PEOPLE OF CCUSC

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CCUSC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SAM SUISHENG ZHAO

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Executive Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He is founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, a member of the Board of Directors of US Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (USCSCAP), a member of National Committee on US-China Relations, and a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research in Harvard University. A Campbell National Fellow at Hoover Institution of Stanford University, he was Associate Professor of Political Science/International Studies at Washington College in Maryland, Associate Professor of Government/East Asian Politics at Colby College in Maine and visiting assistant professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California-San Diego. He received a Ph.D. degree in political science from the University of California-San Diego, a M.A. degree in Sociology from the University of Missouri and a M.A. degree in economics from Peking University. He is the author and editor of eight books. His most recent books are Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Law versus Democratization (M. E. Sharpe, 2006), A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism ( Stanford University Press, 2004), Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior (M. E. Sharpe, 2003), China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China (Routledge, 2000), Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan, and the Crisis of 1995-96 (Routledge, 1999). His articles have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, The Wilson Quarterly, Washington Quarterly, International Politik, The China Quarterly, World Affairs, Asian Survey, Asian Affairs, Journal of Democracy, Pacific Affairs, Communism and Post- Communism Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Issues and Studies, and elsewhere.

CCUSC DIRECTOR, DEAN TOM FARER

The Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver is the former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States and of the University of New Mexico. He is Honorary Professor of Peking University and permanent Guest Professor of People's University and Director of the Center for China-United States Cooperation. Within the United states Government, he has served as special assistant first to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense and then to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.  He has taught law at Columbia University, Rutgers, Tulane and Harvard and international relations at Cambridge University, Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.  And he has been a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

He has published 11 books and monographs and over one hundred articles and book chapters primarily concerning issues of international and comparative law, foreign policy, human rights and international institutions.  His most recent book, Transnational Crime in the Americas, was published by Routledge in 1999.  His articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York and London Review of Books, International Organization, World Politics and the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews.  Shorter pieces have appeared in Newsweek, the New York times, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune and the Washington Post.  He has lectured widely at universities in the United States, Europe, Africa, Japan and China.

Dean Farer has studied processes of economic and political development outside Europe and North American and has also been a participant.  He has taught criminal law and procedure and unarmed self-defense to an African police force and assisted in Uganda's Constitutional revision process in 1994-95. He has also studied the operations of international organizations and in 1993 served as legal consultant to the United Nations Operations in Somalia.  In that capacity, he investigated the attacks on UN forces and submitted a report to the Security Council.  In 1980, he participated in the successful resolution of the hostage crisis arising from the occupation of the Dominican Embassy in Bogota, Colombia by members of the M-19 guerilla organization.

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CCUSC SUPPORT STAFF AND ASSOCIATES

Director of Development: Jennifer Thompson
Executive Assistant : Yvette Peterson
Logistics Coordinator: Jennifer Nash
General Counsel: Judith Roberts, Holme, Roberts & Owen, LLC

Visiting Scholars: Ma Baobin from the College of Administration, Qianwei Branch of Jilin University (2006-2007); Cui Wei, vice director of the housing policy research department of Beijing Construction Bureau (2006-2007); Liang Bibo from Guangdong University of Business (2006-2007); Alan Chiu from the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade in Qingdao (2006-2007); Professor Gao Yifei of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing (2004-2005). Assistant Professor, Song Yunwei, of the Renmin University History Department (2004-2005). Xie Qingfang, Guangdong Institute of Public Administration (2002-2003); Yu Fugong, Guangdong Institute of Public Administration (2002-2003); Wang Wenfeng, CICIR (2002-2003); Cao Fumiao, CICIR (2003); and Li Fengzhi, CICIR (2003-2004); Yue Yanghua of the Chinese Association for International Understanding (2003-2004).

Past Visiting Professors: Prof. Liu Wenxiu from the International School of International Studies, Renmin University of China, taught China's Economic Reform and Political Development at GSIS in the Fall 2005 Quarter and Prof. Yang Guangbin, School of International Studies, Renmin University taught at GSIS during the Fall 2003 Quarter.

	GSIS professors with Renmin friends and staff in Beijing: John Grove (back row, second from right), Karen Feste (standing, far right), Robert Golten (seated, far right), and GSIS Fall 2005 visiting professor Liu Wenxiu, (seated, far left).

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DU FACULTY ASSOCIATES
Bonnie Adrian: Lecturer, Core Curriculum
Douglas Allen: Professor, Daniels College of Business
Peter Golas: Professor, Dept. of History
Peter Ho: Professor and Chair, Dept. of Economics
David Hopkins: Director, International Program, Daniels College of Business
Barry Hughes: Professor, Graduate School of International Studies
Micheline Ishay: Professor, Graduate School of International Studies
Ved Nanda: Vice-Provost for Internationalization
Sarah Nelson: Interim Vice Provost, Graduate Studies; Professor, Dept. of Anthropology
Richard Scudder: Professor, Daniels College of Business
Timothy Sisk: Professor, Graduate School of International Studies
Margaret Thompson: Professor of Communication
Michael Wirth: Professor and Chair, Dept. of Mass Communications and Journalism Studies; Director, School of Communications

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