Social Science Research Council

Consultative Group

Within the project "Reframing the Challenge of Migration and Security," a consultative group of leading scholars will lend their expertise to help formulate research questions at the forefront of the process and shape existing and new research throughout the project to provide context for the meetings. Members of this group are:

FIONA ADAMSON
University College London, UK

Fiona Adamson is an assistant professor of international relations and director of the Program in International Public Policy at University College London. She holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University, and a BA in international relations from Stanford University. She has also held research fellowships with the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at Harvard University, the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Adamson's research interests are in theories of international relations, international security, transnational and non-state actors, migration and diaspora politics, and globalization and democratization. Her research in these areas has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals and edited volumes.

LOUISE CAINKAR
University of Illinois, Chicago

Louise Cainkar is a sociologist and senior research fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Great Cities Institute. She is the current recipient of a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to study the impact of the September 11th attacks on the Arab/Muslim community in Chicago and on transnational migration and communication. She has published a number of articles based on the early stages of this work and will complete the project with a book. She is also a recipient of the 2003 Carnegie Corporation Scholar Award, with which she will study the Islamicization of the Arab Community in Metro Chicago. She recently completed a study of low-income Muslim immigrants and Islamic institutional capacity for the Annie E. Casey Foundation. She has been conducting research in US immigrant communities for more than 15 years and has worked as a grantmaker to immigrant community organizations. She is widely published and regarded as a national expert on Arab immigrants, Arab Americans, and immigrant Muslim communities. She has also taught in UIC's sociology department. Cainkar's recent publications include "A Fervor for Muslims: Special Registration" (Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 7: 2, 2003), "No Longer Invisible: Arab and Muslim Exclusion After September 11" (Middle East Report 224, 2002, http://www.merip .org/mer/mer224/224_cainkar.html) and "The Impact of 9/11 on Muslims and Arabs in the United States," in John Tirman, ed., The Maze of Fear: Security & Migration After September 11th (New York: The New Press, forthcoming Spring 2004).

DAVID COLE
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC

David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, and legal affairs correspondent for The Nation. He is also a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered, a contributor to op-ed pages in major newspapers nationwide, and the author of Terrorism and the Constitution and No Equal Justice (both from The New Press). No Equal Justice was named the best non-fiction book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association, and was awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu prize from the Jesuit Honor Society in 2001.

LAURA DONOHUE
Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Laura K. Donohue is a fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and an acting assistant professor in the political science department, where she teaches PS 113: Security, Civil Liberties, and Terrorism. Donohue's research focuses on individual rights and counterterrorism in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, and Turkey. In April 2001 the Carnegie Corporation named her to the Scholars Program, awarding her two years' funding for the project "Security and Freedom in the Face of Terrorism." This work builds on research she conducted for her book, Counter-terrorist Law and Emergency Powers in the United Kingdom 1922-2000, published in December 2000. Some articles she has written include "'Good Guy' turns Assassin," "Capital Punishment and Political Challenge," "Fear itself: counter-terrorism, individual rights, and US Foreign Relations Post 9-11," "Bias, National Security, and Military Tribunals," "Federalism and the Battle over Counter-terrorist Law: State Sovereignty, Criminal Law Enforcement, and National Security," and "In Time of Need: Terrorism and the Liberal Constitution." Donohue received her PhD in history from the University of Cambridge, England; her MA with distinction in war and peace studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland; and her BA with honors in philosophy from Dartmouth College.

ANDREW D. GROSSMAN
Albion College, Albion, MI

Andrew D. Grossman is an associate professor of political science and chair of the department of political science at Albion College, Albion, MI. He holds an MA (1990) and a PhD (1996) in political science from the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University, New York. Broadly, his work emphasizes state formation and combines historical research and analytical methods in an attempt to answer some of the broad questions concerning state-society relations, institutional change, and the long-term factors underlying contemporary national and international politics. More narrowly, his current interests are related to how liberal democracies handle the problematic role of internal security under indeterminate conditions of emergency. Currently, he is completing his second book co-authored with Guy Oakes, Loyalty and Subversion: Civic Ethics in the Origins of the American Cold War State. The book analyzes how Cold War mobilization configured the meaning of loyalty and citizenship in the United States during the late1940s and early 1950s. His first book, Neither Dead Nor Read: Civilian Defense And American Political Development During The Early Cold War (Routledge, 2001) analyzed relationship between civilian defense ("homeland defense"), internal security, and its consequences for American political development during the early Cold War. He has published articles on internal security and civilian defense and presented a number of papers on post-September 11 homeland security. He is also the managing editor (completing a three year tenure ending March 2004) of The International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society.

STEVE HEYDEMANN
Georgetown University, Washington DC

Steven Heydemann is the director of the Center for Democracy and the Third Sector at Georgetown University. His research focuses on democratization and economic reform in the Middle East and, more broadly, the relationship between institutions and economic development. From 1990-1997 he served as director of the Program on International Peace and Security and the Program on the Near and Middle East and, in 2001, the director of the Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at the Social Science Research Council. From 1997-2001, he was an associate professor in the department of political science at Columbia University, a senior fellow at the Yale University Center for International Studies in 1997, and a visiting professor at the European University Institute in Florence in 2001. He is also the author and editor of numerous articles and books and recently completed a multi-year collaborative research project on informal networks and the politics of economic reform in the Middle East titled "Networks of Privilege in the Middle East." Heydemann received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1990.

AMANEY JAMAL
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Amaney Jamal is an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. Her current research focuses on democratization and the politics of civic engagement in the Middle East. She extends her research to the study of Muslim and Arab Americans, examining the pathways that structure their patterns of civic engagement in the US. Jamal is currently working on two books. The first explores the role of civic associations in promoting democratic effects in the Middle East. Her second book, an edited volume with Nadine Naber (University of Michigan) looks at the patterns and influences of Arab American racialization processes. Jamal is principal investigator of "Mosques and Civic Incorporation of Muslim Americans," funded by the Muslims in New York Project at Columbia University; and co-PI of the "Detroit Arab American Study," a sister survey to the Detroit Area Study, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation.

ALESSANDRO SILJ
Italian Social Science Council, Rome, Italy

Alessandro Silj is the secretary general of the Italian Social Science Council (CSS) in Rome and director of Ethnobarometer, a network of European centers and individual experts which monitors and conducts research on inter-ethnic relations, human rights violations and migration flows in Europe. He has previously held positions with Euratom (Brussels), the European Community Office (Washington, DC), Ford Foundation (New York) and the European Communication Council (Berlin). Silj has written extensively on Italian politics, European affairs and the Balkans. His publications include Migration and Criminality: The Case of Albanians in Italy (with A. Jamieson, 1998), Globalisation and Migration (2001) and Crisis in Macedonia (with K. Balalovska and M. Zucconi, 2002). He has contributed articles to La Stampa, Le Monde, La Repubblica, Interplay, l'Espresso, and The International Spectator, among others.