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I have been engaged with international development work for the past 18 years as a practitioner and researcher. My field work experiences include women's rights, sustainable livelihoods, health education, and agroforestry development programs in Niger as well as community health and medical anthropology research in Uganda.
Coordinators
Audrey Mayer
almayer@mtu.edu
906-487-2864
Audrey Mayer is an associate professor at Michigan Tech. With dual appointments in both the Department of Social Sciences and School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, she is comfortable with both policy and practice.
Bradley Baltensperger
brad@mtu.edu
906-487-2460
Bradley Baltensperger, a geography teacher by training, has been co-director of the Science Education PCMI program since its inception in 2008. He works with science graduates who are interested in teaching science through a Peace Corps experience and earning teaching certification in the process.
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Brian Barkdoll
barkdoll@mtu.edu
906-487-1981
Barkdoll has degrees from the Universities, of Akron, Cincinnati and Iowa. He has spent 4 years as an engineer for the U.S. Peace Corps in Nepal. Barkdoll's teaching interests include fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology, sediment transport, contaminant transport, and water collection and distribution.
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Casey J. Huckins
cjhuckin@mtu.edu
906-487-2475
Casey Huckins is an associate professor in Michigan Tech’s Department of Biological Sciences and program director for the Peace Corps Master’s International program in Biological Sciences at Michigan Tech. He also advises and serves on a number of PCMI student advisory committees across campus.
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Craig Waddell
cwaddell@mtu.edu
906-487-3261
Craig Waddell is an associate professor of rhetoric at Michigan Tech. His research, teaching, and advising experience enable him to help students organize, develop, lead, and make positive change at Peace Corps sites around the world.
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David Watkins
dwatkins@mtu.edu
906-487-1640
David Watkins is a professor of civil and environmental engineering. He has worked in eleven countries during the course of his professional career, conducting studies or training sessions in hydrology, water resources management, and sustainable development engineering.
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Gary Campbell
gacampbe@mtu.edu
906-487-2808
Gary Campbell began teaching in the School of Business and Economics at Michigan Tech in 1982. He helped establish the MS in Applied Natural Resource Economics in 1983. He serves as coordinator for both the MS program and the Peace Corps Master’s International program.
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John Gierke
jsgierke@mtu.edu
906-487-2535
John Gierke obtained degrees in civil and environmental engineering and is a licensed professional engineer. He has been a professor of geological and environmental engineering since 1990, and his expertise is primarily in groundwater resource development and protection.
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John K. Gershenson
jkgershe@mtu.edu
906-487-2047
John Gershenson has been co-directing the PCMI program in Mechanical Engineering since its inception in 2009. John researches life-cycle engineering—environmentally conscious design, sustainable design, design for manufacturability, and more;
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Michele H. Miller
mhmiller@mtu.edu
906-487-3025
Michele Miller is an associate professor and the associate chair and director of undergraduate studies for Michigan Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics.
Sarah A. Green
sgreen@mtu.edu
906-487-2048
Sarah A. Green is the department chair for Chemistry, a department whose philosophy emphasizes a need for students to be exposed to global issues through interaction or direction exchange.
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