US foreign policy
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Jon Wiener, wiener@uci.edu – major research interests, recent American history, Cold War culture. Professor Emertitus, University of California Irvine. “Jon Wiener . . . sued the FBI for their files on John Lennon . . . That story is told in his book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files. . . . He’s…
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Daniel A. Sjursen, dannysjursen@hotmail.com, is available to speak on U.S. foreign and military policy post-9/11, reframing patriotism and dissent, antiwar veteran experience, American Empire, race/class/social justice links to U.S. militarism. He is a U.S. Army major (retired); senior fellow at the Center for International Policy (CIP), director of the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), and contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He describes…
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Trita Parsi, media@quincyinst.org, is available to speak on issues of Iran, the Middle East, and the U.S. He is Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. “Trita Parsi is an award-winning author and the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He is an expert on US-Iranian relations,…
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Molly Nolan, mn4@nyu.edu, is available to speak on trans-Atlantic relations Mary [Molly] Nolan was Professor of History at New York University from 1980 to 2018 and is now Professor Emeritus. She works on twentieth-century European-American relations, on German History, and most recently on social and economic human rights in the age of neoliberalism. She is…
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Stephen Miles, stephen@winwithoutwar.org, is available to speak on US foreign policy, war powers and use of force, Pentagon/defense spending, endless wars. Executive Director of Win Without War. “He previously worked for the global campaigning organization Avaaz, as well as on multiple federal, state, and local electoral campaigns, and as the Executive Director of the American…
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Zachary Lockman, zl1@nyu.edu, is available to talk about issues related to Israel/Palestine, US policy in the Middle East, repression/human rights in Egypt, efforts to suppress BDS advocacy and advocacy of Palestinian rights. He is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and History. “The main focus of my research and teaching has been the…
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Peter Kuznick, pkuznick@aol.com, is available to speak on nuclear weapons policy and contention. He is a Professor of History, American University. “In 1995, he founded American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute. . . . [He] is author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s, co-author with Akira Kimura of Rethinking the Atomic Bombings…
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Rashi Khalidi, rik2101@columbia.edu, is available to speak on US Middle East Policy. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. “[His research covers primarily the history of the modern Middle East. He focuses on the countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, with an eye to the emergence of various…
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Steven Hahn, steven.hahn@nyu.edu, is available to address political violence in American history, slavery and racism, the Confederacy and its legacies, American empire, the illiberal tradition in American history, the invention of the liberal tradition. Professor of History at New York University, he is a specialist on the international history of slavery, emancipation, and race, on…
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Irene Gendzier, gendzier@bu.edu, is available to speak on US relations in the Middle East). She is a Professor Emerita at Boston University, where she was a long time member of the faculty, serving in the Departments of Political Science and History, as well as being a member of the African Studies Center. “Among Professor Gendzier’s…