Teach-In Participant Biographies

May 5, 1999

Participant Biographies
Media Contact: Mark Graham

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Elez Biberaj is chief of the Albanian service of the Voice of America. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and is the author of three books on Albania and many articles and chapters on Albanian and Yugoslav affairs. Biberaj's most recent book is Albania in Transition: The Rocky Road to Democracy (Westview Press, 1999).
Stephen Crowley, assistant professor of politics at Oberlin College, received his B.A. from Hamilton College and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is a specialist on Russian and Eastern European politics and has written about workers' political consciousness and movements. Both his teaching and research also address the question of social movements generally.
Nancy Schrom Dye, 13th president of Oberlin College, is an authority on American social history, particularly on subjects involving women and labor. She is the first woman president of Oberlin, the nation's first coeducational college. In December 1997, she was awarded a Presidential Leadership Grant by the Knight Foundation for her leadership in developing a new strategic framework for planning and decision making at Oberlin.
Maja Gosovic is a sophomore at Oberlin College. She is from Serbia and Montenegro, and although her family currently resides in Geneva, she considers Belgrade her hometown.
Zeljko Petrovic is from Knjazevac, Serbia, where his family remains. He is a sophomore at Oberlin College with a major in economics and a minor in politics.
Eve Sandberg, associate professor of politics at Oberlin College, received her B.A. from Boston University, M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, and M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale University. In addition to her academic activities, she has completed consultancies for officials of foreign governments and for political consulting groups in the United States. This semester she teaches the U.S. Foreign Policy class at Oberlin College.
Ben Schiff, professor and chair of the politics department at Oberlin College, received his B.A. from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He focuses on international politics and international organizations and has published books on the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, and Afrikaners in South Africa at the end of apartheid. He teaches courses on international relations, Middle East politics, war and arms control, international organization, and current topics in international relations.
Veljko Vujacic, assistant professor of sociology at Oberlin College, has frequently spoken about the conflict in the Balkans. He will appear Friday at the City Club of Cleveland to address "Serbia, Kosovo and the West: Western Mistakes, Balkan Misperceptions, and Their International Consequences."
The son of a Montenegrin diplomat father and a Serbian mother, Vujacic grew up in Greece and Belgrade and studied in Belgrade before finishing his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University in 1985. After Brandeis he returned to Yugoslavia to serve in the army. He completed his doctoral thesis, Communism and Nationalism in Russia and Serbia, at the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. He was a scholar at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs for two years before joining Oberlin's faculty.


	May 5, 1999		Participant Biographies Media Contact: Mark Graham

	Teach-In Press Release Teach-In Schedule		Elez Biberaj is chief of the Albanian service of the Voice of America. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and is the author of three books on Albania and many articles and chapters on Albanian and Yugoslav affairs. Biberaj's most recent book is Albania in Transition: The Rocky Road to Democracy (Westview Press, 1999). Stephen Crowley, assistant professor of politics at Oberlin College, received his B.A. from Hamilton College and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is a specialist on Russian and Eastern European politics and has written about workers' political consciousness and movements. Both his teaching and research also address the question of social movements generally. Nancy Schrom Dye, 13th president of Oberlin College, is an authority on American social history, particularly on subjects involving women and labor. She is the first woman president of Oberlin, the nation's first coeducational college. In December 1997, she was awarded a Presidential Leadership Grant by the Knight Foundation for her leadership in developing a new strategic framework for planning and decision making at Oberlin. Maja Gosovic is a sophomore at Oberlin College. She is from Serbia and Montenegro, and although her family currently resides in Geneva, she considers Belgrade her hometown. Zeljko Petrovic is from Knjazevac, Serbia, where his family remains. He is a sophomore at Oberlin College with a major in economics and a minor in politics. Eve Sandberg, associate professor of politics at Oberlin College, received her B.A. from Boston University, M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, and M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale University. In addition to her academic activities, she has completed consultancies for officials of foreign governments and for political consulting groups in the United States. This semester she teaches the U.S. Foreign Policy class at Oberlin College. Ben Schiff, professor and chair of the politics department at Oberlin College, received his B.A. from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He focuses on international politics and international organizations and has published books on the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, and Afrikaners in South Africa at the end of apartheid. He teaches courses on international relations, Middle East politics, war and arms control, international organization, and current topics in international relations. Veljko Vujacic, assistant professor of sociology at Oberlin College, has frequently spoken about the conflict in the Balkans. He will appear Friday at the City Club of Cleveland to address "Serbia, Kosovo and the West: Western Mistakes, Balkan Misperceptions, and Their International Consequences." The son of a Montenegrin diplomat father and a Serbian mother, Vujacic grew up in Greece and Belgrade and studied in Belgrade before finishing his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University in 1985. After Brandeis he returned to Yugoslavia to serve in the army. He completed his doctoral thesis, Communism and Nationalism in Russia and Serbia, at the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. He was a scholar at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs for two years before joining Oberlin's faculty.