Biographical information for faculty participating in year 1999, 2000 and 2001 seminars is given below in alphabetical order. These brief descriptions of faculty research and teaching interests and experience demonstrate a range of disciplinary knowledge that is both broad and deep. At the core of SATI concept, in alignment with YNHTI, is the notion that the UCI faculty is our most valuable resource.

Lindon Barrett is Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature. His primary research interests are critical theory, African American cultural studies, American fiction, literature and science, literature and society. His most recent publications include: Seeing Double: Blackness and Value (forthcoming); "It’s All in the Mind: Descartes’s Prison-house of the Mind in Black and White" in Blackness and the Mind/Body Split (ed. L. Barrett); "Institutions, Classrooms, Failures; African-American Literature and Critical Theory in the Same Small Spaces" in Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates; "The experience of Slave Narratives: Reading Against Authenticity" in Teaching Frederick Douglas; and "Black Men in the Mix: Badboys, Heroes, Sequins, and Dennis Rodman" in Callaloo (forthcoming). At present Dr. Barrett is Associate Editor of Callaloo and serves as referee for the American Quarterly; Genders; and South Atlantic Review, as well as the New York University Press. Professor Barrett received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Peter Bryant is Professor, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology and Director, Developmental Biology Center. The objective of Professor Bryant’s research is to understand how cell proliferation is controlled during development, and how genetic mutations lead to growth abnormalities and cancer. The model system used in this work is the fruit fly Drosophila, which offers outstanding advantages for experimental developmental biology as well as the essential tools for a systematic molecular genetic analysis of these problems. Professor Bryant and his laboratory are investigating the functions of gene products required to promote cell proliferation in the imaginal discs during larval growth, as well as the gene products required for shutting down cell proliferation at the end of the growth period. His main teaching activity is Biology 65, a course in Biological Conservation for both majors and non-majors. This is the second of three core courses in the Interdisciplinary Minor in Global Sustainability. Professor has two web sites, Biodiversity and Conservation - a Hypertext Book and "The Natural History of Orange County, California - a Biodiversity Web Site."

Michael P. Clark's research interests include Early American Literature, Literary Theory, Contemporary U.S. fiction and popular culture. He taught at the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at UCI in 1983. He is the author of books on Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan and articles on Early American literature, literary theory, and composition. Most recently he edited a collection of essays from the University of California Press, Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (2000). He has served on the editorial board of Early American Literature and is the Webmaster for the Society of Early Americanists. At UCI, Professor Clark has served as been Chair of English and Comparative Literature, Acting Dean of the School of Humanities, Director of Humanities Core, and most recently, has been appointed to the position of Associate Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Planning.

John Dombrink is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and formerly Associate Dean of Undergraduates in the School of Social Ecology at UCI. His primary research interests are vice, organized crime and the criminal law. Professor Dombrink received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Director of the Criminology Outreach Program (C.O.P.), which engages high school students in critical thinking about legal and moral issues, he has trained and organized a team of undergraduate and graduate students who provide academic programs to high school students in schools in Costa Mesa and Santa Ana. He is co-Chair of the UCI-Santa Ana Teachers Institute Faculty Advisory Board. His primary research interests are vice, organized crime and the criminal law. Professor Dombrink received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests have primarily been in the areas of societal treatment of victimless crime/vice, organized crime and its control, and law and poverty. He has published on gambling and euthanasia, changing government strategy in the area of organized crime sanctioning, as well as ethnicity and organized crime. Professor Dombrink has also authored articles looking at access to civil justice by indigent populations and access to health care for indigent populations.

Thelma W. Foote is Associate Professor of History. Her scholarly interests concern the history of racial slavery in colonial America and its legacies in the age of democratic revolution and beyond. She is presently writing a book about race relations in colonial Manhattan. In that work she examines the close encounters between the heterogeneous mix of people who inhabited that densely populated port town and shows that the daily interactions between Manhattan’s residents engendered novel identity formations. Her next major project will extend the study of race relations in Manhattan into the period from 1799 to 1863. Professor Foote received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is co-Chair of the UCI-Santa Ana Teachers Institute Faculty Advisory Board.

Stephen D. Franklin is Assistant Director of Academic Outreach in the Office of Academic Computing and Lecturer in the Department of Information and Computer Science at UCI. He holds the Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago. Dr. Franklin continues to be responsible for providing faculty and students with a set of reliable, basic, and pervasive capabilities for electronic communication, access to electronic information, and access to academic computing services. His work includes the establishment of an electronic educational environment, i.e., electronic communication capability between and among faculty and students, including course-centered communication capabilities. Dr. Franklin’s aim is to ensure that UCI can provide its faculty with convenient and effective mechanisms to communicate individually and collectively with students enrolled in their courses He recently co-edited, with Ellen Strenski, Proceedings of the 1999 conference on Building University Electronic Educational Environments, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing,

Guest contributors to the seminar were Peter J. Bryant, Developmental and Cell Biology; Ellen Strenski, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Robert Garfias, Anthropology; and Daniel Stokols, Urban and Regional Planning.

Robert Garfias is Professor, Department of Anthropology and past Director, Chicano-Latino Studies. During the past seven years he has been actively engaged in the area of public policy and the arts as a White House appointee to the National Council on the Arts and with numerous state and local arts agencies and in these areas my primary concern has been with ethnicity and cultural diversity. Professor Garfias has engaged in research on the music and aesthetics of such varied cultural areas as Japan, Burma, Romania, Okinawa, Mexico and Latin America. In the meanwhile he continues his long term research on the analysis of complex music systems, most recently on the Turkish Ottoman classical system.

Deborah M. Khoshaba is a Lecturer in the UCI Department of Psychology and Social Behavior and Director of Program Development and Training for the Hardiness Institute. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Khoshaba received her Psy.D. from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, and is an active member of the American Psychological Association. Consulting and health psychology, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and personality assessment are just some of her areas of expertise.

Julia Reinhard Lupton is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCI and the founding Director of Humanities Out There (H.O.T.), an outreach program between UCI’s School of Humanities and local schools. She has taken an active role in the formation of the UCI-Santa Ana Teachers Institute, and serves as Co-Chair of the Institute’s Faculty Advisory Board. Professor Lupton received her Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Yale University. She has taught in the freshman Humanities Core Course at UCI for the past six years. She regularly teaches graduate seminars on Shakespeare and related matters. She is currently at work on her third book, on race and religion in Renaissance literature, with special emphasis on the historiographical and ethnographical implications of Pauline exegesis for understanding inter-group relations and representations. Among her publications are After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (Co-authored with Kenneth Reinhard); Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Literature, Psychoanalysis Essays on Shakespeare, Freud, Du Bellay, and Spenser (Co-authored with Kenneth Reinhard).

Salvatore R. Maddi is Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has published many articles and books, and his personality treatise, Personality Theories: A Comparative Analysis now in its sixth edition, is considered a classic. Recognized internationally, he has received numerous awards, some of which are for the hardiness work. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Maddi has consulted extensively to organizations on the assessment and training of hardiness. Having been translated into nine languages, the hardiness test is being used in research around the world.

Jane O. Newman is Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature and Director, Program in Comparative Literature. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. Professor Newman’s research interests are English and comparative Renaissance studies; history of literary theory; feminist and gender studies; cultural studies and criticism; and history and theories of rhetoric. She has recently completed a book on the intervention of Renaissance philological practice in the construction of early modern gender identity. Her work on this project has led her to investigate the phenomenon of Renaissance Studies itself as a historical product. She is particularly interested in the academic practices of canon formation, theoretical innovation, and ideological criticism, particularly as they intersect with the end of World War II and the period of the Cold War, both in the US and in Europe. It seems apt that a post-1989 academy would interrogate its post-1945 heritage, and rethink itself and its role in a post-Cold War world.

Mark P. Petracca is Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science. Professor Petracca’s primary intellectual focus is on American political institutions (Presidency and Congress); interest organizations; public policy, power and political discourse. His research centers on the question of how political power is enabled, constrained, and distributed in advanced industrial societies. Focusing primarily on the American case, Professor Petracca's research menu includes the politics of agenda-building and the distribution of political power; the development of political institutions; the relationship between normative democratic theory and empirical policy outcomes; and the connection between the state and the individual in developed political systems. Professor Petracca teaches on a range of American political institutions, such as the presidency, Congress, and political organizations, as well as courses about law and society, constitutional politics, agenda-building, and political power.

Amelia C. Regan is Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research interests center on the application of information technology and optimization techniques to fleet and freight management, logistics systems analysis, freight industry analysis, and shipper behavior modeling. Current research projects include implementable dynamic dispatching algorithms for carrier fleet operations and demand responsive service for standard ground and intermodal freight movements; on-line algorithms for dynamic dispatching of commercial vehicle operations; analysis and development of tools to support intermodal operations; and dynamic freight and fleet management: modeling, algorithm development and implementation. Professor Regan has received an NSF CAREER Award (1999-2003) and has been named an ENO Foundation Center for Transportation Leadership Fellow.

John Carlos Rowe’s specializations include 19th and 20th century American literatures and cultures, and in these areas he is interested in the reassessment of canonical literary texts in light of women's and ethnic literatures. Professor Rowe also works on television and film, primarily in conjunction with their representation of such historical crises as wars (WW II, Korea, Vietnam, and after). He works in the History of Critical Theory and has special interests in poststructuralist, feminist, colonial and post-colonial, and cultural studies approaches to literature, the other media, and culture in general. Several years ago, Professor Rowe founded a summer program, Bridging the Gaps, that brought together teachers from K-12 schools, community colleges, and universities to read and discuss various literary works in the context of critical theory. Professor Rowe has authored over 100 scholarly essays and reviews on a wide range of authors, texts, films, social and aesthetic issues from the late eighteenth century to contemporary U.S. and Caribbean societies. Among his most recent publications is his book on Literary Culture and US Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II (Oxford University Press, 2000), which inspired Santa Ana teachers to request the present seminar.

Jacobo Sefami is Department Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Professor Sefami’s main research and teaching areas are Latin American literature and contemporary poetry. Among his publications are Medusario. Muestra de poesia latinoamericana. [Medusario. A Selection of Latin American Poetry], co-edited with Roberto Echavarren and Jose Kozer; De la imaginacion poetica. Conversaciones con Gonzalo Rojas, Olga Orozco, Alvaro Mutis y Jose Kozer. [On Poetic Imagination. Conversations with Gonzalo Rojas, Olga Orozco, Alvaro Mutis, and Jose Kozer]; and Poeticas de lo oblicuo. Poesia neobarroca hispanoamericana [Poetics of the Oblique. Neo-baroque Spanish American Poetry]. For the past several years, Professor Sefami has curated a festival of Latin American films as an alternative method to educate students on campus. The film festival was created with intention of providing scholarly perspectives on how different cultures are organized in different places throughout Latin America. Professor Sefami also organizes a lecture series, Jueves de la Cultura en Santa Ana, in collaboration with Libreria Martinez and the Orange County Mexican Cultural Center. The lectures, which focus on Latin American culture, are offered in Spanish by UCI faculty.

John H. Smith is Professor of German, Comparative Literature, Women’s Studies, and Philosophy and Director of the Humanities Center. His key research areas are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and Western intellectual history, and literary theory and more recently the status of religion today and its representation in public education. In his teaching, Professor Smith facilitates the study and practice of the main tools of humanistic inquiry: careful reading of texts, cogent oral discussion, and clear expository prose, i.e., criticism. He is the author of The Spirit and Its Letter: Traces of Rhetoric in Hegel's Philosophy of Bildung and most recently, Dialectics of the Will: Freedom, Power, and Understanding in Modern French and German Thought, in which he contributes to ongoing discussions of freedom, power, and understanding in Western thought, focusing on the works of Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger and the critical reactions to these works by Habermas, Derrida, Foucault and others.

Daniel Stokols is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He received his B.A. degree at the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His current research examines the effects of physical and social conditions within work environments on employees' health, performance, and social behavior. Additional research areas include the health and behavioral impacts of environmental stressors such as traffic congestion and overcrowding, aircraft noise, and residential relocation; and the application of environmental design research to urban planning and facilities management. Professor Stokols is past President of the Division of Population and Environmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). He is currently co-principal investigator of a long-term federal grant that funds UCI's Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center. His research will explore the reasons people smoke and eventually may result in more effective programs to keep people from smoking or help them quit.

Ellen Strenski is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Her current research has resulted in the following publications: "Two Views & a Re-View of Seeing & Writing" (a hypertext review published in the Spring 2000 issue of Kairos); a review of Good Reasons, forthcoming in Kairos; a paper, "Fa(c)ulty Wiring? Energy, Power, Work, and Resistance" (originally presented at the 1998 Western Humanities Conference at UC Riverside and expanded into a chapter to be included in Insurrection: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Resistance, ed. Andrea Greenbaum, SUNY, 2001); "Electronic Epistolarity: E-Mail as Gift Exchange" (a paper from 1995 summarizing Dr. Strenski’s interest in this topic); and a co-edited (with Stephen D. Franklin) collection of the Proceedings of the 1999 conference on Building University Electronic Educational Environments, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing, published by Kluwer, 2000.

Salme Taagepera is Lecturer/Academic Coordinator, Developmental and Cell Biology. She earned the Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. Her research and teaching interests include cell and molecular biology, developmental and cancer biology, biotechnology, and bioethics. She has helped to spearhead a mentorship program to promote and retain high school students’ interest in science and technology. She has won speaking awards from scientific organizations and is a Fellow of the National Cancer Institute Research.

Steven C. Topik is Professor of History and recent Chair of the History Department. His research and teaching interests center on a few main concerns: the effects of foreign investment and trade on Latin America; the participation of domestic elites in the international and internal economies; the state's role in the export economy; local resistance to outside forces; and the ideological and cultural consequences of closer integration into the world economy. Professor Topik is interested in integrating the insights of social and cultural history into economic history and better understanding the interaction of the local and the global. His publications include a dozen articles on the political economy of Mexico during the era of Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1911 and a book on Brazil’s public policies directed at banking, transportation, export commodities, and industrialization. Professor Topik is currently co-authoring a book on Latin American export economies in the period 1850-1930 that focuses on specific commodities and compares their impact internationally. His section deals with coffee and is part of a broader on-going project to write a history of coffee, including social, political, and economic consequences of coffee growing from 1400 to today.

Revised: Friday, March 30, 2001