North America Experts
Assistant Professor of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
I received my Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 2001. That same year, I joined the faculty at USC, with a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and in the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity. Much of my intellectual energy over the past five years has been devoted to a research agenda that seeks to develop new and innovative scholarship on immigration, rac...
Duncan Wood is the Director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. For 17 years, Dr. Wood was a professor and the director of the International Relations Program at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City. He also held the role of researcher at the Centro de Derecho Económico Internacional (CDEI) at ITAM. He is a member of the Me...
William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Department of Economics, Stanford University
Economic history is now practiced primarily within economics departments, often serving as an institutionalized form of internal subversion. Continuing a strong Stanford economic history tradition, that is the way I see my own research: Not to reject or overthrow the discipline of economics, but to demonstrate the importance of historical processes and historical context in economic life. Believ...
Professor of International Business and Economics Law, California State Polytechnic University
Associate Professor of History, McKendree College
A self-described political junkie, I grew up in rural East Texas, the daughter of local Democratic party activists, and I spent my early years in graduate school working for Texas politicians. From a young age, I sensed that careful study of political discourse and policy development would reveal much about even larger, more fundamental questions pertaining to power, its dissemination, and its imp...
Vice President Northrop Grumman Technical Services
Dr. Younger's work at Los Alamos involves doing, (through computer modeling) social simulations of simple societies with the aim of understanding the onset of mass violence. Until recently, he was Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, located at Fort Belvoir. Prior to that time, he was Senior Associate Director for for National Security at Los Alamos--responsible for assuring the sa...
Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University