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My background is Amish, although as a city-reared Kansas
boy I was the only member of my extended family who didn’t
speak Amish. Maybe that’s what prompted my interest in
learning languages. I studied abroad as an undergraduate in
Germany, taught in the Peace Corps in Thailand, and did
fieldwork in Costa Rica on the relationship between
education and national development. I eventually obtained my
doctorate in international development education from
Stanford, with a focus on Southeast Asia. Later, as head of
the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at the University
of Oregon, I continued to be particularly interested in
education and development issues in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia
and Vietnam. I enjoy moving, changing, and taking on new
challenges. I have a total of approximately 13 years of
fieldwork in mainland Southeast Asia over a period of five
decades and am fluent in Thai and Lao.
Several years ago I had the opportunity to spend a
sabbatical doing fieldwork in Laos as team leader for an
Asia Development Bank (ADB)-funded education project. The
project involved practical efforts to improve the quality of
education through reform, such as training educators and
producing new textbooks. I also served as team leader for an
ADB-funded educational finance and management study in
Thailand. Several years later (2002), I was asked by the ADB
to prepare a synthesis report on educational reform in
Thailand. As a result of those experiences I’m currently
looking at comparative educational reform in Thailand and
Laos. I have also done considerable research on Vietnam, a
country where I spent time as a visiting professor. I have a
current project on the knowledge production of former Peace
Corp volunteers working as writers or scholars. I’m also
working with two Japanese colleagues on an on-going
examination of the relationship between leadership and
religion, particularly Buddhism, and how it may contribute
to effective and more responsive leadership in multicultural
contexts. I’d like to see teaching about Asia improved in
public schools, and to that end have collaborated with the
Asia Society in New York. Currently, I have a new research
grant with Professor R. Michael Paige looking at the
long-term impact on study abroad. This project is funded
through the International Research Title VI program of the
U.S. Department of Education.
I try to emphasize interactive, experiential, and
participatory learning in my classrooms. I enjoy teaching,
and have developed a number of innovative courses at
Minnesota. As one of the newer faculty members in the
Department of Educational Policy and Administration, I’m
pleased to be here and to be living in an urban area with
such large and diverse Asian and East African diasporas. I
also serve on the Board of the Directors of the Hmong
Cultural Center, located in St. Paul.
In 2006-2007 I was on sabbatical leave doing research in
Thailand and Japan.
Academic degrees
- Ph.D. Stanford University, 1977, international development education
Doctoral minor: sociology
Geographic focus: Southeast Asia
- M.P.A. Princeton University, 1966, public and international affairs
Focus: economics and public policy
Geographic focus: Central America
- B.A. Stanford University, 1964, economics
Minors: German and mathematics
Geographic focus: Eastern Europe
Academic experience
- 2000-present, professor, University of Minnesota
- 1981-2000, assistant professor, associate professor,
and professor, University of Oregon, Department of
Political Science and International Studies Program
- 1988-1991, 1995-2000, director, International
Studies Program, University of Oregon
- 1991-1994, 1998-2000, director, Center for Asian and
Pacific Studies, University of Oregon
- 1991-1992, Pew Fellow in International Affairs,
Kennedy School, Harvard University
- 1980-1981, visiting associate professor, Stanford
International Development Education Center
- Assistant to the dean, Wallace School of Community
Service and Public Affairs, University of Oregon,
1970-1972
- Instructor, Department of Public Administration,
National Institute of Development Administration,
Bangkok, Thailand (Peace Corps volunteer), 1966-1968
Professional, consulting, and related
international experience
- Academic leader, East-West Center Study Travel to
Vietnam and Thailand, June, 2004
- Academic team leader, Stanford Travel Program in
Southeast Asia, February-March, 2003
- Consultant, Asian Development Bank, May-June, 2002,
to complete synthesis report on education reform in
Thailand
- Visiting USIA scholar, Van Lang University, Vietnam,
January, 2000
- Team leader, Cambodia Fulbright-Hays Group Projects
Abroad, summer, 1999
- Team leader, Educational Management and Finance
Study, Thailand, 1998-1999, funded by the Asian
Development Bank
- Team leader, U.S. Department of Education Business
Faculty Study Tour of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and
Vietnam, 1998
- Team leader, East-West Center Study Tour, Thailand,
Vietnam, and Lao PDR
- Team leader, Curriculum and Teacher Development
Project, Lao PDR, funded by the Asian Development Bank,
1994-1995
- Visiting USIA Scholar, Kasetsart University,
Thailand, Winter Term, 1994
- Co-director, International Cooperative Learning
Project in Thailand, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Cambodia, and
Japan, 1993-2000
- Visiting USIA scholar, Mahidol University, Thailand,
Winter Term, 1988
- UNESCO-UNDP consultant, Radio Education Project,
Thailand, summers, 1993-1995
- Asia Foundation and World Education, consultant in
Thailand, summer, 1992
- Program officer and project specialist, Ford
Foundation, Office for Southeast Asia, 1976-1980
Examples of publications
Books and book-length research monographs
Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN), textbook forthcoming with Facts on
File, New York, 2007.
Global perspectives on the United
States: A nation by nation survey (2007). Great
Barrington, Ma.: Berkshire Reference Works, three volumes
(an editor).
Thailand and its neighbors:
Interdisciplinary perspectives (2005). Bangkok:
Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University. (An
anthology of selected research on Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,
and Vietnam).
Education and entrepreneurship in the
Asia-Pacific Region: Diverse perspectives and methods
(2005). Kawasaki, Japan: The Japan Entrepreneurs Association
(with Misao Makino & Osamitsu Yamada).
Synthesis report: From crisis to
opportunity, the challenges of educational reform in
Thailand (2002). Manila: Asian Development Bank and
Bangkok: Office of the National Education Commission, Office
of the Prime Minister.
Encyclopedia of modern Asia
(2002). (Editor, Southeast Asian section). Great Barrington,
Ma: Berkshire Reference Works; New York: J. Scribner, 6
volumes.
International cooperative learning:
An innovative approach to intercultural service (2000)
Nagoya: Tokai Institute of Social Development for Asia and
the Pacific and Aichi Mizuho College; Eugene, Oregon: Center
for Asian and Pacific Studies (with Terushi Tomita and
Seksin Srivatananukulkit.
The international development
dictionary (1991). Oxford: ABC-Clio (with Galen Martin).
Evaluating primary education:
Qualitative and quantitative policy studies in Thailand
(1990). Ottawa: International Development Research Centre
(with Amrung and Supang Chantavanich).
The International Education of
Development Consultants: Communicating with Peasants and
Princes. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1989, with Clarence
Thurber.
Pacific Basin and Oceania (1987).
. Oxford: Clio Press, 1987, with Rufino Mauricio.
Vocational-Technical education and
the Thai labor market (1980). Paris: International
Institute for Educational Planning (with Varaporn Bovornsiri).
Systems of higher education: Thailand
(1978). New York: International Council for Educational
Development (with Sippanondha Ketudat, et al.).
Samples of articles and book chapters
The Military Coup of September, 2006:
Weakening or Strengthening of Thai Democracy, Harvard
International Review, Summer, 2007.
Ranking the international dimensions of
top research universities in the United States, forthcoming
in the Journal of Studies in International Education
(with Aaron Horn & Darwin Hendel).
Children’s Issues in Vietnam in the
Greenwood Encylopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide,
2007, (with Pham Lan Huong).
Buddhism, cultural democracy, and
multicultural education (2006) In S. Farideh, S. & R.
Hoosain, R. (Eds), Religion in multicultural education (pp.
101-119). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Education and economic, political, and
social change in Vietnam (2004). Educational Research for
Policy and Practice 3, 199-222 (with Pham Lan Huong)
(republished in hard copy and electronically by Springer,
the Netherlands, in August, 2005).
Recovery through reform: Culture matters
in the Thai rurnaround, Harvard International Review 26,3
(2004): 24-28.
Universities in Vietnam: Legacies,
challenges, and prospects (2004). In P. G. Altbach & T.
Umakoshi (Eds.), Asian universities: Historical
perspectives and contemporary challenges (pp. 301-331).
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
The emergence of private higher
education in Vietnam: Challenges and opportunities,
Educational Research for Policy and Practice (2002):
127-141 (with Pham Lan Huong).
Introduction: The power of economic
understanding (2002). In S. & T. Pendergast (Eds.),
Worldmark encyclopedia of national economies (pp.
xv-xix). Detroit: Gale Group, Volume I.
The interface between experiential
learning and the Internet: Ways for improving learning
productivity, On the Horizon 10, 3 (2002): 5-11.
Intercultural interactions among the
Thai and Lao: Critical issues of identity and language,
Tai Culture: International Review on Tai Cultural Studies 7,
1 (June 2002): 26-48.
Crisis as opportunity: Political,
economic and educational reform in Thailand, pp. 229-256 in
Geoffrey B. Hainsworth (ed.), Globalization and the Asian
economic crisis: Indigenous responses, coping strategies,
and governance reform in Southeast Asia. Vancouver,
Canada: Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of
Asian Research, University of British Columbia, 2000.
The future of the Lao PDR: Relations
with Thailand and alternative paths to internationalization
(1998). In J. Butler-Diaz, Ed., New Laos, new challenges
(pp. 147-179). Tempe, Arizona: Program for Southeast Asian
Studies, Arizona State University.
A subnational paradigm for comparative
research: Education and development in Northeast Brazil and
Northeast Thailand (1996). Comparative Education 32,
3, 333- 360 (with Ken Kempner), reprinted in William
Tierney, et al. (Eds.) (1998), Comparative Education:
ASHE reader series (pp. 384-408). New York: Simon &
Schuster.
Comparative studies of sustainable
Futures: Case studies of Chiang Mai and Portland, Oregon
(1996)," Proceedings of the Sixth International
Conference on Thai Studies. Chiang Mai: Chiang Mai
University, 1996, with Kirstin Greene.
Cultural influences on higher education
in Thailand (1996). In Comparative perspectives on the
social role of higher education (pp. 55-77). New York:
Garland Press (with Varaporn B. & Pornlert U.
Entrepreneurship in the Lao People's
Democratic Republic (1995). Japan Entrepreneurs'
Association Journal 12, 7, 15-19. (in Japanese)
Entrepreneurship in Thailand (1995).
Japan Entrepreneurs' Association Journal 12, 5, 1-5 and
12,6, 1-4. (in Japanese)
Beyond Immediate Impact:
Study Abroad for Global Engagement (SAGE)
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