Dr. Caroline Kaltefleiter, President, is Coordinator of Women’s Studies and Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the State University of New York College at Cortland. She has over twenty years of broadcast activism experience as a news anchor and producer for public and community radio stations in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and New York. She served as producer and director of the documentary “Burn Out in the Heartland,” a 60-minute piece that investigates the crystal methamphetamine culture among teens in Iowa and Nebraska. She continues to work on radio documentaries for National Public Radio and anchors a radio program titled The Digital Divide on Public Radio station WSUC-FM. She received her PhD from Ohio University in Communication and Women’s Studies. She holds an MA from Miami University and participated in the Center for Cultural Studies where she began her research on youth subcultures and activism including work on Youth Culture Capitalism, Post-Feminism, and Popular Culture. Her forthcoming text (Garland Press) Revolution Girl Style Now: Trebled Reflexivity and the Riot Grrrl Network, examines the Girl feminist movement and its use of alternative media forums such as ‘zines, websites, and mp3 musical recordings. Her current research project articulates cyberfeminism within a discourse of new media studies. The project examines the construction, manipulation and re-definition of women’s lives within contemporary technoscientific cultures. She can be reached at Caroline.Kaltefleiter@cortland.edu.
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Dr. Judy K. C. Bentley, Vice-President, Assistant Professor in the Foundations and Social Advocacy Department at SUNY Cortland holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree from Southern Methodist University, a Master’s degree in Special Education/Reading Education from Southwest Texas State University, and a Doctoral degree in Education/School Improvement from Texas State University. Bentley is the Editor and co-founder of the journal Social Advocacy and Systems Change. Her research interests include Symbolic Inclusion, children labeled with “severe/multiple disabilities” as architects of systemic, inclusive education reform, and maximizing the success of students with disabilities in postsecondary education. She can be reached JudyK.C.Bentley@cortland.edu.
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Dr. Caroline S. Tauxe, Secretary, received an Anthropology BA from Yale University in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988. Her dissertation research concerned power, conflict and social change in rural North Dakota communities undergoing coal-based energy development. It was a pioneering work in what has since become the field of political ecology in environmental studies. Dr. Tauxe later conducted research in Brazil on middle-class life during hyper-inflation, and especially the challenges it posed to class identity and the morality of exchange. This study of the culture of inflation is newly relevant in the US today, where we are suffering the consequences of our own maladaptive economic culture, especially the lifestyle based on easy credit. After eleven years of university teaching and six years working in the field of Community and Youth Development in the non-profit sector, Dr. Tauxe returned to academia and is currently teaching at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. She is working on her second book, serves as Interim Director of Le Moyne’s Center for Urban and Regional Applied Research (CURAR), and continues to be active in community arts development and environmental organizing. She is married, has two daughters, two cats and a hedgehog, and is both a martial artist and a fabric artist in her own time. She can be reached at tauxecs@lemoyne.edu.
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Anthony J. Nocella, II, Treasurer and Executive Director, is working on his Ph.D. in Social Science at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Nocella, a true interdisciplinary scholar, has an interest in security, conflict and peace studies, peace education, philosophy of education, criminology, disability studies, and environmental studies. He is also an associate with the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts. He holds an MA in Peacemaking and Conflict Studies and a graduate certificate in mediation from Fresno Pacific University, and an MS in Cultural Foundations of Education from Syracuse University with an Advanced Certificate in Women’s Studies. He has taught workshops in mediation and tactical analysis, and has assisted in a number of legal committees in the Americas. He has provided conflict management and negotiation workshops to NGOs, ROTC, U.S. military, law enforcement, as well as in prisons, juvenile halls, and middle and high schools in hopes of increasing the peace and providing skills to revert violent conflicts to nonviolent transformation. Has published more than 25 scholarly articles, he is working on his tenth book, and has co-founded four academic journals. He can be reached ajnocell@maxwell.syr.edu.
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Dr. Barry L. Gan is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Nonviolence at St. Bonaventure University. He is co-editor with Robert L. Holmes of a leading anthology on nonviolence, Nonviolence in Theory and Practice, 2nd edition; editor of The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society; co-editor of Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, Journal of the Peace History Society and the Peace and Justice Studies Association; and for two years he served as program committee chair of the oldest and largest interfaith peace group in the United States, the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He has taught at St. Bonaventure University for the past twenty-four years since receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from the University of Rochester in 1981 and 1984, respectively. Prior to that he taught high school and junior high school English for six years. He can be reached at BGAN@sbu.edu.
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Dr. Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, is assistant professor in philosophy and chair of the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice (CEPS) at SUNY, Cortland. He is bishop-abbot of the Lindisfarne Community, a neomonastic religious order in the broadly Anglican/Celtic tradition. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. His courses include Philosophical Approaches to Contemporary Moral Problems, War and Terrorism, Ancient Social Philosophy and Social and Political Philosophy. Fitz-Gibbon is Series Editor in social philosphy in the Value Inquiry Book Series with Rodopi. He can be reached at Andrew.Fitz-Gibbon@cortland.edu.
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Dr. Barbara Gold, Professor of Classics at Hamilton College, earned a master’s and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, joined the Hamilton faculty in 1989. Her research interests are Greek and Roman literature, comparative literature, women in antiquity, and feminist theory and classics. Gold is the first woman editor of The American Journal of Philology, the oldest journal in the U.S. She is co-editor with John Donahue of Roman Dining (2006, Johns Hopkins University Press). Her other books include Vile Bodies: Roman Satire and Corporeal Discourse; Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition; Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome, and Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome. She was president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States for 2002-03. She can be reached at bgold@hamilton.edu.
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Dr. Maurice Isserman, professor in History at Hamilton College, is the author of many well-received books on the history of American radical movements (including Communism, Socialism, Pacifism and the New Left), the 1960s, and most recently the history of exploration and mountaineering. His biography of Michael Harrington (author of The Other America, the book that inspired the War on Poverty in the 1960s), entitled The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2000. His history of the 1960s, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, co-authored with Michael Kazin, originally published in 2000, was recently brought out in its third revised edition in 2007 by Oxford University Press, and is widely used in college and university courses across the country in courses on the 1960s era. He is co-editor of a recent Facts on File series on the history of discovery and exploration, contributing volumes on the exploration of North America, and the Lewis and Clark expedition. His most recent work is on the history of Himalayan mountaineering, and his book Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored with Stewart Weaver, is scheduled to be published by Yale University Press in the summer of 2008. Excerpts from the book have already appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, American Heritage, The Christian Science Monitor, and Alpinist magazine. Isserman has contributed book reviews and op-eds to publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The American Alpine Review, along with many others. He has spoken on his research at Harvard University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and many other institutions. He teaches courses on recent U.S. history, on the history of exploration, as well as Hamilton College’s introductory writing courses for first year students. He can be reached at misserma@hamilton.edu.
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Dr. Steven Lee, Professor of Philosophy at Hobart and William Smith College, is currently co-editing a book, The Ethics of Weapons of Mass Destruction? with Sohail Hashmi, professor at Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts. The book considers the religious and secular areas of the world and their opinions about war. The book also examines traditional views on weapons of mass destruction. It looks at natural law theory, realism and contains a critical section by feminists and pacifists. The book uses published articles by recognized scholars in their particular areas of expertise. These scholars come from a range of different religious and secular backgrounds. It will be published by Cambridge University Press and is expected to be released by early next year. Lee previously published a critical thinking book, What is the Argument?: Critical Thinking in the Real World (Cambridge Press). The book uses letters from newspapers across the country on topics ranging from politics, education, cultural issues, the arts and sciences, law, racial and ethnic issues, military matters and many others. Lee also co-authored The Nuclear Predicament: Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War and Beyond with four colleagues at the Colleges. Ten years later, they revised their first edition to reflect the changes the end of the Cold War brought to nuclear issues. The recently published The Nuclear Predicament: Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century wants to awaken the world from its nuclear complacency while investigating strategies that will help to cope with a future that will involve nuclear weapons. Lee has also written Morality, Prudence, and Nuclear Weapons and co-edited Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity: The Fundamental Questions, with Avner Cohen, assistant professor at Tel Aviv University. The book is a collection of essays that argues that understanding the difference between nuclear and conventional weapons requires a change in the way of understanding morality, politics, and war. He can be reached at lee@hws.edu.
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Dr. Mechthild Nagel is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, College at Cortland and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University. She is author of Masking the Abject: A Genealogy of Play (Lexington, 2002), co-editor of Race, Class, and Community Identity (Humanities, 2000), The Hydropolitics of Africa: A Contemporary Challenge (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007) and Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality (Africa World Press, 2007). Nagel is editor-in-chief of the online journal Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies (wagadu.org). As a graduate student at Umass Amherst, she was blacklisted for a while from teaching philosophy after leading a strike for union recognition. She can be reached at nagelm@cortland.edu.
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Dr. Robert A. Rubinstein, is Professor of Anthropology and International Relations at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. From 1994 through 2005 he directed the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts at the Maxwell School. Rubinstein is an anthropologist with expertise in political and medical anthropology and in social science history and research methods. In political anthropology, Rubinstein’s work focuses on cross-cultural aspects of conflict and dispute resolution, including negotiation, mediation and consensus building. He is a founder of the field of the anthropology of peacekeeping. Rubinstein has collaborated on policy applications of his work with the International Peace Academy, the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and the United States Army Peacekeeping Institute. He is the author of Peacekeeping Under Fire: Culture and Intervention. He can be reached at rar@syr.edu.
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Dr. Allison Stokes, is Director of Religious and Spiritual Life at the University of Rochester, and former Director of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence there. She is also Founding Director of the Women’s Interfaith Institute, located in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts and also in Seneca Falls, New York. A pastor/scholar for twenty-eight years in the United Church of Christ, Stokes has served as Protestant Chaplain at Ithaca College, Associate University Chaplain at Yale, Vassar College Chaplain and pastor of the West Stockbridge Congregational Church in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Stokes has M. Div and Ph.D. degrees from Yale, and a Th.M. degree from Harvard. She has published several books. Her latest, Shalom, Salaam, Peace, was commissioned by the Women’s Division of the United Methodist Church for use as a spiritual growth study. As a Research Associate at Hartford Seminary, she published with colleagues Miriam Therese Winter and Adair Lummis Defecting in Place, Women Taking Responsibility for Their Own Spiritual Lives. Motives, Stokes has been working with religious leaders to launch in November 2009 the Religions for Peace North American Women of Faith Network. The inaugural issue of a new e-magazine published by Marsh Chapel of Boston University, includes an article by Stokes, “Reflections on the Gandhi/King Legacy and the War in Iraq.” She can be reached at astokes@admin.rochester.edu.
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