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Expert Directory
The following scholars, writers, and editors are available to members of the media to talk about their work in this area. Following is information about their background, special interests, and preferred manner of contact. Listed email addresses should be copied into an email client, replacing "at" with "@".
Peter Asmus
Peter Asmus is a freelance journalist based in Sacramento, California who
has spent more than a decade covering energy issues for a variety of
publications including the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor,
San Jose Mercury News, Amicus Journal, and others. He has edited university
policy journals, worked with non-profits promoting sustainable energy
policies, and investigated the political and regulatory antics of utility
monopolies. He is the co-author of Reinventing Electric Utilities (Island
Press, 1997) and In Search of Environmental Excellence.
Contact
Publicist: Jaime Jennings
Phone: (202) 232-7933 x44
Email: serc at islandpress.org
Randall Baker
Randall Baker is professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University.
See also: Robert Bent and Lloyd Orr, co-authors of Energy: Science, Policy, and the Pursuit of Sustainability.
Contact
Publicist: Jaime Jennings
Phone: (202) 232-7933 x44
Email: serc at islandpress.org
Jonathan J. Bean
Jonathan J. Bean is associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University, and is a specialist in corporate law and government regulation. He is the author of Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration and Beyond the Broker State: A History of the Federal Government's Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961.
Contact
Publicist: Mack McCormick
Phone: 859-257-5200
Email: permissions at uky.edu
Robert Bent
Robert Bent is professor emeritus of physics at Indiana University.
See also: Randall Baker and Lloyd Orr, co-authors of Energy: Science, Policy, and the Pursuit of Sustainability.
Contact
Publicist: Jaime Jennings
Phone: (202) 232-7933 x44
Email: serc at islandpress.org
Margaret Leslie Davis
Margaret Leslie Davis is an independent writer, author of Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles (1993), and winner of the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Book.
Contact
Publicist: Alex Dahne
Phone: 510-643-5036
Email: alex.dahne at ucpress.edu
Howard Geller
Howard Geller is a leader on energy issues in the NGO community. He led the
American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy for nearly 20 years before
leaving it in 2000 to found a new nonprofit focused on the Southwest.
Contact
Publicist: Jaime Jennings
Phone: (202) 232-7933 x44
Email: serc at islandpress.org
Allen Hammond
Allen Hammond is senior scientist and director of strategic analysis at the
World Resources Institute.
Contact
Publicist: Jaime Jennings
Phone: (202) 232-7933 x44
Email: serc at islandpress.org
Stephen Haycox
Stephen Haycox is a Professor of History at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. A resident of Anchorage for more than thirty years, he has written widely on culture, Native peoples, and law and politics in the history of Alaska and the American West.
Contact
E-mail: afswh1 at webmail.uaa.alaska.edu
Office phone: 907-786-1776
Jennifer Kent
Jennifer Kent is a researcher specializing in environment and sustainable economies based in Oxford, England.
See also: Norman Myers, co-author of Perverse Subsidies: How Misused Tax Dollars Harm the Environment and the Economy.
Contact
Publicist: Jaime Jennings
Phone: (202) 232-7933 x44
Email: serc at islandpress.org
Norman Myers
Norman Myers is an independent scientist specializing in environmental
issues, based in Oxford, England. His books include Ultimate Security
(Island Press, 1996), and The Primary Source (Norton, 1992).
See also: Jennifer Kent, co-author of Perverse Subsidies: How Misused Tax Dollars Harm the Environment and the Economy.
Contact
Publicist: Jaime Jennings
Phone: (202) 232-7933 x44
Email: serc at islandpress.org
Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies and New York University. Author of Nutrition in Clinical Practise (1985), she has served as a nutrition policy advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and as a member of the nutrition and science advisory committees to the US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.
Contact
Publicist: Alex Dahne
Phone: 510-643-5036
Email: alex.dahne at ucpress.edu
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Lloyd Orr
Lloyd Orr is professor emeritus of economics at Indiana University.
See also: Randall Baker and Robert Bent, co-authors of Energy: Science, Policy, and the Pursuit of Sustainability.
Contact
Publicist: Jaime Jennings
Phone: (202) 232-7933 x44
Email: serc at islandpress.org
Sam Peltzman
Sam Peltzman is Sears Roebuck Professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has been a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and senior staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He is the author of Political Participation and Government Regulation.
Contact
Publicist: Micah Fehrenbacher
Phone: 773-702-7740
Email: publicity at press.uchicago.edu
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