Presidential History:
Leo Ribuffo Professor of History Ribuffo is an expert on 20th-century United States history with a special emphasis on historical perspectives of U.S. presidents. His publications include Right Center Left: Essays in American History (1992) and The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War (1983), which won the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Prize as the best book in American intellectual history for 1983-84.
Tyler AnbinderChair of the Department of History, Professor of HistoryAnbinder is an expert on Civil War-era politics and immigration. His most recent book, Five Points, traced the history of nineteenth-century America's most infamous immigrant slum, focusing in particular on tenement life, inter-ethnic relations, and ethnic politics.
Elections:
Steven E. BilletDirector of the GW Legislative Affairs Program, Visiting Associate Professor of Political ManagementBillet can speak on political action committees in the United States in the context of of campaign finance, elections, and issue management.
F. Christopher Arterton Dean of GW's Graduate School of Political Management, Professor of Political ManagementDean Arterton has been actively involved in politics at the national level and is an expert in political institutions and political leadership. He oversees the GW-Battleground Poll. Arterton taught for ten years at Yale University in the Department of Political Science and the School of Organization and Management prior to joining the GW faculty in 1987. He has served as a polling consultant for Newsweek and a consultant on public opinion surveys for the Gallup Organization. He is the author of numerous articles on politics and electoral behavior, and four books, including Media Politics and Teledemocracy.
Dennis Johnson Associate Dean of GW's Graduate School of Political Management, Professor of Political ManagementJohnson's current research involves campaigns and elections, the role of interest groups in campaigns, and the profession of campaign management. He authored the book No Place for Amateurs: The Professionalization of Modern Campaigns, and has contributed a chapters "The Cyberspace Election in Your Future" in Bruce I. Newman's book Political Marketing Handbook and "The Business of Political Consulting," in James Thurber's The Role of Political Consultants. Johnson also can speak on campaign advertisements and polling.
John SidesAssistant Professor of Political Science Sides' research centers on political behavior, both American politics and in comparative politics. His current research focuses on candidate strategy in campaigns, the effects of campaigns on the attitudes on voters, the consequences of higher turnout for election outcomes, European attitudes toward immigration, and the nature and meaning of patriotism and nationalism.
Garry YoungAssociate Director of the Institute of Public Policy and Research ScientistYoung's main area of research centers on the way institutional arrangements interact with interests to yield political and policy outcomes. Currently, he is working on a five-nation study of legislative representation and a study of policy production in the U.S. prior to World War II.
Political Parties:
Eric LawrenceAssistant Professor of Political ScienceLawrence specializes in American political institutions, legislative politics, public policy, and research methodology. He has taught courses on legislative politics and the presidency and has recently published works on the effects of political parties.
Congress:
Sarah Binder Professor of Political ScienceBinder's research focuses on Congress, congressional development, and political parties. Her work has appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Forrest MaltzmanProfessor of Political Science The institutions of American national government serve as the focus of Maltzman's teaching and research and he is especially interested in the factors that shape decision-making within Congress, the Supreme Court, and the executive branch. His current research centers on the evolving role of congressional committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and the interaction among justices on the Supreme Court.
Foreign Affairs:
Deborah AvantAssociate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Avant's areas of expertise include international relations; national and transnational security; U.S. and European defense policy; and civil and military relations.
Harry HardingUniversity Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Harding's areas of expertise include the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region, U.S. relations with China, China foreign policy, and Chinese domestic politics.
Hope HarrisonAssociate Professor of History and International Affairs; Director, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian StudiesLanguages: German, RussianHarrison's areas of expertise include Russian and German foreign policy, Soviet and U.S. foreign policy and decision-making during the Cold War, former East and West Germany, and the international history of the Cold War.
James LebovicAssociate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Lebovic's areas of expertise include international relations theory.
Marc LynchAssociate Professor of Political Science and International AffairsLynch's expertise includes Arab media and public opinion, Islamist movements, constructivism in international relations, and public diplomacy. He teaches courses on Middle Eastern politics and international relations and is the author of State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity and Voices of the New Arab Public.
Henry NauProfessor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, U.S.-Japan Economic Agenda; Director, U.S.-Japan Legislative Exchange Program Nau is in expert in the study of international relations, U.S. and Japan relations, U.S. relations with Europe including East-West trade, and U.S. foreign economic and trade policy.
Bernard ReichProfessor of Political Science and International Affairs Reich's areas of expertise include U.S. and Israel relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Middle East politics, Israel, North Africa, military, terrorism, and oil politics.
Susan SellProfessor of Political Science Sell's areas of expertise include international relations theory, international political economy, and North-South relations.
David ShinnAdjunct Professor of International AffairsShinn is the former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. His areas of expertise include U.S. foreign policy with Africa; terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism in Africa; the African continent, specifically East Africa and the Horn of Africa; conflict in Africa, and the African AIDS epidemic.
Michael SodaroProfessor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, European Studies Program Language(s): German, French Sodaro's areas of expertise include international affairs and comparative politics and Europe with special emphasis on Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia.
Education:
Iris Comens Rotberg Research Professor of Education PolicyRotberg is the senior author of "No Child Left Behind: Views About the Potential Impact of the Bush Administration's Education Proposals." The report examined the implications of the Bush administrations education plan based on interviews conducted with leading policymakers and educators. Before coming to GW, Rotberg was program director at the National Science Foundation; principal investigator for the Technology Policy Task Force of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology; assistant director of the National Institute of Education, where she directed the Office of Planning and Program Development; and deputy director of a comprehensive study of compensatory education conducted for Congress by the National Institute of Education. Rotberg holds a Ph.D. in research psychology from Johns Hopkins University.
Health Care:
Christine FergusonAssociate Research Professor of Health PolicyFerguson is the director of the STOP Obesity Alliance, designed to rethink our nations approach to obesity. Her research also includes state and national health reform efforts, Medicaid, child health and development issues, and emergency preparedness. Prior to her appointment at GW, Ferguson served as commissioner of the Department of Public Health in Massachusetts, where she led initiatives addressing public health emergencies, such as SARS and pandemic flu planning, as well as hospital surge capacity, ED diversion, and quality.
Marsha RegensteinAssociate Research Professor of Health PolicyRegenstein leads projects on health care safety net issues, health care quality improvement, and medically underserved populations at the Center for Health Services Research and Policy. She also leads the cardiovascular market assessment component of Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation intended to improve the quality of health care provided to minority populations in the United States.
Sara RosenbaumChair of the Department of Health Policy, Harold & Jane Hirsh ProfessorRosenbaum is nationally renowned for her research on health care law for the poor, health care financing, managed care, and maternal and child health. In 1993 and 1994, Rosenbaum worked with the White House Domestic Policy Council and the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where she directed the legislative drafting of the Health Security Act for President Clinton. She has served on policy advisory boards for the United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the United States Public Health Service, and the Health Care Financing Administration.
Iraq War:
Charles Bancroft Cushman, Jr. Associate Dean in the Graduate School of Political Management, Associate Professor of Political ManagementCushman's work focuses on defense and foreign policy, particularly military force structure, doctrine, organization, and Congress's role in making defense policy. He received a Ph.D. in American Politics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to his current position at GW, Cushman was a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and to the Space Commission.
Marc LynchAssociate Professor of Political Science and International AffairsLynch's expertise includes Arab media and public opinion, Islamist movements, constructivism in international relations, public diplomacy. He teaches courses on Middle Eastern politics and international relations and is the author of State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity and Voices of the New Arab Public.
Environment:
Mark StarikChair of the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy, Professor of Strategic Management and Public PolicyStarik's research and teaching interests include strategic environmental management, sustainability policy and management, stakeholder management, particularly in the global energy and tourism sectors, and NGO strategy and sustainability. Starik is director of GW's Strategic Management and Public Policy Environmental and Social Sustainability Initiative and serves as President of Sustainability Now!
Campaign Analysis:
Peter FennAdjunct Faculty in the Graduate School of Political Management, Founder of Fenn and King Communications Fenn has worked in more than 250 political campaigns through his media consulting firm, Fenn Communications Group. His experience ranges from presidential campaigns to local mayoral races. Fenn teaches campaign advertising at GW.
Stephen HessDistinguished Research Professor of Media and Public AffairsHess, a renowned Washington scholar and senior fellow emeritus at the Brookings Institution, joined the School of Media and Public Affairs in September 2004. Since 1972, Hess has been a senior fellow in the governance studies program of the Brookings Institution. While there, he concurrently served as a fellow in the faculty of government at Harvard University and as a U.S. Representative to the United Nations General Assembly in 1976 and the UNESCO General Conference in 1974. He has served on the White House staffs of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon and has been an advisor to Presidents Ford and Carter. His areas of expertise include elections, media, political parties and campaigns, White House organization and staffing, and foreign media coverage of the United States.
Steven RobertsJ.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public AffairsAs a teacher, Steven Roberts lectures widely on American politics and the role of the news media. Steve Roberts has been a journalist for more than 35 years, covering some of the major events of his time, from the antiwar movement and student revolts of the 60s and 70s to President Reagan's historic trip to Moscow in 1988 as well as nine presidential election campaigns. Roberts is a well-known commentator on many Washington-based TV shows. Since 1997, he has been the Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, where he has taught for the last thirteen years.
Albert MayAssociate Professor of Media and Public Affairs, Program Director, JournalismMay covers news coverage of government and politics on the local, state, and national levels along with covering campaigns in the online world including new tools and new problems. He also can speak to news reporting with converged media including print, television, and online.
Internet:
Lance J. HoffmanProfessor Emeritus of Computer Science; Founder and Senior Staff Researcher, Cyberspace Security Policy and Research Institute Hoffman is known for his pioneering research on computer security and risk analysis and for his interdisciplinary work in computer privacy issues. His recent research includes Internet voting, developing the privacy policy for an electronic payments system and carrying out risk analyses for telemedicine privacy and security. Hoffman has written extensively on Internet voting and computer security, including a paper entitled "Internet Voting for Public Officials: Introduction" (Communications of the ACM, Jan. 2001) and the presentation, "Internet Voting: Not Ready for Prime Time (Yet)" (Jan. 2001). Hoffman leads GW's computer security and information assurance program in computer science and serves as a technical and strategic advisor to private sector information security companies. In 2000, he served on the Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Julie GermanyDirector, Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the InternetGermany is the principal author and editor of several publications, including "Person-to-Person-to-Person: Harnessing the Political Power of Online Social Networks and User-Generated Content," as well as "The Politics-to-Go-Handbook: A Guide to Using Mobile Technology in Politics and The Political Consultants' Online Fundraising Primer." She also co-authored Putting Online Influentials to Work for Your Campaign. Germany is a co-founder of Mobile Monday DC, the local chapter of an international community of mobile technology experts and enthusiasts, and founding board member of Young Champions, a non-profit that addresses youth health issues.
Campaign Strategy:
Michael CornfieldAdjunct Associate Research Professor of Political ManagementA professor in the Graduate School of Political Management since 1994, Michael Cornfield teaches the core course on strategy and message development, and a course on politics and the new media. Cornfield holds a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University, and he taught at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary before joining the faculty at GW.
Edward GrefeDirector of External Affairs, Adjunct Professor of Political ManagementGrefe is an expert on grassroots organizing and issues management, as well as referenda and initiative and on the impact of social movements on political process.
Don BatesAcademic Director, Graduate School of Political ManagementBates' research interests include public relations writing issues and challenges, public relations issues and trends, history of public relations, differences between public relations and marketing or advertising, and the convergence of public relations and politics.
Public Opinion:
William AdamsProfessor of Public Policy and Public AdministrationAdams' research interests span several fields, including public administration, public policy, political science, applied statistics, social psychology, and mass communications. Along with a variety of survey research and evaluation projects for both public and private sector organizations, his research also has focused on public opinion and the U.S. mass media. Books that he has authored and edited are Election Night News and Voter Turnout: Solving the Projection Puzzle; Television Coverage of the 1980 Presidential Campaign; Television Coverage of International Affairs; Television Coverage of the Middle East; and Television Network News: Issues in Content Research. As a researcher with the Rand Corporation, Dr. Adams co-authored An Assessment of Telephone Survey Methods, a Rand monograph. Adams earned his Ph.D. in political science from The George Washington University, and his B.A. and M.A. from Baylor University.
Susan WileyAssociate Professor of Political Science and of Political ManagementProfessor Wiley's primary research interests are American political behavior and domestic public policy. She serves as department undergraduate coordinator, directs the undergraduate internship program, and teaches quantitative methods for political managers in the Graduate School of Political Management.
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