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Laurence Bergreen
Laurence Bergreen is an award-winning biographer, historian and chronicler of exploration. His acclaimed biography Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu is currently in development as a film starring Matt Damon, and his equally compelling work, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, is also in development as a motion picture. His other works have included biographies of Louis Armstrong, Al Capone and Irving Berlin, as well as profiles of institutions from NASA to network broadcasting. Bergreen graduated from Harvard University in 1972 and serves as a Featured Historian for the History Channel.
Join Laurence Bergreen on our Voyage 1: Singapore to Chennai departing on March 5, 2010.
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Doranne Jacobson, PhD
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Doranne Jacobson holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University and has lived in India more than six years, conducting extensive research on social change and gender roles. She is the author of many books and articles on India and is also a widely published photographer. Doranne will present engaging lectures illustrated with her own colorful photographs. Doranne has led many tours to India and other parts of Asia, and her fluency in Hindi, the country’s national language, has been helpful during her travels. Doranne is currently director of International Images, a consulting firm in Springfield, Illinois.
Join Doranne Jacobson on our Voyage 2: Chennai to Mumbai departing on March 20, 2010.
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Stephen F. Dachi, PhD
Stephen Dachi is a foreign policy specialist who spent 30 years as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service posted to various locations in South Asia, Central Europe and Latin America. Since 2007, he has presented lectures and seminars on nuclear and other security issues on Iran, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East at various U. S. military and civilian agencies in the U.S. and abroad, and has been a trainer for US civilian and military assistance projects in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Between his roles as diplomat and lecturer, he has traveled to over 80 countries. Born in Hungary, Dachi now lives with his wife, Lee, in Arlington, Virginia.
Join Stephen Dachi on our Voyage 3: Mumbai to Muscat departing on April 4, 2010.
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Jennifer Neils, PhD
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Jenifer Neils, a classical archaeologist, is the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History and Classics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. A seasoned excavator, Professor Neils has worked at and published material from sites in Tuscany, northern Greece, and Sicily. Her most recent book, The Parthenon Frieze, was published in 2001, and her exhibition “Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past” toured the U.S. in 2003-2004.
Join Jennifer Neils on our Voyage 4: Muscat to Alexandria departing on April 17, 2010.
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Jodi Magness, PhD
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Jodi Magness holds a senior endowed chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her B.A. in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Magness has delivered a number of lectures on the archaeology of the Classical world for The Smithsonian Associates in Washington, D.C. and has served as Study Leader on Smithsonian Journeys.
Join Jodi Magness on our Voyage 5: Alexandria to Istanbul departing on May 4, 2010.
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Diane Cline, PhD
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Diane Cline is a professorial lecturer at the George Washington University in Classics and holds a B.A. in Classics from Stanford University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Art and Archaeology. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work on her dissertation in Greece, where she lived for three years as a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. She has worked on excavations in Israel, Greece, and Cyprus. She taught Greek and Roman History and Archaeology for 13 years, winning tenure in the History Department at California State University Fresno, and then in the Classics Department at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Cline has won many awards, including NEH grants and Teacher of the Year (University of Cincinnati 1999). She has also written numerous articles and books on many topics as diverse as philosophy, classics, art history, women's studies, linguistics, literary criticism, foreign affairs, national security studies, history, organizational development, and religion. Dr. Cline has been a popular presenter for Smithsonian Associates and appears regularly on A&E and the History Channel.
Join Diane Cline on our Voyage 6: Istanbul to Venice departing on May 17, 2010.
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Glenn Bugh, PhD
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Glenn Bugh is an associate professor in the Department of History Virginia where he teaches ancient, Byzantine and Venetian history and the Late Roman Empire. Dr. Bugh holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and has won several awards for excellence in teaching. He has recently served as chair of the Committee of the Genadius Library in Athens, one of the foremost Byzantine libraries in the world. Dr. Bugh has served as a popular Study Leader for Smithsonian Journeys since 1984.
Join Glenn Bugh on our Voyage 7: Venice to Valletta departing on May 30, 2010.
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Gail Cornell
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Gail Cornell is an architectural historian, independent scholar, and writer, who has lectured extensively on the art, architecture, archaeology, and culture of Tunisia, Italy, and the Mediterranean. A graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Gail’s areas of expertise include Classical Roman and Renaissance architecture. Gail has a strong interest in historic preservation and raising architectural literacy. She looks forward to lecturing on the early urban development, art, and architecure of the region.
Join Gail Cornell on our Voyage 8: Valletta to Rome departing on June 10, 2010.
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Robert Davis
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Robert Davis is a professor of Italian Renaissance and pre-modern Mediterranean history at Ohio State University, with his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. He has published five books and co-edited two others, all on the Italian Renaissance or 16th- and 17th-century Mediterranean society. He has done his research in Naples, Rome, Palermo, Venice, the Vatican, and Perugia, mostly about the lives of ordinary people and the values they cherished. They have ranged from shipbuilders and amateur boxers in Venice to the corsairs who terrorized the Mediterranean everywhere else. He has also done a recent study of Venice, as the world’s most touristed city; and has worked on or appeared in a number of television documentaries, on shipbuilding, Carnival, and the Mediterranean slave trade.
Join Robert Davis on our Voyage 9: Rome to Barcelona departing on June 22, 2010.
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David Perry
Perry is a former ship’s officer who has circumnavigated the globe two and a half times and has visited 45 countries. An authority on maritime history and an avid collector of maritime literature, artifacts and stories, his popular presentations are enhanced by slides, photos, online video clips and rare books. Perry is currently working on two books about his travels: LinerLore: A Year Before the Masthead and ShipShape, a comparative picture book about the world’s most historic liners.
Join David Perry on our Voyage 13: London to St. John’s departing on August 20, 2010.
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Dr Kenneth Johnson
In the course of his career as a geologist, naturalist, historian, and lecturer, Dr. Johnson has quite literally traveled the world, visiting over 60 countries and all seven continents. His special interest lies in regions where glaciation, volcanism, and/or plate tectonics play an important role in geologic evolution… and how these factors impact human history and cultural development. Dr. Johnson retired as associate director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey and visiting professor of geology at The University of Oklahoma. He is a senior fellow of the Geological Society of America, and has published over 250 articles, books, and abstracts. In addition, he is a popular speaker on such wide ranging topics as glaciers, icebergs, volcanoes, plate tectonics, earthquakes, tsunamis, meteorites, comets, mass extinctions and much more.
Join Dr. Kenneth Johnson on our Voyage 13: London to St. John’s departing on August 20, 2010.
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Don Walsh, PhD
Don Walsh served in the Navy from 1948 to 1975. Duty was mostly in submarines during his 14 years at sea which included the Korean and Vietnam wars. Walsh commanded a submarine in the Pacific Fleet 1968-70. Shore duty assignments were in ocean science and technology. At retirement he held the rank of Captain.
In 1975 he became dean of marine programs, and professor of ocean engineering, at the University of Southern California. At USC he founded and directed their Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies. In 1983 he left the University to establish his consulting business, International Maritime Incorporated, as a full-time enterprise. Walsh has a BS in engineering from Annapolis; an MS and PhD in oceanography from Texas A&M University, and an MA in political science from California State University at San Diego. He has had over 200 papers and articles published, plus editing five books on ocean-related subjects. Over the past 40 years, his lecturing activities have taken him to 60 nations where he has given more than 1,500 lectures, TV and radio appearances. As an adventurer-explorer, he has worked in the deep oceans, polar regions and spacecraft. From 1959 to 1962 he was the first commander of the Navy's Bathyscaphe Trieste and was designated U.S. Navy deep submersible pilot #1 in 1959. In 1960 he and co-pilot Jacques Piccard dove Trieste into the deepest place in the World Ocean, a depth of seven miles.
Dr. Walsh first went to the Arctic in 1955 and Antarctic in 1971 as a member of Operation Deep Freeze '71. He has worked at both the North and South Poles, having made 10 expeditions to the Arctic and 16 to the Antarctic. His contributions to polar exploration were recognized in 1973 when a mountain ridge in the Antarctic was named for him. At Texas A&M (1965-68) he worked with NASA Houston during the late Gemini and early Apollo programs, to determine how spacecraft could be used to study the oceans. Walsh became one of the first oceanographers to work with remote sensing from aircraft and spacecraft. Don has participated in most of Deep Ocean Expedition programs since the company was founded. This includes dives to the Titanic, the Mid-Atlantic ridge and ancient shipwrecks off Marseilles.
Join Don Walsh on our Voyage 15: Halifax to Palm Beach departing on September 21, 2010.
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Colonel Walter Cunningham
Best known as the pilot of Apollo VII – the first flight in the Apollo mission series that would land on the moon – Walter Cunningham has enjoyed careers in the United States Marine Corps, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and in private industry.
In addition to being an astronaut, Mr. Cunningham served NASA as chief of the Skylab Astronauts (starting in 1968). In that capacity, he was responsible for the design, development, and integration of systems for the largest spacecraft ever placed in orbit up to that time.
Holder of graduate degrees from UCLA in Physics and the Harvard Graduate School of Business, Walter is a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot with 4,500 hours of pilot time. He is a successful lecturer and entrepreneur, author of The All-American Boys, host of a radio talk show, recipient of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, member of the Astronaut Hall of Fame, and winner of an EMMY Award for the first live television broadcast from space.
Join Colonel Cunningham on our Voyage 15: Halifax to Palm Beach departing on September 21, 2010.
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David Aguilar
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
A naturalist, astronomer, author, and artist, David's expertise is in communicating the wonderment of science. He is the past Director of the Fiske Planetarium & Science Center and the originator of the Science Discovery Program at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Marketing Communications Director at Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, and Marketing Director for PBS’s Emmy-winning NOVA series, Evolution. He is also a recognized writer and space artist with work appearing in the new 2008 BBC television series UNIVERSE, Time magazine, US News & World Report, ABC Nightly News, CNN, NY Times, USA Today, National Geographic, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy, and Scientific American. He is the author and illustrator of Planets, Stars & Galaxies and The New Solar System, published by National Geographic, as well as a scholar lecturer on Smithsonian World Tours and Smithsonian Journeys, and popular host of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics programs “Observatory Nights” and the Harvard Lecture Series, “Everything I Learned About Science I Learned At The Movies.” He is also an avid telescope maker and an astronomical and underwater photographer.
Join David Aguilar on our Voyage 18: Guayaquil to Easter Island departing on October 24, 2010.
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Charlie Urbanowicz, PhD
When it comes to discussions of Polynesian cultures, few are as well versed as Charlie Urbanowicz. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1972 for research conducted in Tonga, and taught at the University of Minnesota before joining the Anthropology Department at California State University in Chico.
Now a Professor Emeritus, Dr. Urbanowicz was also designated one of five “Master Teachers” there from 1997 through 1999. He is a Life Member of the New Zealand based Polynesian Society, a member of the Association for Social Anthropology of Oceana, and a member of the American Anthropological Association.
Join Charlie Urbanowicz on one of our voyages:
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Aldona Jonaitis, PhD
Aldona Jonaitis is a noted expert on arts and culture of aboriginal people. She has taught courses at the college level on the arts of the South Pacific and has traveled extensively in the region. She was director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North from 1993 until her retirement in September 2009 and was a professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Dr. Jonaitis has authored several books on Native art and culture and written extensively on how aboriginal people are represented in museums. She has also lectured on these topics in North and South America, Europe, Asia, New Zealand and Australia.
Prior to taking the helm at the museum, Dr. Jonaitis served as vice president for public programs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; vice provost for undergraduate studies at the Stony Brook University; adjunct professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University; and professor of art at Stony Brook. She was also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at Stanford University. Jonaitis received her bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University and her doctorate in art history and archaeology from Columbia University.
Join Aldona Jonaitis on one of our voyages:
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Kirt Kempter, PhD
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Kirt Kempter received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Texas at Austin and has visited and studied plate tectonics and related volcanism around the world, including Iceland, Costa Rica, Mexico, and South America. A Fulbright Fellow, Kirt now works for the U.S. Geological Survey as a field geologist, studying the volcanic history of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico.
Join Kirt Kempter on one of our voyages:
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Clyde Roper
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Clyde Roper is a senior emeritus zoologist in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Clyde conducts extensive research on many areas of marine biology and is a pioneer in the field of bioluminescence. Field studies have taken him to the waters of Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, western Africa, Japan, and throughout the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Clyde is a popular Smithsonian Study Leader and has accompanied many tours around the globe.
Join Clyde Roper on our Voyage 23: Sydney to Darwin departing on December 31, 2010.
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Dr. Linda Seidel
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Dr. Linda Seidel is a Hanna Holborn Gray Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago, received an A.B. in Art History from Barnard College and Ph.D. from the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard University. She has published two books on the decoration of medieval churches, focusing on the ways in which sculpted imagery addressed the theological concerns of educated monks and clergy at the same time that it satisfied the pragmatic needs of an unlettered public for spiritual and moral guidance. Another book explores relationships between money, trade and the marriage market as these are recorded in late medieval painting. She is currently at work on a project that reevaluates the influence of Roman remains on early European architecture, and another that examines depictions of the natural world in prayer books and on panels as evidence of practical knowledge regarding aspects of everyday life such as agricultural practices and medicine. In addition to extensive travel throughout Europe and the Middle East, Professor Seidel has lectured to museum audiences, taught American undergraduates in Rome and Paris, and accompanied several alumni trips abroad as art specialist. Linda will lecture on Seasonal Landscapes in the Medieval Calendar; Wood meets stone: German architecture of the Middle Ages; Equestrian Figures from Rome to the Romantics; Views of the World in Early Printed Books; and Monastic Life from Benedict to the Baroque.
Join Linda on the following European River Cruises:
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Dr. Pieter Judson
Smithsonian Journeys Guest Speaker
Pieter M. Judson received his PhD in History from Columbia University and has taught Modern European History at Swarthmore College since 1993. A recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, Guggenheim, the Marshall Fund, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Judson has authored several award-winning books on the history of the Habsburg Empire and the states that replaced it after 1918. Pieter’s work has taken him to archives and libraries in Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Slovenia, and Ukraine. He will lecture on Imperial Vienna, Royal Budapest, the rise of the new Balkan states (Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia) from the Ottoman Empire, and on the history of 20th century ethnic conflict in the region.
Join Pieter on the following European River Cruises:
- Danube departing on September 22, 2010.
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