Current Staff
Dr. D. Michael Shafer (BA Yale, PhD Harvard, Council on Foreign
Relations, 21st Century Trust Fellow) is an award-winning teacher, who
lectures globally, has published widely, and consults across the US and
abroad. With funds from foundations, the European Union, USAID, and the
US State Department, Dr. Shafer has established civic education
programs to transform universities throughout the newly democratic
world. For a decade, Dr. Shafer directed the Rutgers Citizenship and Service Education (CASE) Program,
among the most international service-learning programs in the US. Under
his leadership, CASE staff provided on-campus and overseas training to
teams from 15 countries and dozens of American universities. CASE
volunteers rendered more than 730,000 hours of service to more than 500
Community Partners valued conservatively $4 million. At CASE, he also
created http://njserves.rutgers.edu/,
an Internet portal for the New Jersey civic sector and test bed for the
development of Internet tools for citizens. Dr. Shafer is an avid art
collector, co-founder of Cobalt Studios,
a unique school for theater painters and historical preservation
specialists, and co-founder of The Arts Network, an artists' advocacy
group for Hudson County, New Jersey. Dr. Shafer has close working
relations with artists and galleries in, inter alia, China, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, and South Africa.
Christopher Haines, Director of Technology
Christopher Haines is a Rutgers College Senior double majoring in
Computer Science and Political Science/History. As Director of
Technology at CGSD his work has focused primarily on the development of
Art Without Borders, an online artist's community, and FACE Human
Rights, CGSD’s multilingual portal, news service and searchable online
database for grassroots human rights advocates and organizations. He is
also lead programmer for the Rutgers University Residential Networking
Department. He is interested in finding ways to utilize information
technology to solve real world social problems throughout the world.
His long term goals include pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science.
Sheila Ramachandra, Webmaster
Sheila
is a sophomore at Rutgers University majoring in Political Science and
Economics with a minor in South Asian Studies. She is a student in the
Rutgers College Honors Program and works at the Arts and Sciences New
Brunswick Development Office. Sheila is also the Secretary of the
Rutgers Chapter of Amnesty International and the Webmaster of Rutgers
University Microfinance Initiative. She interns with the Center for
Global Security and Democracy and is on the staff of Rutgers University
Model United Nations.
Project Directors
Isabel Nazario, Co-Director of Art Without Borders
Isabel Nazario is the Associate Vice President for Academic and Public
Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities at Rutgers. In this capacity,
she is responsible for working with faculty, staff and students to
develop and support academic co-curricular programs and collaborative
research projects that lead to innovative public partnerships in the
arts and humanities. Prior to this appointment, she served as founding
director of the Rutgers Center for Latino Arts and Culture since 1992
and as executive director of the Office for Intercultural Initiatives
since 2002. Also at Rutgers, Isabel has worked on the Bildner Faculty
Fellows Diversity Initiative as well as Transcultural New Jersey,
a statewide arts and education initiative that promotes intercultural
understanding through works produced by artists traditionally
underrepresented in the museum/gallery system. From 1985 to 1991, Ms.
Nazario was program associate in the Museum Program at the New York
State Council on the Arts. In the 1980s she was Manager of Public
Programs and Curator of the Community Gallery in the Queens Museum of
Art in Flushing, New York. She earned a B.A. and an M.F.A from Queens
College, the City University of New York, where she was later appointed
faculty of Caribbean and Latin American Art History in the Puerto Rican
Studies Department.
Deborah Gerewitz, Project Manager
Deborah Gerewitz is a Rutgers College junior, pursuing a double major
in Finance and Art History. Deborah spent a year before college
studying abroad, which fueled her passion for international business.
In addition to her work with Art Without Borders, Deborah serves as the
Arts Director for the Rutgers Hillel Center for Jewish Life on Campus.
She also works as an intern at the Museum of Arts & Design in New
York City. Her areas of interest include arts management, corporate
law, and public health.
Roy
Licklider (BA Boston University, MA & PhD Yale) is professor of
political science at Rutgers University. He has been a program officer
for the Exxon Education Foundation, a visiting researcher at the New
School for Social Research, and a visiting professor at Princeton. His
research interests have included nuclear strategy, sources of foreign
policy, the impact of economic sanctions (in particular the Arab oil
weapon), and how civil wars end. He is the founder and director of the
war termination list-serve that has about two hundred members all over
the world. Within the political science department he regularly teaches
undergraduate courses (Introduction to International Relations,
American Foreign Policy, and Civil War Termination) as well as a
segment of the required graduate course in research design.
Catherine Barachkova, Associate Director of CGSD; Associate Director, FACE Human Rights
Catherine Barachkova received her B.A. in linguistics and intercultural
communication, and J.D. from Ulyanovsk State University (Russia), and
Master of International Studies from North Carolina State
University. While in Russia, she interned at a local court
and D.A. office, specializing in civil law and
contracts, and worked as a legal adviser in a non-profit
research organization. She also pursued a career in publishing,
translated several books and in 2001, together with
her co-author, received a St. Petersburg Union of Writers Award
for the best translation in the field of popular science. Ms.
Barachkova is a member of Eta Chapter of Sigma Iota Rho, the
International Studies Honorary Society of North Carolina State
University. Her interests include international and
comparative law, human rights, language use and its legal regulation.
Ms. Barachkova is fluent in Russian and conversant in Spanish.
Paul Kuehn, Director, Global PACT
Paul
is a 2001 graduate of Rutgers University and 2005 graduate of New York
University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service with a
Master of Public Administration in Public and Nonprofit Management.
Paul has been involved in hundreds of community-based projects
for the past fifteen years. He was also the 2001 recipient of the
Rutgers Outstanding Student Leader of the Year Award. He has
spent considerable time traveling abroad to work in community-based
projects including most recently India, Croatia, and Bosnia.
Helen Delfeld, Director, Human Rights Project
Helen
Delfeld is a PhD candidate in political science at Rutgers University.
She returned to academic work after a decade of involvement in activist
projects. Currently, she is working to integrate the principles and
study of human rights into mainstream academic work.
Meredith Staples, Director, Sectors Project
Meredith
E. Staples is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at
Rutgers University. She earned her BA in Political Science and History
from Fordham University. She currently works for the Rutgers Chapter of
the AAUP-AFT as a union organizer. Staples is also active in the
Political Science Graduate Student Association in her role as Treasurer
and is a University Senator. Her dissertation examines unions in Latin
America specifically how labor unions’ response to globalization is
shaped by the varied institutional structures through which they engage
with the state and other economic and social actors. |
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