Travel-Study
Trips for 2009

This year’s alumni travel opportunities to Italy’s Tiber Valley and the Galapagos Islands were sold out as of press time. But planning for a pair of 2009 trips already is under way.

The Changing Face of Vietnam
With Assistant Professor Hung Cam Thai
Hung Cam Thai, assistant professor of sociology and Asian studies, will be leading a trip to Vietnam—including time spent in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, among other locations—focusing on how that nation is changing in response to the global economy. Dates and details will be announced later this year.

The Peruvian Highlands
With Professor Ralph Bolton ’61
Ralph Bolton ’61, professor of anthropology, will lead a trip focused on the Altiplano of Southern Peru where he was a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1960s. Today he works in conjunction with Pomona College student volunteers in communities around Lake Titicaca carrying out projects in agriculture, health, education, tourism and arts and crafts. Visits to rural villages will be featured, including meetings and fiestas with Andean villagers, for an up-close look at problems of development.

For additional information, contact the Alumni Office at (909) 621-8110, or by e-mail at alumni@pomona.edu.