ACADEMICSFaculty
Institute Director: Matthew Kwasiborski
Matthew Kwasiborski joined The Fund for American Studies in the February of 2005. Matt earned his BA in history from Loyola University New Orleans and received his MA in Executive Leadership from the Thierry Graduate School of Leadership located in Belgium. He has experience teaching ESL in Hungary where he wrote and directed the play, “A Dawn of a New Era,” created and recommended ESL curriculum, and served as a tutor for the citizens of Fonyod. He was an administrator for the "Summer in Switzerland" program located at the Leysin American School that served international high school students. He has taught world religions, Christian vocations, morality, computers, and also served as a basketball coach for Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans, LA. From 2001-2004 he has served as the Director of the Loyola University Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America program in New Orleans and worked directly for the President of Loyola University. Matt was a 2004 nominee for the Leon J. Obermayer Award given to an outstanding alumnus or alumna of the School District of Philadelphia.
Jounralism Professor/Academic Director: Professor Laura Kelly
Laura Kelly is a journalist and a journalism educator who worked for 7 years in Eastern Europe. She has worked as a radio talk show host, a newspaper reporter, and a magazine editor. Kelly has lived and taught in Tirana, Albania, and Bratislava, Slovakia, where she helped found a post-graduate journalism program at Academia Istopolitana Nova. Her most recent posting was as the head of the journalism department at the American University in Bulgaria. She has also worked with student journalists in Armenia, Kosovo, Mongolia, Hungary and Georgia. Her essays have appeared in U.S. newspapers and magazines and a collection of her work will be published this fall.
Economics Professor: Dr. Edward Stringham, PhD.
Edward Stringham joined the faculty of San Jose State University after receiving his PhD. from George Mason University in 2002. He is President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise, editor of two books, and author of twenty refereed articles in journals including the Quarterly Reviedw or Economics and Finance, Managerial Finance, Review of Political Economy, American Journal of Economics & Sociology, and Journal of Labor Research. His work has been discussed in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, Miami Tribune, and dozens of other newspapers.
Edward is a winner of the Paper of the Year Award from the Association of Private Enterprise, Best Article Award from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, Second Place in the Independent Institute Garvey Contest, and Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the Liberalni Institut and the Prague School of Economics.
Edward was recently named the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Award Winner. He co-authored the following paper: "Mises, Bastiat, Public Opinion, and Public Choice: What's Wrong with Democracy?"
Martina Mareckova is a journalist from the Czech Republic. She has worked for the print media since 2000 when she completed a post-graduate journalism program at Academia Istropolitana Nova in Bratislava, Slovakia. She is a full-time writer for Prague-based publication Czech Business Weekly and she also cooperates on a freelance basis with other media outlets in the Central European region. She has been writing lately mostly business-oriented stories, particularly on retail segment in the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as real estate and other business issues. Over the past years, she has participated in several seminars such as Dow Jones/TOL (Transitions Online) business & economics journalism course held in January 2007 in Prague.
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