| 2003/2004
US ftc Londoners
Postgraduates
Distinguished Scholars
Queen's
University, Belfast Fellow in Governance, Public Policy
and Social Research
University of Ulster Public
Policy Fellow
Norwich
Memorial Library Fellow
Police Research Fellow
Postgraduates
Susan Cameron: Susan received her
BA in Art History and English from Stanford University,
graduating with distinction. While at Stanford, she
was the Editor-in-Chief of The Mind’s Eye literary
journal, President of Stanford Environmental Representatives,
and Chair of the Earth Week Committee. She was published
in The Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal and
awarded the prize for Best Paper in the Humanities.
She also received the Lorenz Eitner Prize for Excellence
in Art History. During her ftc London year, she is
attending the University of Cambridge to pursue an
MPhil in Archaeological Heritage and Museums, which
includes an internship at the Illicit Antiquities
Research Center (IARC), a Cambridge based organisation
that monitors the detrimental effects of the international
trade in plundered antiquities. Upon her return to
the United States, she plans to enter a PhD program
in Art History to become a museum curator or go to
law school to become an attorney in art and cultural
property law.
Ailsa Chang: Ailsa received an AB
in Public Policy with Honours and Distinction from
Stanford University then received a JD with Distinction
from Stanford Law School. After that, she served as
a law clerk on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
in San Francisco, California. She is currently taking
a year out of her law practice as a Litigator at Munger,
Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco to study for
an MSt in Legal Research at the University of Oxford.
Her research will examine Internet defamation law
and its impact on online news media in the United
Kingdom. One of her publications in the Stanford Law
Review won the Steven M. Block Award as the top civil
liberties paper of the year at Stanford Law School
and another won the Irving Hellman Jr Award as the
most distinguished material published by a student
in the Review during the 2000-01 academic year. She
also served as Notes Editor on the Review and was
appointed to Stanford's first Board on Judicial Affairs.
She hopes to build a practice as a First Amendment
lawyer with an emphasis on media defence before entering
academia as a First Amendment professor.
Adam Dressner: Adam received an AB
from The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs at Princeton University where he studied new
surveillance technology and its impact on security
and civil liberties and graduated magna cum laude.
While at Princeton, his senior thesis about face-recognition
CCTV was awarded the Myron T. Herrick prize for best
thesis in the Wilson School. He also served as Chairman
of the University Council, managed the Mathey-Rockefeller
Library, stood on the Student Advisory Committee to
the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority
of New Jersey, and served as a Resident Advisor. In
his free time he has published cartoons and enjoys
creative writing, being regularly published in campus
magazines. During his ftc London year, Adam will continue
studying surveillance technology, working towards
an MPhil in Criminology at the University of Cambridge’s
Institute of Criminology. Upon returning to the US,
he plans to go to law school to study further the
conflict between security and civil liberties.
Mitra
Ebadolahi: Mitra graduated from the University
of California, Los Angeles with a BA in History and
a BA in International Development Studies. For her
undergraduate thesis, she examined the impacts of
tourism on developing nations, completing field research
in Havana, Cuba for her case study. She is now at
the London School of Economics earning an MSc in Politics
of the World Economy and researching the impacts of
Western economic theories on social and political
policies in developing countries. She has worked with
several international human rights organisations (including
Amnesty International and Grassroots International),
participated in numerous panels and radio events about
youth, people of Middle FTC Londontern descent, and US foreign
policy, and served on the Board of Directors for the
United States Students Association. She has also worked
as a journalist and freelance writer-researcher with
the Middle FTC Londont Research and Information Project.
Upon her return, she wishes to pursue advanced degrees
in human rights law and development studies.
Jason Evans: Jason received both
a BA with highest honours and highest distinction
and a JD with high honours from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At UNC Law School,
Jason was a Chancellors Scholar and was inducted into
the Order of the Coif and Order of Barristers. He
also served as Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the
North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology. He
is currently earning a BCL in European and Comparative
Law at the University of Oxford with a focus on competition
and intellectual property law. Prior to studying at
Oxford, Jason practiced law as a Commercial Litigator
with Helms Mulliss & Wicker, PLLC in Charlotte,
North Carolina. He also volunteered, teaching introductory
constitutional law principles to ninth graders through
the Lawyers Teaching Justice Program, served as a
Volunteer and School Liaison through the Make-A-Wish
Foundation and did pro bono legal work for indigent
clients through the Legal Aid of North Carolina and
the Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont. Jason
plans to lecture upon his return to the US, specialising
in international trade law, intellectual property
and internet law and to practice law part-time, in
both the private and voluntary sectors.
Adam P. Frankel: Adam graduated magna
cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs at Princeton University.
At the London School of Economics, he currently studies
for a MSc in European Politics and Governance. Adam
spent this past summer serving as Research Assistant
to Theodore Sorensen and completed a Fellowship with
the Office of Counter-terrorism at the State Department.
He has also worked in the Office of Presidential Speechwriting
at the White House and travelled extensively researching
global AIDS on a grant from the Circumnavigators Club
Foundation. At Princeton, Adam was president of the
College Democrats, Program Director of Head Start,
Columnist for the Daily Princetonian, and a Founder
of the campus chapter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign.
Adam plans to attend law school and specialise in
public and international affairs.
Benjamin Geller: Ben received a BA
in Chemistry from Swarthmore College, where he was
the Sarah Kaighn Cooper Scholar, and a MA in the Philosophical
Foundations of Physics from Columbia University. He
is earning a MPhil in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical
Physics from the University of Cambridge during his
ftc London year. His volunteer work includes five years
as a tutor for underprivileged elementary and middle
school children in Philadelphia and New York, two
years as distributor and co-ordinator for the Serving
Homeless Individuals in Philadelphia (SHIP) program,
and numerous hours as a tutor for students taking
introductory college physics courses at Columbia.
He conducted three summers of scientific research
while in college, including work on the psychopharmacology
of memory in rats and on the aggregation properties
of ultra thin porphyrin films. At Columbia, his work
on the quantum mechanics of supersymmetry culminated
in the publication of a paper in the Journal of High
Energy Physics (JHEP). Upon completion of his programme,
he plans to return to the United States for PhD work
in physics, hoping one day to work within academia
to better integrate physics and philosophy programmes,
using the UK as a model.
Jonah Lowenfeld: Noah received a
BA in History from the University of Pennsylvania
with a minor in English. For his honours senior thesis,
he wrote a biography of Carlludwig Franck, an architect
of modern council estates in London in the 1950s and
60s. He is at University College London this year,
studying for an MSc in Architectural History, looking
at London's post-War council housing, and focusing
on the recent demolitions, rehabilitations, and cultural
representations of these oft-maligned buildings. He
worked as a researcher at the Art Institute of Chicago's
Department of Architecture in 2001 and won the University
of Pennsylvania's 2002 Alumni Society Grant for research
in architecture, which he used to fund a research
trip to London in preparation for his thesis. During
his years at Penn, he worked as a tour guide on a
trolley in Philadelphia's Center City and historical
district, and was a frequent contributor to the 34th
Street Magazine, the student arts and culture weekly,
where he served as an Editor and as its resident Critic
of the Built Environment.
Molly McNairy: As a Morehead Scholar
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Molly received a BS in Biology with Highest Distinction,
with minors in both Public Policy Analysis and Sociology.
While there, she earned a Burch Research Fellowship
in public health policy and served as an Intern at
the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Molly was also President of the Order of the Grail-Valkyries
Honor Society and was awarded the Guion-Griffith Award
for outstanding public service. During her undergraduate
summers, she volunteered with various health care
relief organisations in Brazil, Chile, and Niger with
projects on immune vaccinations and maternal and child
health. She has finished her fourth year at Harvard
Medical School, where she has done extensive field
research in Rajasthan India developing a comprehensive
HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program, including
the delivery of antiretroviral based on a system of
directly observed therapy. For this work, she was
awarded the Stefani Vello Gold Prize for best clinical
work in HIV/AIDS and was a selected speaker for Harvard's
annual Soma Weiss Conference. In London, Molly pursues
a MSc in Health Policy and Economics through a joint
program between the London School of Economics and
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Upon completion of this, she plans to complete her
medical degree, ultimately hoping to work in the government
arena of health care policy and international health.
Doruk Ozgediz: Doruk finished a BA
in Economics, focusing on international macroeconomics,
at Harvard University before starting a career in
medicine. He completed a course in Traditional Chinese
Medicine in Beijing, China, then studied for an MD
at the University of California, San Francisco. Doruk
has led a number of social service programs, including
volunteer service with Medecins du Monde and Relief
International, co-ordinating the Students' Homeless
Clinics at both Harvard and UCSF, serving as Co-President
of the Integrated Medicine Group and founding the
Franklin Teen Mentoring Program. He also won several
awards for teaching, including the UCSF Teaching Excellence
Award. This year he will be away from his training
in surgery at the University of California, San Francisco
to attend the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine for an MSc in Public Health in Developing
Countries. He hopes to examine the complex links between
development and health, as well as the role of surgery
in settings with limited resources. Upon his return
to the US, he will work either independently or with
international development organisations to provide
health care and shape policy in developing countries.
He is aided by speaking 5 languages fluently including
Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, English, Turkish and French.
Helen Scharber: Helen received a
BA in Economics from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois,
Minoring in Mathematics. While at Knox, she served
as President of the Knox Student Senate, Section Leader
and TrFTC Londonurer for the university choir (for which
she won a university award of excellence), Founder
of the Knox College Woodwind Quartet, and Editor of
BLADU, the campus news and opinion periodical. Helen
also headed an environmental assessment of the college
which is now utilised by administrators and staff
to make the campus more environmentally friendly,
won the Pearl Harris Award, given to a female student
who has made the largest contribution to the culture
and environment of Knox College, and represented her
university at several conferences. She is now at Keele
University studying for an MA in Environmental Politics.
Upon return to the US, she hopes to pursue a degree
in public policy or environmental law and work to
form or enforce environmental policy.
Jay Varellas: Jay received a BA in
History and International Development from the University
of Kentucky, minoring in Anthropology, Economics and
Philosophy. After graduation, he worked on Capitol
Hill for Senator Max Baucus of Montana, then worked
on trade and other international issues within the
US Government’s Office of Radionavigation and
Positioning Policy. As an undergraduate, he strived
to build the social justice community both on and
off campus through groups associated with the Campus
Progressive Coalition and the Kentucky Student-Youth
Progressive Network. He also worked with the citizens’
group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and on university
governance issues, serving on the University of Kentucky’s
Presidential Search Committee and as a Student Government
Association Senator. He was also a Fellow at the Gaines
Center for the Humanities, a Truman Scholar and volunteered
regularly at the Carnegie Center for Learning and
Literacy Computer Lab, as well as with the Adult Literacy
and English as a Second Language Organisation. He
will spend his ftc London year earning an MA in International
Relations from the University of Sussex. After graduation,
he wishes to work for a nongovernmental organisation
to promote the concept of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.
Daniel Vorhaus: Daniel received a
BA from Duke University in Philosophy and Computer
Science, minoring in Political Science. While there
he was President and Captain of the Rugby Football
Club, an Advisory Counsellor to first year students,
Council TrFTC Londonurer within his dorm quad and a Volunteer
with the Ronald McDonald House, Habitat for Humanity
and a Peer Tutoring Program (PTP) in Computer Science.
He is at Lancaster University this year, earning an
MA in Genetics, Culture and Society, focusing on the
relationship between traditional utopian theories
and emerging genetic technologies. This program reflects
his desire to use his background in utopian philosophy
to acquire a unique perspective on specific genetic
technologies and the ethical and legislative questions
that they raise. He wishes to continue to investigate
this topic after the conclusion of his ftc London year
during his studies at Harvard Law School which he
will begin in the fall of 2004.
Stephanie Wang: Stephanie received
both a BSc in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a BSc
in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
At MIT, she was a Burchard Scholar, Columnist for
The Tech, the student newspaper, Volunteer Teacher
with the Education Studies Program, and Co-ordinator
of United Trauma Relief, a humanitarian aid organisation.
She has been a Research Assistant at the Harvard School
of Public Health as well as several departments at
MIT, studying topics that range from visual cognition
to the impact and responsibility of global production
systems to the effect of a national healthcare program
on access to and quality of healthcare. She is at
the London School of Economics and Political Science
this year pursuing a MSc in Economics, focusing on
transitioning and developing economies. Upon her return,
Stephanie plans to earn a JD/PhD in economics. She
aspires to integrate economics with other social science
disciplines such as psychology and sociology to understand
human behaviour, study social problems, and formulate
transformative policies.
James
Wilson: Jim graduated from Temple University
in 2002 with a dual BA degree in English and American
Culture & Media Arts, and a Minor in Spanish.
In the past year, he has produced a documentary for
Temple's New City Writing and GEAR-UP, both being
non-profit organisations devoted to promoting literacy
and writing skills to inner-city youth. He had also
won an award through the Pennsylvania Council for
the Union of Federal, State, County, and Municipal
Employees for writing an essay on the rise in prescription
drug costs and a Fellowship from Temple for academic
excellence. James' primary interests are filmmaking,
education reform, and urban studies; he will be pursuing
these interests from an anthropological perspective
through the University of Manchester's MA program
in Social Anthropology (with Visual Pathway). When
he returns to the US, James will enrol in a PhD program
merging anthropology and cinema studies, with the
future goals of producing documentary films and teaching
at the university level.
Distinguished
Scholars
Peter L. Fitzgerald: Peter received
a BA in Economics from the College of William &
Mary, a JD from the University of California Hastings
College of the Law, and an LLM in European Legal Studies
from the University of Exeter. As a trade and technology
specialist he testified before the Congressionally
created Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Assets
Control, and was also appointed to the NAFTA Chapter
19 Bi-National Dispute Panel Roster by the US Trade
Representative, hearing cases involving anti-dumping
and countervailing duty disputes. Additionally, the
Swedish Foreign Ministry included Professor Fitzgerald
as the only non-European participant in its Ad Hoc
Working Group on Targeted Financial Sanctions, which
was formed as an outgrowth of the ongoing intergovernmental
"Stockholm Process" aimed at improving the
operation of the UN Sanctions Committees. Prior to
entering law teaching full time, he spent fifteen
years as a member of the IBM Law Department, serving
in a variety of locations in the US and abroad. Professor
Fitzgerald is spending the year developing a new course
on International Trade and Information Technology
Law for the AHRB Centre for Studies in Intellectual
Property and Information Technology Law at the University
of Edinburgh School of Law.
Anthony Kuh:
Tony is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Hawaii. He received a PhD in Electrical
Engineering from Princeton University, an MSc degree
in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University,
and a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
He will be working at Imperial College in the Intelligent
and Interactive Systems group in the Electrical Engineering
Department. His research interests are in machine
learning and neural networks, adaptive signal processing,
and sensor networks. Previously, he has served as
Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department and
was Interim Director of the Hawaii Center for Advanced
Communication all at the University of Hawaii. He
has worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, was a recipient
of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award,
was a Boeing A. D. Welliver Fellow, and is a Fellow
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
He is currently serving as an associate editor for
the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part
I.
Nathan Kuppermann: Nate is a clinical
epidemiologist and paediatric emergency physician
at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
School of Medicine. He has a BSc in Biology from Stanford
University, received his medical degree from the University
of California, San Francisco, and an MPH from Harvard
University. His particular professional interests
are in the clinical efficiency and utility of diagnostic
and laboratory testing in the setting of the Paediatric
Emergency Department. Specific foci of his research
include the laboratory evaluation of young febrile
children, evaluation of children at risk of diabetic
ketoacidosis-related cerebral edema and the laboratory
and radiographic evaluation of the paediatric trauma
patient. Dr. Kuppermann is the Director of Research
in Emergency Medicine at UC Davis, as well as the
chair of the Steering Committee of the Paediatric
Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN).
PECARN is a federally-funded research network of 25
hospitals in the United States dedicated to the study
of the prevention and treatment of acute illnesses
and injuries in children. He is spending three months
at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
working on a systematic review of prognostic studies
pertaining to paediatric head trauma.
Samuel N. Luoma: Sam is a Senior Research
Hydrologist with the US Geological Survey. Since 2000
he has served as the first Lead Scientist for the
California Bay-Delta Authority’s CALFED Bay-Delta
program, an innovative, $8billionUS, program that
covers environmental restoration over 40% of California’s
watershed, and management issues for 60% of California’s
water supply. Luoma’s research interests are
in the bio-availability and effects of pollutants
in aquatic environments and developing better ways
to merge environmental science and policy. He is an
author on more than 160 peer-reviewed publications.
He wrote the textbook, Introduction to Environmental
Issues, in 1984; is an editorial advisor for Marine
Ecology Progress Series and was editor of Marine Environmental
Research from 1995 – 2002. He is a Fellow in
the American Association for the Advancement of Science
and has received several awards for his work in environmental
toxicology and water management. He also serves nationally
and internationally as an expert or advisor on technical
issues including the role of scientists in managing
water issues, science and sustainable development,
sediment quality criteria, mining issues, irrigation
drainage issues, metals hazards, and environmental
monitoring. He will use his grant to conduct work
jointly with the Natural History Museum in London.
Jefferson A. Singer: Jefferson is
a professor of psychology at Connecticut College.
He earned a BA in English and Psychology from Amherst
College and both an MSc in Psychology and a PhD in
Clinical Psychology from Yale University. He is the
author of two books, The Remembered Self; Emotion
and Memory in Personality (The Free Press, with Peter
Salovey) and Message in a Bottle: Stories of Men and
Addiction (The Free Press) and co-editor of a third
book. He has also published over 50 articles, chapters
and reviews in various peer-read magazines and journals.
He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal
of Personality, as well as an Associate Editor for
Contemporary Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association and past recipient of MacArthur
and Watson fellowships. A clinical psychologist, he
conducts a private practice in Waterford, Connecticut.
He will use his grant to conduct research into autobiographical
memory and personality with the Psychology Departments
of the University of Bristol and the University of
Durham, using Durham as his base.
Queen’s
University, Belfast Fellow in Governance, Public Policy
and Social Research
Melvin Dubnick: Mel is Professor
of Political Science and Public Administration at
Rutgers University - Newark. In addition to his current
position at Rutgers, he is currently an adjunct professor
at Columbia University's School of International &
Public Affairs and the University of Oklahoma. He
is the co-author of textbooks on public policy analysis,
public administration, and American government. His
recent work has focused on government accountability,
civic education and the state of scholarship in the
field of public administration. Past scholarly publications
deal with a wide range of topics, including Third
World development planning, health care reform, government
regulatory policies, intergovernmental relations,
industrial policy, administrative reform, and teaching
administrative ethics. Mel graduated from Southern
Colorado State College (now Colorado State University-Pueblo)
in 1968, and earned his M.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1974)
in political science at the University of Colorado
- Boulder. He has held various administrative and
governance positions in academe, having served as
Managing Editor of Public Administration Review (1990-1996)
and Co-Editor in Chief of Policy Studies Journal (1985-1990),
as well as Program Co-Chair of the 2002 National Conference
on Public Administration (Phoenix). At Queen's University,
Belfast he will be involved in a variety of projects
related to the restructuring and reform of Northern
Ireland governance.
University
of Ulster Public Policy Fellow
Jon Van Til: Jon is Professor of
Urban Studies and Community Planning at Rutgers University,
Camden, New Jersey. Among his nine books are Growing
Civil Society (2000), Critical Issues in American
Philanthropy (1990), and Mapping the Third Sector
(1988). Van Til served four terms as Editor-in-Chief
of NonProfit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. He was
twice elected President of the Association of Voluntary
Action Scholars, and received their career award for
distinguished research and service in 1994. Jon was
a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College, earned
his MA in Sociology from the University of North Caroline,
Chapel Hill and received his doctorate in Sociology
from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1991
he was recognised as "Creative Teacher of the
Year" at Rutgers-Camden. He will be spending
the Spring term at the University of Ulster researching
dilemmas of social reform in Northern Ireland, particularly
focusing on voluntary action and conflict resolution.
Norwich
Memorial Library Fellow
Tahitia Orr: Tahitia has an MLS from
Syracuse University, a BA in History and a BFA in
Theatre from Southern Oregon State College. She has
taught English in Hungary, participated in a Work
Exchange Program at Westminster Abbey/BUNAC, was President
of the Juneau branch of the Alaska Library Association
and Co-Chair of Alaska’s State-wide Library
Electronic Doorway (SLED) and was Government Services
Librarian at the Alaska State Library until 2002.
She has given workshops on creating virtual reference
services and organising public computer workshops.
She is currently working at the 2nd Air Division Memorial
Library in Norwich as a Librarian and Speaker and
has received the award for a second year to continue
her work. She is focusing on outreach to primary and
secondary schools and is facilitating a youth theatre
project dealing with day-to-day experiences of WWII.
Police
Research Fellow
Paul Geggie: Paul received a BSc
in Law Enforcement from Michigan State University.
He is now a police lieutenant serving as Adjutant
for the Chief of Detectives of the Los Angeles Police
Department. He will be researching how to reduce the
potential for violence in police contacts with people
who may be mentally ill with the aid of the ftc London
- Police Research Awards. He has been a police officer
for over twenty-eight years serving in a variety of
uniform, undercover, administrative and investigative
assignments including computer crime, counterfeiting,
credit card crime and theft of trade secrets. He has
published an article on making geographic and temporal
predictions in serial crimes. Paul is affiliated with
the London School of Economics during his stay and
shall use their extensive criminology departmental
resources to aid in his research, as well as their
extensive contacts within the Metropolitan Police.
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