International Wildlife Adventures Trip Leaders

History Professor RICHARD BILLOWS has taught at Columbia University since 1985 and specializes in Ancient Greek and Roman History and Greek epigraphy. A lifelong scholar of the classical world, he has a long-standing interest in the origins of Christianity and its relationship to earlier religions. He is the author of Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State and Kings and Colonists: Aspects of Macedonian Imperialism, among other publications. His current research interests include Macedonian and Hellenistic warfare, and Julius Caesar and the end of the Roman republican governing system.

For 20 years, Dan Cox has been pursuing his life long dream of photographing nature at its finest and not so finest. "Driving rain, spitting snow and howling wind are all part of the environment I call home. For me bad weather means great light, unusual clouds and dramatic settings."

In 1990 and 1997 Dan was awarded with 1st runner-up in the animal portrait division in the prestigious British Broadcasting "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" competition. His photography has been featured in galleries such as Nikon House, NY and the Natural History Museum in London. He is also a regular contributor to natural history publications worldwide, such as National Geographic, Audubon, National Wildlife, Sierra, Wildlife Conservation and Terre Sauvage, and sole photographer to seven books.

This December Dan published his first full story with National Geographic magazine. His main collection of photos is represented by Natural Exposures, Inc., a specialized stock agency located in the foothills of the Bridger Mountains in Bozeman, Montana, a place he also calls home.

To see more of Dan's work you can visit his web site at www.naturalexposures.com.

Richard Day is a professional nature photographer who has been in the business of marketing photos and teaching photo workshops since 1984. He specializes in birds, butterflies and mammals, and his work has been published Audubon, National Wildlife, national Geographic, Ducks Unlimited, Birders World,and many other nature-related publications and books. Each year, hundreds of his images appear in calendars such as Audubon, North word and Sierra Club. He also produces two of his own birds and butterflies calendars. His photos are represented worldwide by five different stock agencies and he is an active member of the American Society of Media Professionals, International Association of Panoramic Photographers, North American Nature Photography Association of America, and Outdoor Writers association of America. Richard and his wife Susan, own Daybreak Imagery, a stock and writing business that they operate from their home near Alma, Illinois.

Dr. Thorsten Fogen studied Classics and General Linguistics at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany), Oxford (UK) and Heidelberg (Germany). Ph.D. in 2000 (University of Heidelberg). 2000-01: Research Fellow at the University of Exeter (UK). Since 2002: Assistant Professor of Classics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In addition, Fellow of the European-American Young Scholars Institute (Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung & Andrew Mellon Foundation) for 2003 and 2004. Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University, Washington, D.C.) from September 2005 to May 2006. Since 2004, Co-Editor of the journal Historiographia Linguistica (founded in 1973). He has published two monographs, has edited five books and has written more than fifty articles and book reviews.

Brad Glass has had a lifelong passion for the natural world, and lives from a personal value that nature is "master teacher" for our lives. Using nature as context, Brad is a Personal Development Coach, inspiring others to live lives of meaning and purpose. He has 30 years of experience providing leadership for organizations, businesses and individuals, and also was an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at Antioch University. He has led nature and photography tours for ten years, and has developed a very special love for the land and the people of the Canadian Arctic.Brad has a broad educational background in the sciences, with master's degrees in both Environmental Studies and Engineering. He lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

For more on Brad's coaching, see www.RoadNotTaken.com

Randy Green is a past associate editor of Texas Highways Magazine, one of the country's largest-circulated regional travel magazines and he contributed regular features and photos to the publication as well. In addition, his photos have appeared in Outdoor Photographer, Outdoor and Travel Photography, Texas Monthly, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Sail, Time, and UPI, plus numerous books, calenders and other markets. He also produced and directed documentary films shown on networks such as PBS and BBC. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin in both zoology and psychology, specializing in ethology, or the study of comparative animal behavior, and additionally studied at Southern Methodist University, in film production. His travels have taken him from the Arctic to the Antarctic and from Africa to Russia. Randy is a director of IWA, and currently lives on Vashon Island, Washington, in Puget Sound, with his wife, Susie (also a director of IWA), and sons Travis and Nathan.

Tim Grey is regarded as one of the top educators in digital photography and imaging, offering clear guidance on complex subjects through his writing and speaking. He loves learning as much as he possibly can about digital imaging, and he loves sharing that information even more.

Tim’s work combines several of his greatest passions: technology, teaching, photography, writing, and travel. All of these have been part of his life in some way for as long as he can remember, and became a major focus starting in high school. He has been focused on digital photography and imaging for over 10 years.



Tim has written more than a dozen books on on digital imaging for photographers, including the best-selling Photoshop CS3 Workflow and Color Confidence. He has also had hundreds of articles published in magazines such as Digital Photo Pro, Outdoor Photographer, and PC Photo, among others. He publishes the Digital Darkroom Questions email newsletter, as well as the Digital Darkroom Quarterly print newsletter. Tim teaches through workshops, seminars, and appearances at major events. He is a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of Instructors.



With such a busy schedule, Tim doesn't get much time to actually take pictures. He squeezes in as much photography as he can during his business travels, and also takes advantage of every opportunity to photograph near his home in Bellevue, Washington.

Check Tim's website, www.timgrey.com, for more information and how to subscribe to his publications.

President of the Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Association, Mary Hollinshead is a Classical archaeologist who teaches ancient and medieval art and archaeology at the University of Rhode Island. She has excavated at sites in Italy, Cyprus, and Greece, and has recently participated in exploring the deep sea bed of the south Aegean. Her current research is on monumental steps and Greek sanctuaries. She has written about Greek temples and their use, Roman emulation of Greek sculpture, and painting in the Aegean Bronze Age.

Wolfgang Kaehler studied photography and photo engineering in his native Germany for six years. Since 1977 he has photographed around the world for magazines and travel companies, exploring some of the world’s most remote regions. He was awarded First Prize for “Penguins on Ice” in the “Wildlife Photographer Of The Year” competition, sponsored by BBC Wildlife and the Museum Of Natural History in London. He was selected by National Geographic as one of 100 photographers for a worldwide exhibit and book “Odyssey-The Art Of Photography At National Geographic”. His photos have appeared in publications such as National Geographic, Geo, Smithsonian, Natural History, Audubon, Islands, Time-Life, Travel & Leisure, World Wildlife Fund, UNICEF, and International Wildlife.

Ken Knowles is one of Newfoundland's most active birders, having seen over 321 species in this largely underbirded province. In addition to his passion for birds he has a wide knowledge of Newfoundland's wildflowers, marine mammals, land mammals, and an interest in photographing both birds and flowers. His bird photographs have appeared in several books and magazines, including regular contributions to Birder's Journal. He has published articles on both flowers and birds in provincial and national magazines. When not birding, he is a Professor of Music at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Retired from teaching at Brown in 200, Alan Lindley Boegehold has since taught at Amherst College as Visiting Professor of Classics and at Florida State University as Langford Family Eminent Scholar. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Harvard University, Yale University, University of California at Berkeley, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He continues to maintain an office in the Classics Department at Brown. Education: A.B., University of Michigan 1950 (Latin); A.M., Harvard University 1954 (Classical Philology); Ph.D., Harvard University 1958 (Classical Philology); American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1955-1957. Professional interests are general and include Greek archaeology, history, and literature. He has published studies in all of these areas.

Author Peter Matthiessen bases much of his work on his travels, writing about vanishing cultures, oppressed peoples, and wildlife and landscapes while combining scientific observation with lyrical, intellectual prose. He wrote his fi rst novel, Race Rock, in 1954 while living in Paris, where he cofounded The Paris Review and was its first fiction editor. His travels include expeditions to Africa, South America, Alaska, Asia, and Oceania.



His National Book Award-nominated novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord was adapted into a major film in 1991. A year after his election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1974, he published his inventive novel Far Tortuga. The Snow Leopard, winner of a National Book Award, marked his return to nonfiction. In Sand Rivers, recipient of the John Burroughs Medal and the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation Award, describes a trek into Africa’s Selous Game Reserve. Among his other titles are Killing Mister Watson; On the River Styx; and Shadows of Africa, with essays on Africa from South Sudan to Zaire. His latest book is 2003’s End of the Earth: Expeditions to South Georgia and Antarctica.

David Gordon Mitten is James Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology and George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, Harvard University Art Museums. He is also a full member of the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Interested in all areas of classical antiquity, he has specialized in publishing classical bronzes. Professor Mitten teaches courses on Greek and Roman archaeology and art history from large-scale surveys to seminars. His course in the Harvard Core Program, Literature and Arts, is “The Images of Alexander the Great.” For a number of years he has taught a survey course on Greek art, architecture, and archaeology, along with seminars on Greek sculpture, vase painting, bronzes, and Greek coinage utilizing the excellent collection in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. He also teaches courses and seminars on Aegean, Anatolian, and Achaemenian Persian art and archaeology.

Jamie has lived on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia all his life. He recently graduated from the University of Victoria with a degree in biology and chemistry. Since 2000, Jamie has been a naturalist at Knight Inlet Lodge working with the grizzly bears and other wildlife of British Columbia's coastal temperate rainforests. Working at the lodge has also given Jamie the opportunity to work with the world famous killer whales of the Johnstone strait. In 2002, he began leading polar bear tours in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada on the Hudson Bay.Growing up in BC has allowed Jamie to pursue many of his passions such as wildlife photography, scuba diving, and the outdoors.

Martha Sharp Joukowsky is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University; Director of Brown’s Center for Old World Archaeology and Art; and a past President of the Archaeological Institute of America. Trained as a Near Eastern archaeologist and involved in excavations for 35 years, she has researched the domestication of plants and animals, the advent of Middle East urbanism, and the varied cultural developments in Anatolia (ancient Turkey), Syro-Palestine, Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq), and ancient Iran from the earliest times to the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Professor Joukowsky has done fieldwork in Turkey and published the results of the prehistoric excavations in Aphrodisias. She has also excavated in Lebanon, Hong Kong, Italy, and Greece, and she has been the Director of Brown¹s Petra Great Temple Excavations in Jordan since 1992. Professor Joukowsky has been a Trustee for the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, since 1987, and serves as Trustee Emerita of Brown University. Professor Joukowsky has been the invited speaker at seminars and lectures around the world, and has published six books and more than 50 scholarly articles. In spring 2006 she hosted a group of travelers during their five days at and around Petra, and she looks forward to accompanying our group on this 2007 Mediterranean voyage in pursuit of ancient wonders.

David Snow is a Newfoundland-born biologist and writer. His career as a biologist started as a student in 1979 as he spent two summers living and researching on the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, the continent's largest Atlantic puffin and largest kittiwake colony. Inspired by the marine wonders, David went on to become a prolific writer on biological topics and in 1990 Dave's efforts won him the Governor General's Award for Conservation. In 1996 Dave was contracted by the province of Newfoundland and Labrador to write guides to the province's land mammals and seabirds. In 2000 Heritage Canada acknowledged Dave's work with its Sustainable Tourism Award. Today Dave leads nature and history/archaeology holidays around the province. As a hobby Dave continues to coordinate the on-going census of Newfoundland humpbacks and has started a catalogue of dorsal fins for a new group of Orcas he has discovered off the Labrador coast. Dave has led whale study expeditions for over a decade and has taught whale bi ology courses at colleges in Canada and the USA.

Roger Ulrich is Professor of Classics at Dartmouth. He received his B.A. in Classics from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. from Yale University in Classical Archaeology. At Dartmouth Prof. Ulrich teaches Greek and Roman Archaeology and Latin. He has also directed the Classics Department¹s Foreign Study Program in Italy since 1991. Prof. Ulrich has published a book (The Roman Orator and the Sacred Stage) and several articles on aspects of ancient Roman architecture and the topography of ancient Rome and Pompeii. A second book entitled Roman Woodworking is in press.

Ibrahim Warde holds a Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley (1988), where he also taught Middle Eastern Politics, Comparative Politics and International Relations. Ibrahim is currently adjunct professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. His recent books include Islamic Finance in the Global Economy, The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror, The Iraq Wars (in French), and Islam and Economics. He will give three lectures: “The War on Terror and the Battle for Muslim Hearts and Minds,” “Libya: From Pariah To Respectable International Citizen,” and “Exporting Democracy to the Arab World.”

Ancient historian Marek Wecowski, Ph.D., is currently a junior fellow at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies; member of the core-group of the European Network for the History of Ancient Greece; member of the Association des études homériques (University of Grenoble, France); and member the Academic Senate of Warsaw University. His research interests include archaic and classical Greek culture and civilization; Greek epic poetry and elegy; Greek historiography; ancient Greek convivial customs and sympotic literature; and Athenian ideology and propaganda. He received his Ph.D. from Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris (history and civilizations) and his M.A. in history from Warsaw University, Poland. Since 2000, he is assistant professor in the Department of Ancient History, Warsaw University. Dr. Wecowski was also a visiting assistant professor at Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris); a visiting scholar at Columbia University (Department of Classics); and a lecturer in ancient history at Warsaw University.

Professor Westervelt joined the Art History Department at Boston University in 2004, after receiving her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Harvard University. She spent two years traveling and conducting research in Greece as a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies (2001-2002) and as the Edward Capps Fellow (2002-2003), also at the American School. Her dissertation, The Centauromachy in Greek Architectural Sculpture, examines the sculptural programs of four major temples of the fifth century. She is currently revising it for publication. Professor Westervelt’s areas of special interest include sculpture and painting of the Archaic and Classical periods, and Greek literature, especially of the Epic, Lyric and Tragic genres.