Thursday, March 3, 2011
John Milewski is executive producer and host of Dialogue, a production of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is a veteran broadcast journalist and communications professional with extensive experience moderating, interviewing, anchoring, reporting, and producing. For 20 years he served as executive producer, moderator, and managing editor of Close Up on C-SPAN, one of the longest running news and public affairs discussion programs in cable television history. Mr. Milewski is an instructor for The Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches a course on politics and media. He is also co-creator, co-writer, and co-producer of “Waziristan to Washington: A Muslim at the Crossroads,” an innovative one-man stage show featuring Ambassador Akbar Ahmed.
Benet Davetian is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Prince Edward Island, and founder and director of The Civility Institute. Dr. Davetian is one of the world's leading experts on civility and its role in human interaction, social organization and conflict. He has researched civility in France, England and America and appeared on special documentaries produced by CTV and CBC. He has appeared on numerous media programs and is founder/director of the Civility Institute. He also maintains a YouTube director's channel, Sociological, that feature hundreds of videos on subjects of interest to sociology students.His most recent book, CIVILITY: A Cultural History was published in 2009 by the University of Toronto Press. An earlier book, The Seventh Circle, was awarded the Mordecai Richler Prize for best book of the year and short-listed for other Canadian literary prizes. His articles on multiculturalism, social theory and inter-civilizational conflict have been quoted internationally. In 2004, he was selected for inclusion in Canada's Who's Who in recognition of his contributions to literature, multiculturalism and Canadian identity. His various scholarly activities have been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the British Commonwealth Association of Universities.
John Kasson is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books, including: Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900 (1976) and Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America (1990). He has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards, including a Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship for inspirational undergraduate teaching, election to the Society of American historians, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Humanities Institute at the University of California at Davis, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Kasson's current scholarly project continues the investigations of the origins of modern commercial culture and its attendant new structures of feeling. With the working title, The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America, he plans to write a book on the place of children in the changing financial and emotional economies during a pivotal decade.
Dahlia Lithwick is the senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate. Before joining Slate, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada, and clerked for Procter Hug, chief justice of the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1996. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, Commentary, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle and on CNN.com. She is a weekly legal commentator for the NPR show, “Day to Day.” She is co-author of Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman Publishing, 2003), a legal humor book, and I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp (Little, Brown & Co., 1992), a book about seven children from Paul Newman's camp who have life-threatening illnesses. Ms. Lithwick was awarded the Online News Association's award for online commentary in 2001. She received a B.A degree in English from Yale University in 1990 and a J.D degree from Stanford Law School in 1996.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Adam P. Green is associate professor of American history at the University of Chicago. His fields of study are modern U.S. history, African American history, urban history, comparative racial politics, and cultural economy. His publications include Selling the Race: Culture and Community in Black Chicago, 1940-1955 (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) and Time Longer than Rope: Studies in African American Activism, 1850-1950 (co- editor Charles Payne, New York University Press, forthcoming). He holds the Ph.D. from Yale University.
Diane P. Wood is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago. She received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. After graduation, she clerked for Judge Irving L. Goldberg of the Fifth Circuit and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. She then worked briefly for the U.S. State Department on international investment, antitrust, and transfer of technology issues. She helped to revise the Department of Justice Antitrust Guide for International Operations, prior to becoming a judge, served as the deputy assistant general in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice with responsibility for the Division's International, Appellate, and Legal Policy matters. Judge Wood has taught at Georgetown University Law School, Cornell Law School, and is currently a senior lecturer on the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School. Judge Wood is active with the American Bar Association, the Brookings Institution Project on Civil Justice Reform, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Society for International Law.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at The George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America. He also is the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. Professor Rosen's essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the 10 best magazine journalists in America and the L.A. Times called him, "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator." Professor Rosen lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Christine Rosen and two sons.
