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2010 - 2011 Puentes Consortium Scholars


	Aaron C. Elkins	University of Arizona	Aaron C. Elkins is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the management information systems department at the University of Arizona. Elkins investigates noncontact rapid screening technology for detecting deception and hostile intent at the airport and border.
	D. Rick Van Schoik	Arizona State University	D. Rick Van Schoik is the director of the North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS) at Arizona State University, a consortium of seven Canadian, U.S. and Mexican universities, and the former Arizona director of the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP), a consortium of five U.S. and five Mexican universities. Van Schoik also is a professor of environmental security, science and policy at the International Security and Conflict Resolution Program at San Diego State University.
	Elyse Golob	University of Arizona	Elyse Golob is the executive director of the National Center for Border Security and Immigration (BORDERS) headquartered at the University of Arizona. Funded by the Department of Homeland Security, BORDERS provides crosscutting technology and basic research to enhance the nation’s security. Golob’s expertise includes cross-border trade, economic development and border management policy. Her current projects include Border Crossings and U.S.
	Erik Lee	Arizona State University	Erik Lee serves as associate director at the North American Center for Transborder Studies at Arizona State University (ASU). He has 15 years of experience working for organizations in the U.S. and Mexico, most of those with binational U.S.–Mexico operations in educational institutions. Lee has extensive knowledge of government agencies’ cross-border policy work in the areas of education, competitiveness, sustainability and security and has consulted for philanthropic and educational organizations.
	Freddy Mariñez Navarro	Instituto Technólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	Freddy Mariñez Navarro is director of the Graduate School in Public Administration (EGAP) at Technológico de Monterrey (ITESM). He received his Ph.D. in political sociology from Université Laval in Quebec, Canada; a master’s degree in cooperation studies from Sherbrooke University in Quebec, Canada; and a master’s degree in economy from the University of Zulia.
	Gertie M. Agraz	Instituto Technólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	Gertie M. Agraz received a bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering in 1988 from the University of Monterrey. In 2002, she earned a Master of Science in quality and productivity systems from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) Sonora Norte campus, with the project “Definition of a Total Quality Management Model for Small and Medium Enterprises in Mexico.”
	Griselda Teresa Martinez	New Mexico State University	Griselda Teresa Martinez received a bachelor’s degree in business administration in economics and international business in 2006 from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). While at UTEP, Martinez was an exchange student at the Institut d’Economie Scientifique et de Gestion (IESEG) in Lille, France. After graduating, Martinez joined a binational corporation with a manufacturing plant located in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, where she was exposed to the distinctive binational business dynamic in the region on the U.S.–Mexico border.
	Isidro Morales	Instituto Technólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	Isidro Morales received his Ph.D. from the Paris-based Institut d’Études Politiques and has worked as a researcher at El Colegio de México and other Mexican universities. Morales has been a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen and a guest researcher at the Danish Center for Development Research, Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, in Washington, D.C.
	J. Nathaniel Holland	Rice University	Dr. J. Nathaniel Holland received a B.S. degree in 1993 from Ferrum College in southwestern Virginia with majors in Biology and Environmental Science and minor studies in chemistry and philosophy. At Ferrum, he pursued his organismal interest in bats through studies of habitat choice by tropical bats in Costa Rica and of roosting and foraging behavior of an endangered species in Virginia. He then attended the University of Georgia where he obtained an M.S.
	Jorge Alberto Durán Encalada	Universidad de las Américas Puebla	Jorge Alberto Durán Encalada is director of the Family Business Research Center and a full professor in the business administration department at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla (UDLAP). Durán obtained an undergraduate degree in business administration from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) in 1978, an M.Phil. in business administration from the Instituto Politecnico Nacional in 1980, and a Ph.D. in regional and urban studies at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England, in 1988.