2011-2012U.S. FulbrightGuest Lecture Topics:

(Updated: March of 2012)

1. Mr. Robert Portnoy:

Chinese Host Institution: Nanjing University

Home Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Term: Year

Field: Psychology

Email:

  1. Supervision of Psychotherapy/Clinical case conference
  1. Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy
  1. Ethics in Counseling and Psychotherapy: The Role of Confidentiality
  1. International Students: Adjustment to American Culture
  1. Current Mental Health Challenges in Colleges and Universities
  1. Using Core Conflictual Relational Theme (CCRT) Method in Counseling Center Settings
  1. Couples Therapy
  1. Severe Mental Illness in the University Population

2. Ms. Ann Bartow:

Chinese Host University: Tongji University (Shanghai)

Home University: Pace Law School, Pace University (New York)

Term: Year

Field: Law

E-mail:

  1. Overview of U.S. Copyright Law (or Recent Developments in U.S. Copyright Law)
  1. Overview of U.S. Patent Law (or Recent Developments in U.S. Patent Law)
  1. Overview of U.S. Trademark Law (or Recent Developments in U.S. Trademark Law)
  1. Privacy Law
  1. Women and the Law (Feminist Legal Theory)
  1. Pornography and the Law

3. Mr. James DeShaw Rae:

Chinese Host University: China Foreign Affairs University (Beijing)

Home University: California State University Sacramento

Term: Full Year

Field: American Politics & American Foreign Policy

E-mail:

  1. 2012 U.S. election prospects & presidential candidates
  1. Drivers of U.S. Foreign Policy
  1. Post-Cold War U.S. interventions
  1. U.S.-China relations: regional and global issues
  1. War crimes tribunals and genocide
  1. United Nations nation-building in post-conflict societies
  1. Truth and reconciliation commissions after atrocities
  1. Ethnic Conflict: Perception & Identity

4. Ms. Jill Hamburg-Coplan:

Chinese Host University: Beijing Foreign Studies University

Home University: New York University

Term: Year

Field: Journalism/Writing

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  1. Workshop: Improve your English Writing-Right now!
  1. Workshop: 50 Tips for Journalism Students
  1. Workshop: The Power of Questions: Communication coaching
  1. Journalism Education: Changing in the Digital Age
  1. America’s Journalism Crisis…Solution in Sight?
  1. Oops: How U.S. Reporters Missed the Global Financial Crisis
  1. Writing about Poverty: Is Anybody Listening?
  1. The impact of peak oil on Public Health

5. Mr. David Coplan, A.C.A.S. (spouse of Lecturer Jill Hamburg-Coplan):

(*Please note that the Fulbright program does not provide travel expenses for Fulbright spouses.*)

Mr. David Coplan, Senior Actuarial Analyst with Verisk Analytics of Jersey City, New Jersey, is an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society of America who works at the intersection of government regulation, insurance pricing, and disaster modeling.

Term: Year

Field: Actuarial Science

Email:

  1. Actuarial Science Today: Defining, Measuring, and Managing Risk (Introduction to U.S. Actuarial Science)
  1. Climate-Risk Management and the Work of Verisk Analytics, Inc.
  1. Catastrophe Modeling: An exploration of the analytic tools used to model and manage exposure to fire, flood, hurricane, earthquake, and terrorism.

6. Mr. Amy Werbel:

Chinese Host University: Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Home University: St. Michael’s College in Vermont

Term: Year

Field: American History/Art

E-mail:

  1. Portraits of George Washington and the Formation of American Political Power
  1. Censorship of Visual Culture in the United States
  1. Architecture and Culture of New York City from the Colonial Era to World War I
  1. The Rise and Role of Women Artists in America
  1. African Cultural Traditions in American Art and Architecture
  1. American Art and Class Status in the Gilded Age
  1. Thomas Eakins: America’s Greatest Portrait Painter

7. Mr. Frederick Lane (spouse of Lecturer Amy Werbel):

(*Please note that the Fulbright program does not provide travel expenses for Fulbright spouses.*)

Mr. Frederick Lane is an attorney, author, public speaker, and an expert witness regarding computer forensics.

Term: Year

Field: Law and Culture

Email:

  1. Obscene Profits: How Americans Invented the Online Pornography Industry
  1. The Naked Employee: The Dismal Privacy Rights of the American Worker
  1. The Decency Wars: The Battles Over Sex, Commerce, and Culture in American Society
  1. The Court and the Cross: Understanding the Separation of Church and State in the United States
  1. American Privacy: A History of the Right to Privacy in the United States
  1. Cybertraps for the Young: Kids, Cellphones, and American Criminal Law

8.Ms. Erin Ryan:

Chinese Host University: Ocean University of China (Qingdao)

Home University: Lewis and Clark College

Term: Year

Field: Law

E-mail:

General Topics in American Law:

  1. Overview of the U.S. Legal System
  1. American Federalism and Constitutional Separation of Powers
  1. Private Property Rights Protections under U.S. Constitutional Law
  1. Common Law Nuisance and Climate Governance in the U.S.
  1. Negotiating Environmental Governance: the Coastal Zone Management Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Stormwater Rule
  1. Participatory Workshop: “Introduction to Interest-Based Bargaining: A Problem-Solving Approach to Negotiation”

Celebrated Stories in American Law:

  1. The Public Trust Doctrine from Los Angeles to Yosemite: Balancing Economic Development with Environmental Protection
  1. The U.S. Endangered Species Act, the Snail Darter, and the Notorious Case of Tellico Dam
  1. Acquisition, Dispossession, and the Hidden History of Redistribution in U.S. Public Land Management Policy
  1. After Hurricane Katrina: How Flood Control Along the Mississippi River Inadvertently Helped Flood the City of New Orleans
  1. “Federalism and the Tug of War Within” (presentation of my forthcoming book on American federalism and environmental governance)

9. Mr. James McGrath:

Chinese Host University: Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Home University: Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth

Term: Year

Fields: Law,Education, and Public Health

E-mail:

  1. An Examination of the Carnegie Report- new directions for legal education in the US
  1. History of Gay and Lesbian Legal rights in the US
  1. The Difficulties in Applying Laws Based on Sex in the US When a Person's Sex is Indeterminate or Changing
  1. Legal Problems for Transgendered Prisoners in the US
  1. Torts Law in the US: How Americans are Likely to Sue Each Other
  1. Legal Issues for Healthcare Administrators in the US
  1. Health Care for All US Citizens (Sort of) In The Emergency Room
  1. An overview of US Payment Systems Law
  1. An Overview of US Secured Transactions Law
  1. An Overview of US Public Health Law
  1. The Regulation (or attempts to regulate) Sex in the US
  1. An Overview of Ethical Obligations of US Lawyers
  1. Legal Issues of Sex Education in the US
  1. Travel by Automobile Across the USA
  1. Frequent Flyer Perk Madness in The USA

10. Mr. Harry McKinley Williams:

Chinese Host University: Northeast Normal University (Changchun)

Home University: Carleton College

Term: Full Year

Field: American History

E-mail:

  1. “We Real Cool”: US Black History - More Than Basketball and Gansta Rap
  1. Race Science and George Schuyler’s Harlem Renaissance Novel Black No More
  1. Is Barak Obama Martin Luther King’s Dream? -- A Qualified Misapprehension
  1. Taking Sides on Affirmative Action: Sandra Day O’Connor, Clarence Thomas, and the Supreme Court’s 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger Decision
  1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin in China
  1. China’s Black American Friends: W.E.B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham Du Bois, and Paul Robeson

11. Ms. Patricia Mangan

Chinese Host Institution:Yunnan University

Home Institution:Trinity College/Independent Scholar

Term:Year

Field: American History

Email:

  1. Orientalism: How the West views the Rest
  1. Early Anthropological Images of the Other
  1. The Native American Indian Removal and the Trial of Tears, 1830s
  1. An Archaeological Look at Colonial New England: Excavating the Old Burial Ground
  1. Assimilation and the Effort to Americanize Native American Indians: The Carlisle Indian School
  1. Chinese Immigrants in California

12. Mr. Bill Berkeley

Chinese Host University:Fudan University

Home University: Journalist and professor at Columbia University

Term:Year

Field:Journalism

E-mail:

  1. The American Media and China
  1. The American Media and the World
  1. The American Media and American Foreign Policy
  1. The American Media and American Presidential Politics in the Coming Election Year

13. Mr. James Emmett Ryan

Chinese Host University: Nanjing Normal University

Home University: Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama

Term: Spring

Field: American Literature, American Studies, Religious Studies

E-mail:

  1. 19th Century American Literature and Religious History
  1. Revising the American Literature Anthology, 1967-2012
  1. Women Writers in the American “South”
  1. The New “Disability Studies” and American Literary History
  1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin in American Culture
  1. “Black Face/White Noise”: Blackface Minstrelsy in the United States
  1. The Emergence of African-American Literature
  1. Moby-Dick and Young America: Herman Melville in Context
  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson and American Transcendentalism
  1. Quakers and American Literature

14. Ms. Renee Twombly (spouse of Lecturer James Emmett Ryan)

(*please note that the Fulbright program does not provide travel expenses for Fulbright spouses.*)

Ms. Twombly is a science journalist and expert medical writer specializing in the field of cancer research for the Mayo Clinic, Georgetown University, and other clients. She is also a long-time contributor to the news section of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Term: Spring 2012

Field: Communications and Science/Medical Journalism

E-mail:

  1. Medical Journalism in the United States: An Overview
  1. New Audiences for Medical Writing
  1. Writing about Cancer Research
  1. Science Journalism on a Global Scale
  1. The Basics of Science Journalism

15. Mr. Daniel Meissner

Chinese Host University:South China Normal University

Home University: Marquette University

Term: Spring

Field: History

Email:

  1. Public Opinion,Government Policy and Historical Interpretation in Sino-American Relations, 1860-1960
  1. Imports and Industrialization: China's 'War' Against American Flour Imports, 1895-1910
  1. West Coast Industrialization and 19th Century Trans-Pacific Trade
  1. The Clash of Irish and Chinese Labor in San Francisco, 1850-1870
  1. American Impressions of 21st Century China

16. Mr. Pat Munday

Chinese Host University: Southwest University (Chongqing)

Home University: Montana Tech (Butte, Montana)

Term: Spring

Field: American History (Science, Technology, and Environmental Studies)

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  1. Henry Ford, the "Model T" Car, and the Highland Park Factory: Social and Technological Progress?
  1. The Tennessee Valley Authority: President Roosevelt's Plan for Economic Development with Hydroelectricity
  1. America Outdoors: The Conflict Between Environmental Preservation and Economic Development
  1. The Frontier Myth in American History
  1. America's Largest Superfund Site: Cleaning Up after a Century of Copper Mining and Smelting
  1. At the Movies: The Environment as Depicted in Popular American Films

17. Ms. Shannon Jenkins

Chinese Host University: East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) in Shanghai

Home University: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Term: Spring

Field: Political Science

Email:

  1. U.S. State and Local Government and their Relevance to China and the Rest of the World.
  1. Campaigns and Elections American Style: The 2012 Presidential Election
  1. 2012 Redistricting in the U.S.: Why Redrawing Congressional District Lines Matters
  1. No Child Left Behind? Education Policy in the United States
  1. High Impact Educational Practices: How Practices such as Undergraduate Research Projects, Service-Learning, Internships and Group Projects Enhance Student Engagement and Learning

18. Mr. Doug Roscoe (spouse of Lecturer Shannon Jenkins)

(*please note that the Fulbright program does not provide travel expenses for Fulbright spouses.*)

Dr. Roscoe is a political scientist who studies U.S. national politics and political parties. He teaches courses on the U.S. Presidency, Congress, Parties and Interest Groups and elections. In addition, he is the Director of the General Education program at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and recently completed a Fulbright in Hong Kong where he worked with universities there in developing general education programs.

Term: Spring 2012

Field: Political Science, American Politics

E-mail:

  1. The Tea Party and the Two Party System in the United States
  1. Dysfunctional Democracy in America
  1. Online and Blended Learning (note: this presentation could be a workshop jointly facilitated by Profs. Roscoe and Jenkins)
  1. General Education in the United States: How it works and why it matters

18. Ms. Maria Savasta-Kennedy

Chinese Host University: Northwest University in Xian

Home University: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Term: Spring

Field: Law

Email:

A. The evolution of Environmental Justice in the United States

B. Global warming and international law: Where are we now?

C.Climate Change and Fairness

D.Private market v. governmental regulation of pollution; can the market regulate itself?

F.Geoengineering and Ethical Challenges of Technology

G.Legal Ethics and Professionalism: Negotiation

19. Mr. Joseph Kennedy

Chinese Host Institution:Northwest University in Xian

Home Institution:University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Term:Spring

Field: Law

Email:

  1. Legalizing China: How law influences the way that Americans see China.
  2. A Nation of Lawyers: The role that law and lawyers play in managing social change in the U.S.
  1. Hackers, Pirates and Spies: Emerging issues in the law of computer and internet crime.
  1. Crime and Punishment in America: Why does the U.S. have so many people in prison?
  1. The Arab Spring and International Law: Where do we go from here?

20. Mr. Jim Detjen

Chinese Host University: Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou

Home University: Michigan State University at East Lansing

Term: Spring

Field: Journalism/Environmental Journalism

Email:

  1. Overview of how American journalism is changing in 2012.
  1. Tips on how to improve reporting and writing about the environment.
  1. Tips on how to improve reporting about health and science topics.
  1. Climate change – How it will affect China, America, and the World.
  1. Antarctica: The last frontier.
  1. The growth of the American environmental movement.