Professor of History, Rutgers University
For years, I've been fascinated with how individuals and communities make sense of conflict. War, it's often said, is the "worst thing we do." Yet it's hard to imagine a field of human endeavor subject to more insistent, and persistent, valorization. Art and literature may entreat us to contemplate the sorrow and pity of war, but just as often popular culture, practices of re...
Assistant Professor of Political Science, The University of Denver
I was raised in Evansville, Indiana, the son of a school teacher, attended college at Princeton University, where I studied Eastern religions and Western philosophy, then proceeded to the University of Chicago for graduate studies in The Committee on Social Thought. My Master’s work focused on the emergence of modern political economy from 18th century Scottish moral philosophy. For my...
Independent Scholar; Professor of Military History Emeritus, Air University
My interest in strategy and war colleges derives from a lifelong study of history, a dedication to the value of the past in preparing for the future, and a decade and half of teaching strategy and policy at American's military war colleges. I majored in history at Yale University, enjoying the subject while unaware of the preeminence of my professors. Upon graduation in 1961, I joined the U.S. Arm...
Chair and Professor in Politics, University of Hull, The United Kingdom
Since 1985 I have been studying free expression and political extremism in various democracies. I have published several books and dozens of articles analyzing pertinent concerns, most notably the trilogy The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (1994), Speech, Media and Ethics (2001), and The Scope of Tolerance (2006). I have decided to enter into the field of free expression on the Internet becau...
Professor, Department of History, Temple University
My research originally focused on African American community development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While researching my dissertation on "The Baltimore Black Community, 1865-1915" I uncovered a world where black women were deeply immersed in the social and political issues of the time and active participants in most community institutions.Quite by accident, I stu...
Former Coordinator, Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative, US Department of Justice; Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Division
My road to the field of elder abuse and thus to the Wilson Center was borne of a long series of counterintuitive decisions. Although I was initially headed for medicine, while an undergraduate I took a law school class in mental health law and began to learn about the countless riveting, impossible, shameful and heartbreaking issues at the intersection of public health, vulnerability and the law....
Lecturer, University of Essex, United Kingdom
All of my research has been focused upon the African American experience in the South after emancipation. I've been interested in a wide range of issues including black women's activism, politics, crime, labor history, black voting, southern industrialization, and the newly-emerging and highly-contested southern legal system. All of these themes came together in my first book, Black Prisoners a...
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
My scholarly work has been about the complicated consequences of conflict. My first book, Palestinian Village Histories, focuses on memory and history among Palestinians made refugees in the course of the 1948 War and the creation of Israel. I collected and examined over 120 village books published by Palestinians about their villages that were destroyed, which I combined with interviews and...
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Director, Center for University Scholars, and Professor of Political Science, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
My career in higher education has spanned 25 years and has included opportunities to teach, conduct research, and contribute to the betterment of society through research and service learning. After receiving the Ph.D. in Political Science from UW-Madison, I was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the University of Maryland-College Park in Public Policy. At College Park I worked on revisions o...
For years, I've been fascinated with how individuals and communities make sense of conflict. War, it's often said, is the "worst thing we do." Yet it's hard to imagine a field of human endeavor subject to more insistent, and persistent, valorization. Art and literature may entreat us to contemplate the sorrow and pity of war, but just as often popular culture, practices of re...
I was raised in Evansville, Indiana, the son of a school teacher, attended college at Princeton University, where I studied Eastern religions and Western philosophy, then proceeded to the University of Chicago for graduate studies in The Committee on Social Thought. My Master’s work focused on the emergence of modern political economy from 18th century Scottish moral philosophy. For my...
My interest in strategy and war colleges derives from a lifelong study of history, a dedication to the value of the past in preparing for the future, and a decade and half of teaching strategy and policy at American's military war colleges. I majored in history at Yale University, enjoying the subject while unaware of the preeminence of my professors. Upon graduation in 1961, I joined the U.S. Arm...
Since 1985 I have been studying free expression and political extremism in various democracies. I have published several books and dozens of articles analyzing pertinent concerns, most notably the trilogy The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (1994), Speech, Media and Ethics (2001), and The Scope of Tolerance (2006). I have decided to enter into the field of free expression on the Internet becau...
My research originally focused on African American community development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While researching my dissertation on "The Baltimore Black Community, 1865-1915" I uncovered a world where black women were deeply immersed in the social and political issues of the time and active participants in most community institutions.Quite by accident, I stu...
My road to the field of elder abuse and thus to the Wilson Center was borne of a long series of counterintuitive decisions. Although I was initially headed for medicine, while an undergraduate I took a law school class in mental health law and began to learn about the countless riveting, impossible, shameful and heartbreaking issues at the intersection of public health, vulnerability and the law....
All of my research has been focused upon the African American experience in the South after emancipation. I've been interested in a wide range of issues including black women's activism, politics, crime, labor history, black voting, southern industrialization, and the newly-emerging and highly-contested southern legal system. All of these themes came together in my first book, Black Prisoners a...
My scholarly work has been about the complicated consequences of conflict. My first book, Palestinian Village Histories, focuses on memory and history among Palestinians made refugees in the course of the 1948 War and the creation of Israel. I collected and examined over 120 village books published by Palestinians about their villages that were destroyed, which I combined with interviews and...
My career in higher education has spanned 25 years and has included opportunities to teach, conduct research, and contribute to the betterment of society through research and service learning. After receiving the Ph.D. in Political Science from UW-Madison, I was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the University of Maryland-College Park in Public Policy. At College Park I worked on revisions o...