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Terry Weidner, Director
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Chinese History, 1980
- M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1972
- B.A., St. Lawrence University, 1970
- Associate Director of International Programs, University of Kansas, 1991-1998
- Director of Asian Affairs Center and Missouri International Training Center, University of Missouri, 1998-2003
Proficient in Chinese; worked as political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing; worked as a Chinese political and economic analyst for the Foreign Broadcast Information Service in Washington, DC.; Academic interests include Chinese political economy, business, and U.S.-China relations.
E-mail: terry.weidner@umontana.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2281
Fax: (406) 243-2181
Steven I. Levine, Associate Director
- Ph.D. Harvard University, 1972
- B.A. Brandeis University, 1962
- Director of Carolina Asia Center, UNC-Chapel Hill 2002-2004
Steve taught, inter alia, at American University, Columbia University, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and has a working knowledge of Chinese and Russian. He is the
author and co-editor of several books, including Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, and China’s Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945.
E-mail: steven.levine@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2050
Fax: (406) 243-2181
 Janice Trickel, Director
Defense Critical Language/Culture Program
Director of the Defense Critical Language/Culture Program, comes to the DCLCP following her retirement as a Senior Foreign Service Officer, with more than 35 years of domestic and global experience overall. Most recently she served as Management Officer for the Africa Bureau at the US Department of State. She has also lived and worked in South Korea, the Philippines, Japan, Germany, Oman, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
E-mail: janice.trickel@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2278
Fax: (406) 243-2181
Chen Suhan, Public Education Coordinator
Confucius Institute
- M.A. Journalism - The University of Montana, 2009
- M.A. Asia Pacific Studies - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, 2006
Ms. Chen Suhan is a Beijing native that is working with the Confucius Institute at The Mansfield Center. Since Nov,2007, she has become one of the young leaders of Pacific Forum CSIS-Young Leaders Program. Ms. Chen worked as an editor of international news for China Central Television and a reporter in training for the Science Department of Guangming Daily prior to her education in Japan and the U.S. She is fluent in English, Japanese and Chinese. She has been the Executive Vice President of the Chinese Students Association at the University of Montana, in charge of community outreach and culture education for K-12 schools in the Missoula School District. She also represented the University of Montana in leading the Montana Rocky Mountain Ballet Theater to China as a pre-Olympic Sino-US exchange program. While in China with the U.S. delegation, she reported for the Missoulian Newspaper (the largest regional newspaper in West Montana). Four of her reports were published and well praised by local readers.
E-mail: suhan.chen@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2895
Fax: (406) 243-2181
Mohamed El-Aasar, Arabic Specialist and Faculty Associate
Defense Critical Language/Culture Program
- Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Montana
- M.S., Capella University, 2007
- M.A., University of Ain Shams, Cairo, 1984
- B.A., University of Ain Shams, Cairo, 1983
Mohammed taught Arabic Language and Area Studies at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Middlebury College in Monterey, CA. Publications include Silent Victims: The Plight of Arabs and Muslims in Post 9/11 America, and The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Volatile Middle East.
E-mail: mohamed.el-aasar@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 543-6113
Fax: (406) 543-6462
BG (RET) Russell Howard, Faculty Associate
Defense Critical Language/Culture Program
Professor of Chinese Studies
- M.P.A., JFK School of Government, Harvard University
- M.A., Monterey Institute of international Studies
- B.A., Asian Studies, University of Maryland
- B.S., Industrial Management, San Jose State University
General Howard is the former head of the Department of Social Sciences, West Point. He also directed the Combating Terrorism Center after 9/11. Previous to this he served as a Chief-of-Staff Army Fellow at Harvard. The General is proficient in Chinese.
E-mail: russell.howard@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 543-6325
Fax: (406) 543-6462
Noureddine Jebnoun, Faculty Associate
Defense Critical Language/Culture Program
Arab Studies Professor
- Ph.D., Political Science, Sorbonne University, Paris 1996
- Diploma, NATO Defense College, Rome, 2001
- M.A. International Relations, Sorbonne University, Paris, 1993
- B.A. International Relations, Institute of International Relations, Paris, 1992
Noureddine Jebnoun is a Visiting Professor for Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs at the Mansfield Center with particular expertise on Arab and Middle Eastern politics. Prior to this, he taught courses in the contemporary Arab World at Georgetown’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in D.C. In addition, he has taught at the Tunisian War College, the Tunisian National Defense Institute, and the Africa Center for Strategic Studies of the National Defense University in D.C. Dr. Jebnoun has an accomplished publication record including numerous articles and books in Arabic, English and French.
In addition to academic work, Dr. Jebnoun has a distinguished record as a researcher, lecturer and media guest. He has presented his research at many institutions including the NATO Defense College in Rome, the French Institute for Higher National Defense Studies in Paris, the Industrial College for Armed Forces in Washington, D.C., the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg and the Middle East Studies Association of North America-Annual Conference. He has appeared on various television news programs and been interviewed by a wide range of media including Al-Jazeera Arabic and English, the BBC, Voice of America and Al-Hurra TV.
E-mail: noureddine.jebnoun@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 543-1279
Fax: (406) 543-6462
Hsiao-Lan Roberts, Faculty Associate
Defense Critical Language/Culture Program
Chinese Language Professor
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- M.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- M.A., The University of Montana, Missoula
- B.A., Capital Normal University, Beijing
Hsiao-lan has taught Chinese at several universities. She formerly served as an Associate Professor at the Defense Language Institute, teaching and developing curriculum for their Chinese language program. Hsiao-lan is fluent in English and Chinese.
E-mail: hsiao.lan.roberts@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 543-0571
Fax: (406) 543-6462
Owen Sirrs, Faculty Associate
Defense Critical Language/Culture Program
Arab Studies Professor
- M.A., United States Naval War College, 2002
- M.S., National Defense Intelligence College, 2001
- B.S., Georgetown University
Owen served as a Senior Intelligence Office for the Defense Intelligence Agency based in Washington, D.C. He has many publications including a book just recently finished titled Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East.
E-mail: jrsirrs@aol.com
Phone: (406) 543-6356
Fax: (406) 543-6462
Bryan Spellman, Administrative Assistant
Defense Critical Language/Culture Program
- Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 20th Century French Literature, 1986
- M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1972
- B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1970
After returning home to Montana to write his dissertation, Bryan spent twenty-one years as Administrative Officer for the School of Fine Arts at The University of Montana, where he was involved in the creation and administration of The Creative Pulse, an interdisciplinary master’s program for K-12 teachers in the arts and humanities. In addition to academic interests in language, literature, and pedagogy, Bryan enjoys making music, weaving, photography and travel—both foreign and domestic.
E-mail: bryan.spellman@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 543-6321
Fax: (406) 543-6462
Philip West, Mansfield Professor of Modern Asian Affairs
- B.A., Manchester College, 1960
- M.A., Harvard University, Regional Studies, China, 1965
- Ph.D., Harvard University, Modern Chinese History and East Asian Languages, 1971
- Assistant and Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Indiana University, 1970-1988
- Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Keio University, Tokyo, 1974-1975
- Director, East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 1981-1987
West regularly teaches core courses on East Asian Civilization, Modern Chinese History and Modern Japanese History. In the spring he directs the NCTA seminar (three ten hour weekends) on East Asia for Montana teachers, funded by the Freeman Foundation.
After completing the Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University in 1971, West first taught history at Indiana University, where he also directed the East Asian Studies Center for seven years. After becoming Mansfield Professor of Modern Asian Affairs at UM he served for nearly ten years as director of the Center between 1991 and 2001. In 1990-91 he was the American Co-director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Graduate Studies in Chinese-American relations in Nanjing, China. He returned to Nanjing for a sabbatical in fall 2007.
His first book, Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916-1951, was nominated by Harvard University Press for a Pulitzer award. With a new chapter length postscript, thirty-three years later, the Yenching study will be published in 2009 in Chinese translation in Shanghai. Heading the Center’s longtime flagship program on America’s Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach, West has edited Remembering and Forgetting: The Korean War in Literature and Art (2001, M. E. Sharpe, with Suh Ji-moon) and Letters of the Asia Pacific War in the Future of Remembrance (2004, Imprint Publications). Paralleling his “Mapping the Sorrows of War” on Japanese counter narratives of the Asia Pacific War (2006, 2009), his current writing is on “Chinese Counter Narratives of the Asia Pacific War.”
West is president of the board of the String Orchestra of the Rockies.
E-mail: philip.west@umontana.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2063
Philip Williams, Faculty Associate
Defense Critical Language/Culture Program
Chinese Language Professor
- Professor of Chinese, Arizona State University, 2000-2004
- Assistant and Associate Professor of Chinese, Arizona State University, 1986-1999
- Ph.D., UCLA, 1985
Philip is the former Head of School of Language Studies and professor of Chinese language for Massey University, New Zealand. Two of his eight books include A Thousand Miles of Prison Walls and Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way. Philip is fluent in Chinese.
E-mail: philip.williams@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 543-6051
Fax: (406) 543-6462
James Park Taylor, Co-Director,
Mansfield Juries and Democracy Program
- J. D., University of Montana School of Law
- Visiting Clinical Supervisor, UM School of Law
- Managing Attorney of the Tribal Defenders Office for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, 1996-2005
- Private practice, with primary focus on criminal defense, 1980-1996
- Immediate past president of the Montana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Voted Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year by the Montana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 1998.
E-mail: jim.taylor@umontana.edu
 Christopher Marlow, Administrative Assistant
- B.A. The University of Montana, 2007
Christopher began working at the Mansfield Center during his Junior year not long after returning from a semester in Nanjing, China.
E-mail: christopher.marlow@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2988
Fax: (406) 243-2181
 Ambassador Mark Johnson (ret.),
Adjunct Mansfield Professor/ Director, Montana World Affairs Council
- B.S., Georgetown University, 1968
- M.A., George Washington University, 1971
- Foreign Service Officer, U.S. State Department, 1968-1998
- U.S. Ambassador to Senegal
- Deputy Inspector General, U.S. State Department, 1996-1998
- Executive Director, World Affairs Council of Montana, 1999-present
Diplomatic service in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia; Founded the World Affairs Council of Montana to provide education for Montanans about global affairs and concerns. Lives in Lolo, Montana, in the Bitterroot Mountains.
E-mail: wacmontana@mtwi.net
Phone: (406) 728-3328
 Jacqueline Hiltz, Research Associate
- B.A. History, Stanford University
- M.A. Asian History, University of Montana
- Researcher, Archivist and Writer, "The Sikkim ( India ) Project" 1999-present
- Currently working under Mansfield Center auspices on a book-length manuscript that spans the 330-year history of the Buddhist kingdom of Sikkim
Email: jacqueline.hiltz@umontana.edu
 Professor Heajeong Lee
Visiting Scholar
- Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1998
- M.A. Seoul National University, 1988
- B.A. Seoul National University, 1986
Professor Lee is currently on sabbatical with his family from his Assistant Professor position in the Political Science and Diplomacy Department at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea.
E-mail: heajeong.lee@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2945
Fax: (406) 243-2181
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