APLP Staff
Dr. Terance Bigalke, Ph.D., (Director, Education Programs) directs the Center’s education program division, which encompasses graduate degree and certificate scholarship programs, professional development programs, and educational policy research and training. He serves on the Center’s Management team, and the Editorial Committee for East-West Center Publications. Active in promoting international education at the college and university level, from 1989-2001 he was Malcolm Mouat Director of World Affairs at Beloit College (Wisconsin), directing an office of international programs that encompassed off-campus study, international student support services, and summer intensive study of less commonly taught languages. Dr. Bigalke also served as adjunct member of the Beloit faculty, teaching regional history of Southeast Asia and modern Indonesia. Prior to this, he was Assistant Director of the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA) based at Ohio State University, and Program Officer with the Ford Foundation Southeast Asian Regional Office in Jakarta, Indonesia. He received a Ph.D. in comparative world history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a focus on 19th and 20th century Indonesia, and an M.A. in Southeast Asian history as an East-West Center grantee at the University of Hawai‘i. Dr. Bigalke has conducted research in Indonesia and the Netherlands, and studied in Thailand and Mexico. His most recent publication is Tana Toraja: A Social History of an Indonesian People (Singapore University Press: 2005).
Dr. Nicholas Barker, Ph.D., (Director, APLP, and Leadership Seminar Coordinator) coordinates leadership education at the East-West Center and is Program Director of the Asia Pacific Leadership Program, as well as the Leadership Certificate offered to degree students. Dr. Barker’s leadership research interests include: indigenous models of leadership in the Asia-Pacific; diversity training; negotiation and conflict resolution; visioning, strategic planning, and coaching; transformational leadership; gender and leadership; effective communication; team building and group dynamics; power, influence and ethics; and facilitation and collaborative leadership. Trained as a cultural anthropologist at Cambridge University, England, his anthropological research examines the global and historical phenomenon of religious mortification, with particular focus on contemporary religious revivals in South and Southeast Asia, and the history of ideas about pain and the human body. Recent publications include articles in the Modern Encyclopedia of Asia; the Encyclopedia of Southeast Asian History; and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. Recent projects include the BBC/Discovery television documentary, Beyond Endurance. Dr. Barker is an affiliate graduate faculty member in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in the Philippines and was formerly on the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at St. Andrews University, Scotland, as well as a Visiting Fellow at Nagoya University, Japan, and the University of the Philippines (Diliman).
Dr. Scott MacLeod, Ph.D., (Core Issues Seminar Coordinator) was Director of the award-winning Asia-Pacific Management Cooperative Program in Vancouver Canada for eight years. He was nominated as the Canadian Internationalist of the Year in 2000. In 2002 he became the founding Chair of the McRae Institute for International Management, with activities in 19 countries in Asia and Latin America. He has received major research awards from the Ford Foundation, Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs. He has carried on fieldwork in Nepal, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. In his 20 years of working with Asia he has published on a wide scope of topics ranging from Malaysia's economic trajectory to Hong Kong's food system to Singapore's shift towards becoming an "Intelligent Island." Dr. MacLeod is currently completing Geographies of the Global Economy (Toronto: Oxford University Press). Other recent publications include Accessing Asia, (Ottawa: Foreign Affairs), and The Emergence of Extended Metropolitan Regions in ASEAN, in Y.M. Yeung and C.P. Lo (eds.) Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia. (Tokyo: United Nations University Press).
Ms. Monique Wedderburn (Senior Program Officer). Prior to joining the East-West Center in 2005, Ms. Wedderburn worked as a Business Analyst with the University of Hawai‘i Pacific Business Center and with the U.S. Department of Interior's Office of Insular Affairs. Ms. Wedderburn advised clients on economic development in Hawai‘i, the American Affiliated Pacific Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Her previous responsibilities–as Coordinator of Management Analyst and as Coordinator of Personnel Services for the University of Florida–included managing the Career Development Program for 1,000 professional and support employees, developing and administering workforce education programs, and recommending policies and procedures to improve management capabilities. Ms. Wedderburn spent her formative years in Mexico, Zaire (currently the Democratic Republic of Congo), Pakistan and Thailand. She earned a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Colorado State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Ms. Christina Monroe (Professional Development and Internships Coordinator) directs professional development initiatives, including network development, internships and field studies in Washington, D.C. for the Asia Pacific Leadership Program, a graduate certificate for young to mid career professionals from the region. Previously, Ms. Monroe was a lecturer for the Chancellor's Leadership Program and Director of the Service Learning Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1998 to 2002. She received a BA in sociology (Phi Betta Kappa) from the University of Tulsa and a MA in social sciences from the University of Amsterdam, where she conducted qualitative research on cultural and educational exchanges for her degree in ethnicity and nationalism. In 2004 she was a fellow in the Asia Pacific Leadership Program at the East-West Center.
Ms. Beverly Honda (Program Assistant) joined the APLP staff in November 2004. She started working for the EWC as a student assistant while attending college. Her first full time position was in the Culture Learning Institute in 1976. Ms. Honda worked in the EWC Housing Office for 24 years, working her way up from a secretary to top Housing Officer. She decided that she needed a change and moved to the Education Program to work more directly with EWC participants. Ms. Honda received a B.A. in Psychology, from the University of Hawai‘i, Manoa. She has always lived on O’ahu, where she has married and raised two children (who also attend UH-Manoa). She loves animals, baking, and shopping in Las Vegas.
