Charles B. Strozier, Director

Charles B. Strozier is a professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is also a practicing psychoanalyst and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at TRISP in New York. Much of his work has focused on apocalyptic violence and related issues of terrorism, including his current study of survivors and witnesses of 9/11, Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City (Columbia University Press, August, 2011). He is also the author of Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America (Beacon, 1994, newly issued 2002); The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Essays on Religion, Violence, and History (Oxford, 2010) with Terman, Jones and Boyd; and co-editer (with Michael Flynn) of Genocide, War, and Human Survival(1996); Trauma and Self (1996); and The Year 2,000: Essays on the End (1997). He has also written widely about Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, e.g., Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings (1982, new edition 2001), and aspects of the history of psychoanalysis, e.g. Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2001). Strozier teaches a two-course sequence on terrorism that focuses in its first semester on issues of politics and history, and in the second semester on the more psychological aspects of terrorism and apocalyptic violence. Finally, Strozier actively runs the Terrorism Seminar Series that is geared primarily for graduate students in criminal justice and especially those working for the "M.A. Certificate Program in Terrorism."

Michael Flynn, Associate Director

Michael Flynn is an Associate Professor of Psychology at York College and CUNY. He is the co-editor (with Charles B. Strozier) of Genocide, War, and Human Survival (1996); Trauma and Self (1996); and The Year 2,000: Essays on the End (1997). He is the editor of The Second Nuclear Age: Political and Psychocultural Perspectives. His research interests include the psychological and political economy of urban violence; the psychological effects of living in a nuclearized world; literary, autobiographical, and psychohistorical approaches to the self and trauma; and the public and media role of the psychologist. Michael Flynn holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Duquesne University and a B.A. from the College of Idaho. Dr. Flynn teaches several of the core terrorism certificate courses including Psychology of Cults, Terrorism and Politics, and Psychology of Terrorism.

Peter Romaniuk, Associate Director

Peter Romaniuk is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York, where is also Research Fellow at the Center on Terrorism. He is the author of Mutlilateral Counter-terrorism: The Global Politics of Cooperation and Contestation (Routledge, 2010). He has authored and co-authored numerous articles, chapters and policy reports on counter-terrorism cooperation, terrorist financing and UN sanctions. He also has articles and chapters forthcoming in the Review of International Studies, in Coping with Terrorism: Origins, Escalation, Counter Strategies and Responses (edited by William R. Thompson and Rafael Reuveny; State University of New York Press) and in the International Studies Compendium (edited by Robert A. Denemark; Wiley-Blackwell). He teaches courses on International Relations, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Andrea Fatica, Executive Director

At the CoT, Andrea oversees research, staffing, curriculum and administration. Andrea has a background in communications and psychology; She received an M.A. in Forensic Psychology in conjunction with the Certificate in Terrorism Studies from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and obtained her B.S. in Communications from Northeastern University. Throughout graduate school she worked primarily with adolescents at an acute psychiatric hospital and was a volunteer court advocate for women in family court. In addition to the study of terrorism, her research experience and interests include motivations for group and interpersonal violence, criminal behavior and forensic psychological evaluation.

Affiliated John Jay College Faculty

Desmond Arias

Avram Bornstein

Shuki Cohen

Glenn Corbett

Maki Haberfeld

Charles Jennings

Dennis Kenney

Amit Kumar

Charles Lieberman

Itai Sneh

Scott Atran
Scott Atran holds multiple positions: Presidential Scholar in Sociology at John Jay College, Director of Research in Anthropology at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, as well Visiting Professor of Psychology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is a leading expert on suicide terrorism and Al Qaeda and author of Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood and the (Un)Making of Terrorists (Eco, 2010). Atran's broadly interdisciplinary scientific studies have appeared in scientific journals in dozens of countries and his work on religion and terrorism has been featured around the world by Science, and Nature magazines, Scientific American, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Reuters, the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times and The Guardian (UK), El Pais and El Mundo (Spain), La Recherche and Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Der Spiegel (Germany), Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy), the BBC National and World Service, CTV (Canada), National Public Radio, ABC, MSNBC, Discovery Channel, and Fox and CNN radio and television. His books include Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science (Cambridge), In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Oxford), and he has co-authored The Native Mind: Cognition and Culture in Human Knowledge of Nature (MIT).

Senior Research Fellows

Alain Bauer
Alain W. M. Bauer is a criminologist at the Sorbonne where he was previously Vice President. He also served as Administrator of the national Superior Institute for Defense Studies and is currently President of the French National Crime Council, and President of the "Working Group on Unifying Security and Strategic Think Tanks" for the French Government. He serves as an Administrator of the National Institute for High Security Studies (INHES) and of the Institute for International and Strategic Studies (IRIS). Alain Bauer is widely respected by American police forces and serves as an advisor to both the NYPD and the LASD, and is also a consultant to the Surete du Quebec (Canada). Mr. Bauer is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books including Violence et Insécurité urbaines (1998), l'Amérique, la violence, le crime (2000), (2002), les Polices en France (2002), Deux siècles de débats républicains et Dico rebelle (2004), l'Enigme Al Qaïda (2005) Géographie de la France criminelle (2006), and World Chaos (in English 2007).

James Meredith Day
James Meredith Day, Ph.D. is a developmental and clinical psychologist whose work has contributed to the dialogue between cognitive-developmental and socio-cultural/constructionist paradigms in psychology. He is Professor of Human Development and the Psychology of Religion in the  Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and Psychological Science Research Institute at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve,Belgium. His published work has appeared in a broad array of scholarly books and journals, and has been focused on research in the domains of moral development,uses of religious elements in moral decision making, and gender and cultural differences in uses of moral and religious language. Some of his recent research concerns religious elements in developmental pathways toward sympathetic attitudes about terrorist conduct. His co-edited and co-authored books include Le developpement religieux et spiritual: Questions classiques, approaches nouvelles (in preparation/2011), Human development across the lifespan: Educational and psychological applications (2006), and the video: The social construction of morality: Archives of contemporary psychology: Voices in social constructionism (2000). He serves on the editorial and review boards of numerous peer-reviewed journals, is co-founder of the European Society for Research in Adult Development, co-directs the Louvain-Harvard Project in Cognitive Complexity and Religious and Moral Cognition,and is Co-Editor of The Archive for the Psychology of Religion: The Journal of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion. Professor Day is a graduate of Oberlin College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cambridge University. He has been an invited and visiting lecturer at Braga, Cambridge, Coimbra, Glasgow, London, Lusophone University in Lisbon and Porto, Paris, Porto, Princeton, and other universities. Dr. Day also works as a clinician at PSYGROUP Brussels, and is a priest serving in the Pro-Cathedral of The Holy Trinity, in Brussels, and the Spiritualite et Vie inter-religious dialogue project at the UCLouvain, in the Diocese in Europe of the Church of England, Anglican Communion.

Mark S. Hamm
Dr. Mark Hamm is a professor of Criminology at Indiana State University. He is the leading scholar of prison radicalization in the United States. In the 1980s and 1990s he wrote widely about White right-wing extremists in this country, as well as subjects as diverse as apocalyptic violence, cop killer violence, ethnography and terror, and the USA Patriot Act. His books include Terrorism as Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond (2007); In Bad Company: America's Terrorist Underground (2002); Apocalypse in Oklahoma: Waco and Ruby Ridge Revenged (1997); and American Skinheads: The Criminology and Control of Hate Crime (1993). Professor Hamm received two major grants from the National Institute of Justice: one to study crimes committed by terrorist groups and the other to study terrorist recruitment in American correctional institutions. He is currently working on a study of terrorist recruitment in U.S. and British prisons and is working to compile a database on the subjects.

James W. Jones
James W. Jones, PSY.D, PH.D, TH.D, has earned doctorates in both Religious Studies and Clinical Psychology, as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He is a distinguished professor of Religion and adjunct professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a lecturer in Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York; an adjunct professor of Medical Humanities at Drew University, and a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He is the author of eleven books, including Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion (Yale University Press,1991), Religion and Psychology in Transition (Yale University Press, 1996), and Terror and Transformation: The Ambiguity of Religion (Routledge Press, 2002), over twenty professional papers and book chapters. His books have been published both in the United States and Europe and translated in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Portuguese. He serves on the editorial boards of several publications both here and abroad. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and in 1993 at their annual convention, he received an award for his contributions to the psychology of religion. He currently serves on the governing board and as the vice-president of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion. For six years he was co-chair of the Religion and Social Sciences Section of the American Academy of Religion. He also maintains a private practice as a clinical psychologist. His recent book is Blood That Cries From the Earth: The Psychological Roots of Religious Terrorism (2008 by Oxford University Press). Dr. Jones has been invited to lecture in Europe and the United States on the psychological roots of religious terrorism.

Robert J. Lifton
Robert Jay Lifton is a visiting professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital and a former distinguished professor of psychiatry and psychology at the Graduate School University Center and director of The Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at The City University of New York. He had previously held the Foundations' Fund Research Professorship of Psychiatry at Yale University for more than two decades. He has been particularly interested in the relationship between individual psychology and historical change, and in problems surrounding the extreme historical situations of our era. He has taken an active part in the formation of the new field of psychohistory. Since mid-1995, he has been conducting psychological research on the problem of apocalyptic violence, focusing on Aum Shinrikyo, the extremist Japanese cult which released poison gas in Tokyo subways. His book, Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism was published by Metropolitan Books in October, 1999. His writings on Nazi Doctors (on their killing the name of healing) and the problem of genocide; nuclear weapons and their impact on death symbolism; Hiroshima survivors; Chinese thought reform and the Chinese Cultural Revolution; psychological trends in contemporary men and women; and on the Vietnam War experience and Vietnam veterans, have appeared in a variety of professional and popular journals. He has developed a general psychological perspective around the paradigm of death and the continuity of life and a stress upon symbolization and "formative process," and on the malleability of the contemporary self. Recent books include Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial, (Putnam and Avon Books, 1995) (with Greg Mitchell) which explores the impact of Hiroshima on our own country; and The Protean Self; Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation, (Basic Books, 1993) which describes the contemporary "protean" self and its expressions of fluidity and change as its possible relationship to species consciousness and a "species self" (related importantly to one's connection to humankind).

Marc Sageman
Marc Sageman is an independent researcher on terrorism and the founder of Sageman Consulting, LLC. He holds various academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland and national think tanks, like the Foreign Policy Research Institute. After graduating from Harvard, he obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. After a tour as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1984. He spent a year on the Afghan Task Force then went to Islamabad from 1987 to 1989, where he ran the U.S. unilateral programs with the Afghan Mujahedin, and New Delhi from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, he resigned from the agency to return to medicine. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1994, he has been in the private practice of forensic and clinical psychiatry, and had the opportunity to evaluate about 500 murderers. After 9/11/01, he started collecting biographical material on about 400 al Qaeda terrorists to test the validity of the conventional wisdom on terrorism. This research has been published as Understanding Terror Networks (University of Pennsylvania Press 2004). He may be the only individual to have testified before both the 9/11 Commission in the U.S. and the Beslan Commission in Russia. As an expert on al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations, he has consulted with various branches of the U.S. government, including the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Combatant Commanders, the National Laboratories, the Department of Homeland Security, various agencies in the U.S. Intelligence Community and various law enforcement agencies. He has lectured at many universities, including Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, and John's Hopkins University. He has also consulted with foreign government (France, Australia, Spain, Canada, Germany, Britain) and lectured extensively at foreign universities.

Jessica Stern
Jessica Stern an Advanced Academic Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis and a Fellow at Hoover Institution. She is also a member of Hoover Institution’s Task Force on National Security and Law. Stern taught at Harvard University from 1999-2010. She is the author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror, selected by the Washington Post as a best book of the year; Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, selected by the New York Times as a notable book of the year; The Ultimate Terrorists; and numerous articles on terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Erik Erikson Scholarship in 2009, and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell Artists’ Colonies. She served on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff in 1994-95. Stern was selected by Time Magazine in 2001 as one of seven thinkers whose innovative ideas “will change the world.” Stern advises a number of government agencies on issues related to terrorism and has taught courses for government officials. Stern is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was named a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a Harvard MacArthur Fellow. Stern earlier worked as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She has a bachelors degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a masters degree from MIT in technology policy, and a doctorate from Harvard University in public policy.

Research Fellows

Richard Davis
Mr. Richard Davis is the President of Davis Energy and the Managing Director of ARTIS Research & Risk Modeling. Davis Energy partners with government and industry to diversify the transportation fuel stock by improving technology in alternative fuels and renewable energies, to increase confidence of the capital markets in alternative fuels, to improve power generation sustainability and efficiencies, and to promote public policy focused on decreasing the nation’s dependence upon petroleum. ARTIS Research & Risk Modeling Corporation is a science-based political violence field research company. ARTIS engages in field research to understand political violence, sacred values in political violence and employs sophisticated risk modeling techniques to better define risks from politically motivated violence. ARTIS is a strategic partner of RTI International. In these capacities Mr. Davis has published on Political Violence Research and is currently preparing a risk analysis study on alternative fuels for the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to his work in the energy industry, Mr. Davis served President George W. Bush at the White House and at the Department of Homeland Security. In this capacity, he directed policies aimed at long-term prevention of terrorism, radicalization, the smuggling of nuclear materials and other issues related to securing the homeland. Mr. Davis currently serves as a Senior Associate at the Center for the Study of the Presidency – a think tank in Washington, D.C. He has Masters Degrees from Harvard, the Naval War College and Azusa Pacific University. In 2005, Mr. Davis was a Senior Fellow at The George Washington University. He also holds two Baccalaureate Degrees from Hope International University.

Lee Quinby
Lee Quinby is holder of the Donald R. Harter '39 Chair for Distinguished Teaching in Humanities at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. From 1999-2001, she held the Visiting Gannett Chair on the Millennium at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her areas of teaching and scholarly interest include issues of freedom and citizenship in technology- and fear-driven U.S. society, apocalyptic thought in American culture, and feminist theory. Quinby is the author of three books: Millennial Seduction (1999), Anti-Apocalypse (1994) and Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America (1991). She is editor of Genealogy and Literature (1995) and co-editor of Feminism and Foucault (1987) and Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (forthcoming 2004). She has published articles in journals such as American Historical Review, Constellations, and SIGNS and was guest editor of the Women's Studies Quarterly special issue on "Women Confronting the New Technologies" (2001).

Fabiola Fernández Salek
Fabiola Fernández Salek is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Humanities and Coordinator of Women’s Studies at York College/CUNY. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish with a concentration in Gender and Film from Arizona State University. This dual position has provided her a unique opportunity to add a practical approach to her theoretical teaching and research interests, gender and cultural studies. Her research on contemporary Latin-American culture focuses on human rights, immigration, torture and political violence, and the construction of identity and nationality in Latin America. Her most recent articles and presentations have addressed the representation of gender, sexuality, urban life, and feminicide and violence in Latin American film and literature. She currently is co-editing the book, Screening Torture, currently under review by Columbia University Press. 
 

Doctoral Research Assistants

Sarah Bennett
Sarah Bennett is currently working on her doctorate in Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She earned her MA and BS in Criminal Justice from Arizona State University. Her interests include political violence, fragile states, the evolution of terrorist organizations and national security issues pertaining to energy.

Kathy Boyd
Katharine Boyd was awarded the Graduate Assistantship in Homeland Security in March of 2008. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she also completed a Masters in Forensic Psychology and earned the Certificate in Terrorism Studies offered by the Center on Terrorism. Ms. Boyd earned a B.A. in psychology and political science from Ashland University in Ohio.  Soon after 9/11 (her freshman year of college), Ms. Boyd became interested in what factors contribute to terrorist motivation. She did research in her undergraduate studies regarding radical Islamic moral development. Her research interests include studying radicalization and terrorist motivations in relation to public policy. Boyd was assistant editor and co-author on three chapters in the book, The Fundamentalist Mindset: On Religion and Violence with Professor Strozier (Director, Center on Terrorism) and did research for History Will Judge: An Examination of Torture through the Ages  (forthcoming) with Professor Sneh (History Department).

Graduate Research Assistants

Marina Bontkowski
Marina Bontkowski is working to complete an MA in Forensic Mental Health Counseling and Certificate in Terrorism Studies at John Jay College, CUNY. She was awarded the Graduate Assistantship in Homeland Security in June 2011, and the John Jay College Alumni Association Counter-Terrorism Graduate Scholarship in December 2010. She completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Mind, Brain, and Behavior at Harvard College.

The Lifton Fellowship Program
One of the goals of the Center on Terrorism is to deepen and disseminate knowledge about contemporary weapons of mass destruction and our post-cold war nuclear situation. It is our strong belief that university students must be made aware of the issues associated with nuclear armaments and to grasp the significance of nuclear threat. From the 1950s to the 1970s, growing concerns within universities helped create a generation of activism that peaked in the 1980s. The university, we believe, should be the place where committed scholars and students reflect - and act--on the moral, philosophical, and psychological meanings of nuclear weapons. Therefore, university curriculum must change through the content of specific courses on ultimate threats from almost any point of view, whether political, historical, literacy, scientific, anthropological, sociological, religious, ethical, or philosophical.
While the public is deeply afraid of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction after 9/11, few scholars are seriously reflecting on the issue. Many believe we are in a more dangerous situation today than during the first half-century of the nuclear age because of the changing international landscape, notably the shift in U.S. military strategy, new technological developments, globalization, and the threat of international terrorism.
The Center continues to head the stipend program as a practical way of carrying out our mission of advocacy into the next generation.

Project Description
In 1998, The Center on Terrorism, then known as "The Center on Violence and Human Survival," initiated a Citizens Panel on Ultimate Weapons with a panel of academics, public intellectuals, activists, and journalists including Jonathan Schell, Richard Falk, Carole Gallagher, Kai Erikson, Rolf Ekeus, Karl Meyer, Robert Musil, Merav Datan, and John Burroughs. One of the on-going programs of the Center, the "Lifton Fellowship Program" began in the fall of 2000. The panel extended its' reach by hosting a remarkably effective national conference on the general topic of overcoming existing nuclear complacency and how to reawaken the academy in order to spark a new student and faculty movement. The conference included, besides panel members, other scholars such as Theodore Postol, a distinguished group of university presidents, and a special session with Kofi Annan. Speakers addressed nuclear ethics and citizen responsibility, and brought greater understanding to this set of issues.

The Center received funding from the Alton Jones Foundation to implement the central goal of the conference. The grant funded modest fellowships in the amount of $2,500 each, for younger faculty throughout the nation to develop new courses on all aspects of nuclear threat. The fellowship program was later extended two more years by Jennifer Simons, from the Simons Foundation.

The population reached through the Clifton Fellowship Program includes university students throughout the nation. Courses on issues of nuclear threat have been taught in universities such as, Juniata College, Mount Holyoke College in Maryland, New Mexico Tech and Arizona State University.

Part of the idea of this fellowship program is to foster new courses but also create genuine community among the fellows. We thus searched far and wide to generate interest in our program and solicit applications from an outstanding group of young scholars.


Robert Jay Lifton Fellows

2005-2006
Charles Ferguson, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Georgetown University and Fellow of Science & Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations. He taught "Nuclear Technologies and Security", a course that examines the impact of nuclear technologies on national and global security.

2004-2005

Dohra Ahmad, Assistant Professor of English, St. John's University taught "Fundamentalism, Terrorism, State Violence and the Nuclear Threat", a course that used literature to explore the connections among three related contemporary phenomena: fundamentalist movements; terrorist practices; and varied experiences of state violence.

Robert Jensen, Associate Professor, University of Texas taught "The Bomb", a course that explored post-World War II U.S. political culture through the study of various issues surrounding nuclear weapons and the mass-mediated understandings of those weapons.

Thomas Reifer, Sociology Department, University of San Diego.

Sharon K. Weiner School of Service, American University.

2003-2004

James D. Borgardt taught a challenging course at Juniata College in the spring of 2003. The course consisted of a historical overview, US government policy, social impact, and the physical basis and biological/environmental effects of nuclear weapons. He ended the course with discussion of present concerns over possible terrorist use of nuclear weapons.

John Burroughs, Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy in New York, the U.S. affiliate of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), taught his nuclear threat course "Legal Controls on Weapons of Mass or Indiscriminate Destruction," at Rutgers Law School, Newark, 2003.

Valerie Kuletz, Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and author of the award winning book "The Tainted Desert." Kuletz taught "The American Nuclear West: Space, Place, and Power in the American Nuclear West: Confronting a New Nature, Confronting a New Politics." in 2003.This course focused on a variety of historical and contemporary narratives and images of the American West from the mid 19th Century to the 1980s.

Laura Reed, Visiting Assistant Professor, International Relations, Mount Holyoke College in MA, Assistant Director, Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College and Visiting Scholar, Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies, MIT, Cambridge. Oversaw production, wrote and edited text of a monthly journal "The Arms Control Reporter," Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies. Reed taught "The Significance of Weapons of Mass Destruction in World Politics" in 2003.

Scott Zeman from New Mexico Tech.'s Humanities Department, taught "Atomic America: The Cultural History of Nuclear Technology in the United States” which examined the history of nuclear technology in the United States, while exploring the cultural, social, political, and intellectual dimensions of atomic energy, with particular emphasis given to changing images in popular culture. The course included field trips to the Trinity Site and National Atomic and guest lecturers.


2004-2005

Dohra Ahmad, Assistant Professor of English, St. John's University taught "Fundamentalism, Terrorism, State Violence and the Nuclear Threat", a course that used literature to explore the connections among three related contemporary phenomena: fundamentalist movements; terrorist practices; and varied experiences of state violence.

Robert Jensen, Associate Professor, University of Texas taught "The Bomb", a course that explored post-World War II U.S. political culture through the study of various issues surrounding nuclear weapons and the mass-mediated understandings of those weapons.

Thomas Reifer, Sociology Department, University of San Diego.

Sharon K. Weiner School of Service, American University.

2001-2002

Joshua Cooper, peace activist and lecturer, Maui Community College/ University of Hawaii center at Maui. Cooper was elected to the national board of directors for Peace Action, the largest grass-roots peace and disarmament organization. Cooper taught the course: "International Law and Peace: Genocide, Racial Discrimination, Torture and Nuclear Instruments of Mass Destruction" in fall 2001.

Lane Fenrich, Professor, History Department, Northwestern University. He taught the course, "History, Memory and the Atomic Bomb" in 2002. The course examined the clash between "history and memory" as laid bare in the continuing controversy over the united States' use of atomic bombs against Japan in 1945.

Michael Flynn, Associate Director, Center on Terrorism, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Professor at York College and John Jay College, CUNY.

Randel Hanson, Assistant Professor, School of Justice Studies Arizona State University taught the course "Just Testing: Environmental and Health Legacies of Nuclear Weapons" in 2001. This course explored the history of nuclear weapons technologies from the point of view of their health and environmental dimensions.

Sohail Hashmi Mount Holyoke College, taught the course: "Just War and Jihad: The Comparative Ethics of War and Peace" in 2002.

Eric Markusen, Southwestern University, taught his course: "The Continuing Nuclear Threat" in 2001. This course explored the social, psychological, historical, political, and other dimensions of the continuing threat posed by nuclear weapons.

Joseph Masco, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, taught his course "Ethnographies of the Nuclear Age II: Big Science and the National Security State," in 2001.