Summer 2012 Faculty

DAVIDE BOLGE'
Switzerland, Adjunct Lecturer in Graphic Design
Advanced diploma, CSIA Lugano, Switzerland

Davide Bolgé is creative director and owner of 4th Floor Design. Established in 1998, 4th Floor Design is a small company highly specialized in brand building, corporate design and visual communication arts.

PIETRO BOTTACCHI
Switzerland, Adjunct Lecturer, Modern Languages
M.A., Haute Ecole Pédagogique de Lausanne, Switzerland
M.A., Université de Lausanne, Switzerland 
 
Pietro Bottacchi has a double Masters degree in Hispano American and Spanish literature in Italian literature and Linguistics as well as a degree in language pedagogy. Professor Bottachi has worked, in particular, on representations of homosexuality and issues of censorship in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Hispanic literature and on the history and aesthetics of cinema in Italian. He spent one year at the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) thanks to the Socrates-Erasmus program for academic exchange.

AHRON BREGMAN
U.K./Israel, Visiting Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., King’s College, U.K.
M.A., B.A., The Hebrew University, Israel

Author of both academic and non-academic books on Israel and the Israeli-Arab conflict, Dr. Bregman has also written numerous articles for both the British and Israeli press. He has been a consultant for the Atlas of World History; Associate Producer/Consultant for the BBC TV documentary series The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs; and lecturer at universities in the U.K. in addition to being parliamentary assistant and speechwriter for the Israeli Parliament.

SABRINA BRESCIANI
Italy, Adjunct Professor, International Organizational Behavior
Ph.D., Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
M.Sc., Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
B.A., Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 
Sabrina Bresciani was a researcher at Harvard University (U.S.), at the University of Cambridge (U.K.) and at the National University of Singapore. She is a senior lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), and is/has been a guest professor at Aalto University (Finland), Universidad Jaume I (Spain), Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland) and University of Freiburg (Germany). Sabrina’s research focuses on organizational communication across cultures, organizational behavior and knowledge visualization. She published over thirty articles in international journals, book chapters and international conferences: she received the best paper award from the IV conference in 2010 and the Carolyn Dexter Award nomination at the Academy of Management Meeting 2011. She obtained several research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She lived in seven countries and is currently heading a social entrepreneurship project in India.

MARTIN BULLOCK
Adjunct Lecturer, Chemistry
M.S. University of North Carolina-Wilmington
B.A. Duke University

Martin Bullock has taught chemistry at the college and high school level since 1996. His research interests include technology in education, 21st century learning and mindfulness in education and models of progressive education. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree in biology at the University of Maryland. He leads an action research team at his school as part of the Powerful Learning Practice Initiative. Martin Bullock started his teaching career as a Fulbright Fellow in Germany in 1992.

NATALIA CARETTA
Italy, Adjunct Lecturer, Italian
Dottore in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Bologna, Italy

Natalia Carretta has taught Italian as a Foreign Language in Italy at all levels. Currently she also teaches in other private language schools in Lugano.

GERALDINE CAUSSETTE 
France, Adjunct Lecturer, Modern Languages
Diploma di Laurea in Civilità e Letteratura Italiana, Université de Toulouse-le Mirail, France

Geraldine Caussette has taught Italian and French in Italy and France and, since 1998, French as a foreign language for the European Commission. Has also taught in a variety of instructional settings: corporations, schools, and private tutorials. In addition to her work at Franklin College, she has been teaching French and Italian at The American School in Switzerland in Montagnola since 2001.

DONNA L. CLOVIS
U.S.A.,  Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Arts
Ph.D., Columbia University, U.S.A.
M.A., New York University, U.S.A.
B.A., College of New Jersey, U.S.A.

Donna L. Clovis is currently an Instructor of Studio Art, Visual Cultures, and Digital Media Methods at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College in New York City. She currently serves as the Associate Editor for the Arts in Society Magazine. Her research interests are global identities of beauty through media and photography. She has guest lectured at Princeton University’s Program for the Gifted and the University of Cambridge in England. She has received a Fulbright Award to the Netherlands and served as a Visiting Scholar and Artist in residency with the American Academy of Rome in Italy. She has exhibited work in Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Cuba, England, and the United States. She recently presented her dissertation in Berlin, Germany this past year at the Arts Society Conference.

ROBERTO CORDON
Guatemala, Executive in Residence, International Management and International Relations
Ph.D. Study (ABD), The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
M.A., The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
B.A., Princeton University, U.S.A. 

Roberto Cordon is a former professor of International Business at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile and was previously the Manager of Training Programs and Project Development for the International Trade Center (WTO/UNCTAD) in Geneva. He is a regular consultant for UN-affiliated agencies throughout the developing world in Africa, Latin America and Europe. 

FABRIZIO L. DELLA CORTE
Switzerland/U.S.A., Adjunct Lecturer, Computing and International Management
Ph.D. candidate (ABD), University of Lugano, Switzerland
M.B.A., Golden Gate University, U.S.A.
B.S., Sonoma State University, U.S.A.

Fabrizio della Corte has extensive cross-cultural international experience. Before entering academia, he was director and senior manager for various international high technology companies in both California and Europe. He has in-depth experience in information technology project management and new product marketing management. His current interests and experience focus on product marketing management, product strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation management, business development and international management.

SANJA DUDUKOVIC
Yugoslavia/Switzerland, Professor of Quantitative Methods
Ph.D., University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
M.S., University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
B.S., University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Since 1991, Dr. Dudukovic has taught a number of business courses, including Management Science, Quantitative Methods and Dynamic Forecasting, Management Information Systems and Statistics. Her degrees include a B.S. in Technology, an M.S. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Statistics. Her long-term research interest includes Non Gaussian Time Series Modeling. Since 1997, her research interests cover the fields of Financial Modeling, Credit Spread Modeling and Causality Testing in Financial Economics. She has published numerous publications in Time Series Analysis and Causality Testing and has considerable private-sector experience in Management Information System Development. She is a member of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the IEEC Computer Society.

MARCO G. FERRARI
Italy/U.S.A., Visiting Artist in Residence
B.A., DePaul University, Chicago, U.S.A.

Marco G. Ferrari is a video artist based in Chicago. He studied music and film at Ithaca College (New York), subsequently earning his BA in communication and Italian at DePaul University (Chicago). Ferrari uses film & video as a vehicle to research and express personal, social, and political commentaries. Based in documentary, experimental, and narrative genres, his video essays may then branch out to related mediums such as single–multiple channel video art for live multimedia performances and installations, or mixed media objects. He has performed live video projections at numerous venues including The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Ravinia Festival (Highland Park, Illinois), and the Chicago Symphony Center. Screenings of his films have been exhibited at Galleria d’Arte Moderna–Palazzo Forti (Verona, Italy), Grafiche Aurora (Verona, Italy), and the Chicago Cultural Center. Ferrari's video projects have received funding from Ministero degli Affari Esteri (Italy), Community Film Workshop of Chicago, The National Italian American Foundation, and The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. He is currently working on a series of video essays inspired by his recent travels to China and manages Ferrari Studios, a collaborative gallery/studio space shared between himself and sculptor Virginio Ferrari. He tours regularly with the band Poi Dog Pondering.

ANN GARDINER
U.S.A., Adjunct Lecturer, English
Ph.D., New York University, U.S.A.
M.A., Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A.

Ann Gardiner has taught at Philadelphia University and the International University in Germany. She has published numerous articles on Shelley, Madame de Staël, and the Salon culture. Recipient of a 2006-2007 University of Pennsylvania, Humanities Forum Regional Mellon Fellowship. She is currently working on book project on communication and travel in Madame de Staël’s salons.

T. JEREMY GUNN
U.S.A./ Morocco, Visiting Professor of Political Science
B.A. Brigham Young University, USA
M.A. University of Chicago, USA
J.D. Boston University, USA
Ph.D. Harvard University, USA

Dr. T. Jeremy Gunn is an Associate Professor of International Studies at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco.  He is the Senior Fellow for Religion and Human Rights at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law and a member of the Advisory Council on Freedom of Religion and Belief of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). His prior positions have included those of Director of the Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief at the American Civil Liberties Union, Director of Research for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace (seconded to the U.S. Department of State), and an attorney at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. He has been a visiting professor in the law faculties of the Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Université d’Aix-Marseille III, and the Universität Trier in Germany.  In 2005, he was a Visiting Professor in the Political Science Faculty at the Université Laval in Québec, Canada. His Harvard dissertation was published as A Standard for Repair: The Establishment Clause, Equality, and Natural Rights (1992). Among his other books and articles is Spiritual Weapons: The Cold War and the Forging of an American National Religion (Praeger, 2009). He and his co-editor, John Witte, Jr. will shortly be publishing an edited volume on the Establishment Clause to be published by Oxford University Press.

WASIQ N. KHAN
U.S.A., Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., American University, U.S.A.
M.A., University of Texas, U.S.A.
B.A., University of Virginia, U.S.A.

Dr. Khan has taught classes in microeconomics, international trade, labor economics, the economics of development, and the economics of globalization. His recent research centers on the economics of global migration and the effectiveness of foreign food aid. A consultant at the World Bank with a focus on HIV/AIDS relief and mitigation efforts in sub-Saharan Africa as well as on social development issues in the Middle East and North Africa, Dr. Khan also serves on the Board of Trustees of a non-governmental organization known as Partners for Development which administers public health and agricultural development projects in Bosnia, Cambodia, and Nigeria.

CATHERINE KLEIER
U.S.A., Visiting Professor of Biology and Environmental Science
B.S. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
M.S. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Dr. Kleier is an associate professor of biology and director of the Environmental Studies program at Regis University in Denver, CO. She teaches courses in conservation biology, ecology, sustainability, and environmental impact assessment. She is an expert on alpine cushion plants, and in her broader work, she aims to put science into economic, political, and social contexts. An editor for the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, she facilitates the Global Environmental Awareness curriculum at Regis. Most recently, she received a National Geographic travel grant to explore a species of giant topical alpine cushion plant, Azorella compacta, in Chile. 

VIJAY KRISHNA-REDDY
India/U.S.A., Visiting Professor of Marketing Communications
Ph.D., Ohio University, U.S.A.
M.B.A., Osmania University, India
M.S., Ohio University, U.S.A.
B.S., Nizam College, India

Professor Krishna-Reddy is currently Professor of Advertising and Chair of the Advertising Program, Indiana University, U.S.A. He has taught courses in integrated marketing communications, media planning, advertising, empirical research methods, public speaking and mass media and behavioral effects. Research interests are in the area of advertising, mass media, new technologies and communication. An active conference participant, invited lecturer, and award recipient for excellence in teaching and scholarship. Professor Krishna-Reddy has authored several books, numerous book chapters and peer reviewed articles in professional journals. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Communication and The Kentucky Journal of Communication.

KIMBERLY LEWIS
U.S.A, Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
B.A. Cornell University
M.A., Ph.D.  University of Chicago, USA

Kimberly Lewis earned her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago in 2007 with a dissertation that focused the sociopolitical role of novels and novelists in postwar France and Italy. She has taught undergraduate language, literature, and writing courses at New York University and Fordham University, and she is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Humanities at Stanford University. Her research interests include the 20th-century novel, literature and the Second World War, travel and constructions of the self, film, and the intersections between fiction and sociopolitical change in the 20th century.

LUCA MOSCATELLI
Switzerland, Adjunct Lecturer, Italian and French
Dip. Phil 1 (Romanistik), Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Master di specializzazione formativa (CMC2, CHQ, INT3, Istituto Universitario Svizzero di Pedagogia), Switzerland

Expert in French and Italian language and literature acquisition, Professor Moscatelli is an Associate Professor at the Scuola Specializzata Superiore di Tecnica and at the Scuola d’Arti e Mestieri in Bellinzona, Switzerland, where he is responsible for all cultural activities for the professional sectors of the schools. He is also Coordinator for French Language and Literature for the Dipartimento Istruzione e Cultura, section Maturità Professionale Tecnica, in Ticino, Switzerland, a member of the CAM administration board, and a journalist for the Swiss Television Broadcasting Corporation.

MORRIS MOTTALE
U.S.A., Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., York University, Canada
M.A., B.A., San Diego State University, U.S.A.

Dr. Mottale’s main teaching and research interests are in international relations, comparative politics, Middle Eastern politics, international political economy, strategic studies, energy, and mass communication. He has taught in the United States, Canada, and England, and has been a research scholar at universities in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, including the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Mottale has published articles and reviews on international and Middle Eastern politics and is the author of several monographs and books. 

ALEX JAMES NOVIKOFF
U.S.A., Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
M.Phil., Cambridge University, U.K.
M.A., University of York, U.K.
B.A., New York University, U.S.A.

Alex Novikoff is currently on the faculty of Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, Professor Novikoff has also taught at St. Joseph's University (PA), The University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and Rosemont College. A medievalist with a wide range of teaching and research interests, Novikoff has presented a number of papers at professional conferences in the areas of the twelfth-century Renaissance, medieval Spain, and Jewish-Christian relations. He is also the recipient of a number of awards and honors. His recent translation of Jean-Claude Schmitt's The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History and Fiction is being published by the University of Pennsylvania Press (Middle Ages Series) in 2010.

LAURA ORSI
Italy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Italian
Ph.D., The Warburg Institute, University of London, UK
M.A., The Warburg Institute, University of London, UK
B.A., Università di Pisa, Italy

Laura Orsi formerly was senior lecturer and coordinator of Italian Studies for Boston University’s program in Padova. She has taught Italian language, history of Italian cinema and Renaissance thought and literature since 2000. Her research field is the Renaissance, with a focus on literature, natural philosophy, ethics and art. She is the author of a book of memories and aphorisms: La Gioconda sotto il letto e altre avventure (La Mandragora Editrice, 2004) and of a journal from her academic year at Duke University (2004-2005): Notturni Americani (Aracne, 2008). Her book on Giovan Battista della Porta, the author of physiognomy’s revival in the Renaissance, is forthcoming by Peter Lang, Bern with the title Nature’s Rhetoric: Giovan Battista della Porta’s Physiognomic Works. She is co-editor of Boston University Padova-CIES’s series Studies in Early Modern European Culture published by Peter Lang, Bern.

JOANN QUIÑONES
U.S.A., Visiting Professor of Literature
B.A. Douglass College, Rutgers University, USA
M.A., Ph.D. University of Iowa, USA

Dr. Joann Quiñones is currently on the faculty of Earlham College, a Quaker, liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Her areas of interest include African American Literature, Caribbean Literature and 19th and early 20th-Century American Literature. Her courses are often cross-listed with Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African and African American Studies. She is currently working on a series of articles that explore how African American writers such as Audre Lorde, James Weldon Johnson and Amiri Baraka were influenced by their experiences in Latin America.

PATRICK SAVEAU
France, Associate Professor of French
Ph.D., New York University, U.S.A.
M.A., University of Oregon, U.S.A.
Maîtrise d’anglais Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France

Dr. Saveau is a specialist of Serge Doubrovsky, the first open practitioner of autofiction. In the numerous articles he has published on this writer, he has explored topics as varied as autofiction as a genre, judeity, memory and trauma, masculinity and sexuality. His current book project tentatively entitled Serge Doubrovsky ou un moi fiché à l’an 40 focuses on the haunting presence of this dark period of French history in all of this author’s autofictions. He teaches both in the French and in the Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (CLCS) departments. He is a member of the Women in French (WIF) organization and the Société d’Etude de la Littérature Française du XXème siècle.

STEPHEN SAWYER
U.S.A./ France, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A. Hanover College, USA
M.A., Ph.D.  University of Chicago, USA

Stephen W. Sawyer, is currently chair of the History Department and founder of the Urban Studies program at the American University of Paris. Sawyer came to AUP from the University of Chicago center in Paris and the Ecole Normale supérieure where he was lecturer in the final years of the preparation of his dissertation. A specialist in urban political history with an emphasis on the role of cities in territorial and state construction in the Atlantic world, Sawyer earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2008. He has published over thirty articles and book reviews which have appeared in Les Annales, The Journal of Modern History and The Tocqueville Review.  In 2009, he was awarded a grant to complete a two-year research project for the city of Paris on mapping cultural scenes in metropolitan Paris which he completed with his international research team in the summer of 2011. His translation of previously unpublished lectures by Michel Foucault for University of Chicago Press is to appear in 2012 and he is currently completing two book manuscripts for publication on the intersection of local and international history in construction of the modern state entitled A City Among States: The Local Construction of the French Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century Paris, 1789-1880 and The International Origins of the French Liberal State, 1840-1880.

MELVIN SCHLEIN
U.S.A., Professor of Political Science and History
Ph.D., B.A., Rutgers University, U.S.A.
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.

Formerly Assistant Director of the Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University from 1969 to 1973, Dr. Schlein specializes in European politics, international relations, international law, and political theory. He organized and participated in conferences for USIS throughout Italy and lectured for the Milan city government on U.S. foreign policy. An active member of the European Union movement since 1969, Dr. Schlein holds professional membership in the International Political Science Association and the American Society of International Law.

MARTIN STACK
U.S.A., Visiting Associate Professor of Management
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
B.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City, U.S.A.

Currently Associate Professor of Management at Rockhurst University, Kansas, where he teaches courses in international management, competitive strategy, managerial economics, and communications for managers, Dr. Stack is widely published in professional journals, particularly on the subjects of the brewing and healthcare industries. His international experience includes direct research of the Chinese beer industry and the Indian radiology labor market.

BRIAN STANFORD
Great Britain, Professor Emeritus of Art History and Studio Art
M.C.S.D. (Chartered Designer), The Chartered Society of Designers, U.K.
A.T.D. University of Southampton Institute of Education, U.K.
National Diploma in Design (Special Level), Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, London, U.K.

Professor Stanford’s previous positions include Head of the Art Department at St. John’s College, Hampshire, Lecturer at Hampshire Further Education Committee, and Professor at Fleming College, Switzerland. He has been with Franklin College since its inception in 1970 and is the former Director of the Summer Program in St. Ives, Cornwall, England. A practicing painter, Professor Stanford has had one-man exhibitions in Britain, Switzerland, Italy, and the U.S.A., including, in 1990, an exhibition with Suzanne Bollag in Zürich. He was commissioned to design eight sets for a Swiss television production (TSI) entitled Writers in America directed by Matteo Bellinelli. His main academic interest is the illusion of identity in modernist painting. Professor Stanford has works in private collections in Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain, United States, Holland, Belgium, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil.

SATOMI SUGIYAMA
Japan, Assistant Professor, Communication and Media Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University, USA
M.A., Wake Forest University, USA
B.A., Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

The research interests of Satomi Sugiyama include communication technology, intercultural communication, and fashion theory. Before joining Franklin College Switzerland, she taught courses in communication and culture including intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, and communication in Japan at Rutgers University and at Colgate University. She has been conducting research on the way young people perceive and use mobile communication technologies in various cultural contexts. Her work has appeared in several collections of essays and in New Media and Society. Sugiyama received MacArthur and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships at Colgate University. She is a member of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University and International Communication Association. She has recently received the international exploratory workshop grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation in order to initiate a collaborative work exploring the notion of social robots.

ARMANDO ZANECCHIA
U.S.A., Professor of International Management
Ph.D., University of Oregon, U.S.A.
M.A., Old Dominion University, U.S.A.
B.S., Old Dominion University, U.S.A.

Prior to Franklin College, Dr. Zanecchia was affiliated with Berkshire Community College, the University of Oregon, Old Dominion University, and Golden Gate University. He was a Summer Fellow at the Cooperative Institutes of Moscow, Gomel (Belarus), and Poltava (Ukraine) and has performed scholarly and consulting work in Europe, Central America and Asia, as well as conducted research and training in the former Soviet Republics and Nepal. His research interests include financing sustainable, community-based economic development, international organizational analysis, institutional strategic planning, and issues of labor and capital mobility in global markets. He has also received grants from the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Eurasia Foundation, and the US Department of Education to conduct research and training seminars abroad. He has served on a number of foundation, NGO and private investment company advisory boards.

CLARICE ZDANSKI
U.S.A., Artist in Residence, Art History and Studio Art
Ph.D., M.A., University of Chicago, U.S.A.
B.F.A., University of North Carolina, U.S.A.
Dottore, Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne, Feltre (BL), Italy
Diploma Conservatorio di Novara, Italy

Dr. Zdanski is a specialist in the art of the Venetian High Renaissance, in particular that of Giulio Campagnola, a contemporary of Giorgione. Her current research interests include the travel diaries of Samuel Butler that are related to his journeys through the Swiss Alps, especially in the Ticino region. She has written various publications in art history. Currently she teaches translation of academic texts, advanced grammar, and composition at the Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne in Milan as well as art history at Franklin College.