Culture, International
Pitt Experts:
- Maxine Bruhns—international culture and customs
- Nancy Condee—Russian culture and cultural politics, film
- James Craft—human resources management/industrial relations and labor relations
Patrick Manning—world history, Africa and African diaspora - Andrew Weintraub—music and politics of Indonesia
Joseph m. katz graduate school of business
James Craft
Professor and director of the doctoral program, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
office: 412-648-1680
home: 412-241-1613
craft@katz.pitt.edu
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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu
Areas of expertise
Human resources management/industrial relations and labor relations.
Background:
Craft has researched and published extensively in the field of human resources and labor relations. Current research activities include an inquiry into the elements of organizational human resources strategy, the use of human resources systems to enhance organizational competitiveness, and an examination of the evolving characteristics of unions and collective bargaining.
Craft has served as a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow in Washington, D.C., and has been employed as a labor force analyst with the U.S. Department of Labor. He has been a visiting professor at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Valparaiso, Chile) and the International Management Center (Budapest, Hungary). In addition, he has lectured on human resources topics in universities and in business programs in Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, and Poland.
department of history
Patrick Manning
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History and director of Pitt’s World History Center, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences
office: 412-648-7478
cell: 617-435-6540
pmanning@pitt.eduFaculty Bio
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Patricia Lomando White
office: 412-624-9101
cell: 412-215-9932
laer@pitt.edu
Areas of expertise
World history, Africa and African diaspora
Background:
Manning is a renowned scholar on the economic history of
Africa and a specialist in world history. His research has
focused on demographic history (the African slave trade), the
social and cultural history of francophone Africa, global
migration, the African diaspora as a dimension of global
history, and an overview of the world history field.
Manning is author of The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (Columbia Studies in International and Global History, 2009), Migration in World History (Routledge, 2004), and Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (Palgrave, 2003). His latest project is an interdisciplinary history of early humanity.
Department of Music
Andrew Weintraub
Professor,
Department of Music,
School of Arts and Sciences
office: 412-624-4184
cell: 412-606-4135
anwein@pitt.eduFaculty Bio
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Sharon Blake
office: 412-624-4364
cell: 412-277-6926
blake@pitt.edu
Areas of expertise
Music and politics of Indonesia
Background:
Weintraub is an ethnomusicologist whose specialty is the music and culture of Indonesia. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ethnomusicology and is the director of the University Gamelan Ensemble, a group of musicians who play the gamelan—a large set of metal-keyed instruments, gongs, and drums.
Weintraub has traveled the mountains of West Java with professional puppeteers and their accompanying musicians. He wrote about those experiences in Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java (Ohio University Press, 2004). Weintraub is working on two other books—a history of Indonesian popular music and an edited volume on Islam and popular culture in Indonesia and Malaysia. He has performed gamelan music across the United States and in Canada, Asia, and Europe.
Nationality Rooms Program
Maxine Bruhns
Director of the University of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs
office: 412-624-6150
home: 412-687-2615
embruhns@pitt.edu
For assistance in reaching Ms. Bruhns, contact
Patricia Lomando White
office: 412-624-9101
cell: 412-215-9932
laer@pitt.edu
Areas of expertise
International culture and customs
Background:
Bruhns, director of the University of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs, oversees Pitt’s 27 Nationality Rooms, which are historic landmarks that perpetuate the cultures and traditions of the countries and groups they represent, including those of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
Bruhns works closely with more than 35 ethnic groups to create new Nationality Rooms, maintain existing rooms, and administer Pitt’s Summer Study Abroad Scholarship Program, which has approximately 40 scholarship recipients each year. Fluent in French and German, Bruhns has lived in Austria, Lebanon, Jordan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Germany, Greece, and Gabon. She is vice president of the National Ethnic Studies Assembly and is a member of the Pittsburgh Tourism Advisory Board, VisitPittsburgh, and the Cultural Tourism Office.
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Nancy Condee
Professor,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, School of Arts and Sciences
office: 412-624-5906
home: 412-363-7180
condee@pitt.edu
For assistance in reaching this faculty member, contact
Patricia Lomando White
office: 412-624-9101
cell: 412-215-9932
laer@pitt.edu
Areas of expertise
Russian culture and cultural politics, film
Background:
Condee is a specialist in contemporary Russian culture and cultural politics, imperial and postcolonial theory, and post-Soviet popular culture. She is a film scholar in Pitt’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and is on Pitt’s Film Studies faculty.
A former senior associate member of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University and a member of the Russian Guild of Cinema Scholars and Critics (Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation), Condee, for more than a decade, has been one of two U.S. scholars annually invited to and supported by the Kinotavr Film Festival (Sochi), Russia’s leading postsocialist film festival. She served for six years as chair of the board of directors of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the largest U.S. grant agency for social-science research in the former socialist bloc. Condee is coeditor of the journal Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. Her latest book is The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema (Oxford University Press).