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Professor Irving Leonard Markovitz received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in the politics and economics of development and of globalization, especially in Africa. His books include Leopold Sedar Senghor and the Politics of Negritude, Atheneum Publishers, and Heinemann Books; African Politics and Society: Basic Issues of Government and Development (co-author and editor), Free Press; Power and Class in Africa, Prentice-Hall; and Studies in Power and Class in Africa (co-author and editor), Oxford University Press. His articles and studies have appeared in the leading journals of the field. He was a Foreign Area Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, an African Affairs Fellow of the African Studies Center at Boston University, a Mellon Fellow, and a Ford Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. He has received numerous grants from the Faculty Research Program of the City University of New York. He has received ten grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also was the recipient of the Presidential Innovation in Teaching Award, and the Presidential Research Award of Queens College. Professor Markovitz's current work is on the development of capitalism in Africa. He is Co- Editor-in-Chief of Comparative Politics. During January of 1994, he acted as a consultant to the Constitutional Commission of Ethiopia in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia. During January of 1995, he acted as a consultant to the Constitutional Commission of Eritrea in Asmara, Eritrea.. Recent publications include: "Uncivil Society, the State, and Capitalism in Africa", pp. 21-53 in Civil Society in Africa?, Nelson Kasfir, ed., London: Frank Cass, 1998; "Constitutions, The Federalist Papers, and The Transition To Democracy", pp. 42-71 in Democracy in Comparative Politics, ed., Lisa Anderson, New York: Columbia University Press , 1999; "Civil Society, Pluralism, Goldilocks, and other Fairy Tales in Africa", pp. 117-144 in Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus , eds., George Bond and Nigel Gibson, Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 2002; and "Forging and Framing Democracy", pps. 270-277, in The Making and Unmaking of Democracy, eds., Theodore K. Rabb and Ezra N. Suleiman, New York: Routledge, 2003.
Email: markovitz@nyc.rr.com

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Distinguished Professor John Mollenkopf received his PhD from Harvard. He is professor of Political Science and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and directs its Center for Urban Research. His teaching and research interests focus on urban politics and public policy, including New York City politics, immigrant political participation, and the new immigrant second generation. He also coordinates the Graduate Center's interdisciplinary program on public policy and urban studies. He has authored or edited twelve books on urban politics, urban policy, the politics of urban development, and New York City, most recently the Urban Politics Reader (Routledge, 2006, co-edited with Elizabeth Strom) and Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, co-edited with Philip Kasinitz and Mary Waters).  His Place Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century (with Peter Dreier and Todd Swanstrom, University Press of Kansas 2001) won the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association.  Other recent publications include "People and Politics in America's Big Cities" (with John Logan), Rethinking the Urban Agenda (co-edited with Ken Emerson, Century Foundation) and E Pluribus Unum? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Immigrant Political Incorporation (co-edited with Gary Gerstle for the Russell Sage Foundation, 2001). He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute d'Etudes Politique in Paris, Wibaut Chair Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Prior to joining the Graduate Center in 1981, he directed the Economic Development Division of the New York City Department of City Planning and taught urban studies and public management at Stanford University. With Philip Kasinitz, Mary Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway, he has recently completed a book about the schooling, employment, and political engagement of second generation immigrant and native minority young adults in the New York metropolitan area. Previous works include A Phoenix In The Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics and Contested City (both with Princeton University Press, 1994 and 1983). He was Program Director for Urban Initiatives at the Social Science Research Council, chaired SSRC's Committee on New York City, and served on the editorial boards of PS and Urban Affairs Review.  He has also served as a consultant to many government agencies. 
Email: jmollenkopf@gc.cuny.edu

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Professor Ruth O'Brien, received her Ph.D. at UCLA. She is the Executive Officer (Chair) of the Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science.  Her primary teaching interest is American political development. O'Brien has published three books: Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care (Routledge, 2005)(read more about this book here);  Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), which received an honorable mention from the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights and Bigotry, 2002 (read more about this book here); and  Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of the New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998) (read more about this book here).  O'Brien also has articles in Polity, Texas Journal of Women and the Law, Studies in American Political Development, Labor Studies Journal, International Contributions to Labour Studies, Law and Social Inquiry and SIGNS .   O'Brien also edited and wrote legal analysis for Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act (Oxford University Press, 2004) (read more about this book here).  O'Brien has served as a American Political Science Executive Program Committee as a co-chair (with Jeffrey Tulis) for the Politics and History section, member of the Politics and History Executive Council of the American Political Science Association, and Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and the Transgender in the Profession.  She directed a Fulbright State Department Summer Institute for six weeks that hosted 18 international scholars for 6 weeks on American Political Development: The Rise to Globalism (read "America as Empire"). O'Brien was the 2003 nominee by KPFK (the radio station in Los Angeles that houses Pacifica) for the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for radio commentary on the judiciary, where she gives commentary regularly.  Finally, she's become the series editor for a speaker/book series published by Princeton University Press, entitled The Public Square. This series will showcase public intellectuals writing about social justice issues in American politics and law. (read more about the series here). Professor O'Brien edited and contributed to a book entitled Telling Stories out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination.  Lastly, she has been appointed an adjunct affiliated scholar with the Center for American Progress in Washington , DC ."
Email: robrien@gc.cuny.edu

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Distinguished Professor Rosalind Pollack Petchesky received her B.A. summa cum laude from Smith College, where she was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  After studying international law in France as a Fulbright Scholar, she received her PhD. in Political Science from Columbia University, specializing in political theory, international law and relations.  After 15 years at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Professor Petchesky came to Hunter in 1987 to head the Women's Studies Program, in addition to teaching in the Political Science Department. In the fall of 2000 she joined the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center in both Political Science and the Women's Studies Certificate Program.  Her numerous articles and books on issues of reproductive and sexual rights have been translated into five languages and have influenced scholars, advocates and legal forums.  The US Supreme Court cited her award-winning book, Abortion and Woman's Choice, in the landmark 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey.  In 1995 Professor Petchesky was awarded a MacArthur Fellows Award, and in 2001 she was made a CUNY Distinguished Professor.
Professor Petchesky's work in the area of reproductive politics led her to found the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG), serving as its international coordinator from 1992 until 1999. Under her direction, IRRRAG's seven country teams conducted in-depth qualitative research among urban and rural women, across diverse age and ethnic cohorts, about their sense of entitlement to make reproductive and sexual decisions.  The group implemented this research through advocacy and educational programs at the national and international levels, including at the UN population conference in Cairo (1994) and the World Women's Conference in Beijing (1995).  The book containing the cross-country findings and policy implications of IRRRAG's work-Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives Across Countries and Cultures-was published in 1998.  Professor Petchesky has also been part of transnational women's coalitions working for women's rights and social justice in UN and other arenas and is a board member of WEDO (Women's Environment and Development Organization) and chair of the journal Reproductive Health Matters.  She is a member of the executive committee of Hunter's PSC-CUNY chapter.
After September 11, Professor Petchesky engaged in a flurry of writing, teach-ins, and peace efforts along with others in CUNY and New York City.  Her article, "Phantom Towers:  Feminist Reflections on the Battle between Global Capitalism and Fundamentalist Terrorism," which originated as a talk for the Political Science Department's teach-in at Hunter, subsequently appeared in the Women's Review of Books, Ms. Magazine, the Economic and Political Weekly in India, and in Spanish, French and German versions in Latin America and Europe.  Most recently, Professor Petchesky's research has focused on the intersections between human rights, health, gender equality and globalization. Her book on this topic, Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights, was published in 2003 by Zed Books in London and is distributed by Palgrave International in the United States. Her next book, Sexuality, Health and Human Rights, co-authored with Sonia Correa and Richard Parker, will be published by Routledge in 2008. Recently, Professor Petchesky has also been active working with the transnational group Sexuality Policy Watch (www.sxpolitics.org).
Email: rpetches@igc.org.

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Distinguished Professor Frances Fox Piven received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before coming to the Graduate Center, she taught at Boston University, Columbia University, New York University Law School, the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Bologna. She is past Vice-President of the American Political Science Association,  has served as program co-chair of the annual political science meetings, and is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.  She is currently President of the American Sociological Association. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the President's Award of the American Public Health Association, and the American Sociological Association's Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, as well as their award for the Public Understanding of Sociology. Her books deal with the development of the welfare state, political movements, urban political, and electoral politics.  Among them are REGULATING THE POOR (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award ub 1972, and updated in 1993); POOR PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS (1977); THE NEW CLASS WAR (1982; UPDATED 1985); WHY AMERICANS DON'T VOTE (1988); THE MEAN SEASON (1987); LABOR PARTIES IN POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES (1992); THE BREAKING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIAL COMPACT (1997); WHY AMERICANS STILL DON'T VOTE (2000); and THE WAR AT HOME (2004); Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (2006).
Email: fpiven@hotmail.com

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Professor Andrew Polsky received his Ph.D from Princeton University. He teaches at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, with a focus on American politics and American political development. He is the author of The Rise of the Therapeutic State (Princeton University Press, 1991). Recent publications include: “Seeing Your Name in Print:  Unpacking the Mysteries of the Review Process at Political Science Scholarly Journals,” PS:  Political Science and Politics 40 (3) (July 2007):  539-43; "The Presidency at War," in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System, 8th ed. (Washington, DC:  CQ Press, 2006), pp. 557-75; "No Tool is Perfect:  Periodization in the Study of American Political Development," Polity 37 (4) (October 2005); (co-authored with Daniel M. Cook) "Political Time Reconsidered:  Unbuilding and Rebuilding the State under the Reagan Administration," American Politics Research 33 (4) (July 2005):  577-605; "The Political Economy of Partisan Regimes:  Lessons from Two Republican Eras," Polity 35 (4) (July 2003); "'Mr Lincoln's Army' Revisited: Partisanship, Institutional Position, and Union Army Command, 1861-1865," Studies in American Political Development 16 (2) (Fall 2002); (co-authored with Olesya Tkacheva) "Legacies versus Politics: Herbert Hoover, Partisan Conflict, and the Symbolic Appeal of Associationalism in the 1920s," International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 16 (2) (Winter 2002); "When Business Speaks: Political Entrepreneurship, Discourse, and Mobilization in American Partisan Regimes," Journal of Theoretical Politics 12 (October 2000); and "The New 'Dismal Science'? The Lessons of American Political Development for Politics Today," Polity 32 (Spring 2000). He served as the program co-chair for the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association at the 1999 APSA Annual Meeting.  In July 2005 Professor Polsky became the editor of Polity, the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association.  The transcript of his talk on preparing for an academic career can be found here. 
Email: apolsky@hunter.cuny.edu

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Professor Stanley Renshon is coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Program in the Psychology of Social and Political behavior. He received his Ph.D. In Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972, and was a NIMH postdoctoral fellow in Psychology and Politics at Yale University. He did his graduate work in Clinical Psychology at Long Island University, and his psychoanalytic training at the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology, where he received his certification in 1991. He is the author of over ninety articles in the fields of presidential politics, leadership and political psychology and has also published fourteen books including: Psychological Needs and Political Behavior (Free Press), The Handbook of Political Socialization: Theory and Research (Free Press), The Political Psychology of the Gulf War (University of Pittsburgh Press), The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing and the Psychology of Leadership (Westview Press); The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates (New York University Press, 1996, updated paperback edition,1998 Routledge Press), Political Psychology: Cultural and Cross-cultural Foundations (Macmillan, 2000), One America?: Political Leadership, National Identity, and the Dilemmas of Diversity (Georgetown University Press, 2001); America's Second Civil War: Political Leadership in a Divided Society (Transaction 2002),  Good Judgment in Foreign Policy: Theory and Research (Rowman and Littlefield 2002); In his Father's Shadow: The Transformations of George W. Bush (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004) and The 50% American: National Identity in a Dangerous Age (2005) . His book on the Clinton presidency, High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition (New York University Press, 1996, updated paperback edition,1998 Routledge Press) won the 1997 American Political Science Association's Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book published on the presidency and was also awarded the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis' Gradiva Award for the best published work in the category of biography in 1998. He was elected president of the International Society of Political Psychology for the 2003/04 academic year and in 2006 won the award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative works. His book (edited with Peter Suedfeld) Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism was published by Routledge Press in January of 2007 and his book The Bush Doctrine and the Future of American National Security Policy will be published by Yale University in 2008.
Email: srenshon@gc.cuny.edu
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Professor Andrew Rich is associate professor of political science at City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also assistant director of the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at CCNY. He is the author of Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise (Cambridge University Press, 2004), a book about the proliferation of think tanks in U.S. national policymaking and the ways that research and research-based nonprofit organizations influence contemporary decision-making. He is currently at work on a book about the types of philanthropic and organizational support being used to fight the war of ideas in American politics. The book examines the role of foundations, universities, and advocacy and research organizations in efforts to shape the terms of debate in U.S. policymaking. In a separate project, he is examining the role of universities as declining sources of public intellectuals and how institutions of higher learning might reinvigorate their role in public and policy debate. Rich has also written about telecommunications, health care, tax policy, and the cross-national aspects of policy research production and dissemination. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.  
Email: arich@ccny.cuny.edu

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Professor Corey Robin's is an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  He is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press, 2004), which won the Best First Book in Political Theory Award from the American Political Science Association.  Fear has been cited as “recommended reading” by the New York Times and “one of the best books of 2004” by Publishers Weekly.  It has been translated into French and Italian, and translations into Chinese, Spanish, Greek, and Romanian are forthcoming.  Robin is currently working on two book projects:  The American Way of Repression, which he is co-writing with historian Ellen Schrecker, and On Counterrevolution.  Robin’s articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Social Research, Theory and Event, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.  He also writes reviews and essays for The London Review of Books, The Nation, and Raritan. Robin has received grants and fellowships from the Russell Sage Foundation, the American Council on Learned Societies, and NYU’s International Center for Advanced Study.  He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and his A.B. from Princeton University.  During 2007-08, he will be a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Human Values and a fellow at Princeton’s Program in Ethics and Public Affairs.
Email: mailto:corey.robin@gmail.com

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Professor Joe Rollins is associate professor of political science at Queens College and his fields of specialization are public law, gender and sexuality, and research methods.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998 where he also taught in the Law & Society Program and the Dept. of Sociology.  His first book AIDS and the Sexuality of Law: Ironic Jurisprudence was published by Palgrave/MacMillan in 2004.  His current project, funded by a grant from the Wayne F. Placek Fund of the American Psychological Association and a Visiting Scholar’s position at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, examines changes taking place in the legal language of sexuality.  His forthcoming book entitled Legally Straight will be published by New York University Press in 2008.  He has served on the board of directors for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies and his work has been published in various scholarly journals. 
Email: joerollins@nyc.rr.com

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Professor Peter Roman received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He also teaches at Hostos Community College. His recent publications include “Representative Government in Socialist Cuba,” The World Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming); “Response to a Misinformed ‘Left’ Critique of Cuba,” Socialism and Democracy 44. Vol. 21, No.. 2, July 2007; “Electing Cuba’s National Assembly Deputies: Proposals, Selections, Nominations, and Campaigns,” European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, No. 82, April, 2007; "The Lawmaking Process in Cuba: Debating the Bill  on Agricultural Cooperatives," Socialism and Democracy, Issue 38, Vol. 19, No. 2,  July, 2005; "The Cuban National Assembly and Political Representation," In Max Azicri and Elsie Deal, eds., Cuban Socialism in a New Century (Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2004);  People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government, Updated Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); Editorial Collective, Cuba in the 1990s: Economy, Politics and Society, Socialism and Democracy, Issue 29, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring-Summer 2001;"Workers' Parliaments in Cuba" in Latin American Perspectives 22(4) (Fall, 1995); "Cuba in Focus: Manifestations of Democracy" in Washington Report on the Hemisphere (April 15, 2000); and "Interview with Peter Roman" in Washington Report on the Hemisphere (December 1999-January 2000). Professor Roman serves on the editorial board of Socialism and Democracy. He is a Faculty Fellow of the Cuba Project, Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. He received a PSC/CUNY Research Award for 2006-2007. Professor Roman has also received PSC/CUNY Research Awards in 1995, 1997 and 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005. and the CUNY-Caribbean Exchange Program (Hunter College) Award in 1996.
Email: proman@hostos.cuny.edu

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Professor Ronald Schneider received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Since the late 1950s he has published widely, particularly on Latin America. He is also the general editor of the Westview Press series Nations of the Modern World: Latin America, fifteen volumes of which have been published since 1980. Among his more recent publications are: Brazil: Culture and Politics in a New Industrial Powerhouse (1996); "Order and Progress: A Political History of Brazil," (1991); Brazil: Foreign Policy of a Future World Power (1978); Modernization and the Military in Brazil: Institutional Crises, Political Instability, and Army Intervention, 1822-1964 (1976); The Political System of Brazil: Emergence of a "Modernizing" Authoritarian Regime, 1964-1970 (1971). His book, Latin American Politics: Paths, Patterns, and Perspectives is forthcoming.
Email: rschneid@qc1.qc.edu

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Professor Kenneth Sherrill received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He is the chair of the Political Science Department at Hunter College. He also chairs the Higher Education PAC and serves on the Departmental Services Committee of the American Political Science Association. Among his publications are: "From Outlaws to In-laws: Anti-Gay Attitudes Thaw" (with Alan S. Yang) in Public Perspective (Jan, 2000); "The Youth of the Movement" in Ellen D. B. Riggle and Barry Tadlock, Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process (Columbia University press, 2000); "Political Power of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals: From Vote for Me," PS: Political Science and Politics; Gays and the Military (Princeton Univ. Press, 1993); co-author, "What Political Science is Missing by Ignoring AIDS," PS: Political Science and Politics (1992); "Electoral Bugaboos? Attitudes Toward Feminism and Gay Rights in the 1992 American National Election," APSR, (1993).
Email: kenneth.sherrill@hunter.cuny.edu

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Professor Carolyn Somerville received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Among her publications are: "The Impact of the Reforms on the Urban Population of Senegal: How the Dakarois View the Crisis," in Charles Green (ed.), Global Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge (SUNY Press, 1997); co - author, Women's Choices, Women's Realities (Oxford Univ. Press, 1995); "The Sahel," in Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (Oxford Univ. Press, 1993); co-author, "What Political Science is Missing by Ignoring AIDS," PS: Political Science and Politics (1992); "The Impact of Adjustment on the Senegalese: How Dakarois View the Crisis," in The Political Economy of Senegal (Praeger, 1991); Drought and Aid in the Sahel: A Decade of Development Cooperation (Westview Press, 1986).
Email: csomervl@andromeda.rutgers.edu

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Professor Yan Sun received her degrees from Nanjing University, Beijing School of Foreign Affairs and the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include post-socialist political economy and transitional politics of China, East Asian development, and comparative economic transition of China, Russia and India. She is the author of The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism 1976-1992 (Princeton, 1995) and Corruption and Market in Contemporary China (Cornell, 2004). She has also published in Comparative Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Current History, Asian Survey, Crime, Law and Social Change, and others.
Email: ysun3@gc.cuny.edu

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Professor Charles Tien (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1997) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Hunter College.  He was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award in 1999-2000 to teach American politics at People's University in Beijing, China.  His current research is on representation of minorities and women in the U.S. Congress.  His publications have appeared in journals such as American Politics Quarterly, Public Choice, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Women and Politics.
Email: ctien@hunter.cuny.edu

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Professor Joan C. Tronto received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. Tronto's scholarly work is in contemporary political theory, especially feminist political theory, the feminist ethic of care, and democratic political theory. She also has expertise about the women's movement in American politics. She has served as Director of Women's Studies at Hunter College. Tronto has taught in CUNY since 1982. She has been a visiting professor at the University for Humanist Studies in the Netherlands (1994-5) at Yale University (1995), at the Institute for Humanist Studies, Vienna (1996), and at Goettingen University (2006).  She will be a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Bologna in 2007.   During 2000-1, she was a Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at Princeton's University Center for Human Values.
Tronto's publications include Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (Routledge, 1993), a co-edited collection, Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (NYU Press, 1997), and numerous articles in leading journals in political theory and women's studies.  Moral Boundaries has been published in Italian translation and a French edition is forth-coming.
Tronto is professionally active as well. She has served on the governing Council of the American Political Science Association (1997-1999) and on its Strategic Planning Committee from 1999-2000. She served as vice president of the American Political Science Association during 2004-5 and since 2005 she has chaired the Annual Meeting Review Committee for APSA.
Email: jtronto@hunter.cuny.edu

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Professor Gregg Van Ryzin received his Ph.D. from the Psychology Program at CUNY Graduate Center. He also teaches in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College. Recent publications include "Expectations, Performance, and Citizen Satisfaction with Urban Services" in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2004); "Explaining the Race Gap in Satisfaction with Urban Services" in Urban Affairs Review (2004, with D. Muzzio and S. Immerwahr); and "The Effect of Federal and Local Housing Programs on the Transition from Welfare to Work: Evidence from New York City" in Cityscape (2004, with R. Kaestner and T. J. Main).
Email: gregg_vanryzin@baruch.cuny.edu

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Professor John R. Wallach is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, where he has taught since 1991. He also is Acting Director of the embryonic Hunter Human Rights Program. He has taught courses on ancient political thought at the Graduate Center and was recently appointed to the Department of Political Science at the Graduate Center. Previously, he was a visiting assistant professor of political science at Yale University and Vassar College. He received his Ph.D. in Politics (Political Philosophy Program) from Princeton University in 1981. He received a B.A. in Politics and Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1974. In 1998-99, he was Liberal Arts Fellow of Law and Political Science at Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Platonic Political Art: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy (Penn State Press, 2001) and the co-editor, with J. Peter Euben and Josiah Ober, of Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy (Cornell, 1994). He teaches the history of Western political thought and topics of contemporary political theory, in seminars such as "Democracy and Equal Opportunity" and "Human Rights, Cultural Relativism, and Politics." He is now at work on a book currently titled, Democratic Virtue: Critical Essays for an Ethics of Equality and Power. Generally, his interests concern democratic theory, theories of political interpretation, ancient Greek political thought, and constitutionalism.
Email: jwallach@hunter.cuny.edu

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Professor Thomas G. Weiss

is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project. He is President (2009-10) of the International Studies Association, chair (2007-9) of the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS), and was awarded the “Grand Prix Humanitaire de France 2006” and “Médaille d’honneur de la ville de Marseille 2008” for his analytical work on UN studies.

As Research Professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies (1990-98), he also held university administrative posts (Associate Dean of the Faculty, Director of the Global Security Program, Associate Director), was the Executive Director of ACUNS, and co-directed the Humanitarianism and War Project. Earlier, he was the Executive Director of the International Peace Academy (1985-9); a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the UN Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva (1975-85); and held professional posts in the Office of the UN Commissioner for Namibia, the University Program at the Institute for World Order, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and International Labor Organization. He has been a consultant for foundations and numerous inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations and was editor of Global Governance (2000-5) and research director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-2).

His PhD and MA are from Princeton University and his BA from Harvard University. He pursued advanced graduate studies at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales, University of Geneva, and has an honorary MA from Brown University.

He has written extensively about international organization, conflict management, peacekeeping, humanitarian action, North-South relations and U.S. foreign policy. He is currently writing What’s Wrong with the United Nations (and How to Fix It), The UN and Global Governance: An Unfinished History, and UN Ideas Changing  History; and editing Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics and The UN and the Nuclear Challenge. He has authored or edited: Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics(co-editor, 2008); The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations(co-editor, 2007); Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (author, 2007); The United Nations and Changing World Politics (co-author, 2007, 5th ed.); Sword & Salve: Confronting  New Wars and Humanitarian Crises (co-author, 2006); Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and its Consequences (co-author, 2006);  UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (co-author, 2005, AAUP Public Library Selection ); Military-Civilian Interactions: Humanitarian Crises and the Responsibility to Protect (author, 2005, 2nd ed.); Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11 (co-editor, 2004); Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy (co-editor, 2004); Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges (co-author, 2001, Choices “Outstanding Academic Title of 2003”); The Responsibility To Protect: Research, Bibliography, and Background (co-author, 2001); Guide to IGOs, NGOs, and the Military in Peace and Relief Operations (co-author, 2001); Humanitarian Challenges and Intervention (co-author, 2000, 2nd ed.); Beyond UN Subcontracting: Task-sharing with Regional Security Arrangements and Service-Providing NGOs (editor, 1998); Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics (co-editor, 1998); Political Gain and Civilian Pain: Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions (co-editor, 1997); News Media, Civil War, and Humanitarian Action (co-author, 1996); NGOs, the UN, and Global Governance (co-editor, 1996); Volunteers Against Conflict (co-editor, 1996); From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy, and Humanitarian Crises (co-editor, 1996); Mercy Under Fire: War and the Global Humanitarian Community (co-author, 1995); The United Nations and Civil Wars (editor, 1995); Humanitarian Politics (co-author, 1995); Humanitarianism Across Borders: Sustaining Civilians in Times of War (co-editor, 1993); Humanitarian Action in Times of War: A Handbook for Practitioners (co-author, 1993); Collective Security in a Changing World (editor, 1993); The Suffering Grass: Superpowers and Regional Conflict in Southern Africa and the Caribbean (co-editor, 1992); Third World Security in the Post-Cold War Era (co-editor, 1991); Peacekeepers, Soldiers and Disasters (co-editor, 1991); Humanitarianism Under Siege (co-author, 1990); Soldiers with a Difference (co-author, 1990); Humanitarian Emergencies and Military Help in Africa (editor, 1990); Multilateral Development Diplomacy in UNCTAD (author, 1986); The Nature of United Nations Bureaucracies (co-editor, 1985); More for the Least? Prospects for Poorest Countries in the Eighties (co-author, 1983); The Challenge of Development in the Eighties (co-editor, 1983); The World Food Conference and Global Problem Solving (co-author, 1976); and International Bureaucracy (author, 1975). Articles include those in Foreign Policy, Current History, The Washington Quarterly, Ethics & International Affairs, Security Studies, Disasters, World Policy Journal, Survival, Third World Quarterly, World Development, International Affairs, World Politics, International Peacekeeping, Journal of Peace Research, Contemporary Security Policy, Security Dialogue, Journal of Human Rights, Global Social Policy, Canadian Journal of Foreign Policy, International Relations, Development and Change, Forum for Development Studies, andGlobal Governance. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and International Studies Association, he currently is editor of two book series, “Global Institutions” (Routledge) and “UN Intellectual History” (Indiana) and serves on eight editorial boards (Third World Quarterly, Intervention and State-Building, Global Governance, Global Responsibility to Protect, International Peacekeeping, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Journal of Global Social Policy,and Great Decisions).
Email: tweiss@gc.cuny.edu

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Distinguished Professor Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History and Comparative Literature.  He received his Ph. D. in Social and Political Thought from York University.  He has taught at Reed College, Rice University, and the Central European University.  He has published widely on twentieth-century French and German political thought.  His books have been translated into eight languages.  He has been a frequent contributor to The New Republic and Dissent.  Among his books are: Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption (Columbia UP, 1982), The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (Columbia UP, 1990), Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse (Princeton UP, 2001), which has been translated into five languages: Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and Chinese, and The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism (