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University of North Texas experts for fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001
As you plan your coverage for the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America on Sept. 11, 2001, consider these University of North Texas experts who can discuss a variety of topics related to the event. Economic Impact of 9/11: Dr. Bernard L. Weinstein, professor of applied economics and director of director of UNT's Center for Economic Development and Research, is an expert on public policy, business and economic trends. He has often been quoted in The Dallas Morning News, The New York Times and international publications as an economic forecaster for the U.S. and abroad. Cell phone number: (214) 707-1834 (first option)
Office phone number: (940) 565-4049
E-mail address: budw@scs.unt.edu Talking to children about 9/11: Dr. Sue Bratton is the director of the UNT Center for Play Therapy, the largest play therapy training program in the world. The center counsels children dealing with difficult situations by helping them to express their feelings through toys. Bratton is also an associate professor of counseling at UNT. An internationally renowned expert and respected lecturer, she has extensive experience in individual and group play therapy, activity therapy, and filial/family play therapy. She served on the Association for Play Therapy board of directors for six years and is a past president. Dr. Bratton is also co-author of the textbook, "Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT): A 10-Session Filial Therapy Model," and the CPRT Treatment Manual and CD-ROM, and "The World of Play Therapy Literature," as well as numerous research publications and book chapters on the topic of play therapy. Office phone number: (940) 565-2063
E-mail address: bratton@unt.edu Dr. Garry Landreth, Regents Professor of counseling, development and higher education, is the founding director of the Center for Play Therapy and is a licensed professional counselor. Office phone number: (940) 565-2916 Emergency response to 9/11: Dr. David McEntire, an associate professor in UNT's emergency administration and planning degree program, traveled to New York City two weeks after Sept. 11 with two other faculty members in the program to study the activities of private businesses in responding to the attacks on the World Trade Center. They determined that although more than 2,800 people in both World Trade Center Towers died, thousands more exited safely before the towers collapsed, thanks to emergency management plans set in place for businesses following the 1993 bombing of the center. They also studied the significant role that private businesses played in responding to the disaster by donating office space, increasing security, restoring communications and providing food for search and rescue teams. Office phone number: (940) 565-2996
Home phone number: (940) 321-2440 Dr. James Kendra, coordinator of UNT's emergency administration and planning degree program and an assistant professor, traveled to New York City two days after Sept. 11 with a colleague and a field team at the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center, where he was then a researcher. He and his former colleague recently received a three-year $350,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research the successful evacuation of 300,000 to 500,000 people from lower Manhattan via water transport to New Jersey, Staten Island and Brooklyn. He also studied the reestablishment of New York City's emergency operations center, which was located in the World Trade Center and was destroyed on Sept. 11. Office phone number: (940) 565-2213
E-mail address: jmkendra@unt.edu Terrorism: Dr. Robert Taylor, professor and chair of the UNT Department of Criminal Justice, is currently a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice on the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Program and the U.S. Department of State Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. He is internationally known for his knowledge on terrorism and lectures extensively throughout the United States and the world. His specialty is the Middle East and Southeast Asia, concentrating on the al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiya, Hezbollah and HAMAS groups. He is a former police officer and major crimes detective and has several leading textbooks in the discipline. He has conducted numerous international and national media interviews. Office phone numbers: (940) 565-4475 or (940) 565-2562
Cell phone number: (972) 529-7890 The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Middle East: Dr. Adrian R. Lewis, associate professor of history and chair of the UNT Department of History, is a former infantry officer and instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He retired from the Army with the rank of major and is the author of the forthcoming "The American Culture of War: World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom." He is also currently writing a book about the Mediterranean Theater during World War II. Office phone number: (940) 565-2288
Home phone number: (972) 317-3992 Dr. Geoffrey Wawro, director of UNT's Military History Center and the Major General Olinto Mark Barsanti Professor of Military History, can discuss al-Qaeda, U.S. policy and strategy in the Middle East and current capabilities of the U.S. military. A professor of strategic studies at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., before joining the UNT faculty last year, Wawro is the host and anchor of the History Channel and History International programs Global View, Hardcover History, Hard Target, History's Business, and History versus Hollywood. He is writing a book called "Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East from the Balfour Declaration to the Bush Doctrine." Cell phone number: (214) 514-7224 Dr. Emile Sahliyeh (ee-MILL s-LAY-yuh), professor of political science, is the author of "The PLO After the Lebanon War;" "In Search of Leadership: West Bank Politics Since 1967;" and the forthcoming "The Predicament of Democracy in the Arab World." He has also written chapters in several anthologies on Middle Eastern politics. A former Brookings Institute fellow in Middle Eastern studies, Sahliyeh has presented invited papers, lectures and workshops at the Brookings Institute, Defense Intelligence College, Harvard University Center for International Affairs, U.S. State Department and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Sahliyeh is frequently quoted by the media in regard to incidents in the Middle East, Israel and Palestine. Office phone numbers: (940) 565-2314 or (940) 565-2276
Home phone number: (940) 320-2020 American foreign policy related to 9/11: Dr. James Meernik (MIR-nick), professor of political science and chair of the UNT Department of Political Science , is the author of an article on domestic politics and the political use of military force by the United States that appeared in "Political Research Quarterly," and an article on public opinion and support for U.S. presidents' foreign policies that appeared in "American Politics Quarterly." Office phone number: (940) 565-4233 The Patriot Act, Constitutional rights and military tribunals: Dr. Kimi Lynn King, associate professor of political science, researches civil rights and liberties, constitutional law, the American presidency and foreign policy issues. She is a former fellow at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Office phone number: (940) 565-4984
Cell phone number: (940) 597-4802 Middle Eastern perspective of 9/11: Dr. Nancy Stockdale, assistant professor of history, researches the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the histories of Palestine and Israel, Israeli-Palestine conflicts and Islamic-Jewish relations. She specializes in women of the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries, and is the author of an upcoming book on encounters between English and Palestinian women from 1800 to 1948. Office phone number: (940) 565-4209
E-mail address: stockdale@unt.edu Immigration policies after 9/11: Dr. Idean Salehyan (eye-DEAN suh-LAY-he-on), assistant professor of political science, published an article on U.S. asylum enforcement in the "Journal of Peace Research" and an article of refugees and the spread of civil war in "International Organization." He also has expertise on transnational activities of terrorist groups and is currently working on a project which examines transnational rebel organizations and the opposition activities of diaspora groups. He is fluent in both Spanish and Farsi. Office phone number: (940) 565-2317
Cell phone number: (619) 301-8444
E-mail address: idean@unt.edu
UNT News Service Phone Number: (940) 565-2108
Contact: Nancy Kolsti (940) 565-3509
Email: nkolsti@unt.edu
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