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2002-2003 Working Groups

Detroit Voices

  • Kathryne Lindberg, English
  • Todd Duncan, English
  • Beth Bates, Urban, Labor & Metro Affairs and Africana Studies
  • Quill Pettway, UAW Local 600
  • Douglas Fraser, former President of UAW
  • General Baker, founder of UHURU
  • Grace Lee Boggs, PhD, Alumna of Bryn Mawr College
  • Mildred Jeffrey, Governor Emerita of WSU
  • Maryann Mahaffey, President of Detroit City Council
  • Lasker Smith, National Negro Labor Council
  • Mike Smith, Acting Director of Reuther Archives
Diasporic Communities in North America: Expressions of Displacement and Evolving Identities
  • May Seikaly, Near Eastern & Asian Studies
  • Fran Shor, CULMA
  • Frances Trix, Anthropology
  • Anca Vlasapolos, English
  • Guerin Montilus, Anthropology
A Cross-Linguistic View of the Nature of Nonessential Speech
  • Ellen Barton, English & Linguistics
  • Eugenia Casielles-Suarez, Romance Languages & Literatures
  • Kate Paesani, Romance Languages & Literatures
  • Ljiljana Progovac, Linguistics
  • Nicola Work, Romance Language & Literatures
  • Robert Stainton, Carleton University
  • Peter Ludlow, SUNY Stony Brook
The Fold-Theory & Practice
  • Charles Stivale, Romance Languages/Art & Art History
  • Ronald Day, Library & Information Science
  • Michael Giordana, Romance Language & Literatures
  • Erik Mortenson, English
  • John Richardson, Art & Art History
  • Tom Conley, Harvard University
Transatlantic Exchanges: Interchange of Cultures between Great Britain/Europe and the Southern Western Hemisphere
  • Robert Aguirre, English
  • John Reed, English
  • Renata Wasserman, English
  • Cannon Schmitt, English
  • Tamara Bray, Anthropology
  • Thomas Killion, Anthropology
  • Jorgelina Corbatta, Romance Languages & Literatures
Science & Society
  • Marsha Richmond, Interdisciplinary Studies
  • William Lynch, Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Richard Grusin, English
  • David Barondess, Anthropology
  • Edward Golenberg, Biology
  • Maria Ferreira, Education
  • Jazlin Ebenezer, Education
  • James Woodyard, Engineering
  • Dana Seitler, English
  • Cannon (Emmett Buchanan) Schmitt, English
  • Eric Hotchkin Ash, History
  • Charles Hyde, History
  • David Bowen, Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Susan Vineberg, Philosophy
  • Alvin Saperstein, Physics
  • July Klein, Interdisciplinary Studies

End of Life Project

  • Donald Gelfand, Sociology
  • Juliann Binenda, School of Medicine
  • Sherilyn Briller, Anthropology
  • Lynda Baker, Library Science
  • Elizabeth Chapleski, Institute of Gerontology
  • George Cooney, Law School
  • Ardith Doorenbos, Anthropology/Nursing
  • Sonia Duffy, VA Medical Center
  • John Finn, Hospice of Michigan and Internal Medicine
  • Allen Goodman, Economics
  • William Lang, Detroit Medical Center
  • Kathryn Mert, Children's Hospital
  • Gerald Oglan, School of Education
  • Jeanne Parzuchowski, Hospice of Michigan/Dept. of Urology
  • Mark Speece, School of Medicine
  • Richard Raspa, Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Stephanie Schim, Nursing
  • Celia Thurston, Children's Hospital
  • Robert Zalenski, Emergency Medicine

The Philosophy of Mathematics

  • Susan Vineberg, Philosophy
  • Robert Bruner, Mathematics
  • Robert Titiev, Philosophy
  • Sean Stidd, Philosophy
  • Madeline Muntersbjorn, University of Toledo
  • Jill Dieterle, Eastern Michigan University
  • Matthew McKeon, Michigan State University
  • Jamie Tappenden, University of Michigan
  • Michael McFerren, WSU
  • Mark Huston, WSU
  • Matthew Zuckero, WSU

Digital Culture

  • Richard Grusin, English
  • Ronald Day, Library & Information Science
  • Charles Stivale, Romance Languages & Literatures
  • Barrett Watten, English
  • Sandra Yee, WSU Libraries
  • Eric Marshall, English