2012 Alumni Travel Representatives

It is part of the travel program’s mission to actively recruit exceptional University of Michigan faculty and staff with special talents to fill our Alumni Travel Representatives positions. First and foremost, we look for individuals who have passion—for travel, continuing education, and genuine interest in serving the University of Michigan community. They must also be enthusiastically committed to meeting the legendary service standards affiliated with U-M travel.

To view the complete biography of the participating Alumni Travel Representative please click their name.

Interim Dean and Professor of Conservation Biology and Ecosystem Management, School of Natural Resources and Environment

Treasures of South Africa

Kenneth T Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature
Professor of English Languages and Literature, School of Literature, Science and Arts
Professor of Theatre, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Discovering Eastern Europe

Assistant Professor of Natural Resources & the Environment

Tanzania

Bilal is geographer with teaching and research interests in East Africa. His research is concerned with the relationships between wildlife and livestock in dryland East Africa and conservation and development initiatives in and around protected areas.

Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History
Director of the Center for South Asian Studies
Steering Committee for the International Institute

Cruise the Panama Canal Aboard the Crystal Symphony

Juan R. I. Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Cole is a world historian and the co-author of a forthcoming world history textbook from Cambridge University Press.

Associate Professor of Residential College, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Associate Professor of Art, School of Art and Design

Southern Italy and Sicily with Apulia and the Amalfi Coast

Lecturer III, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies

An Insider’s Perspective: Berlin

Professor of Economics, Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts, Sciences and Letters, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Celtic Lands Aboard the M.S. Le Boréal; Featuring David Eisenhower and Celia Sandys

Associate Curator
U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum (MBGNA)

Waterways of Holland and Belgium Aboard the Deluxe M.S. Amalyra- Including the Floriade

Dr. Michener is the associate curator at the MBGNA, where he has been since 1990. All his degrees are in botany. Before coming to the U-M, David was on the post-doctoral staff at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum in Boston, which rounded out his plant studies from universities in California and North Carolina.

Associate Chair, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences and Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, College of Engineering

Expedition to Antarctica Aboard the M.S. Le Boréal

Chair and Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning Program, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Canary Islands Aboard the Crystal Symphony

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, LS&A

Classic China and the Yangtze River

Associate Curator, Museum of Anthropology, LSA
Chief Research Officer, Ancient Egypt Research Associates

Egypt and the Eternal Nile

Richard Redding is a curator at the University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, as well as, a principle investigator in Archaeological Projects in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He is also the Chief Research Officer (CRO) of the Ancient Egyptian Research Associates (AERA www.aeraweb.org).

Vice President, International Alumni Relations
Alumni Association of the University of Michigan

Asian Wonders with Oceania’s Nautica

Professor of Natural Resources & Environment
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute
Special Counsel to President Coleman on Sustainability

Mystical India

Professor and Senior Research Scientist

Legendary Turkey

Bruce R Clark Collegiate Professor of Geology, Professor of Geological Sciences and Professor of the Environment, Program in the Environment, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Machu Picchu to the Galapagos

Adjunct Professor, Department of Theater and Drama

An Insider’s Perspective: London