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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 "@".
Nabeel Abraham
Abraham is Professor of anthropology and director of the Honors Program at Henry Ford Community College.
He is also the editor of Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream (Wayne State University Press, 2000).
See also Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock, co-editors of Arab Detroit 9/11.
Contact
Email: nabraham at hfcc.edu
Linda Martín Alcoff
Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her many books include Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self and Identity Politics Reconsidered (co-edited with Michael Hames-García, Satya P. Mohanty, and Paula M. L. Moya).
See also, Mariana Ortega, co-editor of Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader.
Contact
Publicist: Fran Keneston
Publicist’s Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Publicist’s Phone: 518-472-5000
Daniel L. Byman
Daniel Byman focuses on counterterrorism and Middle East security. He also directs Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies.
See also Kenneth M. Pollack, co-author of Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil War.
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Mary L. Dudziak
Mary L. Dudziak is Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California Law School. She is the author of Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy as well as editor of September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment?
Contact
Email:
mdudziak at law.usc.edu
Rick Francona
Rick Francona retired in July 1998 after twenty-seven years as an Air Force intelligence officer, including tours with DIA, CIA, NSA, and foreign embassies. He also served as the first air attaché to the U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria. He now lives in Port Orford, Oregon.
Contact
Publicist: Susan Artigiani
Email: sartigiani at usni.org
Phone: 410-295-1081
Norman Friedman
Norman Friedman is an internationally known strategist and naval historian living in New York City. A monthly columnist for Proceedings magazine, he is the author of twenty-eight books, including the recent award-winning Seapower as Strategy and The Fifty-Year War.
Contact
Publicist: Susan Artigiani
Email: sartigiani at usni.org
Phone: 410-295-1081
Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics in the School of Divinity and Professor of Law at Duke University. In addition to having published over three hundred scholarly articles to date, he is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-Century Theology and Philosophy, and Christians among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics.
With Frank Lentricchia, he has edited Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11.
Contact
Phone:
919-660-3420
Gary R. Hess
Gary R. Hess is a Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor of History at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Hess's research and teaching focus on U.S. foreign policy, especially the U.S. and Asia, and U.S. national security policy. A past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (1991) and a former chair of the U.S. State Department's Committee on Historical Deiplomatic Documentation, he has received two NEH fellowships and three Fulbright awards.
Contact
Email: ghess at bgnet.bgsu.edu
Scott W. Hibbard
Scott W. Hibbard is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at DePaul University. His areas of research include American foreign policy, the war on terror, Islamic politics in Egypt, India, religion and politics. See webpage.
Contact
Email: shibbar1 at depaul.edu
Sally Howell
Howell is Assistant professor of history and Arab American studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Her essays have appeared in Diaspora, Visual Anthropology, and Anthropological Quarterly. As a member of the Detroit Arab American Study Team, she is also co-author of Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit after 9/11.
See also Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock, co-editors of Arab Detroit 9/11.
Contact
Email: sfhowell at umich.edu
Zachary Karabell
Zachary Karabell, an independent scholar and writer, is the author of Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962;A Visionary Nation: Four Centuries of American Dreams and What Lies Ahead; What's College For?: The Struggle to Define American Higher Education; and The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election.
Contact
Email: zkarab at aol.com
Phone: 212-724-2814
Nikki R. Keddie
Nikki R. Keddie (Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture
and Cultural Politics) is professor emerita of history at UCLA and
the author of many books, including Women in Middle Eastern History
and Iran and the Muslim World.
Contact
Publicist:
Rachael Mann,
University of Washington Press
Email: remann at u.washington.edu
Phone: 206-221-4995
Steven Lambakis
Steven Lambakis, senior national security and international affairs analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy, is the author of Winston Churchill: Architect of Peace and On the Edge of Earth:
The Future of American Space Power.
Contact
Publicist: Mack McCormick
Phone: 859-257-5200
Email: permissions at uky.edu
James H. Lebovic
James H. Lebovic is a professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University.
Contact
Email: lebovic at gwu.edu
Frank Lentricchia
Frank Lentricchia is Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature at Duke University and author of such books as After the New Criticism, Critical Terms for Literary Study, Introducing Don DeLillo, and Ariel and the Police. He is also the author of a memoir, The Edge of Night, and several works of fiction, including the novels Johnny Critelli, The Knifemen, and The Music of the Inferno.
With Stanley Hauerwas, he has edited Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11.
Contact
Phone: 919-684-6172
Robert S. Litwak
Robert S. Litwak is director of the Division of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars http://www.wilsoncenter.org/staff/robert-s-litwak.
Contact
Email: robert.litwak at wilsoncenter.org
Assaf Moghadam
Assaf Moghadam is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel.
Contact
Email: assafm at hotmail.com
Kenneth B. Moss
Kenneth B. Moss is a professor at and chairman of the Department of National Security Studies at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. He has also been affiliated with the Siemens Corporation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Contact
Email: mossk at ndu.edu
Robert Myers
Robert J. Myers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, is a sixteen-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency, a past publisher of The New Republic, and former president of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. His books include U.S. Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: The Relevance of Realism, The Political Morality of the International Monetary Fund and Korea.
Contact
Email: rmyers at hoover.stanford.edu
Phone: 650-851-4938
Mariana Ortega
Mariana Ortega is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University.
See also, Linda Martín Alcoff, co-editor of Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader.
Contact
Publicist: Fran Keneston
Publicist’s Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Publicist’s Phone: 518-472-5000
Robert M. Pallitto
Robert M. Pallitto is a professor of political science at Seton Hall University.
See also William Weaver, co-author of Presidential Secrecy and the Law.
Contact
Email: pallitro [at] shu.edu
Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher
Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher is a research professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an assistant dean in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. See: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/cee/faculty/pfatteicher_sarah.html
Contact
Email: spfatt at cals.wisc.edu
Kenneth M. Pollack
Kenneth Pollack is an expert on national security, military affairs and the Persian Gulf. He was Director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council. He also spent seven years in the CIA as a Persian Gulf military analyst.
See also Daniel L. Byman, co-author of Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil War.
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Jeremy Popkin
Popkin is a professor of history at the University of Kentucky. He is a specialist in modern European history, author of several books on French history, and the grandson of Zelda Popkin.
Contact
Email: popkin at uky.edu
Richard A. Posner
Richard Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of numerous books, including Overcoming Law, a New York Times Book Review editors' choices for best book of 1995, and An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton, one of Times' choices for Best Book of the Year in 1999 and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2000.
Contact
Publicist: Rudy Faust, Oxford University Press
Phone: 212-726-6007
Email: rudy.faust at oup.com
Kent Roach
Kent Roach is a professor of law at the University of Toronto, where he
holds the Prichard-Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002. The author of eleven books,
Roach is a member of the International Task Force on Terrorism, Democracy
and the Law. He has served with the Commission of Inquiries into both Maher
Arar and the Bombing of Air India Flight 182.
Contact
Publicist: Nicole Villeneuve, Cambridge University Press,
212-337-6567 or nvilleneuve at cambridge.org
Zachary Shore
Zachary Shore is an associate professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State through a fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his doctorate in modern European history from Oxford University and served as a national security fellow at Harvard's Institute for Strategic Studies. http://www.zacharyshore.com/biography/
Contact
Email: zshore at gmail.com
Andrew J. Shryock
Shryock is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
He is the author of Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan and editor of several volumes, including Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream (Wayne State University Press, 2000) and Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend.
See also Sally Howell and Nabeel Abraham, co-editors of Arab Detroit 9/11.
Contact
Email: ashryock at umich.edu
Mark Sidel
Mark Sidel is Professor of Law and Faculty Scholar at the University of Iowa and a research scholar at the University's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. His research and writing focus on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector; law and development; and comparative law with an emphasis on Asia. He is the author of More Secure, Less Free. Sidel proposed and subsequently organized the compilation of the Books for Understanding: The Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy bibliography.
Sidel has also taught Vietnamese and Chinese law at Harvard Law School (1998). He served as the W.G. Hart Lecturer in Law at the Law Faculty of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London in 2003, and as visiting professor of Asian law in the chaire Asie at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Centre d'Etudes et de Reserches Internationales in 2004. Before assuming his current position, Professor Sidel managed the regional program on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector for the Ford Foundation in South Asia (New Delhi, 1999-2000). He directed Ford Foundation programs in Vietnam (1992-1995), and earlier worked in the Foundation's Beijing office. Professor Sidel has published extensively on philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, civil society, law and development, and comparative law in Asia.
Contact
Email: mark-sidel at uiowa.edu
Phone: 319-384-4640
Jordan Tama
Tama is Assistant Professor at American University’s School of
International Service and Research Fellow at AU’s Center for Congressional
and Presidential Studies. He served as a member of the Intelligence and
Counterterrorism Expert Advisory Groups for Barack Obama’s 2008
presidential campaign and as a contributor to the Princeton Project on
National Security. He has been published in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic,
The Hill, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and International Affairs Review,
among others.
Contact
Publicist: Nicole Villeneuve, Cambridge University Press,
212-337-6567 or nvilleneuve at cambridge.org
William G. Weaver
William G. Weaver is an associate professor of political science and director of academic programs at the University of Texas at El Paso's Institute for Policy and Economic Development.
See also Robert Pallitto, co-author of Presidential Secrecy and the Law.
Contact
Email: wweaver [at] utep.edu
Thomas G. Weiss
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. He was awarded the “Grand Prix Humanitaire de France 2006” and is chair of the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS). He was editor of Global Governance (2000-5) and research director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-2). He is the editor of several books, including The United Nations and Civil Wars and Collective Security in a Changing World.
Contact
Publicist: Fran Keneston
Publicist's Email: fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Publicist's Phone: 518-472-5023
Daniel Wirls
Daniel Wirls is a professor and chair of the Department of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research spans American political history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention to the latest developments in military policy. http://politics.ucsc.edu/news-events/profiles/dan-wirls-featured-profile.html
Contact
Email: wirls at cats.ucsc.edu
Steve A. Yetiv
Dr. Steve A. Yetiv is University Professor of Political Science at Old Dominion University. Dr. Yetiv's research explores American foreign policy and decision making toward the Middle East, global energy, globalization, and theories of foreign policy and international relations.
Contact
Email: syetiv at odu.edu
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