March 21, 2005
Fordham Center on Religion and Culture

Panel Bios

R. Scott Appleby
R. Scott Appleby is the director of the Joan B.
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author
of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion,
Violence and Reconciliation, and editor of
Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist
Leaders of the Middle East.

Adeed Dawisha
Adeed Dawisha is professor of political science at
Miami University, Ohio. He is the author of Arab Nationalism in the 20th Century: From Triumph to Despair; Egypt in the Arab World; and Syria and the Lebanese Crisis, and the author, editor, or co-editor
of several books on Arab and Middle Eastern politics. He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the
University of Chicago Divinity School. Her books
include Democracy on Trial, New Wine in Old Bottles: Politics and Ethical Discourse; and Who Are We?
Critical Reflections, Hopeful Possibilities. In 2003,
she published Just War Against Terror: The Burden
of American Power in a Violent World, which was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2003 by Publisher's Weekly. She will
deliver the Gifford Lectures in 2006.

Frances Fitzgerald
Frances Fitzgerald, journalist and author, has
reported and written extensively on U.S. foreign policy. Her 1972 volume, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, was
one of the most influential books to appear while
that conflict continued. She has also written Way
Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, and most recently, Vietman: Spirits of the Earth.

Sohail Hashmi
Sohail Hashmi is Alumnae Foundation Associate Professor of International Relations at Mount
Holyoke College. He is editor of Islamic Political
Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict,
co-editor of Boundaries and Justice, and recently
co-edited Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Religious and Secular Perspectives with Steven Lee.

Kenneth Himes
Kenneth Himes is professor and chair of the theology department at Boston College. He was previously
on the faculty at Washington Theological Union. A member of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans),
he has held a number of leadership positions in his religious community. He co-authored Fullness of
Faith: The Public Significance of Theology with
Michael Himes.

Stanley Hoffman
Stanley Hoffman is the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard.
His many books and articles include America Goes BAckward (just published); The Ethics and Politics
of Humanitarian Intervention (1996); World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War
Era (1998); and "Out of Iraq," New York Review
of Books, October 21, 2004.

Lawrence F. Kaplan
Lawrence F. Kaplan is senior editor at The New Republic, where he writes about U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. His articles
on foreign policy have appeared in Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, Washington Post, and numerous other publications. He has served as executive editor of The National Interest.

Patrick Lang
Col. Patrick Lang is retired from the U.S. Army. He served as head of Middle East and terrorism
intelligence for the Department of Defense during
the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is now president
of a consultancy group, Global Resources Inc.

 

George Lopez
George Lopez is a senior fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre DAme. His research interests
focus on the problems of state violence and
coercion, especially economic sanctions, and
gross violations of human rights. His books include
The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in
the 1990s; Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft, and Sanctions and the Search for Security,
co-authored with David Cortright.

Alistair Millar
Alistair Millar is vice president and director of the Washington, D.C. office of the Fourth Freedom Forum. Millar has edited the
forthcoming Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Emergent Threats
in an Evolving Security Environment.

Jerry Powers
Gerard F. Powers is director of policy studies
at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
From 1998-2004, he directed the Office of
International Justice and Peace of the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops.

 

Peter Steinfels
Peter Steinfels is co-director of the Fordham
Center on Religion and Culture. From 1988-1997,
he was chief religion correspondent for The New
York Times, where he continues to write a biweekly column, "Beliefs." He has served as the editor of Commonweal, as a consultant to the PBS program "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly," and as visiting professor at Notre Dame and Georgetown.

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels is co-director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture. She was
the editor of Commonweal, 1988-2002, where she wrote frequently on foreign policy issues. She also
co-directed a Pew funded project on Catholics and civic life, and has edited two volumes of essays from the project American Catholics in the Public Square (Rowman and Littlefield).

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