2011-2012 Fall/Year U.S. Fulbright
Guest Lecture Topics:
(Updated in September, 2011)
1. Ms. Karen Meenan:
Chinese Host University: Zhejiang University (Hangzhou)
Home University: Portland State University in Portland, Oregon
Term: Fall
Field: Public and Global Health
E-mail: seccombek@pdx.edu
A. The Unsystematic American Health Care System -- How the U.S.
health care is organized, financed, and leaves 16 percent of the
population uninsured
B. An International Perspective on HIV and AIDS –An update on the
incidence and prevalence of HIV/AIDS throughout the world,
with a special focus on girls and women in sub-Sahara Africa
C. Gender Inequality and Women’s Health – How patriarchy and
gender discrimination contribute to women’s poor health
outcomes throughout the world
D. Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries – A look at
the issues surrounding family planning and childbirth in
developing nations
E. Americans Adopting Chinese Children – An overview of
international adoption in the U.S.
2. Mr. Richard Meenan (spouse of Lecturer Karen Meenan):
(*Please note that the Fulbright program does not provide travel
expenses for Fulbright spouses.*)
Dr. Meenan is a Health Economist with the Kaiser Permanente Center
for Health Research in Portland, Oregon.
Term: Fall
Field: Health Economics and Public Health
Email: Richard.Meenan@kpchr.org
A. The Search for Better Primary Health Care – Current efforts to
improve the delivery of primary health care in the U.S.
B. The State of Medical Research in the U.S.—A look at how the U.S.
National Institutes of Health (and the organizations funded by
them) are likely to be affected by current American political
trends.
C. But It Tastes So Good!—An overview of behavioral and economic
obesity research in the U.S.
D. Of Course, Preventing Disease Saves Money, Right? – A
discussion of the economics of health promotion and disease
prevention.
E. Clinical and Economic Trends in HIV/AIDS Treatment – the latest
development in treatment
3. Mr. Robert Portnoy:
Chinese Host Institution: Nanjing University
Home Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Term: Full year
Field: Psychology
Email: rportnoy@unl.edu
A. Supervision of Psychotherapy/Clinical case conference
B. Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy
C. Ethics in Counseling and Psychotherapy: The Role of
Confidentiality
D. International Students: Adjustment to American Culture
E. Current Mental Health Challenges in Colleges and Universities
F. Using Core Conflictual Relational Theme (CCRT) Method in
Counseling Center Settings
G. Couples Therapy
H. Severe Mental Illness in the University Population
4. Ms. Ann Bartow:
Chinese Host University: Tongji University (Shanghai)
Home University: Pace Law School, Pace University (New York)
Term: Full Year
Field: Law
E-mail: abartow@law.pace.edu
A. Overview of U.S. Copyright Law (or Recent Developments in U.S.
Copyright Law)
B. Overview of U.S. Patent Law (or Recent Developments in U.S.
Patent Law)
C. Overview of U.S. Trademark Law (or Recent Developments in
U.S. Trademark Law)
D. Privacy Law
E. Women and the Law (Feminist Legal Theory)
F. Pornography and the Law
5. 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: rae@csus.edu
A. 2012 U.S. election prospects & presidential candidates
B. Drivers of U.S. Foreign Policy
C. Post-Cold War U.S. interventions
D. U.S.-China relations: regional and global issues
E. War crimes tribunals and genocide
F. United Nations nation-building in post-conflict societies
G. Truth and reconciliation commissions after atrocities
H. Ethnic Conflict: Perception & Identity
6. Ms. Jill Hamburg-Coplan:
Chinese Host University: Beijing Foreign Studies University
Home University: New York University
Term: Full Year
Field: Journalism/Writing
E-mail: jhc2130@nyu.edu or hamburgje@aol.com
A. Workshop: Improve your English Writing-Right now!
B. Workshop: 50 Tips for Journalism Students
C. Workshop: The Power of Questions: Communication coaching
D. Journalism Education: Changing in the Digital Age
E. America’s Journalism Crisis…Solution in Sight?
F. Oops: How U.S. Reporters Missed the Global Financial Crisis
G. Writing about Poverty: Is Anybody Listening?
H. The impact of peak oil on Public Health
7. Mr. David Coplan, A.C.A.S. (spouse of Lecturer Jill HamburgCoplan):
(*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: DavidCCoplan@gmail.com
A. Actuarial Science Today: Defining, Measuring, and Managing Risk
(Introduction to U.S. Actuarial Science)
B. Climate-Risk Management and the Work of Verisk Analytics, Inc.
C. Catastrophe Modeling: An exploration of the analytic tools used
to model and manage exposure to fire, flood, hurricane,
earthquake, and terrorism.
8. Mr. Amy Werbel:
Chinese Host University: Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Home University: St. Michael’s College in Vermont
Term: Full Year
Field: American History/Art
E-mail: awerbel@smcvt.edu
A. Portraits of George Washington and the Formation of American
Political Power
B. Censorship of Visual Culture in the United States
C. Architecture and Culture of New York City from the Colonial Era
to World War I
D. The Rise and Role of Women Artists in America
E. African Cultural Traditions in American Art and Architecture
F. American Art and Class Status in the Gilded Age
G. Thomas Eakins: America’s Greatest Portrait Painter
9. 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: FSLane3@gmail.com
A. Obscene Profits: How Americans Invented the Online
Pornography Industry
B. The Naked Employee: The Dismal Privacy Rights of the American
Worker
C. The Decency Wars: The Battles Over Sex, Commerce, and
Culture in American Society
D. The Court and the Cross: Understanding the Separation of
Church and State in the United States
E. American Privacy: A History of the Right to Privacy in the United
States
F. Cybertraps for the Young: Kids, Cellphones, and American
Criminal Law
10. Ms. Erin Ryan:
Chinese Host University: Ocean University of China (Qingdao)
Home University: Lewis and Clark College
Term: Full Year
Field: Law
E-mail: eryan@lclark.edu
A. Overview of the U.S. Legal System
B. Making Sense of U.S. Federalism and the Separation of Powers
C. Private Property Rights Protections in U.S. Law
D. Common Law Nuisance and Climate Governance in the U.S.
E. Negotiating Environmental Governance
F. Negotiating with Americans: A Problem-Solving Approach
G. Water, Water Everywhere, Except the City of Los Angeles: Prior
Appropriations, the Public Trust Doctrine, and the Improbable
Story of how a Thirsty City and an Ancient Ecosystem Lived
Happily Ever After
H. The U.S. Endangered Species Act, the Snail Darter, and the
Notorious Case of Tellico Dam
I. Acquisition, Dispossession, and the Hidden History of
Redistribution in U.S. Public Land Management Policy
J. After Hurricane Katrina: How Flood Control Along the Mississippi
River Inadvertently Helped Flood New Orleans
11. 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: jmcgrath@me.com
A. An Examination of the Carnegie Report- new directions for legal
education in the US
B. History of Gay and Lesbian Legal rights in the US
C. The Difficulties in Applying Laws Based on Sex in the US When a
Person's Sex is Indeterminate or Changing
D. Legal Problems for Transgendered Prisoners in the US
E. Torts Law in the US: How Americans are Likely to Sue Each
Other
F. Legal Issues for Healthcare Administrators in the US
G. Health Care for All US Citizens (Sort of) In The Emergency Room
H. An overview of US Payment Systems Law
I. An Overview of US Secured Transactions Law
J. An Overview of US Public Health Law
K. The Regulation (or attempts to regulate) Sex in the US
L. An Overview of Ethical Obligations of US Lawyers
M. Legal Issues of Sex Education in the US
N. Travel by Automobile Across the USA
O. Frequent Flyer Perk Madness in The USA
12. Mr. Harry McKinley Williams:
Chinese Host University: Northeast Normal University (Changchun)
Home University: Carleton College
Term: Full Year
Field: American History
E-mail: hwilliam@carleton.edu
A. “We Real Cool”: US Black History - More Than Basketball and
Gansta Rap
B. Race Science and George Schuyler’s Harlem Renaissance Novel
Black No More
C. Is Baraka Obama Martin Luther King’s Dream? -- A Qualified
Misapprehension
D. Taking Sides on Affirmative Action: Sandra Day O’Connor,
Clarence Thomas, and the Supreme Court’s 2003 Grutter v.
Bollinger Decision
E. Uncle Tom’s Cabin in China
F. China’s Black American Friends: W.E.B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham
Du Bois, and Paul Robeson
13. Ms. Patricia Mangan
Chinese Host Institution: Yunnan University
Home Institution: Trinity College/Independent Scholar
Term: Year
Field: American History
Email: pmangan@trincoll.edu
A. Orientalism: How the West views the Rest
B. Early Anthropological Images of the Other
C. The Native American Indian Removal and the Trial of Tears,
1830s
D. An Archaeological Look at Colonial New England: Excavating
the Old Burial Ground
E. Assimilation and the Effort to Americanize Native American
Indians: The Carlisle Indian School
F. Chinese Immigrants in California
12. Mr. Bill Berkeley
Chinese Host University: Fudan University
Home University: Columbia University
Term: Year
Field: Journalism
E-mail: bberkeley7@gmail.com
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