Curriculum Vitae - Steven C. Dinero, Ph.D.

DineroS@PhilaU.edu 

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA. 9/03 – present. Assistant Professor, 8/97-8/03. 

·        Teach an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural senior seminar course, Contemporary Perspectives, concerning political, social, cultural, and economic Globalization and Nationalism.

·        Teach Area Studies: Middle East, a course concerning regional geography, history, politics, religions and cultures.

·        Developed and teach Area Studies: South Asia, a course concerning the regional geography, history, politics, religions and cultures of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

·        Developed a Sophomore-level course, The Environment and World Cultures, for the University’s new “Environmental Sustainability” major.

·        Co-developed and co-taught a 200-level International Political Economy course, Power and Poverty in the Global Economy, with a colleague from the School of Business Administration.     

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY

Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. 8/95 – 5/97 

Taught undergraduate courses in Sociology, including:  

·        Sociology of the Family

·        Minorities

·        Criminology

·        Urban Sociology

·        Social Problems

·        Introduction to Sociology.   

Served on Student Advising Committee, 1995-96.

  

ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR OF GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN STUDIES

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.  8/96 – 6/97 

Taught Geography/Urban Studies courses part-time, including:  

·        Urban Society: Race, Class and Community

·        World Urban Patterns. 

 

                                                                EDUCATION 

 

Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ.

Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy Developmenttc  \l 1 " Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy Development"

            Major field: Third World Settlement Systems

            Secondary field: Middle Eastern Regional Development

            May 1995. 

            Dissertation Title: “Human Settlement in Post-Nomadic Bedouin Society: An Assessment of Social and Economic Transformation in Segev Shalom, Israel.” 

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel.

            Visiting Scholar, Geography Department/Negev Centre for Regional Development

            1992-93; Summer 1996.

 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.

            M.A. in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

            February 1988. 

The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.

            Intensive Arabic

            Summer semester, 1986. 

The State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY.

            B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Asian Studies/Middle Eastern Studies. Minor: Hebrew.

            May 1983. 

Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

            Study Abroad

            Spring semester, 1982.

 

                                                     RESEARCH LANGUAGES 

 

 

                   PUBLICATIONS

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles/Books/Chapters

 

2009 (Anticipated)   Settling for Less: A Study of Planned Resettlement Among the Bedouin of the Negev.  Unpublished manuscript.

 

2007    “Globalisation and development in a post-nomadic hunter/gatherer Alaskan village: a follow-up assessment” in Polar Record, vol. 43(226): 255-69.

 

2007    “Bridging the Technology Gap: Building a Development Model for Rural Alaska,” with Elizabeth Mariotz and Parimal Bhagat, in the Journal of Cultural Geography, vol. 24(2): 53-77, Spring/Summer.

 

2006    “Website Development and Alaska Native Identities:  Hunting for Meaning in Cyberspace,” with Timothy McGee, Parimal S. Bhagat, & Elizabeth Mariotz, in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. Vol. 2(1): 79-90.

 

2006    “Women’s roles, polygyny and cultural transformation in Negev bedouin townships: A gendered landscape of national resistance to post-colonial conquest and control,” in Chatty, Dawn (Ed.), Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century.  Brill Publishers: Leiden & Boston, Pp. 883-915.

 

2005    “Bringing the Knowledge Economy to Isolated and Rural Communities: Balancing Cultural and Economic Sustainability”, in the International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, with Parimal S. Bhagat & Elizabeth Mariotz. Vol. 1(3): 135-40.

 

2005    Encyclopedia of the Developing World.  Entry contributions:  Vol. 2 – “Hamas,” (pp. 741-43); “Intifada,” (pp. 860-62); “Israel,” (pp. 880-85); Vol. 3 – “Palestine,” (pp. 1225-28); “Palestine Liberation Organization,” (pp. 1228-29); “Zionism” (pp. 1758-59).   Routledge/Taylor & Francis: New York.

 

2005    “Globalization and Development in a Post-Nomadic Hunter/Gatherer Village: The Case of Arctic Village, Alaska” in The Northern Review, No. 25/26: 135-60, Summer.

 

2004    “The Politics of Education Provision in Rural Native Alaska: The Case of Yukon Village,” in Race Ethnicity and Education, Vol. 7(4): 399-417, December; Reprinted in Human Evolution, Vol. 20(4): 259-81, 2005.

 

2004    “New Identity/Identities Formulation in a Post-Nomadic Community: The Case of the Bedouin of the Negev,” in National Identities, vol. 6(3): 261-75.

  

2003    “‘The Lord Will Provide’: The History and Role of Episcopalian Christianity in Nets’aii Gwich’in Social Development - Arctic Village, Alaska,” in Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, vol. 4(1): 3-28.

 

2003    “Analysis of a ‘Mixed Economy’ in an Alaskan Native Settlement: The Case of Arctic Village,” in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. XXIII (1): 135-64. 

 

2002    “Image is Everything:PRIVATE  The Development of the Negev Bedouin as a Tourist Attraction,” in Nomadic Peoples, vol. 6(1): 69-94.

 

2002    “Special Education Use Among the Negev Bedouin Arabs of Israel:  A Case of Minority Under-Representation?” in Race Ethnicity and Education, vol. 5(4): 377-96.  December.

 

2000    “Planning for an Ethnic Minority: The Bedouin Arabs of Israel,” in Burayidi, Michael (ed.). Urban Planning in a Multicultural Society.  Praeger: Westport, Connecticut & London. pp. 169-91.

 

1999    “Reconstructing Identity Through Planned Resettlement: The Case of the Negev Bedouin,” in the Third World Planning Review, vol. 21(1): 19-39, February.

 

1998    “Planning in a Post-Nomadic Bedouin Town: An Update and Follow-up Assessment of Development and Change in Segev Shalom, Israel,” in Scottish Geographical Magazine: The Journal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, vol. 114(2): 66-75, August.

 

1998    “Social Adaptation and Welfare Planning in the Post-Nomadic Environment: The Case of the Israeli Negev Bedouin,” in the Journal of Community Practice, vol. 5(2): 15-36.

 

1997    “Female Role Change and Male Response in the Post-Nomadic Environment: The Case of the Israeli Negev Bedouin,” in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies, vol. 29(3): 248-61, Fall.

 

1996    “Observation, Advocacy or Interference? Undertaking Research in a 'Fourth World' Community,” in Humanity & Society. vol. 20(3): 111-32, August.

 

1996    “Resettlement and Modernization in Post-Nomadic Bedouin Society: The Case of Segev Shalom, Israel,” The Journal of Planning Education and Research, vol. 15(2): 105-16.

 

1994    “Human Settlement in Post-Nomadic Society,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Papers. Center For Environmental Design Research, U.C. Berkeley.  Vol. 56.

 

1993    “COAH-Produced or COAH/Courts Influenced Affordable Housing, Zoning, Construction and Rehabilitation, 1987-1992,” with Burchell, R. and Thompson, S.

New Brunswick, NJ, Center for Urban Policy Research.

  

1993    “Introduction,” in Pipes, Daniel (ed.), Sandstorm: Middle East Conflicts and America, University Press of America, Lanham (MD).

 

1991    “The Push and Pull Factors of Urbanization in the Third World: The Case of Cairo, Egypt,” Colloqui: The Cornell Journal of Planning and Urban Issues. Vol. VI: 23-32, Spring.

  

Book Reviews

 

2008    “Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined,” (Jacob Lassner and S. Ilan Troen), in the Digest of Middle East Studies, vol. 17(1): 177-79, Spring.

 

2007    “A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, (Ilan Pappe),” in the Digest of Middle East Studies, vol. 16(1): 162-64, Spring.

 

2007    “The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India, (Nandini Gooptu),” in the Journal of Third World Studies vol. XXIV(1): 270-72, Spring.

 

2006    “Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History, (Rashmi Dube Bhatnager, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube),” in the Journal of Third World Studies vol. XXIII(2): 221-23, Fall.

 

2005    “Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia (Ananya Roy and Nezar Alsayyad, eds.),” in the Digest of Middle East Studies, vol. 14(2):108-110, Fall.

 

2004    “Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (Gershon Shafir & Yoav Peled),” in the Journal of Third World Studies. vol. XXI(2): 251-53, Fall.

 

2004     “Beyond Intifada: Narratives of Freedom Fighters in the Gaza Strip (Haim Gordon, Rivca Gordon, & Taher Shriteh),” in the Journal of Third World Studies. vol. XXI(2): 242-43, Fall.

 

2004    “The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Benny Morris),” in the Digest of Middle East Studies, vol. 13(2): 19-21, Fall.

 

2004       “The Rumour of Calcutta (John Hutnyk),” in the Journal of Third World Studies. Vol. XXI(1): 268-71, Spring.

 

2003    “The Road to Jerusalem:  Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews (Benny Morris),” in the Digest of Middle East Studies, vol. 12(2): 70-73, Fall.

 

2003    “Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (Valentine M. Moghadam),” in the Journal of Third World Studies.  Vol. XX(1): 283-84.  Spring.

  

2002    “New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities” (Janet L. Abu-Lughod),” in the Journal of Cultural Geography, vol. 20(1): 109-110.

 

2002    “Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (Israel Shahak & Norton Mezvinsky),” in the Journal of Third World Studies. Vol. XIX(2): 327-29. Fall.

 

2002    “Gender and Disability: Women’s Experiences in the Middle East. (Lina Abu-Habib, ed.),” in the Journal of Third World Studies.  Vol. XIX(1): 252-54, Spring.

 

2001    “Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition. (Kamala Kempadoo & Jo Doezema, eds.),” in the Journal of Cultural Geography, vol. 19(1): 134-35.

 

2001    “The Negev Bedouin and Livestock Rearing: Social, Economic and Political Aspects. (Aref Abu-Rabia),” in Nomadic Peoples.  Vol. 5(1): 183-86.

 

2000    “The Rwala Bedouin Today, Second Edition. (William Lancaster),” in Employment and Unemployment Among Bedouin, a Special Issue of Nomadic Peoples (Emanuel Marx and Ann Gardner, eds.) vol. 4(2): 126-28.

 

2000    “Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-Makers: Egypt’s Changing Northwest Coast. (Donald P. Cole & Soraya Altorki),” in The American Ethnologist. vol. 27(3): 756-57.

 

1999    “Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory, (Chris Rojek & John Urry [eds.]),” in the Journal of Cultural Geography.  Vol. 18(2): 142-44, Spring/Summer.

 

1998    “Ascendancy Through Aggression: The Anatomy of a Blood Feud among Urbanized Bedouins, (Gideon M. Kressel),” in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.  vol. 30(3): 454-55, August.

 

1998    “Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, (Stan Stevens [ed.]),” in the Journal of Cultural Geography.  Vol. 17(2): 150-151, Sp./Su.

 

1997    “Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East, (Ralph S. Hattox),” in Journal of Cultural Geography. Vol. 17(1): 109-111, Fall/Win.

 

1992    “Rural Policies for the 1990s (C. Flora & J. Christenson, eds.),” the Journal of the American Planning Association, vol. 542, Autumn.

  

Journalism

 

“Technology may offer villages new hope,” in the Anchorage Daily News, June 30, 2006.

 

“Villagers Threatened: Arctic Oil Drilling Would Harm Natives Dependent on Caribou,” in The Patriot-News.  Harrisburg, PA, August 8, 2001.

 

“Gwich’in Nation Fights for Cultural Survival Against Arctic Drilling,” published on-line by the Independent Media Center of Philadelphia at www.phillyimc.org, February 18, 2001.  Reprinted by the Institute for Global Communications EcoNet at www.igc.org, March 12, 2001.

 

“Drilling in Pristine Refuge Would Destroy Native Culture,” in the Bucks County (PA) Courier Times. February 16, 2001.

 

“The Real Cost of Drilling,” The Christian Science Monitor, October 8, 1999.

 

“As If We’re the Enemy,” The Jerusalem Post. August 4, 1996.

 

“Shake Hands With Moses,” The Jerusalem Post. October 8, 1995.

 

“Let's Not Forget the ‘People Between the Cracks,’” The Jewish Exponent. March 31, 1995.

 

“Rabin's Formula For Peace,” The Christian Science Monitor.  August 3, 1993.

 

“Caution and Hope Vie in Future of the Middle East,” Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.  Aug. 2-3, 1991.

 

“Citizen Diplomacy: A Who's Who of Has-Beens,” The Detroit News. January 10, 1991.

 

“Where Absorption Falls Short, the Israelis Step In,” The Jewish Advocate (Boston). April 26, 1990.

 

“Why Hussein Trembles as Soviet Jews Depart,” The Christian Science Monitor. March 29, 1990.

 

“The Overcrowded Third World City,” The Christian Science Monitor. March 13, 1990.

 

“Israel's Bedouin-Resettlement Plan,” The Christian Science Monitor. February 22, 1990.

  

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Papers, Posters, Panels Chaired (most papers were redrafted for publication)

  

2008    National Science Foundation PFI Grantees Workshop. Arlington, Virginia. Poster Paper. March 30.

 

2007    Middle East Studies Association 41st  Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. November 19.  Paper, “Pressed to the Margins: Negev Bedouin Identity Development in a Post-Nomadic Town.” 

 

2006    Tenth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Bangkok, Thailand. December 17. Panel Chair and Paper,Globalization and Hybridization in a Post-Nomadic Native Community: The Case of Vashraii K'oo/Arctic Village, Alaska.”

 

2005    2nd International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, Hyderabad, India.  December 13.  “Website Development and Alaska Native Identities:  Hunting for Meaning in Cyberspace.”

 

2005    Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Conference, London, Ontario, Canada.

June 2.  “Bridging the Technology Gap: Building a Development Model for Rural Alaska.”

 

2005    International Conference on Retailing and Sourcing 2005: Challenges and Opportunities New Delhi, India. January 7.  “Bringing the Knowledge Economy to Isolated and Rural Communities: Balancing Cultural and Economic Sustainability” (co-presentation with Parimal S. Bhagat & Elizabeth Mariotz, Philadelphia U. School of Business Administration).

 

2004    Ninth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. December 16. Bridging the Technology Gap? An Analysis of a Culture-Based Model for Economic Development in Rural Alaska.

 

2004    Association of American Geographers – Middle States Regional Conference, Villanova, PA. October 29. “Bringing Development to Rural Communities: The Case of Bush Alaska.”

 

2004    Fifth Congress of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association, Fairbanks, AK. May 19. Paper (co-presentation with Robert Mitchell, Architect). “Historic Preservation and Community Development in Native Alaska: The Case of the Bishop Rowe Chapel.”

 

2003    Middle East Studies Association 37th Annual Conference. Anchorage, AK. November 7. Panel Convener and Chair for The Arctic & Middle East: Comparison & Contrasts, and Panel Discussant for The Politics of Oil: The Middle East and North America.

 

2003    15th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.  Florence, Italy.  July 8.  “The Politics of Education Provision in Rural Native Alaska: The Case of Yukon Village.”

 

2002    Eighth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Hong Kong, China. December 15. “‘The Lord Will Provide’: The History and Role of Episcopalian Christianity in Nets’aii Gwich’in Social Development - Arctic Village, Alaska.”

 

2002    Middle East Studies Association 36th Annual Conference. Washington, DC. November 25. Panel Chair.

 

2002    Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Southwest-Texas Chapter. Albuquerque, NM. February 14. The History and Role of Episcopalian Christianity in Nets’aii Gwich’in Social Development.”

 

2001    II International Congress of Post-Colonial Studies, Vigo, Spain. October 26. “New Identity/Identities Formulation in a Post-Nomadic Community: The Case of the Bedouin of the Negev.”

 

2001    Fourth Congress of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.  May 18. “Analysis of a ‘Mixed Economy’ in an Alaskan Native Settlement: The Case of Arctic Village.”

 

2000    Middle East Studies Association 34th Annual Conference. Orlando, FL. November 19. “Polygyny and Bedouin Social Development: The Case of Segev Shalom.”

 

2000    Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference. Atlanta, GA. November 5.  “Globalization and Development in a Post-Nomadic Hunter/Gatherer Village: The Case of Arctic Village, Alaska.”

 

1999    Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, San Jose, Costa Rica. November 18, 1999. Panel Chair and Paper, “Special Education Use Among the Negev Bedouin Arabs of Israel:  A Case of Minority Under-Representation?”

 

1998    Sixth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Cairo, Egypt. December 16. “Image is Everything:  The Development of the Negev Bedouin as a Tourist Attraction.”

 

1998    14th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.  Williamsburg, VA.  July 28. “The Negev Bedouin Community as a Tourist Site: Problems and Implications.”

 

1998    Ben-Gurion University Negev Centre for Regional Development, Second International Conference on Regional Development. Be’er Sheva, Israel.  April 7.  “Cultural Identity and Communal Politicization in A Resettled Nomadic Environment: The Case of the Negev Bedouin.”

 

1997    Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Conference on "Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments," New Haven, CT. October 31.  Poster paper.

 

1996    Middle East Studies Association 30th Annual Conference. Providence, RI. Nov. 22.  “Female Role Change and Male Response in the Post-Nomadic Environment: The Case of the Israeli Negev Bedouin.”

 

1996    Eleventh Middle East History and Theory Conference. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.  April 26. “The Bedouin Women of Israel.”

 

1995    Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference. Detroit, MI. October 20.  “Resettlement and Modernization in Post-Nomadic Bedouin Society: The Case of Segev Shalom, Israel.”

 

1995    Fourth JUSUR Conference for Young Scholars on the Middle East. U.C. Los Angeles, CA.  May 13. “Human Settlement in Post-Nomadic Society: The Case of the Negev Bedouin (Revision)”

 

1994    Fourth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Tunis, Tunisia. December 19.  “Human Settlement in Post-Nomadic Society: The Case of the Negev Bedouin.”

 

1994    Middle East Studies Association 28th Annual Conference. Phoenix, AZ.  Nov. 21. “The Condition of the Post-Nomadic Bedouin of Israel: An Assessment.”

  

1993    Ben-Gurion University Negev Centre for Regional Development, International Conference on Regional Development. Ein Boqeq, Israel.  December 29. “Human Settlement in Post-Nomadic Bedouin Society: An Assessment of Social and Economic Transformation in Segev Shalom, Israel.”

 

1993    Fourth Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property. Manila, The Philippines. June 17.  Poster paper.

  
FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS

 

American Association of Geographers-National Science Foundation Fund                2008

      Travel Grant

                  For travel to the 2008 International Geographical Union Congress

                  Tunis, Tunisia

 

Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship                                                                             2007

Research Project:  “Settling for Less: A Longitudinal Study of the

History and Evolution of a Planned Bedouin Town, 1992-2007”

Haifa University, Haifa, Israel                                                   

 

National Science Foundation – Partnerships for Innovation                                2003-2006

            Principal Investigator (PI) for the project “Bridging the Technology Gap:

            A Culture-Based Model for Economic Development in Rural Alaska.”

            Award No. EEC-0332608                                                      

 

 

Alaska Humanities Forum Grant                                                                                      2005

                  Humanities Scholar

                  Arctic Village Bishop Rowe Chapel Cultural Center Exhibit      

 

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute:                                          2001

                              “Environmental Ethics and Issues: Alaska as a Case Study” 

                  University of Alaska Anchorage

 

Philadelphia University                                                                       1999, 2000, 2001, 2003

                        Faculty Summer Research Grants                                              

 

National Endowment for the Humanities                                                                         1999

“Adaptation of Nomads and Hunter/Gatherers to State-Sponsored

Economic Development: Two Case Studies in Alaska and Israel”

                        Summer Stipend Award                                                           

 

Masos Regional Council Grant – Be’er Sheva, Israel.                                                       1993

            Project Director

            Segev Shalom Data Collection and Analysis Project                 

 

 

FUNDED PROJECT GRANTS

 

State of Alaska Historic Preservation Fund                                                                      2005

                  Project Director

                  Arctic Village Bishop Rowe Chapel Restoration Project           

 

 

Episcopal Diocese of Alaska Church Restoration Grant                                                   2004

                  Project Director

            Arctic Village Bishop Rowe Chapel Restoration Project           

 

National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund Grants to                                          2003

Indian Tribes, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiian Organizations

                  Project Director

                  Arctic Village Bishop Rowe Chapel Restoration Project             

 

National Trust for Historic Preservation                                                                          2002

            Project Director

            Arctic Village Bishop Rowe Chapel Restoration Project           

 

National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund Grants to                                          2002

Indian Tribes, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiian Organizations

Project Director

Arctic Village Bishop Rowe Chapel Restoration Project                       

  

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  

Association of American Geographers

 

International Union of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences Commission on

      Nomadic Peoples

 

International Arctic Social Science Association

 

International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments

 

Middle East Studies Association

 

  

 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/HONORS

 

Co-Editor, Nomadic Peoples, October 2005-present

Highlighted in South Jersey Magazine, February 2008 

Delegate, U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, Tunisia. Nov. 16-18, 2005. 

Highlighted in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, August 15, 2004. 

Highlighted in the Philadelphia University publication, Alumni Update. Fall, 2003.  

Activist and volunteer, Alaska Wilderness League, Washington, D.C., 2000 – 2002.  

Highlighted in the Philadelphia University publication, Focus on Faculty. Spring 2001.  

Honorary Member, Delta Mu Delta National Honor Society in Business Administration. Delta Epsilon Chapter, Philadelphia University. Inducted in 1998.

 

PEER READER/REVIEWER/EVALUATOR

International Multilingual Research Journal

 Berghahn Books Publishers

 National Identities (Journal)

        American Anthropologist (Journal) 

Nomadic Peoples (Journal); 2000 - 2005. 

National Science Foundation, “Partnerships for Innovation” Grants 

University of Nebraska Publishers 

Addison Wesley Longman Publishers 

SERVICE TO PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY 

Course Coordinator, Area Studies courses                                                        2004-present 

Member, Graduate Education Committee                                                          2008-present 

Member, Academic Excellence Subcommittee on International Education           2007-08  

Interior Design Student Thesis Advisor                                                              2007-08 

Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Law & Society              2007-08

 

Undergraduate Student Advisor, Advising and Counseling Center                     1998-2003;                                                                                                                                                     2007- 08 

Chair, School of Liberal Arts Undergraduate Education Committee                   2006-08 

Member, University College Studies Committee                                                 2006-08 

Chair, University Intellectual Property Committee (ad hoc)                                2006, 2007 

Co-Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Italian                          2006 

Chair, University Institutional Review Board (IRB)                                            2003-06 

Member, School of Liberal Arts Personnel Committee                                     2004-06 

Member, University Tenure Committee                                                           2004-05 

Member, Middle States Working Group on Planning,

    Resource Allocation & Institutional Review                                                 2004-05 

Architecture Student Thesis Advisor                                                               2004-05 

Member, Faculty Research & Design Grants Committee                                 2004, 2005 

Course Coordinator, Contemporary Perspectives                                         1999-2004 

Member, Intellectual Property Task Force                                                       1999-2003 

Chair, University Student Life Committee                                                         1998-2002 

Member, University Advisory Board                                                                1998-2002 

Member, 9/11/01 Programs Planning Group                                                      2001-02 

Member, International Week Planning Group                                                     2001 

Member, Honors Program Review Task Force                                                  2000-01 

Faculty Advisor, Hillel student group                                                                  1997-99 

Member, Search Committee for Dean, School of General Studies                       1998-99 

Member, Search Committee for Director, Advising & Counseling Center            1998-99 

Member, Student Evaluation Review Task Force                                                1998-99 

Member, University Academic Programs Committee                                           1997-98

 

              

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Steven C. Dinero, Ph.D., Philadelphia University  (Updated 6/4/08)