Director and Advisory Board
Director of the Center for Global Citizenship:
David Skidmore
Professor David Skidmore serves as Director of the Center for Global Citizenship. Skidmore teaches in the Department of Politics and International Relations. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and taught at Hamilton College and the University of Notre Dame before arriving at Drake in 1989. During the 1996-97 academic year, Skidmore taught at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China. His other travels have taken him to Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, England, Germany, Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Brazil. Skidmore has had past supervisory experience related to the Drake Curriculum, the First Year Seminar Program, the International Relations Program, and the Drake Undergraduate Social Science Journal. His research and teaching interests lies in the areas of international political economy, American foreign policy, international relations theory and Latin American politics. Skidmore is author, co-author or editor of five books and has published numerous academic articles and book chapters.
Center for Global Citizenship Advisory Board
Faculty, Staff and Student Board Members
Brad Meyer, Associate Professor of Management
Judy Allen, Associate Professor, Psychology
Ramesh Dhussa, Assistant Professor, Culture and Society: Geography
Kathy Fejes, Professor, Education: Special Education
Eric Johnson, Associate Professor, Education: Urban/Diversity
Kirk Martin, Director, Chinese Cultural Exchange Program
Gretchen Olson, Director, International Programs
Rahul Parsa, Professor of Statistics
Darcie Vandegrift, Associate Professor, Culture and Society: Sociology
Eleanor Zeff, Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations
Leslie Mamoorian, Associate Director, International and Graduate Admissions
Community Board Members
Cyndi Chen, Iowa Sister States
Katy Hansen, Iowa Division of the United Nations Association
R.W. Nelson, Kemin Industries
Lloyd Le Page, Pioneer Hi-Bred International
Eric Shimp, Hunton and Williams
Kavilash Chawla, Principal, Nur Advisors, LLC
John Tone, Various positions in management of packaging, banking and healthcare (retired)
Phil Latessa, Executive Director, Iowa Sister States
J.J. Thakkar, Merrill Lynch Global Commodities
George DeBakey, E.J. Krause & Associates, Inc.