongoing generations of students with a passion for research and discovery in Latin America and the Caribbean.” At right: Aztec stone sculpture. Courtesy of The Field Museum.
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The creation of the School of Government and Public Policy has acted as a catalyst for collaborative research and innovative curricula that better meet the changing needs of students and the community. A gift from Fletcher McCusker and Providence Service Corporation is helping the school become one of the most forward-thinking schools of its kind in the country.
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in government, politics, foreign service, nonprofit management, and law. Training in environmental policy, international affairs, criminal justice, and health and human services will help prepare students to tackle critical public policy issues.
University of Washington. Professors at the three universities examine how public problems can be solved by sectors working together. They also develop course curricula, work with each other’s graduate students, and teach at each other’s institutions.
The school is also expanding its collaborative governance program, which prepares students for careers, not just in government or nonprofit organizations, but also in private industries that provide public services.
Public Administration Times called the CCG “an important gathering of some of the most talented scholars in the field to try to solve one of the most difficult problems — to develop new models of management for a world no longer organized into bureaucratic silos.”
SGPP is part of the Consortium on Collaborative Governance (CCG) with the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California and with the Evans School of Public Affairs at the
Others are taking notice of this work, and Brint Milward, director of SGPP, has been named to an advisory board at the Kennedy School of Harvard to revise their curricula along these lines.
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“We are committed to developing a research program that explores the way privatization and outsourcing are reshaping the way government does its business,” says Milward. “We want to help identify programs that work, as well as those that don’t, and explain why.” Milward did not have to look very far to meet a donor willing to support his cause.
A Meeting of Minds “Fletcher is one of the most interesting people I’ve met in my life,” Milward says. Indeed, Fletcher McCusker is a man who has enjoyed no small amount of success rethinking assumptions and rewriting the rules.
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The CEO and chairman of the board of Providence Service Corporation, which is headquartered in Tucson, McCusker has built a very successful company creating a unique business model. “We are a for-profit public company operating in the government space,” says McCusker. “There was no such entity 20 years ago.” McCusker received his bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation from the UA in 1974 and by his own account “fooled around” and graduated with a 2.75 GPA. He laughs at the irony that the UA did not accept him into their Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, so he ended up going to Arizona State University as a provisional student in their College of Public Programs. He got serious about his
education and graduated with a 4.0 GPA in 1982. Public service has always been his vocation. When he was 18, he worked at Arizona Children’s Home, where he supervised a group of emotionally disturbed boys. His work got him noticed, and when he graduated from college at 24, he was offered the job as director of the Pima County Juvenile Court Center. Even though he was hailed as a wonderboy, McCusker was unhappy. “I hated working for the county. You couldn’t get a light bulb changed. It was impossible to get anything done.” From there McCusker embarked on a varied career path — owning his own companies and then selling them for a
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(continued from previous page) profit, as well as working for government and nonprofits. Immediately prior to starting Providence Service Corporation, he was the executive vice president of Youth Services International, which provides private institutional care for at-risk youth. His experiences confirmed for him that he disliked the bureaucracy of government jobs. His stints in “big business” were almost as bad. McCusker was dismayed by the way the corporate office discounted the expertise in the field. He recalls one memorable experience when he was a “suit” at Columbia Healthcare. He was part of a team that did random inspections at hospitals. During one visit he heard the receptionist call them “seagulls.” When he asked for an explanation, the receptionist sheepishly told him, “Well, we call you seagulls because you come in from the coast and poop on us and then you leave.”
“You do not have to be a social worker to appreciate that if you remove someone from their home, put them in an artificial environment for a month, and then place them back in that same environment, the likelihood that they will have lasting change is virtually zero,” McCusker says. “You need to go into the home and teach them how to cope.” Providence grew to provide multiple lines of business in 44 states and Canada, with 11,000 employees and a billion dollar business. It is now the largest provider of home-based services in North America.
These work experiences taught him valuable lessons, so when he decided to start Providence Service Corporation in 1997, he knew that the company would have a decentralized model where the managers in the field held the power. The motto of Providence is “human services without walls.” Employees supervise clients involved in government programs such as child welfare systems, welfare-to-work programs, Medicaid client supervision, in-home counseling, probation and parole, substance abuse treatment and child protective services. Their guiding principles: home-based, preventative and client focused. “We’ve been carrying the banner that if you got to these families earlier, you would prevent a lot of problems,” says McCusker.
His own career trajectory has convinced McCusker that students in public administration programs need to be prepared to succeed in a more entrepreneurial environment, even if they stay in government or nonprofits. “They need to know how to look at a financial statement and write a business plan and a marketing plan,” McCusker says. When McCusker met Brint Milward, they found many areas of shared interest and a deep mutual respect. “Brint is an outstanding faculty member,” says McCusker. “I credit Brint for his enlightened leadership.” McCusker met with Providence Service Corporation’s board of directors, and they decided to give an annual gift of $60,000 to support a chair in SGPP, which Brint Milward holds, as well as support the school’s collaborative governance program. “Our interest in giving was selfish,” says McCusker. “We want to get graduates that would be attractive to a business like ours. “And to some extent it was payback,” he adds. “I’m an alumnus, and I’ve done unbelievably well personally and professionally. And I think anyone who does that should feel obligated to give back to their school.” (continued on page 20)
At left: Fletcher McCusker. Photo by Jon Wolf.
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Left: SGPP Professor Edella Schlager (right) with Elinor Ostrom (center), who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics, and Barbara Allen from Carleton College. Ostrom invited Schlager to the award ceremony in Stockholm because of Schlager’s contributions to her work. Photo by Stephen Hinnefeld, Indiana University.
Right, below: SGPP Assistant Professor Ramiro Berardo with Elio Coniglio, who is an expert on water management in the city of Carlos Paz. They are next to San Roque Lake, which provides water to more than two million people in the province of Cordoba, Argentina. Berardo’s field research is part of an NSF-funded project.
Each school in the Consortium of Collaborative Governance brings their own area of expertise to the table. SGPP’s strength is the management of networks and contracting. Research on networks of public, private and nonprofit organizations is a rapidly growing field. In the new model, the hierarchical chain of command found in a traditional organization is replaced by contracts that require a high degree of collaboration among organizations if citizens are to be well served. SGPP has several researchers in this area, and much of their work is federally funded. • Brint Milward’s research includes examining mental health networks, and he has taught “managing collaborative networks” to senior officers in the U.S. Intelligence Community. • Edella Schlager and Ramiro Berardo work on collaborative governance in the environment area. • Keith Provan researches healthcare networks, collaborating with professors at the Arizona Cancer Center. • Craig Smith works in the area of private government contracting and collaborations between firms and nonprofits. On the floor above SGPP in the Social Sciences building is the Department of Sociology, which also has some major scholars in the field of network research. These include Ronald Breiger, the former co-editor of Social Networks, who Milward is collaborating with on research on terrorist networks, and Joseph Galaskiewicz, who is one of the best known scholars studying networks in the nonprofit sector.
Right: Founding members of the Consortium on Collaborative Governance at their planning retreat. (l-r): Keith Provan (UA), Yan Tang (USC), Jack Knott (USC), Sandra Archibald (University of Washington), Brint Milward (UA) and Dan Mazmanian (USC). Photo courtesy of the University of Southern California (USC).
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“We have one of the largest and most distinguished groups of social network researchers in the world at the UA in units such as anthropology, geography and development, MIS, management and organizations, computer science, as well as sociology and SGPP,” Milward says, adding that he would love to see the UA build a national center of excellence in social networks.
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(continued from page 18) A Revitalized School McCusker is excited by the developments he sees in the School of Government and Public Policy. And he believes students should be too. “The graduates can go in any direction,” McCusker says. “They can go to Fortune 500 companies or nonprofits. They are going to be so much better rounded than even a traditional MBA student who doesn’t appreciate a missiondriven business.” In addition to the Consortium on Collaborative Governance, SGPP has several other collaborations in the pipeline.
George R. Cunningham, along with his family and friends, has given $13,000 to establish the George R. Cunningham Scholarship Endowment. The scholarship funds will be awarded to a Master of Public Administration (MPA) student interested in budgeting, economics or finance. “I wanted to do a small part in creating a scholarship that would hopefully serve to attract the best students to public administration, because then they would go on and serve in the public sector,” says Cunningham, who received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in public administration from the UA. The scholarship focuses on finance because Cunningham knows from experience that such knowledge is absolutely critical to the running of government. “The measurement of public sector performance in the form of outputs and outcomes has become so much more important now that we are in an era of resource scarcity,” Cunningham says. “The public sector needs to find creative ways to budget, and it’s also important that we are transparent.”
Within the school, professors from the political science and public policy fields are collaborating in many areas, including public law and criminal justice. In addition, SGPP has a very talented group of faculty in international relations and comparative politics, and this will greatly enrich the student experience. International research and internship opportunities have opened up for all students because of political scientist Thomas Volgy’s role as executive director of the International Studies Association. And Paulette Kurzer worked with specialists in intelligence
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Over the years, Cunningham has served as vice president at the University of Arizona; worked as executive director for the Pima Association of Governments; and served eight years as a member of the Arizona Legislature. Cunningham also served as Gov. Rose Mofford’s chief of staff and most recently, he served as Gov. Janet Napolitano’s deputy chief of staff for finance and budget. In 2009, he formed the Cunningham Consulting Group. “George has had an unbelievably important career in public service,” says Milward. Cunningham was elected as a Fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration, an extremely prestigious accomplishment. “I found that both of my public administration degrees had a great deal of practicality throughout my career,” says Cunningham. “I am indebted to the University of Arizona and my professors.”
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studies at Fort Huachuca to develop a new certificate program in international security that targets the military market. SGPP and the Department of Philosophy worked together to create the newly approved undergraduate major in “Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law.” Milward believes that this major will attract some of the most able undergraduates at the University and create a new generation of civic leaders for Arizona. Collaborations across the University have also bolstered SGPP’s strength in the management of networks and contracting (see previous page). “The most exciting thing about the new school is that it is connected to so many different places,” said Milward. “There are more connections than I know what to do with. I love it.” Milward believes the new school now has the scope and scale to compete with the nation’s most prominent schools of government and public policy. And with the help of visionary donors like Fletcher McCusker, it is well on its way.
SGPP is a powerhouse of talent and is now one of the largest units at the University of Arizona. SGPP has approximately: 27 faculty
When long-time faculty member Michael P. Sullivan died last year, his partner and colleagues decided the best way to remember him would be to create a scholarship in his name. “I thought it was fitting,” says Gail Bernstein, Sullivan’s domestic partner for more than 35 years. “He worked his way through school. He was sympathetic to the needs of less wealthy students.” The award will recognize outstanding research or support ongoing research for doctoral candidates concentrating in international relations. “When you look at all the conflicts we have in the world today, you see how important it is for us to have information to help solve them,” says Bernstein. Sullivan joined the UA Department of Political Science in 1968. He was the author of four influential books and dozens of articles on international relations and U.S. foreign policy. He was particularly interested in the origins of conflict. “Mike was interested in teaching his students how to think logically and empirically, with facts at their disposal,” says Bernstein, a former UA history professor. “And that kind of thinking is rare in this country.” Bernstein gave $5,000 to the scholarship fund. In addition, numerous friends and colleagues, including more than eight SGPP faculty members, have contributed to the scholarship fund. “He was someone who was pretty close to me,” says Professor Bill Dixon, who gave $5,000 to the scholarship fund. “His being here was one of the reasons I wanted to move to Arizona.” “This scholarship is a way of keeping the memory alive of someone who was important to the University for so many years, while also helping graduate students who will, in turn, advance the study of international relations,” says Bernstein.
At left: Associate Professor Suzanne Dovi teaching the course “Modern Political Thought: Truth in Politics.” She will soon be offering the course “What is Good Government?,” drawing on what this has meant from Plato to the Federalist Papers. Photo by Lori Harwood.
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Rowene Aguirre-Medina gently lays “Mamie’s Journey” on the table. The book, which is about Rowene’s great-grandmother, Mary “Mamie” Bernard Aguirre, was a labor of love. The family project includes excerpts from Mamie’s journals and letters. It captures images of Mamie’s faded red bible, her Native American baskets, her treasured poems, and her still-used silver tea set. Rowene becomes animated when she speaks of Mamie. She tells the stories that her father told her of Mamie’s travels down the Santa Fe Trail and her life as a pioneer and educator in the Southwest — stories that have shaped Rowene’s passion for women’s issue. “These stories gave me an idea of what women could do,” says Rowene. “I was raised in a generation where women played half-court basketball, and the boys played full court. At home, I was getting the message from these stories of Mamie that I could play full court. Women could and did do incredible things.”
By funding the Mary Bernard Aguirre Professorship in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies,
To honor Mamie’s journey as a woman and an educator, Rowene, an alumna of the University of Arizona, and her husband, Roy, are funding an endowed professorship in the UA Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.
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is not only honoring her greatgrandmother’s indomitable spirit, she’s also ensuring that current and future generations of women can live their full stories.
And in doing so, Rowene hopes to infuse a new generation of women with Mamie’s perseverance and curiosity.
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“I have been a traveler all my life,” Mamie wrote in her journal. This was certainly true. Mary Bernard was born in 1844 in St. Louis, Mo., the product of a restrictive environment, especially for women. Yet, she grew into a woman who embraced life, traveled widely, married a Mexican businessman, helped settled the “wild west,” and became one of the first female professors at the University of Arizona. In 1862, at the age of 18, Mary met and married Epifanio Aguirre, a wealthy Mexican trader. Aguirre’s family owned a large amount of land near Chihuahua, Mexico. By 1864, he owned most government contracts for freighting along the Santa Fe Trail between the Colorado and Missouri rivers. Early in her marriage, Mamie traveled extensively — visiting Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. She then traveled with her husband across the Great Plains. (The 836 mile stretch of the Santa Fe Trail between Westport, Mo., and Santa Fe, N.M., took six to eight weeks to travel.) Here is an excerpt from Mamie’s journal: “We made thirty miles a day when we drove a good day’s driving. The tall grass was turning gray with the cold that came upon us very gradually. The very monotony of it became pleasant at last.” Mamie had a natural curiosity, which is repeatedly captured in her journals:
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“I can never forget the first buffalo I saw. It had just been killed and we rode to where it was, off the road. I had a curiosity to measure the hair on its neck, which I did with my arm, and it covered it from my fingers tips to the shoulder.” Mamie had three sons, Pedro, Epifanio and Stephen. Then in 1870, her husband, Epifanio, was killed by Apache Indians near Sasabe, Ariz. In 1875, Mamie was named head of a public school for girls in Tucson. Mamie’s description of the girls stands in contrast to common depictions of children in previous generations always being well mannered. “There were 20 girls in the school where I took charge,” she wrote. “With a few exceptions, they were the most unruly set the Lord ever let live. They had an idea that they conferred a favor upon the school and the teacher by even attending.” In 1895, Mamie became head of the Spanish language and English history departments at the University of Arizona (at the time, the UA had 15 faculty and 155 students). She died in 1906 from injuries suffered from a train wreck. (continued on next page)
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To Rowene, Mamie’s journey is a constant source of inspiration. “The thing I most want to incorporate into my life is her sense of curiosity,” says Rowene. “And she was also keenly observant. She had an enthusiasm for life.”
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Rowene has given previously to the UA to establish a scholarship in the Spanish department and to honor Mamie in the Women’s Plaza of Honor, which was created by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. “I had the opportunity to meet some of the faculty and students in Gender and Women’s Studies, and I was just so excited about what I saw,” says Rowene. “It’s what I thought a university should be: a place to challenge, a place to nurture.”
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Rowene was also impressed by the ways the department reaches out to the community. Since Mamie herself was a UA faculty member, the idea of doing something in Mamie’s name to support faculty felt right. Rowene specifically wanted to make an endowed gift that could help the department grow in perpetuity. Laura Briggs, the former head of the department, met with faculty to determine how the gift could meet their needs. They decided that half the money would support a Mary Bernard Aguirre Professor, a faculty member engaged in forward-looking research or teaching. The other half would be divided equally among all faculty to provide general support. “It is tremendously moving that Rowene has chosen to honor Mamie’s service as a University of Arizona faculty member from many years ago by enhancing the research capabilities of our faculty today,” says Briggs. “As they are able to expand their research, our faculty will be further empowered to impart their knowledge and experience to the next generation of critical thinkers,” she adds.
Rowene Aguirre-Medina hopes she and her husband, Roy, can be an example to others alumni about the importance of giving what they can. “We would like to get the word out to our fellow alumni that, especially in these financially challenging times, each contribution to the UA Foundation, no matter the size, can help and will make a difference to our UA students and faculty members.”
“I see it as the past touching the present to educate the future,” says Rowene. “That’s exciting.”
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contexts and to what material effects? What systems of power construct gender formations as we know them? How does gender intersect with race, ethnicity, age, sexuality, location and economics? The department boasts top scholars across an array of fields. Faculty publications have received numerous prestigious prizes, with some publications translated widely. Faculty examine gender in a transnational world; sexuality, reproduction, and the body; Chicana, critical race, and border studies; social movements; gender and race in film, literature, popular culture, education and science. The department is committed to combining action for social change with critical thinking and scholarship. The department includes the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), and the Women’s Studies Advisory Council (WOSAC).
Above: Several of the faculty of the UA Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. (l-r): Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, Jennifer Croissant, Sandra Soto, Judy Temple, Laura Briggs, Sally Stevens and Eithne Luibhéid. Photo by Christine Scheer. Previous spread: a) This blue jug (ca. 1830) originally belonged to Mamie’s family. The family believes it is a piece of “pearlware.” b) On Aug. 21, 1862, in Westport, Mo., Epifanio Aguirre placed this gold wedding band on Mamie’s finger. Epifanio had the size 4 ring engraved EA to MBB. c) This beautiful coffee and tea service journeyed with Mamie on her first trip across the Santa Fe Trail. Epifanio gave the service to Mamie as a wedding gift and had their entwined initials — EMA — engraved on each piece. The service has been used through the years to celebrate family events. d) The cloth was among Mamie’s belongings and is believed to be an altar cloth that was used in a Catholic Mass where Mamie and Epifanio were the Madrina and the Padrino. This spread: e) Photo of Mary (Mamie) Bernard Aguirre f) Mamie’s Bible originally belonged to Mamie’s father, Joab Bernard, a Methodist Episcopal minister. Family tradition says the Bible was given to Epifanio by Joab. g) Mamie collected Southwestern baskets. To Rowene, the collection is just another example of how Mamie embraced her new home in the Southwest. The story handed down is that her collection was part of either the New Mexico or Arizona exhibition at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. h) Although Mamie was usually upbeat in her journal, you can tell by the selection of poems pasted in her scrapbook that she was not a stranger to tragedy. Her husband was killed and her son died from a lightening strike. Photos a-d,f-h by Roger Aguirre Smith.
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Augustine B. Jimenez III was the 2009 SBS
homecoming chairman. The SBS celebration included dinner at the Arizona Inn and our annual bash at The Shanty on Nov. 7. Thank you to Bill Nugent, owner of The Shanty, for hosting this event! Jimenez, a well-respected lawyer and dedicated UA supporter, grew up in Phoenix and graduated from Thunderbird High School. After three semesters at Glendale Community College, he transferred to the UA. Although he majored in political science, Jimenez’s diverse interests led him to take classes in just about every subject he could. After graduating from the UA in 1985, Jimenez earned a law degree from Arizona State University in 1988 and served as an attorney in the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps until 1992 when he returned to Phoenix and began private practice. Today Jimenez has his own firm with partner Stephen G. Montoya.
Jimenez is a long-time supporter of UA Athletics and was named an Honorary Letterman in 2007. Augustine Jimenez and his wife, Susan, are members of the Phoenix UA Alumni Chapter and the UA Foundation President’s Club, and he is on the UA Foundation’s board of directors.
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America where UA anthropologists Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan have been studying the ancient civilization.
Jimenez also recently began supporting the Social Justice Education Project (SJEP) — a program sponsored by the UA Department of Mexican American & Raza Studies and Tucson Unified School District — when he learned that it empowered Tucson high school students in the same way one of his favorite UA history professor, Juan Garcia, empowered him when he was a student:
“I was provided with a more balanced and complete view of Mexican American history by Dr. Juan Garcia,” says Jimenez. “Dr. Garcia’s Mexican American history class, and the man himself, had a huge impact on how I saw myself. For a young Mexican American who grew up in a very Mexican home, in a very Anglo part of town, “fitting in” and achieving in school was a challenge. I learned that I was not alone, and that I had every reason to be happy and proud of who I was and where my family had come from. “I met some of the teachers in SJEP and discussed their philosophy and realized that what they were doing for their students was what Dr. Garcia had done for me. So I quickly agreed to help that effort by supporting the Social Justice Education Project,” said Jimenez.
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a) Augustine Jimenez with student speaker Morgan F. Decker. Morgan, who is a 2008 Magellan Circle Scholar, has a 3.7 GPA and is majoring in sociology. b) (l-r): UA students Mariah Harvey and Luis Valdez with Associate Professor Julio Cammarota and his wife, Rebecca Pina-Cammarota. Harvey and Valdez participated in the Social Justice Education Project in high school and spoke at the dinner about how it influenced their lives. Cammarota is the co-director of the Social Justice Education Project. c) The Kilpatrick family join in the festivities at The Shanty. Scott and Amy, both alumni of the University of Arizona, are pictured here with their sons, Will and Tim.
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d) Meredith Hay, UA executive vice president and provost, with Bill Nugent, owner of The Shanty and an SBS board member, and Kristin Almquist. e) Current and former students from the Social Justice Education Project. f) Bill Nugent, Betsy Bolding and Gail Godbey. g) Rosalind Garcia, History Professor Juan Garcia, Susan Jimenez and Augustine Jimenez.
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developments in sbs Each SBS unit has chosen a departmental update to share with alumni and friends of the College.
A group of K-12 teachers from last summer’s Teach Ottoman Empire trip don head coverings as a sign of respect before entering a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. This summer, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, using funds from the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, will send a group of teachers to Morocco.
Anthropology For nearly two decades, Ivy Pike, an associate professor in the School of Anthropology, has been studying ethnic groups in rural northern Kenya to understand how violence shapes community health. Pike studies three nomadic communities — the Pokot, Samburu and Turkana. For hundreds of years, friction between these groups has centered largely on livestock theft and access to scarce grazing and water. Persistent drought and the introduction of firearms over the last several years have further escalated tensions. In general, men have better
health, because they travel with the herds and consequently have better access to meat and milk. Women will sacrifice to feed their children. Pike said pursuing this line of research has implications for many of the underdeveloped and developing regions of the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
Communication The Department of Communication is currently working to build its graduate student Dissertation Research Scholarship Fund. Each year the
department awards a competitive scholarship to its top Ph.D. candidate to assist with his or her dissertation research project. The nature and quality of Ph.D. dissertations are exceptionally important, not only for securing reputable jobs after graduation, but for defining students’ career trajectories for the upcoming years. The department ordinarily awards dissertation research scholarships of $500 once per year. Recent scholarship recipients were funded to conduct studies on how newlywed couples adjust to the demands of balancing work and family, and how people in close relationships influence each others’ health behaviors such as diet and exercise.
Anthropologist Ivy Pike studies the health of Turkana women in Kenya. Photo courtesy Christoph Grandt.
Gender and Women’s Studies The Women’s Studies Advisory Council (WOSAC) and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies presented the 5th annual LUNAFEST in March at The Loft Cinema in Tucson. LUNAFEST is a national film festival, created by LUNA®, the Whole Nutrition Bar for Women®, which showcases a diverse selection of short films by, for, and about women. The films cover topics such as social and cultural diversity, the joys and challenges of motherchild relationships, and the bending (and sometimes breaking) of traditional gender roles. All proceeds from Tucson’s 2010 LUNAFEST benefited WOSAC, UA Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Breast Cancer Fund.
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developments in sbs Geography and Development The School of Geography and Development continues to support its outstanding students with a variety of scholarship programs. John Buttery scholarships recognize student excellence in geographic information science and technology. Klafter Memorial scholarships go to students demonstrating exceptional academic performance in regional development. Society of Industrial and Office Realtors scholarships recognize students pursuing careers in real estate. The Melvin Hecht, George Hank Amos, and Urban Land Institute scholarships also reward academic achievement and leadership among undergraduate scholars. The school is also home to the Janice Monk Distinguished Lecture in Feminist Geography, an annual lecture series that brings top scholars to campus.
Government and Public Policy Edella Schlager, a professor in the School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP), traveled to Stockholm in December for the annual Nobel Prize ceremony. Schlager was invited by her former academic mentor, Elinor Ostrom, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in economic science. Ostom and Schlager began working together in 1986 at Indiana University when Ostrom became Schlager’s dissertation adviser. “Professor Edella Schlager is a highly valued colleague with whom I have worked on several projects through the years,” said Ostrom. “I have learned a great deal from our association. I invited her as one of my guests because she has made such a big difference in the way I’ve conceptualized property rights.”
History Assistant Professor Farzin Vejdani joined the Department of History this past fall, with support from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Vejdani received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is a specialist in modern Iranian and Turkish history. His research examines the role of historians and folklorists in the construction of Iranian national identity during the first half of the 20th century. He also is an expert in the cultural politics of constitutional reform in the Middle East and will contribute to both undergraduate and graduate programs in history and Near Eastern studies.
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Information Resources and Library Science Cheryl Knott Malone, associate professor in the School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS), has received a Moody grant and a John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Research grant in support of research on the print culture of the environmental movement. In addition, SIRLS received a $10,000 donation from the H.W. Wilson Foundation to provide a scholarship to a SIRLS master’s student with outstanding credentials and financial need.
Journalism The School of Journalism lost three good friends in 2009 whom family members and friends are memorializing with scholarships. Merigay Finnerty Sotomayor (’67) was a key player in blocking the move in 1994 to close the UA journalism program. Donovan Kramer Sr. spent more than four decades as owner, president and publisher of Casa Grande Valley Newspapers. And Steve Emerine had a long career in journalism and politics in Tucson, which he shared with students as a part-time faculty member in the School of Journalism. All three will be remembered well into the next decade with generous scholarships benefiting today’s journalism students.
Image, top: Geographers are studying mosquito disease vectors in Arizona cities. Maricopa County Vector Control has approximately 500 routine traps placed across Phoenix. These sites act as early warnings for potential mosquito-born diseases and are vital in monitoring mosquito populations throughout the city. At left: Assistant History Professor Farzin Vejdani pauses in front of Rumi’s tomb in Konya, Turkey. The picture was taken during his four-month long research trip to Turkey, where he conducted research on late-19th and early-20th century TurcoIranian cultural relations.
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Associate Professor Heidi Harley was awarded a $29,861 UA Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences grant to re-master interviews with Yaqui elders in the Yaqui language. Harley will complete a linguistic analysis of the material. Graduate student David Medeiros also received a $10,000 Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate fellowship.
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The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies will host Professor Asher Susser of Tel Aviv University as a visiting professor in 2010-11. Photo of Naftali Building, Tel Aviv University courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Judaic Studies The Foundation for Jewish Culture awarded the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies one of six Jewish Studies Expansion Program grants. This grant will allow the Center to hire a postdoctoral teaching fellow for two years who will teach four courses per year and organize cultural programs and other campus activities related to various fields of Jewish studies. In addition, the Center will host Professor Asher Susser of Tel Aviv University as a visiting professor during the 2010-11 academic year.
Late Medieval and Reformation Studies The Heiko A. Oberman Chair Endowment has recently risen to $1.74 million, toward a goal of $2 million. The Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies’ fundraising committee is planning an October reception and lecture that will feature photographs by former University of Arizona President John P. Schaefer. He intends to capture certain illustrations and other attractive features of rare, early-modern volumes in the Heiko A. Oberman research collection. The anonymous match of gifts to the Oberman Endowment remains valid throughout 2010.
The course, which was developed under a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant, includes lectures from experts and field visits to the border. In the fall of 2009, students visited Ambos Nogales with UA alumnus and Magellan Circle patron Leo Roop. Their host and guide for the day was Axel Holm, a UA alumnus and director of the Pimeria Alta Museum in Nogales.
Linguistics Professors in the Department of Linguistics have recently received several prestigious awards and grants. Professor Thomas Bever received the $90,000 Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize granted to academics whose discoveries have had a significant impact on their discipline.
Anna Ochoa O’Leary, assistant professor of practice in the Department of Mexican American & Raza Studies, and Gloria Ciria Valdéz-Gardea from El Colegio De Sonora (Colson) in Mexico released a report that sheds new light on the health of women who migrate from Mexico to the United States. More than 160 women from the U.S. and Mexico were interviewed. The researchers made policy recommendations that include developing educational materials for women and social service workers, increasing access to medical care for migrant women, and changing policies in both countries that have the effect of harming the health and violating the human rights of migrant women.
Middle Eastern Studies With the generous support of the Social Science Research Council, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) is conducting a project titled “Understanding Islam: Bridging the Worlds of Academia and Journalism” in cooperation with
Latin American studies students in front of the Border Art project.
Latin American Studies The Center for Latin American Studies recently launched a new course for undergraduate students titled “The U.S.-Mexico Border: From Separation to Integration in a Globalizing World.”
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the School of Journalism. The project included a panel, “Islam in the News,” at the fall Arizona Newspapers Association conference, as well as two workshops: “Writing for the Media: Helping the Public Understand the Middle East and the Islamic World“ and “Talking to the Media.” The project also makes possible a new journalism class, “International Opinion Writing.”
Near Eastern Studies In an effort to stimulate lectures focused on Persian and Iranian studies, in 2009 Kamran Talattof, professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, provided seed money for the Talattof Lecture Series in Persian Studies. The goal of the lecture series is to promote and celebrate the remarkable culture of Iran in its many facets and manifestations. The UA program in Persian and Iranian studies has been growing, and many graduate students come to Arizona to receive their education under the guidance of some the best known scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Since the series’ inception in early 2009, 10 lectures have been presented.
Philosophy This past February, the Department of Philosophy’s 15th Annual Ancient Philosophy Colloquium attracted leading philosophers from many nations to celebrate the career accomplishments of Regents’ Professor Julia Annas. Annas’ many books about the philosophy of ancient Greece and its echo in contemporary ethics contribute to the international distinction of the UA philosophy department. Annas is regularly invited to lecture at leading universities around the world and is the recipient of the American Academy of Art and Sciences’ highest honor. Annas is renowned for her dedication to teaching, and her many graduate students now hold faculty positions at universities across the country.
SBS Research Institute The SBS Research Institute has received funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research to run a summer program to teach students how to develop winning grant proposals. Participants receive small grants to take grant writing workshops, write draft proposals, review each other’s proposals, collect preliminary results, and submit their improved proposals to outside agencies. Alumni of this program have won grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and Fulbright.
Sociology Professor Ronald Breiger is the principal investigator on a $1.08 million grant funded by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Breiger along with Brint Milward, director of the School of Government and Public Policy, and colleagues at two other universities will use data in open-source, public databases to develop new methods for research on networks of groups using or pursuing WMD terrorism. In addition, Professor Louise Roth received a National Science Foundation grant to study the effects of medical malpractice suits, tort laws, health insurance and reproductive regulations on birth practices in the United States. The research will test organizational theories about how legal regulations and insurance practices affect practices in health care, focusing on cesarean sections.
The Southwest Center Professor Gary Paul Nabhan, founder of the Renewing America’s Food Traditions (RAFT) alliance, was honored in Moscow with the Vavilov Medal for his innovative work on documenting and conserving food biodiversity. The medal was presented at the Vavilov Memorial Lecture. Nabhan is only the second foreign scientist to give
Southwest Center Professor Gary Paul Nabhan traced the path of Nikolay Vavilov, who collected seeds from every corner of the globe and created the world’s largest collection of plant seeds.
this prestigious lecture and receive this honor in Moscow. Nabhan’s lecture was titled “Where Our Food Comes From: Conserving Agro-Biodiversity in a Time of Rapid Climate Change.” It highlighted his three years of fieldwork supported by the Christensen Fund that allowed him to retrace the world’s greatest plant explorer, Nikolay Vavilov, through 12 countries to monitor changes in crop diversity over time.
Southwest Institute for Research on Women SIROW recently received four grants that focus on adolescents. They include: (1) a $1,750,000 grant to provide case management, substance abuse and mental health treatment, HIV education, testing and evaluation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth, ages 15 to 23 year; (2) a $2,000,000 ($740,000 to SIROW) grant to provide comprehensive sexuality education, HIV testing, substance abuse and mental health counseling, and evaluation for youth involved in the juvenile justice system; (3) a $160,000 grant to evaluate the effectiveness of three types of recovery services for youth: telephone monitoring and support calls, recovery-oriented social networking sites, and a family program; and (4) a grant for conference chair and staff support for the Joint Meeting on Adolescent Treatment Effectiveness (JMATE) to be held in December 2010 in Baltimore, Md.
Journalism students are provided with many opportunities for hands-on experience. Photo by John deDios.
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givingWAYS Michele Abruzzo named a bench in the Women’s Plaza of Honor to honor the women in her family. Al Bergesen, head of the sociology department, joined the Magellan Circle and sponsored a table at this year’s Magellan Circle celebration. Anthropology alumna M. Virginia Clyde gives $1,000 to SBS through the Telephone Outreach Program every year. Selma Paul Marks, a member of the SBS Advisory Board and Magellan Circle, has given to the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies for the past 20 years.
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The Melody S. Robidoux Foundation has donated $30,000 for scholarships in the history department.
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College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Departments, Schools and Units School of Anthropology Barbara Mills bmills@email.arizona.edu 520-621-2585 http://anthropology.arizona.edu/
Arizona Center for Judaic Studies Ed Wright edwright@email.arizona.edu 520-626-5759 http://fp.arizona.edu/judaic/
Department of Sociology Albert Bergesen albert@u.arizona.edu 520-621-3531 http://sociology.arizona.edu/
Department of Communication Chris Segrin segrin@email.arizona.edu 520-621-1366 http://comm.arizona.edu/
Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies Susan Karant-Nunn karantnu@u.arizona.edu 520-626-5448 http://dlmrs.web.arizona.edu/
The Southwest Center Joseph Wilder jwilder@u.arizona.edu 520-621-2484 http://swctr.web.arizona.edu/
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Caryl Flinn cflinn@email.arizona.edu 520-621-7338 http://ws.web.arizona.edu/ School of Geography and Development Paul Robbins robbins@email.arizona.edu 520-621-1652 http://geog.arizona.edu/ School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP) Brint Milward milward@email.arizona.edu 520-621-7600 http://sgpp.arizona.edu/ Department of History Kevin Gosner kgosner@email.arizona.edu 520-621-1586 http://history.arizona.edu/ School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS) Bryan Heidorn heidorn@email.arizona.edu 520-621-3565 http://sirls.arizona.edu/ School of Journalism Jacqueline Sharkey sharkey@u.arizona.edu 520-621-7556 http://journalism.arizona.edu/
Center for Latin American Studies Scott Whiteford eljefe@email.arizona.edu 520-626-7242 http://clas.arizona.edu/ Department of Linguistics Michael Hammond hammond@u.arizona.edu 520-621-6897 http://linguistics.arizona.edu/ Department of Mexican American & Raza Studies (MA&RS) Antonio Estrada aestrada@u.arizona.edu 520-621-7551 http://masrc.arizona.edu/ Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) Anne Betteridge anneb@u.arizona.edu 520-621-5450 http://cmes.arizona.edu/ Department of Near Eastern Studies (NES) Michael Bonine bonine@u.arizona.edu 520-621-8013 http://nes.web.arizona.edu/ Department of Philosophy Christopher Maloney maloney@u.arizona.edu 520-621-5045 http://philosophy.arizona.edu/ SBS Research Institute (SBSRI) Camilla Strausfeld cstrausf@email.arizona.edu 520-621-3930 http://sbsri.web.arizona.edu/
Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) Sally Stevens sstevens@email.arizona.edu 520-621-7338 http://sirow.arizona.edu/
Advisory Board 2010 Steve Lynn, Chair John Paul Jones III, Dean Rowene Aguirre-Medina Esther N. Capin Earl H. Carroll Michael Chihak (Honorary) Richard Duffield Gerald Geise Andrew M. Greeley Pam Grissom G. Alfred Kennedy Jan Konstanty Lisa Lovallo Selma Paul Marks Fletcher McCusker Alberto Moore Bill Nugent John W. Olsen Entisar “Vivi” Sabbagh Anthony Vuturo Gwen Weiner Patty Weiss (Honorary) Edward Wright
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2010 Issue John Paul Jones III: A Discussion with the New SBS Dean New Life for University Indian Ruins Magellan Circle: Navigating the World of Passions Spotlight: Judge Earl Carroll Creating a Legacy in Latin America The Power of Collaboration: The School of Government and Public Policy Extending Mamie’s Journey: A Gift to Gender and Women’s Studies Homecoming 2009 Departmental Updates Giving Ways