She attended the Institut des Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris during her Sweetbriar Junior Year in France, holds a B.A. (Honors) in History from Northwestern University; an M.A. (International Relations) from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Medford, MA; a M.P.A. with distinction (Public Administration) from The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, & an interdisciplinary social science Ph.D. from the Maxwell School. She has studied ballet in Chicago, Bharat Natyam in New Delhi, and Bugaku in Tokyo.
One of Barbara's continuing interests is storytelling as a
community
function. Her dissertation explored "The Storytellers of Everyday Life:
Journalists, their Craft & their Consciousness." Currently,
she
is finishing the 3rd edition of her college text, City
Lights:Urban-Suburban
Life in the Global Society (Oxford University Press, 2nd edition,
1996), due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
She enjoys walking along the banks of the river Lot in La Toulzanie with the nearly bilingual & (totally) bicontinental dog, Jack la Lang-ue, & listening to authors at Cody's Books in Berkeley, California, where she lives from early October to mid-May.
The Officers & Staff of Latitude
Latitude's Board of Directors is composed of the following people, all part-time or full-tiime residents of the Departement du Lot:
Tim H. Teninty, President, La Toulzanie & Berkeley, CA Mei Sun Li is assistant to the director, E. Barbara Phillips, in California.