Susan Appleton

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Susan Appleton, a nationally known expert on family law, has been a member of the Council of the American Law Institute since 1994. She has served as an adviser for the ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution and as a consultant to the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, assisting that agency ...

John Bowen

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Bowen's research explores broad social transformations now taking place in the world-wide Muslim community, including special emphasis on Muslim life in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. His research focuses on the role of cultural forms (religious practices, aesthetic genres, legal discourse) ...

Brick

Brick is an expert on the history of the United States since 1865, including a special focus on the history of labor, socialist and radical protest movements. His interests include U.S. intellectual, cultural, social and political history. He has written extensively about the relationship of capitalism ...

Burson

Charles Burson has an extensive professional career including Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary at Monsanto Company from 2001-2006; Counsel to the Vice President, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff at The White House, Office of the Vice President from 1997-2001; Attorney ...

Randall Calvert

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Calvert, a specialist in American politics and in positive political theory, joined the faculty as a professor of political science in October 1999. He also taught at WUSTL as assistant professor from 1979-1985 and as associate professor from 1985-87. In 1984-85, he was a postdoctoral fellow in political ...

Robert Canfield

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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. ...

Davis

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Davis, an expert on defense and public policy, health care policy, presidential campaigns and party platforms, is a close follower of current issues in politics. Davis has taught courses focusing on the presidency, military history and political literacy and is a frequent commentator on news events, ...

Dresser

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Dresser's book, "When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics", was published in 2001. Dresser is also co-author of "The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice" and "Bioethics and Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems". She is one of the "At Law" columnists for ...

Garrett Duncan

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Garrett Duncan studies conditions that attribute to success and failure among black students in public schools, especially in competitive settings. He examines academic and social issues, with a special focus on high-stakes testing, education reform, violence, and racial disparities in achievement ...

Fazzari

Fazzari, a senior scholar of the Jerome Levy Economics Institute, has written about ways the presidential candidates are addressing the deepening recession. He's also been quoted extensively in the media on sub-prime mortgage loans and the financial markets. His research explores two main areas: the ...

Fields

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Fields is a nationally known expert on American literature, non-fiction prose, rhetoric and American political argument. His book, "Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence" (1996) examines the use of rhetoric in presidential speeches, from declarations of candidacy to nomination acceptances, ...

Flinn

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Flinn, a consultant in forensic theology, is an expert on religion and the law, including issues related to the separation of church and state, government funding of faith-based social program and the display of religious symbols in schools, courtrooms and other public places. He also is an expert ...

Friedman

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Friedman's interests include ethics and political philosophy, especially topics of women's issues and multiculturalism. Her most recent book is titled Autonomy, Gender, Politics and defends the importance of autonomy for women, with a focus on social issues such as domestic violence and women's situation ...

Ahmet Karamustafa

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Karamustafa is a medievalist/premodernist and works on the intellectual and social history of Islamic societies from the 13th to the 16th centuries. He is an expert on Islam and the theory and methods of all religions. Karamustafa specializes in premodern Islamic thought. His most recent book, God's ...

Lawlor

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Edward Lawlor is a nationally-recognized expert in healthcare policy, particularly in the areas of medical indigence, health-care reform and administration, and policy for the aged and poor. His groundbreaking work in Medicare policy is recognized for its originality and insightful analysis. Lawlor's ...

Le Vine

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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 ...

William Lowry

William Lowry studies American politics, public policy and political institutions with a special emphasis on natural resources, public lands and related environmental policiy issues. In recent years, Congressional Quarterly has called upon Lowry to write an updated chapter for the annual CQ Press ...

Gregory Magarian

Magarian is a leading expert in the areas of election law, the electoral system, free speech, the First Amendment and constitutional law. He is the author of a number of articles including the forthcoming "Substantive Media Regulation in Three Dimensions" (George Washington Law Review).

McBride

Tim McBride has been active in testifying before Congress and consulting with important policy constituencies on Medicare, insurance and rural health policy issues. He is a member of the Rural Policy Research Institute Health Panel that provides expert advice on rural health issues to the U.S. Congress ...