International Professors Project

President Michael J. Plamiotto Phd: Professor of Criminal Justice at Wichita State University. He has a master’s degree from John Jay College (CUNY) and a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. In 2001 Dr. Palmiotto did a sabbatical at the College of Law, University of Chicago. Professor Palmiotto has ten books published, numerous book chapters and articles on criminal justice.

Professor Palmiotto is currently Editor of International Security, a four volume set encyclopedia to be published by Congressional Quarterly Press. The encyclopedia has contributions on security issues from contributors throughout the world. He is also was Managing Editor of the World Police Encyclopedia, a two volume set of encyclopedia published by Routledge dealing with the structure of policing in member countries of the United Nations. Dr. Palmiotto has taught at Maastricht Center for International Studies, Netherlands in 2004, was and a Fulbright Scholar to the Law College of the University of Law, the Kingdom of Bahrain in 2006 and in 2007 invited by the College of Law at the University of Kragujevac, Serbia as Visiting Professor. In 2007, Professor Palmiotto was approved as a Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar. The current research interests of Dr. Palmiotto include international security issues. more...

Abraham M. George is the founder and managing trustee of The George Foundation (TGF), a non-profit organization based in Bang-alore, India, that is dedicated to the welfare of economically and socially disadvantaged people. more...

Donald E. Hall is a Jackson Distinguished Professor of English at West Virginia University, where he also serves as department chair. He has a long history of involvement in international education, beginning with Peace Corps service, teaching at the National University of Rwanda from 1984-86. Professor Hall has published widely in the fields of British studies, queer theory (field of gender studies), cultural studies, and professional studies. more...

Dr. Caroline Hodges received her PhD in 2006 (grad-uated in 2007) and works as a Lecturer in the Media School at Bournemouth University. She received a BA Honors Degree in Spanish from the University of Southampton and an MA in Marketing from Bristol Business School (University of the West of England). A researcher of Communication and Culture, Caroline is a member of the organizing committee, for the Centre for Public Communica-tion Research, based at Bournemouth University. Her research interests include intercultural communication, sustainable development communication and the possible futures for ‘soft' public diplomacy and cultural relations. more...

Professor Paul Kawachi has been teaching at universities in Japan for more than twenty years, with short visits to the Philippines and Viet Nam. He holds a Doctorate in education, three Master’s degrees and several teaching diplomas with distinction. He is a Fellow of the British Institute of English Language Teaching and a Fellow of the NPO Asian Society of Open and Distance Education. Paul recently added a Master’s in Open and Distance Education from the UK Open University, Institute of Educational Technology, and won the Gold Medal for his research from the Asian Association of Open Universities, where he is now on the General Board with connections to a host of the largest open universities throughout Asia and the rest of the world. more...

Dr. Terri Kim is a specialist in Comparative Higher Education. She is currently working as a full-time Research Lecturer at Brunel University in West London, UK. After the completion of her PhD in the University of London in 1998 and before joining Brunel in 2002, she worked as a research consultant to write a position paper on the 'Globalization of Higher Education' for OECD/CERI; a Visiting Research Scholar in International Relations at LSE, London more...

Professor Ron Krate is IPP's founder who also leads the Project. He has taught and consulted in the United States, the bahamas, China. England, Malaysia, Morocco, and Vietnam as a social and cross-cultural psychologist. He has developed social sciences curricula, organized national academic conferences, and is published in his field. He was awarded... more...

Patit Paban Mishra is Professor of History at Sambalupur University, India, where he specializes in World History with particular refernece to South Asian and South-East Asian History. He obtained his MA History at Delhi University, more...

Dr. Georgene Mortimer earned her Bachelors Degree in Biology from Ithaca College, her Masters Degree in Geology from Montclair State University and her PhD in Environmental Science jointly from Rutgers University and New Jersey Institute of Technology. more...

Charles Moumouni is an associate professor at the Department of information and communication of Universit� Laval, Quebec, and a lawyer at the Quebec Bar. He is the vice president of the Th�ophraste Network, an institutional network of the university agency of the Francophonie (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie), more...

President Nguyen Xuan Vang is the Director General Intenational Education Vietnam. He was the President of Hanoi University. He has established an International Studies department and recruited a Harvard international relations Ph.D. as its chair. He continually expands the language offerings of the already-large Language School of the University more...

Dr. Vikram Pattarkine was born and raised in Nagpur, India. He holds a master's in chemical engineering from Nagpur University and a doctorate in environmental engineering from Virginia Tech. Vikram is involved with strategic planning, recruiting, and critiques of the International Professors Project. more...

Patricia A. Pranger CPA, MBA, adjunct professor, College of St. Joseph, Rutland Vermont, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wright State University, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy more...

Dr. Debbie Rabina holds an M.L.S. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Ph.D. from Rutegers University. She teaches at the School of Information and Library Studies, Pratt Institute in Manhattan. more...

Professor T. K. Raja, "would like collaborations with molecular biology, biotechnology, nanotechnology labs, and individual scientists."

Prof. Vrajlal Sapovadia is a Professor, at the Business Management Department, of Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India. He has earned two Masters in Law, one in Commercial Law and the other one, in Property Law. He is Chartered Accountant & Ph.D. in Management Accounting. He is qualified Information System Auditor. His expertise areas cover System Design, System Audit, Management Control System, Public Health, Disaster Management, Field Survey & Research Methodology, Taxation, Property Law, Corporate Governance and e-governance, Corruption, Public Finance & Micro Finance and Economics.

Wayne Skipper leads a team of talented software developers making a difference in the field of education. His team, Concentric Sky, consists of about 30 engineers specializing in internet-based technologies. For more information about Wayne, visit: Concentric Sky

Michael Tutt now residing in Orange County, California, Michael Tutt originated in England and relocated to the United States in 2003. He is currently the Executive Director of the International Professors Project where he is assisting the founder, Dr. Ron Krate, to build the organization in both membership and activities. more...