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Matthew Rabin is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research topics are models of self-control, fairness in economics, bounded rationality and self-deception. He is a contributing co-author with Ted O'Donoghue of Self Awareness and Self Control, to appear as a chapter of Roy Baumeister, George Loewenstein, and Daniel Read (eds) Now or Later: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice (Russell Sage Foundation Press, forthcoming); Risky Behavior Among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics (co-author with Ted O'Donoghue), in Jon Gruber, editor, Youthful Risky Behavior: An Economic Perspective, (University of Chicago Press, 2000); and Addiction and Self-Control (with Ted O'Donoghue), in Addition: Entries and Exits, Jon Elster, editor, Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. Fairness: Its Role in Our Lives, Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Claude Rawson is the Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. He is the editor of the Blackwell Critical Biography series and the author of many books and articles, including Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830 (1994) and Jonathan Swift: A Collection of Critical Essays (1995). Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
Philip R. Reitinger is a Deputy Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. CCIPS consists of attorneys who specialize in computer search and seizure, computer intrusions, other computer-related legal issues, and intellectual property matters. Before joining CCIPS, Mr. Reitinger worked in the Justice Department's Civil Division as a Trial Attorney in the Federal Programs Branch. He then joined the Criminal Division, became a Senior Counsel, and was appointed Deputy Chief in 1999. Spoke in the conference, Privacy (Fall 2000)
Irwin Redlener is Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health and Director of the National Center
for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He is also President
and cofounder of the Children's Health Fund. He is the author of Americans At Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared For
Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now (2006).
Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Lorna A. Rhodes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She is the author of Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (2004) and "Utilitarians With Words: 'Psychopathy' and the Supermaximum Prison" (Ethnography, 2003). Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
David A. J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law and Director of the Program for Study of Law, Philosophy, and Social Theory at New York University’s School of Law. He is the author of dozens of articles and ten books, including Women, Gays, and the Constitution: The Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law (1998).
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 Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease, Vol.55 No.3 (Autumn 1988)
David Rieff is a Senior Fellow of The World Policy Institute at the New School University. He is also a contributing editor to The New Republic. His most recent book is A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (2002). Speaker and author for the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Dawn Rittenhouse is Director of Sustainable Development at DuPont, works on sustainability
with DuPont businesses and leads DuPont's efforts at the World Business
Council for Sustainable Development and with the U.N. Global Compact. Politics and Science, Vol.73 No.3 (Fall 2006)
Harriet Ritvo is Arthur J. Conner Profesor of History at MIT. She recently published "Classification and Continuity in The Origin of Species in Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (David Amigoni and Jeff Wallace, editors, 1995). Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Corey Robin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His essays and articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, The New York Times Magazine, Raritan, The London Review of Books,and Social Research. His first book is Fear: The History of a Political Idea (2004).
Speaker and author for the conference, Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses, Vol.71 No.4 (Winter 2004)
Nonthematic, Vol. 67 No. 4 (Winter 2000)
John G. Robinson is Vice-President of the International Wildlife Conservation Society. He edited (with K.H. Redford) Neotropical Wildlife Use and Conservatism (1991) and recently published The Wildlife Conservation Society 100 Years of Rectitude (1995). Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Randall Robinson is Executive Director of TransAfrica. He is an editorialist who has frequently contributed to The Washington Post and other news publications. Mr. Robinson testifies regularly before the United States Congress. Speaker and author for the conference, Rescue: the Paradoxes of Virtue, Vol.62 No.1 (Spring 1995)
Anthony Romero is executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Speaker at the conference, Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy, Vol.77 No.3 (Fall 2010)
Amélie O. Rorty is professor of the history of ideas at Brandeis University. She is editor of Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric (1996) and author of The Political Sources of Morality (forthcoming).
The Decent Society, Vol.64 No.1 (Spring 1997)
Speaker and author for the conference, Rescue: the Paradoxes of Virtue, Vol.62 No.1 (Spring 1995)
Reflections on the Self, Vol.54 No.1 (Spring 1987)
Jeffrey Rosen is Associate Professor at George Washington University Law School, is Legal Affairs Editor of The New Republic and author of The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (2000). His essays and book reviews have appeared The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I], Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
Charles E. Rosenberg is Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (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)
Barbara Rosenkrantz is Emerita Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She was chair of the History of Science Department at Harvard from 1984-1989, and continued to teach at Harvard until her retirement in 1993. 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)
Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC, a public interest research organization working to protect privacy, free speech, and Constitutional values in the on-line world. Mr. Rotenberg is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He has served on numerous national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD and the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO. He is co-editor of Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (1997) and the editor of The Privacy Law Sourcebook 1999: United States Law, International Law, and Recent Developments.
Speaker in the conference, Privacy (Fall 2000)
Keynote speaker in the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Part II (March 2001)
Kenneth Roth is Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, is a former federal prosecutor who has conducted human rights investigations around the globe. Speaker and author for the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Bo Rothstein holds the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where he is in charge of the Quality of Government Institute. Among his publications in English are Social Traps and the Problem of Trust (2005) and Just Institutions Matters: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State (1998).
Happiness, Vol.77 No.2 (Summer 2010)
Anne-Marie Roviello is Professor of Philosophy in the department of History, Art, and Archaeology at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. She is coeditor of Hannah Arendt et la modernité (with Chaumont and Weyembergh, 2000) and author of Sens commun et modernite chez Hannah Arendt (1987), among other publications. Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Ellis Rubinstein is President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences. An
award-winning journalist and Editor of Science for a decade, he also worked at The
Scientist, Newsweek, Science 85 and IEEE Spectrum.
Politics and Science, Vol.73 No.3 (Fall 2006)
Andrew N. Rowan is Director of the Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy. He is the author of The Animal Research Controversy (1995). Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Paul Rozin is professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and member of the Editorial Boards for Appetite and the Journal of Gastronomy. He has authored or edited numerous books and articles, including "Body, Psyche and Culture: The Relationship Between Disgust and Morality" (forthcoming in The Cultural Construction of Social Cognition) and Morality and Health (in press). Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
Duane M. Rumbaugh is Regents' Professor of Psychology and Biology at Georgia State University and Director of the Language Research Center in Atlanta. His most recent publications include Anthropomorphism revisited (1994) and Language in comparative perspective (with E.S. Savage-Rumbaugh, 1994). Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Jacques Rupnik is Director of Studies at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. He recently published Le déchirement des nations (Paris, 1995).
Speaker and author for the conference, Nationalism Reexamined, Vol.63 No.1 (Spring 1996)
Alan Ryan was Visiting Professor of Politics at Princeton University, was Warden of New College, Oxford, from 1996–2009. A recognized authority on John Stuart Mill, his academic work also takes in broader themes in political theory, including the philosophy of social science, the nature
of property, and liberalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Happiness, Vol.77 No.2 (Summer 2010)
Speaker and author for the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times [Part II], Vol. 76 No. 3 (Fall 2009)
Fairness: Its Role in Our Lives, Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Busyness, Vol.72 No.2 (Summer 2005)
Social Research at Seventy, Vol.71 No.3 (Fall 2004)
Courage, Vol.71 No.1 (Spring 2003)
Conversation, Vol.65 No.3 (Fall 1998)
Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is The Seduction of Place (2000).
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, Home: A Place in the World, Vol.58 No.1 (Spring 1991)
Andrzej Rzeplinski is Professor of Criminal and Constitutional Law, Warsaw University, Poland. Spoke in the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Part II, (March 2001)
András Sajó is Professor of Legal Studies at Central European University. His publications include Limiting Government: An Introduction to Constitutionalism (1999) and Political Corruption in Transition: A Skeptic’s Handbook (coeditor, 2002). Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe [Part II], Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Renata Salecl is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminology of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana. She is the author of (Per)Versions of Love and Hate (2000) and The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism after the Fall of Socialism (1994). Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Judit Sándor is Professor of Law and Political Science at Central European University. Her publications in English include "Genetic Testing, Genetic Screening and Privacy" in The Ethics of Genetic Screening (1999). Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
John S. Santelli is Professor and Chairman, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Politics and Science, Vol.73 No.3 (Fall 2006)
Maggie Scarf is Writer-in-Residence at Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, and Senior Fellow at the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale. She is the author of Intimate Worlds: Life Inside the Family (1995) and Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage (1987), a New York Times best seller. Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I], Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
Martin A. Schain is Professor of Politics at New York University. His many books
include The Politics of Immigration in France, Britain, and the United States: A Comparative Study (2008).
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol. 77 No. 1 (Spring 2010)
Simon Schama professor of history at Harvard University, is the author of The Embarrassment of the Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1987) and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989). Speaker and author for the conference, Home: A Place in the World, Vol.58 No.1 (Spring 1991)
Frederick Schauer is Academic Dean and Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (1982), and Playing by the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (1991). Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I], Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
David Scheffer was U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues in the Clinton Administration, where he was engaged in the establishment of and support for international criminal tribunals and led the U.S. delegation to U.N. talks on the International Criminal Court. He is currently Senior Vice President of the United Nations Association of the U.S. Speaker and author for the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Jonathan Schell is the Peace and Disarmament Correspondent at The Nation and Harold Willens Peace Fellow at The Nation Institute. He is the author of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (2003) and A Hole in the World: A Story of War, Protest and the New American Order (2004), a compilation of his “Letters from Ground Zero” columns. 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)
Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism: Fifty Years Later, Vol.69 No. 2 (Summer 2002)
Ellen Schrecker is Professor of History at Yeshiva University. Her books include Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998) and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities (1987). She also served as Editor of the journal Academe from 1998-2002. Speaker and author for the conference,
Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses, Vol.71 No.4 (Winter 2004)
Barry Schwartz, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Georgia, has addressed collective memory issues in many articles and books, including George Washington: The Making of an American Symbol (1987), Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (2000), and Abraham Lincoln, Eroding Idol: History and Memory in the Post-Heroic Era (forthcoming, 2008).
Collective Memory and Collective Identity, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Nicholas Scoppetta has been New York City's Fire Commissioner since December 30, 2001. He is a former
Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice; Commissioner of Investigation for the City of New York; Assistant United
States Attorney, Southern District of New York; Assistant District Attorney, New York County; and Commissioner
for the Administration for Children’s Services.
Keynote speaker and author for the conference, Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Joan Wallach Scott is Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Written more than twenty years ago, her now classic article, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," continues to inspire innovative research on women and gender. In her latest work she has been concerned with the ways in which difference poses problems for democratic practice. She has taken up this question in her most recent books: Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Harvard University Press, 1996), Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (University Of Chicago Press, 2005), and The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press, 2007). Spoke in the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part I (October 2008)
Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University and director of the International Summer School
on Religion and Public Life. His publications include Modest Claims, Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (2004). Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol. 76 No. 4 (Winter 2009)
Money and Currency, Vol.58 No.3 (Fall 1991)
Ismail Serageldin is Vice President for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development for The World Bank and Chairman of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). He has designed and managed a range of poverty-focused projects in developing countries and is an internationally published author on many development-related topics. Keynote speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
James Serpell is associate professor of human ethics and animal welfare in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour and Interactions with People (1995).
Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Kenneth J. Shapiro is the Editor of Society and Animals. He is currently working on Animal Models of Human Psychology: Science, Ethics, and Policy (forthcoming). Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Ian Shapiro is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor and Chairman of the Political Science Department and was previously Director of the Program of Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University. His research interests include the methodologies of the social sciences, theories of justice and democracy, the relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth, and the prospects for sustainable democracy in the post-communist world and sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Shapiro is author of The State of Democratic Theory (Princeton University Press, 2004); The Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale Press, 2003); and The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1986). Speaker and author for the conference, Fairness: Its Role in Our Lives, Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Khalil Shikaki is an Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (Ramallah). He is a senior fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. He taught at several universities including Bir Zeit University and al-Najah National University. Between 1998-99, jointly with Dr. Yezid Sayigh, Dr. Shikaki led a group of more than 25 Palestinian and foreign experts on Palestinian institution building. The findings of the group were published in a Council on Foreign Relations’ report, "Strengthening Palestinian Public Institutions" (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1999). Dr. Shikaki has conducted more than 100 polls among Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since 1993. His other publications include, "Palestinian Democracy Index 1996–97" (with Mudar Qissis and Faisal Awartani) [Arabic], and "The Gaza Strip and the West Bank: Future Political and Administrative Links" [Arabic]. Spoke in the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part I (October 2008)
Robert H. Silbering is President of Forensic Investigative Associates (USA) Inc., an international corporate investigations firm specializing in corporate fraud, asset tracing and recovery, due diligence, and global intelligence. Formerly a Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, he currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Speaker and author for the conference, Altered States of Consciousness, Vol.68 No.3 (Fall 2001)
Jonathan Simon is Associate Dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (2006). Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Paul Slack is a fellow and tutor in modern history at Exeter College, Oxford. His most recent book is Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England (1988). 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)
Deborah Peterson Small Director of Public Policy for The Lindesmith Center and former Legislative Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, is an ardent advocate for drug policy reform. She is privileged to speak regularly to elected officials and religious and commu-nity leaders as well as parents about issues relating to the government’s failed drug policy. Speaker and author for the conference, Altered States of Consciousness, Vol.68 No.3 (Fall 2001)
Lacey Baldwin Smith, Professor emeritus of history and Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities emeritus at Northwestern University, is the author of eight books on English history, and Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: the Story of Martyrdom in the Western World. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Denial, Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Philip M. Smith directed the Academies’ National Research Council from 1981 through 1993. He has known and worked with all the science advisers from the
Eisenhower through Clinton administrations, and has published extensively on science and technology and public policy.
Politics and Science, Vol.73 No.3 (Fall 2006)
Rogers M. Smith is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His book Still the House Divided? Racial Politics in American Politics (with King 2010).
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol. 77 No. 1 (Spring 2010)
Ann Snitow is Director of the Gender Studies Program at the New School and cofounder of the Network of East-West Women. Her recent writing and political work is about the changing situation of women in Eastern Europe.
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide, Vol. 76 No. 4 (Winter 2009)
Raymond Sokolov is editor of the Arts and Leisure Page of The Wall Street Journal, has worked as a reporter, book reviewer, columnist, and editor for many national publications, including Natural History, Food & Wine, and Cuisine. His books include Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats (1991) Fading Feast: A Compendium of Disappearing American Regional Foods (in press). Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
Malcolm K. Sparrow teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He chairs the school's MPP program as well as several Executive Education programs on regulatory and risk reduction challenges. His recent books include License to Steal: How Fraud Bleeds America's Health Care System (2000), and The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control (2008).
Fraud, Vol.75 No.4 (Winter 2008)
Frits Staal is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley. His books include Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar, I-II (1983) and Rules without Meaning: Ritual, Mantras, and the Human Sciences (1989). He has two films to his credit as well as more than 130 published articles. Speaker and author for the conference, Altered States of Consciousness, Vol.68 No.3 (Fall 2001)
Brent Staples joined The New York Times editorial board in 1990. He is author of the memoir Parallel Time, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Piotr Stasinski journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland. Spoke in the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Part II (March 2001)
Michael P. Steinberg is the Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and Professor of Music at Brown University. His main research interests include the cultural history of modern Germany and Austria with particular attention to German Jewish intellectual history and the cultural history of music. His most recent publication is Judaism Musical and Unmusical (2007). Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part I, Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Alfred Stepan is Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government and Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion at Columbia University. He also taught at Yale University for thirteen years (1969-82), later was Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University (1983–1991), the first Rector of Central European University (1993-1996), and was Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford University (1996-1999). Stepan’s publications include Arguing Comparative Politics (Oxford: 2001). Spoke in the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part I (October 2008)
Fritz Stern is University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, received an honorary degree from the New School in 1997. His most recent book is Five Germanys I Have Known (2006).
Speaker and author for the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times [Part II], Vol. 76 No. 3 (Fall 2009)
Jessica Stern is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of Terror in the Name of God (2003), The Ultimate Terrorists (1999), and numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Speaker and author for the conference, Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses, Vol.71 No.4 (Winter 2004)
Lawrence Stone is emeritus professor of history at Princeton University and author, most recently, of The Road to Divorce: England, 1550-1987 (1990). Speaker and author for the conference, Home: A Place in the World, Vol.58 No.1 (Spring 1991)
Suzanne Last Stone is a visiting Professor of Law at Columbia University and Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law where she is Director of its Program in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies. In the 2004-2005 academic year, she was a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Law School, holding the Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Chair in Talmudic Civil Law. She also has taught Jewish Law at Hebrew University Law School, Haifa Law School, and taught Jewish Law at Tel Aviv Law School. Spoke in the conference, Punishment: The U.S. Record (November 2006)
Alois Stutzer is Professor of Public Choice and Public Economics at the
Department of Business and Economics, University of Basel. His research interests include political economics, public economics, law and economics, and economics and psychology. He has published (with Frey) Happiness and Economics (2002).
Happiness, Vol.77 No.2 (Summer 2010)
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Religion Program at the University at Buffalo Law School. Sullivan is a scholar of comparative religion as well as a former corporate lawyer and advisor to the Federal Trade Commission. She was assistant professor at Washington and Lee University, senior lecturer and dean of students at the University of Chicago Divinity School, simultaneously visiting fellow at the American Bar Foundation and the Martin Marty Center, then a National Humanities Center Fellow 2006-7 (Lilly Foundation fellowship). She is the author of Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution (Princeton University Press, 2009).
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide, Vol. 76 No. 4 (Winter 2009)
Spoke in the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Part II (March 2001)
Cass Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, with an appointment in the Department of Political Science. His recent books include Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (2006).
Difficult Choices, Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Fairness: Its Role in Our Lives, Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses, Vol.71 No.4 (Winter 2004)
David Sutton, Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, is interested in questions
of memory, food, gender, skill, and practical knowledge. His publications
include Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory and Memories Cast in Stone: The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life. He is also coeditor of The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of Where We Eat.
Collective Memory and Collective Identity, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
John Sutton is Professor of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where he was Head of the Philosophy Department until 2007. He is author of Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism and coeditor of Memory Studies. His research addresses memory, dreaming, skilled movement, distributed cognition, and early modern philosophy.
Collective Memory and Collective Identity, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Júlia Szalai is Professor os Sociology at the Institute os Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a founding member of the Center for European Studies in Budapest. Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
István Szikinger is with the law firm of Schiffer and Társai in Budapest. He teaches as Visiting Faculty in the Legal Studies Department at Central European University. Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Kian Tajbakhsh is Senior Research Fellow in the Milano Graduate School, New School University, New York City and Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Tehran University, Iran. From 1994 until 2001, he was Assistant Professor of Urban Policy and Politics at the New School. He has spent the last two years (2000-2002) in Iran conducting research. Dr. Tajbakhsh’s two main research areas (with publications) are: Decentralization Reforms and the Creation of Local Government in Iran: “Political Decentralization and the Creation of Local Government in Iran,” Social Research, Vol.67, No.2 (Summer 2000), and Urban Social Theory: the role of cities and urbanism in shaping citizenship in cosmopolitan urban societies. The Promise of the City: Space, Identity and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 2000).
Speaker and author for the conference, Islam: The Private and Public Spheres [Part III], Vol.70 No.3 (Fall 2003)
Iran Since the Revolution, Vol. 67 No. 2 (Summer 2000)
G. M. Tamás is a Visiting Professor at Central European University. His most recent publication is Törzsi fogalmak ("Tribal Concepts": Collected Philosophical Papers) (in Hungarian, 1999). His book On Global Fascism is in progress.
Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Nationalism Reexamined, Vol. 63 No. 1 (Spring 1996)
Jerrold Tannenbaum is clinical assistant professor at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. He is the author of Benefits and Burdens: Legal and Ethical Issues in Veterinary Specialization. Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Étienne Tassin is professor of political philosophy at the University Paris VII Denis-Diderot and a member of the Centre de Sociologie des Pratiques et des Représentations Politiques. His publications include Le trésor perdu : Hannah Arendt, l'intelligence de l'action politique (1999) and Un monde commun : pour une cosmo_politique des conflits (2003), and he is the editor of L'humaine condition politique : Hannah Arendt (2001). Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part II, Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy, McGill University in Montreal, Canada; Professor of Law and Philosophy, Northwestern University. Canadian philosopher, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is known for his viewpoints on morality and modern Western identity of individuals and groups. Taylor is now Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern University. Taylor was a candidate for the social democratic New Democratic Party in Mount Royal on three occasions in the 1960s and he also lost in the 1965 election to newcomer and future prime minister, Pierre Trudeau. In 1995, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 2000, he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. He was awarded the 2007 Templeton Prize for progress towards research or discoveries about spiritual realities, which includes a cash award of 800,000 pounds sterling ($1.5 million US). In 2007 he and Gérard Bouchard were appointed to the one-year Commission de consultation sur les pratiques d'accommodements reliées aux différences culturelles, to study the social accommodation of religious and cultural minorities in Québec. His publications include A Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2007).
Keynote speaker and author for the conference, The Religious–Secular Divide: The U.S. Case Vol. 76 No. 4 (Winter 2009)
Untitled Issue, Vol. 40 No.1 (Spring 1973)
Albert Teich is director of Science and Policy Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is responsible for the Association’s activities in science and technology policy and serves as a key spokesman on science policy issues. Dr. Teich also serves as director of the AAAS Archives. He is former manager of the R&D Budget and Policy Project and former head of the Office of Public Sector Programs. Prior to joining AAAS, Dr. Teich taught science and technology policy at George Washington University and spent several years in teaching, research and administrative positions at the State University of New York and the Syracuse University Research Corporation, now the Syracuse Research Corporation. Spoke in the conference, Politics and Science (February 2006)
Sharon Tennyson is Associate Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University and is a noted expert on economic and policy issues related to insurance. She has published extensively on topics related to insurance regulation and insurance fraud, and is a frequent speaker on these issues.
Fraud, Vol.75 No.4 (Winter 2008)
Artin Terhakopian is a Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. He has written and is an educator in the field
of disaster psychiatry with an emphasis on social epidemiology. Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Lewis Thomas president emeritus of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, is currently scholar in residence at Cornell University Medical College. 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)
Michael Tonry is Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy and director of The Institute on Crime and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. His books include Crime and Punishment in Western Countries, 1980-99 (with Farrington, 2005). Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Benno Torgler is Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the Queensland University of Technology in brisbane, Australia, is one of the editors of the journal Economic Analysis & Policy . His primary research interest lies in the area of economics, but he has also published in journals with a political science, social psychology, sociology and biology focus.
Fraud, Vol.75 No.4 (Winter 2008)
John Torpey, Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, is the author
of The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State (2000), and Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics (2006).
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol. 77 No. 1 (Spring 2010)
Joel Towers is the Dean of the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design and Associate Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design. He was the first Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Associate Provost for Environmental Studies at The New School. Towers is a registered architect and partner at Sislian Rothstein and Towers Architects. Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, directed the National Institute of Justice at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1994-2000. He is the author of But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry (2005).
Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Alan Trachtenberg is Neil Grey, Jr. Emeritus Professor of English and Professor Emeritus of American Studies, Yale University. His books include Reading American Photographs: Images as History (1989; winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize), Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1890-1930 (2004; winner of the Francis Parkman Prize), and Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas (2007).
Collective Memory and Collective Identity, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Faces, Vol.67 No.1 (Spring 2000)
Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Home: A Place in the World, Vol.58 No.1 (Spring 1991)
Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. He is author of Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Transformation of Citizenship in Canada and Germany.
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol. 77 No. 1 (Spring 2010)
Susan Tucker is Director of The After Prison Initiative, a program of the U.S. Justice Fund of the Open Society Institute. Previously, Susan was Director of Policy and Research for Victim Services (now Safe Horizon) in New York City. She also worked as Associate Professor at NYU School of Law, Director of Alumni Affairs at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and as a criminal trial and as an appellate lawyer in New York City. Spoke in the conference, Punishment: The U.S. Record (November 2006)
Ernst Tugendhat is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Freie Univesitat in Berlin. He is the author of Vorlesungen über Ethik (1993). Speaker and author for the conference, Rescue: the Paradoxes of Virtue, Vol.62 No.1 (Spring 1995)
Sherry Turkle is Professor of Sociology of Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995), Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (1991), and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984). Speaker and author for the conference, Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Christopher Uggen is Distinguished McKnight Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (with Manza, 2006). Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author most recently of Out of the Cave: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Dead Sea Scrolls Research (2006).
Difficult Choices, Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Fairness: Its Role in Our Lives, Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Nonthematic, Vol.65 No.4 (Winter 1998)
The New Capitalism, Vol.64 No.2 (Summer 1997)
Rationality, Choice, and Morality, Vol.44 No.4 (Winter 1977)
Robert J. Ursano is Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress. He has authored numerous articles and several books in the field of disaster psychiatry and response to trauma and disasters. Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Peter van der Veer Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen and Professor-at-Large at Utrecht University, has published widely on religion and nationalism in India, including the books Religious Nationalism (1994) and Imperial Encounters (2001).
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide, Vol. 76 No. 4 (Winter 2009)
Jonathan Veitch is the former Dean of Eugene Lang College at The New School for Liberal Arts, where he is also an Associate Professor of
American Literature and Cultural History. He is the author of American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s (1997) and the forthcoming Colossus in Ruins: Mythic Geographies and Lost Histories in America's "Defeated" Provinces. Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Spoke at the conferences, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part I and Disasters: Recipes and Remedies
Sidney Verba is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at the J.F.Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author and co-author of a number of books on American and comparative politics, including The Private Roots of Public Action (co-author with Nancy Burns, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Harvard University Press, 2001); Voice and Equality (co-author with Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry E. Brady, Harvard University Press, 1995); and Designing Social Inquiry (co-author with Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University Press, 1994). He won the Kammerer Prize of the American Political Science Association for the best book on American politics for Participation in America (Harper and Row,1972), and in 1976 his book, The Changing American Voter, won the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book in political science. Fairness: Its Role in Our Lives, Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Charles M. Vest is President Emeritus and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of ten honorary doctoral degrees. Dr. Vest served as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1990 through 2004. He chaired the President’s Advisory Committee on the Redesign of the Space Station and serves on the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. He chaired the U.S. Department of Energy Task force on the Future of DOE Science Programs, was vice chair of the Council on Competitiveness for 8 years, and is a past chair of the Association of American Universities. He now serves on the Department of State Secretary's Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy and the Rice-Chertoff Secure Borders, Open Doors Advisory Board Subcommittee. He has been nominated to serve as president of the National Academy of Engineering for the period of 2006-2012. Dr. Vest is the author of two books on higher education and research policy: Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of the Research University (MIT Press, 2004) and The American Research University from World War II to World Wide Web (University of California Press, 2007). Spoke in the conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part I (October 2008)
Dana Villa is Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books, including "Arendt and Heidegger: the Fate of the Political" (Princeton, 1996), "Politics, Philosophy, Terror" (Princeton, 1999), and "Socratic Citizenship" (Princeton, 2001). A new book, "Public Freedom," is forthcoming from Princeton in 2008. Villa is currently working on a book entitled "Teachers of the People" which looks at the political pedagogy of Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Marx. Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part II, Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Margaret Visser is a popular food historian worldwide, is the author of such books as The Way We Are (1997), The Rituals of Dinner (1991), and Much Depends on Dinner (1989), winner of the 1990 Glenfiddich Award in Britain for the Food Book of the Year. Her six-part series on everyday life in six European cities was broadcast by BBC Radio Four in early 1998. Speaker and author for the conference, Food: Nature and Culture, Vol.66 No.1 (Spring 1999)
Gerald Vizenor is professor of english and Director of the American Studies Summer Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. He recently published Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader (1994) and Manifest Manners (1994). Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Frank E. Vogel is is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Adjunct Professor of Islamic Legal Studies and Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. His writings include “Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia” (Boston: Brill, 2000), and, with Samuel L. Hayes III, “Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk and Return” (Kluwer Law International, 1998). Speaker and author for the conference, Islam: The Private and Public Spheres [Part III], Vol.70 No.3 (Fall 2003)
Andrew von Hirsch is Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge and the founding Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Criminology. His books include Proportionate Sentencing: Exploring the Principles (with Ashworth, 2005). Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Nicholas Wade is a science editor at The New York Times. Speaker and author for the conference, In the Company of Animals, Vol.62 No.3 (Fall 1995)
Judge Patricia M. Wald Outgoing U.S. judge on 14-member panel at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, which hears cases about wartime atrocities in the former Yugoslavia. Formerly she was Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Speaker and author for the conference, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, Vol.69 No.4 (Winter 2002)
Michael Walzer is a Professor at the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, is co-editor of Dissent. Among his many books are On Toleration (2000) and Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (1983).
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)
Speaker and author for the conference, Rescue: the Paradoxes of Virtue, Vol.62 No.1 (Spring 1995)
The Meaning of Citizenship, Vol.41 No.4 (Winter 1974)
Untitled Issue, Vol.40 No.4 (Winter 1973)
Mary C. Waters is the M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard
University. She is the author of numerous publications, including Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (with Kasinitz, Mollenkopf, and Holdaway 2008).
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol. 77 No. 1 (Spring 2010)
Patrick Weil is Director of the Center for the Study of Immigration, Integration, and Citizenship Policies at the University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne. His publications include Liberté, égalité, discriminations, l’identité nationale au regard de l’histoire (2008).
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol. 77 No. 1 (Spring 2010)
David Weiman is Alena Wels Hirschorn '58 Professor of Economics at Barnard College. He is co-author of The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration, Crime and Delinquency (2001) and co-editor of Incarcerating America: The Social Impacts of Mass Incarceration (2004). Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Daniel J. Weitzner is Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. His most recent publication with Jerry Berman is "Abundance and User Control: Renewing the Democratic Heart of the First Amendment" in the ASC of Interactive Media. Weitzner and Berman are also authors of the two successful Supreme Court challenges to the Communications Decency Act: Reno vs. ACLU. This paper is based, in part, on a presentation delivered by Mr. Weitzner at the Academy for the Third Millenium's Conference on Internet and Politics. Speaker and author for the conference, Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Alexander Welsh is Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, is the author of Freud’s Wishful Dream Book (1994) and Hamlet in His Modern Guises (2001). His latest book, What Is Honor? (2008) invites philosophers and others—not to mention politicians—to take this question seriously.
Happiness, Vol.77 No.2 (Summer 2010)
Fraud, Vol.75 No.4 (Winter 2008)
Busyness, Vol.72 No.2 (Summer 2005)
Shame, Vol.70 No.4 (Winter 2003)
Harald Welzer is the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research at Essen and Research Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. His publications in English include “The Collateral Damage of Enlightenment: How Grandchildren Understand the History of National Socialist Crimes and Their Grandfather’s Past” (in Cohen-Pfister and Wienroeder-Skinner, 2006).
Collective Memory and Collective Identity, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
James V. Wertsch is Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He is Director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, Director of International and Area Studies, and Professor in the Department of Anthropology. His publications include Voices of Collective Remembering (2002) and The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky (coedited
with Daniels and Cole, 2007).
Collective Memory and Collective Identity, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Anna Wessely is Senior Fellow at the Central European University Humanities Center and Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology, ELTE University. Her publications in English include Intellectuals and the Politics of the Humanities (ed., 2002). Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. His publications include Punishment and Inequality in America (2006) and "Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration" (with Pettit; American Sociological Review, 2004). Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Joseph W. Westphal worked in the U.S. Congress from 1988 to 1995. He was later confirmed by the U.S. Senate
as Assistant Secretary of the Army and head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and then as Acting Secretary
of the Army. Westphal has also served as Senior Policy Advisor on Water at the Environmental Protection Agency.
He is now Provost of The New School. Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Spoke in conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part I
Neil L. Whitehead is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Author of numerous works on South America his most recent volumes include Violence (2004), Terror, Violence and the Imagination (2005) and War in the Tribal Zone (James Currey 1999). He is currently working on issues of sexuality, violence and the end of the human. Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Denial, Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
James Q. Whitman is Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale University. His recent works include the books Harsh Justice (2003) and The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Religious Roots of the Criminal Trial (forthcoming 2007). Punishment: The U.S. Record, Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Richard Wilkinson is Professor of Social Epidemiology at The University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests include social determinants of health, psychosocial influences on population health, health inequalities, income inequalities and population health. He is the author of many books and articles. Among his recent books are: Mind the Gap: Hierarchy, Health and Human Evolution (Yale University Press, 2001); Social Determinants of Health (co-author with M.G. Marmot, Oxford University Press, 1999); and Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality (Routledge, 1997). Fairness: Its Role in Our Lives, Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Rosalind Williams is Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education and the Metcalfe Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Notes on the Underground- An Essay on Technology, Society and the Imagination (1990) and Dream Worlds: Mars Consumption in Late 19th Century France (1982). She is currently working on The Roots/Routes of Modem Life: Studies in Geography and Imagination. Speaker and author for the conference, Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Bernard Williams is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, Oxford University, and Deutsch Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley. His newest work is Making Sense of Humanity (forthcoming, 1995). Speaker and author for the conference, Rescue: the Paradoxes of Virtue, Vol.62 No.1 (Spring 1995)
Langdon Winner is Professor of Political Science and is Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Winner is the author of The Whale and the Reacton A Search for Limits in and Age of High Technology (1986) and Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought (1977). He is currently working on Political Artifacts: Design and the Quality of Public Life. Speaker and author for the conference, Technology and the Rest of Culture, Vol.64 No.3 (Fall 1997)
Frederick Wiseman is an independent filmmaker and the General Manager of Zipporah Films Inc., has made 31 documentary films, including Titicut Follies (1967) and Near Death (1989). His awards include the Irene Diamond Life-Time Achievement Award from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival (2000). Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I], Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
Gwendolyn Wright is professor of architecture and history at Columbia University and author of Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (1983). Speaker and author for the conference, Home: A Place in the World, Vol.58 No.1 (Spring 1991)
Liu Xiaobo, 49, was a lecturer at Beijing Normal University until his arrest in the wake of the June 4th massacre. Since his release in 1990, he has continued writing on the Chinese political situation and has been jailed for three years. Liu Xiaobo is one of the leading analysts of the Chinese “post-totalitarian” system, and is the most significant figure of Chinese dissent. China in Transition, Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Ruth Wooden is President of Public Agenda. She also serves on the Boards of US Trust Company, Research!America, Phoenix House Foundation, Demos, and Civic Ventures, San Francisco. Politics and Science, Vol.73 No.3 (Fall 2006)
Kang Xiaoguang, of the Centre for China Studies, (Guoqing yanjiusuo), Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and Tsinghua University has written extensively on the Chinese political system. His writings demonstrate his remarkable analytic mind. His positions, close to China’s neo-conservative movement, have been discussed extensively among the Chinese intelligentsia. A controversial figure, he enjoys the esteem of his peers. China in Transition, Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Andrei Yakovlev is the Director of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Russia Today, Vol.76 No.1 (Spring 2009)
Dean Yang is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Ford School of Public Policy and
Department of Economics, University of Michigan. His interest include international migration, human
capital, disasters, international trade, and crime and corruption, and he is currently conducting randomized
field experiments in El Salvador and Malawi. Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, Vol.75 No.3 (Fall 2008)
Yevgeny Yasin is a former Minister of the Economy of the Russian Federation and the current Academic Supervisor of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Russia Today, Vol.76 No.1 (Spring 2009)
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is Chace Family Professor and English Department Chair at Yale University. She is the author of Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature (2000) and Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel (1991). Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in the U.S. and Europe [Part I], Vol.68 No.1 (Spring 2001)
Carlos Yescas is a PhD student in Politics at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Indigenous Routes: A Framework for Understanding Indigenous Migration (2008).
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol. 77 No. 1 (Spring 2010)
Wang Yi has been trained in physics, and is now working at the Centre for China Studies, (Guoqing yanjiusuo), Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He is involved in a great number of research projects on the protection of the environment. China in Transition, Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, a psychoanalyst in Manhattan, is the author, most recently, of Why Arendt Matters (2006). Her many publications also include articles for The Nation and the books The Anatomy of Prejudices (1997) and the biography Hannah Arendt: For the Love of the World (1982, rev. 2004).
Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part II, Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Hannah Arendt, the Origins of Totalitarianism: Fifty Years Later, Vol.69 No.2 (Summer 2002)
Hannah Arendt, Volume 44 No. 1 (Spring 1977)
Oksana Zabuzhko’s recent works in Ukranian include Shevchenko’s Myth of Ukraine: Toward a Philosophical Verification (1997), the collection of essays Chronicles of Fortinbras (1999), and the best-selling novel Field Work in Ukranian Sex (1996). Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe [Part II], Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Yair Zakovitch is the Father Takeji Otsuki Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Israel.
Fraud, Vol.75 No.4 (Winter 2008)
Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and Director of the GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration), studies liberal democracies in contexts of diversity.
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol. 77 No. 1 (Spring 2010)
Elena Zdravomyslova is a researcher at the Center for Independent Social Research and co-coordinator of the M.A. Gender Program at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg. Speaker and author for the conference, Privacy in Post-Communist Europe [Part II], Vol.69 No.1 (Spring 2002)
Idith Zertal is professor of contemporary history at the Institute for Jewish Studies, Basel University. Her publications include Lords of the Land, 1967-2007 (2007) and Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood (2005). She is currently at work on a book of essays on Hannah Arendt as well as a translation into Hebrew of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Hannah Arendt's Centenary: Political and Philosophic Perspectives, Part II, Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Yael Zerubavel, Founding Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University, is the author of Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition (1995) and “Trans-Historical Encounters in the Land of Israel: National Memory, Symbolic Bridges, and the Literary Imagination” in Jewish Social Studies (2005), among other works.
Collective Memory and Collective Identity, Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Aristide Zolberg is Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. His publications include How Many Exceptionalisms? Explorations in Comparative Microanalysis (2007).
Speaker and author for the conference, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case, Vol. 77 No. 1 (Spring 2010)
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