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Academic
Council Professor Mohammed Abu-Nimer is an associate professor at the American University’s School of International Service in International Peace and Conflict Resolution in Washington, DC. Mohammed Abu-Nimer is an expert on conflict resolution and dialogue for peace. He has conducted research on conflict resolution and dialogue for peace among Palestinians and Jews in Israel; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; application of conflict resolution models in Muslim communities; inter-religious conflict resolution training; interfaith dialogue; and evaluation of conflict resolution programs. As a practitioner, he has been intervening and conducting conflict resolution training workshops in Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Ireland, Philippines (Mindanao), Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, and the U.S. He has published articles on these subjects in the Journal of Peace Research; Journal of Peace and Changes, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and in various edited books. Abu-Nimer is the author of three books, Dialogue, Conflict Resolution and Change: The Case of Arabs and Jews in Israel (1999), Reconciliation, Coexistence, and Justice in Interethnic Conflicts (2001) and Peacebuilding and Nonviolence in Islamic Context: Theory and Practice (2003). He is co-Executive Editor (with Erin McCandless) of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. He has also authored numerous articles, chapters in edited books and book reviews. Professor Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University and director of the Center for Social Media. She earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., at the University of Minnesota. She has been the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, has served as a Fulbright Senior Researcher in Brazil, is a Woodrow Wilson Honorary Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Aufderheide has served as a visiting professor at the Center for International Studies, Duke University, and as a telecommunications policy analyst for the United Church of Christ Office of Communication, which is a leader in public interest policy. Professor Aufderheide now sits on the Board of Directors for Women Make Movies, the Film Advisory committee at the National Gallery of Art, and on several editorial boards. As a writer and editor she has worked with many nonprofit organizations, including World Resources Institute, The Arab American Anti Defamation Committee, Arab American Institute, and the Labor Institute for Public Affairs, The Center for Media Education, The Benton Foundation, and the Council on Foundations. Aufderheide's books include The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat, Communications Policy and the Public Interest: The Telecommunications Act of 1996, Anwar Sadat, Beyond PC: Towards a Politics of Understanding (Ed.), Latin American Visions (Ed.). She is a senior editor for In These Times newspaper. You may visit her web site at: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org Professor Barbara J. Bird is currently an associate professor in the Management Department of Kogod College of Business Administration. She is also Chair of the Management Department. Bird obtained a BA from California State University, Fresno, an MA from the University of Western, and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Her published works include: Entrepreneurial Behavior; articles in numerous publications, including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Bird is former newsletter editor and past chair of the entrepreneurship division of the Academy of Management and currently serves as an associate editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. She consults to large and small businesses on issues of new ventures, corporate culture, leadership succession, organizational structure, and leadership training. She currently works with the Advanced Technology Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as an industry consultant. Bird has also acted as International Consultant to organizations such as the Aetna Institute, BF Goodrich, and Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, as well as entrepreneurial firms. She teaches Organizational Theory, Behavior and Management, Family Business, Managing Small and Growing Companies, and Leadership and Organizational Creativity. Visit her web site at: http://kogod.american.edu/ViewItems/ViewFaculty.cfm?facultyID=75 Professor David Culver is a professor of Biology and coordinator of the Environmental Studies program at American University. Culver earned his B.A. from Grinnell College, and his Ph.D. from Yale University. Culver previously served as Associate Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Northwestern University, and Chair of the Department of Biology at American University. Also, he is the Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Northwestern University. Culver served as a visiting associate professor at Harvard University and was the 1970 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Population Biology at the University of Chicago. In 2004 Culver received the Faculty distinguished Service Award. As a Fellow and honorary life member of the National Speleological Society, Culver is a member on the Boards of the Karst Waters Institute and the Virginia Cave Board. Culver has published numerous articles and papers, and two books on subterranean biology published by Harvard University Press. He co-edited Subterranean Ecosystems, in the Ecosystems of the World Series of Elsevier Press and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Caves published by Elsevier Press. He has a special interest in the subterranean fauna of the Balkan Peninsula. Reverend Joseph Eldridge serves as the University Chaplain at the American University. Eldridge earned his BA from Tennessee Wesleyan College and his MA from American University and his MDIV from Perkins School of Theology at SMU. Eldridge previously served as director for the Washington office of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. A former international representative for the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries and consultant on human rights (Crosby Fund Fellowship), Eldridge also served as a Special consultant for the Comision de Desarrollo (CDD) in Honduras. There, Eldridge administered a small foundation created to respond to human rights emergencies and coordinated development programs for the Honduran population displaced by the Contra war. Cofounder and Executive Director of the Washington Office on Latin America, Eldridge’s experience includes time spent as a consultant to Americas Watch, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and the Sanford Commission. Eldridge also served as a United Methodist missionary in Chile from 1970-1973. He has published a number of op eds. in major newspapers and several longer articles for journals and books on US human rights policy and refugee and asylum issues. Eldridge’s published works include: Through a Glass, Darkly: Facing Up to Our Human Rights Record, and is the coauthor of Human Rights: A Look Homeward. Professor Robert Goldman serves as Professor of Law and Louis C. James Scholar at the Washington College of Law of American University. He is also the co-director of the Law School's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Faculty Director of the War Crimes Research Office. He teaches International Law, International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law and has published extensively in these fields. From 1996 to 2004 he was a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and its Chairman in 1999. In July 2004, Professor Goldman was designated the UN Human Rights Commissions' Independent Expert on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while counter terrorism. Professor Mary Gray is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and affiliate professor in the School of International Service and the School of Education at the American University. She also holds a visiting professorship at King's College School of Medicine, London. Gray earned her B.A. summa cum laude from Hastings College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Kansas. Gray received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at Hastings College. Earning her J.D. summa cum laude from the Washington College of Law at American University, Gray also studied at J. W. Goethe University in Germany on a Fulbright grant. First president of the Association of Women in Mathematics and past president of the Women's Equity Action League, Gray is also a member of Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Middle East Education Foundation, and the American Association of University Professors. Gray served as vice-president of the American Mathematical Society and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. After completing her term as chair of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA, Gray went on to become the International Treasurer of Amnesty International. She currently chairs the Board of Directors of the American Middle East Education Foundation. Having previously taught at the University of Kansas, the University of California-Berkeley and at California State University-Hayward, Gray also worked for the National Bureau of Standards and has served several terms as Chair of Mathematics and Statistics Department and as Director of the Women's Studies Program at American University. Gray currently directs the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Foundation Scholarship Programs. Published works include, A Radical Approach to Algebra, Calculus with Finite Mathematics for Social Sciences and scores of articles in the fields of mathematics, mathematics education, and women in mathematics, computer science, applied statistics, economic equity, discrimination law, academic freedom, and opera. Professor Nicholas Kittrie is University Professor and Edwin A. Mooers Scholar at American University's Washington College of Law. Kittrie formerly served as counsel to the United States Judiciary Committee and Vice Chairman of the United Nations Alliance of Non-Governmental Organizations on Crime and Justice. Founder and chair of the American Society of International Law's Interest Group on the Status of Minorities and other Communities, Kittrie is also Chairman of the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Justice and Peace. Formerly served as director of research for the American Bar Association and past President of the American Society of Criminology, Kittrie is currently chair of the executive committee of KVK Communications Ltd. Previously, Kittrie has served as a consultant to the United States Vice President's Task Force on Combating Terrorism, Vice-chairman of the UN Alliance of NGO's for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and a consulting delegate to the Interpol General Assembly. Designated a Senior Fellow by the National Endowment on the Humanities in 1974, and 1979-80 Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Justice, US Department of Justice. Author of The War Against Authority: From the Crisis of Legitimacy To a New Social Contract, Rebels With A Cause: The Political Offender and the Rules of Resistance, International Crimes and Punishments: Selected Documents on International and Transnational Criminal Law and Procedure. Kittrie's other works include: The Right To Be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy, Crescent and Star: Arab and Israeli Perspectives on the Middle East Conflict, Sanctions, Sentencing and Corrections: Policy, Law and Practice and The Tree of Liberty: Rebellion and Political Crime in America. Dr. Kittrie's writings have earned him two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize, and a 1987 award for The Best Book in Law from the Association of American Publishers. Professor Anita J. LaSalle is a Professor of Information Technology in the Kogod School of Business at American University. She is also Chair of the Information Technology Department and Director of the Master of Science in Information Technology (MSITM) Program. Dr. La Salle received her BS in engineering from Newark College of Engineering, her MS from New Jersey Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology. La Salle previously served as Program Director for the National Science Foundation in Washington DC and is now an Expert Consultant for the Computer and Networking Systems Division of the CISE Directorate of NSF. After a career in industry, she taught at the New Jersey Institute of Technology where she also served as Academic Coordinator for their Computer Center. La Salle’s research and publications are in software engineering in the areas of risk assessment and metrics for software contracting. Dr. La Salle has over three-dozen book chapters and published articles to her credit including: Journal of Business and Economics Research, World Congress on Customer Service, Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems, International Council on Systems Engineering, and others. Her most recent publications and research are in the area of software sub-contracting risk assessment. Dr. La Salle’s website can be found at: http://kogod.american.edu/ViewItems/ViewFaculty.cfm?facultyID=132 David Owens is Director of Multicultural Affairs in American University's Office of Campus Life. Owens received his BS degree (Economics) from Saint Joseph's College (Indiana) and MA (Economics) from The Ohio State University, where he also completed all of the coursework for the PhD. Prior to joining the staff at American University, he was Chair of the Economics Department and Associate Professor of Economics at Saint Joseph's College (Indiana), and Co-Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Saint Joseph's. He also taught Economics while at Ohio State and was an Instructor in Economics at Ohio Wesleyan University. He also served as a member of the Indiana Coalition of Blacks in Higher Education, was Vice President for Academics and Recruitment on the Board of Directors of the Saint Joseph's College Alumni Association, and is a past Board member of the DC College Personnel Association. He currently serves as an AU liaison and officer for the Washington Regional Task Force Against Campus Prejudice, is a member of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and sits on the Board of Trustees of Saint Joseph's College. Owens has been a consultant to several academic institutions and has presented at regional and national conferences. Lucinda Joy Peach is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University. She holds a Ph.D. in ethics from the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law, and a B.A. degree from the program in International Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her areas of research and teaching include moral philosophy, applied ethics (including bioethics, feminist ethics, and legal ethics), religion and politics, and gender and religion. She is the author of Legislating Morality: Religious Identity and Moral Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2002), and the editor of Women and World Religions (Prentice Hall, 2002) and Women in Culture: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishers 1998). She has published a number of articles on gender and violence, the ethics of war, and women’s human rights, including the trafficking of women for the sex trade as a human rights violation. Her current research is focused on religion and law in relation to the sex trade in Asia and the implications of globalization for the corporate social responsibilities of multinational and transnational corporations for human rights violations. More information about Professor Peach can be found at: http://www.american.edu/cas/philorel/peach.htm Jeffrey Reiman is William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy at American University in Washington, D.C. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Queens College in 1963 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University in 1968. He was a Fulbright Scholar in India during 1966-67. Professor Reiman joined the American University faculty in 1970, in the Center for the Administration of Justice (now called the Department of Justice, Law and Society of the School of Public Affairs). After several years of holding a joint appointment in the Justice program and the Department of Philosophy and Religion, he joined the Department of Philosophy and Religion full-time in 1988, becoming director of the Master’s Program in Philosophy and Social Policy. He was named William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy in 1990. Professor Reiman is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies, and past president of the American University Phi Beta Kappa chapter. He is the author of In Defense of Political Philosophy (1972), Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy (1990), Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory and Practice (1997), The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice (7th edition, 2004), and more than fifty articles in philosophy and criminal justice journals and anthologies. He is co-editor (with Paul Leighton) of Criminal Justice Ethics (2001). Professor John M. Richardson Jr. is professor of International Affairs and Director of the Doctoral Studies Program in the School of International Service at American University. He received his AB at Dartmouth College, his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and his SSRC, Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Founding director of the University's Social Science Computer Laboratory, Richardson also was a Visiting Professor of International Relations, in the Department of History and Political Science at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. An international committee of the Society for Computer Simulation, in 1982, labeled him as "one of the twenty most effective decision makers in the world." Presently he serves on the Editorial Board of Futures Research Quarterly and on the Board of the Sri Lanka-based International Center for Ethnic Studies. Some of his published works include Partners in Development: AID University Relations; Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time has Come; and the edited volume Making it Happen: A Positive Guide to the Future. Anticipated release is expected of Democratization in South Asia, which Dr. Richardson edited. Professor Roberta Rubenstein is a Professor of Literature at American University, specializing in modern fiction and literature by women writers. Rubenstein earned her B.A. magna cum laude from University of Colorado and was selected for Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of London. She was a Fulbright Scholar to England and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Honorary). At the American University, Professor Rubenstein was the first director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program (1983-89). She has received a number of awards for teaching, scholarship, and service, including the Talon Award for Outstanding Teaching, the Outstanding Teacher Award for the College of Arts and Sciences (1979, 1987), the Senior Scholar Award, College of Arts and Sciences (1987), and the University Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Development (1989). In 1994, she was named American University's Scholar/Teacher of the Year. Professor Rubenstein’s publications include The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing: Breaking the Forms of Consciousness (1979); Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction (1987); and Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction (2001). She is the co-editor of Worlds of Fiction (2nd ed., 2001), an anthology of short fiction from around the world, and has published more than thirty articles on modern and contemporary writers. Dr. James A. Thurber is Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. He was the principal investigator of a seven year (1997-2004) grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to study campaign conduct. Dr. Thurber has been a professor at American University since 1974 and was honored as the University Scholar/Teacher of the Year in 1996. He is author and coauthor of numerous books and more than eighty articles and chapters on Congress, congressional-presidential relations, interest groups and lobbying, and campaigns and elections. He is an author or editor of Campaign Consultants, Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Voters in American Elections (with Candice J. Nelson and David A. Dulio, 2005), Campaigns and Elections, American Style (Candice Nelson, 2004, Second Ed.), Congress and the Internet (with Colton Campbell, 2002), Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations (Third Ed., 2005), The Battle for Congress: Consultations, Candidates, and Voters (2001), Crowded Airwaves: Campaign Advertising in Elections (with Candice J. Nelson and David A. Dulio, 2000), Campaign Warriors: Political Consultants in Elections (2000), Remaking Congress: The Politics of Congressional Stability and Change (with Roger Davidson, 1995), Divided Democracy: Cooperation and Conflict Between Presidents and Congress (1991), and Setting Course: A Congressional Management Guide (with Chaleff, Loomis, and Serota, 1988). Dr. Thurber earned a B.S. in political science from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University and was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. He has worked on five reorganization efforts for committees in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate for 1976 to present. He was Director of the Washington, DC based Human Affairs Research Centers of the Battelle Memorial Institute and served as acting Dean of the School of Government and Public Administration at American University. |
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