Editors: Periodically the University of Pittsburgh will release an updated experts list on the subjects of terrorism, Iraq, and the Middle East; this week we bring you six new experts in the areas of bioterrorism, communism, immigration, religion, and violence and trauma in relation to children.
The following University of Pittsburgh experts are available to comment regarding the ongoing terrorism and Iraq situations and related topics:
AirlinesMartin StanilandProfessor of public and international affairsPh.D., social and political sciences, University of Cambridge (England)
Staniland is an expert on the politics of international aviation. He specializes in the study of Western Europe, the airline industry, non-U.S. government business, European union affairs, airlines and transportation policy, competition policy, and international negotiation. His research areas include international relations, trade-in services in transportation, and European Union politics and economic issues. His publications include Falling Friends: The United States and Regime Change Abroad (Westview Press, 1991), American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-1970 (Yale University Press, 1991), and What is Political Economy? (Yale University Press, 1987).
AnthropologyJeffrey SchwartzProfessor of physical anthropology and of history and philosophy of science and a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of SciencePh.D., physical anthropology, Columbia University
Schwartz is an expert on forensic anthropology. He also is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History and in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. His research and teaching cover the exploration of method, theory, and philosophy in evolutionary biology through focusing on problems involving the origin and subsequent diversification of extinct and extant primates, from prosimians to humans and apes; human and faunal skeletal analysis of archaeological recovered remains, particularly from historical sites of the circum-Mediterranean region; and dentofacial growth and development in Homo sapiens as well as in mammals in general. Schwartz has conducted archeological fieldwork in the United States, England, Israel, Cyprus, and Tunisia, and museum research in the mammal and vertebrate paleontology collections of major museums in the United States, Great Britain, Europe, and Africa. Schwartz also is a consultant in forensic anthropology for the coroner offices in Pennsylvania's Allegheny and Westmoreland counties.
Arms Race/Antiwar MovementJoseph WhiteProfessor of history Ph.D., history, University of California, Berkeley
White is an expert on the Cold War, the nuclear age, and the antiwar movement. He specializes in the study of utopian socialism and nuclear disarmament and the Cold War, and teaches 19th- and -20th Century Britain, Modern Europe, Work in History, and the Cold War. Among his publications are Tom Mann (Manchester University Press, Lives of the Left Series, 1991) and The Limits of Trade Union Militancy (Greenwood Press, 1978).
BioterrorismSamuel J. Watson IIIAssociate professor of public health practice and vice director of the BioMedical Security InstituteM.A., international affairs, George Washington University
Watson is an expert on bioterrorism preparedness and response, White House and national-level interagency coordination, congressional and media relations, crisis management, civil-military interaction, strategic command and control, intelligence, continuity of government, critical infrastructure protection, nuclear arms control, and military and other key disciplines that aggregate into a complete homeland security specialty. He has worked on terrorism and biological terrorism issues since the mid-1980s. His former positions include chief of staff of the Reagan-Bush Presidential Transition Team for the Intelligence Community and special assistant to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency; the deputy to the head of the delegation to the Strategic Arms Reductions Talks; deputy assistant to the vice president for National Security Affairs; senior fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, and program manager with a Washington, D.C.-area consulting firm for senior-level U.S. government decision-makers, where he created, developed, marketed, and managed terrorism and chemical, biological, and nuclear terrorism and public health and medical response policy analyses and tabletop simulations. Watson served as an officer in the U.S. Army and spent much of his time working on key national projects. He also served two years in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division as an infantry officer at company, battalion, and brigade levels. He was trained as an Army Airborne Ranger officer and led reconnaissance units.
Leonard CassonAssociate professor of environmental engineeringPhD, civil/environmental engineering, University of Texas at Austin
A registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania and Florida, Casson has been trained and certified in bioterrorism vulnerability assessments for water utilities by the American Water Works Association. He has served as a consultant to the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority and the Allegheny County Health Department. Casson has published his research findings in professional publications such as Water Environment Research, Water Science and Technology, Journal AWWA, and in monograph for the Water Environment Federation.
Communism and Russian-Soviet HistoryWilliam ChaseChair and professor of historyPh.D., history, Boston College
Chase is an expert in Russian and Soviet history, modern European history, urban history, and international communist movements. A Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award winner, Chase teaches Russian and Soviet history and graduate readings and research in Russian and Soviet history. Chase is the author of Enemies within the Gates? The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-39 (Yale, 2001). He is at work on Murder Most Sacred, Murder Most Foul, a book-length manuscript using the assassination of Leon Trotsky to examine the rise and nature of threat construction, scapegoating, conspiratorial worldviews, and political violence among communists in the Soviet Union, Spain, Mexico, and the United States from 1935 to 1940.
DefensePaul HammondDistinguished Service Professor of Public and International Affairs Ph.D., political science, Harvard University
Hammond is an expert on defense policy, U.S. strategy, and strategic defense against terrorists and other attacks. His research areas include administration, operations, and objectives of American foreign policy, especially in Europe; national security function in government in a period of cutback and change; redefining national and international security; and bureaucratic politics. Among his many publications are "Central Organization in the Transition from Bush to Clinton" (Chapter 9 in American Defense Annual 1994, Charles F. Hermann, ed., Boston: Lexington Books, 1994) and "American Defense Decision-Making: Politics and the Governmental Process" (in Security Studies in the 1990s, R. Goodson, T. Greenwood and R. Schultz, Westview Press, 1992).
Disaster ManagementLouise ComfortProfessor of public and international affairsPh.D., political science, Yale University
Comfort is an expert on decision-making under trauma, tracking down terrorists, and disaster management. Her research areas include organizational theory and behavior, organizational analysis, change and management, policy design and implementation, and public policy analysis. She has written several books, including Shared Risk: Complex Systems in Seismic Response (Pergamon Press, 1999) and Reframing Disaster Policy: The Global Evolution of Vulnerable Communities (with B. Wisner, S. Cutter, R. Pulwarty, K. Hewitt, A. Oliver Smith, J. Weiner, M. Fordham, W. Peacock, F. Krimgold, 1999). She has been a consultant for the United Nations and the Allegheny County Emergency Management Agency. Comfort also was a visiting professor in the Research Center for Urban Safety Security at Kobe University, Japan, for the 1999-2000 academic year.
EconomicsKen LehnProfessor of business administration in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of BusinessPh.D., business administration, Washington University of St. Louis
Lehn is an expert in corporate governance and corporate control. From 1987 to 1991, Lehn served as chief economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he worked on many issues pertaining to financial markets, including hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts, insider trading, the 1987 stock market crash, market value accounting, and deposit insurance. He has published in such leading academic journals as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Law and Economics, as well as in The Wall Street Journal.
European-American RelationsMichael BrennerProfessor of public and international affairsPh.D., political science, University of California, Berkeley
Brenner is an expert on the meaning of the collaborative response from Europe regarding terrorism on America, and on American-French relations. He has conducted extensive research in the areas of American foreign policy, international relations theory, international political economy, and national security. He has published several books, including The European Union's Defense Policy: NATO's Partner or Rival? (Institute of National Strategic Studies, Washington, D.C.: National Defense University, 2001) and Terms of Engagement, The U.S. and European Security Identity (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1998). He has been a consultant for the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of Defense, and Westinghouse Corporation.Guy PetersMaurice Falk Professor of American GovernmentPh.D., political science, Michigan State University
Peters is an expert on European politics and relationships. He has written several books, including, American Public Policy: Problems and Prospects (2nd edition, Chatham House, 1986) and The Instruments of Public Policy: American and European Perspectives (Edward Elgar, 1998).
FinanceKuldeep ShastriProfessor of business administration in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business Ph.D., financial economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Shastri is an expert on the analysis of the U.S. market and foreign markets. He teaches in the areas of corporate finance, derivatives, financial engineering, investments, and market microstructure. He has received Distinguished Teaching awards from the 1984, 1989, and 1995 Executive M.B.A. classes at the Katz Graduate School of Business and the 1990 M.B.A. class at the International Management Center in Budapest, Hungary. Examples of his work in derivative securities include the valuation of foreign currency options and options on futures, the information content of option prices, the valuation of warrants traded on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, and the impact of dividends on option valuation. His research on market microstructure involves the analysis of the impact of derivative markets on the efficiency of the underlying security markets and the comparison of trading structures on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ.
ImmigrationDavid ClubbDirector, Office of International ServicesM.A., intercultural studies, Columbia International University
Clubb is an expert in U.S. immigration law within the university context. He is actively involved in public policy and advocacy efforts at the local, state, national, and international levels, promoting the advancement of international educational and cultural exchange. Prior to coming to Pitt, Clubb served as the director of Immigrant Services in the Office of International Services at The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Md. Author of several articles, Clubb's opinion piece, "Foreign Students Boost National Security: Keeping Our Universities Open to the World is Vital to Winning Hearts and Minds," recently appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
International Business-LawRon BrandDirector, Center for International Legal Education, and professor of law J.D., Cornell University
Brand is an expert in civil lawsuits for damages and insurance claims. He was the driving force behind the creation of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for International Legal Education and its Master of Laws Program for Foreign Law Graduates. Brand has published on international trade issues in several prestigious journals, including Yale Journal of International Law, Stanford International Law Journal, and Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels and the University of Augsburg. Brand is co-editor of "Basic Documents of International Economic Law" with Stephen Zamora (Commerce Clearing House Inc., 1990).
MilitaryDonald GoldsteinProfessor of public and international affairsPh.D., history, University of Denver
Goldstein is a leading expert on air warfare, arms control, national security, foreign policy, and military strategy and history, including Pearl Harbor, World War II, and the U.S. military. He has a joint appointment with Pitt's Asian Studies and Eastern European Studies programs. He also is a member of Pitt's Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies. His research areas include history, public administration, political science, arms control, national interest and national security, theory and practice of international affairs, policy analysis, foreign policy process, international relations, and administrative theory. Goldstein has written many books, including Korean War (Brassey-MacMillan, 1999), At Dawn We Slept (McGraw-Hill, 25th printing, 2001), Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History (Viking Penguin, 6th printing, 2001), and Fading Victory: World War II in the Pacific (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991). He has been a consultant for the Federal Energy Management Agency, Air War College, National War College, Vector Corporation, International Development Services, and EAST Incorporated.
National SecurityWilliam KellerWesley W. Posvar Chair in International Security Studies and Director of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for Security StudiesPh.D., government, Cornell University
Keller is an expert on terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, internal security and the FBI, the arms trade, and international security theory and practice. Keller, who joined Pitt in September 2002, is the former executive director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and research director of M.I.T.'s Japan Program. Prior to joining M.I.T in 1997, Keller served for two years as associate professor and deputy director at the Center for Trade and Commercial Diplomacy in the Monterey Institute of International Studies. From 1987 to 1995, he was project director and senior analyst for the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment in Washington, D.C., directing major studies, including "Multinational Firms and the U.S. Technology Base and International Collaboration in Military Technology," among others, and leading Congressional staff delegations to Asian and European countries on behalf of committees of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He is the author or coauthor of numerous articles, reports, and other publications, and has written three books: The Myth of the Global Corporation (Princeton University Press, 1998), Arm in Arm: the Political Economy of the Global Arms Trade (Basic Books, 1995), and The Liberals and J. Edgar Hoover: Rise and Fall of a Domestic Intelligence State (Princeton University Press, 1989). Prior to earning his degrees at Cornell, Keller had been a public affairs specialist in the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of the Secretary (1980-81) and served in the Carter White House as director of communications for the Domestic Policy Staff's Task Force on Youth Employment in the Executive Office of the President (1978-80).
Gordon MitchellAssociate professor of communicationPh.D., communication, Northwestern University
Mitchell is an expert on public argument on national security, preemption doctrine, and U.S. missile defense. His book, Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy (Michigan State University Press, 2000), recently won the National Communication Associations Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address. His articles on missile defense have appeared in such leading journals as The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs; Science, Technology, and Human Values; and the Quarterly Journal of Speech.
Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome
Professor of psychiatry and psychologyPh.D., psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Baum is an expert on posttraumatic stress syndrome and the effects of trauma on rescue workers. He has studied chronic stress and long-term consequences of traumatic or persistent stressors since 1972 and has focused more specifically on mental health and psychological and physical symptoms of victims of disasters and motor vehicle accidents. He also has conducted studies of stress, mental health, and health-related consequences of rescue and recovery work at disaster sites. Baum has conducted extensive studies of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, air disasters, natural and toxic disasters, and industrial accidents. He has edited, co-edited, or co-authored more than 30 books, and authored or co-authored more than 125 scientific and professional publications, including "Physical symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome are exacerbated by the stress of Hurricane Andrew" (Psychosomatic Medicine, 1995) and "Assessment of characteristics of intrusive thoughts and their impact on distress among victims of traumatic events" (Psychosomatic Medicine, 1999).
Religion
Instructor, Department of Religious StudiesPhD, religious studies, University of Pittsburgh
Denova is an expert on religion, particularly on the human dimensions of religion, including religious fanaticism. She teaches courses in Islamic civilization, including both the religion and history of Islam. She has traveled in Islamic countries and incorporates women's issues in Islam into her courses on women and the Bible. Denova frequently lectures to the community on the topic of the politics of religion in Jerusalem. Other areas of expertise include the origin of Christianity, women and religion, and world religion.
Marc BaerVisiting assistant professor of historyPh.D., history, University of Chicago
Baer is a historian of the Middle Eastern and Islamic worlds. He teaches Religion and Politics in the Middle East and Introduction to Islamic Civilization. His topics of interest include Ottoman culture and society; Christians and Jews in the Middle East; minorities and the transformation of identities in the modern Middle East; the history of modern Turkey; crypto-religions in the modern world; and converting cultures in Turkey, India, and Japan.
SociologyWilliam I. BrusteinDirector of the University Center for International Studies and a Professor of SociologyPh.D., sociology, University of Washington
Brustein in an expert on anti-Semitism and mob psychology. Prior to joining Pitt in January 2001, Brustein was the Distinguished McKnight University Professor and a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. After serving as associate professor of sociology at the University of Utah, Brustein accepted a position in the sociology department at the University of Minnesota. In 1992, Brustein began serving as director of the Center for European Studies at the University of Minnesota, and, from 1995, he chaired that school's Department of Sociology. He was a visiting scholar at the Free University of Berlin in 1989 and at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1999. Brustein has international stature as a scholar of historical sociology. He received awards for his exceptional teaching while at Utah and Minnesota and was elected to the prestigious Sociological Research Association. He is the author of two distinct works connected by the thread of anti-Semitism in Europe prior to World War II. One book, The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933 (Yale University Press, 1996), explores the reasons why many Germans so willingly joined the Nazi Party during its early years of power; the other, Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust, scheduled to be published this fall, examines anti-Semitism throughout Europe prior to the Holocaust.
Violence, Trauma, and Children Emie TittnichChild development specialistM.S., child development, University of Pittsburgh
Tittnich is an expert on the effects of violence and traumatic events on children. She was a consultant in 1998 to the national "Safe Havens" project, which trained teachers and caregivers how to assist children exposed to violence. She conducted a year-long seminar for Head Start about helping children with stress. Tittnich has served in her capacity at Pitt for more than 25 years after having worked at the Arsenal Family and Children's Center in Pittsburgh, a training site for pediatric medical students to study child development.
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