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University of New HampshireUniversity of New Hampshire Scholars' RepositoryUNH International Educator Newsletter Global Education CenterFall 2011Fall 2011, ‘Meet’ Our 2011 International AffairsfacultyCenter for International EducationFollow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/international_newsThis News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Global Education Center at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. Ithas been accepted for inclusion in UNH International Educator Newsletter by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars'Repository. For more information, please contact nicole.hentz@unh.edu.Recommended CitationCenter for International Education, "Fall 2011, ‘Meet’ Our 2011 International Affairs faculty" (2011). International Educator: theNewsletter of the UNH Global Engagement Editorial Board. 116.https://scholars.unh.edu/international_news/116UNH Center for International Education Newsletterhttp://unh.edu/cie/newsletter/2011/fall/ia-faculty.html[7/13/2016 10:32:15 AM] SearchThe UNH Center for International Education Newsletter Fall 2011Back to index pageSubscribeCenter for InternationalEducation Home‘MEET’ OUR 2011 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FACULTYCIE is proud to introduce our new Hood House Lecturer and talented team of International Affairsteaching faculty. From various backgrounds and with wide-ranging interests and specializations, our2011-12 faculty instruct, advise and inspire our almost 300 IA dual majors. For a taste of theirbackgrounds and interests, please read below and ‘meet’ Molly Wallace, Biniam Iyob, Kirk Buckman,and Jennifer Purrenhage.Molly Wallace is CIE’s Hood House Lecturer, and in that capacity, serves as an academic leader ofthe IA program. She comes to UNH from Brown University where she earned her Ph.D. in PoliticalScience, and then was appointed visiting lecturer. Wallace’s dissertation examined the practice ofnonviolent intervention in violent conflict with a focus on Nonviolent Peaceforce, an internationalNGO engaged in unarmed civilian protection in Sri Lanka. More generally, her research andteaching interests include nonviolent action, violence-legitimation practices, conflictresolution/transformation, transitional justice and reconciliation, gender and global politics, humanrights, international ethics, and the politics of intervention. Wallace earned her B.A. in Peace andConflict Studies at Mount Holyoke College (studying abroad in Austria and Senegal) and then spentfour years in Washington, DC, working in the areas of conflict resolution and international affairs.While at Brown, she carried out field research in both Sri Lanka and Rwanda, taught a range of courses and discussion sections ininternational politics and political theory, and engaged pre-college students in a summer course on leadership and conflictresolution. Wallace is thrilled to have a key role in UNH’s interdisciplinary International Affairs program: advising IA dualmajors, working in curricula development and course scheduling, and teaching the dual major’s core courses, including IA 701,the senior capstone seminar. UNH students are already benefitting from Wallace’s research interests since her section of IA 501focuses on understanding war and political violence from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches. This spring, shewill also be teaching a course on the ethics of war and peace for the Political Science Department.Biniam Iyob holds a joint academic appointment with the Geography Department and CIE. Hecomes to UNH from Eritrea and the University of Asmara where he studied Soil and WaterConservation Studies. Upon graduation, Iyob worked for the Eritrean Ministry of Agriculture andlater as a hydrologist to help decrease erosion and improve water access and conservation. In 2000,he left Eritrea for Mauritius, obtaining a Master’s in Business Administration with a specialization inMarketing. Moving to the U.S., Iyob received a second Master’s in Geography from Oregon StateUniversity, focusing on mapping vegetation change using remote sensing (landsat data). He stayed atOSU to pursue a Ph.D. in Geography, where he focused on the geography of transboundary rivers,especially the Nile. Since Iyob joined UNH in fall 2010, CIE has been able to add a geographymodule to the IA curriculum, an important addition to an international degree program. He hastaught several courses at UNH including: International Perspectives (for the International Affairs dual major), EconomicUNH Center for International Education Newsletterhttp://unh.edu/cie/newsletter/2011/fall/ia-faculty.html[7/13/2016 10:32:15 AM]Geography, Urban Geography, Population and Development Geography, Regional Geography of the Non-Western World, andStatistics for Geographers. This coming spring, he will again teach International Perspectives as well as Geography of Third WorldDevelopment, a new course that he developed for UNH.Kirk Buckman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Brandeis University and his M.A. inInternational Relations and Economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced InternationalStudies of The Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to UNH in 2010, Kirk worked in theHuman Rights Program at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, GA, and taught at CatholicUniversity of America and Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on comparativeconstitutionalism and international political economy with a focus on Europe, but with other countryspecializations in Canada and Brazil. Buckman has authored an international relations textbook,currently at press, and teaches a number of courses here at UNH. For CIE’s IA dual major, heteaches IA 501, where he introduces students to the field of international political economy andemphasizes independent student research. Buckman’s courses in the Political Science Departmentinclude U.S. and World Economy, Comparative Government and Society, Contemporary European Politics, and EuropeanIntegration and Constitutionalism.Jennifer Purrenhage came to UNH in 2009, after earning her Ph.D. in Ecology from MiamiUniversity. Her interest in ecology began during her undergraduate studies in Wildlife Ecology andConservation Biology at the University of Wisconsin. Later, for her M.S. and doctoral research,Purrenhage explored the population- and community-level responses of amphibians to local andlandscape-scale changes in habitat. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Department ofNatural Resources and the Environment, where she continues her work in amphibian conservation.Since 2009, Purrenhage has been working on a long-term research project examining the use ofwetland buffers to ameliorate the impacts of forestry practices on vernal pool-breeding amphibiansin Maine. Purrenhage's other passion is teaching and mentoring undergraduates. She has served asIA Teaching Faculty at UNH since spring 2010, and currently teaches the Global EnvironmentalScience module of IA 401.  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This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Global Education Center at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It
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‘MEET’ OUR 2011 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FACULTY
CIE is proud to introduce our new Hood House Lecturer and talented team of International Affairs
teaching faculty. From various backgrounds and with wide-ranging interests and specializations, our
2011-12 faculty instruct, advise and inspire our almost 300 IA dual majors. For a taste of their
backgrounds and interests, please read below and ‘meet’ Molly Wallace, Biniam Iyob, Kirk Buckman,
and Jennifer Purrenhage.
Molly Wallace is CIE’s Hood House Lecturer, and in that capacity, serves as an academic leader of
the IA program. She comes to UNH from Brown University where she earned her Ph.D. in Political
Science, and then was appointed visiting lecturer. Wallace’s dissertation examined the practice of
nonviolent intervention in violent conflict with a focus on Nonviolent Peaceforce, an international
NGO engaged in unarmed civilian protection in Sri Lanka. More generally, her research and
teaching interests include nonviolent action, violence-legitimation practices, conflict
resolution/transformation, transitional justice and reconciliation, gender and global politics, human
rights, international ethics, and the politics of intervention. Wallace earned her B.A. in Peace and
Conflict Studies at Mount Holyoke College (studying abroad in Austria and Senegal) and then spent
four years in Washington, DC, working in the areas of conflict resolution and international affairs.
While at Brown, she carried out field research in both Sri Lanka and Rwanda, taught a range of courses and discussion sections in
international politics and political theory, and engaged pre-college students in a summer course on leadership and conflict
resolution. Wallace is thrilled to have a key role in UNH’s interdisciplinary International Affairs program: advising IA dual
majors, working in curricula development and course scheduling, and teaching the dual major’s core courses, including IA 701,
the senior capstone seminar. UNH students are already benefitting from Wallace’s research interests since her section of IA 501
focuses on understanding war and political violence from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches. This spring, she
will also be teaching a course on the ethics of war and peace for the Political Science Department.
Biniam Iyob holds a joint academic appointment with the Geography Department and CIE. He
comes to UNH from Eritrea and the University of Asmara where he studied Soil and Water
Conservation Studies. Upon graduation, Iyob worked for the Eritrean Ministry of Agriculture and
later as a hydrologist to help decrease erosion and improve water access and conservation. In 2000,
he left Eritrea for Mauritius, obtaining a Master’s in Business Administration with a specialization in
Marketing. Moving to the U.S., Iyob received a second Master’s in Geography from Oregon State
University, focusing on mapping vegetation change using remote sensing (landsat data). He stayed at
OSU to pursue a Ph.D. in Geography, where he focused on the geography of transboundary rivers,
especially the Nile. Since Iyob joined UNH in fall 2010, CIE has been able to add a geography
module to the IA curriculum, an important addition to an international degree program. He has
taught several courses at UNH including: International Perspectives (for the International Affairs dual major), Economic
UNH Center for International Education Newsletter
http://unh.edu/cie/newsletter/2011/fall/ia-faculty.html[7/13/2016 10:32:15 AM]
Geography, Urban Geography, Population and Development Geography, Regional Geography of the Non-Western World, and
Statistics for Geographers. This coming spring, he will again teach International Perspectives as well as Geography of Third World
Development, a new course that he developed for UNH.
Kirk Buckman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Brandeis University and his M.A. in
International Relations and Economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies of The Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to UNH in 2010, Kirk worked in the
Human Rights Program at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, GA, and taught at Catholic
University of America and Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on comparative
constitutionalism and international political economy with a focus on Europe, but with other country
specializations in Canada and Brazil. Buckman has authored an international relations textbook,
currently at press, and teaches a number of courses here at UNH. For CIE’s IA dual major, he
teaches IA 501, where he introduces students to the field of international political economy and
emphasizes independent student research. Buckman’s courses in the Political Science Department
include U.S. and World Economy, Comparative Government and Society, Contemporary European Politics, and European
Integration and Constitutionalism.
Jennifer Purrenhage came to UNH in 2009, after earning her Ph.D. in Ecology from Miami
University. Her interest in ecology began during her undergraduate studies in Wildlife Ecology and
Conservation Biology at the University of Wisconsin. Later, for her M.S. and doctoral research,
Purrenhage explored the population- and community-level responses of amphibians to local and
landscape-scale changes in habitat. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of
Natural Resources and the Environment, where she continues her work in amphibian conservation.
Since 2009, Purrenhage has been working on a long-term research project examining the use of
wetland buffers to ameliorate the impacts of forestry practices on vernal pool-breeding amphibians
in Maine. Purrenhage's other passion is teaching and mentoring undergraduates. She has served as
IA Teaching Faculty at UNH since spring 2010, and currently teaches the Global Environmental
Science module of IA 401.
  
Copyright © 2015, Center for International Education  •  The University of New Hampshire
223 Hood House  •  89 Main Street  •  Durham, NH 03824
tel: 603-862-2398  •  fax: 603-862-0169
study.abroad@unh.edu  •  international.affairs@unh.edu


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