Whittier College and Whittier Law School
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Expert Biographies
BARNSTONE, TONY
Professor, English
Phone: (562) 907-4200, ext. 4335
* Asia * China * Literature * Poetry * Spanish * Writing
Barnstone is the editor or co-editor of three textbooks published by Prentice
Hall Publishers. He has also published a number of books translating
contemporary Chinese poetry, classical Chinese poetry and classical Chinese
literary criticism, including The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese
Masters, Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry, and Laughing Lost in
the Mountains: The Poems of Wang Wei. Impure, his book of original poetry, was
published by University Press of Florida in 1999, and his chapbook of poems,
Naked Magic, appeared with Main Street Rag Press in 2002.
Barnstone has won national awards for his poetry and is a member of the Modern
Language Association, the Poetry Society of America and the William Carlos
Williams Society. He teaches modern and contemporary American literature, Asian
literature and creative writing. He was named faculty master at Johnson House in
2002.
Barnstone earned a B.A. in English and Spanish literature from the University of
California at Santa Cruz, and holds an M.A. in English literature and creative
writing and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley.
BAZYLER, MICHAEL
Professor, Law
Phone: (714) 444-4141, ext. 216
* Business * Human Rights * Law * Russia * Soviet Union, Former
Bazyler's specialty is human rights law, and he has been involved in various lawsuits
filed in the United States representing human rights victims. He has published numerous
articles and editorials in the area of international human rights law. For the last 18
years, Professor Bazyler has organized the Whittier International Law Symposium. In
addition to being a law professor at Whittier, Bazyler is an Associate at the Davis Center
For Russian Studies at Harvard University, and a Fellow with the London-based Holocaust
Educational Trust.
He also been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, a Visiting
Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, at Chapman University in Orange,
Calif., and at the University of San Diego School of Law. Born in the former Soviet Union,
he is a child of Holocaust survivors, receiving his primary school education in Poland and
emigrating with his family to the United States at age eleven.
B.A., University of
California, Los Angeles; J.D., University of Southern California.
BERGERSON, FREDERIC A.
Professor, Political Science
Phone: (562)907-4853
* Gangs * Military * Politics
Dr. Bergerson has worked with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency as a William C.
Foster Fellow, and received a Certificate of Merit from the agency in 1987. He has written
on and spoken about arms control, especially confidence-building measures and nuclear
non-proliferation; defense policy, especially civil-military relations and weapons
acquisition; and interorganizational relationships, especially the role of citizen groups
and the nature of organizational rivalry.
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