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Victor Asal is Director of the Center for Policy Research and a Professor in the Department of Political Science. He is also an editor of the American Political Science Association Journal of Political Science Education.

He received his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also, along with R. Karl Rethemeyer, the co-director of the Project on Violent Conflict. Dr. Asal is affiliated with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence.

Asal鈥檚 research focuses on the choice of violence by nonstate organizational actors as well as the causes of political discrimination by states against different groups such as sexual minorities, women and ethnic groups. In addition, Asal has done research on the impact of nuclear proliferation and on the pedagogy of simulations. Asal has been involved in research projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research.

Asal teaches courses on world and comparative politics, political violence and oppression, negotiation and research design. He has worked as a negotiation trainer in a variety of academic, governmental and military settings, and in conjunction with the ICONS Project, created simulations on varied topics. Asal also is a past director of the Center for Policy Research.

Bolton has authored peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles on presidential debates, campaign advertising and nominating conventions. His work has appeared in books including An Unprecedented Election: Media, Communication, and the Electorate in the 2016 Campaign and The Praeger Handbook of Political Campaigning in the United States, as well as scholarly publications such as the American Communication Journal.

Casey Burgat is the director of the Legislative Affairs program at the Graduate School of Political Management. Prior to joining GSPM, Dr. Burgat was a Senior Governance Fellow at the R Street Institute where his research focused on issues of congressional capacity and reform. In this role, Casey wrote regularly for both scholarly and journalistic publications, including CNN, the Washington Post, Politico, and appeared on a variety of television and radio outlets. Dr. Burgat is currently finishing on a co-authored book on congressional policy procedures and strategies, to be published by the University of Michigan Press.

 

Previously, Casey worked at the Congressional Research Service, where he served in the Executive Branch Operations and the Congress & Judiciary sections. There, he was responsible for responding to congressional requests about federal rulemaking, issues of congressional reform, the president鈥檚 role in federal budgeting, federal advisory committees, and congressional staffing.

Casey is a graduate of Arizona State University, with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in political science. He also holds a master鈥檚 in political management from George Washington University and received his doctorate in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park, where his dissertation focused on the impacts of congressional staff.

Saumitra Jha is an associate professor of political economy at Stanford鈥檚 Graduate School of Business, and, by courtesy, of economics and of political science, and convenes the Stanford Conflict and Polarization Lab. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law within the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Affairs and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. In 2020鈥�21, he will be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Jha鈥檚 research has been published in leading journals in economics and political science, including Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Political Science Review and the Journal of Development Economics, and he serves on a number of editorial boards. His research on ethnic tolerance has been recognized with the Michael Wallerstein Award for best published article in Political Economy from the American Political Science Association in 2014 and his coauthored research on heroes with the Oliver Williamson Award for best paper by the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics in 2020. Jha was honored to receive the Teacher of the Year Award, voted by the students of the Stanford MSx Program in 2020.

Jha holds a BA from Williams College, master鈥檚 degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford GSB, he was an Academy Scholar at Harvard University. He has been a fellow of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Jha has consulted on economic and political risk issues for the United Nations/WTO, the World Bank, government agencies, and for private firms.

Saumitra Jha鈥檚 research focuses upon understanding the effectiveness of organizations and innovations that societies have developed to address the problems of violence and other political risks, and to seek new lessons for fostering peace and development. So far, his research has focused on understanding and empirically assessing the effectiveness of four related approaches: (1) mechanisms that support inter-ethnic complementarities and trade, (2) financial innovations that can allow conflictual groups to credibly share in the gains from peace, (3) organizational innovations that can sustain nonviolent political movements at scale, and (4) mechanisms that recognize and productively channel the organizational skills of veterans acquired during war. Saum has a specific interest in the South Asian experience in comparative perspective.

Reuter can discuss topics including: Russian domestic politics and public opinion. Reuter and colleagues and have been doing polling in Russia about the conflict. Reuter has been a senior researcher at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow since 2011.

Frank Thames is Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. Dr. Thames received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 and joined the Texas Tech faculty in 2002. His current research focuses on legislative behavior in post-communist legislatures, the economic effects of electoral systems, and gender. His journal articles have appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies,Demokratizatsiya, Europe-Asia Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Politics & Gender, Comparative Politics, and Comparative Political Studies.  He co-authored  Contagious Representation:  An Examination of Women's Representation in Democratic Political Systems, with Margaret Williams.  He teaches undergraduate courses on Comparative Politics, Gender, and Russian Politics. He teaches graduate courses on Comparative Politics, Legislatures, and Gender. 

Eric K. Stern is a professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cyber-Security at the University at Albany. Dr. Stern holds a PhD from Stockholm University and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. He has published extensively in the fields of crisis and emergency management, crisis communication, resilience, security studies, executive leadership, foreign policy analysis and political psychology. He is also affiliated with the Swedish National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defense University (where he served as Director from 2004-2011) and the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis.

Other key areas of interest and expertise include social media and crisis preparedness, post-crisis evaluation and learning, interactive education and instructional design, and case research/teaching methodologies.

In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Stern has collaborated closely with a wide range of US (e.g. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology, FEMA, Coast Guard, and FBI) and foreign (e.g. UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia, Slovenia, and S. Korea among others) government agencies, the European Union, and the OECD on a wide range of applied research and educational-- including training and exercise development--projects.

Sam Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. He completed his Ph.D. in Syracuse University's Social Science Doctoral Program in the Maxwell School, where he was also an affiliate of the Center for Computational and Data Sciences in the iSchool and of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. He has also been a visiting researcher with VOX-pol, an EU-funded network of excellence on violent online political extremism.

Dr. Jackson has several lines of research. He primarily studies far-right extremism in America, particularly anti-government extremism. His second line of research investigates issues related to extremism online and responses to extremism online. In a third area, he examines behavior on social media platforms, particularly political activism (for example, around the politics of guns in America) or activity in the context of conflicts and crises (for example, during hurricanes). He also develops methods and open-source tools to analyze internet-based data.

His research has appeared in Terrorism and Political Violence, Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Media & Society, and George Washington University鈥檚 Program on Extremism. His research has also received media coverage, for example in The Washington Post, Vox, and The Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Specialization: Public Law

Personal Webpage: https://jnovkov.wixsite.com/novkov

Julie Novkov is a Professor of Political Science and Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She came here in 2006 after spending ten years on the faculty at the University of Oregon. Her research and teaching are situated at the intersection of law, history, US political development, and subordinated identity. She views law as both a system of political and social control and as a site for reform through activists鈥� pressure. She is particularly interested in the way that the law defines and translates categories associated with identity, such as race and gender, and the ways that these categories transform and are transformed by legal discourse.

Professor Novkov is the author of Racial Union, which was the co-recipient of the American Political Science Association's 2009 Ralph Bunche Award for the best scholarly work in political science which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. This book argues that the criminal regulation of interracial intimacy played a pivotal role in shaping and reflecting the development of white supremacy in Alabama between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Civil Rights Era. Her first book, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2001), addressed gender and constitutional development, rereading through the lens of gender the history of the courts' unwillingness to accept protective legislation for workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is also the author of The Supreme Court and The Presidency, published by CQ Press in 2013. She is the co-editor of Statebuilding from the Margins (with Carol Nackenoff, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2014),  Race and American Political Development (with Joseph Lowndes and Dorian Warren, published by Routledge Press in 2008), and Security Disarmed (with UAlbany professor Barbara Sutton and Sandra Morgen, published by Rutgers University Press in 2008).

Professor Novkov is actively engaged in the academy. In the American Political Science Association, she served on the Executive Council, organized panels for Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence, presided over the Sexuality and Politics Section, and chaired the LGBT Status Committee. She currently serves as the Program Chair and President-Elect of the Western Political Science Association, for which she has previously organized panels for Women and Politics and Politics and History and served on the Executive Council. In the Midwest Political Science Association she organized panels for Judicial Politics and Law and Courts. She has also served on numerous prize, award, and nomination committees. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, Polity, the Journal of Law and Courts, and Politics, Gender and Identities. In her spare time, she serves on the University at Albany鈥檚 Institutional Review Board.

Specialization: Public Law; Latin America; Research Methods

Personal Webpage : http://www.mattingram.net/

Matthew C. Ingram's research examines justice sector reforms, judicial behavior, and violence in Latin America.

Holding a law degree (2006) and a PhD in political science (2009) from the University of New Mexico, Ingram studies the political origins of institutional change and judicial behavior in the region's justice systems, focusing on sub-national courts in Brazil and Mexico. He draws also on a family history in Mexico (dual citizen, U.S. and Mexico), extensive fieldwork in Latin America, and seven years of professional experience in law enforcement in California. Ingram's academic work has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. His book, Crafting Courts in New Democracies: The Politics of Subnational Judicial Reform in Brazil and Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2016), examines the causal role of ideas in shaping local court reforms in Latin America's two largest democracies and markets. The book combines statistical analysis and in-depth qualitative work, drawing on two years of fieldwork and more than 100 interviews with judges and other legal professionals.

Ingram's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Commission.

Prior to arriving at Rockefeller, Ingram held post-doctoral fellowships at the UC San Diego's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (2009-2010) and Notre Dame鈥檚 Kellogg Institute (2011-2012). He was also an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (2010-2011). In 2012-2013, Ingram will offer courses in Comparative Judicial Politics, Comparative Criminal Procedure, and Latin American Politics. Prof. Ingram, born and raised in Mexico, speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

In addition to his affiliation with the Political Science Department at Rockefeller College, Professor Jos茅 E. Cruz has a joint appointment in the Department of Latin American, U.S. Latino, and Caribbean Studies (LACS) at the College of Arts and Sciences. His research is about Latino political participation in the Northeast, focusing on Puerto Ricans, and the role and impact of ethnicity in the political process. Other areas of research and teaching interest are political parties, social movements, Latin American immigration, and inter-minority relations. His first book, Identity and Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), explored the relationship between ethnic identity, political mobilization, and political empowerment. In 2000, Cruz co-edited Adi贸s Borinquen Querida: The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Its History and Contributions (Albany, NY: CELAC), with Edna Acosta Bel茅n, et al. This book examines the Puerto Rican experience in the United States from multiple disciplinary perspectives including political science, literature, sociology, and media studies. Professor Cruz is also the editor of Latino Immigration Policy: Context, Issues, Alternatives (Albany, NY: NYLARNet, 2008). This volume compiles the papers presented at a conference on immigration held in November 2006 sponsored by the New York Latino Research and Resources Network (NYLARNet). In 2009, the New York State Political Science Association granted the Best Faculty Paper Award to Professor Cruz for his paper "Pluralism and Ethnicity in New York City Politics: The Case of Puerto Ricans." 

Professor Cruz鈥檚 most recent publications are Liberalism and Identity Politics: Puerto Rican Community Organization and Collective Action in New York City (New York: Centro Press, 2019) and Puerto Rican Identity, Political Development, and Democracy in New York, 1960-1990 (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield 2017). During the summer of 2015, Professor Cruz began a study abroad program in Madrid, Spain, focusing on the comparative study of urban politics and Latin American immigration. He is currently working on a book about Puerto Rican radicalism in New York City.

Dr. Brian Crisher, an associate professor, has written on military capabilities and various aspects of war and politics.
 
Much of his research examines international conflict. This includes the role of military capabilities 鈥� specifically naval power 鈥� on conflict processes and the role of domestic politics on conflict and how often issues of power and domestic politics interact to influence conflict. His work has been published in "International Interactions," "Foreign Policy Analysis," and "Research and Politics," among others.
 
Topics he is examining include the influence of naval power on long-distance militarized disputes and how domestic political problems alter leaders鈥� incentives to initiate conflict.
 
Crisher teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. They include 鈥淚ntroduction to Comparative Politics,鈥� 鈥淪tatecraft,鈥� 鈥淚ntroduction to International Politics,鈥� 鈥淚nternational Relations in East Asia,鈥� and 鈥淧olitical Science Research Methods.鈥�
 
In addition to his publications, Crisher鈥檚 research findings have been presented at the American Political Science Association Conference, the International Studies Association Conference, the Peace Science Society (International) and elsewhere.
 
He is a reviewer for Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, International Interactions, Conflict Management and Peace Science.

Dr. Alfred 鈥婫. 鈥婥uz谩n, distinguished university professor of political science, teaches primarily American and 鈥媍omparative 鈥媝olitics.   

Born in Havana, Cuba, Cuz谩n can trace his interest in political science to January 7, 1959: the day Fidel Castro triumphantly rode into Havana after 鈥婥uban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country. Two years later, when Castro鈥檚 plans to establish a Soviet-style communist regime became evident, 鈥婥uz谩n and his family immigrated to Miami. 

During his 40-year 鈥媋cademic career - all but four of those spent at UWF - 鈥婥uz谩n鈥� has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships: 鈥媡wo Fulbright scholar鈥� grants (2015 and 1983)鈥�, 鈥媠everal 鈥婲ational Endowment for the Humanities Fellow鈥媠hips鈥� (2004, 1996, 1992, 1989 and 1988), 鈥媋 鈥婻euben Askew Fellowsh鈥媔p and a Henry Salvatori Fellow鈥媠hip. He chaired the Department of Government at UWF from 1992 to 2012. He 鈥媓as published articles in American and Latin American politics. He has also co-authored several articles on the Pollyvote, a model for predicting the outcome of presidential elections, which received media attention. This work is available at www.pollyvote.com.

Cuz谩n鈥檚 鈥�2015 鈥婩ulbright schola鈥媟 grant enabled him to teach American and Latin American politics at the University of Tartu, Estonia, one of the oldest universities in northern Europe.

He received a bachelor鈥檚 degree in government and economics from the University of Miami, and a master鈥檚 and doctorate degrees in political science, with a minor in economics, from Indiana University.

Susan Liebell, Ph.D., is a professor of political science at Saint Joseph's University. She is also the Dirk Warren '50 Sesquicentennial Chair.

My research, teaching, and media work connect political theory, public law and contemporary politics. My research sits at the intersection of law, history, and democratic theory. As a national expert on the Second Amendment, my scholarship on how gun rights and regulations affect democratic citizenship has appeared in both academic (Journal of Politics, Polity) and public-facing venues (Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, Washington Post) 鈥� and I鈥檝e presented my work at Duke, Columbia, Rutgers, George Washington, Brennan Center for Justice, and the American Political Science Association and Association for Political Theory annual conferences. My passion for teaching translates into lively lectures and innovative simulations for my courses in political theory, public law, and ideology and film 鈥� as well as supervision of independent research for Summer Scholars and other students. My award-winning teaching has been featured in the Washington Post. As the co-host of the New Books in Political Science podcast on the New Books Network, I interview scholars on cutting-edge research in political science, history, and law. As an expert providing television and radio commentary, I enjoy translating cutting-edge research in political science and law to public audiences.

Originally from Philadelphia, Marty Cohen attended Tufts University and the Pennsylvania State University getting his B.A. degree in Political Science from Penn State. He then received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2005.
Marty’s research interests are varied. His main focus is on the growing electoral influence of the religious right in the Republican Party. He is also interested in political parties and is a co-author of The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008. He is also co-author of the 2011 Perspectives on Politics article “A Theory of Parties” which won the Jack Walker Award for its outstanding contribution to research on political organizations and parties.
Marty regularly teaches classes on religion and politics, as well as the introductory American government course and a class on interest groups and public policy. He also has more than a passing interest in the politics of the 1960s.

Dr Sarah Moulds is a senior lecturer in law UniSA: Justice + Society and co-founder of the .  She is passionate about parliaments and connecting citizens and communities with law makers, and her most recent book  explores the important role parliamentary committees play in rights protection in Australia.  Dr Moulds has been actively engaged in local, national and international conversations about emergency law-making in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role parliaments can and should play in holding government's to account.  In 2022 Dr Moulds was awarded a  to explore how to empower young people to engage effectively with Australian parliaments.
Dr Moulds' career has a strong law reform focus and includes seven years at the Law Council of Australia including as Director of Criminal Law and Human Rights, and more recently as a Senior Project Officer at the South Australian Law Reform Institute. 
Dr Moulds publishes frequently in print and online media as well as national and international academic journals.  She is a member of a range of professional and community bodies seeking to make a positive difference to the law and lawmaking in Australia. 
In 2019 Dr Moulds' PhD Thesis was awarded the University of Adelaide's 2018 Doctoral Research Medal. She also holds a Masters of Comparative Law, Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of International Studies.
 
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Adelaide
Master of Comparative Laws University of Adelaide
Honours Degree of Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice First Class Flinders University
Bachelor of International Studies Flinders University
Work history
2020 Senior Lecturer in Law, University of South Australia, Justice and Society
2020 Human Rights Expert Panel Member, Parliament of Queensland
2019 Lecturer in Law, University of South Australia, Law School
2017-2018 Acting Course Coordinator and Co-Lecturer, University of Adelaide Law School
2017-2018 Author, Instructor’s Resource Manuals, Oxford University Press
2017-2018 Lead Project Officer, 'Supporting excellence in Work-Integrated Learning', Employability Development Grant Project, University of Adelaide
2017-2018 Senior Project Officer, South Australian Law Reform Institute
2015-2016 Sessional Teacher, Flinders University Law School
2015-2016 Sessional Teacher, University of Adelaide Law School
2014-2015 Legal Affairs Policy Advisor, Office of Senator Penny Wright
2014 Consultant, Business and Human Rights, Law Council of Australia
2013-2014 Director, Criminal Law and Human Rights Division, Law Council of Australia
2007-2013 Senior Policy Lawyer, Criminal Law and Human Rights Division, Law Council of Australia
2005-2007 Graduate Policy Officer, Multilaterals and United Nations (UN) Section and Papua New Guinea Strategy and Liaison Section, Australian Agency for International Development
2005-2007 Law Clerk, Kelly & Co Lawyers
2005-2007 Associate to the Honourable Justice Tom Gray, Supreme Court of South Australia

Florian Justwan is an associate professor of political science at University of Idaho. His work focuses on political psychology. In particular, his core research agenda is devoted to the study of foreign policy attitudes and political misperceptions. Recently, he and his team collected data to determine how supportive Americans are towards more financial and military aid to Ukraine and how this breaks down by likely Trump and Biden voters. 
Available to speak on:  

Public opinion toward international affairs (ongoing and emerging international crises, including the war in Ukraine, international agreements and organizations).
International conflict (causes of interstate conflict, management and resolution of interstate conflict, U.S. role in existing international security crises).
Political misinformation in the U.S. (causes and consequences of false beliefs about political topics broadly defined).