This fall we welcome into our department Professor Andrew Ross, who will join us for one year as a visiting assistant professor. Professor Ross is trained in the fields of international relations and political theory, with his degrees from the University of Victoria, Warwick (UK) and Johns Hopkins. In addition to the introductory course in international relations, this fall Professor Ross will offer two upper division courses: War, Peace, and the Mass Media, and Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict. If you are interested in knowing more you can find the course descriptions here. Prior to joining us Professor Ross was teaching at the University of Oregon.
Professor Ross will be filling in for Professor Carlo Bonura, who will be away this year on sabbatical. And by "away" we mean really away. Professor Bonura will spend most of his time in Thailand, where he'll be continuing his research and writing on Islamic education in Southern Thailand. He'll also spend some time in Vietnam as part of a program UPS had this year with Vietnam National University in Hanoi that was funded by ACLS and the Asia Network. One of their professors, Nguyen Quy Thanh, spent several weeks on our campus learning about our teaching methods, and Professor Bonura will spend a month on their campus in return.
Professor Bonura promises updates and pictures from his sojourn, or I carry out my threat to turn his office into a departmental cigar lounge while he's away.
