Paul Schadewald is associate director of the Civic Engagement Center in the Institute for Global Citizenship. He supports academic service-learning, community-based research, and public scholarship, helping the Macalester community understand and engage its urban environment. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University with special interests in urban history, public history, and religious studies. He helped coordinate a partnership among the Minnesota Historical Society, Macalester College classes, and communities along Lake Street to create an exhibit at the Minnesota History Center.

Chuck Green taught political science at Macalester for 40 years, becoming highly respected for his work on policy issues and celebrated for challenging students to engage in real-world issues. Since officially retiring in 2005 he has been doing recreational reading; editing for academic journals and presses; carrying out some organizational consulting; collaborating on projects that deal with globalization, democratization, science/technology, and education; and working on his tennis backhand. “Only the latter has been frustrating,” he reports.

Danny Kaplan teaches statistics and applied math at Macalester. His background is in physics, economics, and biomedical engineering. Over the past few years he has played a key role in developing the new “quantitative thinking” curriculum at Macalester and he is active in statistics education reform at a national level. Having taught at McGill medical school for several years, he is currently helping to develop a public health concentration at Macalester. In 2006 he won Macalester’s annual Excellence in Teaching award.

Raymond Robertson’s research has focused on the effects of globalization on workers; he did extended work in Mexico City studying the effects of NAFTA. Before coming to Macalester, he taught at Syracuse University. While an assistant professor, he was the top-ranked liberal arts assistant professor in economics for publishing. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, World Economy, the Journal of International Economics, and other journals. Early research was supported by the National Science Foundation; his current research is supported by the World Bank, the Mellon Foundation, and PIERAN (El Colegio de Mexico).

Dan Trudeau completed undergraduate degrees in anthropology and South Asia studies and worked as an archaeologist before realizing he is a geographer at heart; he then completed a Ph.D. in geography at the University of Colorado. His dissertation research, which received support from the National Science Foundation, focused on the role of nonprofit social service organizations in the incorporation of immigrants into host societies in the United States. Dan has published his research in a number of scholarly journals, including Cultural Geographies, Environment and Planning, Political Geography, Urban Geography, and Urban Studies.

Wang Ping grew up on a small island in the East China Sea and farmed in a mountain village for three years before attending Beijing University. In 1985 she left China to study in the U.S., earning her Ph.D. from New York University. She has written two short story collections, a novel, two poetry collections, and the cultural study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (2000). Her writing has appeared in many journals and anthologies and she has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and other organizations.

Adrienne Christiansen studies political communication in its many manifestations. She taught in the Communications and Media Studies Department at Macalester from 1990 to 2003 before joining the Political Science Department. She holds a Ph.D. in speech communication from the University of Minnesota and served as head debate coach there for four years. Her scholarly efforts have focused on the language of war and rhetoric of social movements. Among the courses she teaches are Argument and Advocacy, Cyber Politics, and The Politics of Public Space.

Wing Young Huie has received international attention for his community-based photography projects, which have been exhibited in major museums and on public streets. His Lake Street USA, transformed six miles of Minneapolis thoroughfare into an epic photo gallery. Nine Months in America: An Ethnocentric Tour, is based on travel to 39 states exploring the funny, touching, and sometimes strange intersection of Asian America and American cultures.