Scott Atran, Senior Research Fellow
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. 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).

Alain Bauer, Senior Research Fellow
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).

Marc Sageman, Senior Research Fellow
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.

James W. Jones, Senior Research Fellow
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.

Mark S. Hamm, Senior Research Fellow
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.

Richard Davis, Research Fellow
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.

Cindy D. Ness, Research Fellow
Cindy D. Ness is a practicing psychotherapist in New York City. Her research interests include urban and political violence in inner-city communities. She is a former member of the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence and chaired the sub-committee on the Structural Factors that Institutionalize and Normalize Violence. She previously chaired Strong Children, Strong Communities, a coalition of leading scholars, experts and activists joined together to formulate an alternate vision for addressing youth violence in the United States. She holds a doctorate from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology and she is currently ABD at the University of Pennsylvania in anthropology. Her forthcoming publications include “Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City” and an edited compilation, “Female Terrorism and Militancy: Agency, Utility and Organization. Ms. Ness has created a popular course for the terrorism certificate curriculum entitled Women and Terrorism.

Lee Quinby, Research Fellow
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).