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GLOBAL POLICY AREA HIGHLIGHTS
- Greta Friedemann-Sánchez accepted the Institute’s offer to
join the faculty as an assistant professor of international
development. An economic and medical anthropologist,
Friedemann-Sánchez received her licenciatura in anthropology
from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, her native
country. Her master’s degree in public affairs and doctorate in
economic anthropology were completed at the University of
Minnesota. She completed postdoctoral training in health
services research at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center’s Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, where she currently is a core researcher.
- To prepare for the launch of the Luce Foundation-funded
project on religion, humanitarianism, and world order, Michael
Barnett and colleagues from the Munk Centre for International
Studies and the American University in Cairo’s Forced
Migration and Refugee Studies Program held a workshop in Cairo, Egypt, in April with representatives from religiously based relief and charitable organizations. In a related project,
Barnett and Raymond Duvall from the University’s Department
of Political Science are organizing a Mellon Foundation sponsored
Sawyer Seminar to take place during the
2007–2008 academic year.
- The April 17 Freeman Lecture featured Lester R. Brown,
president and founder of the Earth Policy Institute, addressing “Food or Fuel: The Emerging Competition.” Robert Elde, dean
of the University’s College of Biological Sciences, described
the energy potential of native prairie ecosystems, followed by panel discussions with representatives of the producer, conservation, and agribusiness communities.
- The University honored recently retired Regents Professor G.
Edward Schuh with a two-day symposium in May. “Toward a
Global Food and Agricultural Policy for an Open International
Economy” brought together several of Schuh’s former students
and close colleagues to address the inequalities in per capita
incomes that characterize global agriculture and other issues
on which his work has focused. Schuh pioneered consideration of the effects of macroeconomic policies on the agricultural sector.
- Sudha Shetty will join the Institute in June as program director
of the International Fellows Program. Since 2003, her work as
a diversity consultant with the Seattle office of Dorsey &
Whitney has focused on recruitment and retention of women attorneys and lawyers of color. She also served as director of
the Access to Justice Institute at Seattle University School of
Law from 2001 to 2006. Shetty received a bachelor’s degree in sociology and psychology from Sophia College in Mumbai, India, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Mumbai.
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