WAR AND DIPLOMACY
Daniel Chirot, professor of international studies (206) 685-2412 (office) /(206) 329-8773 (home) /[email protected]
Chirot studies tyrants and tyranny, and is an expert on terrorism, religious wars and ethnic conflicts.
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Stephen Hanson, professor of political science (206) 543-9460 (office) /[email protected]
Hanson is an excellent source on general global security issues, and a specialist on Russia.
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Christopher Jones, associate professor of international studies (206) 543-9831 (office) /[email protected]
Jones is an expert on nuclear proliferation, security, NATO and the former Soviet Union. Director of the UW Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies.
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John Keeler, professor of political science and director of the Center for West European Studies/European Union Center (206) 616-3708 or (206) 685-1450 (office) /[email protected]
Keeler monitors European response to U.S. military actions.
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Steven Livingston, senior research fellow at the Center for American Politics and Public Policy (political science) 206-543-6493 (office) /206-618-2266 (home) /[email protected]
Livingston is an expert on the role of advanced information technology in press coverage of war and diplomacy.
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Peter Soverel, lecturer in international studies (425) 742-4651 (home) /[email protected]
Soverel can talk about arms control and defense. He is a retired naval captain and former defense liaison to NATO and the Iran-Contra investigations. He teaches a course on "War."
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Ronald E. Woods, diplomat-in-residence, Jackson School of International Studies (206) 722-7208 (home) /[email protected]
Foreign policy. Woods organized U.S.-British political cooperation in Operation Desert Shield before his 1992 retirement from the foreign service, and was Henry Kissinger's director of staff.
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INTERNATIONAL LAW AND WAR
Joan Fitzpatrick, professor of law (206) 543-9368 (office) /f[email protected]
Fitzpatrick is an authority on international law and refugees and says the Bush administration's War Against Terrorism is testing the limits of the international system in place for decades.
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Lis Wiehl, associate professor of law (917) 655-3541 (cell) /[email protected]
Wiehl can speak to terrorism and criminal law. She is a former assistant U.S. attorney and House counsel. NOTE: She is on sabbatical but can be reached via cell phone or e-mail.
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MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA
Robert Burrowes, lecturer in the Jackson School of International Studies (206) 543-2467 (office) /(206) 782-6965 (home) /[email protected]
Burrowes is an expert on the Middle East in general and a specialist on Yemen. Taught a fall 2002 course on political Islam and Islamic fundamentalism.
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Ellis Goldberg, director of the Middle East Center and associate professor of political science (206) 543-7197 (office) /(206) 329-6619 (home) /[email protected]
Goldberg is an expert on Middle East politics. Very up-to-date on Iraq.
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Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (206) 685-3800 (office) /(425) 644-4488 (home)/[email protected]
Karimi-Hakkak is an expert in the literature, history and culture of Iran.
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Resat Kasaba, professor of international studies (206) 543-6890 (office) /(206) 528-5722 (home) /[email protected]
Kasaba can speak about Middle Eastern culture and politics, U.S. policy and the impact of a war against Iraq.
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Arzoo Osanloo, assistant professor of anthropology and comparative law and society (206) 543-1102 (office) /[email protected]
She studies women's rights in Iran and the Middle East. Osanloo also has practiced asylum and immigration law.
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Magid Shihade, doctoral student in Near and Middle East Studies (206) 934-1414 (home) /[email protected]
Shihade is a frequent lecturer and panelist on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and U.S. policy in the Middle East.
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U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS
Tetsuden Kashima, professor of American Ethnic Studies (206) 543-4358 (office) /(206) 230-9144 (home) /[email protected]
Kashima is an expert on WWII internment of Japanese Americans and the lessons learned.
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Anita Ramasastry, associate professor of law and associate director of the Shilder Center for Law, Commerce & Technology (206) 616-8441 (office) /(206) 409-4377 (cell) /[email protected]
Ramasastry is an informed critic of Bush anti-terror measures and military tribunals, and an expert on Internet law, privacy, international law and banking.
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PUBLIC OPINION, PROTEST AND THE PRESIDENCY
Lance Bennett, professor of political science and communications (206) 543-4946 (office) /(206) 213-0342 (home) /[email protected]
Coauthor of "Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War," Bennett says the news media will underplay criticism of President Bush's stance until members of Congress and other elites speak out more strongly.
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David Domke, assistant professor of communications (206) 685-1739 (office) /(206) 729-5744 (home) /[email protected]
Domke's research found that Time and Newsweek closely echoed the nationalist rhetoric of American leaders after 9/11 -- playing into White House strategies to mobilize support for the war on terrorism.
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Richard Kirkendall, professor emeritus of history (206) 543-7972 (office) /(206) 522-7381 (home) /[email protected]
Kirkendall can talk about the lessons of Vietnam as they apply to Colin Powell and the rest of the administration.
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Margaret Levi, professor of political science (206) 543-7947 (office) /(206) 325-9455 (home) /[email protected]
Levi is faculty director of the UW's WTO History Project and a respected writer on patriotism, protest and trust in government. NOTE: She will be in Spain March-May 2003.
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Kevin Price, assistant professor of political science (206) 543-2741 (office) /(206) 632-0335 (home) /[email protected]
Price is a good source on the presidency, Congress and national parties and elections.
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Walt Williams, professor emeritus of public affairs (206) 322-4197 (office) /[email protected]
Williams is a scholar of presidential leadership and style, and the exercise of power.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS
Jonathan Bricker, doctoral student in psychology (206) 667-5074 (office) /(206) 322-1098 (home) /[email protected]
Bricker studies air-travel stress and the 9/11 effect on fliers. He can discuss ways to help readers and viewers cope with airport angst.
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Kirsten Foot, assistant professor of communications (206) 543-4837 (office) /[email protected]
Foot conducted the Pew Internet Project survey on changes in online behavior a year after 9/11, which found that 19 million Americans rekindled dormant relationships after the attacks.
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Anthony Greenwald, professor of psychology (206) 543-7227 (office) /[email protected]
Greenwald is the creator of a test that measures bias against Arabs, Greenwald is an expert on prejudice and stereotyping. His Implicit Association Tests are widely used.
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Victoria Lawson, professor of geography (206) 543-3313 (office) /[email protected]
Lawson studies how people demonize other individuals and groups.
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Gerald Rosen, clinical associate professor of psychology and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences (206) 322-2700 (office)/[email protected]
Rosen is an expert on post traumatic stress disorder and co-author of letter cautioning practitioners against intervening with people unless they seek help.
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Roger Simpson, associate professor of communications, director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and coordinator of Dart Center Ground Zero (206) 543-0405 (office) /[email protected]
Simpson set up a New York center to help journalists with the trauma of covering 9/11. At the UW, Simpson studies the effect of emotional trauma on journalism.
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ISLAM
Humza Chaudhry, president Muslim Student Association (206) 604-4836 (office) /[email protected]
Chaudhry can put reporters in touch with local Iraqis and other community members from the Middle East. He also can discuss the state of the Muslim community in America post-9/11.
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Daniel Lev, professor emeritus of political science (206) 543-1835 (office) /[email protected]
Lev is an eminent authority on Indonesia, Southeast Asia and Malaysia, and an excellent source on U.S. relations with the Muslim world
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Ahmed Souaiaia, lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (206) 685-6769 (office) /[email protected]
Souaiaia's expertise is in Islam and human rights.
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Robert Stacey, professor of history (206) 543-9190 (office) /[email protected]
Stacey can talk about the Crusades and the historic conflict between Christianity and Islam.
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Eugene Webb, professor emeritus of comparative religion (206) 525-7578 (office) /[email protected]
Islam is inherently no more fundamentalist than Christianity or Judaism, he says. Webb also has written about the concept of evil.
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Brannon Wheeler, associate professor of Islamic Studies (206) 543-6033 (office) /[email protected]
Wheeler is a specialist on Islam and Islamic law.
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Deborah Wheeler, adjunct assistant professor in Middle East Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (206) 616-1643 (office) /[email protected]
She teaches Islamic civilization and trends in the Middle East.
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WAR AND THE ECONOMY
William Beyers, professor of geography (206) 543-5871 (office)/[email protected]
Beyers can discuss Northwest economic impacts of terrorism and war.
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Neil Bruce, economics department chairman (206) 543-5955 (office) /[email protected]u
Bruce is an expert on the federal and state budgets, taxes and defense spending.
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Debra Glassman, senior lecturer in finance & business economics, Business School (206) 543-8738 (office) /(206) 542-3071 (home) /[email protected]
Glassman can discuss terrorism and the international financial system, business cycles and world trade.
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Ufuk Ince, assistant professor of business, UW Bothell (425) 352-5497 (office) /(206) 417-6102 (home)/[email protected]
He can speak about the impact of armed conflict on airlines and aircraft makers, stock market, economy and dollar.
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Jennifer Koski, associate professor of finance and business economics (206) 543-7975 (office) /(206) 543-7975 (home) /[email protected]
Koski is an expert on the stock market.
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Charles Nelson, professor of economics (206) 685-1382 (office) /(206) 525-6727 (home) /[email protected]
Nelson says 9/11 spurred a reversal of America's post-Cold War slide in defense spending.
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Haideh Salehi-Esfahani , senior lecturer in economics (206) 543-7463 (office) /(206) 523-1430 (home) /[email protected]
Salehi-Esfahani teaches a course on economic development of the Middle East and is knowledgeable on oil, etc.Her background is Iranian.
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Paul Sommers, senior research fellow, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs (206) 685-0307 (office) /(206) 854-5116 (cell) /[email protected]
Sommers is a top source on Northwest economy. Up-to-date and an excellent explainer.
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Richard Startz, professor of economics (206) 543-8172 (office) /(206) 525-1556 (home) /[email protected]
A war with Iraq, Startz says, would be bad for the soldiers and Iraqis. But a war during moderately slack times can stimulate the economy
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BIOWARFARE AND BIOTERRORISM
Susan Gregg-Hanson, Harborview Medical Center (206) 731-6397 (office) /[email protected]
Gregg-Hanson can identify experts in biological and chemical agents and infectious disease.
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Walter Neary, Health Sciences news and community relations (206) 543-3620 (office) /[email protected]
Neary can help reporters contact experts in infectious disease, chemical warfare, epidemiology and related topics.
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KOREAS
Wonmo Dong, scholar in residence, Jackson School of International Studies (206) 543-6479 (office) /[email protected]
Knowledgeable on events in the Koreas, Dong is professor emeritus and chair of Asian Studies at Southern Methodist University in Texas, in residence at UW during 2002-3.
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Clark Sorensen, associate professor of international studies (206) 543-1696 (office) /(206) 522-6389 (home) /[email protected]
Sorensen is a respected observer of the Koreas, he can explain the origins of the current crisis and the issues separating America from its South Korean ally.
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