Sergio Sanabria, Architecture & Interior Design
       Sergio Sanabria received his Ph.D. in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University in 1984. His research interests include Gothic and Renaissance architecture, especially in France and Spain, 16th century Spanish architect Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón, architectural technology prior to the Industrial Revolution, architecturally interesting aspects of solid and fractal geometry and, most recently, the architecture of ancient Greece and Russia.
 

Doug Shumavon, Political Science
       Douglas H. Shumavon is Professor of Political Science. His main teaching and research interests are in public administration and public policy. Over the past three years he has been responsible for an exchange grant between Miami University and the American University of Armenia, where he serves as the Dean of the School of Political Science and International Affairs. He has published articles on Governmental Budgeting, ethics and discretion, and is currently working on two projects: A text on Armenian Government and conducting research on the role of the bureaucracy in the transformation of former Soviet States. His web page is at http://www.users.muohio.edu/shumavdh/
 

Justin Smith, Philosophy
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William Snavely, Management
       Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration - Summer Abroad in Russia
William Snavely is Chair and Professor in the Department of Management. Most of his scholarship relates to leadership and organizational behavior generally, and doing business in Russia. He helped establish the School of Business summer program in Russia, which has been taking students to Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg) since 1990.
 

Edna Southard, Museum of Art
       Edna C. Southard is the Curator of Collections at the Art Museum and Assistant Professor of Art. She has a B.A. from Barnard College, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her dissertation, The Frescoes of Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico 1289-1539: Studies in Imagery and Relations to other Tuscan Communal Palaces, was published by Garland in their Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts series, and was selected twice to represent the United States in the annual International Art Dealers Association Award competition. Dr. Southard has published numerous articles on Italian Renaissance art and presented papers at conferences in the U.S., Italy, France and Norway on Sienese painting, issues in museum studies, Jewish art, and literary and visual responses to the Holocaust. Her research interests are broad and she serves as a juror and curates exhibitions of contemporary art in this region.
       With a major in English literature and writing, she lived in Europe for three years where she worked for newspapers and magazines including The New York Times . At the University of Chicago Press as a manuscript editor, she began graduate work in art history with research on Venetian Renaissance painting. Before coming to Miami University, she taught at Earlham College, Indiana University East, and Wright State University.
       Dr. Southard began at Miami in 1980 as education and program coordinator at the Art Museum and has been curator of collections and exhibitions since 1986. She has curated more than 200 exhibitions and written and/or edited numerous exhibition catalogues and gallery guides in collaboration with many scholars and artists on subjects ranging from Latin American art, contemporary photography, Pre-Columbian, ancient art, prints, painting, and sculpture. Her interest in late 19th century French art led her to organize the international travelling exhibition George Bottini: Painter of Montmartre. She has published articles in Macmillan’s Dictionary of Art and her biography is in the Dictionary of American Scholars. Born in Cairo, Egypt, she speaks French, German, and Italian. A chapter of her book-length memoir was published in The Journal of the American Jewish Archives.
       At the Art Museum she enjoys bringing people and art together, to share the joy of looking, a love of art, and the individual responses to our shared histories.
 

Ethan Sperry, Music
       Ethan Sperry is assistant professor of music at Miami University, where he conducts the Men's Glee Club, Collegiate Chorale and Global Rhythms Ensemble and teaches classes in choral and vocal methods, conducting, American Poetry and Music, and the Music of Russia. He is also the artistic administrator of the Arad Philharmonic Chorus in Arad, Romania and the principal conductor of the Choeur Regional de Guadeloupe, the only symphonic chorus in the French West Indies.
 

Ekkehard Stiller, Luxembourg Campus
       Dr. Ekkehard F. Stiller, Executive Director of the Miami University Dolibois European Center and Professor of Management, has been the Executive Director since 1989 and taught economics for MUDEC from 1977-81 and again in 1988-89. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Hawaii, and a BA in economics, Magna cum Laude, from McMaster University in Canada. His areas of expertise include International Trade and Finance, Business, Marketing, and Politics.
 

Dennis Sullivan, Economics
Biography not yet available.
 

Patti Swofford, Performing Arts Series
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Robert Thurston, History
Robert W. Thurston, professor of History, received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1980. His most recent book is Witch, Wicce, Mother Goose: The Rise and Fall of the Witch Hunts in Europe and North America (2001). He also recently co-edited The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union. His book Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941 was widely reviewed in the United States and Europe. He is also the author of Liberal City, Conservative State: Moscow and Russia's Urban Crisis, 1906-1914. He is currently researching lynching in the United States.

Stanley Toops, Geography
Stanley W. Toops, associate professor of Geography, received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1990. His teaching interests are world regional geography and socio-cultural geography, with an area expertise on East and Central Asia as well as international studies. He has delivered six papers on teaching, primarily on team-teaching and interdisciplinary teaching, at scholarly conferences. His research interests are in the international aspects of development, culture, ethnicity, and tourism. The study locale for much of his research is China, specifically the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where he has been conducting research since 1985; he is fluent in Chinese and speaks/reads Uyghur. His research considers the impact of internationalization upon China and the results of regional implementation of national policies upon the local landscape. The interdisciplinary work of his research draws on the methods and theories of the disciplines of geography, history, politics, and anthropology.
 

Shannon Van Kirk, Art & Architecture Library
Biography not yet available.
 

Robert Wicks, Art Museum
A specialist in non-Western art history, Robert Wicks completed a Ph.D. degree at Cornell University in 1983 and joined the faculty at Miami University later that same year. He was a Fulbright lecturer at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand in 1987, and a Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan in 1992. His teaching interests include Pre-modern arts of Asia (India, Southeast Asia, China, Korea, Japan); narrative art tradition, especially those of Buddhism and Hinduism; and the art of the Ancient Americas (Mesoamerica and the Andes). Professor Wicks has published extensively in the area of Southeast Asian numismatics and monetary history, including a book, Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia (1992). A revised edition appeared in 1996. His most recent book is Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods (1999), a biography of mineralogist-explorer-archaeologist William Niven (1850-1937) which chronicles his discoveries in Mexico and the American Southwest. Professor Wicks' current study is an examination of the 1844 political murder of the first Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith.
 

Gene Willeke, Institute for Environmental Studies
The Director of the Institute for Environmental Sciences since 1977, Dr. Gene E. Willeke is a civil engineer who worked seven years for the federal government and has 24 years of university teaching and administrative experience (Stanford University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Miami University). He is a consultant on environmental issues with federal, state, regional, and local agencies, he serves on the Ohio EPA Director's Advisory Council, and he has been a panelist and panel chair for the NSF Graduate Fellowships in Engineering. He teaches and plays a major role in internship and job placement.
 

Peter Williams, Religion
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Sam Williamson, Economics
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Susan Wortman, King Library
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Sandra Woy-Hazleton, Institute for Environmental Sciences
The Deputy Director for Academic Affairs for the Institute for Environmental Sciences, Dr. Sandra Woy-Hazleton has served in that capacity since 1983. Her primary responsibility is academic advising of first year students, but she also monitors internship reports, coordinates Institute activities, and directs the Public Service Projects. She teaches the Environmental Policy and Administration class, and when offered, Latin American Environmental Affairs, Principles and Applications of Environmental Science summer course and the Dispute Resolution workshop. A political scientist, she has over twenty years experience in university teaching, has done research in American and Latin American studies, and is actively engaged in scholarly research. Her current interests are in eco-labeling, environmental policy and conditions regarding coffee and banana production in Central America, and eco-travel.
 

Judith Zinsser, History
Judith P. Zinsser, professor of History, received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1993. She specializes in European Women's and Intellectual History 16th-18th Centuries, the United Nations and Human Rights, and Topics in Comparative World History since 1500. Dr. Zinsser co-authored the two-volume A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, which has achieved international recognition. She also wrote Feminism and History: A Glass Half Full, a study of the impact of feminism on history and the historical profession in the United States. As part of her work in world history, she recently completed an article on the United Nations Women's Decade for the Journal of World History. Current projects include a critical biography of the Marquise du Châtelet, La Dame d'Esprit, and the translation of a selection of her writings for the series The Other Voice of Early Modern Europe. She has served as president of the World History Association.
 

Margaret Ziolkowski, German, Russian & East Asian Languages
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