Holder of Paul A. Miller Chair in Letters, Arts and Sciences, and is professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
Dr. Wittig received his PhD in EE in 1970. Postdoctoral work (EE at USC, Chemistry at Cambridge (UK) and Berkeley) was followed by a faculty appointment in 1973 at USC in the EE Department. Following is appointment as a professor in the EE department, his research interests shifted and earned a joint appointments in Chemistry and Physics where he now teaches.
Senior Research Scholar, Yale, Department of Sociology
Immanuel Wallerstein is currently a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University. He is the former President of the International Sociological Association (1994-1998) and chair of the international Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences (1993-1995). He writes in three domains of world-systems analysis: the historical development of the modern world-system; the contemporary crisis of the capitalist world-economy; the structures of knowledge.
Professor of Islamic and Iranian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Hossein Ziai is the professor of Islamic and Iranian Studies, Inaugural holder of the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and the director of Iranian Studies at UCLA, where he has taught since 1988. He received his B.S. in 1967 in Intensive Mathematics & Physics from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Islamic Philosophy from Harvard University in 1976.
Professor in Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba
Vaclav Smil is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. He completed his graduate studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Carolinum University in Prague and at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences of the Pennsylvania State University. His interdisciplinary research interests encompass a broad area of energy, environmental, food, population, economic, historical and public policy studies, and he had also applied these approaches to energy, food and environmental affairs of China.
Professor of Women's Study, California State University, Northridge.
Professor Nayereh Tohidi is the Chair at the Department of Gender & Women Studies, California State University, Northridge. She is also the Research Associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies of UCLA where she has been coordinating the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran since 2003.
Professor of Women Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Janet Afary is a native of Iran and a historian of modern Iran. She has an MA in Linguistics from Tehran University and a PhD in History and Near East Studies from the University of Michigan. Afary holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she is a Professor of Religious Studies and Feminist Studies.
Dr. Alamdari is a public intellectual and is frequently featured in the media and presents lectures at national and international conferences in different parts of the world, including the US, the former Soviet Union, Canada, Germany, Turkey, China, Japan, S. Korea, and Brazil. He was recipient of a fellowship from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) in Japan, Kyushu University in1997.
Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
Kevin B. Anderson is a Professor of Sociology and Political Science at University of California-Santa Barbara. Before coming to UCSB, he was a Professor of Political Science, Sociology and Women’s Studies at Purdue University and earlier, a Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University. He holds an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center, and a BA in History from Trinity College, Hartford.
Professor of Iranian Studies, UCLA
Dr. Amin Banani is Emeritus Professor of History and Persian Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a former Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and a former Acting Director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies. Professor Banani has served on the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, the Executive Council of the Society for Iranian Studies, and as Vice President of the American Association of Iranian Studies.
Middle Eastern Women News offers moderated news aggregation focusing on essential issues regarding women in the Middle Eastern countries. We cover news from Israel, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Egypt. The website is accessible at four languages: Arabic, English, Hebrew and Persian. Middle Eastern Women News was founded by a group of academic communities, directed by Majid Rafizadeh.
Kyrie Bass is a marketing and public relations expert, specializing in the higher education market. Herexpertise include services marketing and healthcare education marketing. Kyrie uses integrated approaches to develop effective marketing campaigns, which include both traditional and web/web 2.0 technologies.
The U.S. Marxist-Humanists organization bases itself upon the unique philosophic contributions that have guided Marxist-Humanism since its founding in the 1950s. We do so by working out a unity of theory and practice, worker and intellectual, and philosophy and organization. We aim to develop and project a viable vision of a truly new, human society that can give direction to today’s many freedom struggles. We ground our ideas in the totality of Marx’s Marxism and Raya Dunayevskaya’s body of ideas.
Co-founder and the VP of Research at Audyssey Laboratories
Sunil Bharitkar, co-founder and the VP of Research at Audyssey Laboratories, received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2004. He has published over 50 technical papers and has 4 patents in the area of signal processing applied to audio and acoustics, and a textbook (Immersive Audio Signal Processing) from Springer Verlag. His room equalization research, at both USC and Audyssey, has resulted in several patented or patent-pending co-inventions.
Communication Interchange, Inc. (C.I.I.) was founded over ten years ago by Ann Simley, who was formerly affiliated with such media giants as CBS, ABC, Cablevision and Grey Advertising. She held various executive positions in sales, marketing and promotions. C.I.I. is an advertising and promotional consulting firm which develops new business for companies
Pourami Orthodontics, West Los Angeles
Dr. Pourami graduated as Valedictorian from Tehran University and was presented with the highest academic award by the King of Iran. She pursued advanced training in orthodontics in England, and received the Specialty Certificate, Diploma in Orthodontics (D.Orth.), from the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
