Political and Social Impacts

Civil Liberties
Mark Graber - professor of government and politics, University of Maryland
Expertise: constitutional law; civil liberties; judicial review

Credentials: author of three books, including Transforming Free Speech
Contact: 301-405-4215 (office); 301-588-0119 (home); mailto:mgraber@gvpt.umd.edu
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/graber/

Steven Kull - director, Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), Maryland School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland; PIPA conducts polls on many foreign policy issues
Expertise: political psychologist specializing in U.S. public opinion on foreign policy issues

Credentials: conducted polls on U.S. attitudes toward war and reconstruction of Iraq before and after hostilities commenced; co-authored Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism (1999) and Minds at War: Nuclear Reality and the Inner Conflicts of Defense Policy Makers
Contact: 202-232-7500 (office); 301-254-7500 (cell); 301-718-8393 (home); skull@pipa.org
Web site: http://www.pipa.org; http://www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/kullm.html

Presidential Rhetoric
Shawn J. Parry-Giles - professor of communication, women's studies; director, Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership, University of Maryland
Expertise: presidential image making; propaganda; rhetorical, feminist and media criticism

Credentials: author, The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955
Contact: 301-405-6527 (office); 301-495-8875 (home); sp172@umail.umd.edu
Web site: www.wam.umd.edu/~spg/

Presidential Rhetoric
Trevor Parry-Giles - professor of political communication, University of Maryland
Expertise: presidential rhetoric, political strategy and advertising

Credentials: former political consultant; co-authored "Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics"
Contact: 301-405-8947 (office); 301-495-8875 (home); tp54@umail.umd.edu
Web site: www.wam.umd.edu/~tpg/index.html

U.S. Politics
Paul Herrnson - director, Center for American Politics and Citizenship and professor of government and politics, University of Maryland
Expertise: congressional and national politics; campaign finance reform; voting technology

Credentials: recent books include: Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington, 3rd ed. (2000); The Good Fight: How Political Candidates Struggle to Win Elections Without Losing Their Souls (2001, co-editor); and Playing Hardball: Campaigning for the U.S. Congress (2000)
Contact: 301-405-4123 (office); pherrnson@capc.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301- 257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: http://www.capc.umd.edu/org.asp