Prof. George Andreopoulos, John Jay College & the Graduate Center
George Andreopoulos is Professor of Political Science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. Professor Andreopoulos studied history, law, and international relations at the Universities of Chicago and Cambridge. Before coming to CUNY, he taught for several years at Yale University, where he was the founding Associate Director of the Orville Schell Center for International Human Rights. He has written extensively on international security, international human rights, and international humanitarian law issues. His recent publications include Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Universe (with Zehra Arat and Peter Juiler) Kuwavian Press, Forthcoming; Concepts and Strategies in International Human Rights (ed.) (Peter Lang); The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (with Sir Michael Howard and Mark Shulman, Yale University Press); and Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century (with Richard Pierre Claude, University of Pennsylvania Press). The Human Rights Education book appeared in a Japanese translation (Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd.) and was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in Education. Professor Andreopoulos is currently completing a book on Humanitarian Intervention for Yale University Press and serves on the Editorial Board of Human Rights Review. Over the years, he has participated in several human rights missions, most recently in Sierra Leone to study and prepare recommendations on accountability mechanisms in that country. Professor Andreopoulos is currently President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.

Prof. Janice Bockmeyer, John Jay College
Janice Bockmeyer is currently completing a three-city study of urban political culture and political participation by immigrants in German cities. In June, 2001 she presented early findings in the paper, "Inviting Cultures: The Role of Urban Political Cultures in Immigrant Participation in German Urban Renewal," at the International Conference on Urbanizing World and UN Human Habitat II sponsored by the International Research Foundation for Development and held at Columbia University. She also spoke on "The Role of Immigrant Nonprofits in Community Building in the New Germany," at the Rutgers University Center for Global Change and Governance (CGCG) conference on Politics and Society in the New Germany in May. Her paper, "Migrant Participation in Berlin: Checkpoints and Entryways," delivered at the 2000 CGCG New Germany Conference, was published as a CGCG working paper. A related article, "A Culture of Walls: Diversity and Divisions in the New Berlin," has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming volume resulting from the New York University, Humboldt University-Berlin Conference, Globalization and the New Urbanism: New York and Berlin, held in New York City last year. Prof. Bockmeyer's article on community activism in New York City, "Devolution and the Transformation of Community Housing Activism," is forthcoming in The Social Science Journal. Her research on community nonprofits and the Urban Empowerment Zones appears in recent issues of Urban Studies and Urban Affairs Review.

Prof. Jim Cohen, John Jay College
Prof. Cohen is beginning a sabbatical research year as of Sept. 1, 2001. His research compares the political economy of credit in the U.S. and France as that affects funding and implementation of large scale public infrastructure projects, such as the Channel Tunnel and high speed rail transportation. He returns to the internship program in Sept., 2002.
Prof. Richard Flanagan, College of Staten Island
Professor Flanagan (PhD Rutgers) has taught American politics and urban studies at the College since 1999. He has published in Polity, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs and Presidential Studies Quarterly. Professor Flanagan manages the political science program’s domestic policy internships, and is associate director of the Center for the Study of Staten Island: Staten Island Project (CSI-SIP). His current research focuses on the rise of conservative politics in big cities, the relationship between the mayoralty and democracy in New York City, and various studies related to urban governance.

Prof. Michael Krasner, Queens College
Prof. Krasner is the director of the Taft Institute for Government at Queens College, which promotes informed political participation by working with elementary and secondary school teachers in summer institutes and other projects. Professor Krasner was also awarded a grant from Newsday to work with teachers at Townsend-Harris High School to develop a school-wide simulation of the 1998 gubernatorial and senatorial elections in New York. He has also been named one of four recipients of the annual Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Prof. Manny Ness, Brooklyn College
Immanuel Ness is Professor in the Political Science Department and Deputy Director of the Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education received his B.A. from New York University, and M.A. from Columbia University. And a PhD in Political Science from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1995. The focal point of Ness’ work is labor and community organizing and activism. He spent two years as a union organizer in 1989 and 1990. In 1996 he founded the Lower East Side Community Labor Coalition, the organization that initiated the campaign to organize greengrocery and other workers in New York City. In 2001, the coalition was awarded a Proclamation from the City Council of New York for its organizing work. Since 1999 Ness has edited Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, a peer review journal published by Blackwell Publishing that examines all facets of work and politics in the United States and beyond. He is co-author of Book of World Cities (The Free Press 1986) and Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed, published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis in 1998 and is a contributor of many articles and chapters covering labor and politics, low- wage work, immigrant labor, and labor organizing. Ness co-edited Central Labor Councils and the Revival of the American Unionism (M.E. Sharpe 2001). His articles have appeared in New Political Science, Labor Studies Journal, National Civic Review. His work has also appeared in popular magazines, including The Nation, Z Magazine, Covert Action Quarterly, and In these Times. Ness is author and or editor of five encyclopedias, including Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America (2001), and most recently the Encyclopedia of American Social Movements (2004), a four volume work on the history of activism from the origins of the nation to the contemporary era. He is co-editor of The Workers Centers’ Activist Handbook and Privatization and Labor Management Relations (2004). His latest work, Parallel Unions: Immigrant Worker Organizing and the Labor Movement will appear in 2005 (Temple University Press). His publications include: Privatization, Labor-Management Relations (2004) and He is currently completing a book on labor outsourcing, temporary labor migration and and high technology workers.

Prof. Shirley Ostholm, York College
Professor Ostholm is the coordinator of the Political Science Department at York College and is participating in an ongoing five-year study of the department that includes curriculum revision. She serves as the pre-law student advisor, moderator of the Pre-Law Club, and is the organizer for the Annual Pre-Law Conference for York College students.

Prof. Kenneth Sherrill, Hunter College
Professor Kenneth Sherrill chairs the Department of Political Science at Hunter College. Professor Sherrill received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He also chairs the Higher Education PAC and serves on the Departmental Services Committee of the American Political Science Association. Among his publications are: "From Outlaws to In-laws: Anti-Gay Attitudes Thaw" (with Alan S. Yang) in Public Perspective (Jan, 2000); "The Youth of the Movement" in Ellen D. B. Riggle and Barry Tadlock, Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process (Columbia University press, 2000); "Political Power of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals: From Vote for Me," PS: Political Science and Politics; Gays and the Military (Princeton Univ. Press, 1993); co-author, "What Political Science is Missing by Ignoring AIDS," PS: Political Science and Politics (1992); "Electoral Bugaboos? Attitudes Toward Feminism and Gay Rights in the 1992 American National Election," APSR, (1993).

Prof. Susan Tenenbaum, Baruch College
Susan Tenenbaum is associate professor of political science at Baruch College where she teaches courses in public policy, political economy, and American government. She has recently written on "Religion and Politics in the 2000 Election" and is presently working on a study of Adam Smith and Mercantilism.

Prof. Ron Hayduk, BMCC
Ronald Hayduk is Assistant Professor of political science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Hayduk has written about political participation, urban politics, elections and voting, social movements, immigration, and race, and regional planning, including as co-editor and contributing author of Democracy’s Moment: Reforming the American Political System in the Twenty First Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); and co-editor and contributing author of From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (Verso, 2002). Hayduk has also contributed essays in: Surviving Sprawl: Culture, Ecology and Politics, Edited by Matt Lindstrom and Hugh Bartling, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); Teamsters and Turtles?: U.S. Progressive Political Movements in the 21st Century, edited by John Berg, (Roman and Littlefield, 2003); In Defense of the Alien, edited by Lydio Tomasi, (Center for Migration Studies, 2000); for the Aspen Roundtable website (www.aspenroundtable.org 2000); The Drum Major Institute website (www.drummajorinstitute.org); in Mobilization: The International Journal of Research and Theory about Social Movements, Protest, and Collective Behavior (1998), and in public affairs magazines. Hayduk is currently working on a book, Gatekeepers to the Franchise: Election Administration and Voter Participation. Formerly a social worker, Hayduk has worked in New York government as the Coordinator of the NYC Voter Assistance Commission, and has consulted to several policy organizations, including The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Race and Community Revitalization (www.aspenroundtable.org); Demos: A Network of Ideas and Action (http://www.demos-usa.org); The Century Foundation (http://www.tcf.org). He was an expert witness for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund in their litigation, NAACP v. Harris, regarding the impact of election practices during the Florida 2000 elections. Hayduk is an active member of the board of directors of several organizations, and has made television and radio appearances.

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Prof. Gregorio Mayers, Medgar Evers College

Prof. James Freeman, BCC

Prof. Marie Sacino, LaGuardia CC

Prof. Gail Williams Esq., NYC College of Tech.