Professor Profiles
Jovan Babic, Serbia, Philosophy
- PHL 309U, Business Ethics
- PHL 314U, Computer Ethics
- PHL 4/546, Ethics of War
Jovan Babic is Professor of Philosophy at Belgrade University, Serbia, where he earned his doctorate in ethics. A MacArthur Foundation grant brought him to the US in 2000 to collaborate on a writing project on the ethical dimensions of transitional justice, and he spent three years at PSU as a visiting scholar and professor. Dr. Babic has returned annually to teach philosophy courses in the PSU Summer Session.
Anna Baldini, Italy, Foreign Languages & Literature
- FL 410/510, The Environment in Contemporary Italian Literature
Anna Baldini is Professor of Italian at the Institute Lorenzo de Medici in Florience, Italy. She has taught Italian language and culture at University of North Carlina, Chapel Hill and at language colleges and universities across Europe. This will be her first visit to Portland State University.
Geshe Kalsang Damdul, Tibet, International Studies
- INTL 317U, Topics of Asian Thought: Tibetan Buddhism
Venerable Geshe Kalsang Damdul received his Geshe Degree (Doctorate in Buddhist Philosophy) from Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India in 1995. In 1985 he was appointed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as Assistant Director of the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, a position he still holds today. Geshe Kalsang Damdul has taught at American universities and Buddhist Centers and has directed study groups in Canada. We are delighted to welcome him back to the IVP Program.
John Davies, United Kingdom, English
- Eng 547, British, American & European Modernism
- ENG 5860, Seven Recent & Contemporary Northwestern Novels: An Outsider’s View
John Davis is a lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln. He earned his PhD from Nottinham University, his MPhi.and BA at University of London, King’s College, and has taught at King’s College London, University of Hull in the United Kingdom. We are delighted to welcome him back to the IVP Program.
Gulgun Kayakutlu, Turkey, Engineering & Technology Management
- EMGT 5/610 EUR, Intelligent Systems in European Innovations
An expert in innovation management and intelligent systems such as expert systems and neutral nets, Gulgun Kayakutlu brings a European perspective into focus. An Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, she held a Visiting Professor position in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Southern Illinois University in 2008-09. She holds a PhD is Engineering Management from Marmara University, Istanbul and a MSc and BSc in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.
Jun Jin, China, Engineering & Technology Management
- EMGT 5/610 CHI, Technology and Innovation Management in China
A technology and innovation management scholar and Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, Dr. Jin brings a welcome East Asian perspective to the Engineering & Technology Management teaching and research programs. Dr. Jin has held numerous positions around the world including Associate Edirot at the Journal of Knowledge-Based Innovation in China, Emerald, Visiting Researcher at UNU-MEIRT in The Netherlands, and Research Associate at the University of St. Gallen in Asia as well as consultant positions in private industry. She earned her Doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen and her MBA in Technology Management and bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering from Zhejiang Univesrity, China.
Ingo Klein, Germany, Economics
- EC 450/550, Third World Economic Development
- EC 348, The Globalization Debate
Ingo Klein holds a doctorate and master’s degree in Economic Science from Hochschule for Economics Berlin. His academic experience includes teaching positions at Hochschule for Economics, Berlin, Humboldt University, Berlin, the University of Leipzig and Free University, Berlin as well as PSU and Stanford University. His applied professional experience includes executive positions with a private corporation for regional development and a Berlin based biomimetics corporation.
A.N. Kochetkov, Russia, Foreign Languages & Literature
- RUS 410/510, Topics in Contemporary Russian Culture: Contemporary Cultural Values
Alexander Kochetkov is an Americanologist and faculty member at Portland State University’s partner university Nizhny Novogorod Linguistic University in Russia. A Fulbright awardee, Kochetkov hols a PhD in English Philology from Odessa University in Ukraine and MA in English and French from Gorky Teachers’ Training Institute of Foreign Languages.
Diana Krause, Germany, Psychology
- PSY 410/510, Perspective
Diana Krause is a respected scholar in the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She has taught or conducted research in over five countries and holds a doctorate in Economic and Management from Berlin Technical University and a MA and BA in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Berlin Humboldt-University.
Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, Ghana, Black Studies
- Bst 450U/550, African Diaspora Literature
Professor of English and Director of the Center for International Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, Kwadwo Opoky-Agyemang has served as a lecturer in the PSU African Studies overseas capstone course in Ghana for several years.
Graham Ranger, France, Foreign Languages & Literature
- FR 305, Contemporary French Culture though Film
Hailing from PSU’s partner institution the University of Avignon, Graham Ranger holds a PhD, DEA in Language Science and Maitrise in English from the University of Provence and a BA in European Studies from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom and a TEFL Diploma from the Scottish International Learning Center.
Dorothy Rombo, Kenya, Child and Family Studies
- CFS 399U/507, Seminar on Immigrant Families: Engaging Communities and Agencies
- CFS 399U/507, Women and Families: The Changing Contexts in Africa
After teaching in the Department of Family and Consumer Science at Kenyatta University for seven years, Dorothy Rombo came to the United States in 2003 to pursue a doctorate in Family Science at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. She holds a master’s of education degree from Kenyatta University in Educational Communication and Technology. Professor Rombo taught in the IVP Program in the 2007and 2008 Summer Sessions.
Natalia Zhivolupova, Russia, Foreign Languages & Literature
- RUS 427-527, Topics in Russian Literature of the 19th Century: Images of the Heroic
Natalia Zhivolupova has aided PSU faculty in the development of the Russian capstone and will help in the further development of the university’s Russian Flagship program. A professor at partner university Nizhny Novogorod University of Linguistics, she holds a PhD and MA from Nizhny Novogorod State University and completed a senior research program at Moscow State Pedagogical University. A professor of Russian Philology and Supervisor of the Russian Literature section at her home university, Zhivolupova brings a breadth of Russian literature and cultural expertise.