Acting Director

Alaska Center for International Business

World Trade Center Alaska and The American Russian Center
University of Alaska-Anchorage
3211 Providence Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99508

TEL: (907) 786-4300
FAX: (907) 786-4319
E-MAIL: asdkb@acad2.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  business administration and management; fishing industry; foreign corporations in Japan; trade relations
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  cultural exchange programs; internationalization; Japanese perceptions of the US; popular culture; US perceptions of Japan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Public Communications, Deputy Director, Alaska Center for International Business, University of Alaska-Anchorage, 1986-88, 1990-92; Visiting Professor, Rural College, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, 1991; Coordinating Producer, Learn Alaska Network, Alaska Department of Education, 1985-86; Producer, ABC News.

IN JAPAN: repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Contemporary US-Japan Business Relations: Issues and Networking," Internationalizing the US Classroom: Japan as a Model (with Ellington) (Eric, 1992); "Internationalization in Japan: Myth and Reality," Social Science Journal (forthcoming); "State of Alaska," Integrative Summary of the Reports on Japan Related Activities of Twenty Five States (Center For Global Partnership, 1993); FILM: Good Fish! Alaska Salmon, Japanese Market (1993).