2008-2009

	Professor Bethany L. Albertson Political Psychology University of Washington, Seattle Professor Albertson’s work explores political attitudes and persuasion. Her current research relies on surveys and experiments to examine the effect of religious appeals in American politics and the relationship between emotion and cognition, with a recent focus on the role of anxiety on attitudes towards immigration.
	Professor Eiichiro Azuma History University of Pennsylvania Professor Azuma specializes in Asian American history with an emphasis on Japanese American experience, as well as migration, race and ethnicity, modern Japanese history, and U. S.-Japan relations. His current research attempts to question a nation-based analysis of history and a spatially compartmentalized way of learning by examining transpacific activities of Japanese migrants.
	Professor Lorne Campbell Psychology University of Western Ontario, Canada Professor Lorne Campbell is a recognized expert in the fields of interpersonal relationships, research design, and data analysis. His research focuses on the psychological processes responsible for relationship initiation, maintenance, and dissolution.
	Professor Matt D. Childs History University of South Carolina Professor Childs’ primary research and teaching interests include Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic history, with a special focus on the importance of understanding the historical legacies of slavery and racism in shaping the modern world. In particular, his published work and research has focused on Cuban slavery through a study of slave rebellions, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the growth of Havana as a city populated by enslaved African exiles.
	Professor Matt Cohen English Duke University The relationship between media and meaning is the focus of Professor Cohen’s work. Examining communication technologies from the Internet back to hand-printed books and contact-era American Indian communicative forms, he studies the complex ways in which material texts and the networks in which they travel have shaped American literature and culture.
	Professor Marcin K. Peski Economics University of Chicago Professor Peski's primary interests are games with incomplete information and statistical decision theory. The aim of his research is to provide foundations for the analysis of rational behavior in one or multi-person situations. His current work focuses on generalizations of de Finett's exchangeability and robustness of solution concepts to higher order beliefs.
	Professor Allan W. Shearer Landscape Architecture Rutgers University Professor Shearer’s scholarly interests center on how individuals, communities, and societies create scenarios of the future, and how these narratives and images of tomorrow are used to inform present day decisions about the environment. Much of his work has been focused through the examination of relationships between landscape and different dimensions of security.