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Christa Altenstetter received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Heidelberg University and was a post-doctoral fellow at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University. Dr. Altenstetter directed a research project at the School of Public Health at Yale University for several years and was on the research staff of several American and European Research Institutes. Additionally, she has frequently served as consultant to health authorities and the World Health Organization. Since 1969, Dr. Altenstetter has done empirical research about health care systems and health care delivery, intergovernmental relations in Germany and Austria, and European affairs. Since the late 1980's most of Dr. Altenstetter's research has been devoted to 1) health care reform in comparative perspective and 2) European Union developments and their impact on the member states in the field of health; more recently with focus on international and cross-national regulation in health care. She is the author of Medical Devices: European Union Policymaking and the Implementation of Patient Health and Safety in France (Transaction Publishers, 2008). In addition, she is editor or co-editor of Innovation in Health Policy and Service Delivery, 1981; Comparative Health Policy and the New Right: From Rhetoric to Reality, 1991; Health Policy Reform, National Variations and Globalization, 1997, and Health Policy. 1998, in addition to numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. She has also written numerous articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as "European Union Responses to AIDS/HIV and Policy Networks in the Pre-Maastricht Era" (1994); "Regulating the medical device industry" (1996); "Regulating and financing medical devices" (1998); "Les Exigences de l'Intégration Européenne vis-á-vis de la Politique de la Santé", (1998); "Collective Action of the Medical Device Industry at the Transnational Level" (1998). Some of Dr. Altenstetters recent articles include "Bridging European and member state implementation: The case of medical goods, in vitro diagnostics and equipment," "International Collaboration on Medical Device Regulation: Issues, Problems, and Stakeholders," and "Health Care Reform in Germany: Patchwork Change within Established Governance Structures," and "Medical Device Regulation and Nanotechnologies: Determining the Role of Patient Safety Concerns in Policymaking."  Dr. Altenstetter is currently working on a cross-national project: Bridging International and National Regulatory Policymaking on Medical Devices: A Comparison of the European Union, Japan, and the United States. She is the founder of a Study Group (SG 19) on Comparative Health Policy within the International Political Science Association (1982) and later served as President of what became the IPSA Research Committee 25 Comparative Health Policy until 2006 within the International Political Science Association (IPSA). RC 25 established a research link to the major international and national health databases and websites. Click on http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ralphbuncheinstitute/RC25%20Web/Links.htm. Or go to http://gc.cuny.edu; look for Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. Click on Projects. Click on International Political Science Association: Research Committee 25.
Email: caltenstetter@gc.cuny.edu

Professor George Andreopoulos received his Ph.D. and LL.B. degrees from Cambridge University. He has written extensively on international security, international human rights and international humanitarian law issues. Among his publications are Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Universe (with Zehra Arat and Peter Juviler, Kumarian Press, 2006).  (ed.) Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994; paperback, 1997;  with Sir Michael Howard and Mark Shulman.  The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994; paperback 199;   with Harold Selesky.  The Aftermath of Defeat: Societies, Armed Forces and the Challenge of Recovery.   New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994;  The Use and Abuse of anti Americanism in Greece.  Athens: Polytypo Publications, 1994;  with Richard Pierre Claude.  Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997; and most recently (Ed.) Concepts and Strategies in International Human Rights.  New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003. The Human Rights Education book has been translated into Japanese and published by Akashi Shoten Ltd. and also translated into Chinese.  The book was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in Education. He is the Founding Director of the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College. He serves on the Editorial Board of Human Rights Review and is served as President of the Human Rights Section of APSA from 2003-2004. Professor Andreopoulos' latest book (with Rosemary Barberet and James Levine) is International Criminal Justice: Critical Perspectives and New Challenges (Springer, 2011). In addition, he is the Editor of the recently launched Springer Book Series on International Justice and Human Rights.
Email: chrights@jjay.cuny.edu

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Professor Sherrie Baver received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.  She teaches at the City College of New York, where she has served as the Director of the CCNY Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. She has written The Political Economy of Colonialism: The State and Industrialization in Puerto Rico.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993; and co-edited Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition.  Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1996. She is completing a manuscript (co-edited with Barbara D. Lynch), Caribbean Environmental Issues: Beyond Sun and Sand. Professor Baver has received various CUNY awards and two Fulbrights to Latin America.
Email: sbaver@gc.cuny.edu

Professor Peter Beinart is senior political writer at The Daily Beast and a contributor to Time. He is also senior fellow at the New America Foundation. From 1999 to 2006, he served as editor of The New Republic. His second book, The Icarus Syndrome: How American Triumph Produces American Tragedy (HarperCollins), was released in June 2010. His first book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals – and Only Liberals – Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, was published by HarperCollins in June 2006.

Beinart has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Slate, Reader's Digest, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Polity: the Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Studies Association. The Week magazine named him columnist of the year for 2004. He has appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," "Charlie Rose," "The McLaughlin Group," "The Colbert Report," MTV, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and many other television programs.

He graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
Website: www.peter-beinart.com
Email: peter.beinart@journalism.cuny.edu

Distinguished Professor Marshall Berman received degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Harvard Universities. He helped found the Center for Workers’ Education at CCNY. He is member of the editorial board of Dissent, and has written on cultural history and criticism in New York Times, Village Voice, Dissent, Nation, New Left Review, etc. His publications include: Adventures in Marxism.  New York: Verso, 1999;  All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity.  New York: Verso, 1983; The Politics of Authenticity.  Athenaeum: MacMillan Pub Co, 1970 and London: Allan & Unwin, 1972; One Hundred Years of Spectacle: Metamorphoses of Times Square.  Random House, in progress. Prof. Berman has also been involved in PBS's History of New York and a History Channel documentary on the history of Times Square.
Email: mberman241@aol.com

Professor John Bowman received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His principal areas of interest are comparative political economy, the politics of business organization and the politics of labor relations. His current research focuses on the politics of business cooperation and labor market institutions in Scandinavia. Among his publications are: Capitalist Collective Action.  Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989 and several journal articles.
Email: john.bowman@qc.cuny.edu

Professor Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner is a specialist in foreign policy, diplomacy and development, particularly with respect to small states (and specifically Caribbean states) as well as the nations of the global south in general. Her nine books (two edited) include most recently, Institutions of the Global South (Routledge, 2009), Small States in Global Affairs: The Foreign Policies of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007), The Foreign Policies of the Global South: Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003), and Caribbean Public Policy: Regional, Cultural and Socioeconomic Issues for the 21st Century (Westview, 1997). (See website book link for other publications.) Prof. Braveboy-Wagner was the first Caribbean-born female president of the Caribbean Studies Association (1992-3), the main association for scholars interested in the Caribbean region. For many years, she has also served as the United Nations-NGO representative of the International Studies Association. She was a fellow and assistant to the director of training at UNITAR, a visiting professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, and director of the graduate program in international relations at the City College from January 1999-2002. She has published numerous articles and analytical pieces in books and journals and has presented about 100 papers at national and international conferences and workshops. She has served as a consultant on United Nations/Caricom, United States, Caribbean, and Latin American government/intergovernmental projects, and has participated in the activities of various Washington think tanks. Since 2006, she has been heading a high-level foreign policy commission related to her Caribbean area of expertise.
Email: jbraveboy-wagner@gc.cuny.edu

Professor Susan Buck-Morss is an interdisciplinary thinker and a prolific writer of international reputation. Her nomination as distinguished professor will soon go for consideration to the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York. Her most recent book, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic by linking it to the influence of the Haitian Revolution. Her books The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute (Macmillan Free Press, 1977) and The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1989) have been translated into several languages and have been called "modern classics in the field." Other publications include Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Verso, 2003) and Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, 2000). A longtime professor at Cornell University's Department of Government, Buck-Morss was also a member of Cornell's graduate fields in Comparative Literature, History of Art, German Studies, and the School of Architecture, Art, and City and Regional Planning. She is on the editorial boards of several journals and has been an invited lecturer at dozens of universities worldwide. Her numerous international awards and fellowships include a Getty Scholar grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She holds a Ph.D. in European intellectual history from Georgetown University.
Email: sbuck-morss@gc.cuny.edu

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Professor Mitchell Cohen is a professor of political theory at the Graduate Center and Baruch College of CUNY. He is also a co-editor of DISSENT magazine. He received his doctorate from Columbia University. Prof. Cohen is the author of The Wager of Lucien Goldmann.   Princeton Univ. Press, 1994;  and Zion and State.  Columbia Univ. Press, 1992 (in French translation, Editions la Decouverte). He co-edited Princeton Readings in Political Thought.  Princeton Univ. Press, 1996; and edited Rebels and Reactionaries: An Anthology of Political Short Stories from Hawthorne through Today. Laurel, 1992.   Prof. Cohen is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton. He has guest-lectured at Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, the Paris Institute of Politics, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the American University of Paris. He has written for numerous scholarly and intellectual journals including Les Temps modernes, Times Literary Supplement (London), New York Times Book Review, and German Politics and Society.  He is "Correspondant Americain" of Raisons politiques: Etudes de Pensee politique and is a member of the editorial board of "Jewish Social Studies."
Email: mitchellcohen@aol.com

Professor Forrest Colburn received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Latin American Studies at Lehman College. His books includ:  The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countries Princeton University Press, 1994;  My Car in Managua. University of Texas Press, 1991;  Managing the Commanding Height: Nicragaua's State Enterprises. University of California Press, 1990; and Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua: State, Class and the Dilemmas of Agrarian Policy .  University of California Press, 1986; and Latin America at the End of Politics.  Princeton University Press, 2002. He has also edited Everyday Forms of Resistance.  M.E. Sharpe, 1989; and Centroamérica: Estrategias de desarrollo.  Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, 1987. 
Email: ForrestDColburn@netscape.net

Professor Alyson Cole received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of the 2008 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her research and teaching interests bridge political theory and American politics/culture. Cole’s work links central questions of political thought—especially formulations of justice, the nature of subjugation, and the possibility of resistance or change—with an examination of concrete political ideologies, rhetoric, and law/policy-making, emphasizing aspects of subject-formation, gender and race/ethnicity. Cole is the author of  The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror  (Stanford University Press, 2007). Her articles have appeared in Signs, American Studies, Feminist Studies, the Michigan Law Review, and the National Women’s Studies Association Journal. She is on the editorial boards of Women’s Studies Quarterly, and International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory. For the 2009-10 academic year, Cole will be Mellon Resident Fellow at the Humanities Center.

Bruce Cronin is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Master's Program in International Relations at City College. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cronin's specialties are in the fields of international law, international organizations, and human rights. He is currently writing a book on the manipulation of the international law of armed conflict by states whose military organizations are generally committed to following the laws and customs of war. The book focuses on how such states exploit their technological superiority by engaging in a form of warfare that is technically legal but recklessly disregards the basic principles underlying International Humanitarian Law.
Email: bcronin@ccny.cuny.edu

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Professor Alan DiGaetano received his Ph.D. from Boston University.  He is also a member of the Baruch College faculty and specializes in the study of urban politics and policy, including historical and comparative analysis of urban political economy. His scholarly publications include:  with John Klemanski.  Power and City Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Urban Development.   (1999), and recent articles, "The Changing Nature of the Local State: A Comparative Perspective" in Policy and Politics (2001); "Urban Governance and Industrial Decline: Governing Structures and Policy Agendas in Birmingham and Sheffield, England, and Detroit, Michigan, 1980-1997" with Paul Lawless of Sheffield Hallam University, in Urban Affairs Review (1997), and "Urban Governing Alignments and Realignments in Comparative Perspective: Development Politics in Boston, Massachusetts, and Bristol, England, 1980-1996 in Urban Affairs Review (1997). Other journals in which his work has appeared are the Journal of Urban Affairs and the Journal of Urban History.
Email: Alan_DiGaetano@baruch.cuny.edu

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Professor Kenneth Erickson received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is co-editor-in-chief of Comparative Politics and serves on the Executive Board of the New England Council on Latin American Studies. Among his publications are: with D.A. Rustow. “Global Research Perspectives: Paradigms, Concepts and Data in a Changing World.”  Comparative Political Dynamics: Global Research Perspectives. Harper Collins, 1991; “Brazil: Corporatism, Democratization, and Dependency.”  Latin American Politics and Development . Eds. H. J. Wiarda and H. Kline. 1985.
Email: kerickso@hunter.cuny.edu

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Professor John Gerassi received his Ph.D. from the London University. Among his publications are: “The Comintern, the Fronts and the CPUSA,” in New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, Monthly Review, (1993); Jean Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Country (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989); The Premature Anti-Fascists: Oral History of American and Canadian Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (New York: Praeger, 1986).
Email: mailto:john_gerassi@qc.cuny.edu

Professor John Goering received his Ph.D. from Brown University, Ph.D. in sociology and demography. His research focuses upon housing and neighborhood development, as well as and race and ethnic issues. He is the author of several dozen articles as well as editor and author of The Best Eight Blocks in Harlem (University Press, 1977); Housing Desegregation and Federal Policy (University of North Carolina Press, 1986); Mortgage Lending, Racial Discrimination and Federal Policy (Urban Institute Press, 1996); and another book, Choosing a Better Life? Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Experiment, is scheduled for publication by The Urban Institute Press in Spring 2003. He has served on the editorial boards’ of the Urban Affairs Review, New Community, Housing Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. An article summarizing research on the MTO experiment has been recently published in Journal of Housing Research. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has scheduled a policy-focused assessment of MTO for publication in their Economic Policy Review. At the Ralph Bunche Institute at The Graduate Center, he is co-directing a Mellon Foundation grant focused on the interface between international and domestic human rights policies. Before joining the faculty, John directed evaluation and research on housing, neighborhood change, and civil rights issues at HUD, and then served on the staff of the Clinton White House Initiative on Race. For the American Sociological Association, he served on their committee on Sociologists in Government (1992-1995); the Committee on Archives (1993-1998); and the Program Committee for the Year 2000 and the year 20001 ASA Annual Meetings (for ASA President’s Joe Feagin and Douglas Massey). He serves as a consultant on research and litigation for HUD.
Email: john_goering@baruch.cuny.edu

Professor Stephanie Golob teaches courses in both International Relations (The United States in an Age of Globalization) and Comparative Politics (Politics of the Third World, Latin American and Caribbean Political Systems). Similarly, her major research interest - sovereignty under globalization, with a specialization in the Western Hemisphere - occupies the intersection of these two subfields. Prof. Golob has two ongoing research projects, the first on regional integration in the NAFTA Triad (Canada-U.S.-Mexico), and the second on the globalization of 'rule of law' ideas and their impact on legal and judicial culture in post-authoritarian Chile and Spain. Her work on NAFTA has appeared in World Politics and Canadian-American Public Policy, and her work on the Pinochet Case has appeared in Democratization, receiving the journal's Frank Cass Award for 2002. The recipient of a Fulbright-Hays fellowship, Prof. Golob has lived and worked in Mexico City, as a visiting scholar at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and in Ottawa, as a visiting researcher at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. At CUNY, Prof. Golob has been awarded a Whiting Teaching Award in the Humanities (2002-03), as well as a Mellon Resident Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center (2006-07).
Email: Stephanie.Golob@baruch.cuny.edu

Professor Janet Gornick received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is also Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the Graduate Center. Her research is on comparative social welfare policy, and concerns variation across the industrialized countries and throughout the U.S. states. Much of her work considers the effects of social policy on women's status in the labor market and on the economic well-being of families. Her publications include: Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment (co-authored with Marcia Meyers, Russell Sage Foundation, 2003). Professor Gornick has published articles in several academic journals, including The American Sociological Review; the Annual Review of Sociology; the Journal of European Social Policy; Social Science Quarterly; the Journal of Policy History; the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis; and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Her work also appears frequently in popular venues, including The American Prospect; Dissent: and Challenge: A Magazine of Economic Affairs. Professor Gornick is Director of the Luxembourg Income Study, an international research center and data archive based in Luxembourg.
Email: jgornick@gc.cuny.edu

Professor Carol Gould is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and is a member of the Doctoral Faculties of Political Science and Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also Director of the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. She previously taught at Temple University as Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, and at George Mason University as Professor of Philosophy and Government. She is the Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy and Executive Director of the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs. Gould has held fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Fulbright Foundation, as Senior Scholar in France and as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Political and Social Science at the European University Institute in Florence. She is the author of Marx's Social Ontology (MIT Press, 1978), Rethinking Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 1988), and Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2004), editor of seven books including Women and Philosophy, Beyond Domination, The Information Web, Cultural Identity and the Nation-State, and Gender, and has published over sixty articles in political philosophy, social theory, feminist theory, and applied ethics. Her book Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights received the 2009 David Easton Award from the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association.
Email: carolcgould@gmail.com

Professor James F. Guyot received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His current areas of interest are the interplay of economic development and democratization in Southeast Asia, ethnic and gender dimensions of organizational recruitment and advancement, and errors in social science research. His recent publications include: "Burmese Practorianism," in Tradition and Modernity in Myanmar (LIT Verlag, 1994); "Burma in 1997: From Empire to ASEAN," Asian Survey, February 1998; "Representative Bureaucracy Recast," Public Administration Review, July/August 1998; "The Feminization of Power Meets the Separation of Powers," The Public Manager, Fall 1998; "Sartor Resartus: A Comparative Analysis of Public and Private Sector Entrant Quality Reanalyzed," American Journal of Political Science, August 1997.
Email: jguyot@newton.baruch.cuny.edu

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Professor Thomas Halper received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He chairs the political science department at Baruch College. His most recent book is Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003).  Among his other publications are: "Accommodating Death," in Philosophy of Medicine: Framing the Field (2000); "From Warren and Brandeis to Roe and Cruzan," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (1996); The Misfortunes of Others (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989); "Life and Death in a Welfare State," Milbank Quarterly (1985); Power, Politics, and American Democracy (Scott, Foresman, 1980); "The New Deserving Poor and the Old," Polity (1973); Foreign Policy Crises (Merrill, 1971); and "The Logic of Judicial Reasoning," Indiana Law Journal (1967).
Email: thomas_halper@baruch.cuny.edu

Professor John W. Harbeson teaches and writes in the fields of comparative politics and international relations, with special reference to Africa. This year he is on leave as a Visiting Fellow in the Center of International Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University where he is working on a book on Democratization and the State in sub-Saharan Africa. From 1998 to 2001 chaired the Department of Political Science at City College. His most recent book is Africa in World Politics: The State System in Flux, coedited with Donald Rothchild. He's been a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington and Regional Democracy and Governance Advisor, Agency for International Development. He has been elected to the governing Council of the American Political Science Association for a two year term (2003-2005). On the Council, he chairs the international affairs committee concerned primarily with the Higher Education Act Renewal, especially Title VI. He is also e member of the Council task force on Difference and Inequality in the Developing world. He is co-founder of the APSA section on Comparative Democratization and was the sections first chair. He is the founder and current chair of APSA's African Politics Conference Group.
Email: jwharbeson@aol.com

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Professor Jack Jacobs received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is currently the Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs (Acting) for the CUNY Graduate Center.  Professor Jacobs was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia before coming to CUNY, and is now Professor of Government at CUNY’s John Jay College.  In 1996-1997, Professor Jacobs served as a Fulbright Research Scholar at Tel Aviv University.  In 1998, he was a visiting scholar at the Simon-Dubnow-Institut fuer juedische Geschichte und Kultur at Leipzig University.  He served as Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research during the academic year 2003-2004.  He has been the recipient of grants from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, among other sources. He is the author of On Socialists and "the Jewish Question" after Marx (New York University Press, 1992), which has appeared in German (Decaton Verlag, 1994), and the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100 (New York University Press, 2001).  His current research centers on Critical Theory and the image of the Jew.
Email: jjacobs@gc.cuny.edu

Professor David Jones specializes in American politics, the U.S. Congress, and methodology. He is the author of Political Parties and Policy Gridlock in American Government (Mellen, 2001), and coauthor of Americans Congress, and Democratic Responsiveness: Public Evaluations of Congress and Electoral Consequences (Michigan, 2009). His research has been published in scholarly journals such as The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Political Research Quarterly. Professor Jones is also a faculty member of the Political Science Program at the City University of New York's Baruch College. During election seasons he has served as an exit poll analyst for the New York Times and for CBS News.
Email: David.Jones@baruch.cuny.edu

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Professor Roger Karapin received his Ph.D. from M.I.T., and is a Professor of Political Sciene at Hunter College. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on immigration politics, anti-minority riots, and far-right parties. More recently, he wrote Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s (Penn State U. Press, 2007), which won the 2008 Charles Tilly Award for the Best Book on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, awarded by the American Sociological Association's section of the same name. His current research focuses on environmental policy and environmental sustainability.
Email: rkarapin@hunter.cuny.edu

Professor Young Kun Kim received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His fields of specialization are the history of Western political thought with emphasis on German political ideas since the eighteenth century, classical Chinese philosophy, and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean social and political thought. His long range interest is in comparative political thought. In addition to many articles in Korean, his publications include: “Confucianism and Modernization,” Korea Society (April 1993); “Cost of Unification,” Korea Society (1993); “Theodor Adorno,” in Encyclopedia of World Biography (McGraw Hill, 1981); “Hegel’s Criticism of Chinese Philosophy,” in Philosophy East and West (April 1978); “An Ch’ang-ho’s Conception of Political Education,” Journal of Korean Affairs (July 1975).
Email: kimyoungkun@msn.com

Professor Donna Kirchheimer received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her publications include: “Sheltering the Homeless in New York City: Expansion in an Era of Government Contraction,” in Critical Issues for Clinton’s Domestic Agenda: Essays From Political Science Quarterly (The Academy of Political Science, 1994); “From Shelters to Housing: Homeless Families in New York City,” Working Paper #3, (Michael Harrington Center, Queens College, 1991); “Public Entrepreneurship and Subnational Government,” Polity, (1989).
Email: donna.kirchheimer@lehman.cuny.edu

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Professor Frederick S. Lane received his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He teaches courses in public administration and public policy; his scholarly focus is the effective management of public, nonprofit, and educational institutions. He is also a Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, where he has served as Chairperson of the Department of Public Administration and Program Director of the Executive Masters of Public Administration program. In the mid-1970s, he was Staff Director of the Governor's Task Force on Higher Education; in 1981-82, he was President of the New York State Political Science Association. In 1984, he was named Outstanding Academic in Public Administration by the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration. His scholarly work includes two anthologies: Current Issues in Public Administration, 6th edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999), which is used in colleges and universities across the country, and Managing State and Local Government (St. Martin's Press, 1980). For his 1983 article, "Higher Education and Public Policy in New York," he received the Golden Apple Award for excellence in writing about education from the New York State United Teachers. His other publications include: "Organizational Analysis and Management Improvement," in The Nonprofit Organization Handbook, 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill, 1988), and "Managing Not-for-Profit Organizations," for which he won the Laverne Burchfield Award for the best book review essay in Public Administration Review in 1980. He has also been Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and Visiting Professor of Public Administration at the University of Vermont.
Email: frederick_lane@baruch.cuny.edu

Professor James Levine is Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he is also a member of the Government department. From 1993 to 1999, he served as Executive Officer of the Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice of the City University of New York located at John Jay College. He received his doctorate in political science from Northwestern University, winning the Edward S. Corwin Award given by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the field of public law completed in 1968. Prior to coming to John Jay he served on the faculties of Michigan State University, the University of Oregon, and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Professor Levine has published two textbooks on criminal justice (co-authored with Michael Musheno and Dennis Palumbo): Criminal Justice: A Public Policy Approach (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980) and Criminal Justice in America: Law in Action (New York: John Wiley, 1986). He is the co-author, with David Abbott, of Wrong Winner: The Coming Debacle in the Electoral College (New York: Praeger, 1991). His most recent book is Juries and Politics (Pacific Grove, CA: Wadsworth, 1992). Professor Levine has published numerous articles on criminal justice institutions, criminal justice policy, and research methodology; his research has focused on jury behavior in recent years. His work has appeared in such journals as Judicature, Criminal Law Bulletin, Criminal Justice Ethics, Journal of Criminal Justice, Legal Studies Forum, Law and Social Inquiry, Crime and Delinquency, Social Science Quarterly, Criminology, Public Policy, Law and Society Review, and Polity.
Email: jimlev@faculty.jjay.cuny.edu

Professor Peter Liberman, an M.I.T. Ph.D, is Associate Professor of Political Science at Queens College, CUNY. He wrote Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies (Princeton University Press, 1996), a study of collaboration, resistance, and economic extraction in 20th-century military occupations and empires. He has also published articles on alliance politics, the economic causes of war, the security causes of trade conflict, nuclear proliferation and strategy, and South Africa's nuclear declassification politics in International Security, Security Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Foreign Policy. He serves as an Associate Editor of Security Studies and is currently researching alliance reliability in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the psychological sources of military policy attitudes. He recently wrote "Israel and the South African Bomb," The Nonproliferation Review, September 2004.
Email: peter.liberman@qc.cuny.edu

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