Meet SPAN faculty advisors

Pamina Firchow, 2008 Advisor to Argentina
Pamina Firchow is a doctoral candidate in Development Studies at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, where she is writing a dissertation on social change in Argentina.  She was a Rotary World Peace Scholar in Buenos Aires from 2003-2005, where she completed a masters degree at the Universidad del Salvador with a thesis on social movement integration into democratic institutions after the crisis of 2001.  She also holds a masters degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics.  Currently she is a community faculty member at Metro State University, Minneapolis, MN, and is in the final stages of writing her dissertation.

Plamen Miltenoff, 2008 Advisor to Bulgaria
Professor Miltenoff teaches technology classes at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, as information specialist at the library. His passion is still with his previous degrees in history and he teaches honors classes on the Balkans. Please visit his Web page for more information at: web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty

Victoria Coifman, 2008 Advisor to Senegal
Victoria Bomba Coifman, Ph.D., is a member of the faculty of the African American & African Studies Department, and of the graduate faculty of the Department of History.  She made her first trip to Senegal in l963-64, collecting oral traditions for the pre-1850 history of the Wolof people of northwestern Senegal. She returns regularly to Senegal as an historian, friend and colleague of heads of two non-profit organizations in Senegal, and to renew her own network of colleagues. Her personal research presently involves the Atlantic slave trade from Rio Pongo in Guinea Conakry to the south, but began in the Senegalese archives in Dakar several years ago.