North America Experts
Professor, Department of History, Temple University
My research originally focused on African American community development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While researching my dissertation on "The Baltimore Black Community, 1865-1915" I uncovered a world where black women were deeply immersed in the social and political issues of the time and active participants in most community institutions.Quite by accident, I stu...
Former Coordinator, Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative, US Department of Justice; Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Division
My road to the field of elder abuse and thus to the Wilson Center was borne of a long series of counterintuitive decisions. Although I was initially headed for medicine, while an undergraduate I took a law school class in mental health law and began to learn about the countless riveting, impossible, shameful and heartbreaking issues at the intersection of public health, vulnerability and the law....
Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Distinguished Research Fellow, The North-South Institute; Adjunct Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University; Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa
Lecturer, University of Essex, United Kingdom
All of my research has been focused upon the African American experience in the South after emancipation. I've been interested in a wide range of issues including black women's activism, politics, crime, labor history, black voting, southern industrialization, and the newly-emerging and highly-contested southern legal system. All of these themes came together in my first book, Black Prisoners a...
Senior Lecturer and Former Senior Research Fellow, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Associate Academic Director and Professor of History and Politics, University of California Washington Center, Washington, DC
My Ph.D. is in U.S. history, and in my scholarship I have sought to use historical subjects to shed light on contemporary political and public policy challenges facing the United States. My current project seeks to provide a broad history of defending America, focusing on the political, ideological and policy struggles surrounding "civilian defense" in World War II, the Cold War and beyo...
Fulbright-Woodrow Wilson Center Distinguished Chair in Canada-United States Relations;
Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, University of Quebec at Montreal
Former Senior Economic Analyst, U.S. Embassy, Ottawa, Canada
Laura Dawson is the President of Dawson Strategic and provides advice to business on cross-border trade, market access and regulatory issues. From 2008 to 2011 she served as senior advisor on U.S.-Canada economic affairs at the United States Embassy in Ottawa. Some of the recent initiatives she has worked on are the U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council, the Border Vision Strategy, and the bi...
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Director, Center for University Scholars, and Professor of Political Science, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
My career in higher education has spanned 25 years and has included opportunities to teach, conduct research, and contribute to the betterment of society through research and service learning. After receiving the Ph.D. in Political Science from UW-Madison, I was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the University of Maryland-College Park in Public Policy. At College Park I worked on revisions o...