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Posted 10/10/01
U.S. MILITARY CAPABILITIES
- Daryl G. Press, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Government
Expertise: U.S. military capabilities, military technology and warfare, chemical and biological weapons proliferation, U.S. foreign policy
Notes: Press has conducted military analyses--both for the U.S. government and in his academic research--which focus on the Persian Gulf region and East Asia. He is also a consultant at the RAND Corporation, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an associate of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.
NATURE OF WAR, POLITICAL BARGAINING
- Allan Stam, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Government
Expertise: International relations, political bargaining and the nature of war, military conscription, comparative foreign policy, prisoners of war
Notes: Stam previously served in the U.S. Army Special Forces as a communications specialist and remains a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. He is author of Win, Lose or Draw: Domestic Politics in the Crucible of War, and of the upcoming books Democracies at War and Limits to Knowledge: Theory, Aggregation and Uncertainty in the Study of International Conflict.
CYBERSECURITY, COUNTERTERRORISM, LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Michael A. Vatis, J.D., Director, Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS)
Expertise: Cybersecurity, counterterrorism, law enforcement, intelligence, high-tech crime, encryption and infrastructure protection
Notes: Established in 2000, the ISTS is a principal national center for cyber security and counter terrorism technology research and development. It is funded in part by the U.S. Justice Department's National Institute of Justice. Vatis most recently served as founder and first director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), which, under his leadership, developed the federal government's capability for warning of and responding to computer intrusions, viruses, cyber terrorism and computer-based espionage. Vatis previously served as Associate Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Director of the Executive Office for National Security with the U.S. Department of Justice and as a Special Counsel in the Department of Defense.
DETECTING DIGITAL IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY
- Hany Farid, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Detecting digital image steganography (hiding and sending secret information)
Notes: Working with Dartmouth's ISTS, Farid's research aims to expose suspiciously altered images. Today's digital cameras produce high-quality images, and the Internet easily and inexpensively carries enormous volumes of information worldwide. Farid has developed a way to expose modern steganography by employing the mathematics of wavelets, a popular method for compressing digital data, and progressive image coding. The research is evolving quickly, and the process of detecting questionable digital material could soon be of use to law enforcement officials.
SEPT. 11 ATTACKS AND THE PRESIDENCY
- Linda Fowler, Ph.D., Professor of Government
Expertise: Impact of Presidential actions/policy on electoral politics, presidential legacy, domestic impact of foreign policy
Notes: Fowler is Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth. She researches public sentiment, who gets elected to office and why, and citizen activism.
DYNAMICS OF RELIGIOUS DISPUTES
- Brian Didier, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology
Expertise: Dynamics of religious disputes with particular focus on Muslim communities of South Asia
Notes: Didier is an anthropologist who studies how religious disagreement evolves and why. Today, collective violence is being used with increasing regularity as a means of solving religious conflicts. While he focuses on Muslim communities and Islam, his research points out that many religious communities are choosing violence; Islam is not unique.
ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS STUDIES, ISLAMIC LEGAL THOUGHT
- Kevin Reinhart, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Religion
Expertise: Islamic religious studies, Islamic legal thought, varieties of Islamic practices
Notes: Reinhart received his master's and doctoral degrees in religion at Harvard University, and also trained in Middle Eastern and Arabic Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. During 1995-1996, he was in Turkey working on Turkish language and Turkish Islam studies. He has lived extensively in Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Morocco and Turkey.
MUSLIM SOCIETIES, RELIGION AND POLITICS
- Dale Eickelman, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations
Expertise: Muslim societies, social anthropology, social organization, religion and politics, Middle East
Notes: Eickelman is a cultural anthropologist specializing in Islam, the Middle East and North Africa. In recent years he has investigated the role of mass media in transforming Middle Eastern politics.
WAR AND PEACE STUDIES
- Ronald Edsforth, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of History, coordinator of War and Peace Studies Program
Expertise: 20th century political and economic American history with an emphasis on warfare and anti-war protests
Notes: Edsforth teaches a course called War and Peace in the 20th Century, and he is currently researching the growth of the world peace movement
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