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David Blaney

Global Politics and Culture

Political Science Department

Blaney focuses on global political economics, global politics and culture and Third World development issues. His research involves cultural and international relations.

Andrew Latham

International Security/Weapons/War/

Northern Ireland Conflict

Political Science Department

Latham specializes in international conflict and security issues. He is currently writing a book on the American defense industry. Latham is an expert on arms production and the proliferation of arms, including weapons of mass destruction. He has researched nuclear weapons in India and recently completed a report for the Canadian government on India's nuclear policy. He has also written frequently about arms manufacturing and the proliferation of light weapons in the Third World. In addition, Latham is knowledgeable about the changing nature of war, Iraq and the Persian Gulf War as well as the conflict in Northern Ireland.

Nikolai Petrov

Russian Politics

International Studies and Programming

Petrov is a visiting international professor from Russia where he is a senior research fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Moscow. He specializes in Soviet and Russian politics including presidential and parliamentary elections. Trained as a political geographer, Petrov teaches courses on the regional politics of Russia and on global cities. He is completing

a book called The Political Almanac of Russia 1997. He is also working on other publications such as The 1996 Presidential Elections in Russia and Evolution Federalism in Russia.

Emily Rosenberg

American Foreign Relations/

Women in Diplomatic History

History Department

Rosenberg is an expert on the history of U.S. foreign relations. Her current research interests include U.S. economic and cultural expansion as well as bringing issues of gender into the field of diplomatic history. She has served on the State Department's Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, which works on issues surrounding the declassification of documents. She has also been president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Rosenberg is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of American History. She is co-author of the textbook In Our Times: America Since 1945 and America Transformed: A History of the United States Since 1900.

In addition, she is working on another book on dollar diplomacy called Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930.

Ahmed I. Samatar

International Studies/Somalia/Africa/Islam

Dean of International Studies and Programming

Samatar specializes in development issues, global political economy and Africa. He is currently researching and writing about Islam's responses to the emerging world order and the rise of Islamic consciousness. He is also leading a major research project on the reconfiguration of the state in Africa and the nature of politics and economics in the continent. Samatar has written and edited several books including Socialist Somalia: Rhetoric and Reality, The Somali Challenge: From Catastrophe to Resurrection? as well as a book on African studies. He has also written numerous articles and appeared on national and international news programs discussing Africa and internationalism. He currently serves on the editorial board of the International Studies Review.

Jim von Geldern

Russian Culture

German Studies and Russian Department

von Geldern is an expert on Soviet mass culture and early Soviet cinema. He has researched various aspects of popular culture ranging from books and comics to songs and movies. He has also discussed changes in the former Soviet Union on television and radio news programs. von Geldern is the author of Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920 and two anthologies, Mass Culture in Soviet Russia and Entertaining Tsarist Russia. He has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce a digital source book on Soviet history. In addition, he serves as the college's dean of interdisciplinary programs.

Peter Weisensel

Russian and German History

History Department

Weisensel specializes in modern Russian history, particularly the imperial period from the 18th century to 1917. He is the author of two monographs on Russia in the 19th century and is working on another about Russian travelers' descriptions of Central Asia and the formation of a Russian colonial mentality. In addition to Russian history, he teaches a course on modern German history. He is also interested in minorities, particularly Muslims, in Russian/Soviet history.