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	Expert Sources from America's Colleges and Universities





Don Fullerton Professor of Economics The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/475-8519 Specialization: U.S. economy.

James K. Galbraith Professor of Public Affairs and Government The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-1244 E-mail: galbraith@mail.utexas.edu Specialization: Macroeconomics; political economy; industrial policy; comparative economic policy. Former Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee in U. S. Congress. "There is no chance that economic events will right themselves in a few weeks, or that we will be saved by such underlying factors as technology and productivity growth-or by lower interest rates or the provisions of the recent tax act. Rather, we are in for a crisis; the sooner this is recognized and acted upon, the better."

John Gould Professor of Political Science Colorado College Office: 719/389-6589 E-mail: jgould@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Gould's specialties are international political economy, Europe, and post-communist states. He has written editorials about how American foreign policy has been affected by the war.

Daniel Hamermesh Professor of Economics The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/475-8526 Specialization: Economic policy.

Randolph P. (Preston) McAfee Professor of Economics The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/475-8533 Specialization: U.S. economy and economic policy.



Wayne Jones Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Binghamton University Office: 607/777-2421 E-mail: wjones@binghamton.edu Specialization: Nerve agents, sensors to detect Arin, Soman, and Vx; toxic simulants.

Omowunmi Sadik Professor of Bioanalytical, Materials and Environmental Chemistry Binghamton University Office: 607/777-4132 E-mail: osadik@binghamton.edu Specialization: Chemical and biological warfare agents; their mode of application and toxicity levels; detection.



Michael Obsatz Professor of Sociology Macalester College Office: 651/696-6963 E-mail: obsatz@macalester.edu Specialization: A family counselor, Obsatz is the author of Raising Nonviolent Children in a Violent World: A Family Handbook, which received a 1999 Minnesota Book Award. The book highlights skills families can use when dealing with violence in the media and in the real world. In addition, he conducts parenting workshops around the country on a variety of family issues.



Bill Hochman Professor Emeritus of History Colorado College Home: 719/632-5494 E-mail: bhochman@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Hochman is an authority on the Supreme Court and Bill of Rights, American Constitutional tradition, and military interventions. He can contribute on such issues as the justice of going to war (including preventive and preemptive war), and just ways of fighting wars. He can also speak about what happens to civil liberties in times of war. A veteran of World War II, he can also relate the present situation to wars in the past.

Richard Saphire Professor of Law University of Dayton Office: 937/229-2820 Home: 937/276-4662 E-mail: richard.saphire@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: Member of the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.



Don Heider Assistant Professor College of Communication The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-1965 Specialization: Racism and media coverage of race.

Richard Schott Professor of Public Affairs The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-8938 Specialization: Race relations, public administration.

Federico Subervi Associate Professor of Radio, Television, Film The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-6668 Specialization: Race relations and media coverage of race.



Susan Brenner Associate Professor of Law University of Dayton Office: 937/229-3794 Home: 937/298-6992 E-mail: susan.brenner@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: Expert on cybercrime and cyberterrorism and the federal grand jury system. She co-authored Federal Grand Jury Practice.



Denise M. Bostdorff Associate Professor of Communication The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2030 Specialization: Author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis. She conducts research and writes on issues involving presidential rhetoric but has also written on other forms of political communication. As President George W. Bush makes public statements regarding September 11 terrorist attacks, Bostdorff can provide context and comparisons with the way that previous presidents have responded publicly.

David Cingranelli Professor of Political Science Binghamton University Office: 607/777-2435 Home: 607/797-0283 E-mail: davidc@binghamton.edu Specialization: Human rights and world politics, human rights and workers rights, human rights practices and foreign aid, public policy theory, strategies for political analysis, American foreign policy, ethics and American foreign policy, conflicts of rights, and contemporary political ideologies.

David Clark Associate Professor of Political Science Binghamton University Office: 607/777-6786 E-mail: dclark@binghamton.edu Specialization: International conflict and foreign policy, focusing in particular on the domestic political processes and factors that lead nations either to engage in conflict or to seek other policy alternatives. Examining the incentives political leaders have to substitute policy options, depending on the policy challenges they face; how nations observe each others' troubles and adjust their own behaviors, either to exploit weaknesses or to avoid becoming the target of aggression.

Kenneth Flamm Professor of Public Affairs The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-8952 Specialization: International affairs, national defense, international trade.

Mark Gentry Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2257 E-mail: mgentry@wooster.edu Specialization: Gentry can present an analysis of current foreign policy and possible scenarios of how a conflict may play out.

John Gould Professor of Political Science Colorado College Office: 719/389-6589 E-mail: jgould@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Gould's specialties are international political economy, Europe, and post-communist states. He has written editorials about how American foreign policy has been affected by the war.

David Hendrickson Professor of Political Science Colorado College Office: 719/389-6585 E-mail: dhendrickson@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Hendrickson can speak about international relations and American foreign policy. One of his five books was nominated by Oxford University Press for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990.

Margaret Karns Professor of Political Science University of Dayton Office: 937/229-3538 E-mail: margaret.karns@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: International politics, foreign policy, diplomacy and peacemaking. The ongoing war on terrorism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and North Korea's nuclear program are all major challenges the Bush administration must face and they are intertwined, she said. "The biggest question is whether the Iraq situation justifies war. Under what circumstances should the U.S. proceed? The role of the United Nations is an important one. It's the barometer of our effort to pay heed to other countries' concerns about what we do."

Jeffrey Lantis Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2408 E-mail: jlantis@wooster.edu Specialization: Lantis can provide an overview of U.S. foreign policy, security issues, the rift between Europe and the United States, and the military situation in a pending war.

Ali Mazrui Professor, Political Science; & Director, Institute of Global and Cultural Studies Binghamton University Office: 607/777-4494 E-mail: amazrui@binghamton.edu Specialization: African politics, international political culture, political Islam and North-South relations. Served as president of the African Studies Association (USA), vice president of the International Political Science Association, and special advisor to the World Bank and on the board of the American Muslim Council.

Robert Ostergard Associate Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies Research Assistant Professor of Political Science and Fellow in the Center on Democratic Performance Binghamton University Office: 607/777-3635 Home: 607/797-0634 E-mail: rost@binghamton.edu Specialization: International and comparative political economy, globalization, political economy of security and conflict, American foreign policy, cultural forces in world politics, Islam and the West, business-government relations, long and short term impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on individual state security and to the security of the international system, and intellectual property rights and third world development. Research interests include international policy ethics, intellectual property rights, human rights, and globalization issues.

Byron Price Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Dayton Office: 937/229-2338 Home: 937/226-1011 Specialization: A U.S. Army veteran who trained troops and participated in the Gulf War. "I think we should have ended the job last time. I like to support our country and the people we elect, but I'm ambivalent toward this situation because I have friends and family associated with the military," he said. "People are worried that lives will be lost, but of course lives are going to be lost. Saddam released chemicals the last time and would do it again. But I'm not privy to all the information. I'm like a passenger on an airplane with my life in the pilot's hands. You just hope the pilot is making good decisions."

Patrick Regan Professor of Political Science Director of the Center on Democratic Performance Binghamton University Office: 607/777-2167 E-mail: pregan@binghamton.edu Specialization: International conflict, conflict management, U.S. foreign policy, and the military in society. His work covers issues such as mediation in international conflict resolution and interventions in civil conflicts. Regan also facilitates an annual report card of the policies and preferences of presidential administrations with regard to human rights.

Elspeth D. Rostow Professor of Public Affairs The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-8909 Specialization: International affairs, national security, presidency.



John M. Gates Professor of History The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2454 Specialization: Studies American military history, particularly low-intensity conflict, revolutionary and guerrilla warfare, the Vietnam War, and the American colonial war in the Philippines. He is the author of Schoolbooks and Krags: The U. S. Army in the Philippines, 1898-1902 and is currently publishing The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare on the Web. He views terrorism as a modern form of warfare, adding that "There are people (not always easy to identify) who see themselves at war with the U.S., and the time has come for the U.S. to recognize that and respond as if we too are at war.

John W. Jeffries Professor of History University of Maryland, Baltimore County Office: 410/455-2048 E-mail: jeffries@umbc.edu Specialization: American home front in WWII; U.S. domestic policy during WWII. Teaches twentieth-century America and American political and policy history. Author of articles and books on the politics and policy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era and on the World War II American home front, including Testing the Roosevelt Coalition and Wartime America: The World War II Homefront. He is currently working on a study of domestic policy making during World War II.

Dennis Showalter Professor of History Colorado College Office: 719/389-6531 E-mail: dshowalter@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Showalter's expertise falls under the categories of operational analysis and military history; he also teaches a course on terrorism. Showalter regularly teaches courses on the Holocaust, education in the West, Europe from 1789 to 1848, Europe from 1848 to 1914, the Jews in modern Europe, war and society since the Renaissance, and Germany from 1715 to 1918: From the rise of Prussia to the fall of the Second Empire.



Patrick Regan Professor of Political Science Director of the Center on Democratic Performance Binghamton University Office: 607/777-2167 E-mail: pregan@binghamton.edu Specialization: International conflict, conflict management, U.S. foreign policy, and the military in society. His work covers issues such as mediation in international conflict resolution and interventions in civil conflicts. Regan also facilitates an annual report card of the policies and preferences of presidential administrations with regard to human rights.



James Richter Associate Professor of Political Science Bates College Office: 207/786-6134 E-mail: jrichter@bates.edu Specialization: Richter can address questions about the repercussions in Europe, particularly Russia, of an Iraq war. He teaches international politics, politics of post-communism, NGOs, and and environmental diplomacy.



Richard Antoun Professor of Anthropology Binghamton University Office: 607/777-2460 E-mail: rantoun@binghamton.edu Specialization: Sociocultural anthropology research among peasants in Jordan, urbanites in Lebanon, peasant-farmers in Iran, and migrants in Texas and Greece. His scholarly interests center on comparative religion and symbolic systems, the social organization of tradition in Islamic law and ethics, the sociology of dispute with respect to tribal law in the Middle East, local-level politics, the role of the individual in decision making, and the impact of transnational migration on education, work, and cultural change. He has just published a book, Understanding Fundamentalism.

Mishael Caspi (pronounced: "mish-ah-el cass-pee") Visiting Professor of Religion Bates College Office: 207/786-8209 Home: 207/783-7533 E-mail: mcaspi@bates.edu Specialization: Israeli Islamic and Judaic scholar. "While Islam strongly links religion and politics, Islamic law very strongly prohibits suicide," says Caspi. "Some will say that Islam is to lead the world, but it is to do so by persuasion. The Prophet accepted Christianity and Judaism as monotheistic traditions and called them 'people of the Book.'" Other topics that Caspi could discuss: How the internal divide between Shia and Sunni Muslims expresses itself politically; His assessment that successors to Yasser Arafat will quickly surface at his death, and there will be a negotiated peace creating a Palestinian state within six months of Yasser Arafat's death or a civil war among Palestinian factions. Arafat, he says, can no longer be the broker for peace because Israelis will never again trust him.

The Rev. David Fisher Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies University of Dayton Office: 937/229-4321 E-mail: dfisher@cscc.edu Specialization: Teaches Islamic religion and world religions.

Robert Lee Professor of Political Science Colorado College Office: 719/389-6590 Home: 719/636-2185 E-mail: rlee@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Middle East politics, Islam in the Middle East, Algerian politics, women in Islam, the work of Mohammed Arkoun, and Islamic revolutionaries and terrorists. He is the author of Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity.

Akbar Muhammad Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies University of Binghamton Office: 607/777-2434 E-mail: muhamma@binghamton.edu Specialization: Muslim peoples of the world, history of Islam, African and Islamic social history; social and intellectual history of Muslims in the U.S., Islam in Africa; social and historical aspects of the Koran, African-Arab relations, African cultural history and early Islamic history.

Robert Ostergard Visiting Asst. Prof., Political Science; & Research Fellow, Center on Democratic Performance Binghamton University Office: 607/777-3635 Home: 607/797-0634 E-mail: rost@binghamton.edu Specialization: International and comparative political economy, globalization, political economy of security and conflict, American foreign policy, cultural forces in world politics, Islam and the West, and business-government relations. Research interests include international policy ethics, intellectual property rights, human rights, and globalization issues.

Ahmed Samatar Professor of International Studies Macalester College Office: 651/696-6564 E-mail: samatar@macalester.edu Specialization: Islam's responses to the emerging world order and the rise of Islamic consciousness; African development issues, the challenges of globalization, global political economy, and political and social theory.



Bill Hochman Professor Emeritus of History Colorado College Home: 719/632-5494 E-mail: bhochman@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Hochman is an authority on the Supreme Court and Bill of Rights, American Constitutional tradition, and military interventions. He can contribute on such issues as the justice of going to war (including preventive and preemptive war), and just ways of fighting wars. He can also speak about what happens to civil liberties in times of war. A veteran of World War II, he can also relate the present situation to wars in the past.

Sandra Yocum Mize Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Dayton Office: 937/229-4321 E-mail: sandra.yocum.mize@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: American Catholicism, the "just war" tradition. "Almost any of the criteria traditionally associated with just-war doctrine would overturn the Bush administration's arguments for this new offensive against Iraq, or more precisely, Saddam Hussein," she said. "One need only consider the criteria of reasonable hope of success coupled with proportionality. Can we justify inflicting further sufferings on the Iraqi people in the hopes of toppling a regime that has proven enormously successful in ensuring its own survival no matter the most to its citizens?

Terrence W. Tilley Professor and Chair, Religious Studies Department University of Dayton Office: 937/229-4321 E-mail: terrence.tilley@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: The "just war" tradition. Catholic tradition upholds the concept of "just war," a set of circumstances that must be met before combat is justified. "I cannot see how an invasion can be justified," said Tilley, author of Inventing Catholic Tradition (Orbis Books, 2000), which won the first place Catholic Press Association 2001 Book Award in theology. "It is clearly disproportionate in its response and hardly a last resort. That there could be a just cause, the protection of the innocent, is also truly dubious."



Mark Baker Associate Professor of Management Science and Information Systems McCombs School of Business The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-3866 Specialization: Multinational corporate law; international trade law; legal aspects of terrorism; international law.



Don Heider Assistant Professor College of Communication The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-1965 Specialization: Racism and media coverage of race.

Clay Steinman Professor of Communication and Media Studies Macalester College Office: 651/696-6726 E-mail: steinman@macalester.edu Specialization: Media and film issues including news media coverage since the September 11 attacks, political advertising, and TV viewing habits. He is the co-author of the book, Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture.

Federico Subervi Associate Professor of Radio, Television, Film The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-6668 Specialization: Race relations and media coverage of race.

Charles D. Whitney Professor of Journalism The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/371-1998 Specialization: Violence and media; media and politics; public issues and controversies in journalism; public attitudes about news media.



Richard Antoun Professor of Anthropology Binghamton University Office: 607/777-2460 E-mail: rantoun@binghamton.edu Specialization: Sociocultural anthropology research among peasants in Jordan, urbanites in Lebanon, peasant-farmers in Iran, and migrants in Texas and Greece. His scholarly interests center on comparative religion and symbolic systems, the social organization of tradition in Islamic law and ethics, the sociology of dispute with respect to tribal law in the Middle East, local-level politics, the role of the individual in decision making, and the impact of transnational migration on education, work, and cultural change. He has just published a book, Understanding Fundamentalism.

Gordon A. Bennett Associate Professor of Government The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/232-7213 Specialization: International politics, East Asian international relations.

Lou Cantori Professor of Political Science University of Maryland, Baltimore County Office: 410/455-2182 Cell Phone: 410/491-7003 E-mail: cantori@umbc.edu Specialization: Middle East politics and policy; U.S. military policy in the Middle East. Distinguished Visiting Lecturer on the Middle East at the U.S. State Department. Briefed Generals Schwartzkopf and Hoare (U.S. Central Command) and addressed Special Operations at Hurlburt Field, 5th Special Forces, and the JFK Special Warfare School. He has been Visiting Professor at West Point and Olin Distinguished Professor of National Security Studies, U.S. Air Force Academy. He has also held the Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory at the U.S. Marine Corps University. Resided in the Middle East and has done research, visited or done consulting activities in Egypt, Morocco, Israel, the Occupied Territories, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, and Iraq.

Richard J. Chasdi Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2257 Specialization: Expert on Middle East politics and Middle East terrorism. He is the author of Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968-1993. His news volume, Tapestry of Terror, A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, will be published in January. Says Chasdi of the September 11 attacks against the United States: "Terrorism is a lot like arthritis. You can suppress it and treat it, but you can't get rid of it. These actions should not have come as a great surprise insofar as we observe terrorism happening in other parts of the world, but make no mistake this is a spectacular act of terrorism. I have never experienced anything like this in my study of terrorism. This is not the norm."

Ellen Fleischmann Assistant Professor of History University of Dayton Office: 937/229-3046 Home: 937/256-2664 E-mail: ellen.fleischmann@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: Middle East history.

R. Kevin Lacey Associate Professor of Arabic, and chair, Classical & Near Eastern Studies Binghamton University Office: 607/777-6120 Home: 607/272-3338 E-mail: klacey@binghamton.edu Specialization: Arabic, Arabic literature, Arabic literature in translation, contemporary North African Arabic literature, literary classics of the Islamic world, Western media representations of Arabs and Muslims. Managing editor of the Journal for Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies.

Robert Lee Professor of Political Science Colorado College Office: 719/389-6590 Home: 719/636-2185 E-mail: rlee@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Middle East politics, Islam in the Middle East, Algerian politics, women in Islam, the work of Mohammed Arkoun, and Islamic revolutionaries and terrorists. He is the author of Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity.

Harold Liebowitz Professor of Middle Eastern Studies The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/475-6786 or 512/471-1365 Specialization: Middle Eastern history.

Abraham Marcus Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-3881 or 512/475-7229 Specialization: Middle Eastern history.

Donald Quataert Professor of History & Director, Southwest Asian & North African Studies Program Binghamton University Office: 607/777-6025 E-mail: dquataer@binghamton.edu Specialization: The Middle East since 1453, twentieth-century Middle East, Middle East politics, modern world history, Ottoman labor history, comparative labor history (US, Europe, Third World).

Abraham Zilkha Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-4690 or 512/ 471-1365 Specialization: Middle Eastern history.



David Herrelko Visiting Professor, New Engineer Program University of Dayton Office: 937/229-3074 Home: 937/427-9002 E-mail: david.herrelko@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: Retired as an Air Force brigadier general in July 1999 and can discuss military strategy.

Dennis Showalter Professor of History Colorado College Office: 719/389-6531 E-mail: dshowalter@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Showalter's expertise falls under the categories of operational analysis and military history; he also teaches a course on terrorism. Showalter regularly teaches courses on the Holocaust, education in the West, Europe from 1789 to 1848, Europe from 1848 to 1914, the Jews in modern Europe, war and society since the Renaissance, and Germany from 1715 to 1918: From the rise of Prussia to the fall of the Second Empire.



Jaro Bilocerkowycz (pronounced: "yarrow bee-low-cer-kow-vich") Associate Professor of Political Science University of Dayton Office: 937/229-2231 Home: 937/297-0687 E-mail: jaro.bilocerkowycz@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: Teaches U.S. national security and global politics.

Lou Cantori Professor of Political Science University of Maryland, Baltimore County Office: 410/455-2182 Cell Phone: 410/491-7003 E-mail: cantori@umbc.edu Specialization: Middle East politics and policy; U.S. military policy in the Middle East. Distinguished Visiting Lecturer on the Middle East at the U.S. State Department. Briefed Generals Schwartzkopf and Hoare (U.S. Central Command) and addressed Special Operations at Hurlburt Field, 5th Special Forces, and the JFK Special Warfare School. He has been Visiting Professor at West Point and Olin Distinguished Professor of National Security Studies, U.S. Air Force Academy. He has also held the Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory at the U.S. Marine Corps University. Resided in the Middle East and has done research, visited or done consulting activities in Egypt, Morocco, Israel, the Occupied Territories, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, and Iraq.

Francis J. Gavin Professor of Public Affairs The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-5249 Specialization: National security, international affairs.

Devin T. Hagerty Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Maryland, Baltimore County Office: 410/455-2185 E-mail: dhagerty@umbc.edu Specialization: U.S. National security; foreign policy; South Asian politics. His current main research priority is a study of U.S. security alliances in Asia since the end of the Cold War. Hagerty is the author of "The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation: Lessons from South Asia," published by the MIT Press in 1998.

Bobby R. Inman Professor of Public Affairs The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/471-1602 Specialization: National security, international trade, technological innovation. Former Director of the National Security Agency and former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. On national security: "Warning time becomes the most critical ingredient. How quickly do you recognize the indicators that something may be about to happen and provide warning to people? The focus here needs to be on time."

Andrew Latham Professor of Political Science Macalester College Office: 651/696-6549 E-mail: latham@macalester.edu Specialization: International conflict and security issues. Expert on arms production and the proliferation of arms, including weapons of mass destruction. Researched nuclear weapons in Pakistan and India and recently wrote a report for the Canadian government on India's nuclear policy. He has also written about arms manufacturing and the proliferation of light weapons in the Third World. In addition, he is writing a book on the American defense industry.

Patrick Regan Associate Professor of Political Science Binghamton University Office: 607/777-2167 E-mail: pregan@binghamton.edu Specialization: International conflict, conflict management, U.S. foreign policy, and the military in society. Recently completed a book on the role of outside interventions in settling civil conflicts (Settling Civil Conflicts: Outside Interventions and the Cessation of Hostilities). This work involves the statistical analysis of conditions for successful interventions across nearly 200 outside interventions in the Post-Cold War period. His work covers issues such as symbols and the militarization of society, determinants of human rights violations, mediation in international conflict resolution and interventions in civil conflicts.



Chris Beam Lecturer, History Department Bates College Office: 207/786-6428 Home: 207/784-8933 E-mail: cbeam@bates.edu Specialization: Beam, a lecturer in the Bates history department and archivist for the college's Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, can provide historical perspective on domestic opposition to an Iraq War. Beam, a Vietnam veteran, teaches a course on the Vietnam War that encompasses the U.S. antiwar movement.

Karen Beckwith Professor of Political Science The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2411 E-mail: kbeckwith@wooster.edu Specialization: Beckwith can offer an assessment of public opinion shifts and the impact of mass demonstrations against a war with Iraq on U.S. foreign policy.



Denise M. Bostdorff Associate Professor of Communication The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2030 Specialization: Author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis. She conducts research and writes on issues involving presidential rhetoric but has also written on other forms of political communication. As President George W. Bush makes public statements regarding September 11 terrorist attacks, Bostdorff can provide context and comparisons with the way that previous presidents have responded publicly.

Bruce Buchanan Professor of Government The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/232-7212 Specialization: Presidency and national government.

Walter Dean Burnham Professor of Government The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/232-7208 Specialization: Presidency and national government.

Tom Cronin McHugh Professor of American Institutions and Leadership Colorado College Office: 719/227-8249 E-mail: tom.cronin@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Cronin is an expert on the American presidency. He is the author or co-author of several books on the presidency and American government, including The State of the Presidency and The Paradoxes of the American Presidency. He is the former president of Whitman College.

Robert Johnstone Professor of Politics Earlham College Office: 765/983-1264 E-mail: bobj@earlham.edu Specialization: Johnstone is largely an expert on the American presidency and is used frequently by national and international media for commentary. He is cited regularly in the LAT, USA Today, NYT, and the Dallas Morning News, among others.

Robert Loevy Professor of Political Science Colorado College Office: 719/389-6584 Home: 719/471-7848 E-mail: bloevy@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Presidency and national government. Has written two books on the presidential selection process, and observed presidential caucuses and primaries in 1992 and 1996 and national conventions in 1996. One of the chief architects of the Colorado primary first held in 1992, Loevy was a campaign aide to Spiro Agnew when the former U.S. vice president ran for governor in Maryland. Also studies social protest and the Civil Rights Movement.

Daron Shaw Assistant Professor of Government The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/232-7275 Specialization: Presidency and national government.



Francesco Duina Assistant Professor of Sociology Bates College Office: 207/786-6319 E-mail: fduina@bates.edu Specialization: Duina, assistant professor of sociology at Bates College, can address questions about people's attitude toward war with Iraq -- in particular the strongly conflicting emotions many feel. Duina specializes in political, economic and cultural aspects of the European Union and the process of globalization. A native of Italy, he is bilingual in Italian and English, proficient in Spanish, and is learning French.

Lane Geddie Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Dayton Office: 937/229-5404 E-mail: Lane.Geddie@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: A licensed clinical psychologist, Geddie assisted children and families in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, where she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology. In 1999, she coordinated a multidisciplinary effort at East Carolina University to provide screening, individual assessment and group treatment for children in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd. She also provided training to staff in the Xenia, Ohio, public school system on helping children deal with their fears after the city's most recent tornado (2000).

Kenneth Maton Professor of Psychology University of Maryland, Baltimore County Office: 410/455-2209 E-mail: maton@umbc.edu Specialization: Trauma, stress & social support systems. Expert on psychological trauma and stress, with research focusing on how social support systems and community involvement help people (especially inner-city youth) cope with and overcome difficult life stresses.

Jeffrey T. Mitchell Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Health Services University of Maryland, Baltimore County Office: 410/455-3777 Pager: 410/313-0062 Specialization: Training and stress treatment of emergency services personnel. Recently returned from New York City, where he and other University of Maryland, Baltimore County representatives helped emergency and disaster response crews who worked at the World Trade Center attack site. Developed the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) process, which is utilized by over 300 communities throughout the United States and in five other nations. Founder, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF, www.icisf.org). Addressed emergency personnel in all fifty states and seven countries. Senior author of Human Elements Training; CISD: An Operations Manual, Second Edition (Revised); Emergency Response to Crisis and Emergency Services Stress. Author of over sixty other publications on critical incident stress, crisis intervention, and the treatment of stress in emergency personnel.

William Scott Professor of Psychology The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2464 Specialization: Expert on phobias, particularly the fear of flying. In addition to conducting research in this area, Scott conducts a practice in which he counsels fearful flyers, using a 33-item Fear of Flying Inventory that he developed.



Denise M. Bostdorff Associate Professor of Communication The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2030 Specialization: Author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis. She conducts research and writes on issues involving presidential rhetoric but has also written on other forms of political communication. As President George W. Bush makes public statements regarding September 11 terrorist attacks, Bostdorff can provide context and comparisons with the way that previous presidents have responded publicly.

Adrienne Christiansen Professor of Communication and Media Studies Macalester College Office: 651/696-6714 E-mail: christiansen@macalester.edu Specialization: Rhetoric of "war talk." She has researched and written about the Persian Gulf War, contemporary conservatism, AIDS activists, and the rhetoric of social movements.

Jim Dawes Professor of English Macalester College Office: 651/696-6809 E-mail: dawes@macalester.edu Specialization: Dawes can analyze the meaning and effectiveness of the language used by the Administration and other officials during the war. He is the author of the new book, The Language of War (Harvard University Press), which examines the relationship between language and violence. Dawes has said, "The Administration is having a difficult time generating enthusiasm for the war because it has been following an outdated script. Bush Sr. developed broad support for Desert Storm because he was able to convince the American public that Saddam Hussein was a modern Hitler. The current Administration has tried to do the same, but post-Sept. 11, this strategy has backfired. The more the Administration depicts Saddam Hussein as a unique and lonely monster, the more the public begins to think of him as somebody separated from the terrorist networks responsible for 9/11. The more Saddam Hussein reminds us of the Nazi threat, the less he reminds us of the terrorist threat."



The Rev. James Heft, S.M. Chancellor and Professor of Faith and Culture University of Dayton Office: 937/229-2105 Home: 937/293-9744 E-mail: james.heft@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: Can address interfaith among Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

David Weddle Chair and Professor of Religion Colorado College Office: 719/389-6615 E-mail: dweddle@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Complex role of religion. Teaches "Question of Faith," "Introduction to Philosophy of Religion," "Religious Ethics," and "Religion in America."



Jessica Fridrich Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science Binghamton University Office: 607/777-2577 E-mail: fridrich@binghamton.edu Specialization: Steganography, the science of secret or hidden communications. Linkages between digital images and cameras. Fridrich has developed techniques, including the "Securestego" software package, to help protect against and intercept secret communications. Steganographic messages from Osama bin Laden have already been intercepted using steganalysis.



Dr. Ami Pedahzur Associate Professor of Government The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/232-1452 Cell: 512/363-6387 E-mail: ap2976@gov.utexas.edu Specialization: Dr. Pedahzur is a terrorism expert and has closely studied suicide bombers. In addition to his position at The University of Texas, he is a senior fellow at the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, Israel and serves as an associate editor of the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Dr. Pedahzur has written several books on terrorism and violence in the Middle East, and his newest book "Suicide Terrorism: Root Causes of the Culture of Death" was just released.



Thomas P. Carey Director of the Bates College Office of Security and Campus Safety Bates College Office: 207/786-6254 E-mail: tcarey@bates.edu Specialization: Thomas P. Carey is director of the Bates College Office of Security and Campus Safety and the former chief of the FBI's Domestic Terrorism Section, from which he retired in 2003. Carey, a 1973 Bates alumnus, was responsible for directing and managing the national program to combat domestic terrorism groups and weapons of mass destruction. He worked closely with the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Health and Human Services, Energy and the National Security Council, and directed the expansion of the national Joint Terrorism Task Forces from 34 groups to 66. He also represented the FBI in conferences overseas. In 2001-2002, Carey was Inspector-In-Charge of Anthrax Investigations, directing the overall investigation into the four anthrax letters in which five people were murdered and possibly thousands exposed to anthrax.

Richard J. Chasdi Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2257 Specialization: Expert on Middle East politics and Middle East terrorism. He is the author of Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968-1993. His news volume, Tapestry of Terror, A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, will be published in January. Says Chasdi of the September 11 attacks against the United States: "Terrorism is a lot like arthritis. You can suppress it and treat it, but you can't get rid of it. These actions should not have come as a great surprise insofar as we observe terrorism happening in other parts of the world, but make no mistake this is a spectacular act of terrorism. I have never experienced anything like this in my study of terrorism. This is not the norm."

Mark Ensalaco Associate Professor of Political Science Director of the Center for International Students University of Dayton Office: 937/229-2761 Home: 937/291-1251 E-mail: mark.ensalaco@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: Expert on terrorism, human rights, political violence, dictators, Latin-American politics. Ensalaco currently is working on book titled "From Black September to September 11, believed to be the first complete history of Middle East terrorism from 1968 to September 2001. He has been sought out for quotes by Associated Press, Reuters, United Press International, the BBC and CNN among others. He teaches Political Science 452, also known as the "terrorism course," started concentration in Peace and Global Security at UD and the nation's first undergraduate program in human rights. He has published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Armed Forces and Society, and the Human Rights Quarterly. His lecture titles include: "Chile Under Pinochet: Recovering the Truth," "The Mark of Cain: The Imperative to Prosecute War Crimes and Human Rights Violations," "The Thirty Years War: Political Violence and Human Rights in the Americas from the Cuban Revolution to the Central American Peace Accords," "The Human Rights Movement in the Twenty-First Century: Emerging Challenges, New Strategies," and "Education for Action: Training the Human Rights Professionals of the Future." In 1988, he was awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to conduct doctoral research at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Columbia and he received advanced training in human rights at the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica in 1993 and 1994. In 1990, he served as an international observer to the Nicaraguan elections. A year later, he was invited to be visiting professor at the School of Law at the Universidad de Concepcion, in Chile, to teach, conduct research and draft a set of recommendations aimed at re-instituting the social science program eliminated by the Pinochet dictatorship.

Christopher Hewitt Associate Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, Baltimore County Office: 410/455-2060 Specialization: Terrorism and social violence; government policies to reduce terrorism. Expert on social violence, including terrorism and rioting. Also studies, writes and teaches on government policies to reduce terrorism, comparisons of social violence in different nations, and social inequality. Published in the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Political Science and others.

Dr. Ami Pedahzur Associate Professor of Government The University of Texas at Austin Office: 512/232-1452 Cell: 512/363-6387 E-mail: ap2976@gov.utexas.edu Specialization: Dr. Pedahzur is a terrorism expert and has closely studied suicide bombers. In addition to his position at The University of Texas, he is a senior fellow at the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, Israel and serves as an associate editor of the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Dr. Pedahzur has written several books on terrorism and violence in the Middle East, and his newest book "Suicide Terrorism: Root Causes of the Culture of Death" was just released.

Dennis Showalter Professor of History Colorado College Office: 719/389-6531 E-mail: dshowalter@ColoradoCollege.edu Specialization: Showalter's expertise falls under the categories of operational analysis and military history; he also teaches a course on terrorism. Showalter regularly teaches courses on the Holocaust, education in the West, Europe from 1789 to 1848, Europe from 1848 to 1914, the Jews in modern Europe, war and society since the Renaissance, and Germany from 1715 to 1918: From the rise of Prussia to the fall of the Second Empire.



Libby Rittenberg Professor of Economics Colorado College Office: 719/389-6410 Specialization: Turkish economy, Turkish society, political economy, and educational issues. She is the editor of the book The Political Economy of Turkey in the Post-Soviet Era: Going West and Looking East? and co-editor of the book Inflation and Disinflation in Turkey. In addition to those interests, she has edited a book on the economic transformation of Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and specializes in stabilization and liberalization economic policies, international trade, centrally planned economies, and Third World debt.



Kent Kille (KILL-ee) Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science The College of Wooster Office: 330/263-2456 E-mail: kkille@wooster.edu Specialization: Kille can provide a look at the continued role of the United Nations.



Molly Schaller Assistant Professor of Counselor Education and Human Services University of Dayton Office: 937/229-3677 Home: 513/755-2382 E-mail: molly.schallre@notes.udayton.edu Specialization: Focuses on college students' development and their culture in her research and teaching. She can address what changes the attacks may have on students' outlook and behavior.



Anne E. Brodsky Assistant Professor of Psychology & Affiliate Assistant Professor of Women's Studies University of Maryland, Baltimore County Office: 410/455-2416 E-mail: brodsky@umbc.edu Specialization: Resilience of women and the role of communities in resisting societal risks, including community violence, poverty, racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. The most recent extension of these interests is her work with Afghan women and RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, a 23-year-old humanitarian and political women's organization that operates clandestinely in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Brodsky stayed in Afghan refugee camps and urban communities in Pakistan for 2 weeks in July and August 2001, touring RAWA schools, orphanages, and income-generating projects and learning first-hand from Afghan women refugees and RAWA members about the conditions, needs, concerns, and resilience of Afghan women.







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