Speakers
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- Meena Bose is Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies at Hofstra University and Director of Hofstra’s Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency. She is the author of Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy: The National Security Decision Makin
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- Ken Collier is native Texan raised in Longview, Texas. He is a product of the Texas Youth in Government program and the PhD program of the University of Texas.
Ken teaches courses on US and Texas politics at Stephen F. Austin State University.
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- Michael Desch is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He was the founding Director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs and the first holder of the Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National
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- David Eisenhower is the Director of the Institute for Public Service at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Eisenhower at War: 1943-1945, which was a finalist for the Pulitze
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- Benjamin P. Greene is Assistant Professor of History at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Professor Greene’s research focuses on American foreign relations during the Cold War, with a special emphasis on nuclear history. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University
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- Fred I. Greenstein is Professor of Politics Emeritus at Princeton University. His books include Children and Politics (1965), Personality and Politics (1969), The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader (1982), How Presidents Test Reality (1989, with John P. Burke), The
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- Rita E. Hauser, President of The Hauser Foundation, is an international lawyer and was a senior partner for more than twenty years at the New York City law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Dr. Hauser was appointed to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board in December, 2
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- Dale Herspring of Kansas State University, a university distinguished professor of political science, is a frequently-quoted expert on foreign policy. He has an international reputation as
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- Stephen Hess, one of the foremost authorities on media and government in the United States, is a senior fellow emeritus in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He first joined Brookings in 1972 and was distinguished research professor of media and public affairs
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- Robert Jervis is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University.
Specializing in international politics in general and security policy, decision making, and theories of conflict and cooperation in particular, his Why Intelligence Fails: L
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- Geoffrey Kabaservice is the author of the National Book Award-nominated The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment. He has written for n
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- Douglas Little is the Robert and Virginia Scotland Professor of History and International Relations at Clark University, where he has taught sinc
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- Michael S. Lubell is Professor of Physics at the City College of the City University of New York (CCNY) and the Director of Public Affairs of The American Physical Society (APS). Dr. Lubell earned his B.A. (1963) from Columbia University, and his M.S. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969
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- Kenneth W. Mack is a historian and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2000. He is a native
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- Yanek Mieczkowski is Professor of History at Dowling College. He is the author of Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s and The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections.
Basic Facts:
Teaching Position: Associate Professor of History, Dowling College.
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- Jim Newton is editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Times. He serves as a member of The Times' editorial board, advises on editorial matters and writes and edits for the editorial page and Op-
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- David A. Nichols, a leading expert on the Eisenhower presidency, holds a Ph.D. in history from William and Mary. A former professor and academic dean at Southwestern College, he is the author of A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution
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- Pallavi Phartiyal is a Senior Analyst and the Program Manager for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Dr. Phartiyal is a molecular biologist by
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- Andrew J. Polsky is professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of two books, Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War (Oxford University Press, 2012) and The Rise of the Therapeutic State
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- Naira Rezende works as a Scientific Advisor at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) and serves as the Vice-President for Policy and Advocacy at Rare Genomics In
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- Mark Rose is a Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. He studies and teaches the social and policy bases of American life in the 20th Century. He is the
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- A writer and editor with a toenail in the door of academia.
Research Interests
US History, especially Cold War period. Specialism in early ‘space race’ history.
Research Interests:
American History
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- Jean Edward Smith is the author of the highly acclaimed FDR, winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize; Grant, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist; John Marshall: Definer of a Nation; and Lucius D. Clay: An
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- Evan Thomas is the author of eight books: Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Struggle to Save the World (2012); The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst and the Rush to Empire, 1898
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- Timothy N. Thurber is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. He studies civil rights and party politics in twentieth-century America and specializes in twentieth-century U.S. history, political history, and civil rights. He is the author of Th
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- Charles Tien is professor and chair in the political science department at Hunter College, CUNY. He is a Fulbright Scholar with interests in Congress, forecasting elections, and minority representation.
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- Zuoyue Wang is a professor of history at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His specialties include History of science and technology, modern science in the US and China, US Cold War science policy, recent US history, Asian/Chinese Americans in science and tec
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M. Stephen Weatherford is a professor of Political Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. His areas of emphasis include American P
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- Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
He was counselor at the Department of State, a deputy to Secretary Rice, from 2005-2007. From 1998-2005, Zelikow directed the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Af
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