 Visit
the personal web page of Pamela Waldron-Moore '71,
Associate Professor of Political Science at Xavier University of
Louisiana, New Orleans, and you will learn that she has a Ph.D. in
political science and has taught at the university since 1998.
Before that, she was an adjunct lecturer at the University of
Houston, Houston, Texas, as well as at Houston Community College.
Before that, she taught at the College of Arts, Science &
Technology in Kingston, Jamaica. There was also a year of high
school teaching in Kingston. (Her Ph.D. from the University of
Houston and M.A. from the University of Cincinnati were in
political science; her B.A. from Western was in Spanish.)
That would be a full career for most people, but academia was
Pam's "second" professional life. From 1974 to 1982, she was
a career diplomat, in the Guyana Diplomatic Service. During that
time, she was accredited to the Permanent Mission of Guyana,
United Nations; the Court of St. James, London; and several
European countries without resident ambassadors. In 1980-82, she
was assigned to Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with
responsibility for political and economic development in Africa
and Asia.
Among countless
publications, her "most referenced" is "Eastern Europe at
the Crossroads of Democratic Transition," which appeared in Comparative
Political Studies, February 1999. Her numbers of presentations
at professional conferences at home and abroad, as well as
volunteer activities in the local community, boggle the mind.
In June 2002,
Pamela participated in a faculty development seminar in Cuba, in
part she said, to enhance her ability to "contribute to the
growing internationalization of Xavier’s campus and the
strengthening of the international knowledge and imagination of
African-American students." Since her specialization is in
comparative politics and international relations, it is obvious
that her firsthand exploration of "the realities of Cuban
politics, economics and social life" would be a valuable
learning, thence teaching, tool.
And
she takes great pictures! A link from her web page will allow you
to see Havana and environs through her eyes: http://webusers.xula.edu/pnmoore/.
Or, you can travel to Guyana, Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania, Ghana
or Jamaica -- sites of study abroad and faculty development
seminars -- via her camera.
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