Academics at MBC
Faculty
Gordon Lewis
Bowen
Professor
of Political Science and International Relations Gordon L. Bowen has taught
at MBC since 1983. After receiving his BA with honors from San Jose State
University, he was awarded the MA and PhD degrees in political science
from the University of California, Santa Barbara. The author of more than
50 academic publications, he also is a local OpEd columnist. Bowen's teaching
and research have focused on U.S. foreign policy throughout the 30+ years
of his full-time college and university teaching. A chief focus has been
American involvement with political problems of the underdeveloped nations
of the Third World, and he has conducted field research both in Latin America
and in the Middle East. In recent years, much of this work has concerned
problems posed by terrorism and the challenges involved in creating effective
counter-terrorism policies. To learn more about Prof. Bowen's MBC courses,
teaching methods, and published research, visit his website at: http://academic.mbc.edu/gbowen/
Carrie Douglass
My father was I the army so I was an army brat. I was born in Panama, started
school in Japan, and graduated from high school in Germany. I got my BA from
the University of Nebraska in history (art history minor). After graduation
I went to Israel to participate in an archaeological dig in the Negev desert.
I later ended up in Spain, where I taught English as a Foreign Language for
eight years. When I returned to the states, I went to graduate school in
anthropology at the University of Virginia, where I was able to unite my
work with language, my archaeology, and my many travels. Soon after getting
my PhD I began teaching at Mary Baldwin. My early work in anthropology had
to do with regionalism, identity, patron saint festivals and bullfights in
Spain. This resulted in a book, Bulls, Bullfighting and Spanish Identities.
Later I turned my attention to the phenomenon of low birthrates in Spain
and in all of Europe. This fieldwork resulted in another book, Barren
States: The Population “Implosion” in Europe. Recently
I have been working with colleagues who are looking at this issue beyond
Europe, in other parts of the world. I continue to go to Spain to work and
travel, take students, and visit family. I married a Spaniard and we
have three very grown–up children.
Judy Klein
Judy
L. Klein has a PhD in economics from London Guildhall University, an MS in
Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and
a BA in Economics from the College of William and Mary. Her research interests
include the history of economic statistics; she is the author of Statistical
Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis 1662-1938, published
by Cambridge University Press, and co-editor of The Age of Economic Measurement, published
by Duke University Press. Dr. Klein is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has
received research grants from the National Science Foundation and National
Humanities Center.
Daniel Metraux
Daniel Metraux, professor of Asian Studies, has been teaching in his field
in college for 30 years, 24 at MBC. His specialty is modern Japan and China,
but he teaches a full spectrum of Asian Studies courses. Metraux is the author
of 14 books, many book chapters, and articles on the field. He serves as
editor of the Southeast Review of Asian Studies and the Virginia
Review of Asian Studies. Twice a Fulbright scholar, he has lived, taught,
and studied in Japan for five years.