Political and Social Effects

Privacy and Civil Liberties
Lee S. Strickland - professor, information law and policy, and director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland; former senior intelligence officer, CIA;
Expertise: privacy and homeland security needs; information law and policy; information processing; intelligence community operations

Credentials: career senior intelligence officer, attorney and computer specialist; served as special assistant U.S. attorney; served on assignment to U.S. Marine Corps and Joint Special Operations Agency (Department of Defense); publications include "New Information-Related Laws and the Impact on Civil Liberties," "Information and the War Against Terrorism," "Were American Intelligence and Law Enforcement Effectively Positioned to Protect the Public?"
Contact: 301-405-1741 (office); 1-703-994-1952 (cell); lstrickl@umd.edu
Web site: http://www.cip.umd.edu/principals/bios/stricklandbio.htm

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

Credentials: attorney and political scientist; books include "Transforming Free Speech"
Contact : 301-405-4215 (office); 301-588-0119 (home); mgraber@gvpt.umd.edu
Web site: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/graber/

U.S. Attitudes On Foreign Policy
Steven Kull - director, Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), Maryland School of Public Policy, University of Maryland; PIPA conducts U.S. 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 with Iraq before and after hostilities commenced; co-authored "Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism"
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; Propaganda
Shawn J. Parry-Giles - associate 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); spg@umd.edu
Web site: www.wam.umd.edu/~spg/

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

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); tpg@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" and " Playing Hardball: Campaigning for the U.S. Congress "
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