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Libya and Unrest in the Middle East

The University of Maryland has a number of faculty experts who can talk about continuing unrest in Libya and Egypt and US Policy- especially in light of news that the US Ambassador was killed in Benghazi late Tuesday evening (September 11).

Faculty are listed alphabetically. Feel free to contact our experts directly.


Number of experts found: 13

 
I.M. "Mac" Destler

Professor

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
International security and U.S. foreign policy; homeland security agency reorganization; National Security Council; International trade.

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 6357
202-328-9000

703 759 0588

703.408.3447

mdestler@umd.edu

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Michele J. Gelfand

Prof, Affiliate Prof

Psychology

Expertise Key Words:
cultural influences on conflict, negotiation, justice, and revenge; workplace diversity and discrimination; and theory and methods in cross-cultural psychology

Contact Information:

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301 405 6972

mgelfand@umd.edu

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Jeffrey C. Herf

Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Modern European and German intellectual, political and international history; memory and politics in Europe after 1945; Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism during World War II and the Holocaust; old and new elements in contemporary terrorism; facing difficult pasts in comparative perspective.

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 7667

jherf@umd.edu

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Donald F. Kettl

Dean

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Public policy and public management with a speciality in the management of public organization; federalism; budgeting; and U.S. politics.

Contact Information:

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301 405 6971

kettl@umd.edu

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Sahar M. Khamis

Assistant Prof. of Communication/Affiliate Prof. of Women's Studies

Communication

Expertise Key Words:
-Arab and Muslim media -New media and social change in the Arab/Muslim world -Public awareness campaigns in the Middle East -Images and representations of gender in Arab media -Mass media and gendered identities -Mass media and national development -Health communication

Contact Information:

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301 405 0864

skhamis@umd.edu

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Steven Kull

Director

Program on International Policy Attitudes

Expertise Key Words:
U.S. and international public opinion; conducts international polling; leader in compiling and analyzing global public opinion data; expert in foreign policy issues

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

202 232 7500

skull@umd.edu
skull@pipa.org

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Gary D. LaFree

Dir. and Prof.

START (Natl. Consortium Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism)

Expertise Key Words:
Trends in terrorism; terror statistics; using behavioral science to combat terror; national and international crime trends; directs National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security-sponsored center of excellence based at Maryland); Webcam.

Contact Information:

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301 405 6655

301 518 2491

glafree@msn.com
glafree@umd.edu

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Aaron W. Mannes

Researcher

Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Terrorism, Middle East politics, Homeland Security, North Korea and its designation as a terror sponsoring nation

Contact Information:

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2404723839

amannes@umd.edu
aaron.mannes@gmail.com

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Susan Moeller

Professor

Philip Merrill College of Journalism and School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Media coverage of international affairs; media coverage of war, violence, conflict and disasters; media coverage of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD); how photographic images shape attitudes toward war; compassion fatigue; human/civil rights and the media.

Expertise Credentials:
BOOKS:

Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War, and Death (Routledge,1999)

Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat (Basic Books, 1989)

BOOK CHAPTS:

A Moral Imagination: The Media's Response to the War on Terrorism, (8,000-word chapt.) Reporting War (Routledge, 2004)

Human Rights Issues, (7,000-word article) Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, (Academic Press, 2003.

RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS (LAST YEAR)

Human Rights, Photojournalism and Trauma, at an EXPOSURE program with VII Photo Agency & de.MO, sponsored by the Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University, Medford, MA, April 2005.

The Difference between a Crisis and a Disaster, at a program entitled Journalism and the Tsunami: Lessons Learned, and What to Do Next in Covering the Social, Political and Economic Fallout, sponsored by the Dart Center, University of Washington, Seattle, April 2005.

Commanding Attention: Images in the Age of Terrorism, at the CISSM/ISEP Forum, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, February 2005.

After the Tsunami: Global Engagement or Compassion Fatigue? Goucher College, Baltimore, February 2005.

The Role of Media as a Non-State Actor, Post 9/11, at a conference entitled The Influence of Non-State Actors on World Affairs, sponsored by Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations (IRRI-KIIB), Palais d'Egmont, Brussels, December 2004.

Global 10th Anniversary Commemoration of the Genocide in Rwanda,Imperial War Museum, London, March 2004

War Reporting: History and Ethics, at a conference entitled The Media at War: The U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, sponsored by the Human Rights Center, the Graduate School of Journalism, and the Office of the Chancellor, UC Berkeley, March 2004.

Web Site(s):
Susan Moeller, Journalism Faculty, UMD

Contact Information:

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301 405 2419

301 565 9510

240 472 4166

smoeller@jmail.umd.edu

Address:
4109 Journalism Building
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
PhD, History of American Civilization, Harvard
AM, History, Harvard
BA, Scholar of the House, Yale

Publication(s):
"Media Coverage of Weapons of Mass Destruction"
"Media Coverage of Weapons of Mass Destruction" (short version)
A Hierarchy of Innocence: The Media's Use of Children in the Telling of International News
Locating accountability: the media and peacekeeping


 
Yoram Peri

Director of The Gildenhorn Institute & Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies

Meyerhoff Program & Center for Jewish Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Israel, Middle East; Foreign and International Relations, Economics - the Economy and Trade. Communications; Military Relations

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 9413

yperi@umd.edu

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Paul L. Scham

Visit Asst Prof, Executive Director of Gildenhorn Inst. for Israel Studies

Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Middle East Conflict, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East peace process, Hamas-Israel relations, Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives, Israeli history, Israeli politics and society, History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Contact Information:

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301 405 9412

202-363-6094

202-701-3500

pscham@umd.edu
paulscham@gmail.com

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Shibley Telhami

Professor, Sadat Chair

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
Middle East foreign policy; Middle East politics; Arab-Israeli dispute; impact of Middle East media; psychology of peace

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 6734

stelhami@gvpt.umd.edu
sadat@gvpt.umd.edu

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Madeline C. Zilfi

Affiliated Associate Professor, Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
The history of Islam and the Middle East; 20th century Middle East history; gender issues - women and society in the Middle East. Lebanon.

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 8403

mzilfi@umd.edu

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