SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

“ETHNICITY AND RELIGION IN INTERNATIONAL POLTICS”

SUSAN WOODWARD – is Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.   Prior to going to CUNY, she was a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.  Woodward also taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Yale University, Williams College, and Georgetown and George Washington Universities.  She was the former head of the Analysis and Assessment Unit for UNPROFOR, Zagreb.  She is the author of Bad Guys:  Learning to Intervene in Political Conflict, The Yugoslav Conflict:  Redrawing Borders in a Period of Systemic Transition, and Balkan Tragedy:  Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War and a contributor to the recent Social Science Research Council book Understanding September 11.  She holds a B.A. from the University of Minnesota and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University.

DEVIN HAGERTY   - is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  Prior to his arrival at UMBC, Hagerty was a Senior Lecturer in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney in Australia.  He has also been a Visiting Political Science Professor and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  From 1986 to 1989 he was a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. Congress.  He is the author of The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation:  Lessons from South Asia.  Hagerty received his B.A. from Rutgers, his M.A. from Tufts, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM B. QUANDT – is the Edward Stettinius Chair of Politics and Vice Provost for International Affairs at the University of Virginia.  Prior to his tenure at UVA, Quandt was a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution.  He served two stints (1972-74, 1977-79) on the staff of the National Security Council where he was actively involved in the negotiations that led to the Egyptian-Israel peace treaty.  He also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, and MIT.  He has written numerous books and articles including Peace Process:  American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967, Camp David:  Peacemaking and Politics, and Between Ballots and Bullets:  Algeria’s Transition from Authoritarianism.  He has received fellowships from the Social Science Research and the Council on Foreign Relations and is a past President of the Middle East Studies Association.  Quandt received his B.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from MIT.