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APC draws heavily on the resources of the University of Hawaii for its teachers and instructors. In addition, guest speakers are invited in from the U.S. mainland to conduct workshops and seminars vital to APC’s mission of international understanding and awareness. This allows for a breadth and level of expertise that would be unavailable if APC was limited to its own full-time faculty.





Dr. Jeffrey Ady Dr. Bruce E. Barnes Dr. Robin Brandt Dr. Caryn Callahan



 
Dr. George Kent Dr. Deane Neubauer Dr. Jungmin Seo  

 


Dr. Jeffrey Ady (B.A. and M.A., Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University; Ph.D., Communication Studies, University of Kansas) studied organizational and intercultural communications. In 1992 he joined the Department of Communication (now the School of Communications) at the University of Hawaii, teaching Organizational Communication and training courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He served as Chair of the School of Communications from 2000 to 2002, moving on to join the Public Administration Program later that year. Dr. Ady participates in teaching the Public Administration Program’s Core Year; he also offers graduate seminars in organizational communication, leadership, and intercultural problems in public administration for students in Public Administration and other programs.

Dr. Bruce E. Barnes (J.D., University of Hawai’i; LL.M., Columbia) is Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawai’i. He currently teaches courses on negotiation, mediation, facilitation, ADR system design, international law and conflict, conflict management for educators, and culture and conflict resolution. He serves as academic advisor for the Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution at University of Hawai’i, and is the current president of the Mediation Centers of Hawai’i, a multi-island non-profit mediation center in Hawai’i. His international background includes Peace Corps service in Africa and serving as a Peace Corps trainer for countries in SE Asia and the South Pacific, and he has conducted conflict resolution training and workshops throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Professor Barnes is author of Culture, Conflict and Mediation in the Asian Pacific (revised 2007) by University Press of America.

Dr. Robin Brandt (M.A. Public Policy; Ph.D. Political Science, UH-Manoa) has been Director of the Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (PBRRTC) since 2004. Dr. Brandt specializes in facilitating groups that include persons with disabilities, and brings a futures-focused perspective to research, evaluation and project implementations. She currently directs projects providing mentors for young adults with disabilities, implements a peer mentoring project for persons with traumatic brain injury, and provides evaluation and technical assistance to Hawaii Vocational Rehabilitation and Services to the Blind Division. Previous work includes a federally funded capacity building project training UH faculty and staff to research, develop, implement and evaluate competitive grant proposals to provide appropriate service to, and enhance the quality of life for, persons with disabilities. She has taught graduate and undergraduate level classes in quantitative and qualitative research, grant writing, and political science at the University of Hawaii.

Dr. Caryn Callahan (Ph.D., Harvard University) is a professor in the School of Business at Chaminade University in Honolulu , Hawaii . She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Economics, Intercultural Management, and Finance, and is also the Program Advisor for Chaminade’s International Studies major. From 1995 - 1999, Dr. Callahan was the Director of Chaminade’s Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies. She has been a Corporate Trainer for the Japan-American Institute of Management Science.  Her career includes experiences as a Vice President of Merrill Lynch Japan, a Financial Analyst with W.R. Grace & Co., as faculty at Tokyo College of Music and as a Management Consultant.

Dr. George Kent is a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii. In addition to teaching and a variety of consulting and administrative work, Professor Kent takes a special interest in children’s rights and food advocacy. He has worked as a consultant with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Children’s Fund, as well as being a part of the Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics, and Human Rights of the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition. He is widely published in scholarly journals, both paper and online. His long list of publications includes The Politics of Children’s Survival (Praeger Publishers, 1991); Children in the International Political Economy (London/ New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 1995); and Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food (Georgetown University Press, 2005).

Dr. Deane Neubauer is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, Senior Advisor to the East-West Center, and Director of the Globalization Research Network. He has been in the Department of Political Science at UH since 1970, serving as chair of the department from1975 to 1978. From 1980-88, he was the Dean of the College of Social Sciences; he has also served as Chancellor of UH-Manoa, and as Vice President for Academic Affairs. Dr. Neubauer received his BA from the University of California, Riverside in 1962 and his MA and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965, all in political science.

Dr. Jungmin Seo (B.A., M.A., Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; Ph.D., University of Chicago) is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, where he teaches courses on Chinese/Korean politics, comparative politics, and nationalism. His research is concentrated on modern Chinese and Korean nationalism, politics of memory, and cultural industry.


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