North America Experts
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism, Louisiana State University
Jack Hamilton’s career has traced a path through newsrooms, the corridors of government, and a university campus. Hamilton came to Louisiana State University in 1992 to head the Manship School of Mass Communication. He stepped down as dean in 2010 to become the executive vice-chancellor and provost. As a journalist, Hamilton reported for the...
Associate Professor, Afro-American Studies, University of Maryland-College Park; Project Director, The "Center" for African American Women's Labor Studies Project
As Associate Professor of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, I teach courses on Afro-American History, Black Culture, Women's History and Women and Work. I received my Ph.D. in United States History from the Department of History at Howard University. I am the recipient of numerous scholarships and fellowships, including the Smithsonian Postdoctoral...
Jane Harman resigned from Congress February 28, 2011 to join the Woodrow Wilson Center as its first female Director, President and CEO. Representing the aerospace center of California during nine terms in Congress, she served on all the major security committees: six years on Armed Services, eight years on Intelligence and four on Homeland Security. She has made numerous Congressional f...
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of African-American Politics, University of Rochester
I have taught political science at the University of Rochester since the fall of 1994. In addition to my years of research and teaching at Rochester, I have worked as a research assistant at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C. and, during graduate school, as a research analyst at the Chicago Urban League's Research and Planning Department. My experiences at the...
Simon Reisman Professor of Trade Policy in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Distinguished Fellow of the Center for Trade Policy and Law (CTPL) at Carleton University
Professor Hart first joined the faculty at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) at Carleton in 1989 as a visiting professor on loan from the federal government. He retained his association with the school as an adjunct professor upon his return to government in 1990 but returned in 1995 as a member of the faculty. He was named Reisman Professor in 2000. He is the founding di...
Professor of History, Ohio State University
Trained as a political historian, I wrote my dissertation and first book on the Truman administration, through which I endeavored to understand the defining phenomena of the post-World War II United States: solidification of the political economy established in the New Deal and wartime mobilization; the origins of the Cold War and national security state; the rise of domestic anti-Communism; and t...
Vice Chair of the Committee on the Rights of Women; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Womens' Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program
Professor, University of Maryland School of Law
My work focuses on moral questions that arise in public policy and critically examines the law's response to these questions. At times, my work treats legal doctrine as if it encapsulates a moral theory itself, Equal Protection doctrine as the Supreme Court's own theory of the criteria for wrongful discrimination, for example. This approach to legal questions grows out of my background in moral ph...