Interview with acting president Neil Kerwin

Naima Prevots, professor emerita, performing arts, CAS: appointed an evaluation consultant for the Washington Ballet and will be working with Dance D.C. on projects at Malcolm X and Garfield Elementary Schools in Anacostia.

Lectures/Presentations
Ethan Burger, SIS, WCL: “The Need to Get Our Priorities in Order: Human Rights and International Law for the Twenty-first Century,” presentation to Muskie Fellows sponsored by the Department of State and the Soros Foundation.

Jack Child, language and foreign studies, CAS: “The Latin American Military” and “Peacekeeping and the Peace Process in Central America,” Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, September.

Daniel Dreisbach, SPA: delivered the inaugural Constitution Day lecture about what the U.S. Constitution has to say about church-state relations, Tennessee Tech University, September.

William LeoGrande, dean, SPA: testified before the House Armed Services Committee on U.S. security interests in Latin America, September.

Jennifer Oetzel, Kogod: copresented “Market Liberalization and Insurance Firm Performance in Emerging Markets and Developing Countries,” Academy of Management Meeting, Hawaii, August.

David Rosenbloom, SPA: “Public Administration and the Courts,” Maxwell School, Syracuse University, August.

Danna Walker, SOC: panelist on “Presentation of Findings from a Multinational Study of News Coverage of International Women’s Day 2005,” Ralph Bunche International Center, Howard University, September.

Media
Robert Dinerstein, WCL: interviewed by the Washington Post regarding the jury verdict in the remand of Commonwealth of Virginia v. Atkins, the follow up to Atkins v. Va., where the Supreme Court held that defendants with mental retardation cannot be executed. The jury concluded that Atkins did not have mental retardation and thus is eligible for the death penalty, August.

Brian Forst, SPA: interviewed by Voice of America on the wisdom of shoot-to-kill policies in the era of terrorism, August.

Edmund Ghareeb, Center for Global Peace: quoted by Cox Newspapers regarding the Iraqi constitution, August.

Jane Hall, SOC: quoted by Fox News about citing anonymous sources, August.

Stevan Holmber, Kogod: quoted in the article “Minding Your Business: Experts Offer Details on Why Many Franchisees Fail,” Richmond Times Dispatch, August.

Peter Kuznick, history, CAS: quoted about Hiroshima by Agence France-Presse, August.

Vladimir Kvint, Kogod: quoted in the article “The Rich Boys,” Business Week, July.

Howard McCurdy, SPA: interviewed by the Washington Post and Associated Press regarding the space shuttle, August.

Anna Nelson, history, CAS: discussed power, politics, and the “legitimacy” of nations, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, August.

Karen O’Connor, director, Women and Politics Institute: quoted by Newsweek regarding Hilary Clinton’s presidential possibilities, August.

Robert Pastor, vice president, international affairs: discussed U.S.–Latin American relations with the St. Petersburg Times, August.

Herman Schwartz, WCL: quoted about Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in U.S. News and World Report and Legal Times, August.

Sally Smith, education, CAS: discussed children and adults with learning disabilities and how to teach them, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, August.

James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: featured in a UPI article about the Cease-fire on Health Care initiative, July.

Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed by CNN, CNN Radio International, BBC, NBC Telemundo, various radio stations in Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Radio Netherlands, and Radio America (Washington, D.C.) on the drafting of the Iraqi constitution, the changing public opinion attitudes in the U.S. toward the war, the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Aqaba, Pat Robertson’s call for the assassination of President Chavez of Venezuela, the Monroe doctrine, and the aftermath of the London bombings, August.

Renee Von Worde, language and foreign studies, CAS: quoted in the article “A Life Lived in 4/4 Time” about the end of WW II, washingtonpost.com, August.

Julie Weber, housing and dining: interviewed by Fox 5 Morning News about the installation of new washers and dryers in the dorms and the E-Suds program, August.

Stephen Wermiel, WCL: guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal in a story about the history and future of the U.S. Supreme Court, July.

Papers Presented
Charley Hardwick, professor emeritus, philosophy and religion, CAS: “‘. . . Our Lives Are Afloat on a Sea of Grace . . .’: On Deontologizing Religious Value,” Duodecim Society, Princeton University, April.

Nanette Levinson, SIS: “ICANN, International Institutions, and Development,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September.

Noelle McAfee, SOC: “Sublimation and the Semiotic Public Sphere,” Human Sciences Seminar, George Washington University, September.

Published Works
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS: “Islam and Just War Theory,” Al-Mahdi Journal, vol 4, no 3, December 2004, and “Islamic Precepts on Gender Relations: The Limitation of Eurocentric Gender Theories,” Al-Mahdi Journal, spring 2005.

Susan Carle, WCL: op-ed, “What Roberts Argued,” Legal Times, August.

Nicholas Kittrie, WCL: op-ed, “Terrorist Challenge to Human Rights,” Washington Times, August.

Niklas Myhr, Kogod: coauthored “Collaborative Supply Chain Partnerships Built Upon Trust and Electronically-Mediated Exchange,” published in a special issue “Doing Business in a Digital World,” Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, vol 20, no 4–5, August 2005.

Ron Sutton, professor emeritus, SOC: “Oil on Ice,” International Documentary magazine, April 2005, and “Green Treks,” International Documentary magazine, August 2005.