Contact: 3140 Tydings Hall, College Park, MD 20742
Email: mfranda at umd * edu
Curriculum
Vitae
Education
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago, 1966
- A.M., Political Science, University of Chicago, 1960
- B.A. cum laude Double Major, History and Government (honors in Government),
Beloit College, 1959
Teaching and Research Fields
International law, international organizations, information
technology politics and diplomacy, political economy, comparative politics
Marcus Franda, Professor of Government and Politics and Senior Research Associate,
Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University
of Maryland in College Park, has a Ph.D. and A.M. in Political Science from the
University of Chicago, a B.A. (Cum Laude, with Honors in Government and History)
from Beloit College, and did post-doctoral research at Columbia University. Franda
was on the faculty at Colgate University for 12 years with a joint appointment
as a Research Associate at the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, for 10 of those years. He has been an Interacting (Visiting)
Professor at Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, a Visiting Professor
at the University of Sans Malaysia, a Visiting Fellow at the Indian Institute
of Advanced study in Simla, India, and a Carnegie Teaching Fellow at the University
of Chicago.
Franda worked out of research and foundation offices in Asia for 19 years, many
of them as an Associate of the American Universities Field Staff (headquartered
at Dartmouth College) and as Senior Fellow and Director of the American Institute
of Indian Studies (then headquartered at the University of Pennsylvania). From
1980 to 1983 he directed the Institute of World Affairs (founded by Maude Miner
Hadden, Thomas Watson and others) in Salisbury Connecticut, subsequently joining
The Asia Foundation, first as Representative for Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand
and Vietnam (1983-1986) and, later, as head of the Foundation office in Washington,
D. C. (1986-1988). During the academic year 1988-1989 Franda was President of
World College in California (the World College movement was founded by Lord Mountbatten,
Armand Hammer, and Laurence Rockefeller). From 1989 to 1999 he was the University
of Maryland’s Director of International Affairs.
Dr. Franda is the author, co-author or editor of 24 books and more than a
hundred articles in the fields of political economy, comparative politics, international
relations, diplomacy, and the politics of information technology development.
Portions of his books have been translated and published in Japanese, Chinese,
Korean, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Russian, Italian, German, French and Spanish.
His most recent books are The United Nations in the 21st Century: Management
and Reform Processes in a Troubled International Organization (Rowman and Littlefield,
forthcoming 2006) and three books on information technology: 1) China and India
Online: Information Technology Politics and Diplomacy in the World's Largest
Nations (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002); 2) Launching into Cyberspace: Internet
Development and Politics in Five World Regions (Lynne Rienner, 2002) and 3)Governing
the Internet: The Emergence of an International Regime (Lynne Rienner Press,
2001). Previous writings include studies of Bangladesh: The First Decade; The
Seychelles: Unquiet Islands; Small is Politics; India's Rural Development: An
Assessment of Alternatives; Population Politics in India; and Radical Politics
in South Asia.
Franda has co-translated two political novels from Bengali into English, one
(Panchagram ["Five Villages"]) supported by UNESCO and the other serving
as the basis for the English subtitles for the Satyajit Ray film Mahanagar ("The
Great City"); he has edited a volume of Punjabi short stories entitled Punjabis,
War and Women. He has appeared often on television and radio programs, including
appearances, among others, on the McNeil/Lehrer Report, Agronsky and Company,
CNN, and public broadcasting stations throughout the United States. In the 1970s
he regularly contributed articles to The Economist (London), Newsday, and the
Christian Science Monitor. He also helped organize a BBC one-hour special television
biography of Indira Gandhi and organized semester-long courses on "The Indian
Subcontinent: Continuity and Change" for the CBS television series "Sunrise
Semester."
Formerly a Fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
in Washington, DC, Franda has served as a consultant to Morgan Guaranty Trust,
Standard Oil of Indiana, Motorola Corporation, SRI International, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Brothers. From 1984 to 1986
he was an elected member of the Board of Governors and elected Vice-President
of the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand. At Maryland, he has taught courses
on, among other topics, the International Telecommunications Regime, Japanese
Management Cultures and Technology Policy, Chinese Law and Diplomacy, the Politics
of Institutional Reform, International Relations Theory, International Law, International
Organizations, and International Business and Concepts of Private Authority.
He helped organize the first semester-long Fulbright International Center Interdisciplinary
Seminar on Russia in 1999 and directed the second semester-long seminar in this
series--on Central and Eastern Europe--in 2000. Franda has served on 25 graduate
student Ph.D. dissertation committees. Many of his former students are now professors
or deans at universities and colleges in various parts of the world, or are in
policy-making or other professional and business positions.
Dr. Franda has had experience developing university projects with the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other U.S. government
agencies, the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Asian Development
Bank, and a number of private foundations and donors. While at The Asia Foundation,
he was intimately involved with the Foundation's support of the American Political
Science Association's Congressional Fellowship Program for Asia and with the
Foundation's support of the Harvard University Nieman Journalism Fellows Program
for Asia. The projects he has helped initiate at Maryland include the Center
for International Business Education and Research (a national resource center
funded by Title VI of the US Education Act); the Japan Technological Affairs
Program and the "Gateway Japan" project, funded by the U.S.-Japan Friendship
Commission and the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation; the "Russian
Littoral Project," a joint undertaking of the University of Maryland and
the Johns Hopkins University, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Pew Charitable
Trusts, and a number of other private foundations, led by Karen Dawisha; the
Maryland/Mexico Resource Center at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
in Mexico City; the Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) Project,
founded by Mancur Olson and funded by USAID, the World Bank, and other government
and international agencies and private foundations; and, in collaboration with
Harriet Fulbright and others, the building of the Fulbright International Center
on the College Park campus.
Franda has held a number of positions in public affairs organizations, including
terms on the Boards of Directors of the United States Educational (Fulbright)
Foundation in India and the Bi-National Fulbright Board for Thailand, the Governing
Council of the Siam Society, the Board of Governors of the Sino-American Cultural
Society in Washington, D. C., the International Business Committee of the Maryland
Chamber of Commerce, the Executive Committee and Board of Governors of the Association
for International Education Administrators, the Board of Directors of the University
of Chicago Alumni Association in San Francisco, the Rotary International Education
Committee, and the Advisory Boards of Women's World Banking and the International
Law Association in Bangkok. From 1996-98 he was Executive Secretary of the American
Association for Chinese Studies and from 1994-98 Executive Secretary of the Mid-Atlantic
chapter of the Korea America Friendship Society. He has also served as a member
of a number of public affairs committees--at the state, national and international
levels--including almost ten years as a member of the Maryland Marketing Roundtable
of the State of Maryland's International Division and five years as Corporate
Secretary of University Research Corporation International (URCI), a non-stock,
nonprofit corporation organized by the Maryland Board of Regents to promote and
implement scientific research. He has led Study Groups on Bangladesh for the
Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the World Bank in Washington, DC
and has served as a lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute and the National
War College. He was recently a reviewer for USAID's Strategic Plan and on the
Advisory Committee for the United States Information Agency's Study on the Future
of the Fulbright Program. Franda played a lead role on the Organizing Committee
for the 1st International Conference on Chinese Calligraphy Education, sponsored
by the Chinese Calligraphy Education Association, and was on the Advisory Board
for the 2nd Conference, held in Long Beach, California in 2000. He was also a
member of the Hosting Committee for the World Federation of International Music
Competitions, held in Washington, D. C. in 2000.
Among honors received by Dr. Franda are fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, National Science Foundation,
and National Endowment for the Humanities. Franda received the national Shell
Oil Company Award for Excellence in Teaching while at Colgate University in 1968.
In 1983 he was chosen to deliver the Snyder Lectures at the University of Toronto
and in 1989 the Commencement Address at Sonoma State University. In 1986 he was
appointed by his Majesty, the King of Thailand, an Officer in the Most Noble
Order of the Crown of Thailand. In 1999 he was awarded the Distinguished Service
Citation--the highest honor given to Beloit College Alumni--for outstanding lifetime
achievements and service--and in 2001 the "Landmark Award" of the University
of Maryland at College Park for "unprecedented contributions to the international
life of the university."
University of Maryland Landmark Award "for unprecedented contributions
to the international life of the university," 2001
Distinguished Service Award (the highest award granted to Beloit College Alumni),
1999
Officer of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand, appointed by His
Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 1986
Shell Oil Company National Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1968
Director of International Affairs, University of Maryland, 1989-1999
President, World College, 1988-1989
Headed the Asia Foundation Office, Washington, D.C., 1986-1988
Representative for Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, based in Bangkok,
The Asia Foundation. 1983-1986
Director, Institute of World Affairs, Salisbury CT, 1980-1983
Senior Associate for Asia, Universities Field Staff International (headquartered
at Dartmouth College, based in Asia), 1971-1983
Research Associate, MIT, Center for International Studies, 1967-1977
Associate and Assistant Professor, Colgate University, 1965-1977
