Welcome from the Program Chair
Fall 2009
Welcome to International and Global Studies!.
Welcome back! I hope you're enjoying the start of classes and are settling into the new semester
There are some exciting new changes in IGS for the new year. We are very fortunate to be able to welcome a new professor in IGS and Sociology, Prof. Chandler Rosenberger. He will be serving as the new IGS Undergraduate Advising Head (UAH.
As the new UAH Prof. Rosenberger will be advising all majors and minors on any curricular questions, IGS requirements, study abroad planning, etc. In order to make an appointment to see him, please email Mr. Mangok Bol (the IGS Administrator, who is keeping Prof. Rosenberger's IGS appointment calendar) at: mbol@brandeis.edu. Or you may email Prof. Rosenberger directly at: crosen@brandeis.edu. His office is in Pearlman 108.
Prof. Rosenberger will be teaching IGS 10a in the Spring. He will also be teaching courses in Sociology that will be cross-listed with IGS, most immediately SOC 162a/Fall 2009, Intellectuals and Revolutionary Politics.
I will still be serving as the Chair of IGS, and as the domestic-based internship coordinator. Please feel free to contact me about any IGS-related issues (eschatt@brandeis.edu)
A bit more about Prof. Rosenberger: A historical sociologist specializing in the cultural foundations of politics, Prof. Rosenberger is especially interested in the intellectual roots of political revolutions. As a journalist he covered the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the wars of Yugoslavia; he later wrote his dissertation on the dissidents who led Czechoslovakia s Velvet Revolution. He is completing a biography of Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel and has also written about the roots of al-playwright Václav Havel and has also written about the roots of al- Qaeda and the dissidents of Iran. Prof. Rosenberger studied History and Philosophy at Dartmouth College and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Oxford. From 1992 to 1994, he covered the collapse of Czechoslovakia and the war in 1994, he covered the collapse of Czechoslovakia and the war in Yugoslavia as a journalist and as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs. After seven years in Europe Mr. Rosenberger returned to the United States, and taught international relations at Boston University for nine years.
Prof. Rosenberger has written about post-Communist Central Europe for scholarly journals and for such publications as Critical Review World Policy Journal, National Review, Human Rights Watch and The Wall Street Journal. Outside of his academic work, Mr. Rosenberger serves on the Board of Advisors of the Apollinaire Theatre Company in Chelsea, MA.
We are planning several IGS events during the course of this semester, and I hope you will be able to attend and welcome Prof. Rosenberger to Brandeis.
All the best for a productive and rewarding semester!
Ellen Schattschneider
Chair, International and Global Studies Program
Coordinator, IGS Internship Program (Domestic)