FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – For expert commentary and analysis of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, please consider the following professors at the University of Arkansas.
• International relations and media expert Hoyt Purvis, professor of journalism and former director of the Fulbright Institute of International Relations.
• Terrorism expert Brent Smith, Distinguished Professor of sociology and criminal justice and director of the Terrorism Research Center.
• Freedom of speech expert Stephen Smith, professor of communication.
Hoyt Purvis
Purvis served as press secretary and special assistant to U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright and as foreign and defense policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd before coming to the University of Arkansas in 1982. He has shared his experience in honors colloquia on a variety of topics, focusing in recent years on offering “Government, Politics and the Media.”
Purvis was appointed by Bill Clinton to the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He served on the board from1993-2003 and chaired the board from 1996-1999. He was given the 1998 Phi Beta Delta Outstanding International Educator Award.
Brent Smith
Smith’s primary research area is social movements, with a concentration in terrorism. He is the author of Terrorism in America: Pipe Bombs and Pipe Dreams (1994) and is one of only a few scholars who has studied domestic terrorism for more than a decade. He has testified on issues involving terrorism before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and the National Research Council.
His publications on terrorism have appeared in numerous publications including Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Terrorism: An International Journal and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. He wrote "A Look at Terrorist Behavior: How They Prepare, Where They Strike," which appeared in the National Institute of Justice Journal published by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Stephen Smith
“I have long been fascinated by the rhetorical power of satire and mockery. Since Thomas Nast inked Boss Tweed, politicians and others have been frustrated by their inability to respond in the same "language" of the critique. Shutting down newspapers is one way to respond with power; assassinating cartoonists seems to be another.”
Smith has written several books and contributed more than 60 book chapters and scholarly articles in such journals as Free Speech Yearbook, Oregon Law Review, Arkansas Law Review, American Communication Journal, Communication Education, Communication Law Review, Journal of American Culture, Journal of Popular Culture, Southern Cultures and Studies in Popular Culture.
Contact:
Hoyt Purvis, professor, journalismJ. William Fulbright College of Arts and SciencesUniversity of Arkansas479-575-5969 or 479 957-6963, [email protected]
Brent Smith, Distinguished Professor, sociology and criminal justiceJ. William Fulbright College of Arts and SciencesUniversity of Arkansas479-879-6697, [email protected]
Stephen SmithJ. William Fulbright College of Arts and SciencesUniversity of Arkansas479-409-7842, [email protected]
Darinda Sharp, director of communicationsJ. William Fulbright College of Arts and SciencesUniversity of Arkansas479-575-4393, [email protected]
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