Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Drobnick, Dick
Contact Information
Director, USC Center for International Business Education and Research
Office: RAN 313
Phone: (213) 740-7130
E-mail: drobnick@usc.edu
Dr. Drobnick specializes in Pacific Rim economic and business issues and U.S. and Pacific Rim trade policies. He is the founding director of USC's Center for International Business Education and Research, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Education as one of its 33 national resource centers on international business. From 1994 - 2005, Drobnick served as USC's inaugural Vice Provost for International Affairs. He is a member of the United States Asia Pacific Council, which is the organizing institution for the United States National Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Asia Society of Southern California. Drobnick was the founding Secretary General (1997-2002) of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) (www.apru.org), was a member of APRU’s Steering Committee(1997-2011), and is the Managing Director of the APRU World Initiative (www.arpru.org/awi) (2006-). Drobnick is the author of numerous articles regarding international economics and business, as well as the co-author of Neither Feast nor Famine: Food Conditions to the Year 2000 (D.C. Heath, 1978) and co-editor of Small Firms in Global Competition (Oxford University Press, 1994).
Education:
- M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California
- B.S., Bradley University
Honors and Awards:
- Secretary general emeritus, Association of Pacific Rim Universities
- Vice chairman and board member, U.S. National Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council
- Executive committee member, United States Asia Pacific Council
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Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Events
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.