United States Experts
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, MSU, UMBC
Expertise
U.S. foreign relations, especially U.S.-China relations
Chair and Professor in Politics, University of Hull, The United Kingdom
Since 1985 I have been studying free expression and political extremism in various democracies. I have published several books and dozens of articles analyzing pertinent concerns, most notably the trilogy The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (1994), Speech, Media and Ethics (2001), and The Scope of Tolerance (2006). I have decided to enter into the field of free expression on the Internet becau...
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....
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...