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Dr. Pattnaik received her doctorate in Early Childhood Education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1996. Her research interests include multicultural and international education, preprimary/primary education (early childhood education), and children's issues in developing countries. As a member of the academic advisory board for the Yadunandan Center for India Studies and co-chair of the South Asia committee at CSULB, she is currently involved in facilitating collaborative activities between California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and selected universities in India.
Shireen Pavri Dr. Pavri coordinates CSULB’s Education Specialist credential program that prepares beginning level special educators, and also serves as Project Director for the Education Specialist Intern Program, an alternative certification program for special educators that works closely with 32 different school districts in Southern California. Dr. Pavri brings an international perspective having taught in cross categorical and multilingual special education programs, and provided remedial and consultation services to students with learning disabilities and their families in Mumbai, India. She earned her Masters and Education Specialist degrees in school psychology from Miami University in Ohio, and her Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Pavri’s expertise and research interests are in the areas of preparing teachers to facilitate the social and emotional functioning of students with disabilities, and effective assessment of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Dr. John Attnasi holds a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Chicago (1973). His research interests include minority community demographics and language attitudes, higher education collaboration in an international context, and the role of language in racism and discrimination. Dr. Attinasi speaks Spanish, French and Chol Maya fluently, and has studied several other languages, including German, Bengali, Tarascan and Yucatec Maya. He is also a member of the Asian BCLAD Consortium, which has developed a multi-campus path for bilingual Asian and Pacific language bilingual credentials in Southern California.
Sophia Pandya Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies Phone: 562- 985- 7982 Email: spandya@csulb.edu Dr. Pandya specializes in women, religion, and globalization. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley in Near Eastern Studies/Arabic, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from UCSB in Religious Studies, with a focus on women and Islam. She has special expertise in Sufism in India and South Asia. A Fulbright scholar, she researched Muslim women’s changing religious practices in Bahrain, looking at the impact of education on women’s religious activities, which became the topic of her dissertation. After spending the summer of 2006 in Sana’a, Yemen, she is currently working on a project which examines religious change among educated Yemeni women, and the implications of modernity, globalization, and education on their practices.
Dr. Brad Hawkins is a specialist in the early religious history of South and Southeast Asia. He received his Hons. B.A. in Islamic and Asian Studies, and a Master’s degree in South Asian Studies from the University of Toronto where he studied under such teachers as A. K. Warder and A. L. Basham, a Master’s degree in Catholic theology from Loyola University and his doctorate in comparative religions with an emphasis in Southeast Asian religions under the supervision of Ninian Smart. Currently teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at California State University Long Beach, he is the author of a number of books including Buddhism: Many Paths, One Goal and Introduction to Asian Religions. He is working on a new book, The World Religions and the Challenge of Modernity, to be published by Longman.
Warren Weinstein received his M. A.in Philosophy from Columbia University. His areas of research revolve around ethics, philosophical psychology, and mysticism. His teaching interests include Tao reasoning, philosophy, ethics, and critical reasoning.
Dr. Nayak-Guercio holds an M.A and Ph.D. in French from University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation was entitled The project of Liberation and the projection of national identity. Calvo, Aragon, Jouhandeau, 1944-1945, and focused on the question of writing and national identity at a moment of crisis. This study draws on three little-know works and reads them in the context of the contemporary political situation as well as the contemporary press. Dr. Nayak-Guercio has taught courses in French language, civilisation, and literature at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests center on French wartime writings from World War II, and the inter-relations between literature, history, politics, and memory. She is also interested in French literary fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, and Indian literature in English. Gitanjali Singh Gitanjali Singh earned her M.A. at UCLA in Asian American Studies, where she researched the organizational responses of domestic violence cases around the country by the South Asian (primarily Indian) women's community. Some of the factors she analyzed were socio-economic status, ethnicity, immigration status and level of response. She also examined the political stance of each group and the consequences of this, in other words, how organizations were treated by the larger, mainstream South Asian community if they self identified as "feminist" or not.
Assistant Professor, Department of History Ali F. Igmen joined CSULB in Fall 2006 as an assistant professor of Central Asian and Soviet History. Dr. Igmen is, also, the director of the Oral History Program. He received his doctorate from University of Washington in Seattle in December 2004. His dissertation is entitled Building Soviet Central Asia, 1920-1939: Kyrgyz Houses of Culture and Self-fashioning Kyrgyzness. During the 2005-6 academic year, he was the Kemal Karpat Visiting Assistant Professor of Central Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His teaching and service experiences include courses on Central Asian, Russian and Middle Eastern History in University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Osh State University and Kyrgyz State National University in Kyrgyz Republic. He is a Fulbright-Hays and a Social Science Research Council fellow. He is one of the editors-at-large of the Central Eurasian Studies Review. He has published several articles on Soviet and Kyrgyz culture and history, and currently working on his first book, which examines gender, identity, ethnicity, and nationality formations among artists and intellectuals during the Soviet rule in Kyrgyzstan. With the support of the Yadunandan Center of India Studies, and the assistance of Arnold Kaminsky, Bipasha Baruah and Sophia Pandya, he organized an interdisciplinary and transnational conference entitled “Eurasian Women and Self-Reliance: Religion and Education in the Contemporary World.” The conference took place on March 22, 2007, which included twenty scholars from seven universities who work on issues related to gender and women in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Burma.
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Phone: 562-985-2393 Website: http://www.csulb.edu/~clipo/ Web blog: http://evolutionbeach.blogspot.com Dr. Carl Lipo received his B.S. and M.A. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he worked with Dr. J.M. Kenoyer on excavations at Harappa, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Washington in 2000. At CSULB, Dr. Lipo is a member of the archaeology faculty that forms the basis of a Program in Archaeology and a founding member of IIRMES, the Institute for the Integration of Research on Materials, Environments and Society. At CSULB, he teaches classes in introductory archaeology, world prehistory, evolutionary theory, eastern North American prehistory, quantitative analyses, ceramic and lithic analysis, anthropological method and theory, field research design, geophysical techniques, and the scientific study of origins. Dr. Lipo’s research focuses on the use of evolutionary theory to explain human cultural change in the archaeological record. His research spans from work conducted at Harappa in the Indus Valley, to the Mississippi River to coastal Guatemala to Easter Island. Dr. Lipo’s work is tied together through theoretical models for explaining patterns of change caused by cultural transmission and the process of natural selection in cultural systems. His research interests also include the use of remote sensing to efficiently and non-destructively study the archaeological record. This work makes use of geogphysical techniques such as magnetometry, resistivity, conductivity, thermal imagery and ground penetrating radar. His publications include articles in Science, American Antiquity, Antiquity, Anthropological Archaeology, and other peer-reviewed journals. Most recently, Dr. Lipo was the editor of Mapping Our Ancestors, a book focusing on the development of phylogenetic methods for studying the human past. In addition, he was co-author (with George F. Dales) for the book Explorations on the Makran Coast, Pakistan.
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development Dr. Brown is a cultural anthropologist who earned her M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) from the University of Texas, Austin. Her research focuses on the relationships between families and institutions, especially as normative ideas about families and child-rearing are put to use in governing practices. Her doctoral research focused on the idea of “adolescence” and management of teenaged behavior in institutions in the United States, primarily through ethnographic research in a crisis shelter in northern California. Dr. Brown is also interested in the emergence, historically, of the idea of childhood and adolescence as developmental stages. Her most recent work considers the relationship between international child rights discourses and local ideas about childhood, looking especially at changing public discourses about childhood in India. Dr. Brown plans to localize this research in Hyderabad, examining the impact of the white collar economy on the status of youth and children in the area, considering both changing social roles for children and changes in local and national ideologies about childhood. She currently teaches courses in approaches to childhood and adolescence, cultural foundations for human development, the acquisition of culture, and an interdisciplinary research seminar on identity and achievement.
Dr. Soni received her doctoral degree in Human Development from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests are personality and social development during adolescence, particularly the role of temperament in adolescent stress and coping. She currently teaches courses on childhood and adolescence, adulthood and aging, and research methodologies in human development. Dr. Soni also teaches a course on child development and learning in the School of Education.
Dr. Bandyopadhyay earned her doctorate at University of Texas at San Antonio in 2005. Her teaching interests include corporate finance, investments, international finance, and theory of finance. Her research expertise revolves around corporate finance, investments, market microstructure, and international finance. Dr. Bandyopadhyay is currently a member of the South Asia Committee at CSULB.
Dr. Mohammed Khan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering/ Business from Texas A&M University in 1976. He has previously served as the Associate Dean for the College of Business Administration at CSULB. Prior to that, he was Chair of the Department of Information Systems for seven years. Dr. Khan’s research interests include information systems management, information systems education, and information systems professionals. He is currently partnering a research with Micheal Chung titled MIS Students’ Perceptions of Ethical Issues in Information Systems – A Comparative Study between US and Asia.
Dr. Soni earned a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Currently he is the chair of the CSULB Academic Senate and has previously served as the chair of the University Graduate Council, the University Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee, and the Committee on Grading Options. He is keenly involved in re-accreditation activities at both the college and university levels. A recipient of CSULB’s Distinguished Faculty Award in 2006, Dr. Soni’s teaching interests include marketing principles, strategic marketing management, business marketing and international marketing. Areas of research entail innovation and diffusion, business marketing, marketing relationships, advertising effectiveness, and direct marketing.
Dr. Gunitalake holds both a medical degree and a doctorate in Public Health from the University of Hawaii. His professional and research interests include international health, community health and health administration. He has worked for the World Health Organization in South and Southeast Asia.
Dr. George, senior advisor to the Yadunandun Center for India Studies, earned his PhD from University of British Columbia, Canada in 1962. In spite of being an emeritus faculty member he continues to remain active in the academic circuit, attending international conferences to present invited talks and workshops in Lasers Physics and Holography. He is also interested in studying the role of laboratory education in physics in many other countries. |
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Jyotsna Pattnaik
John J. Attinasi
Bradley Hawkins
Warren Weinstein
Aparna Nayak-Guercio 
Rachna Soni
Pia Bandyopadhyay
Mohammed Khan
Praveen Soni
Sarath Gunitalake
Simon George