STAFF AND ADJUNCT FACULTY PROFILES

Christiane K. Alsop, Faculty, has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses at universities and colleges in Germany and New England for the past 10 years, as well as teaching and consulting for private sector organizations. She has done research in areas of Cultural Psychology (the meaning of objects, places, and rituals) and the Social Psychology of Love (on the ideology of love and relationships. Alsop earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Hamburg, Germany and a Ph.D. summa cum laude from the Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Michael Bedford, Faculty, holds an M.A. degree in International Administration from the School for International Training, and a B.A. in Political Science from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He served as Asia Regional Manager of Oxfam America and was Founder and Director of Third World Reports, a non-profit foreign policy and media organization, with an emphasis on human rights.

Alice Dungan Bouvrie, Faculty, holds a Master's in Film Production from Boston University and a Master's in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University. An ethnographer and filmmaker, she has over 16 years of film and documentary experience. Her co-production, Living Under the Cloud: Chernobyl Today won the Special Jury Award in the Environmental Category at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1994. Her most recent film, Iditarod...A Far Distant Place, won Best Cinematography at the New England Film Festival, and First Place Audience Award for Documentary at Film Fest New Haven.

Holly Carter, Faculty, is Dean and Director of Educational Opportunity Programs and Service Learning of the Northeastern University-Tobin School Scholars Project. Among the courses she has taught at Lesley are Intercultural Training and Consulting and Past and Present Realities of Racism. Since 1978, she has been an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard where she has conducted research on Asian political development. Carter also served as Senior International Affairs Officer/Policy Planner East Asia in the Policy Planning Office in the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. Carter holds a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Political Science, with concentrations in Asian politics, international relations, and political development, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Meenakshi Chhabra, Faculty, is a graduate of the University of Delhi, India, and holds an M.A. in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University. She has conducted workshops on conflict resolution between Indian and Pakistani women, in collaboration with the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard University, and taught inter-group conflict resolution to professionals in Israel.

Daphne Durham, Faculty, completed her Master's in International and Intercultural Management at the School for International Training and her B.A. in French and International Studies at Miami University. As a leader in the field of International Education, Durham has directed international offices and served as international advisor at Suffolk University, Harvard University, The University of Georgia, and Valdosta State University. She has served as regional coordinator and curriculum designer for the NAFSA Academy.

Parker Emerson, Faculty, as the Senior Advisor to Foreign Students and Scholars at Harvard University, is responsible for managing the immigration status of a large number of international students and research scholars. An active member of NAFSA: Association of International Educators on the national and regional level, Emerson has earned their Distinguished Service Award. He has presented conference sessions on such topics as international student orientation, use of the internet as an advising tool, and legal responsibilities of the foreign student advisor. He has formal training in the ethno-musicology of the Americas at both Harvard and Tufts University, and has a degree in Theatre Arts from Emerson College.

Jane Etish-Andrews, Faculty, is the Director of the International Center at Tufts University, a position she has held for the past 12 years. Previously, she served as the Assistant Director of the International Student Office and as Academic Advisor for the Center for English Language and Orientation Program at Boston University. In addition to being an adjunct faculty member for the Intercultural Relations Program for the past ten years, Andrews has also taught at the Experimental College at Tufts University. Her many contributions to the field of intercultural education include co-editing the International Careers Consortium Planning Guide for International Students and Female/Male Dimensions of Cross-Cultural Counseling Video Tape and Manual, National Association of Foreign Student Affairs, Washington, D.C. Etish-Andrews holds a master's degree in Education, with a specialization in Teaching English as a Second Language and a bachelor's degree in French Language and Literature, both from Boston University.

Richard Lockwood, Faculty, is President and Technical Director of Lockwood Nutrition and Food Sciences, which markets specialty food, feed, and pharmaceutical ingredients. Prior to this, Lockwood spent two years in Vietnam working with an agricultural extension service and eight years in Brazil assisting the State Department in planning the use of surplus grain for food aid. He has worked on projects with the World Bank, UNICEF, Harvard Institute for International Development, and other development organizations. He was also a visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. Lockwood has published a number of papers and articles in the area of nutrition and international perspectives on health and nutrition. He is co-author of a book, Methods for the Evaluation of the Impact of Food and Nutrition Programmes. He received his Ph.D. in Nutrition from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his master's degree in nutrition, and his undergraduate degree in agriculture from Cornell University.

Erika Richards, Faculty, is currently a U.S. based Director of Programs Development for the foundation of International Education in London, England. She teaches International Education Exchanges, and is experienced in all aspects of international exchanges. Richards established, directed, and managed the Study Abroad Office at Drexel University . She created a six-month study and co-op program in London, and was responsible for the design and creation of all accompanying promotional materials and budgets. At Boston University, she significantly increased the off-campus applicant pool and management of programs in Beijing, Dresden, Haifa, London, Madrid, Moscow, and Oxford.

Bennett Savitz, Faculty, received both his M.A. in International Relations and his J.D. from Boston University. Savitz has practiced exclusively in the area of immigration law since 1994. He has authored numerous articles on various aspects of immigration law, many for AILA's Immigration & Nationality Law, a nationally distributed handbook. A frequent speaker at professional conferences, Savitz chaired a series of Immigration Law seminars sponsored by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, and edited their two-volume reference set, Immigration Law Primer.

Andrea Walgren, Faculty, has over 25 years' experience in educational administration, college admissions, and international program development. She was a pioneer with the School for Field Studies (SFS), one of the country's largest educational institutions providing hands-on environmental study programs for undergraduates. She has served as the New England Regional Representative for the NAFSA: Association of International Educators Section on U.S. Students Abroad and has presented national workshops and advised programs on such issues as marketing and increasing participation of science students in study abroad.

Jana Van der Veer, Assistant Director, Advising and Student Services, has her M.A. in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University, and earned her B.A. from the Friends World Program of Long Island University. She has extensive experience studying, working, and traveling in Europe and Asia. Prior to becoming the Assistant Director, she was the Program Coordinator for the Program on US - Japan Relations at Harvard University.