George Marcus, Professor of Political Science

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Marcus, who specializes in political psychology, democratic theory, and public opinion, has been quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek during the past elections. He is the author of "The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics" (Penn State University Press, 2002) and co-editor of "The Affect Effect" (University of Chicago Press, 2007). He is chairman of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, and is working on a book on American's public opinions during the run-up to the war in Iraq.

James McAllister, Professor of Political Science and Chair of Leadership Studies

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McAllister's research centers on the Cold War, the Vietnam War, American foreign policy, and Europe. He wrote the book "No Exit: America and the German Problem 1943-1954" (Cornell University Press, 2002) and has been published in a number of scholarly journals. At Williams, he conceived the course "America and the World After September 11," which examines conflicting perspectives in contemporary American foreign policy.

Nicole Mellow, Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Mellow is primarily interested in American political development and political institutions. In her book "The State of Disunion: Regional Sources of Modern American Partisanship" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), she argues that regional interests, and how parties respond to them, play a crucial role in electoral battles and the national political milieu. Among the courses she teaches are "Power, Politics, and Democracy in America," "The American Presidency," and "American Political Parties."

Magnus Bernhardsson, Associate Professor of History

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Bernhardsson, who focuses on modern Iraqi history, U.S.-Iraq relations, and nationalism in the modern Middle East, has been quoted by USA Today and is a regular presenter at Middle East conferences around the world. Bernhardsson's books include "Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archeology and the Nation in Modern Iraq 1921-1941" (University of Texas Press, 2005) and "Martyrs of Modernity: Religion and Politics in Iraq and Iran" (Mal og Menning, 2005), which was nominated as non-fiction book of the year by the Society of Icelandic Authors and Scholars.

William Darrow, Chair of Religion and Lissack Professor For Social Responsibility and Personal Ethics

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Darrow, who can offer expertise in Iran, Islam, the Muslim Middle East, the Persian Gulf, and women and Islam, was one of the pioneers of the international studies program at Williams College. He is also the author of "Zoroaster as Epic Hero, Holy Man, and Prophet." Darrow instructs in religion, history, and political science, with courses such as "Reading: An Introduction to the Qur'an and Islam," "The Greater Game? Central Asia and its Neighbors Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," and "Shi'ism Ascendant?"

Neil Roberts, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

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Neil Roberts specializes in modern and contemporary political theory, theories of freedom, African-American and Caribbean thought, critical race theory, and politics in literature. He is also co-editor of both the Center for Africana Studies Working Papers, a series offering cutting edge scholarship on the study of the Africa, the African-American experience, and the African Diaspora, and a collection of essays on "Creolizing Rousseau." Roberts earned his B.A. in Afro-American studies and law and public policy from Brown University and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.

Alex Willingham, Professor of Political Science

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Willingham's interests include the Civil Rights movement, nonprofit organizations, community change, and Southern politics. In addition to his widely published research on voting rights, racial fairness, and political empowerment, he edited "Beyond the Color Line? Race, Representation, and Community in the New Century" (Brennan Center, 2002). Willingham has served as a consultant for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Southern Poverty Law Center in Atlanta.

George Crane, Fred Greene Third Century Professor of Political Science

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Crane specializes in the politics of East Asia and international political economy, and has done extensive research on economic nationalism in China and Taiwan. He is the author of "The Political Economy of China's Special Economic Zones" (M.E. Sharpe, 1990), and co-editor of "The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy" (Oxford University Press, 1991). In addition, his foreign affairs commentary has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the National Interest.

Michael Reed, Vice President For Strategic Planning and Institutional Diversity

Reed works with various constituencies across Williams College for the development and implementation of diversity-related policies. Trained as an educational psychologist, he has worn a range of professional hats including: partner and vice president of Cook Ross Inc; managing director and regional vice president of INROADS, which nurtures talented minority youth through corporate internships and training; director of programs for A Better Chance; and founder of his own consulting firm.

Douglas Gollin, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center For Environmental Studies

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Gollin's research focuses on development, growth, technology, food and agriculture. His recent journal articles include "Nobody's Business but My Own: Self Employment and Small Enterprise in Economic Development" and "The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels," of which he is co-author. Gollin has worked with numerous international organizations as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Center for Genetic Resources. He is currently an associate editor of Agricultural Economics (Blackwell).

Gerard Caprio, Professor of Economics

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Caprio, an expert in banking, economic development, and the finance sector, joined Williams College from the World Bank, where he was director of financial sector policy. He has also served as vice president and head of global economics at JP Morgan and was an economist for the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. Caprio is the co-author of "Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern" (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and "Finance for Growth: Policy Choices in a Volatile World" (Oxford University Press, 2001).

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George Marcus, Professor of Political Science

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Marcus, who specializes in political psychology, democratic theory, and public opinion, has been quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek during the past elections. He is the author of "The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics" (Penn State University Press, 2002) and co-editor of "The Affect Effect" (University of Chicago Press, 2007). He is chairman of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, and is working on a book on American's public opinions during the run-up to the war in Iraq.

Alex Willingham, Professor of Political Science

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Willingham's interests include the Civil Rights movement, nonprofit organizations, community change, and Southern politics. In addition to his widely published research on voting rights, racial fairness, and political empowerment, he edited "Beyond the Color Line? Race, Representation, and Community in the New Century" (Brennan Center, 2002). Willingham has served as a consultant for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Southern Poverty Law Center in Atlanta.

James Carlton, Director of Williams-Mystic Program and Professor of Marine Sciences

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Carlton is considered the leading authority on global marine bioinvasions and modern marine extinctions. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the international journal Biological Invasions, a Pew Fellow in marine conservation, and was named an Ocean Hero by the Smithsonian Institution. Carlton has testified eight times before the United States Congress concerning legislation involving invasive species. He was featured in the PBS-National Geographic series "Strange Days on Planet Earth" and is heard on NPR annually.

David Dethier, Edward Brust Professor of Geology and Mineralogy

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Dethier, whose research focuses on soil chemistry, glacial history, and ground water system, is widely published in peer-reviewed geology journals. He is co-editor with Steven Colman of "Rates and Chemical Weathering of Rocks and Minerals" (Academic Press, 1986). In addition to teaching classes on global warming, natural disasters, and renewable energy, he heads the Luce Project for Campus Sustainability, a curricular initiative which uses the Williams campus as a real-world laboratory.

Douglas Gollin, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center For Environmental Studies

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Gollin's research focuses on development, growth, technology, food and agriculture. His recent journal articles include "Nobody's Business but My Own: Self Employment and Small Enterprise in Economic Development" and "The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels," of which he is co-author. Gollin has worked with numerous international organizations as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Center for Genetic Resources. He is currently an associate editor of Agricultural Economics (Blackwell).

Melissa Barry, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

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Barry's research interests lie in normative ethics, metaethics, and the history of ethics. She has recently published papers titled "Realism, Rational Action, and the Humean Theory of Motivation" and "The Realist Commitments of Ordinary Reason Judgments." Among the classes she teaches at Williams College are "Introduction to Moral and Political Philosophy," "Free Will and Responsibility," "Recent Ethical Theory," and "Contemporary Metaethics."

Gerard Caprio, Professor of Economics

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Caprio, an expert in banking, economic development, and the finance sector, joined Williams College from the World Bank, where he was director of financial sector policy. He has also served as vice president and head of global economics at JP Morgan and was an economist for the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. Caprio is the co-author of "Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern" (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and "Finance for Growth: Policy Choices in a Volatile World" (Oxford University Press, 2001).

James McAllister, Professor of Political Science and Chair of Leadership Studies

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McAllister's research centers on the Cold War, the Vietnam War, American foreign policy, and Europe. He wrote the book "No Exit: America and the German Problem 1943-1954" (Cornell University Press, 2002) and has been published in a number of scholarly journals. At Williams, he conceived the course "America and the World After September 11," which examines conflicting perspectives in contemporary American foreign policy.

Michael Fortunato, Visiting Professor of Economics

Fortunato can discuss corporate economics and strategy, effects of public politics on corporate behavior, as well as behavioral problems in economic theory and policy. He has extensive experience in consulting, as an independent consultant as a manager for Braxton Associates, and in management of education, having served as chair of the MBA program at Empire State College (SUNY). His published works include "Tversky's Ghost: Disequilibrium in the market for Truth in Economics" and "The Decline of Dominant Firms, 1905-1929" (co authored with Richard Caves and Pankaj Ghemawat).

Douglas Gollin, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center For Environmental Studies

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Gollin's research focuses on development, growth, technology, food and agriculture. His recent journal articles include "Nobody's Business but My Own: Self Employment and Small Enterprise in Economic Development" and "The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels," of which he is co-author. Gollin has worked with numerous international organizations as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Center for Genetic Resources. He is currently an associate editor of Agricultural Economics (Blackwell).

Peter Pedroni, Associate Professor of Economics

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Pedroni, whose research interests include international money and growth, served as a consultant for the World Bank at the beginning of his career. He has published numerous papers on nonstationary panels, exchange rates, and empirical growth. At Williams, he teaches courses in macroeconomics and international monetary economics.

Cathy Johnson, Chair and Professor of Political Science

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Johnson currently focuses on child welfare and representation of children in politics. She is the author of "The Dynamics of Conflict between Bureaucrats and Legislators" (M.E. Sharpe, 1992) and "Creating Gender: The Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy" (Lynne Rienner, 2006). Classes she has taught at Williams include "Power, Politics, and Democracy in America," "Poverty in America," "Congressional Leadership," and "Making Public Policy in the United States."

Lara Shore-Sheppard, Associate Professor of Economics

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Shore-Sheppard is interested in health economics and U.S. anti-poverty policy. Recent publications include "Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on Health Insurance Coverage," and "Did Expanding Medicaid Affect Welfare Participation?" She was the recipient of an NSF grant to study the effect of policy changes on welfare recipients, and an NIH grant to study the effect of changes in Medicaid on health insurance among children.

Maria Elena Cepeda, Assistant Professor In Latina/o Studies

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Cepeda specializes in U.S. Latino media, popular culture, and language. Her book "Musical Imagi/Nation: U.S, Colombians and the Latin(o) Music 'Boom'" is forthcoming from New York University Press. Classes she has offered at Williams include "Latina/o Language and Literature: Hybrid Voices in Contemporary Context," "Latinas/os and the Media: From Production to Consumption," and "Tracing the Roots of Routes: Comparative Transnationalisms."

Berta Jottar, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Latina/o Studies

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Jottar, who researches U.S.-Mexican exchanges, Afro-Latina/o diaspora, activism, and public space, is a video artist. She worked at the Tijuana and San Diego border for eight years, where she was a member of Border Art Workshop and a founding member of the art collective Las comadres. In addition to her academic work on gender, performance, and technology in diasporic cultures, Jottar has contributed to numerous photo exhibitions and documentary productions.

Cheryl Shanks, Professor of Political Science

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Shanks focuses on international law, population movements, and international organizations. She is the author of "Immigration and the Politics of American Sovereignty, 1890-1900" (University of Michigan Press, 2001) as well as articles on sovereignty, tourism, and international organization. Courses she has taught at Williams include International Law, Human Rights, The Democratic Deficit, and The Politics of Global Tourism.

Darel Paul, Associate Professor of Political Science

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Paul's research interests lie in globalization, urbanization, and commodity inflation. He is the author of "Rescaling International Political Economy: Subnational States and the Regulation of the Global Political Economy" (Routledge, 2005). In addition, his work has appeared in Urban Studies, Review of International Political Economy, and Political Geography, and he has been quoted frequently in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Cheryl Shanks, Professor of Political Science

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Shanks focuses on international law, population movements, and international organizations. She is the author of "Immigration and the Politics of American Sovereignty, 1890-1900" (University of Michigan Press, 2001) as well as articles on sovereignty, tourism, and international organization. Courses she has taught at Williams include International Law, Human Rights, The Democratic Deficit, and The Politics of Global Tourism.

William Darrow, Chair of Religion and Lissack Professor For Social Responsibility and Personal Ethics

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Darrow, who can offer expertise in Iran, Islam, the Muslim Middle East, the Persian Gulf, and women and Islam, was one of the pioneers of the international studies program at Williams College. He is also the author of "Zoroaster as Epic Hero, Holy Man, and Prophet." Darrow instructs in religion, history, and political science, with courses such as "Reading: An Introduction to the Qur'an and Islam," "The Greater Game? Central Asia and its Neighbors Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," and "Shi'ism Ascendant?"

Leyla Rouhi, Chair and Professor of Romance Languages

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Rouhi, an Iranian native, studies cultural and intellectual exchange between Islam and the West. She is the author of "Mediation and Love: A Study of the Medieval Go-Between in Key Romance and Near-Eastern Texts" (Leiden, 1999) and co-editor of "Under the Influence: Re-thinking the Comparative Method in Medieval Castile" (Brill. 2004). Rouhi is fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Farsi, and has a reading knowledge of Arabic and Latin.

Magnus Bernhardsson, Associate Professor of History

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Bernhardsson, who focuses on modern Iraqi history, U.S.-Iraq relations, and nationalism in the modern Middle East, has been quoted by USA Today and is a regular presenter at Middle East conferences around the world. Bernhardsson's books include "Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archeology and the Nation in Modern Iraq 1921-1941" (University of Texas Press, 2005) and "Martyrs of Modernity: Religion and Politics in Iraq and Iran" (Mal og Menning, 2005), which was nominated as non-fiction book of the year by the Society of Icelandic Authors and Scholars.

William Darrow, Chair of Religion and Lissack Professor For Social Responsibility and Personal Ethics

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Darrow, who can offer expertise in Iran, Islam, the Muslim Middle East, the Persian Gulf, and women and Islam, was one of the pioneers of the international studies program at Williams College. He is also the author of "Zoroaster as Epic Hero, Holy Man, and Prophet." Darrow instructs in religion, history, and political science, with courses such as "Reading: An Introduction to the Qur'an and Islam," "The Greater Game? Central Asia and its Neighbors Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," and "Shi'ism Ascendant?"

Kenneth Kuttner, Professor of Economics

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Kuttner is an authority on monetary policy, financial markets, and macroeconomics. He has taught at New York University, Columbian Business School, The New Economic School in Moscow, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Oberlin College. He has also been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and a number of foreign central banks, including the Bank of Japan, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and the central bank of Malaysia. Prior to teaching full time, he was an assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is co-author with Federal Reserve System Chairman Ben Bernanke of the recent article on the stock market's reaction to monetary policy, which appeared in the Journal of Finance.

James McAllister, Professor of Political Science and Chair of Leadership Studies

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McAllister's research centers on the Cold War, the Vietnam War, American foreign policy, and Europe. He wrote the book "No Exit: America and the German Problem 1943-1954" (Cornell University Press, 2002) and has been published in a number of scholarly journals. At Williams, he conceived the course "America and the World After September 11," which examines conflicting perspectives in contemporary American foreign policy.

Stephen Sheppard, Chair of Economics and Robert F. White Class of 1952 Professor of Economics

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Sheppard, whose expertise is in urban economics, housing markets, local public finance, and land use regulation, has been cited by Gulf News, BBC News, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. In 2004, he received the Royal Economic Society Prize for a paper on school systems and housing markets of which he was co-author in the Economic Journal. He recently published a paper titled "The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form." Sheppard has also consulted for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Susan Dunn, Preston S. Parish '41 Third Century Professor In the Arts and Humanities

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Susan Dunn, whose research centers on American presidents, is the author of numerous books, including "Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison and the Decline of Virginia" and "The Three Roosevelts" and "George Washington" with James MacGregor Burns. In the past year, her op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. Among the courses she has taught at Williams are "The Art of Presidential Leadership," "Sister Revolutions in France and America," and "The Revolutionary Generation: Galaxy of Leaders."

Nicole Mellow, Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Mellow is primarily interested in American political development and political institutions. In her book "The State of Disunion: Regional Sources of Modern American Partisanship" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), she argues that regional interests, and how parties respond to them, play a crucial role in electoral battles and the national political milieu. Among the courses she teaches are "Power, Politics, and Democracy in America," "The American Presidency," and "American Political Parties."

George Marcus, Professor of Political Science

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Marcus, who specializes in political psychology, democratic theory, and public opinion, has been quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek during the past elections. He is the author of "The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics" (Penn State University Press, 2002) and co-editor of "The Affect Effect" (University of Chicago Press, 2007). He is chairman of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, and is working on a book on American's public opinions during the run-up to the war in Iraq.

Julie Cassiday, Chair of German/Russian and Professor of Russian

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Cassiday's research focuses on Russian literature, theatre, and performance studies. Currently a vice president of the American Association for Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, she is the author of "The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen" (Northern Illinois University Press, 2000). She instructs in a number of fields, including Russian language, comparative literature, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Soviet film

Darra Goldstein, Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Russian

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Goldstein, who researches Russian poetry, modernism, cultural studies, and culinary history, is founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. The author of twelve books, she won the Julia Child Award for Best Cookbook for "The Georgian Feast" (HarperCollins, 1993) and the Sophie Coe Subsidiary Prize in Food History for her essay on vegetarianism in 19th century Russia. She has consulted on food and diversity for The Council of Europe and on Georgian agriculture for AgVANTAGE/USAID.

William Wagner, Dean of the Faculty and Brown Professor of History

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Wagner's primary research interests are early Soviet Russia and women in imperial Russia. He is the author of "Marriage, Property, and Law in Late Imperial Russia" (Clarendon Press, 1994), which won the Barbara Heldt Prize for Best Book in Women's Slavic Studies. Related courses he has taught at Williams include "Fin-de-Siecle Russia: Cultural Splendor, Imperial Decay," "Reform, Revolution, Terror: Russia, 1900-1939," and "Gorbachev and the Collapse of Soviet Communism."

Steven Fein, Professor of Psychology

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Fein, who specializes in cross-cultural differences, stereotypes, and prejudice, has conducted research on audience perceptions of the past four rounds of presidential debates. Among the products of these studies is "Social Influence on Political Judgments: The Case of Presidential Debates," a paper he co-authored last year. Fein's other publications include "Readings in Social Psychology" (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) as well as the articles "Self-image Maintenance Goals and Sociocultural Norms in Motivated Social Perception" and "Hype and Suspicion: Effects of Pretrial Publicity, Race, and Suspicion on Jurors' Verdicts."

Gerard Caprio, Professor of Economics

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Caprio, an expert in banking, economic development, and the finance sector, joined Williams College from the World Bank, where he was director of financial sector policy. He has also served as vice president and head of global economics at JP Morgan and was an economist for the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. Caprio is the co-author of "Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern" (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and "Finance for Growth: Policy Choices in a Volatile World" (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Robert Jackall, Willmott Family Third Century Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs

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Jackall studies violence, terrorism, national security, and professions. He is the author of "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers" (Oxford University Press, 1988), "Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders & the Forces of Order" (Harvard University Press, 1997), and "Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2000). The courses he currently teaches include "Terrorism and National Security," "Crime," and "Propaganda."

Stephen Sheppard, Chair of Economics and Robert F. White Class of 1952 Professor of Economics

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Sheppard, whose expertise is in urban economics, housing markets, local public finance, and land use regulation, has been cited by Gulf News, BBC News, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. In 2004, he received the Royal Economic Society Prize for a paper on school systems and housing markets of which he was co-author in the Economic Journal. He recently published a paper titled "The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form." Sheppard has also consulted for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.

James Wood, Charles R. Keller Professor of American History

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Wood's expertise is in the expansion of Europe, modern warfare, and American military history. His writings include "Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War: Was Defeat Inevitable?" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) and "The King's Army: Warfare, Soldiers and Society During the Early Wars of Religion in France, 1526-76" (Cambridge University Press, 1996), which won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award. Wood also designed a strategic board game called Machiavelli.