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Colleges/Universities:
Topics:
 Anthrax and Biological Warfare
Conflict and the Economy; What War Does to the Economy ~How War Affects Businesses and Bus. Recruitment~
Conflict and the Economy; What War Does to the Economy ~Making the Transition to Peace~
Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life
Crimes Against Humanity
Emergency Preparedness and Health; Facing the Stress and Strong Emotions of War and Terrorism
Emergency Preparedness and Health; The Medical Response to Bioterrorism and Other Disasters
How Peace Movements Sway Foreign Policy
Impact on the Economy
Inside National Security and Terrorism Issues
Islamic Culture; Inside the Fundamentalist Mind
Muslim Society and Ethnic Conflict
National and International Security ISS
National Psyche and Social Movements
Organization of Homeland Security Department
University of California - Irvine
Inside National Security and Terrorism Issues
- Richard Matthew is an expert in unconventional security and transnational security issues such as terrorism, global environmental change and landmines. He can provide perspective on U.S. security policy and countries suspected of sponsoring terrorism. An associate professor of international and environmental politics, Matthew has worked with the Foreign Services Training Center, NATO, the Defense and State Departments on projects related to unconventional security. His fieldwork has been undertaken principally in the developing world, including northern Pakistan, Cambodia, Russia, South Africa and Jordan. Matthew directs the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Research Office at UCI (www.gechs.uci.edu) and an initiative to establish a Center for Unconventional Security Affairs.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Richard Matthew, (949) 824-4852, rmatthew@uci.edu.
For additional assistance from our media relations office, please contact Lori Brandt at (949) 824-5484.
University of California - Irvine
How Peace Movements Sway Foreign Policy
- Cecelia Lynch can offer an in-depth and historic understanding of how today's peace movements may influence foreign policy. An associate professor in the School of Social Sciences, she teaches international relations and culture, religion and world politics, social movements and civil society. Her first book, Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics, examines the role of peace movements and their influence in creating the United Nations. It won the Edgar S. Furniss Award from the Mershon Center at Ohio State University. She has also published articles on the anti-globalization movement and religious humanitarian movements.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Cecelia Lynch, (949) 824-2745, clynch@uci.edu.
For additional assistance from our media relations office, please contact Lori Brandt at (949) 824-5484.
University of California - Irvine
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND HEALTH; The Medical Response to Bioterrorism and Other Disasters
- Dr. Carl Schultz, professor of emergency medicine, is a nationally recognized expert in bioterrorism and medical responses to disasters. He is a member of the State of California Disaster Advisory Group, serves on two national task forces on terrorism and is a member of the national ANSER Institute for Homeland Security. He has published several papers on hospital preparedness both for incidents of bioterrorism and earthquake preparedness. He has commented frequently on the similarities between responses to earthquakes and preparations for a bioterrorist attack.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Carl Schultz, (714) 456-5239, schultzc@uci.edu.
For additional assistance from our media relations office, please contact Andrew Porterfield at (949) 824-3969.
University of California - Irvine
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND HEALTH; Facing the Stress and Strong Emotions of War and Terrorism
- James L. McGaugh is available to discuss the neurobiology behind the strong emotion and stress of war and terrorism. With perspective on citizens and troops, McGaugh is one of the world's leading authorities on the effect of drugs and stress on memory, in particular how fear can manipulate the brain's ability to consolidate memories. He is director of UCI's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest book, "Memory and Emotion," will be published this summer.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
James L. McGaugh, (949) 824-5401, lmcgaug@uci.edu.
For additional assistance from our media relations office, please contact Tom Vasich at (949) 824-6455.
University of California - Irvine
ISLAMIC CULTURE; Inside the Fundamentalist Mind
- Lina Haddad Kreidie is an authority on what she calls the "collision" between the West and Islam, in particular the underlying causes of anti-Americanism in the Middle East. She has interviewed Islamic fundamentalists, studying their behavior and perceptions. Unlike many scholars who focus on religious and cultural divides, Kreidie studies how Islamic fundamentalists perceive themselves and, as a result, how they react to world events. A lecturer in political science, she studies issues dealing with the Middle East and religious fundamentalism, as well as ethnic conflict and collective violence.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Lina Haddad Kreidie, (949) 370-1104, lkreidie@uci.edu.
For additional assistance from our media relations office, please contact Lori Brandt at (949) 824-5484.
University of California - Irvine
Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life
- Mark LeVine can offer insight into contemporary Middle Eastern culture and society. LeVine has lived and traveled throughout the Middle East and Europe and works in eight languages. His research interests include modern Islamic thought and practice, women in Islam, popular culture in the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy with the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflict, globalization studies, the history of terrorism, European colonialism and Islam and the West. LeVine is an assistant professor of modern Middle Eastern culture, history and Islamic studies.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Mark LeVine, (949) 824-8304, mlevine@uci.edu.
For additional assistance from our media relations office, please contact Lori Brandt at (949) 824-5484.
University of California - Irvine
CONFLICT AND THE ECONOMY; What War Does to the Economy
~ Making the Transition to Peace~
- John Graham can comment on the relationship between trade and peace. An expert on international business, he says that global commerce thrives during peacetime, as evidenced by the economic boom in North America during the late 1990s when the Cold War ended and formerly Communist countries opened to the world trading system. Moreover, trade and international marketing play a key role in actually producing peace, he says. Successful international marketing helps traders understand the needs and wants of their customers in other lands, and prosperity and peace are promoted along the way. A professor of marketing at the Graduate School of Management, Graham is co-author of International Marketing, a standard book for graduate schools now in its 11th edition.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
John Graham, (949) 824-8468, jgraham@uci.edu.
For additional assistance from the school's media relations office, please contact Linda McCrerey at (949) 824-6286.
University of California - Irvine
CONFLICT AND THE ECONOMY; What War Does to the Economy
~ How War Affects Businesses and Business Recruitment~
- Jone L. Pearce can comment on the effect of war and war planning on MBA education. MBA applicants in uniform have already had to turn down school admissions offers because of the impending war with Iraq, she says. The impending war is also causing MBA recruiters to restrict hiring of graduates until the situation is more certain, she says. Dean of the UC Irvine Graduate School of Management and professor of organization and strategy, Pearce is a leading expert on human resource management and president of the Academy of Management.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Jone L. Pearce, (949) 824-8470, jlpearce@uci.edu.
For additional assistance from the school's media relations office, please contact Linda McCrerey at (949) 824-6286.
University of California - Irvine
ANTHRAX AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
- Dr. Jeffrey Suchard is an expert in medical toxicology, with a particular interest in biological and chemical warfare agents. He deals with toxic chemical issues of all kinds, including teaching physicians to recognize herbal and other toxic poisonings.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Jeffrey Suchard, (714) 456-5239, jsuchard@uci.edu
- Dr. Tareg Bey specializes in chemical poisonings, especially poisonings from organophosphates. These chemicals are the basic ingredients of household pesticides but can be made into more dangerous chemical weapons like phosgene and sarin, the nerve gas used by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Tareg Bey, (714) 456-5239, tbey@uci.edu
University of California - Irvine
NATIONAL PSYCHE AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
David S. Meyer, (949) 824-1475, dmeyer@uci.edu
- Roxane Cohen Silver, professor of psychology and social behavior, has expertise in coping with trauma and grief. She examines cognitive, emotional, social and physical responses to stressful life events in order to identify factors that facilitate successful adjustment to them. Silver is currently conducting an NSF-funded project concerning the psychological aftermath of the terrorist attacks and has collected data from a national random sample of Americans, which includes stress and coping factors collected one week post-attacks.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Roxane Cohen Silver, (949) 824-2192, rsilver@uci.edu
- David S. Meyer, associate professor of sociology, teaches courses on social movements, social problems and sociological theory. He is interested in why social movements emerge and what influence they have on politics and public policy. Author of "A Winter of Discontent: The Nuclear Freeze and American Politics," Meyer has written extensively on social movements- including the peace movement-in advanced industrialized societies. He has recently written on civil disobedience as a political tactic and is currently engaged in research on the political origins and policy impact of movements concerned with nuclear weapons, abortion and violence against women.
University of California - Irvine
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
University of California - Irvine
MUSLIM SOCIETY AND ETHNIC CONFLICT
University of California - Irvine
IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY
- Peter Navarro, associate professor of business and government at the Graduate School of Management, is an expert on broad macroeconomic implications of catastrophic events such as terrorist attacks and wars. Navarro can comment on the economic costs of terrorism and the broader macroeconmic implications of the events of Sept. 11. He is also well-versed in how technology may be used to offset the impacts of terrorism.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Peter Navarro, (619) 602-3344, pnavarro@uci.edu
- Martin C. McGuire, Heinz Chair of Economics, Global Peace and Security, specializes in conflict resolution, international trade, peace and security, and the political economy of international conflict, economic development and strategic competition. His consultant appointments include the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the U.S. Department of Defense, where he focused on the Israeli economy, among other issues, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where he offered expertise on nuclear safety.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Martin C. McGuire, (949) 824-6190, mcmcguir@uci.edu
University of California - Irvine
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ISS
- Michael T. Goodrich specializes in information security methods. A professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science, his research includes authenticated databases, digital certificate validation, and secure network routing. In response to the governmental anti-terrorism efforts, Dr. Goodrich is planning to submit a pre-proposal to work on methods for distributed credential validation, such as would be useful at border crossings, airports, and critical virtual private networks.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Michael T. Goodrich, (949) 824-6360, goodrich@ics.uci.edu
- Caesar Sereseres, associate professor of political science and associate dean of undergraduate studies in the School of Social Sciences, has expertise in foreign policy strategy, national security issues, coercive diplomacy and political violence. Sereseres has worked at the State Department's Office of Policy Planning and the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. He can speak on strategic dimensions of the war, the role of special operations forces, the impact of the war on the current debate on the reform of the U.S. military and immigration reform..
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Caesar Sereseres, (949) 824-6334, cdserese@uci.edu
- Gene Tsudik, an associate professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science, is an expert in secure communication and privacy protection technology. His research areas include Internet security and applied cryptography. As an active researcher, Tsudik is involved in many projects, including Survivability Using Controlled Security Services (SUCSES), funded by the Department of Defense, which aims to produce novel methods to provide Internet organizations with tight control over users' security privileges such as the generation of digital signatures, data encryption/decryption and authentication.
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Gene Tsudik, (949) 824-3410, gts@ics.uci.edu.
The Anderson School, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
- Dr. Sam Culbert, Ph.D.-- professor of human resources and organization behavior
Profile
Dr. Culbert does not think the Homeland Security Department will work because it is not organized correctly A clinical psychologist by training, Dr. Culbert has studied organizations, their behaviors and operations for 25 years and is an expert and theoretician in the field of executive leadership, teamwork and communication.
Contact: Dr. Sam Culbert,
To Arrange an Interview, Contact:
Phone: 310-825-7784
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