CyBelle Barthelmess, Trustees Fellow
Véronique Béguet, Faculty
Jocelyne Chait, Faculty
Christopher J. Colvin, Coordinator
Glenda de la Fuente, Coordinator
Sally Frankental, Coordinator
Veena Gokhale, Faculty
Barbara Knecht, Program Co-Director

Kenneth Kruckemeyer, Program Co-Director
Kalyani Menon-Sen, Coordinator
Loredana Monte, Country Facilitator
Claudia Oxman, Coordinator
Dan Pitera, Coordinator
Lily Baum Pollans, Faculty
Mieka Ritsema, Faculty
Carolina Rovetta, Coordinator

Virginia Stanard, Coordinator
Thacher Tiffany, Faculty
Hoai Anh Tran, Coordinator
Clovis Ultramari, Coordinator
Sarah Uziel, Coordinator
Maureen White, Trustees Fellow
Siddartha Wig, Coordinator

CyBelle Barthelmess
Trustees Fellow, Fall 2009
Belle Barthelmess holds her B.A. in Communications and Youth Work and put those degrees to good use with over a decade of experience working with adolescents - from a group home with recovering drug-addicted teenage boys to leading wilderness trips throughout New England to being a youth pastor for a mega-church in southern California. She started working with college students as the Dean of Students for an international leadership training school in South Africa. In this position, she also taught several courses such as, Leadership Development, Contemporary Ethical Issues, and Community Development. She has just completed her coursework for a Masters in International Education with the School for International Training in Brattleboro, VT and her time with IHP will serve as her practicum to completing this degree.

Véronique Béguet, Ph.D.
Traveling Faculty, Spring 2010
Véronique Béguet is a social and cultural anthropologist who did extensive fieldwork in Borneo. Her Ph.D. focuses on animism and the general framework it offers to understand equality, differenciation and precedence among the Iban of Sarawak. She worked for ten years in the health field in Canada, doing research to promote the social integration of people with disabilities or mental illness. She was the coordinator of a research-action that led to institutional and political changes to improve conditions for people with severe mental illness to pursue regular post-secondary studies. She has lectured on qualitative research methods at the University graduate level. She is currently doing a post-doctorate research on the experiences and meaning of hallucinations. She studied at the university level in France where she was born and raised, in Canada where she migrated (her M.A. and Ph.D. are from Laval University in Québec) and in Australia (as a visiting fellow of the Research School on Pacific and Asian Studies of the Australian National University).

Jocelyne Chait, M.A.
Traveling Faculty, Spring 2010
Jocelyne Chait is an independent planning consultant with extensive experience in comprehensive community-based planning in New York City. She has collaborated with local and citywide organizations and institutions, city agencies and elected officials on a number of planning initiatives and research projects, ranging from Bronx Center, a plan to develop a Bronx “downtown,” to a citywide study of cooperative and condominium conversion activity. She has also written on housing and community-based planning policies and issues. Much of Ms Chait’s work for the past fourteen years has focused on planning under Section 197-a of the New York City Charter, both in terms of developing plans with local communities and promoting a citywide community planning agenda. She is currently evaluating sustainable development and construction practices in the Melrose Commons Urban Renewal Area in the South Bronx, under a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Neighborhood Development pilot program led by the US Green Building Council. Ms Chait was born in Belgium, grew up in South Africa and has lived for the past 30 years in New York City. She has a degree in Architecture from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and a Masters degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College, the City University of New York. She served as IHP traveling faculty in the Spring 2008 and Spring 2009 Cities programs. In addition to teaching on IHP she has taught land use studios at both Hunter College and the Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment.

Christopher J. Colvin, Ph.D.
Country Coordinator: Cape Town, South Africa
Chris Colvin is an anthropologist living and working in Cape Town, South Africa. He has a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia as well as a Masters in Public Health from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in epidemiology and biostatistics. His PhD examined the politics of traumatic storytelling with a Cape Town support group for victims of apartheid-era political violence. Since completing his doctoral work, he has lectured in anthropology and public health and also consulted in the areas of HIV/AIDS, community-based care, and health systems development. He is currently senior research officer in Social Sciences and HIV/AIDS, TB and STIs at UCT’s School of Public Health. His current research involves support groups for HIV-positive men taking anti-retroviral treatment. For IHP, Chris serves as the South Africa country coordinator and overall program director for the Health and Community program.

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

Sally Frankental, Ph.D.
Country Coordinator: Cape Town, South Africa
Dr. Frankental is presently Head of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she was also the Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research from 1980 to 1992. She teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses and her current research interests are in the areas of migration, identity, and ethnicity. Her association with the IHP Cities program has been facilitated by her teaching in the anthropology of development and applied anthropology, her supervision of a wide variety of graduate students’ research projects conducted locally, and the consultancy work she has done for the City of Cape Town. Her book South Africa’s Diverse Peoples (with Dr. Owen Sichone) was published by ABC-CLIO in 2005.

Veena Gokhale, M.E.S.
Traveling Faculty, Spring 2010
Veena Gokhale started her career as a print journalist in India. In 1990, she came to Canada as a Distinguished Visiting Journalist, returning two years later to do a Masters in Environmental Studies at York University. Since then, she has immigrated and worked in communications and project management for Canadian non-profits on sustainable transportation, sustainable and equitable food and agriculture and reducing waste. She also worked on a development project to enhance women’s participation in local government, in South Asia, and in a Tanzanian non-profit that engages people in educational reform. Besides articles, Veena has published fiction, poetry and popular booklets, and given a range of workshops and presentations. She has volunteered with a number of non-profits, including anti-racist organizations. Currently, Veena lives in Montreal and works as a communications consultant. She has the dubious distinction of living in 10 cities in 3 countries.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Loredana Monte, MSc
Country Facilitator: Cape Town, South Africa

Loredana Monte joined IHP as a country facilitator for the Cities in the 21st Century and Health and Community programs in May 2009. She is originally Italian, was born and raised in Switzerland, and currently lives in Cape Town. She graduated from the University of Bern, Switzerland with an MSc in Geography in 2006, where she focused on Social, Political and Urban Geography. Besides her studies she also worked for the Swiss National Youth Council and was involved in national and international projects that facilitated youth participation in politics and international organizations. In 2007 she moved to Cape Town to study for a Masters degree in Gender Studies at the African Gender Institute of the University of Cape Town, where she studied and researched the relationship between gender based violence and HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS education, and community activism.

Claudia Oxman, B.A.
Country Coordinator: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Claudia Oxman is a linguist and program administrator with interests in Spanish language immersion programs, anthropology, cross-cultural education and international relations. She holds a B.A. in French and a B.A. in Education for Primary School, and a Master's Degree in Linguistics. She has been working for several years as professor of linguistics at Universidad de Buenos Aires as professor of anthropological linguistics and research methods. Her thesis on Interviewing in Social Sciences was published at UBA's publishing house. Ms. Oxman has produced the series Voces del Sur, textbooks for Spanish language learning, and has also published several articles on literature and linguistics. She is the Resident Director of Lexia International Buenos Aires program since 2000.

Dan Pitera is a political and social activist masquerading as an architect. He is presently the Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. Mr. Pitera was a 2004-2005 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University. He was a finalist for both the 2008-2009 Rafael Vinoly Architects Grants in Architecture and the 2006-2007 James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City. Under his direction since 2000, the Design Center was included in the US Pavilion of the 2008 Venice Biennale in Architecture and recently was awarded the 2009 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Design Excellence for the St. Joseph Rebuild Center in New Orleans. The Design Center was the recipient of the NCARB Prize in 2002 and 2009 and was included in the international exhibit/conference ArchiLab in 2001 and 2004 in Orleans, France. The Design Center has also been awarded the 2002 Dedalo Minosse International Prize. He has lectured and taught extensively throughout North America, South America and Europe. He likes “fallout shelter” yellow…

Lily Baum Pollans, MCP
Traveling Faculty, Fall 2009
Lily Baum Pollans is a practicing urban planner and designer. In both urban and suburban contexts, Lily works to transform the built environment through engaging communities in planning processes, prioritizing redevelopment, and fighting for investment in projects that make visible connections to natural systems. In her capacity as a planner for both a city government and a University, Lily has worked on brownfields redevelopment, transit-oriented development, urban agriculture, and place-making. Lily also researches and documents urban infrastructure, and frequently collaborates with local community arts organization to create city-landscape inspired graphics and art installations. Lily has a BA in Urban Studies from Barnard College, a Masters in City Planning from MIT, and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Mieka Ritsema, Ph.D.

Traveling Faculty, Fall 2009

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

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

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

Thacher Tiffany, MCP
Traveling Faculty, Fall 2009
Thacher Tiffany is a practicing affordable housing and green building finance professional. In this role, he assists owners, investors and public agencies in building and rehabilitating apartment buildings for low-income families. He also draws on his research investigating spatial economics, and metropolitan policy at the Center for Real Estate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His career and interests are interdisciplinary in nature and he finds value in building connections between the often disparate fields of economics, design and public policy. Thacher earned a BA in Economics from Hobart College and an Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves on the real estate advisory board of the Somerville Community Corporation and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Hoai Anh Tran, Ph.D.
Country Coordinator: Hanoi, Vietnam
Dr. Hoai Anh Tran is a senior researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and lives alternately in Lund, Sweden and Hanoi, Vietnam. Born and trained as architect in Hanoi, she received her Ph.D. in Architecture and Development Studies from Lund University, Sweden. She has been doing research in the field of urban and housing development in transitional societies, housing and social transformations, globalisation and urban changes, as well as preservation of cultural heritage. Her main research areas have been contemporary Vietnam and China, focusing on the impacts on socioeconomic transformations on urban and housing development and on social and gender equity. She has teach and worked as tutor in international postgraduate courses at Lund University, Sweden and master courses co-organised by Lund University and Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

Clovis Ultramari, Ph.D.
Country Coordinator: Curitiba, Brazil
Dr. Ultramari earned a degree in architecture from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Environment and Development. He has worked for eight years in the state agency which coordinates the Greater Curitiba Metropolitan Region, including regional plans, legal proposals for administrative and institutional frameworks, technical support to municipal planning, and elaboration of regional programs with national and international resources. He also worked for five years for the Institute for Social and Economic Development, the state institution responsible for research and the formulation of public policies for the state of Paraná. Since 1990, he has been a consultant in the private sector in urban and environmental programs and project manager of the non-governmental organization Open University for the Environment/Unilivre. He is now a professor at the Pontifical University of Paraná, post-graduation course on Urban Management and Architecture.

Sarah Uziel, B.A.

Country Coordinator: New York City, USA

Sarah Uziel joined IHP in September 2006 and has served in various other capacities since then such as Program Assistant, Assistant to the President, and currently, Program Coordinator. She has particular interest in urban gardening and vermicompost, bicycling, and urbanites’ interactions with parks. Sarah graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Spanish language.

Maureen White, B.A.
Trustees Fellow, Spring 2010
Maureen’s relationship with IHP began in 2001 when she participated as a student on the Cities in the 21st Century program. After earning her B.A. in Urban Studies and Public Policy from Boston University, Maureen spent five years working as a community organizer in Boston. Her work focused particularly on affordable housing, neighborhood planning, and transit-oriented development. In 2007-2008 Maureen served as the Trustees Fellow for the Rethinking Globalization program, and more recently worked as an Admissions Coordinator for IHP. She is thrilled to be embarking on another IHP journey this spring.

Shanti Avirgan, Faculty

Stefi Barna, Faculty

Sara Bergstresser, Faculty

Zhang Chengping, Coordinator

Christopher J. Colvin, Program Director and Coordinator

Glenda de la Fuente, Coordinator

Jesse DeLaughter, Assistant Program Director

Heather Fukunaga, Trustees Fellow

Mani Kalliath, Coordinator
Lois McCloskey, Consultant

Anh Le Thi Ngoc, Coordinator
Vu Cong Nguyen, Coordinator

Jeremy Ogusky, Coordinator

Lora Sabin, Consultant

Mira Silverman, Faculty

Caroline A. Stierle-Wirz, Coordinator

Jan G. Vermeulen, Coordinator

Emily C. Williams, Faculty

Shanti Avirgan, PhD Candidate, MPhil, MA

Traveling Faculty, Spring Two 2010

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

Sara Bergstresser, PhD, MPH

Traveling Faculty, Spring Two 2010

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

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

Glenda de la Fuente, MA

Country Coordinator, Brazil

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

Jesse DeLaughter, MA

Assistant Program Director

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

Mani Kalliath

Country Coordinator, India

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

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

Rachel Brock Clearwater, Program Director
Gustavo Esteva, Program Director, Faculty, and Coordinator
Oliver Froehling, Program Director and Faculty

Peter Horsley, Faculty and Coordinator

Jennifer Jones, Faculty

William T. Olenasha, Faculty

Michal Osterweil, Faculty

Charlotte Saenz, Faculty

Savyasaachi, Faculty

Derek Shaw, Faculty

Aseem Shrivastava, Coordinator

Farouk Topan, Faculty

Faculty and Country Coordinator, Tanzania

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

Program Director

An ecologist with interests in conservation biology and sustainability. Dr. Brock has taught and coordinated for IHP since 2000 participating in three of the IHP Programs (Rethinking Globalization, Indigenous Perspectives and Cities in the 21st Century). Before joining IHP, Rachel earned a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California at Davis. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Victoria. Her research in conservation has involved fieldwork in Indonesia, California and Central America, and has included studies in endangered species ecology, marine invertebrate zoology, and avian ethnology. When not traveling with IHP, Rachel is a consulting wildlife biologist and sustainability specialist. She conducts wildlife management studies and impact assessments in the Canadian Arctic, Dominican Republic and Mexico. She is currently working on a sustainable urban agriculture and bio-fuel project in Vancouver. Rachel also teaches and develops field courses in Belize and Canada for the Wildlands Studies Program at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Program Director, Faculty and Country Coordinator, Mexico

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

Program Co-Director and Faculty

Oliver Fröhling is a geographer by academic training. He lives in Oaxaca, Mexico where he co- founded Universidad de la Tierra, a center for autonomous education. His research interests, which are integrated into his practical activities at Unitierra, include NGOs and neoliberal policy, critical geopolitics, and alternatives to economics. The most important initiative he is currently working on is the creation of a network for food sovereignty and urban agriculture in Oaxaca. He is not a vegetarian, but he respects other ways of eating.

Faculty and Country Coordinator, New Zealand

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

Faculty
Jennifer Jones is a political ecologist who uses a transdisciplinary approach to explore the relationships between people and other elements of nature, with a focus on the politics and economics of biodiversity conservation. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Environmental Policy at Williams College, MA, for Spring 2009. Dr. Jones spent six years in Southern Africa researching the impacts of protected areas on local communities, and is a member of the International Conservation Union’s (IUCN) Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Smitu Kothari

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

William T. Olenasha

Faculty

William Olenasha is an advocate of the High Court in Tanzania. Has been working for Oxfam on land rights and Pastoralism since 2005. He is one of the leaders of the Pastoral Civil Society Movement in East Africa and has published on conservation, human rights, Pastoralism, land rights etc. Olenasha has been Co-Organiser of the Maasai part of the IHP – Tanzania program since 2007.

Michal Osterweil

Faculty

Michal Osterweil will complete her PhD in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she defends her dissertation “In Search of Movement: Italy’s “movimento dei movimenti,” theoretical practice and (re)making the Political,” in August 2009. Michal’s dissertation, teaching and activism are dedicated to the work of rethinking globalization and democracy. Her focus is on the work being done by social movements throughout the world to create alternative political imaginaries, practices and knowledges, arguing that they are some of the best sources with whom to think, or re-think globalization, development and democracy. Michal has attended and written extensively about the World Social Forum as well as regional social forums, including the first U.S. Social Forum that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, in July, 2007. She has also conducted research at various events and networks of activists inspired by the cultural-politics of the Zapatistas. Her work emphasizes the need to go beyond traditional approaches to the study of social movements, to develop new interdisciplinary methods, conceptual frameworks and concepts for making sense of both the effects and goals of social movements. Central to this is the need to rethink how we understand the global nature of these movements and their targets, as well as the nature of “globality” more broadly.

Charlotte Saenz, Ed.M.

Faculty

Charlotte Saenz works with diverse trans-local communities in various parts of the world towards greater ecological health in our personal, social, and natural spheres of life. Teaching and learning experientially, through actions that model more horizontal social relations and less harmful uses of the earth's resources, she is part of a global network of "artivistas" who creatively link our individual and social actions to the natural world. These projects explore urban ecologies, migrations, and domesticity through storytelling--building and nourishing awareness, community, and daily practices in our homes, travel, and work places. Based in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico, she is linked to projects in the U.S., India, Lebanon, and Iran, in collaborations which forefront a holistic educational approach that values different kinds of knowledge and forms of expression.

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

Derek Shaw, Ph.D.

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

Aseem Shrivastava

Country Coordinator, India

Aseem Shrivastava wrote his doctoral thesis on Environmental Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught economics and political economy for many years at college and university level in India and the US. Most recently, he taught philosophy at Nordic College, Norway. He now works as an independent writer, focusing on issues emanating from globalisation, including specifically on Special Economic Zones. His articles have appeared in The Hindu, Outlook, Economic and Political Weekly, Seminar, and Himal."

Farouk Topan

Faculty

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