Faculty List
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Therese Bremigan
Teaches Fisheries and Wildlife (FW) 479 Fisheries Managementl.
E-mail: bremigan@msu.edu
Henry Campa, III
Specializes in wildlife habitat analysis and management, wildlife nutrition, impacts of disturbances on wildlife habitats and populations in the Great Lakes Basin. Dr.Campa recently collaborated on a book with Dr. Baydack, Director of the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba.
E-mail: campa@msu.edu
Thomas Coon
Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
E-mail: coontg@msu.edu
Tracy Dobson
A memeber of the CSC Board of Advisors, Tracy Dobson's current project on Native American Fisheries in Michigan has expanded to Canadian Indigenous people. Specializes in ecology of the Great Lakes.
E-mail: dobson@msu.edu
Michael Donahue
Donahue teaches workshops on governance of the Great Lakes.Specializes in adult education, management, and distance learning.
E-mail: glc@glc.org
John D. Schwartz
Member of the Resource Studies Group, in particular liaison with the Michigan Sea Grant College Program based at MSU. Research interests include water quality, exotic species, and coastal zone management in the Great Lakes area.
E-mail: schwar18@msu.edu
Kim Thomas Scribner
Specializes in Great Lakes issues regarding genetic marking and molecular genetic characterization.
E-mail: scribne3@msu.edu
William Taylor
Member of the CSC Board of Advisors. Specializes in Great Lakes issues regarding fisheries ecology and population dynamics and management.William Taylor, along with Paulo Ferriere, was editor of Great Lakes Fisheries Policy and Management: A Binational Perspective, MSU Press, 1999.
E-mail: taylorw@msu.edu
Scott Winterstein
Co-editor of two major grant proposals for the Center. Assisting William Taylor in the creation of a Canada-US Environmental Policy group with the Association for Canadian Studies in the US. Specializes in population analysis and research design.
E-mail: winterst@msu.edu
Lois Wolfson
Specialist in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Insitute for Water Quality. Directing a project on water sanitation and health for Native Americans of Michigan and Ontario. Research interests include limnology, aquatic plant management and algal ecology.
E-mail: wolfsonl@msu.edu
Department of Food Science
Rhonda Crackel
Specializes in fundamental and applied aspects of nutrition and food science; U.S. and international food laws and regulations
E-mail: crackel@msu.edu
Perry Ng
Initiated a new Cereal Science Program, and at present is the only Cereal Scientist in the public sector in the state of Michigan. Dr. Ng's research focuses mainly on physiochemical and genetic properties of wheat in relation to end-use qualities. Among his current research projects is a study with scientists from the University of Manitoba and Agriculture Canada examining Canadian and US wheat quality. He was a research scientist with the Grain Industry Group at the University of Manitoba prior to coming to MSU.
E-mail: ngp@msu.edu | Visit Perry Ng’s Webpage
Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation, and Resource Studies
Daniel Bronstein
Member of the CSC Advisory Board. Specializes in environmental law, law and medicine. Teaches courses entitled Law and Resources, and Comparative Resources and Environmental Policy.
E-mail: bronstei@msu.edu
Manuel Chavez
Assistant Director of the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies. Chavez will collaborate with the CSC faculty in organizing joint conferences on NAFTA's Impact on the Environment and NAFTA's Impact on Women. Specializes in impact of NAFTA on the environment, US-Mexico interdependence, public policy and border studies.
E-mail: chavezm1@msu.edu
Patricia Norris
Specializes in land resource economics, land use economics and policy, and environmental policy.
E-mail: norrisp@msu.edu
Gail Vanderstoep
Teaches a graduate course on the heritage of the Great Lakes. Specializes in environmental and heritage education/interpretation, and maritime heritage & management.
E-mail: vanders1@msu.edu | Visit Gail Vanderstoep’s Webpage
Chris Vogt
Specializes in advertising strategies and information technology for tourism.
Arts and Letters
Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures
Philip Bellfy
Member of the CSC Board of Advisors. Co-chair of the Indigenous Peoples Issues Circles (IPIC). Researching US-Canada border and Native people.
E-mail: bellfy@msu.edu| Visit Philip Bellfy’s Webpage
Anita Skeen
Member of CSC Board of Advisors. Professor Skeen is teaching a new undergraduate general education course on Canadian literature and culture. Specializes in Canadian literature, creative writing, and women's studies. She is a poet and fiction writer, and has studied under Margaret Atwood.
E-mail: skeen@msu.edu | Visit Anita Skeen’s Webpage
Department of Art and Art History
Alisa Henriquez
Specializes in teaching Canadian art. Recipient of British Columbia Cultural Grant. Focuses on the Canadian Group of Seven Painters. Irving Taran-Coordinates the development of visiting lecturers and exhibits bearing on Canadian art and art education. Uses the Group of Seven as primary source material for landscaping painting. One of Taran's paintings was presented to Prime Minister Chretien during his 1999 visit to MSU.
E-mail: henrique@msu.edu
Irving Taran
Coordinates the development of visiting lecturers and exhibits bearing on Canadian art and art education.
E-mail: taran@msu.edu
Department of French, Classics and Italian
Ehsan Ahmed
Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Romance and Classical Languages.
E-mail: ahmed@msu.edu
Deidre Dawson
Associate Professor of French. Dean Detrich-Specializes in French language, phonetics, phonology, linguistics, translation, multimedia, pedagogy, distance learning.
E-mail: dawsond2@msu.edu
Anna B. Norris
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages. Specializes in 19th and 20th century literature, cultural studies, film studies, and interdisciplinary program development.
E-mail: norrisa@msu.edu
Laurence M. Porter
University Distinguished Professor, Acting Chairperson, Romance and Classical Languages. Dr. Porter is the author of numerous books, chapters, and journal articles.
E-mail: porter@msu.edu | Visit Laurence Porter’s Webpage
Anne Violin-Wigent
Sociolinguistics & dialectology; French language phonology, syntax, pragmatics & discourse analysis.
E-mail: violinwi@msu.edu
Eli Broad College of Business
Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management
Roger Calantone
Professor and Director of Marketing and Supply Chain Management. Dr. Calantone's interests include product design and development processes, decision support and group decision support systems, technology market models and international development.
E-mail: rogercal@bus.msu.edu | Visit Roger Calantone’s Webpage
Tamer Cavusgil
Member of the Center's Trade Studies group. Currently involved in a project to develop decision support systems for international business executives considering US-Canada trade for which he received a 1990 Title VI grant. Cavusgil is also directing MSU's Virtual International Business Academy (VIBA), a virtual college course for international business learning.
E-mail: cavusgi@msu.edu | Visit Tamer Cavusgil’s Webpage
Cornelia Droge
Teaches Marketing and Supply Chain Management (MSC 302) "Consumer and organizational Buyer Behavior", MSC 305 "Supply Chain Management.
E-mail: droge@msu.edu
Tomas Hult
Associate Professor - specializes in international business, strategic marketing and supply chain management.
E-mail: hult@msu.edu
Robert Nason
Professor. Specializes in macromarketing, International Business.
E-mail: nason@msu.edu
Communication Arts and Sciences
Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media
Bella Mody
Professor of Telecommunication. Teaches course in international communication media for the College of Communication Arts.
E-mail: mody@msu.edu
Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing
Patricia Huddleston
Teaches Retail Buying, Consumer Behavior, Strategic Planning in Retailing, and Retail Promotions. Huddleston's Research interests include strategic planning in the US and Canadian apparel industries, and export strategies of the US and Canadian apparel industries.
E-mail: huddles2@msu.edu
Education
Department of Teacher Education
Janet Alleman
Member of CSC Board of Advisors. Conducts teacher outreach workshops on Canada for the National Council for the Social Studies. Specializes in the socialization of Canadian children residing in the Windsor-Detroit border region.
E-mail: janetall@msu.edu
William Joyce
Director of the MSU Canadian Studies Center. Directs core of 70 faculty, representing 30 departments, the Library, and Museum. Assists faculty in securing funding for course development, research, and outreach activities Has received program development and outreach grants from the Canadian Government. Completed three studies on treatment of Canadian issues by foreign press and a cross-national study of socialization of children living near the US-Canadian border. Has presented papers at several conferences on Canadian Studies.
E-mail: bjoyce@msu.edu
Avner Segall
Member of the Canadian Association for Media Education (CAME) task force for the design and production of a Media Education K-12 Conceptual Framework and Curricular Guide, commissioned by the Learning Resource Branch, Ministry of Education, Victoria, B.C. Specializes in secondary social studies education.
E-mail: avner@msu.edu
James Madison College
Ross B. Emmett
The focus of Emmett's research over the past 10 years has been the work of Frank H. Knight, economist and social philosopher. Emmett is currently working on an intellectual biography of Knight and an introduction to his economics.
E-mail: emmettr@msu.edu | Visit Ross Emmett’s Webpage
Grant Littke
Director of Field Experience, James Madison College.
E-mail: littke@msu.edu
Michael G. Schechter
Chairperson of the College's international relations program. Teaches courses on world politics, international law and organization, and foreign policy decision making. Research focuses on sources of innovation in multi-lateralism, including the role of so-called middle powers (such as Canada) in those processes. Schechter's courses on international law and organization on human rights involve student research projects on Canadian topics including the rights of indigenous people.
E-mail: schechte@msu.edu
MSU Libraries
Michael Rodriguez
Selects materials for Canadian studies in the areas of literature, language and linguistics. Shares responsibility with Michael Unsworth for coordinating the Libraries' Canadian Studies collections.
E-mail: rodri171@msu.edu | Visit Michael Rodriguez’ Webpage
Michael E. Unsworth
Assistant Director of the Center and member of the Board of Advisors. Directs acquisition of Canadian Studies materials for MSU Libraries and provides assistance to MSU faculty and students. Provides personal assistance to faculty and students on the Libraries' print and database resources on Canada. Conducts seminars and classroom lectures on these resources. Research focuses on the shipping of Ontarian trash to Michigan, Canada - U.S.defense relationship, and freedom of information.
E-mail: unsworth@msu.edu | Visit Michaele Unsworth’s Webpage
MSU Museum
Kurt Dewhurst
Coordinates access to Canadian folk and material cultures while also arranging for museum archival and exhibition resources. Currently coordinating a major international exhibit on Native basket traditions.
E-mail: dewhurs1@msu.edu | Visit Kurt Dewhurst’s Webpage
Social Science
Department of Anthropology
Susan Applegate-Krouse
Teaches course on Canadian-American women. Specializes in a multicultural studies program.
E-mail: krouse@msu.edu
David Dwyer
Professor of Anthropology. Fluent in 6 languages and specializes in linguistics,language and culture, Mande linguistics, language planning,and language programming.
E-mail: dwyer@msu.edu | Visit David Dwyer’s Webpage
William Lovis
Teaches a course on North American Prehistory. Specializes in North American Archaeology and North American Indian Ethnography.
E-mail: lovis@msu.edu
Mindy Morgan
Research and teaching specialization includes North American Indian languages, language pedagogy, literacy and ideology, ethnohistory.
E-mail: morgan37@msu.edu
John Norder
Canadian Studies program activities incllude historic and ancient Northern Algonquian communities in the Lake of the Wood region of northwestern Ontario.
E-mail: norder@msu.edu
Jodie O'Gorman
Research specialization includes upper Mississippian adaptations and interactions in the Great Lakes and mid-continent, the early fur trade in the upper Great Lakes, gender and mortuary studies.
Scott Whiteford
Director Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Professor of Anthropology. Recently had several publications on NAFTA.
E-mail: whitefo1@msu.edu
Department of Economics
Mordechai Kreinin
Organized the first international US-Canada Free Trade Conference held in September 1998 at the Kellogg Center at MSU. Kreinin is an expert on the Canadian-US Free Trade Agreement and NAFTA. Research in fields of international economics, money and banking theory. He teaches graduate courses in International Commercial Policy and Theory of International Trade.
E-mail: kreinin@msu.edu | Visit Mordechai Kreinin’s Webpage
Department of Geography
Joseph Darden
Currently conducting collaborative research with selected faculty at the University of Toronto on housing discrimination in Canada. Has participated in research projects with faculty in the Department of Geography, Sociology, Social Work, Psychology, the Center for Urban and Community Studies, and the Joint Center of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement at the University of Toronto and York University.
E-mail: jtdarden@msu.edu | Visit Joseph Darden’s Webpage
Igor Vojnovic
Dr. Vojnovic's research interests include metropolitan environments, urban form and land use, local governance, urban design and urban and environmental geography.
E-mail: vojnovic@msu.edu
Mark Wilson
Dr. Wilson's interests include economic geography, political economy, urban planning, public policy and nonprofit organizations.
E-mail: wilsonmm@msu.edu
Catherine Yansa
Dr. Yansa's research interests include quaternary paleoenvironments (paleobotany, specifically pollen and plant macrofossil analyses), plant geography; people-environment, paleoethnobotany.
E-mail: yansa@msu.edu
Department of History
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Associate Professor of History. Has several recent publications on First Nations peoples and the fur trade in the Great Lakes areas and elsewhere.
E-mail: sleepers@msu.edu
Gordon Stewart
Senior historian of Canadian History for the CSC. Will teach a course on the history of Canada and serve on the MSU-CSC Advisory Committee. Specializes in Nova Scotia history and Canadian politics. Frequent presenter at Canadian Studies Conferences.
E-mail: stewar14@msu.edu
Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science
Philip Handrick
Acting director of the Canadian Studies Center at Michigan State University. Professor of Integrative Studies and Coordinator for Educational Technology in the College of Social Science. Specializes in Quebec issues and Canadian public policy issues.
E-mail: handrick@msu.edu | website
School of Labor and Industrial Relations
Peter Berg
Associate Professor, teaches LIR 854 "Comparative Industrial Relations"
E-mail: bergp@msu.edu
Richard Block
Teaches graduate course on labor management relations in Canada and the US. Publishes extensively on Canadian and US labor issues. Specializes in Canadian labor standards, union administration, labor arbitration and employee privacy on both sides of the US-Canada border.
E-mail: block@msu.edu | Visit Richard Block’s Webpage
Ellen Kossek
Adjunct Professor whose activities include: Telework and workplace flexibility study and workload of professionals.
E-mail: kossek@msu.edu
John L. Revitte
Professor of labor and Industrial Relations.
E-mail: revitte@msu.edu | website
Karen Roberts
Member of the CSC Advisory Board. Specializes in the global economy issues, comparative US Canada labor standards, NAFTA, and workers compensation. Teaches doing "Business in Quebec" (taught on location in that province).
E-mail: robert15@msu.edu
Department of Political Science
Paul Abramson
Has taught a course on "Politics in English-speaking Democracies". Currently studying strategic voting in Canada.
E-mail: abramson@msu.edu
Carol Weissert
Specializes in inter-governmental affairs, health services, and legislative effectiveness.
E-mail: weissert@msu.edu
School of Social Work
Edward A. Duane
Specializes in social policy, educational policy, and comparative education politics.
E-mail: ted.duane@ssc.msu.edu
David Katz
Research interests are social welfare policy, comparative social work, and social work history.
E-mail: katz@msu.edu
Department of Sociology
Martin Marger
Associate Director of the Center and member of the Board of Advisors. Developed a course on "National Diversity: Canada", and the Integrative Studies course on Canadian society. Research interests focus on ethnic relations, immigration and urban issues.
E-mail: marger@msu.edu | Visit Martin Marger’s Webpage
