Society and Culture Experts
Professor of History, The George Washington University
For the past generation, I have specialized as a scholar in the history of race and labor in the United States. Much of my scholarly work has been in the area of African-American labor history, the history of working-class race relations, racial ideology, and the politics of civil rights. I have written, edited, or co-edited seven books. My first monograph, Waterfront Workers of New Or...
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
My scholarly work has been about the complicated consequences of conflict. My first book, Palestinian Village Histories, focuses on memory and history among Palestinians made refugees in the course of the 1948 War and the creation of Israel. I collected and examined over 120 village books published by Palestinians about their villages that were destroyed, which I combined with interviews and...
Professor, University of Cincinnati; Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Human Rights, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark; Senior Research Scholar, Center for Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg
Jan Marie Fritz is a professor at the University of Cincinnati and a senior research scholar with the Center for Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg. Her areas of interest include clinical sociology, women’s studies, conflict intervention/analysis and mediation. As the senior representative for the International Sociological Association to the UN, she became p...
Chair and Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor of National Security Studies, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University