Board and Fellows
(Current as of May, 2007)
President and Agent--Dr. I. William Zartman Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution and former Director of African Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. Founding President, American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) 1984-1996. Founding Executive Secretary, then President, Middle East Studies Association (MESA). Formerly, Intelligence Officer, Fleet Intelligence Unit, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean at N.A.S. Kenitra, 1958-60. Trainer 1965 and Evaluator 1967 for the Peace Corps in Morocco. Author
or editor of numerous
books on Morocco
Vice-President-The Hon. Carleton S. Coon, Jr. Retired Foreign Service Officer. Ambassador to Nepal 1981-1984; Deputy Chief of Mission, Rabat, Morocco, 1974-1976. Author of
Culture Wars and the Global Village: A Diplomat's Perspective
Treasurer and Investment Counselor-Stephen Eastman Vice President, Wellington Management Co., L.L.P. 75 State St., Boston, A6-A. 02109. Graduate of the American School in Tangier; has served on the School's Board of Trustees. Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, 1984-85. BA in Economics, Stanford, 1984.
Secretary-Dr. Diane Ponasik Retired from the U.S.
Agency for International Development where she worked in many capacities
between 1977 and 2002. Was General Development Officer in Skopje,
Macedonia, 1999-2002; Supervisory Democracy Officer, Port au Prince,
Haiti, 1997-1999; Chief, Institutional Development Support, Cairo,
Egypt, 1992-1997 and Chief of the Evaluation Unit for Asia / Near East
Bureau in Washington, D.C. 1987-1990. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in
Morocco, 1965-1967. B.A. French, College of William and Mary, 1960; M.A.
Anthropology, U. of Michigan, 1972; PhD. in Economic Anthropology, State
University of New York, Binghamton, 1978. Fluent in French and Arabic.
Email: www.dianeponasik.com
Dr. John Damis Professor of Political Science and Chairman, Division of Political Science, Portland State University since 1998. Summers 1993 and 1994, Consultant, Identification Commission of the United Nations Mission for a referendum in Western Sahara. 1997-1998, Senior Fulbright Research Award to Morocco. 1977-1983, consultant/contractor on North African affairs, Dept. of State. PhD. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1970. Many publications and articles on Moroccan politics, economics and history.
Dr. Susan Schaefer Davis An anthropologist who has been active in Morocco since she was a Peace Corps Volunteer there 1965-67. She has published widely on gender in Morocco, including Patience and Power: Women's Lives in a Moroccan Village and Adolescence in a Moroccan Town. Dr. Davis is currently working with women rug-weavers in two parts of the country, where she has helped them to link to the internet and make direct sales of their products as a pilot project in economic development. The website is www.marrakeshexpress.org. Dr. Davis has taught at Haverford College, Rutgers University, Trenton State College, and most recently at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco. She also consults with the American Friends Service Committee, the World Bank, USAID, and several NGOs. Dr. Davis is fluent in Moroccan Arabic and speaks French at the FSI 3+ level. She has an online gallery, Marrakesh Express, that deals with women weavers and the carpets they produce.
Mr. Harland H. Eastman Retired Foreign Service Officer. Consul General, Tangier, 1975-1979. One of the original founders of TALMS. Member of the Board of Trustees of the American School of Tangier since 1975 and past President of the Board. Trustee of the Maine Historical Society (10 years) and the Springvale (Maine) Public Library (25 years). Vice President of the Board of Trustees of Greater Portland Landmarks. Member of the Sanford (Maine) Historical Committee since 1979 and Chairman since 1985. Former Trustee of Maine Preservation. Author of Sanford & Springvale Maine in the Days of Fred Philpot (1986 & 1993) Sanford and Springvale, Maine, A Backward Glance (1988); Villages on the Mousam (1995); Alfred, Maine, The Shakers and the Village (1986 & 1992); and A Cluster of Maine Villages (1991).
Dr. Dale F. Eickelman Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations, Dartmouth College. Arabist and specialist on Islam in Morocco. PhD. University of Chicago. Books include Moroccan Islam (1976, Arabic translation 1989); Knowledge and Power in Morocco (1985, Arabic translation, 2000); Muslim Politics (co-authored with James Piscatori, 1996); and The Middle East and Central Asia; an Anthropological Approach, 4th ed. (2002). Former President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
Ms. Francoise R. Kirby
Ms. Kirby is in charge of relations with international financial institutions at Management Systems International (MSI); coordination with regional and technical experts at the World Bank and UNDP regarding development projects implemented by MSI, including Entrepreneurship Development programs in Mali, Morocco, Benin, Senegal, Togo and tunisia. During her husband’s diplomatic posting to Morocco, Ms. Kirby was President of the American Women’s Club at the Embassy in Rabat. Nominated for prestigious Avis Bohlen Award for outstanding contribution to U.S. diplomacy in Morocco.
Dr. Mary Ellen Lane Executive Director of Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Smithsonian Institution. Previously served as Assistant Director and Outreach Coordinator for the American Research Center in Egypt; taught History of Pharaonic Egypt and Art and Architecture in Pharaonic Egypt at the American University in Cairo; co-director of the Fayyum Archaeological Project. Her Ph.D. is in Egyptology from the Sorbonne.
The Hon. Robert H. Pelletreau Retired Foreign Service Officer. Has just completed a one year assignment as co-director with his wife, Dr. Pamels Pelletreau, of the Jerusalem Office of Search form Common Ground in the Middle East. Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Ambassador to Egypt 1991-93; Tunisia 1987-91; and Bahrain, 1979-80. Student at FSI Arabic Language School in Tangier, 1962. Until recently was a partner in the international law firm Afridi, Angell and Pelletreau in D.C. Former TALMS Board member. Desk Officer for Moroccan Affairs, 1971-1973. Decorated Commander, Ouissam Alaouite by King Mohammed VI
The Hon. Thomas R. Pickering Ambassador Pickering has been senior Vice President for International Relations for Boeing since January 2001, when he retired as U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, an office he held from May 1997 to 2001. He held the personal rank of Career Ambassador. At Boeing, he oversees the company's international affairs, including those with foreign governments. In a diplomatic career spanning five decades, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria and Jordan. From 1989 to 1992, he served as Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations in New York, and from 1973 to 1974, as Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger. Ambassador Pickering was on active duty in the U.S. Navy 1956-1959, and later served in the Naval Reserve to the grade of Lt. Commander. He received a BA cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1953 and an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1954. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Melbourne in Australia, and received a second master's degree in 1956. In 1996 he received the State Department's highest award, the Distinguished Service Award. He is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. He speaks French, Spanish, Swahili, Arabic and Hebrew.
Mr. William Russel Pickering
Tim Resch, a Peace Corps Forester 1970-74 in Ouezzane and Rabat, has been active in Friends of Morocco since it's inception in 1988 and now serves as President. His day job is Bureau Environmental Advisor, US Agency for International Development, Bureau for Africa. A big chunk of his professional career has been providing technical advice to USAID forestry, wildlife and biodiversity conservation interventions across the continent of Africa. He previously worked as a USAID Bureau for Africa Tropical Forestry and Biodiversity Advisor; as Program Coordinator for Africa and later a Program Coordinator for Food Aid and Voluntary Assistance (both with USDA Forest Service, Office of International Forestry). For five years (2000-2005) he was Manager of the East Asia and Pacific Environmental Initiative, a joint USAID/State environmental grants program. A believer in the goals of Peace Corps, Tim's motivation for service to Friends of Morocco stems from the generous hospitality and patience provided by Moroccans during his Peace Corps service more than 30 years ago and now the community of Americans and Moroccan-Americans working together for shared purpose.Friends of Morocco.email
Resident Director of the Tangier American Legation Museum-Thor Kuniholm Retired Foreign Service Officer. Served two tours of duty in Casablanca Morocco, one as Consul and another as Political Officer. Mr. Kuniholm became Desk Officer for Morocco after returning to Washington. Following retirement in 1987, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, studying painting. He has been the Resident Director of TALM since August 1991.email
Associate Resident Director of TALM-Mrs. Elizabeth Kuniholm Elizabeth Kuniholm has been a full time volunteer at TALM since 1991. She is responsible for the interior decoration of the 45-room Museum complex and plays a major role in organizing receptions, conferences, and other special events. It is through her devoted efforts that the appearance of the public galleries and other rooms in the Museum have undergone a steady and remarkable transformation.
The Hon. Lucius D. Battle
Retired Foreign Service Officer. Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and North Africa, 1967-1968. Ambassador to Egypt, 1964-1967. Former TALMS Board member.
Col. John E. Bircher III
Retired in 2002 as President, Bircher Consulting International, Inc. Senior Vice President, Jefferson Waterman International and President Waterman Systems, LLC, 1994-1998. President, Neill and Co., Inc. 1988-1994. International consulting on business and governmental relations with U.S. firms and foreign clients. Politico-Military Advisor to Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asian Affairs, 1985-1988. Military Attache to Morocco, 1982-1984. Recipient of Ouissam Alaouite from the late King Hassan II for contributions to Moroccan-American relations.
Mr. James D. Bond
Currently, Vice President of Collins & Co, which specializes in trade, foreign affairs, budget and appropriations issues. He joined the firm in April 1997, after serving for nearly 25 years on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. In his capacities as Staff Director or Minority Staff Director on several appropriations subcommittees, he had responsibility for the full range of U.S. economic and military assistance programs. He was primarily responsible for formulation of the Foreign Operations Bill and Report each fiscal year. Has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Graduate Public Policy Program and at Catholic University. He is an active member of the Board of Trustees of The American University in Cairo.
Dr. Jerome B. Bookin-Weiner
Director of Study Abroad and Outreach, AMIDEAST, 1730 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Has also served as Academic Vice President of The Scholar Ship (2005-07), Executive Director of International Programs at Colorado State University (2001-2004), Dean of International Education at Bentley College (1987-2001) and Director of the Center for International Programs at Old Dominion University (1977-1987). He has written on the origins of US-Moroccan relations. Former Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco (1971-73). PhD. Columbia University, 1976. Former TALMS Board Member.
Mr. Stephen W. Buck
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Retired Foreign Service Officer. Last posting was Office of Special Programs, Foreign Service Institute. 1999-2001, State Department Chair, Political Science Dept., Industrial College of the Armed Forces. 1996-1999, Consul General, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 1992-1995, Office Director for North African and Egyptian Affairs, State Dept. 1988-89, Diplomat-in-Residence, The Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C. 1986-1988, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Baghdad. Several other postings to the Near East and North Africa from 1966 onwards. Co-author of a book (with Charles Doran)
The
Gulf, Energy and Global Security
Mr. James L Bullock
Country PAO/Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Cairo since August 2003. Deputy Coordinator (equivalent to Deputy Assistant Secretary), Bureau of International Information Programs, 2002-08/2003. Office Director, Policy, Public and Congressional Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, 2000-2002. Country Public Affairs Office, Morocco, 1996-1999, and Tunisia, 1992-1996. Earlier assignments to Moscow, USIA/NEA, Baghdad, Tunisia, Doha, Beirut and Morocco. U.S. Navy. Knowledge of Arabic, French and Russian.The Hon. Christian Chapman Retired Foreign Service Officer. Charge d'Affaires, Paris, 1981; Laos, 1975. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs, 1976-78. Vice Consul, Casablanca, 1951-53. Founding member of TALMS and one of five signatories to the original certificate of incorporation of TALMS filed on January 23, 1976. Former TALMS Board Member.
The Hon. Warren Clark
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Retired Foreign Service Officer. Served in Morocco, the Middle East, Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and Canada and in the 1980s was a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in New York. Was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, U.S. Ambassador to Gabon and to Sao Tome and Principe, and Charg6 d'Affaires in Nigeria. Earlier in his career he was State Department Desk Officer for Libya and worked on Middle East and North African oil price negotiations. He studied Arabic in Beirut, Lebanon and was U.S. Vice Consul for two years in Aleppo, Syria. A graduate of Williams College, he also holds degrees from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Harvard Universities. Currently he is a candidate for an MTS degree at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, VA.
Dr. Guilain Pierre DeNoeux
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On the faculty of Colbv College since September 1990, he has been Associate Professor of Government since 1996. During the 1989-90 academic year was Adjunct Instructor in Politics at New York University. April 1984 to June 1985, was Charg6 de Mission of the Cultural Service of the Embassy of France in Baghdad. Received undergraduate degrees in Economics and Political Science at the University of Grenoble, an M.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1983 and a PhD in Politics from Princeton in 1990. In 1999 co-authored, with Abdo Baaklini and Robert Springborg, Legislative Politics in the Arab World: The Resurgence of Democratic Institutions. Has written many book chapters, scholarly articles, book reviews and other publications on North African and Middle Eastern politics, legislative development and democracy building strategies and activities and has been a consultant in these areas. In 1989- 90 received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation research grant, and in 1998, 1995 and 1993 received research grants from The American Institute for Maghrib Studies.The Hon.
Charles F. Dunbar
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Retired Foreign Service Officer. Currently Warburg Professor in International Relations, Simmons College. Served as U.S. Ambassador to Qatar and Yemen, and as Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General in the Western Sahara.
The. Hon. William L. Eagleton
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Retired Foreign Service Officer.1999-2001, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Western Sahara; 1994-1996, Special Coordinator for the Restoration of Essential Services in Sarajevo; 1988-1994, Deputy Commissioner General for UNRWA, Vienna; 1984-1988, U.S. Ambassador to Syria. Many other postings to the Middle East and North Africa between 1949 and 1984. 1962, took refresher course in Arabic at the Old American Legation in Tangier prior to his posting as Charge d'Affaires a.i. in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Speaks French, Spanish and Arabic.
Mrs. Gaetana Enders
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Widow of Ambassador Thomas 0. Enders, who served as a Foreign Service Off icer for 28 years. Among other posts, he was Ambassador to Canada, the European Community and Spain. Mrs. Enders was born in Tangier where her father was Administrator for Judicial Affairs of the International Zone. She met her husband in Tangier and was married in a civil ceremony at the Legation (now TALM). For over 15 years she has been an International Editor for the magazines Hola and Hello, specializing in interviews of outstanding personalities. Recipient of several awards for refugee and humanitarian work.
Dr. John Entelis
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Professor of Political Science and Director, Middle East Studies Program, Fordham University since 1979. Fulbright Regional Research Award.
America Through Arab Eyes: An Attitudinal Survey of Maghrebi Elites,
Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, 1989. Senior Fulbright professorships, 1977-1978, University of Algiers; 1985, University of Tunis. Six books on N. Africa including
Islam, Democracy and the State in North Africa
Mr. Christopher Forbes
Vice Chairman, Forbes Magazine
Mrs. Sylvia Breed Gates
Widow of former TALMS Board member, Stuart W. Gates. He served in the Foreign Service as a political officer at the Legation in Tangier from 1952 to 1956 under Ministers John Carter Vincent, Joseph Satterthwaite and Julius Holmes. Mrs. Gates served in Washington, D.C. and at the U.S. Embassy in Bankok, 1951-1954. In Tangier, Gates lived at Zero, Place de la Casbah and Djamma el Mokra, The Mountain.
Mr. Stephen L. Guyer
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An American businessman residing in Morocco, Mr. Guyer is the President of TGI Trade and Consulting in Rabat. He is a strong supporter of and frequent visitor to TALM.
Dr. William Mark Habeeb
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Dr. Habeeb has been a consultant in government relations and public affairs, 1997 to the present. Vice President, APCO Associates, 1994-97. Provided lobbying, public affairs and strategic counseling services to foreign and domestic clients. Vice President, Neill and Company, 1989-94. Lobbyist and strategic counselor to foreign governments and institutions including the Governments of Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt and the African Development Bank. Director of Programs and Research, The Middle East Institute, 1984-89. Foreign Affairs Advisor, Office of Senator Gary Hart, 1982-84. Author or editor of several publications on international affairs including Polity and Society in Contemporary North Africa. PhD. The Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Robert M. Holley
Retired Foreign Service Officer, and presently Executive Director of the Moroccan-American Center for Policy. Served as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Political Counselor in Rabat; Deputy Director for Political Affairsin the Office of European Politial and Security Policy; USG Liaison Officer to the European Commission for Central and Eastern European assistance. Visiting Senior Fellow at The Yale Center for International and Area Studies and Associate Fellow at Davenport College. Student Fellow in Humanitarian Policy Studies at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. U.S. Army Aviator, 1967-74.
Dr. Frederick C. Huxley
Dr. Huxley is a consultant specializing in participatory governance and the delivery of public services (for health, education, job creation, resource management, etc.). Formerly a Social Science Analyst for the Mideast with U.S.I.A. (and before that an academic), he has worked in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority and Yemen. He also has conducted research on public opinion and media habits across the Arab World and in Israel, as well as advising on development projects in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South Asia.
Dr. Richard Lee Jackson
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President of Anatolia College since 1999. Retired Foreign Service Officer. Assignments included: Executive Director, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, 1998-99; Director for Egypt and North Africa, Dept. of State, 1995-97; Dean of Area Studies, Foreign Service Institute, 1991-95; Deputy Chief of Mission/Charge d'Affaires, Rabat, Morocco, 1989- 91; Consul General, Casablanca, 1986-89. Author of The Non-Aligned, The United Nations and the Superpowers, published by Praeger for the Council on Foreign Relations in 1983. Received Order of Commander of the Alaouite Throne from the late King Hassan II in 1991.
Mr. Les Janka
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President, Les Janka International. Active in U.S.-Moroccan commercial relations. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (1976-1978)
Mr. Austin H. Kiplinger
Publisher, The Kiplinger Letter
The Hon. Harmon E. Kirby
Retired Career Senior Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State. Currently serves as a consultant at the State Department. Was U.S. Ambassador to Togo, 1990-1994. Previous assignments included Senior Advisor to the Office of the Historian; Deputy Chief of Mission/Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy, Rabat, with the rank of Minister-Counselor, and at the U.S. Embassy, Khartoum, Sudan, with the rank of Counselor; and Political Counselor, U.S. Mission to the European Communities (Common Market), Brussels. B.A. from Harvard University (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) and M.S. in International Relations from George Washington University.Dr.
Gerald E.
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Currently Senior Associate, National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) creating an Internet-based language learning support system and other projects designed to increase language capacity in the U.S., and adviser to the U.S. Department of State, the National Capital Council of Language Resource Centers, and academic institutions. Formerly Director, Language Studies and Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at SAIS of Johns Hopkins University; Director of the Center for Occupationally Specific Language Training and Internships Abroad (COLTIA), the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), the American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA), and Peace Corps training programs in Tunisia and Morocco. Last publication on a CD Rom entitled Al-Qaari Ad-Dawli (The International Reader). PhD. The Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Richard D. McConn
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President, M-International, Lac. (MINTEX) with active business interests in Morocco for two decades. Organizer of the annual golf tournaments for the late King Hassan II.
Dr. James A. Miller
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As of June 2004, Director of the American Research Center in Tunis. Formerly Associate Professor of Geography, Clemson University. Geographer of the Sijilmassa Project which has excavated medieval Sijilmassa and- explored the Tafilaiet oasis since 1988. Author of lmlil and numerous other publications on Morocco, including the recent Sijilmassa, The Last Civilized Place. Three-time Fulbright grantee in Morocco. Speaks Moroccan Arabic and has lectured at the TALMS summer Arabic program. PhD. University of Texas, 1981.
Dr. Susan G. Miller
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Director of Moroccan Studies at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, teaching courses on North African history. Currently working on a history of Tangier in the 19th Century. Articles and book chapters include: Finding Order in the City: The Habus of Tangier as an Agent of Urban Change. (Commemorative volume in honor of Clifford Geertz. Abdallah Hammoudi, editor.) " Apportioning Sacred Space in a Moroccan City: The Case of Tangier, 1960-1912." City and Society, vol. 13, 1 (2001). "Watering the Garden of Tangier: Colonial Contestations in a Moroccan City," and "Introduction," in S. Slyomovics, ed. The Walled Arab City In Architecture, Literature and History: The Living Medina, London, Frank Cass, 2001, pp. 26-50. Council of American Overseas Research Centers Traveling Fellowship, 1999-2000. Fulbright Research Scholar, Morocco, 1990-93. U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco, 1970-73. PhD. University of Michigan, 1976. Organized and chaired roundtable on the Preservation of the Historic Tangier Medina at the TALM Bicentennial Celebration in November 1997. Former TALMS Board member.
Ms. Jeanne Mrad
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Former Resident Director, Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines in Tunis, one of the two overseas centers of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). Has attended most of the conferences at TALM and has provided strong administrative support.Dr.
Henry Munson, Jr.
Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine. 1978 doctoral dissertation on Islam and Inequality in Northwest Morocco. MacArthur Foundation grant 1990-91 which included three months of field work in Morocco to complete book on Religion and Power in Morocco. Reads and speaks Arabic. PhD. University of Chicago, 1980. Former TALMS Board member.
The Hon. Richard B. Parker
Since his retirement from the Foreign Service in 1980, Ambassador Parker has been active writing, teaching, editing and lecturing in the field of foreign affairs. He served as Ambassador to Algeria, Lebanon and Morocco in the Ford and Carter administrations. He has taught at the University of Virginia (1980-82), Lawrence University (1992-93) and SAIS Johns Hopkins (1994) and edited the
Middle East Journal (1981-87). He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution in 1989-90, and was the John Adams Fulbright Fellow in London in 1990. Currently he is a scholar-in-residence at the Middle East Institute. He is the author of several books including
A Practical Guide to Islamic Monuments in Morocco (1982); North Africa, Regional Tensions and Strategic Concerns (1984 & 1986); and
The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East (1993). His most recent work, Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History, about U.S. relations with the Barbary corsairs in the 18th Century, will be published by the University of Florida Press in April 2004.
The Hon. Edward L. Peck
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Retired Foreign Service Officer. Ambassador to Mauritania, 1983-85; Chief of Mission in Baghdad, 1977-80. Student at FSI Arabic Language School in Tangier, 1962-63.Mr.
George Anthony Pickart
International Affairs Director, CMS Energy Corporation, June 1999 to present. Assists in developing and implementing strategies to address legal, regulatory and political challenges to company's international operations. Coordinates company's interaction with foreign government officials and Washington-based foreign diplomatic community. August 1996 - June 1999, Senior Advisor for South Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of State with rank equivalent to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State. April 1991 - August 1996, professional staff member, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
The Hon. Thomas R. Pickering
Ambassador Pickering has been senior Vice President for International Relations for Boeing since January 2001, when he retired as U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, an office he held from May 1997 to 2001. He held the personal rank of Career Ambassador. At Boeing, he oversees the company's international affairs, including those with foreign governments. In a diplomatic career spanning five decades, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria and Jordan. From 1989 to 1992, he served as Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations in New York, and from 1973 to 1974, as Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger. Ambassador Pickering was on active duty in the U.S. Navy 1956-1959, and later served in the Naval Reserve to the grade of Lt. Commander. He received a BA cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1953 and an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1954. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Melbourne in Australia, and received a second master's degree in 1956. In 1996 he received the State Department's highest award, the Distinguished Service Award. He is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. He speaks French, Spanish, Swahili, Arabic and Hebrew.
Elena Prentice
Resident Director of TALM, 1990. A gifted artist with a long association with Tangier through her late grandfather, Hooker Doolittle, who was Consul General there. Part-time resident of Tangier, Ms. Prentice recently began publication of a weekly newspaper in simplified Arabic, News of Our Country, catering to newly-literate Moroccans, especially women.
The Hon. Joseph, Verner Reed
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Diplomat, currently serving as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations. Ambassador to Morocco, 1981-1985. Former Deputy Permanent U.S. Representative to the U.N. and former Chief of Protocol at the White House. Recipient of the Order of the Throne, Grand Officer, and the Order of the Ouissam Alaouite, Grand Officer. Both awards were presented at the hands of the late King Hassan II in recognition for services rendered to U.S.-Moroccan relations. Donor of an important collection of books, Moroccan rugs and other artifacts to TALM.
Ms. Priscilla H. Roberts
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Librarian. Organized and prepared the first computerized catalog of the TALM library. Co-authoring with James N. Tull a biography of Thomas Barclay (1728-1793) the first person ever to serve as United States Consul (to France, 1781-1787) and the man who negotiated the first Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between the U.S. and Morocco in 1786. In 1791 Barclay was appointed as the first U.S. Consul to Morocco by President Washington but he died before reaching his post. Ms. Roberts and Mr. Tull have co-authored several published articles about Barclay. Ms. Roberts is a former TALMS Board member.
Hon. Stuart W. Rockwell
Retired Foreign Service Officer. March 1970-October 1973, Ambassador to Morocco. In October 1973, he became Deputy Chief of Protocol. Prior assignments included attendance at the National War College; Deputy Chief of Mission in Tehran with the personal rank of Minister, 1960-66; and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1966-70.
The Hon. Christopher Ross
Retired Foreign Service Officer. Currently Special Advisor to the Department of State on improving communication and dialogue between the U.S. and the Arab and Muslim worlds. Executive Director of Search for Common Ground in the Middle East, 1999-2001. Coordinator for Counter-terrorism 1998-1999. Ambassador to Syria 1991-1998; Ambassador to Algeria 1988-1991. Began his career in Libya 1969-70; served in Fez, Morocco, 1970-73; Lebanon 1973-76 and 1982-84, and Algeria 1976-81.
Mr. F. Brooks Royster, III
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Currently serves as the Executive Director of the Maryland Port Administration. Mr. Royster is a 34-year veteran of the maritime industry with wide ranging senior management experience within the international and domestic maritime, transportation and logistics, and Port Authority arenas.Mr. Royster has senior management expertise in both the public and private sectors . Prior to joining the MPA in June 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Port of Miami terminal Operating Company. Prior to that he was President and CEO of RioMar Agencies, Inc. based in Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana. He managed a multi-national corporation with activities in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and in the Caribbean.
Mr. Bachir Skiredj
Artist, actor, film producer and director. Wrote and co-directed a series of 15 documentaries on the history of Morocco for RTM, and participated in the production of many other TV and film shows for Moroccan, French and U.S. programs. Conceived and produced the Marrakech Folklore Festival. U.S. Citizen born in Tangier.
Dr. Mark Tessler
Professor, Political Science Dept. University of Michigan. Former Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, and previously Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. General editor of a scholarly book series on the Arab world and Islam, Indiana U. Press. PhD. Northwestern University, 1969. President of American Institute of Maghribi Studies, and former TALMS Board member.
Dr. Michael A. Toler
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Michael Toler is the Program Director of the Al-Musharaka Initiative of the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), and editor of the Arab Culture and Civilization Online Resource developed by the initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies from Binghamton University, where his research focused on the Francophone novel from the Maghreb, its dialogue with North African historiography, and the manner in which these novels are rendered in English Translation. In addition, he is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of French at Wheaton College and an active translator of North African (especially Moroccan and Algerian) literature from French and Arabic into English. He also maintains the web site for the Tangier American Legation Museum. He was a Peace Corps volunteer, teaching in the Moroccan University system from 1990-1994. During this time he established the TALM lending library. He remained in Morocco until 1996, teaching at the King Fahd School of Translation in Tangier and at Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane.
Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Dr. Trachtenberg became the 15th President of The George Washington University on August 1, 1988, after serving as President of the University of Hartford, Ct. for 11 years. Before Hartford, he was Vice President for Academic Services and Academic Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Boston University for 8 years. Earlier, in Washington, D.C., he was a Special Assistant for two years to the U.S. Commissioner, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was an attorney with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and a legislative aide to former Indiana Congressman, John Brademas. He has published many books and articles about administering and staffing institutions of higher education. He currently chairs the D.C. Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Atlantic Conference Presidents Council. He has received many awards and honorary degrees recognizing his public service and humanitarian activities. In 2000, King Mohammed Vi appointed him to the Board of Trustees of Al-Akhawayn University and bestowed on him the decoration of Grand Officier Du Wissam Al Alaoui. Currently he chairs the Maryland/DC State Committee of Selection competition for the Rhodes Scholarships. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned his B.A. from Columbia University in 1959; a J.D. from Yale in 1962 and Master of Public Administration from Harvard in 1966.
Mr. James N. Tull
Retired officer of USIA and former TALMS Board member. Mr. Tull was Public Affairs Officer for USIS in Rabat, 1975-1976, where he launched the conversion of the historic American Legation in Tangier into a museum and academic study center. Co-authored with Priscilla Roberts a soon-to-bepublished biography of Thomas Barclay and several other articles on Barclay which appeared in The Foreign Service Journal, ARAMCO World and the Proceedings/Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (See above under Roberts).
The Hon. Michael Ussery
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Retired Foreign Service Officer. Served as Ambassador to Morocco. Former member of the TALMS Board.
The Hon. Frederick D. Vreeland
Retired Foreign Service Officer. Ambassador to Morocco, 1991-1993; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East/South Asia (1990); Deputy Head of the Economic Section, U.S. Embassy, Rabat, 1963-1967. Former member of TALMS Board.
Winifred S. Weislogel
Retired Foreign Service Officer. Country Director for North African Affairs, Dept. of State, 1975-1977; Desk Officer for Algeria,. 1973-1975; Consular and Economic Officer, Rabat, 1965-1970; FSI Arabic School, Tangier, 1963-1965. M.A. 1951, University of Otago, New Zealand, on a Fulbright grant. One of the five signatories of the original certificate of incorporation of TALMS filed January 23, 1976. Secretary of the Tangier American Legation Museum Society, 1976-2005.
Dr. Gregory Whayne White
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Associate Professor of Government. Smith College, Northampton, MA. 1993 to present. Director of International Relations Program, Smith College, 2001-02. Member of Political Science Graduate Faculty, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1999 to present. PhD. University of Wisconsin, 1993, in Political Science with a minor in African Studies. 1996-98, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University;. 1994-97, Research Fellow, Faculté de droit et des sciences economiques de l'universite de Mohammed V, Rabat. 1994-96, Fulbright-Hays scholarship, Serial Grant to Morocco. Author of A Comparative Political Economy of Tunisia and Morocco: On the Outside of Europe Looking In. Articles and book chapters on the Middle East and North Africa in many publications, and participant in many panel discussions and lectures on these areas. Fluent French. Working knowledge of Moroccan Arabic and modern standard Arabic.
The Honorable Frank R. Wisner Director and Vice-Chairman for External Affairs, American International Group, Inc. Retired Career Ambassador, U.S. Foreign Service. Ambassador to India 1995-1997. Attended FSI Arabic Language School in Tangier in 1962.
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