Andrew R. Blair - Business
Louise Comfort - Public International and Affairs
Billie Dewalt - Public and International Affairs
Carmelo Mesa-Lago - Economics
Barry Ames
Andrew Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics
Department of Political Science
4L01 Fobes Quadragle
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Email: Barrya+@pitt.edu
| Primary Focus | Public Sector Organization, Institutional Development, Electoral and Legislative Systems, Bureaucracy | |||
| Research Focus | Electoral and legislative politics, geographic information systems, Latin America | |||
| Publications | Latin American politics, Brazilian politics, electoral and legislative systems | |||
| Consulting | Public sector development, institutional development, environmental policy making | |||
| Education | B.A., Stanford, 1966, Ph.D., Stanford 1972 | |||
| International Experience | Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Ghana, Kuwait | |||
| Languages | English, Portuguese, Spanish |
James Craft
Professor of Business Administration/
Director of the Doctoral Program
J. M. Katz Graduate School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Email: craft@vms.cis.pitt.edu
| Primary Focus | Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations, Business Strategy and Competitivenss | |||
| Research Focus | Human resource strategy and planning, union and management responses to a changing environment | |||
| Publications | Professional journal articles in the are of HR strategy, HR competitor analysis, sources of union power, union strategy and tactics in labor relations | |||
| Consulting | Implementing HR change, Group process facilitation to define competitive approaches, HR environmental scanning, performance management | |||
| Education | B.A., Claremont McKenna College, 1961; MBA, 1963 and Ph.D. 1968, University of California at Berkeley | |||
| International Experience | Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Hungary, Poland | |||
| Languages | Spanish: reading, writting and speaking |
Billie R. DeWalt
Professor
Director, Center for Latin American Studies
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Email: brdewalt+@pitt.edu
| Primary Focus | Social and Public Policy | |||
| Research Focus | Property Rights and Economic Development | |||
| Publications | Development in Latin America, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, The End of the Agrarian Reform in Mexico, and others. | |||
| Consulting | World Bank, Interamerican development Bank, International Finance Corporation | |||
| Education | Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 1975; B.A., Sociology and Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 1969 | |||
| International Experience | Mexico, Honduras and Ecuador | |||
| Languages | Spanish: reading, writting and speaking |
Patricia Hart
Associate Professor
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Department of Foreign Languages
West Lafayette, IN 47907-
Email: hartp@omni.cc.purdue.edu
| Primary Focus | Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature, Language and Culture | |||
| Research Focus | Twentieth century Spanish narrative, theater, and film | |||
| Publications | Twentieth century literature, film | |||
| Consulting | Translation, Interpretation | |||
| Education | B.A., Brigham Young, 1976; M.A., Utah, 1978; Ph.D., North Carolina, 1987 | |||
| International Experience | University of Gto, Mexico, University of Barcelona, Spain | |||
| Languages | Spanish, French, German, Catalan - read, write and speak all |