Latitude's founder-director

E. Barbara Phillips, Ph.D., has been concerned with intercultural & interdisciplinary issues for many years. Formerly a U.S. diplomat in Africa & India, a workshop leader for OECD in Central Europe, an antipoverty worker in Appalachia, a journalist, & editor of a social science journal, she is Professor Emerita of Sociology & Urban Studies, San Francisco State University. She has also taught at Stanford University, SUNY-Oswego, Utica College, & Onondaga Community College.

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
Christine DaBlanc, Vice-presidente, St. Martin Labouval & Beaumont, France
Bertrand Puel, Secretaire, Faycelles, hameau de Gaillot
Henri Renault, Tresorier, Pasturat

Members of the Conseil d' Administration are part-time or full-time residents of the Lot: Claudine DesMots, Raphael Clerget, Hugues DaBlanc, & Jane Jolly.

Mei Sun Li is assistant to the director, E. Barbara Phillips, in California.

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