ALUMNI: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Julie Hartman, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and The Women's Studies Program, Frostburg State University, Maryland.
Kimiko Tanaka, Ph.D. (graduated with her doctorate in 2008)
Deborah Sue Wilson Lowrey, Ph.D. (graduate with her doctorate in 2008)
Keiko Tanaka, Ph.D. is Assocate Professor at the University of Kentucky.
Gerald Middendorf, Ph. D. is Associate Professor of Sociology and Graduate Program Director at Kansas State University.
Carmen Bain, Ph.D.
is Associate Professor at Iowa State University
Maki Hatanaka, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at Utah State University
Jason Konefal, Ph.D. (graduated with his doctorate in 2007) is visiting Assistant Professor at Utah State University.
Michael Skladany, Ph.D. is visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio University
Andile Siyengo, Ph.D. Western Cape Department of Education, South Africa
Chien-Juh Gu, Ph.D. is a tenure-track Assistant Professor teaching in the Sociology Department at Western Michigan Univeristy.
Heather Holtzclaw-Stone is at the University of Illinois at Champaigne-Urbana where she is Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne. Her appointment combines teaching with academic advising and other administrative duties.
Heather Dillaway, Ph.D. was promoted to associate professor of sociology at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
Amy Fitzgerald, Ph.D. is now an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Windsor Univeristy in Canada.
Michael Mascarenhas, Ph.D. (graduated with his doctorate in 2005)
Michael recently moved back to Vancouver, British Columbia where he has taken up a Post Doctoral Fellowship at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia. As a fellow he is working on environmental justice issues involving Canada's Indigenous Peoples. Michael has also taken a full-time faculty position in the Department of Sociology at Kwantlen University College.
Tomiko Yamaguchi, Ph.D. (graduated with her doctorate in 2004)
Tomiko recently moved back to Japan after graduating from Michigan State University in 2004. Since February, she has been involved in research and the extension program at the Japan’s National Institute of Agribiological Sciences (NIAS). NIAS is the public research institute affiliated with the Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries where a range of research related to agriculture takes place.
Elizabeth Ransom, Ph.D. (graduated with her doctorate in 2003)
Elizabeth is currently an AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Science and Technology Policy Fellow. As a fellow she is working at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service as an International Trade Specialist. Elizabeth will join the faculty at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in August 2006.
Stephen Howard is director of African Studies Program at Ohio University, Athens.
Jean Kayitsinga, Ph.D. (graduated with his doctorate in 1999)
Jean is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University and a temporary faculty at Lansing Community College. After graduation, Jean worked as a research specialist at the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families (ICYF), analyzing data on sexual assault and intimate partner violence projects. Jean was also a research associate in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Michigan State University, analyzing data on carbohydrate intake and biomarkers of glycemic control among U.S. adults. After a year and half of post-doctoral research experiences, Jean worked as Sr. Data Analyst at Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI), analyzing and managing data on several national and state funded projects, including the study on child death reviews in Michigan and in United States.
Ken Crane, Ph.D. (graduated with his doctorate in 2000) is an associate professor of sociology at Ancilla College in Donaldson, IN. He is the co-author of Apple Pie and Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest Published by University of Texas Press, 2004.
Jeanne M. Lorentzen, Ph.D. (graduated with her doctorate in 2000) is an assistant professor of sociology at Northern Michigan University.
Lori Ann Post (graduated in 1999)
Lori is currently assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media. She is also assistant dean for research in the College of Arts and Sciences. She recently accepted a position as associate professor, department of surgery, section of emergency medicine at Yale University. She is expected to play an integral leadership role in mentoring junior faculty productivity and faculty development, develop a funded research program, and create a global center for injury prevention.
Karen L. Lambourne, Ph.D. (graduated with her doctorate in 1998) teaches at Clackamas Community College and Portland Community College in Oregon. She also works with teen parents receiving welfare and helps them identify their strengths and to change their lives.
Doug Wilson (graduated with his doctorate in 1998)
Doug is currently a Senior Researcher at The Institute for Fisheries Management, a small foundation in rural Denmark that studies community involvement in fisheries management. This work has led Doug to fisheries in Africa, Europe, North America and Southeast Asia. His intellectual journey began with a general interest in co-management, but he is focusing more on how groups who must cooperate to manage a fishery (or any commons) create the shared knowledge they need. Doug draws on the local knowledge and sociology of science literatures in his studies. His position at IFM involves coordinating pan-European fisheries projects that engage fishers, conservation groups, and scientists from many disciplines. He chairs a permanent working group at ICES, the international marine science organization, and in the last three years has co-edited two multidisciplinary books. These were also opportunities to learn about working with people who know things in different ways. Doug first joined IASCP in 1991 and has attended five global meetings. He serves on the Scientific Committee for the 2006 European IASCP meeting. Doug was Digest editor from 1999 through 2005. During this time period, he attended IASCP Executive Council meetings so is familiar with the responsibilities of a council member. Doug is excited to have the chance to continue to help build the IASCP. His vision for IASCP is to bring in more people who think differently about the commons. Doug feels that the key is to continue to strengthen the regions through regional events and facilitating broad participation in the global meetings.
Paula Palmer, Ph.D. (graduated with her Master’s degree in 1989)
Paula is currently the Executive Director of Global Response, an international organization promoting social and environmental justice. She has been recently awarded the Ninth Annual Peacemaker of the Year award by the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center in Boulder, Colorado.
Ann Baker Cottrell, Ph.D. (graduated with her doctorate in 1970)
Ann has recently retired from the Department of Sociology at San Diego University after 33 years. Ann focused on global/international, social change and qualitative methods in her courses. She is currently continuing a research project on adult third culture kids begun by Ruth and John Useem. She is also working with MSU alumni Kiki McCarthy (Ph.D. in 1972) and Sal Restivo (Ph.D. in 1974) on a festschrift in honor of the Useems.
Rolf Schulze, Ph.D. (graduated with his doctorate in 1966)
Rolf has recently retired from the Department of Sociology at San Diego University after 37 years of teaching. Rolf taught courses related to political sociology and social problems. He remains actively involved in union affairs.
Andile Siyengo, Ph.D. (graduated with his doctorate in 2004)
Director, Research, Western Cape Education Department, Cape Town
Provincial Government of the Western Cape
Dr Andile Siyengo has BA (Hons), MA and PhD degrees in Sociology from the Universities of Fort Hare (1985), Ohio (1993) and Michigan State (2004) respectively.
He worked for Volkswagen as a Training Offifficer (Organisational Development) before joining Fort Hare in 1987 as a Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in Fort Hare’s Department of Sociology.
He studied towards his MA and PhD degrees in the Unites States from 1998 to 2001, where he worked as a part-time Lecturer at Lansing Community College,
Michigan, and as a Research Assistant with the Institute for Food and Agricultural Stanadards (IFAS), at Michigan State University.
Dr Siyengo was Academic Coordinator: Rural Development, Centre for Development Studies, at Fort Hare, equivalent to a Chair, on his return in 2002. He was Chair: of Fort Hare’s Department of Sociology for two periods, from 1995 to 1997, and
2004 to 2005.
He was Senior Manager: Planning, Research and Institutional Development at Lovedale FET College, King William’s Town, from 2005 to 2008, when he joined the WCED as Research Director.
His various research projects and activities have included facilitating the Partnerships for Food Industry Development - Fruit and Vegetables, funded by USAID and coordinated by Michigan State University, which seeks to link small-scale producers with the formal sector. Others included evaluating the school building project initiated by former President Nelson Mandela for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and being part of a research team reviewing the use of technology for poverty alleviation for the Department of Science and Technology.
WCED Functions
The Directorate: Research is responsible for planning required research; undertaking and coordinating departmental research activities; managing and coordinating research activities; and publishing and reporting on research findings.
Dr. Andile Siyengo
Director: Research Services
Western Cape Education Department
Tel: 021 467 2000
Address: Private Bag 9114, Cape Town 8000
WCED Dept Tel #s: Tel: 021 467-2024, Fax: 021 425-7445
Jonathan B. VanGeest (graduated with his Master's degree in 1991) Jonathan is currently the Chair of Health Policy and Management in the School of Community Health and Policy at Morgan State University. After graduation, Jonathan completed a doctorate in medical sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Jonathan worked as a Senior Scientist and Program Director in Medicine and Public Health at the American Medical Association (AMA). Additionally, he served as a Scientist in the AMA's Institute for Ethics, an academic research and training center uniquely situated within the nation's largest medical professional association. Jonathan has also held faculty appointments in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois in Chicago and in the College of Health and Human Services at Kennesaw State University. His research interests are centered on racial and ethnic disparities in health care, quality of care, and professional and care outcomes associated with structural changes in medicine.
