Ali Abunimah is co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, an Internet gateway about Palestine and the Palestine-Israeli conflict, and has recently co-founded Electronic Iraq. His most recent book is No Justice, No Peace (Akashic Books, 2002). Jennifer Barger is the Religious Outreach Organizer for the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Justice, an organization that encourages people of faith to support efforts to improve conditions for low-wage workers. She also has served in the Lutheran Volunteer Corps and has worked with a farm worker health organization in Iowa. Amy E. Black, Ph.D., teaches in the Political Science and International Relations Department at Wheaton College. Her focus areas are American Government, Political Behavior, Women and Politics, and Mass Media. Her current research projects include From Inspiration to Legislation: How an Idea Becomes a Bill, an inside story of her work on abandoned infants legislation while an APSA Congressional Fellow for Rep. Melissa Hart (PA-04), and Of Little Faith: President George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiative, with Doug Koopman and David Ryden. Cecil Blake, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair, Executive Committee, for the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He spent a year in Sierra Leone serving as the Cabinet Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Chief Government Spokesman at the request of their President. Dr. Blake also has served in other international settings and has received many awards and fellowships in the Communication field. Peter Carroll, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of History at Northwestern University. He specializes in the social and cultural history of 19th century China. His research interests include urban history, Chinese modernism, popular and material culture, gender/sexuality, and nationalism. He received his Ph.D. from Yale (98) and has been a Fulbright recipient. He currently is revising his book manuscript, "Between Heaven and Modernity: the late Qing and early Republic (Re)Construction of Suzhou Urban Space." Michael Cartwright, Ph.D., is Dean of the Ecumenical & Interfaith Program and serves as the Executive Director of the Crossing Project at the University of Indianapolis. He is an associate professor of Philosophy & Religion at the university. As an ordained elder with the United Methodist Church, Dr. Cartwright frequently teaches continuing education courses for clergy and laity. He co-edited The Hauerwas Reader (Duke University Press, 2001) and edited The Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiological and Ecumenical by John Howard Yoder (Eerdmans, 1994). E. David Cook, Ph.D., is the Arthur F. Holmes Professor of Faith and Learning, Philosophy Department, at Wheaton College. Before coming to Wheaton, Dr. Cook was a member of the faculty of Oxford University, where he continues his associations. He has appeared frequently on the BBC television and radio network to lend a Christian perspective on topics in medical ethics G. Robb Cooper, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University. He teaches Education Law, the Law of Higher Education and Collective Bargaining. Dr. Cooper is also a partner in a law firm where he concentrates his practice to the representation of school boards, colleges and universities, and other education entities. David del Salto has been the director of the Latin American Faculty of Theological Studies (FLET-Ecuador), President of the National Association of Evangelicals (Ecuador), and Coordinator of the Latin American Theological Fraternity (Ecuador). He is completing his Ph.D. while serving as pastor for Iglesia Bautista in Rolling Meadows. Cathleen Falsani '92 is the religion reporter and a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times. She holds a master's degree in print journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a master's degree in theological studies from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. David Fisher, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Dr. Fisher graduated from Carleton College and holds a M.A. from Columbia University-Union Theological Seminary and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Inamul Haq is Adjunct Professor of Islam at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois. Previously, he was principal of two Islamic day schools in the Chicago area. Mr. Haq studied religion at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan. He received his masters in international relations from Drew University. Elizabeth Lightbody, Ed.D., is Professor of World Missions and Evangelism at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She served as a missionary in the Philippines for twenty-three years. She received her Ed.D. at the Asia Graduate School of Theology in the Philippines. James A. McDermott, M.D., '58, is serving his seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Washington's 7th Congressional District. He began his public service in 1970 when he was elected to the state senate. He also has served Washington as governor. In his service as congressman, Dr. McDermott is especially interested in health issues and leads the fight in the U.S. House to guarantee all Americans comprehensive health care coverage. Laura Miller, Ph.D., a member of the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Loyola University in Chicago. She specializes in linguistic anthropology and Japan studies and has carried out field research in Japan and Russia. Dr. Miller is the Director and Chair of the Midwest Japan Seminar, an interdisciplinary association of scholars who devote a significant portion of their scholarship to Japan studies. She also is President-elect of the East Asia Anthropology Section, American Anthropological Association. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Beauty Up: Selling and Consuming Body Aesthetics in Japan. Keith Pavlischek, Ph.D., is a Fellow at the Center for Public Justice and director of the Civitas Program in Faith and Public Affairs. He is a Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves and was recalled to active duty last May. Dr. Pavlischek holds masters degrees from the Institute for Christian Studies and Westminster Theological Seminary and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in Religion, Ethics, and Society (90). He is author of John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration (1994). L. Jonathan Saylor, Ph.D., '81, is an associate professor of Music History-Literature and Bassoon at Wheaton College. He has been a member of the prize winning Boston Wind Quintet and has performed with the Costa Rican National Symphony, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Portland and New Hampshire Symphony Orchestras, and many others. Gary Stewart, D.Min., is the group chaplain at the Marine Corp Air Station in New River, North Carolina. He served as a U.S. Navy chaplain for 15 years and has been author and editor of several books; his most recent is In the Name of God: Understanding the Mindset of Terrorism (Harvest House, 2002). |
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