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Saad Eddin Ibrahim is a Human Rights Activist in Egypt; Sociology Professor, Director and Chairman of the Board of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies at the American University in Cairo.
Spoke in the conference, Their America, The U.S. in the Eyes of the Rest of the World (October 2004)
Michael Ignatieff is Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice and the Director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy, Harvard University. Among his most recent books are The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004) and Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001). His newest volume, After Paradise, is forthcoming.
Social Research at Seventy, Vol.71 No.3 (Fall 2004)
Speaker and author for the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Rescue: The paradoxes of Virtue, Vol.62 No.1 (Spring 1995)
James B. Jacobs is Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University. His doctoral dissertation, Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society (1977), is considered a classic in penology and is still assigned in classrooms around the country.
Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Jerome H. Jaffe, M.D is a psychiatrist and pharmacologist whose work in the area of drug abuse includes treatment, basic and clinical research, teaching, and government service. He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Speaker and author for the conference, Altered States of Consciousness, Vol.68 No.3 (Fall 2001)
Vlasta Jalusic is a senior research fellow at the Peace Institute (Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies), Ljubljana, Slovenia, and an associate professor of political theory and gender studies at Ljubljana University. Her recent publications include "Post-totalitarian Elements and Eichmann's Mentality in the Yugoslav War and Mass Killings" (in Stone and King, eds., 2007). She is the editor and translator into Slovene of Arendt's The Human Condition (1996) and Between Past and Future (2006).
Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part II, Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
William H. Janeway is the Managing Director at E. M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., LLC. His most recently published work is "The 1931 Sterling Crisis and the Independence of the Bank of England" in the Journal of Post Kenesian Economics.
Speaker and author for the conference, Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Yu Jianrong, of the Institute for Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has distinguished himself with the publication of articles on farmers’ resistance against tax gathering, and on peasants’ organisation in Hunan, a central province of China. The originality of the information he presents, based on long and thorough investigations, has made him famous in Chinese sociological circles. Yu has access to extensive documentation on peasants and workers’ resistance.
China in Transition, Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Baber Johansen is the Directeur d’etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, where he teaches at the Centre d’etude des normes juridiques. He is co-executive editor of the journal “Islamic Law and Society” (Brill, 1994), and area editor for “Islamic Law in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History”. His publications focus on the history and the present of Islamic Law.
Speaker and author for the conference, Islam: The Private and Public Spheres [Part III], Vol.70 No.3 (Fall 2003)
Mark Juergensmeyer is professor of sociology and global studies and director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent books include Terror in the Mind of God, Global Rebellion, Religion in Global Civil Society, and A Handbook of Global Religion.
Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Denial, Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Mohsen Kadivar is a philosopher, theologian, and dissident. He is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tarbiat Modares University in Iran and Visiting Scholar, Islamic Legal Studies, Harvard Law School. He was the Director of the Department of Islamic Thought, Center for Strategic Research from 1991 until 1999. He has published over 100 papers in various Iranian journals. His books include Theories of State in Shiite Fiqh (1998). Kadivar was first arrested in 1978 in the Shiraz Islamic uprising. 20 years later, the unconstitutional Cleric Court of Iran found him guilty of campaigning against the Islamic Republic and despite 18 months of imprisonment (1999-2000), he continues to campaign for reform of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Speaker and author for the conference, Islam: The Private and Public Spheres [Part III], Vol.70 No.3 (Fall 2003)
Otto Kallscheuer is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His most recent publications are Gottes Wort und Volkes Stimme (1994) and "Will There Be a European Left?" (1994).
Speaker and author for the conference, Rescue: The paradoxes of Virtue, Vol.62 No.1 (Spring 1995)
Mehrangiz Kar is an Iranian human rights lawyer, writer, and former editor of the now-banned Zan literary review. Her work as an activist for women's rights often put her in conflict with Iranian authorities and led to her imprisonment. Kar has published widely on women's issues in Iran. Her publications include Children of Addiction: Social and Legal Position of the Children of Addicted Parents in Iran; Quest for Identity: the Image of Iranian Women in Prehistory and History Vol.1 and 11, which she co-edited with Shahla Lahiji, Iran's first woman publisher; Angel of Justice and Patches of Hell, Women in the Iranian Labor Market (1994); and Legal Structure of the Family System in Iran.
Speaker and author for the conference, Islam: The Private and Public Spheres [Part III], Vol.70 No.3 (Fall 2003)
Ronald Kassimir is an expert on contemporary African politics and religion, is Associate Provost at The New School. His work has appeared in many journals and periodicals, and he is the coeditor of Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia (2005); Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa (2002); and Youth, Globalization, and Law (2007).
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University. His books include Patriotism and Other Mistakes (2006) and The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture, winner of the 1994 Spitz Book Prize by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought.
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol.76, No.4 (Winter 2009)
Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Denial, Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part I, Vol.74, No.3, (Fall 2007)
Speaker and author for the conference, Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74, No.2, (Summer 2007)
Speaker and author for the conference, Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses, Vol.71 No.4 (Winter 2004)
Courage, Vol.71 No.1 (Spring 2003)
Selected Essays, Vol.70 No.2 (Summer 2003)
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism: Fifth Years Later, Vol.69 No.2 (Summer 2002)
Privacy, Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
Liberty and Pluralism, Vol.66 No.4 (Winter 1999)
Philosophy and Politics, Vol.56 No.4 (Winter 1989)
Speaker and author for the conference, In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease, Vol.55 No.3 (Autumn 1988)
Bicentennial of the Constitution, Vol.54 No.3 (Autumn 1987)
The Bettelheim Problem, Vol.46 No.4 (Winter 1979)
Human Nature: A Reevaluation, Vol.40 No.3 (Autumn 1973)
Ira Katznelson has been Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University since 1994. His books include Political Science: The State of Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co Inc, 2004); Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development (co-authored with Martin Shefter, Princeton University Press, 2002); Schooling for All: Race, Class, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (co-authored with Margaret Weir; Basic Books, 1985); City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States (University of Chicago, 1981). He is the winner of the American Political Science Association's Michael Harrington Prize and Columbia's Lionel Trilling Award. He is completing a book on the New Deal, the South, and the shaping of postwar liberalism in the United States.
Fairness: Its Role in Our Lives, Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Liberty and Pluralism, Vol.66 No.4 (Winter 1999)
Frontiers in Social Inquiry, Vol.59 No.4 (Winter 1992)
Post-Totalitarian Politics: Ideology Ends Again, Vol.57 No.3 (Fall 1990)
Spoke in the conference, Fear (February, 2004)
Farhad Kazemi is Professor of Politics and Middle Eastern Studies and Assistant Provost at New York University. He is co-editor (with John Waterbury) of Peasants and Politics in the Modern Middle East (1997) and the author of Poverty and Revolution in Iran (1980), and he guest-edited the Fall 1995 issue of Iran Nameh on “Civil Society.”
Speaker and author for the conference, Iran Since the Revolution, Vol. 67 No. 2 (Summer 2000)
Henry Kelly is President of the Federation of American Scientists. He has worked for
the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the OTA, and the OSTP.
Politics & Science: How Their Interplay Results in Public Policy, Vol.73 No.3 (Fall 2006)
Bob Kerrey is president of The New School, has served as a governor and U.S. senator from Nebraska, on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and as an active member of the 9/11 Commission. He is a recipient of the Robert L. Haig Award for Distinguished Public Service from the New York State Bar Association, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from New York Law School and has received numerous other citations. He served three years in the United States Navy. In 2002, Kerrey published a widely praised memoir, When I Was A Young Man.
Social Research at Seventy, Vol.71 No.3 (Fall 2004)
Keynote speaker and author for the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Daniel Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Professor of American
Studies, and of Law (adjunct) at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale
University. He is also Chair of the Program in the History of Medicine and Science.
Politics & Science: How Their Interplay Results in Public Policy, Vol.73 No.3 (Fall 2006)
Alexander Keyssar is associate professor of history at Duke University, wrote Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (1986).
Speaker and author for the conference, Home: A Place in the World, Vol.58 No.1 (Spring 1991)
Dina Khapaeva is Director for Research and Professor of History at the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St Petersburg). Author of Gothic Society: Morphology of A Nightmare (2007), among others, her research interests include history and memory, intellectual history, and Soviet history.
Russia Today, Vol.76 No.1 (Spring 2009)
Hyojoung Kim is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Korean American and Korean Studies, California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests include Social Movements and Collective Action, Political Sociology, and Race and Ethnicity. He is co-winner of the First Place Winner of the 2004 Best Article Competition Award by the Collective Behavior and Social Movement Section of American Sociological Association.
Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Denial, Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Kenneth Kipnis is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has written extensively on ethics in health care, including disaster medicine, the treatment of low-birthweight infants, breaching confidentiality, the surgical “normalization” of infants with ambiguous genitalia, and the foundations of professional ethics.
Difficult Choices, Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Irving Kirsch is Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author or editor of five books, including Changing Expectations: A Key to Effective Psychotherapy (1990) and How Expectancies Shape Experience (1999). He has written extensively on placebo effects, hypnosis, and psychotherapy.
Speaker and author for the conference, Altered States of Consciousness, Vol.68 No.3 (Fall 2001)
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is professor of performance studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, as well as a Folklore Fellow of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Her publications include "The Kosher Gourmet in the Nineteenth-Century Kitchen," in the Journal of Gastronomy, and the book, Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (1998).
Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
János Kis is professor of political science at The Central European University in Budapest. He recently wrote "Timeliness of an Old Question" (1996) and is working on The Neutrality of the State (forthcoming).
Speaker and author for the conference, Nationalism Reexamined, Vol.63 No.1 (Spring 1996)
Mark A. R. Kleinman is Professor of Policy Studies at UCLA and currently a visiting scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. He is also the Chairman of BOTEC Analysis Corporation, a Cambridge, Massachusetts firm that conducts policy analysis and contract research on illicit drugs, crime, and health care, and is editor of the Drug Policy Analysis Bulletin.
Speaker and author for the conference, Altered States of Consciousness, Vol.68 No.3 (Fall 2001)
Jerome Kohn is Trustee of the Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust and Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at The New School for Social Research. He is the editor of a series of volumes of Arendt’s unpublished and uncollected works, and has written numerous essays on various aspects of her thought.
Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part I, Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism: Fifth Years Later, Vol.69 No.2 (Summer 2002)
Philosophy and Politics, Hannah Arendt, Vol.57 No.1 (Spring 1990)
Andrei Kortunov is President of the Moscow-based New Eurasia Foundation. He has managed a number of education-focused programs in Russia, working closely with government agencies, higher education institutions, international
consultancies, and foreign foundations.
Russia Today, Vol.76 No.1 (Spring 2009)
András Kovács is Professor of Nationalism Studies and Jewish Studies at Central European University, and Professor of Sociology at Eötvös Loránd University. His publications in English include "Jews and Politics in Hungary" in Values, Interests and Identity: Jews and Politics in the Changing World (1995).
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
The Gains and Losses if the Transition to Democracy, Vol.63 No.2 (Summer 1996)
Hans-Peter Krüger is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He has been co-editor of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (German Journal of Philosophy) since 1993 and the President of the Helmuth Plessner Society for Philosophical Anthropology since 2005. Krueger studied philosophy and psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin where he also took his PhD about the philosophical development of young Hegel. He has served as Fellow at UC Berkeley, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study Berlin), and the University of Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science. Among his books are Kritik der kommunikativen Vernunft (Critique of Communicative Reason); and Life Politics, and the Variety of Philosophical Anthropologies (in preparation for 2009).
Spoke in the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times [Part I] (October 2008)
Howard Kunreuther is the Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Decision Sciences and Public Policy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
and Codirector of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. His most recent book, At War with the Weather (coauthored with Michel-Kerjan), is forthcoming from MIT Press in 2009.
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Neal Lane is Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University. He also holds
appointments as Senior Fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and in
the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Keynote speaker for the conference, Politics & Science: How Their Interplay Results in Public Policy, Vol.73 No.3 (Fall 2006)
Tomila Lankina is a Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University’s Local Governance Research Unit.
Russia Today, Vol.76 No.1 (Spring 2009)
Mark Larrimore is a Professor at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts.
Spoke in the conference, The Religious–Secular Divide: The U.S. Case (March 2009)
Julian Le Grand currently holds the following titles: Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics; Chair of the London School of Economics Health and Social Care; Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine; Founding Academician of the Academy of learned Societies for the Social Sciences and a Senior Associate of the King Fund. He is the author, co-author or editor of twelve books and over ninety articles and book chapters on health and social policy. His books include Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens (Oxford University Press, 2003); Quasi-Markets and Social Policy (co-author with Will Bartlett, Palgrave, 1993); Equity and Choice: An Essay in Economics and Applied Philosophy (Routledge, 1992); and The Strategy of Equality (Unwin Hyman, 1982).
Fairness: Its Role in Our Lives, Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She is author of many articles and books including How Russia Really Works (2006) and Russia’s Economy of Favors (1998).
Russia Today, Vol.76 No.1 (Spring 2009)
Joshua Lederberg is Sackler Foundation Scholar and President Emeritus at the Rockefeller University, New York.
Speaker and author for the conference,
Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Speaker and author for the conference, In Time of Plague the History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease, Vol.55 No.3 (Autumn 1988)
Human Nature: A Reevaluation, Vol.40 No.3 (Autumn 1973)
Joe LeDoux is Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science and Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at New York University. His laboratory in the Center for Neural Science conducts research aimed at understanding the biological underpinnings of emotions such as fear. He is the author of Synaptic Self (2002) and The Emotional Brain (1996).
Speaker and author for the conference, Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses, Vol.71 No.4 (Winter 2004)
Benjamin Lee is University Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy and Senior Vice President for International Affairs at The New School. He was a Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Lee’s most recent publications are Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk (with Edward Lipuma) and Talking Heads: Language, Meta-language, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity. He is the founding and executive editor for Public Planet Books and Public World Books.
Spoke in the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part II (February 2009).
Also spoke in the conference, The Religious–Secular Divide: The U.S. Case (March 2009)
Claus Leggewie is Director of the Center for Media and Interactivity at Giessen University, Germany, where he teaches political science. His publications include Ein Ort, an den man gerne geht. Das Holocaust-Mahnmal und die deutsche Geschichtspolitik nach 1989 [A place one wants to go: The Holocaust memorial and German politics of history after 1989] (with Meyer, 2005).
Collective Memory and Collective Identity, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Lawrence Lessig is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. His publications include The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code And Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999) as well as other articles on cyberspace regulation.
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe [Part II], Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Martine Leibovici is a member of the faculty at the Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot /Centre de Sociologie des Pratiques et des Représentations Politiques. Her publications include Hannah Arendt et la tradition juive : le judaïsme à l'épreuve de la sécularisation (2003) and Hannah Arendt, une Juive : expérience, politique et histoire (1998).
Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part I, Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Isaac Levi is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University, where he taught from 1970 until 2003. He is author of eight books, the most recent of which is Mild Contractions (2004) and many articles on the rational conduct of scientific and value inquiry.
Difficult Choices, Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Social Research, Vol.48 No.2 (Summer 1981)
Rationality, Choice, and Morality, Vol.44 No.4 (Winter 1977)
Sanford Levinson is the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University
of Texas Law School and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book is Our
Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It) (2006).
Difficult Choices, Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Anatol Lieven Author and Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Spoke in the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record (April 2002)
Having made her mark on the business sector in the 1980s, Christine Loh was a Legislative Councilor between 1992 and 2000, representing a wide variety of causes and contributing significantly to the advancement of issues such as gender equality and environmental protection. In 2000, Dr Loh founded the independent think tank, Civic Exchange. As its Chief Executive, she continues to dedicate herself to promoting civic education and public policy studies in Hong Kong.
China in Transition, Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Claudio Lomnitz Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, New School University.
Spoke in the conference, Their America: The United States in the Eyes of the Rest of the World (October 2004)
Carey Lowell is an actress and former model notable for her role in the film License to Kill (1989).
Gave a reading with Carey Lowell in the special event for Punishment: The U.S. Record, (November 2006), of poetry and short stories by prison inmates. [Audio available free online.]
Fatos Lubonja is Editor-in-Chief of Perpjekja, in Tirana, Albania, and a human rights activist in Albania. His documentary novel, The Second Sentence, published in Tirana in 1996, describes his trial for “counterrevolutionary organization” while already imprisoned by the communist government for “agitation and propaganda.”
Courage, Vol.71 No.1 (Spring 2003)
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy, Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
Ursula Ludz, a sociologist in Munich, is the editor of several German works by Hannah Arendt and a translator. Her latest book publication is the two-volume Hannah Arendt: Denktagebuch (with Nordmann, 2002), and her most recent translation (2005) is Hannah Arendt: Über das Böse (Arendt’s 1965 lecture course on moral philosophy).
Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part I, Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Fyodor Lukyanov is the Editor-in-Chief of the Moscow-based Russia in Global Affairs, the foremost journal of Russia’s perspective on global economic and social issues.
Russia Today, Vol.76 No.1 (Spring 2009)
David Mafabi Director of Political Affairs at the Pan African Movement Secretariat in Kampala, Uganda.
Spoke in the conference, Their America: The United States in the Eyes of the Rest of the World, (October 2004)
Saba Mahmood received her Ph.D, Anthropology, at Stanford University, 1998, and currently teaches in the History of Religions Program, Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Her work explores dynamics of religious practice in post-colonial societies, with a particular focus on Islam. Her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, and Cultural Studies. She is currently working on a book entitled Pious Transgressions: Embodied Disciplines of the Islamic Revival (Princeton University Press, 2003).
Speaker and author for the conference, Pariah Minorities , Vol.70 No.1 (Fall 2003)
László Majtényi is Parlaimentary Commissioner on Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Hungary.
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe [Part II], Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Alexei V. Malashenko is a Scholar-in-Residence, and Co-chair of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. The author of 14 books and numerous working papers and articles, his recent publications include Russia and the Muslim World (2008) and Religion and Conflict (2007).
Russia Today, Vol.76 No.1 (Spring 2009)
Steven Marcus is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His most recent book is Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis (1984).
Speaker and author for the conference, Home: A Place in the World, Vol.58 No.1 (Spring 1991)
Avishai Margalit is the Shulman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, received the Spinoza Lens Prize in 2001 for “a significant contribution to the normative debate on society.” He is one of the founders of Peace Now and the author of books and articles on topics that include the philosophy of language, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.
Speaker and author for the conference, Their America: The U.S. in the Eyes of the Rest of the World, Vol.72 No.4 (Winter 2005)
Social Research at Seventy, Vol.71 No.3 (Fall 2004)
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I], Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
The Decent Society, Vol.64 No.1 (Spring 1997)
William F. Martin is Chairman, Washington Policy & Analysis; Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee, United States Department of Energy.
Spoke in the conference, Politics and Science (February 2006)
Anthony W. Marx is President of Amherst College. He served as director of the Gates Foundation-funded Early College/High School Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He founded the Columbia Urban Educators Program. In the 1980s, he helped found Khanya College, a South African secondary school that helped prepare more than 1,000 black students for university. Marx is the author of three books including Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa and Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Spoke in the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part I, (October 2008)
Leo Marx is Kenan Professor of American Cultural History, Program in Science, Technology and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Progress: Fact or Fiction? (1996) and "Does Improved Technology Mean Progress" published in Technology Review (1987).
Speaker and author for the conference, Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Elzbieta Matynia is Director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies and Senior Lecturer in Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research. Her current research includes nationalism and ethnic conflict, new democracies in East and Central Europe, and women and democratic transition.
Speaker and author for the conference, Their America: The U.S. in the Eyes of the Rest of the World, Vol.72 No.4 (Winter 2005)
Selected Essays, Vol.70 No.2 (Summer 2003)
Civil Society Revisited, Vol.68 No.4 (Winter 2001)
Marc Mauer is Executive Director of The Sentencing Project. He has served as Assistant Director since 1987 and was the National Justice Communications Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee from 1975 to 1986. He is the author of Young Black Men and the Criminal Justice System, the Americans Behind Bars series and Race to Incarcerate (1999). He has received the Alfred R. Lindesmith Award (2003) from the Drug Policy Alliance for achievement in drug policy scholarship.
Spoke in the conference, Punishment: The U.S. Record (November 2006)
Robert McC. Adams is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution. His most recently published work is Pathos of Fire: An Anthopologist's Inquiry into Western Technology (1996). His previous publications have dealt primarily with the long-term urban and agricultural development of the Near East.
Speaker and author for the conference, Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Michael W. McConnell is Judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and Presidential Professor of Law at S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. He was nominated by George W. Bush on September 4, 2001. Professor McConnell served as assistant to the solicitor general with the U.S. Department of Justice, assistant general counsel for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and clerked for Chief Judge J. Skelly Wright, of the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. McConnell has argued 11 times before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is widely published in the areas of church-state relations and the First Amendment.
Spoke in the conference, The Religious–Secular Divide: The U.S. Case (March 2009)
Colin McGinn is professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. His most recent work is Problems in Philosophy (1993).
Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Theresa M. McGovern, founder The HIV Law Project, Inc., was its Executive Director for ten years. She is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of Public Health and is an Individual Project Fellow at the Open Society Institute.
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I], Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and a Visiting Research Collaborator at the
Center for Human Values, Princeton. He is the author of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (2002).
Difficult Choices, Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
William McNeill is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. His works include Plagues and Peoples (1976) and The Global Tradition: Conquerors, Catastrophes and Community (1992).
Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
Dominique Memmi is Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS-Paris). Her most recent book, Faire vivre et laisser mourir. Le gouvernement contemporain de la naissance et de la mort (2003), deals with contemporary regulations regarding decisions concerning life, death, and the body.
Selected Essays, Vol.70 No.2 (Summer 2003)
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe [Part II], Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Louis Menand, Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is a contributing editor of The New York Review of Books. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club (forthcoming, 2001) and coeditor of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol.7 (2000).
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I] , Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
Joy Mench was an associate professor in the Department of Poultry Science at the University of Maryland when she prepared her article for this issue. She is currently a professor in the Animal and Avian Sciences Department at the University of California at Davis.
Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Christoph Menke is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center of Human Rights at the University of Potsdam. His English books include The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida (1998) and Reflections of Equality (2006).
Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part I, Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Theodor Meron, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law at New York University, is currently serving as the American Judge (appeals chamber) of the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague. His books include Henry’s Wars and Shakespeare’s Laws: Perspectives on the Laws of War in the Later Middle Ages (1993) and War Crimes Law Comes of Age: Essays (1998).
Speaker and author for the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Brinkley Messick is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.
Speaker and author for the conference, Islam: The Private and Public Spheres [Part III], Vol.70 No.3 (Fall 2003)
Erwann Michel-Kerjan is Managing Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of
Pennsylvania and coeditor of Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability
(2006). His most recent book, At War with the Weather (coauthored with Kunreuther), is forthcoming from MIT Press in 2009.
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Anatoli Mikhailov is the founder and Rector of the European Humanities University and a highly respected expert on German philosophy. In 2003 he was awarded the French Palmes Academiques and in 2004 the German Goethe Medal. Mikhailov established European Humanities University in Minsk, Belarus, in 1992. In 2004, the Lukashenko regime ordered the university shut down. Mikhailov has been in exile in Vilnius since where the University was reopened in 2005.
Spoke in the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part II (February 2009)
Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author, most recently, of Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent’s Death (2000).
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I], Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
James Miller is Professor of Political Science and Director of Liberal Studies at the Graduate Faculty of New School University. His books include Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977 (1999), The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993), Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago (Harvard University Press, 1987) and History and Human Existence: From Marx to Merleau-Ponty (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982). He is the editor of Daedalus.
Speaker and author for the conference, Altered States of Consciousness, Vol.68 No.3 (Fall 2001)
Liberty and Pluralism, Vol. 66 No. 4 (Winter 1999)
Jonathan Miller is a Doctor of Medicine, an author, lecturer, television producer and presenter, and film and opera director who has held many acting and directing roles in theater. Between January 1988 and October 1990, Dr. Miller was Artistic Director of the Old Vic, and his most recent production in London was A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Almeida Theatre.
Keynote speaker and author for the conference, Altered States of Consciousness, Vol.68 No.3 (Fall 2001)
Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His most recently published work is The Turing Option (a novel with H. Harrison, 1992). He is also the author of The Society of the Mind (1987), Robotics (1986), Artificial Intelligence (1972), Perceptrons (1969, enlarged edition 1988), and Semantic Information Processing (1968).
Speaker and author for the conference, Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Sidney Mintz is William L. Straus Jr. Professor Emeritus of anthropology at The John Hopkins University. He edits the journals Food and Foodways and Journal of Gastronomy, and has published numerous books and articles, including Sweetness and Power (1985) and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past (1996).
Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
Jeffrey A. Miron is Professor of Economics at Boston University and President of Bastiat Institute, Incorporated. He has published more than twenty-five articles in refereed journals and thirty op-eds in the Boston Herald, Boston Business Journal, and Boston Globe. His area of expertise is the economics of libertarianism, with emphasis on the economics of illegal drugs.
Speaker and author for the conference, Altered States of Consciousness, Vol.68 No.3 (Fall 2001)
Nenad Miscevic is Professor of Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Maribor, Slovenia.
Spoke in the conference, Privacy (March 2001)
George Mitchell Former United States Senator of Maine, Chairman of the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Keynote speaker in conference, Their America: The United States in the Eyes of the Rest of the World (October 2004)
Nikolay Mitrokhin is a Research Fellow at the University of Bremen’s Research Center for East European Studies. He is the author of (in Russian) The Russian Orthodox Church: Contemporary Consistence and Actual Problems (2004, 2006) and Russian Party: The Russian Nationalist Movement in the USSR, 1953-1985 (2003).
Russia Today, Vol.76 No.1 (Spring 2009)
Hassan Mneimneh is a journalist and Co-director, Iraq Documentation Project based in Harvard.
Speaker and author for the conference, Pariah Minorities, Vol.70 No.1 (Fall 2003)
Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, Director, University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Bristol University.
Spoke in the conference, The Religious–Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, (March 2009)
Jonathan Moore served as a U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. between l989 and 1992 and as U.S. Coordinator for Refugees between 1986 and 1989. He is an Associate at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School at Harvard, and works for the U.N. and other international agencies on post-conflict reconstruction.
Difficult Choices, Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
James A. Morone is Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University. He is a contributor to The American Prospect and the London Review of Books and has testified before Congress numerous times, especially on health policy. His awards include three Hazeltine citations for teaching (in 1993, 1999, 2001), the APSA's Kammerer Award for the Democratic Wish, and a Pulitzer nomination for The Politics of Sin in American History (Yale University Press, 2003).
Spoke in the conference, The Religious–Secular Divide: The U.S. Case , (March 2009)
William Morrish is Elwood R. Quesada Professor of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban and Environmental Planning, at the School of Architecture, University of Virginia. Author of Civilizing Terrains: Mountains, Mounds and Mesas (2004), he is currently writing a book on lessons learned from rebuilding after Katrina.
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Roy Mottahedah is Gurney Professor of Islamic History at Harvard University. His major work is on the pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East. His publications include Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society and The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran. He is currently working on the medieval Middle Eastern literature on "marvels” and is the faculty adviser of a new journal, The Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review.
Speaker and author for the conference, Pariah Minorities, Vol.70 No.1 (Fall 2003)
J. Anthony Movshon is Director of the Center for Neural Science and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Center. He has written numerous articles in the area of neuroscience.
Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Nils Muiznieks is Director of the Latvian Center for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies; Latvia.
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe [Part II], Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Monique Mujawamariya is a leading human rights activist.
Speaker and author for the conference, Rescue: the Paradoxes of Virtue, Vol.62 No.1 (Spring 1995)
Debbie A. Mukamal is Director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She co-authored After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry, a Report on State Legal Barriers Facing People with Criminal Records (with Samuels, 2004).
Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Anne Murcott is professor of the sociology of health at South Bank University, London and Director of the Economic & Social Research Council (UK) Research Programme on the Social Science of Food Choice. Her publications include the co-authored The Sociology of Food: Eating, Diet and Culture (1983) and, most recently, the edited volume The Nation's Diet (1998).
Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
John C. Mutter is Professor in the Departments of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of International and Public Affairs,
Director of Graduate Studies for the doctorate in sustainable development and Director of the Fellows program for the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He studies the relationship between natural systems and human well-being with particular focus on extreme events and the vulnerability of poor societies.
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Chandra Muzzafar is President of International Movement for a Just World, which seeks to raise public awareness of the moral and intellectual basis of global justice. He was previously a Professor at the Center for Civilizational Dialogue, University Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He has written numerous books on religion, human rights, Malaysian politics, and international relations, including Rights, Religion, and Reform (2002). Assistant Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York, is the author of several articles, including "Fine, Mathematics and Theory Change," and "On Explanation in Archaeology."
Speaker and author for the conference, Their America: The U.S. in the Eyes of the Rest of the World, Vol.72 No.4 (Winter 2005)
Ethan Nadelmann is the Executive Director of The Lindesmith Center - Drug Policy Foundation. His writings on drug policy have appeared in numerous publications, including Science, Rolling Stone, Foreign Affairs, and American Heritage. He is the author of Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement (1993).
Speaker and author for the conference, Altered States of Consciousness, Vol.68 No.3 (Fall 2001)
Amir Naderi is a world-renowned Iranian filmmaker currently living in New York City. He is one of the greatest self-educated Iranian filmmakers and a poet. Naderi started out as a still photographer and is among the first founders of Iran's cinema industry. His films have received critical acclaim throughout the world. Among his films are The Runner; Water, Wind, Dust; Manhattan by Numbers; A, B, C…Manhattan; and Waiting.
Spoke in conference, Islam, Private and Public Spheres (December 2002)
Azar Nafisi is Visiting Professor and Director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. She served on the faculty at Tehran University and later Allemeh Tabatabai University; as visiting fellow at Oxford University. She is an author on issues related to promotion of democracy and human rights in Muslim societies, women’s rights and literature and culture including her book Anti-Terra: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels (1994). Her next book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, is forthcoming.
Spoke in conference, Islam, Private and Public Spheres (December 2002)
Michael Naumann is Professor of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal and a Professor at Humboldt University. He is the author of The Explanation of Behavioris and publisher of Die Zeit, in Hamburg, Germany, and the former Minister for Culture and Media of Germany. He served as CEO for both Metropolitan Books and Henry Holt, Inc., and Rowohlt Verlahg, Germany.
Speaker and author for the conference, Their America: The U.S. in the Eyes of the Rest of the World, Vol.72 No.4 (Winter 2005)
Deepak Nayyar is Distinguished University Professor of Economics at The New School and Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Professor Nayyar was Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi from 2000 to 2005. He also served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. He is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Professor Nayyar is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki. His books include Migration, Remittances and Capital Flows (Oxford University Press) and The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Liberalization (Penguin Books).
Speaker at the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times (October, 2008)
Aryeh Neier is President of the Open Society Institute. Formerly Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, he also served as National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is the author, most recently, of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights (2003).
Moderator of the special event for the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times (October, 2008)
Speaker and author for the conference, Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses, Vol.71 No.4 (Winter 2004)
International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Dorothy Nelkin is Professor of sociology at Cornell University, and currently Clare Boothe Luce Visiting Professor at New York University. She is the author of Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology (1987).
Speaker and author for the conference, In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease, Vol.55 No.3 (Autumn 1988)
Bioethics, Vol. 52 No. 3 (Autumn 1985)
Mark Neocleous is Lecturer in Politics at Brunel University and coeditor of Radical Philosophy. His publications include The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power (2000) and Imagining the State (forthcoming 2002).
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe [Part II], Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Charles Nesson is William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is also the Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research program founded to explore cyberspace. After completing his law degree at Harvard Law School, Professor Nesson clerked with Justice Harlan on the United States Supreme Court and then served as a Special Assistant with the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. He served as Associate Dean of the Law School from 1979-1982. He was the Organizer and President of the Lawyer's Military Defense Committee from 1969 to 1972. He is the author of Problems, Cases and Materials on Evidence. He has moderated several television programs including the PBS series The Constitution: That Delicate Balance.
Keynote speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I], Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
Marion Nestle is professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. Among other appointments, Dr. Nestle was Senior Nutrition Policy Advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services, with principal responsibility as Managing Editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health.
Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
Eric K. Noji is a physician who has recently joined the Center for Health Transformation in Washington DC as a Senior Fellow for Health and National Security after a distinguished career in public health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since 2002, he has been responsible for working with Congress, the White House and other Executive Branch agencies on issues related to emergency health preparedness and national security. During the spring and summer of 2003, Dr. Noji served as Deputy Medical Director of the US Government's Humanitarian Assistance Mission for Operation Iraqi Freedom responsible for the rapid determination of the medical and health needs of the Iraqi civilian population. An award named in Dr. Noji's honor is awarded annually by the Department of Defense's Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. Dr. Noji is the author of the widely used educational textbook The Public Health Consequences of Disasters (Oxford University Press) and the recently published clinical textbook, Disaster Medicine (Elsevier).
Spoke in the conference, Disasters: Recipes and Remedies (November 2007)
John T. Noonan, Jr. is United States Senior Circuit Judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where he has served since 1986. Prior to his appointment by Ronald Reagan, he was a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Notre Dame. He has a long and distinguished history of public service and served on the staff of the National Security Council during the Eisenhower administration. His published writings revolve around the relation between religion and government and include a number of magisterial studies of the history of moral thought--most notably, The Scholastic Analysis of Usury (Harvard University Press, 1957) and Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists (Harvard University Press, 1966).
Spoke in the conference, The Religious–Secular Divide: The U.S. Case (March 2009)
Ingeborg Nordmann is Professor (Studienleiterin) of German Literature, Philosophy, and Political Sciences at the Evangelische Stadtakademie Frankfurt. Her publications include Hannah Arendt: Denktagebuch 1950-1973 (with Ludz, 2002) and “Hannah Arendt: Wege ins politische Denken” (in Korta, 2006).
Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part I, Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Sari Nusseibeh Former PLO representative in Jerusalem; President and Professor of Islamic Philosophy of Al Quds University.
Spoke in the conference, Their America: The United States in the Eyes of the Rest of the World (October 2004)
David E. Nye is Professor of American Studies at Odense University In Denmark. His most recently published works are Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies (1997) and Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture (1997). He is also the author of American Technological Sublime (1994), Electrifying America (1990, Dexter Prize, Abel Wolman Award), and Image Worlds (1985). Dr. Nye is currently working on Narrating Power.
Speaker and author for the conference, Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Charles J. Ogletree is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard University. His publications include From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America, All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education, Brown at 50: The Unfinished Legacy, "The Rehnquist Revolution in Criminal Procedure" in The Rehnquist Court and "Beyond Justifications: Seeking Motivations to Sustain Public Defenders" in Harvard Law Review.
Moderator in the conference, Home: A Place in the World, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Jeffrey K. Olick is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia. His books include States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (Duke 2003); In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of Germany Defeat, 1943-1949 (Chicago 2005); and The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility (2007).
Collective Memory and Collective Identity, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Robert M. O'Neil is Professor of Law Emeritus and Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression at the University of Virginia School of Law. O'Neil clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. In 1963 he became a teacher at the University of California-Berkeley and then worked as a teacher-administrator. O'Neil has served as the president of the Virginia Council for Open Government, chairman of the Council for America's First Freedom, director of the Commonwealth Fund and the James River Corporation, and chair of the American Association of University Professors Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. He is currently director of the Ford Foundation's Difficult Dialogues program.
Spoke in the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part I (October 2008)
Michael Oppenheimer is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy at Princeton University.
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Politics & Science: How their Interplay Results in Public Policy, Vol.73 No.3 (Fall 2006)
Sergei Oushakine is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Associate Faculty in the Department of Anthropology, Princeton University. Author of The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia (2009), he has also published articles in, among others, Public Culture, American Anthropologist, and the Russian Review.
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Pierre Pachet, former Professor of Modern Literature at the University Paris-7, has contributed to the translation in French of selected essays of Hannah Arendt (“Penser l’événement,” Belin, 1989) and of W. H. Auden (“Essais critiques,” Belin, 2000).
Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part I, Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Orhan Pamuk has been the recipient of major Turkish and international literary awards. Among his most recent novels are Snow (2004) and My Name is Red (2001). His work has been translated into more than 30 languages. He lives in Istanbul.
Speaker and author for the conference, Social Research at Seventy, Vol.71 No.3 (Fall 2004)
W. Hays Parks is Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General of the Army at the Pentagon and Adjunct Professor of International Law, American University School of Law. In 2001 he received the U.S. Special Operations Command Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, their top civilian His articles have appeared in numerous military and legal journals.
Speaker and author for the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Robert L. Park is Professor of Physics and former department chair at the University of Maryland. He posts a weekly internet column on issues of science and society.
Fraud, Vol.75 No.4 (Winter 2008)
Orlando Patterson is professor of sociology at Harvard University. His most recent book is Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991).
Speaker and author for the conference, Home: A Place in the World, Vol.58 No.1 (Spring 1991)
Bicentennial of the Constitution, Vol. 54 No. 3 (Autumn 1987)
Ann Pellegrini is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is Co-Editor of Sexual Cultures: New Directions from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (New York University Press), on the Editorial Board of Culture and Religion: A New Interdisciplinary Journal, contributing editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and was previously on the Board of Directors for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. Her fellowships and honors include the Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis and Austrian Fulbright Commission. Her books include Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, with Janet Jakobsen (New York: New York University Press, 2003).
Spoke in the conference, The Religious–Secular Divide: The U.S. Case (March 2009)
Arno Penzias is Vice President and Chief Scientist at Bell labs, Lucent Technologies. He is the author of Digital Harmony (1995) and Ideas and Information (1989) and is currently working on "The Next Fifty Years," Bell Laboratories Technical Journal.
Keynote speaker and author for the conference, Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Martin Peretz is Chairman and Editor in Chief of the New Republic. He holds numerous honorary degrees, as well as the Medal of Distinction of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism and the National Magazine Award for Outstanding Achievement in Essays and Criticisms of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Speaker and author for the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Charles Perrow is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Yale University, is the author of over sixty articles and six
books, including Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies (1984, rev 1999) and The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (2007).
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Nonthematic Issue, Volume 31 No. 4 (Winter 1964)
Anna L. Peterson is Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. Her publications include the books Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador¹s Civil War; Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World; and Residence on Earth: Utopian Communities in the Americas, and two collaborative volumes: Christianity, Globalization, and Social Change in the Americas and Religions of Latin America: Histories and Documents in Context.
Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Denial, Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Brandt G. Peterson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. He writes and teaches on political violence, the state, race, and nationalism in Latin America. He is currently writing a book about nationalism and identity politics in El Salvador.
Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Denial, Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Rick Piltz is a former Senior Associate of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Office. He worked for ten years with this U.S. federal program, which coordinates global climate change research for NASA, the U.S. EPA, the National Science Foundation, and other federal agencies. Piltz’s current work focuses on the politicization of climate change research and policy making.
Spoke in the conference, Politics and Science (February 2006)
David Pimental is professor of ecology and agricultural science at Cornell University, has authored Techniques for Reducing Pesticide Use: Economic and Environmental Benefits (1997) and co-edited with Marcia Pimental Food, Energy, and Society (1996). He has sat on committees for the National Academy of Science and U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy, among others.
Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
Per Pinstrup-Andersen is Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His prior positions include Director of the Cornell University Food and Nutrition Program and member of the Technical Advisory Committee to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
David Plotke is Chair of Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of New School University. His recent publications include Democracy and Boundaries: Themes in Contemporary American Politics and "The Success and Anger of the Modern American Right," the introduction to a new edition of The Radical Right (Bell, ed., 2000). He is finishing Democratic Breakup: From the Civil Rights Act to the End of the Democratic Order.
Speaker and author for the conference, Selected Essays, Vol.70 No.2 (Summer 2003)
Richard Poirier is Marius Bewley Professor of English at Rutgers University, editor of Raritan Quarterly, and author, most recently, of The Renewal of Literature (1987).
Speaker and author for the conference, In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease, Vol.55 No.3 (Autumn 1988)
Ross Poole is the author of Morality and Modernity (1991) and Nation and Identity (1999). He is currently working on a book entitled Past Justice. He was for many years Head of the Philosophy Department of Macquarie University, and remains an Adjunct Professor there. He now teaches in the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research.
Collective Memory and Collective Identity, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Jerrold M. Post is Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology, and International Affairs and Director of the Political Psychology Program at the George Washington University. His publications include The Psychological Evaluation of Political Leaders (2003) and Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World: The Psychology of Political Behavior (2004).
Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Denial, Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Samantha Power is a policy fellow at the Open Society Institute, is the former Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. She covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the US News and World Report and The Economist. She is the author of “A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (2002).
Speaker and author for the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Kenneth Prewitt is Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University and a former director of the U.S. Census Bureau. His research includes the use of ethnoracial classification in national statistics and the recent changes the classification has undergone, and his most recent book is Politics and Science in Census Taking (2003).
Speaker and author for the conference, Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses, Vol.71 No.4 (Winter 2004)
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I], Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Tom Pyszczynski is Professor of Psychology at Colorado University---Colorado Springs. His research deals the role of self-esteem, cultural world views, and interpersonal relationships in the management of anxiety and fear. He is co-author (with Solomon and Greenberg) of In the Wake of 9/11: the Psychology of Terror (2003).
Speaker and author for the conference, Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses, Vol.71 No.4 (Winter 2004)
Enrico L. Quarantelli is Founding Director of the Disaster Research Center and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice at the University of Delaware. His current research includes such topics as future social trends in disasters and catastrophes and theoretical problems of conceptualizing disasters.
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Anthony Quinton is former President of Trinity College, Oxford University. He is the author of The Nature of Things (1973) and Between Hume and Russell: British Philosophy, 1750-1900 (forthcoming).
The Decent Society, Vol.64 No.1 (Spring 1997)
Speaker and author for the conference, In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease, Vol.55 No.3 (Autumn 1988)
Untitled, Vol. 49 No. 1 (Spring 1982)
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