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Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy. An historian by training, he has specialized in the excavation of issues that have contemporary policy implications. His 1986 book, *Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts*, was awarded three scholarly prizes. More recently, his book, *The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States* (2000), was named the best book in U.S. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and *the Los Angeles Times* Book Award. Keyssar is coauthor of *Inventing America*, a text integrating the history of technology and science into the mainstream of American history, as well as coeditor of a series on *Comparative and International Working-Class History*. In 2004/5, Keyssar chaired the Social Science Research Council's National Research Commission on Voting and Elections. Keyssar's current research interests include election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty.

Alexander Kronemer is a writer, lecturer and documentary producer focusing on religious diversity, Islam, and cross-cultural understanding. He has a Master's Degree in Theological Studies from Harvard University, where his research concentrated on the philosophy of religion and comparative religion. In 1996, he was awarded a Joseph J. Malone Fellowship for Middle East and Islamic Studies. He is the co-founder of Unity Productions Foundation, a non-profit corporation whose mission is to help bring peace through the media by creating better understanding of Islam and the world's other faiths and spiritual traditions. He was creator and co-producer of the popular PBS documentary *Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet*.

A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Professor Lamis earned a B.A. in history from the College of Charleston in 1968, a Ph.D. in political science from Vanderbilt University in 1982 and a J.D. from the University of Maryland Law School in 1984. A specialist on elections and political parties, he is the author of The Two-Party South, 2d expanded edition (Oxford University Press, 1990), which was co-winner of the V. O. Key Award when the book's first edition was published in 1984. He has also written various articles and book chapters on the politics of the American South. For example, in 2005 he published "The Emergence of a Two-Party System: Southern Politics in the Twentieth Century," in Craig S. Pascoe, Karen Trahan Leathem, and Andy Ambrose, eds., The American South in the Twentieth Century (University of Georgia Press, 2005), pp. 225-246. In 1991, he sketched his predictions for the politics of his native region in "The Future of Southern Politics: New Directions for Dixie," in Joe P. Dunn and Howard L. Preston, eds., The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-first Century (University of Illinois Press), pp. 49-80. Shortly after his arrival at Case two decades ago, he was asked by the university's magazine to write a first-person account of how he came to focus his research on the politics of his native region. Starting with a detailed description of a memorable, unplanned "confrontation" with George Wallace, the segregationist Alabama governor, while working as a TV journalist in South Carolina, Prof. Lamis tells how his extensive first-hand contact with the chaotic partisan politics of Dixie in the latter part of the 1960s and early 1970s led to his study of the rise of two-party competition in the old one-party Democratic South after he became a political science graduate student at Vanderbilt University. The CWRU Magazine article is reprinted below. Professor Lamis is also co-editor of Ohio Politics, revised & updated edition (Kent State University Press, 2007). He wrote the book's concluding chapter on Ohio electoral and political party system change from the Civil War through the historic 2006 election. When the first edition of Ohio Politics was published in 1994, it was his first book project involving collaboration among political scientists and journalists. See below for more on the new edition of Ohio Politics. His second edited book, Southern Politics in the 1990's, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 1999. He is the author of the lengthy introductory and concluding chapters of this collaborative work that contains eleven state chapters written by teams of Southern political scientists and journalists. His concluding chapter to the volume seeks to place Southern electoral patterns within the broader context of overall national electoral and party system change. A review of this book is reprinted below. Before joining the Case Western Reserve University faculty in 1988, Dr. Lamis taught at the University of North Florida (1985- 1988) and the University of Mississippi (1981-1985) and worked as a research assistant for James L. Sundquist at the Brookings Institution in Washington (1980-1981). From September 1985 to August 1986, he taught at U.S. military bases in England, Greece, Spain, and Turkey as a visiting professor in Troy State University's graduate public administration program in Europe. In the summer of 1984, he traveled throughout Cameroon in West Africa as part of a U.S. government-sponsored Fulbright Groups Project Abroad. Prior to beginning graduate school at Vanderbilt in the fall of 1973, he worked as a newspaper reporter at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson and at the Columbia Record in South Carolina's capital and served as a supply officer in the U.S. Navy in Iceland. During his last two years in college, he worked as a part-time television reporter for the CBS affiliate in Charleston, WCSC-TV. While in graduate school at Vanderbilt, he worked as a part-time copy editor at the Nashville Tennessean. Later, he was a regional news editor and copy editor at the Bergen Record in New Jersey, and, while writing his Ph.D. dissertation and attending law school at the University of Maryland, he worked as a copy editor at the Baltimore Sun. At that time, he also taught part-time at Towson University in suburban Baltimore. Recently he was delighted to be asked by the editor of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., to write a profile of his favorite political scientist, V. O. Key, Jr. His Key article, which was published in early 2008, is reprinted below. At Case, in addition to being a member of the Faculty Senate and various university committees, he founded in the spring of 1989 the popular on-going faculty/staff Friday public affairs discussion forum. In 1992 he was an initial organizer of a university-wide public policy initiative, which sponsored over a dozen two-hour forums under his direction. He also initiated a network of Northeast Ohio political scientists in 1989 that promoted collaborative contact among area political scientists for nearly two decades. In 1997, he took a bar examination for the first time, passed it, and was admitted to practice law in Ohio by the Ohio Supreme Court. He has kept his law license current since then by attending the required Continuing Legal Education courses every two years.

Ph.D., Princeton,1971. Joined the faculty in 1990. He is also Professor of the Humanities and of Comparative Literature. His interests include Greek philosophy, philosophy of art, European philosophy and literary theory.

Alexander Nemerov teaches and writes about American visual culture from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He has focused primarily on painting but lately has turned more and more to the study of film, theater, and sculpture. His writing often analyzes fiction and poetry alongside works of visual art. His seminars include The Visual Culture of the American Home Front, 1941-1945 and American Art in the Democratic Age, 1830-1860. His recent lecture courses have been a survey of American photography from the daguerreotype to 1971; a survey of American painting and sculpture from Copley to Pollock; and a survey of western art from Giotto to David.

Alex Petroff is originally from Alabama. He holds degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Carleton College (Northfield, MN). He is a doctoral student at MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science. His research focuses on how the complex and intricate patterns in the natural world arise from simple physical laws.

Alexander C. Sanger is the author of *Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century* published in January 2004 by PublicAffairs. Mr. Sanger, the grandson of Margaret Sanger, who founded the birth control movement over eighty years ago, is currently Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council and has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. He also operates a website and weblog www.AlexanderSanger.com with commentary on reproductive rights issues. Mr. Sanger previously served as the President of Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) and its international arm, The Margaret Sanger Center International (MSCI) for ten years from 1991 - 2000. Shortly after assuming the Presidency of PPNYC, Mr. Sanger launched the Clinician Training Initiative, designed to address the disturbing fact that few doctors were trained or willing to perform abortions. Since its inception in 1993, the program has trained over 100 Ob-Gyn residents and has accomplished two major policy victories with lasting national impact.

Alexander Thompson’s research focuses on international relations, especially in the area of international institutions and cooperation. His book, Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq (Cornell University Press, 2009), asks why powerful states often conduct coercive foreign policies through international organizations. Professor Thompson provides an information-based explanation and assesses arguments looking at U.S. policy toward Iraq from 1990 to the current intervention and its aftermath. Channels of Power won the International Studies Association’s Chadwick F. Alger Prize for the best book on international organization and multilateralism and the Best Book Award from ISA-Midwest. Much of Alexander Thompson’s research addresses issues of institutional delegation and design at the international level, with recent and ongoing projects on the design of the global climate regime, the politics of investment treaty ratification, the domestic politics of legalization in the WTO, the principal-agent dynamics of multilateral weapons inspections, determinants of how international organizations perform, and the enforcement of international law. Professor Thompson also writes and speaks on the question of unilateralism versus multilateralism in U.S. foreign policy. [](https://smile.amazon.com/Alexander-Thompson/e/B002DEQ82U/)

**Alexander von Hoffman** is a Senior Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. He is the author of \_House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America’s Urban Neighborhoods\_ (Oxford University Press, 2003); \_Fuel Lines for the Urban Revival Engine: Neighborhoods, Community Development Corporations, and Financial Intermediaries\_ (Fannie Mae Foundation, 2001); and \_Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850 to 1920\_ (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994) and editor of \_Form, Modernism and History. Essays in Honor of Eduard F. Sekler\_ (Graduate School of Design/Harvard University Press, 1997). Dr. von Hoffman has written numerous scholarly articles on urban history as well as general-interest essays on housing and urban development for periodicals such as the \_Atlantic Monthly\_, the\_ New York Times\_, and the \_Washington Post\_. His current major research projects are a history of low-income housing policy in the United States; the emergence of the issue of the preservation of affordable housing; and the rise of regulatory barriers to housing development in greater Boston. Before coming to the Joint Center, von Hoffman was an associate professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design where he continues to teach as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of History at Harvard University.

Alexandra builds upon the more than 60 years of global name recognition to engage people who expect to hear credible environmental information from the third generation of this pioneering family of explorers. Born into the family business, Alexandra joined her parents in Easter Island on her first expedition at just four months old. By the age of three, she had toured Africa, exploring Egypt, Tunisia, Uganda and Kenya in the arms of her father. While many of those memories are now out of reach, the experience of those expeditions with her father’s crew has shaped her sense of purpose, her connection to the ocean, and her love of adventure. She could swim before she could walk and was one of the few who learned to dive with SCUBA from Captain Cousteau himself at the tender age of seven. Her childhood friends were the sea creatures that inhabit the rocky shorelines of the south of France. The ocean has been her guide ever since. While Alexandra continues to find inspiration in her family legacy, she has since become a globally recognized advocate on ocean issues in her own right. She has led countless expeditions to better understand the issues facing our oceans and explore our connection to freshwater resources that are so critical to the health and prosperity of human communities. In the search for a deeper understanding of the issues that face us today (and perhaps a bit of excitement), she continues to push the boundaries of discovery, adventure, and global problem solving. In the process, she has walked for water with women in Africa, rescued Humpback whales from entanglements, climbed mountains and explored glaciers, guarded Leatherback turtles laying their eggs from poachers and even been rescued from a 15-foot Tiger shark by a pod of dolphins. Over the decades she has spent working for the protection of our water planet, Alexandra has mastered the remarkable storytelling tradition handed down to her and has the unique ability to inspire audiences on the weighty issues of policy, politics and action. She has met with heads of state, industry leaders, fisher communities, and NGOs around the world to find solutions to pressing ocean issues. She pioneered the idea of telling real time stories from her expeditions on social media when Facebook and Twitter were still in their infancy. In 2010, her 5-month expedition around North America was National Geographic’s first ever “interactive expedition”. By coupling traditional media tours and film with social media platforms, she has helped ocean conservation programs engage record audiences for action. She has been named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and has also received an honorary doctorate from Georgetown University, her alma mater. Deeply saddened by the state of the oceans and the increasingly dire predictions for what would be left for her children to explore in 2050, Alexandra founded and developed the OCEANS 2050 initiative in October of 2020. This initiative is a global program of ocean afforestation - restoring lost coastal habitats by designing, seeding and managing marine forests that provide habitat for marine life, reverse acidification and hypoxia, enhance coastal climate resilience and sequester CO2. The mission is to shift the narrative around our ocean, from conservation to abundance, sustainability to regeneration and consumer to contributor. They are developing a science-based, global strategy to catalyze regenerative solutions and their ambition is to restore abundance to our ocean through vision, partnerships and science. Alexandra also works closely with OCEANA as a Senior Advisor and has been deeply involved in Oceana's campaigns to curb overfishing in the countries that control about one third of the world’s wild fish catch in order to win policy victories that can increase biodiversity in our oceans and deliver more seafood to the future. Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization focused solely on ocean conservation. Their offices around the world work together to win strategic, directed campaigns that achieve measurable outcomes that will help make our oceans more bio diverse and abundant. Ultimately, Alexandra’s motivation is to help bring about a future for her children that is as abundant as the one she once knew. Her children, also ocean lovers, support her efforts 100%.

Alexandra is co-founder and CEO of ARCHANGELS. She co-founded Eliza Corporation (acquired by HMS Holdings Corp: HMSY), Engage with Grace, and three other companies (all boot-strapped). A serial entrepreneur, she is also a cashier-on-leave for Walmart. She believes communities are the frontline of health, that caregivers are our country’s greatest asset, and that we need to expand the definition of health to include life.

Alexandra Kleeman has written for publications including the Paris Review, Zoetrope, Guernica, Tin House, and n+1. She received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has received grants and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She is currently completing a PhD in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. She lives in New York City. Book: [You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine](http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062388674/you-too-can-have-a-body-like-mine "")

Alexandra Natapoff is an award-winning legal scholar and criminal justice expert. She writes about criminal courts, public defense, plea bargaining, wrongful convictions, and race and inequality in the criminal system. Her book "Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal" (Basic Books) reveals the powerful influence that misdemeanors exert over the U.S. criminal system. Her book "Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice" (NYU Press), won the ABA Silver Gavel Award Honorable Mention for Books: her original work on criminal informants has made her an international expert. Professor Natapoff is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the American Law Institute, and a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School. She has testified before Congress and numerous state legislative bodies; she has helped draft state and federal legislation; her work appears frequently in judicial opinions as well as the national media. Prior to joining the academy, she served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Baltimore, Maryland.

**Alexandra A. Petri** is an American humorist and newspaper columnist. According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra\_Petri ""), in 2010 she became the youngest person to have a column in The Washington Post; she also runs the ComPost blog on the paper's website, on which she formerly worked with Dana Milbank. Petri graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a degree in English, concentrating in classics, in 2010; while there she joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, worked with the Hasty Pudding Club, and wrote for the Internet comedy series On Harvard Time and for the Harvard Crimson.

Alexandra Rosati will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor in Fall term 2015. Her research explores the evolutionary origins of the human mind. She compares how humans and other primates think about the world in order to understand what cognitive capacities are unique to humans, as well as how these capacities emerged.