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Diane Cahill, Business Manager
Joan Kraynanski, Administrative Associate
Patti Malloy, Administrative Associate
Bose Maposa, Assistant Director, African Studies
Ghirmai Negash, Associate Director, African Studies
Laura Schaeffer, Assistant Director for Global Studies Programs
Christine Su, Director, Southeast Asian Studies
Lijing (Jean) Zhang, Accounting Associate
Marian Carr, Coordinator for Global Partnership

Diane Cahill
Business Manager

(740) 593-1838
cahilld@ohio.edu

Diane Cahill joined the Center for International Studies as Business Manager in July 2011. Diane has four sons aged 4-16. Her interests include hiking, biking, riding ATVs, reading and family. Diane received her bachelor degree, summa cum laude, in Business with a Finance focus in 2004 from Ohio University. Diane was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Canada (2004-05) to research single parent families. She chose this research focus because it was close to her heart, as she had been a single parent at the time for 7 years. This year, Diane will begin her MBA through OU’s PMBA program. Now that she is involved with the Center, Diane hopes to increase her children’s exposure to the world, possibly through new research opportunities.

	Joan Kraynanski Administrative Associate (740) 593-1840 kraynans@ohio.edu

	Patti Malloy Administrative Associate (740) 593-1836 malloyp@ohio.edu

Bose Maposa
Assistant Director, African Studies

(740) 597-1511
maposa@ohio.edu

Bose Maposa joined the Center for International Studies as the Assistant Director for the African Studies Program in November 2010. She has a diverse higher education experience; after successfully completing her first master's degree in African Studies she earned a master's degree in Public Administration here at Ohio University. Bose finished her undergraduate studies in Cuba and earned a bachelor's degree in Physical Education and Sports. Her academic interests include sport and health education, specifically focusing on initiatives and policies geared towards the use of sport to promote health, and ultimately as a medium for social change.

Marian Carr
Coordinator for Global Partnership

(740) 593-1971
carrm@ohio.edu

Ghirmai Negash
Associate Director, African Studies

(740) 593-2919
negashg@ohio.edu

Ghirmai Negash is Associate Professor of English & African Literature, and Associate Director of African Studies Program at Ohio University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. He was the founder and former chair of the Department of Eritrean Languages and Literature at the University of Asmara (2001-2005). His research interests include African literatures from the Horn of Africa and South Africa, critical theory, translation, and orality studies. His publications include A History of Tigrinya Literature in Eritrea (University of Leiden-CNWS, 1999); Who Needs a Story? (Hidri-Michigan State UP-ABC, 2006), co-edited and translated with Charles Cantalupo; The Freedom of the Writer & Other Cultural and Literary Essays, in Tigrinya (Trenton, NJ.: Africa World Press, 2006), and several articles and chapters, including in Silence is Not Golden, eds. Adera, T. and A. Ahmed (Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Africa World Press, 1994), Teaching Life Writing Texts, eds. Fuchs, M. and C. Howes (New York: MLA, 2008), Journal of African Literature Association 2.2 (2008), Research in African Literatures 40.3 (2009), and Biography 32.1 (2009).

Laura Schaeffer
Asisstant Director for Global Studies Programs

(740) 597-2756
schaeffe@ohio.edu

Laura Schaeffer has directed the bachelor of arts program and coordinated outreach efforts for the Center for International Studies since October, 2005. She came to Athens in 1994 to earn a master's degree in International Development Studies after serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali and earning a bachelor's degree in family and consumer education from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Schaeffer worked with a non-profit organization in rural Athens County for two years and coordinated the Supplemental Instruction Program at Ohio University for eight years.

Christine Su
Director, Southeast Asian Studies
(740) 593-1841
suc@ohio.edu

Christine Su joined Ohio University as the Assistant Director for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies in August 2010. As a graduate student, she spent several years studying and working as an ethnographer and program coordinator in Southeast Asia. After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in 2003, she served as an educational specialist for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with disabilities in the University of Hawaii's College of Education from 2004 to 2006. She also worked in the private sector as the director of research and cross-cultural education for a Honolulu-based communications firm from 2006 to 2009. Her research interests include U.S.-Southeast Asia relations, with a focus on Cambodia, and Khmer/Khmer-American ethnic and cultural identity.

Lijing (Jean) Zhang
Accounting Associate

(740) 593-1851
zhangl1@ohio.edu

Lijing (Jean) Zhang obtained an MBA with concentration on professional accounting from California State University in 1996. After working many years in banks and financial institutions both inside and outside of the U.S., Jean came to OU and worked in accounting office in Voinovich School of Leadership & Public Affair, and then she joined the Center for International Studies in 2005. As an accounting associate at the Center, Jean is responsible for grant accounting, reporting and other financial transactions.