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Iver Bernstein
 Professor of History in Arts & Sciences

He is the author of "The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War," Oxford University Press. The 1990 book is considered the definite authority on this time in American history. Bernstein was awarded the George Washington Eggleston ...

Expertise: 19th-century U.S. history, Civil War, Reconstruction, American political culture

Direct contact: (314) 935-5401
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icbernst@wustl.edu

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Pratim Biswas
 Chariman of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering; the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor

Biswas received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, has published extensively in his field and served on many international organizations and conferences. His research interests include aerosol science and engineering, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, materials ...

Expertise: aerosol science, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, material processing for environmental technologies, environmentally benign processing, environmental nanotechnology, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5482
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pratim.biswas@seas.wustl.edu

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Robert L. Canfield
 Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology in Arts & Sciences

Canfield, a sociocultural anthropologist, spent nine years in Afghanistan. His research focuses on Islamic movements in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and other Central Asian countries. He supports the U.S. war in Afghanistan, but was highly critical of the Bush administration regarding the war in Iraq. ...

Expertise: Islamic politics, U.S. anti-terrorism policy, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia, Eastern Islamic World, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5282
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canfrobt@artsci.wustl.edu

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Richard Chapman
 Lecturer in Screenwriting in Arts & Sciences

Chapman is a veteran screenwriter and producer in film and television with particular interest in the ways journalists report on war. He recently co-wrote the Golden Globe-nominated HBO Original Film Live From Baghdad, which told the behind-the-scenes story of CNN's coverage of the early days of the ...

Expertise: CNN, Iraq, Vietnam, film production, screenwriting, television production, war reporting

Direct contact: (314) 935-8238
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rchapman@artsci.wustl.edu

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Kathleen Clark
 Professor of Law

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Kathleen Clark teaches courses on secrecy and whistleblowing, national security law, legal and government ethics. Prior to teaching, she served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, where she worked on issues of white collar crime, and was a law clerk to Judge Harold H. Greene in Washington ...

Expertise: legal ethics, national security law, whistleblowing, military tribunals, privacy of lawyer-client conversations, ethics in government, legal defense funds for government officials

Direct contact: (314) 935-4081
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kathleen@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Roy Curtiss
 Professor emeritus of biology in Arts & Sciences

Has developed a Salmonella-based oral vaccine for livestock that can free animals from the virulent strain of Salmonella that causes food-poisoning in humans. His vaccine has received FDA approval for swine and poultry and is on the market. Curtiss also has obtained patents for the use of transgenic ...

Expertise: Salmonella, food poisoning, FDA, vaccine, genetic engineering, microbial, pathogen, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6819
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rcurtiss@wustl.edu

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Seth Eisen
 Professor of Medicine

Eisen, who also is a physician at the St. Louis Veteran's Administration Hospital, led a large study that compared the health of veterans deployed in the first Gulf War to that of veterans deployed elsewhere. Ten years after the end of the first Gulf War, that study found most Gulf War veterans were ...

Expertise: Epidemiology, veterans health, Gulf War, Vietnam, veterans, military

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu

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Panos Kouvelis
 Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management

Kouvelis is an expert on global supply chain security and on the efforts of homeland security officials to secure the 30 million containers that are shipped into the United States annually as part of the manufacturing and distribution supply chain. He's also an expert source on a variety of business-related ...

Expertise: marketing, e-commerce, operations management, manufacturing management, facility layout, inventory control, production planning, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4604
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kouvelis@wustl.edu

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Victor Le Vine
 Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Victor Le Vine is an expert on hostages, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and political problems of the Middle East and Northern Africa. Other areas of interest include international law and politics and ethnic politics. He has followed the situation in Iraq closely since well before the Gulf War and can ...

Expertise: politics, terrorism, guerrilla warfare, Middle East, Iraq, Africa, Liberia, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5867
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vlevine@artsci.wustl.edu

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Stephen Legomsky
 John S. Lehmann University Professor

Dr. Stephen H. Legomsky, an internationally renowned immigration law expert, is the author of Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy (now in its 3rd edition), which has been adopted as the required text for immigration courses at more than 140 American law schools. He has testified before Congress ...

Expertise: immigration, refugees, international criminal law, international human rights, international law, torts, international legal process, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6469
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legomsky@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Monica Matthieu
 Research Assistant Professor

Matthieu's expertise centers on mental health services. She is available to discuss suicide prevention, mental health in the aftermath of disasters, the mental health impact of trauma as well as the mental health of veterans. Her current research focuses on provider and organizational change required ...

Expertise: mental health services, trauma, veterans, suicide prevention and disaster
mental health

Direct contact: 314-935-7516
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mmatthieu@wustl.edu

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Sunita Parikh
 Associate Professor of Political Science in Arts & Sciences

Parikh, an expert on political issues in India and Pakistan, conducts research on comparative politics, institutions and race, and ethnicity. She has published a book on the institutional development of affirmative action in the United States and India, using comparative historical and rational-choice ...

Expertise: comparative politics, race and ethnicity, institutions, comparative methods

Direct contact: (314) 935-5830
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saparikh@artsci.wustl.edu

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Leila Sadat
 Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and Director of the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies

Leila Sadat is one of the country's leading experts in international and comparative law. She is the author of more than three dozen articles and several books on international criminal law and justice, terrorism, crimes against humanity, French law and European Union Law. From May 2001 until September ...

Expertise: war crimes, criminal law, criminal justice, European Community law, international law, U.S. constitution, foreign relations, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6411
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sadat@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Thomas Schweich
 Visiting Professor of Law and Ambassador in Residence

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Thomas Schweich served the Bush administration as the ambassador for counternarcotics and justice reform in Afghanistan, as the government's principal deputy assistant secretary (PDAS) for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and chief of staff to the U.S. Mission ...

Expertise: foreign policy, Afghanistan

Direct contact: (314) 935-3379
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tschweich@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Samuel Stanley
 Director of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research

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Stanley directs the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE), funded by a $35 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The center's mission is to support basic and translational research in critical areas ...

Expertise: biodefense, infectious diseases

Media assistance: (314) 935-5217 / joeangeles@wustl.edu

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Melissa Waters
 Professor of Law

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Waters' research and teaching interests include foreign relations law, international law, international human rights law and international criminal law, comparative law, conflicts of law, civil procedure, and complex civil litigation. Her scholarly work focuses on the incorporation of international ...

Expertise: international law, foreign relations law, war on terrorism, conflicts of law, international human rights law, civil procedure

Direct contact: (314) 935-3458
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mawaters@wulaw.wustl.edu

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