Inside this issue:

Mark Graham
Professor Mark S. Graham
teachesInternational Relationscourses related
to armed conflict and conflict resolution. He
has over 14 years undergraduate and
graduate teaching experience at schools
locatedstateside and overseas
Professor Graham recently retired from active
duty as a Colonel in the United States Army
after over 27 years of service, and moved to
Rome where he has lived in for the past 16
months. He was a Judge Advocate (Army
lawyer) and is a recognized military
international and operational lawexpert who
served in four countries and deployed three
times to the Balkans. Professor Graham served
in the Office of National Drug Control Policy
in the Executive Office of the President and
Washington tours in the Missile Defense
Agency, the Joint Staff and two tours in
NATO. Professor Graham holds a Bachelor of
Arts degree and a Juris Doctorate degree
from the University of Pittsburgh. He also holds
Master of Laws Degrees from the George
Washington University (Environmental Law)
and the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's
School (Military Law).
Manuela Giordano
Manuela Giordano has joined AUR as Adjunct
Professor in the Arts & Humanities Department.
She was born and grew up in Rome. After graduating
in Classics at “La Sapienza di Roma”, she received a
Ph.D. at the University of Urbino working on the ritual
of supplication in Homer, and a Post-Doctorate at the
University of Naples “L’Orientale”, dealing with
curses (arai), oaths and blessings in ancient Greece,
and the practice of revenge. She received the Golda
Meir Fellowship at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel, where she taught for three years,
conducting research on the subjects of Athenian
democracy, cultural and historical contacts between
Greece and Near Eastern civilizations. She is
presently teaching Greek Theatre as a lecturer at the
University of Calabria. She spent research periods in
Paris, Berlin, Oxford, Jerusalem, Chicago and
Cambridge, both as a student and as a visiting
scholar. Her field of research as well as her
publications include Homer, Greek tragedy, myth and
Greek religion and anthropology.
Tatiana Coutto
T.H. Steele
T.H. Steele is a new addition to the Math
department at AUR. He attended the United
States Military Academy at West Point for his
undergraduate degree, and served for four
years in the airborne brigade stationed in
Vicenza. He received his Ph. D. in mathematics
at the University of California – Santa Barbara
under the supervision of Prof. Andrew
Bruckner. Prof. Steele taught at Weber State
University in Utah for 14 years before coming
back to Italy. He also teaches doctoral students
at Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli “Federico
II” in real analysis and discrete dynamical
systems. Prof. Steele has published 23 research
articles and continues to work with colleagues
in Italy, the U.S. and the Czech Republic. He is
an avid mountaineer, and enjoys rock climbing,
hiking and biking. He lives in Rome with his
wife, a professor at Marymount International
School, and his 15 year-old daughter.
Alvaro Higueras
Alvaro Higueras is a Peruvian archaeologist
graduated in the US (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh,
1996). He learned archaeology in Peru and had a
15-year period of excavations in Peru and Bolivia
before moving to the Old World. His research has
emphasized the study of state-level imperial polities in
the Andes, namely the Tiwanaku society in its
expansion to the Eastern slopes of the Cochabamba
valley, Bolivia. He has been an archaeology
professor in Peru, Eritrea, and then a cultural
manager in post-war Kosovo and Bosnia. He resides
in Rome where he continues working as a consultant
in cultural management, focusing mainly in the
"museum" potential of open spaces (parks and areas
with architectural remains in the city of Rome). It is
his first term as an adjunct professor at AUR. He is
teaching the course of Survey of Western Civilization
I a History course requirement of the International
Relations program.
Manuela Caiani
Tatiana Coutto is an IR Adjunct Professor
and a former researcher and associate
professor of ‘Globalization and
Governance’ at the Center for the
Studies of the Americas (CEAs) in Rio de
Janeiro, her hometown. In 2003 she
moved to Europe to pursue her Ph.D. in
Political Science at the European
University Institute (EUI), Florence. She
has published works on Brazilian political
institutions and foreign policy, as well as
on environmental protection at the
international level. Her latest work,
entitled The EU as an International Actor:
Community Institutions and Mixed
Agreements for Environmental Protection,
will be published in 2009. Her main
research interests are: international
institutions, environmental protection,
sustainable development, and the present
role of developing countries in the
international system. Tatiana Coutto is
also an e-volunteer translator (English-
Portuguese) to the Platform for
International Cooperation on
Undocumented Migrants (PICUM).
Manuela Caiani has joined AUR as International Relations Adjunct
Professor. She is research assistant at the European University Institute
for the comparative project VETO on “Processes of Radicalization in
Political Activism”, focused on right-wing extremism in Europe and USA.
She has received a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of
Florence. Her main research interests concern social movements,
political participation, political violence & terrorism, Europeanization,
and public sphere. Among her publications: “Quale Europa,
Europeizzazione, Identità e Conflitti”, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006 (with
della Porta Donatella).