The following University of California, Davis, faculty members are available to comment on a variety of topics related to the upcoming five-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, and the aftermath nationally and internationally. If you need assistance on similar topics, please call Susanne Rockwell, News Service, (530) 752-9841, sgrockwell@ucdavis.edu or Julia Ann Easley, News Service, (530) 752-8248, jaeasley@ucdavis.edu.

• Security
• Middle East security issues
• Biological weapons
• Computer security, cyberterrorism
• Human and Civil Rights
• Modern Islam, human rights and war
• Anti-terrorism and human rights
• Civil rights and racial profiling
• Racial profiling
• Women's human rights
• Guantanamo Bay
• Enemy combatants
• Constitutional issues
• Politics, Media and Public Opinion
• Politicians' accountability during occupation
• Media coverage
• Failure to memorialize 9/11
• History of women's peace movements
• Immigration
• Immigration policy
• Immigration enforcement
• Effects on the Arts and Agriculture
• Losses to the classics
• U.S. agriculture

SECURITY

MIDDLE EAST SECURITY ISSUES -- Zeev Maoz, political science professor at UC Davis, is an expert on Middle East security, including politics, economics and strategic military issues. He can talk about domestic instability in the Middle East, including Iraq and Israel, as a result of the war, as well as about more general Middle East political problems. The former director of Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Maoz has a new book, "Defending the Holy Land?" Contact: Zeev Maoz, Political Science, (530) 752-1989, zmaoz@ucdavis.edu.

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS -- Mark Wheelis, a senior lecturer with tenure in the Section of Microbiology at UC Davis, is an expert on biological and chemical weapons and the history of biological warfare. He is a member of the working group on biological and chemical weapons at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, a non-profit group that addresses peace and security issues related to weapons of mass destruction. Wheelis has acted as a consultant to governments and as a technical expert on biological weapons control. He can discuss past biological warfare attacks and accidents, how terrorists or hostile governments might mount a biological attack and how it could be detected. His recent work has focused on the implications of biotechnology for biological and chemical weapons control, and on the vulnerability of agriculture to bioterrorist attack. Contact: Mark Wheelis, Microbiology, (530) 752-0562 (phone), (530) 752-3633 (fax), mlwheelis@ucdavis.edu.

COMPUTER SECURITY, CYBERTERRORISM -- Malicious software or "malware" continues to grow and threaten computer and electronic networks, with new problems emerging as cell phones and other personal devices become devices for Web surfing and e-mail. The Computer Security Laboratory at UC Davis, recognized as a Center of Excellence by the National Security Agency, carries out research and teaching on these threats and how to counter them. Co-directors Matt Bishop, professor of computer science, and Hao Chen, assistant professor of computer science, can address various topics related to computer security. The lab receives funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, other agencies and the private sector. More information: http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/. Contacts: Matt Bishop, (530) 752-8060, bishop@cs.ucdavis.edu; Hao Chen, (530) 754-5375, hchen@cs.ucdavis.edu.

HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS

MODERN ISLAM, HUMAN RIGHTS AND WAR -- Historian Keith Watenpaugh, associate professor of modern Islam, human rights and peace at UC Davis, can speak on a wide variety of topics regarding Iraq, its history and prospects for peace and, more generally, the Middle East, where he has conducted extensive research. Watenpaugh has written and spoken on campuses around the country on issues raised by the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, in particular the challenges facing Iraq's intellectuals and college and university professionals, as well as threats to cultural heritage. He is the author of "Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism and the Arab Middle Class" (2006). He is currently editing the volume "The Arab Intellectual and the Question of Modernity" and finishing a second book, "It Made Orphans of Their Children and Widows of their Wives: Human Rights Abuse and the Formation of the Modern Middle East." Contact: Keith Watenpaugh, (530) 313-5115, kwatenpaugh@ucdavis.edu.

ANTI-TERRORISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- Professor Diane Marie Amann of the UC Davis School of Law is an expert on the impact of post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism measures on civil liberties and human rights in the United States and throughout the world. A member of the board of advisers of the National Institute of Military Justice, the executive committee of the American Society of International Law, and a 16-country comparative study of military justice and special war crimes tribunals, Amann comments regularly in national and foreign media on military justice as it relates both to U.S. service members and non-citizen detainees, on the national and international law consequences of Supreme Court decisions on executive detention, and on special war crimes tribunals ranging from the president's military commissions to the court now trying Saddam Hussein. Her scholarship has appeared in publications in the United States, France, the Netherlands and Italy; recent work includes "International Law and Rehnquist-Era Reversals," Georgetown Law Journal (2006), "Abu Ghraib," University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2005), and "Guantanamo," Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (2004). Contact: Diane Marie Amann, School of Law, (310) 873-8552, dmamann@ucdavis.edu.

CIVIL RIGHTS AND RACIAL PROFILING -- Kevin Johnson, the Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis, says the domestic war on terrorism has inflicted collateral damage on the civil rights of immigrants and certain groups of U.S. citizens. A specialist in civil rights and immigration law, Johnson says federal government measures have created hardships for immigrants and unfairly targeted Arabs and Muslims in the United States and effectively subjected them to racial profiling. He is co-author of "Race, Civil Rights and Immigration Law After Sept. 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims," a chapter carried in the book "Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims," which won the 2004 Myers Outstanding Book Award. His latest book is "The 'Huddled Masses' Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights" (2004). Johnson also wrote "How Did You Get to Be Mexican?" and is editor of the anthology of readings "Mixed Race America: A Critical Reader." He also wrote "Anti-Terrorist Measures and Human Rights." Johnson is president of the board of directors for Legal Services of Northern California and a member of the board of directors of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Contact: Kevin Johnson, School of Law, (530) 752-0243, krjohnson@ucdavis.edu.

RACIAL PROFILING -- Professor Thomas Joo of the UC Davis School of Law is author of "Presumed Disloyal: Executive Power, Judicial Deference, and the Construction of Race Before and After September 11," in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, Arab Americans were presumed to be disloyal terrorists or terrorist sympathizers, with tragic consequences for civil rights. Joo's article discusses how this story repeats elements of Asian American legal history. The presumption of Asian Americans' disloyalty, he wrote, had disastrous consequences for Japanese Americans during World War II and, more recently, for Wen Ho Lee, the American nuclear scientist wrongly accused of spying for China. Five years after Sept. 11, the presumption of Arab American disloyalty seems to have been somewhat mitigated, Joo says. It has not been eliminated, however, and its broader effect on civil liberties may be a lasting one, the professor adds. Joo teaches and writes about race and Asian American legal history. Contact: Thomas Joo, School of Law, (530) 754-6089, twjoo@ucdavis.edu.

WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS -- Professor Madhavi Sunder of the UC Davis School of Law is an expert on women's human rights in Muslim countries and communities. With law and culture as the focus of her scholarship, Sunder says international human rights law often fails to address women's rights under even the most oppressive regimes because such law is reticent to interfere with religion and culture. A 2006 Carnegie scholar, she is researching and writing a book about activists working for the reform of women's rights in Muslim countries. Sunder published a leading article on women's rights activism in the Muslim world, titled "Piercing the Veil," in the Yale Law Journal in 2003. Her related article on dissent within cultural groups was published in the Stanford Law Review in 2001. Contact: Madhavi Sunder, School of Law, (530) 752-2896, msunder@ucdavis.edu.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Professor Anupam Chander of the UC Davis School of Law says "the legal black hole of Guantanamo Bay" must be closed decisively by transferring the land to a trusteeship for the Cuban people and yielding control over the harbor to an international body. The professor, who studies international law, says a legal trick -- in which the United States exercises absolute control and concedes that another nation has sovereignty -- has allowed the U.S. government to detain people in Guantanamo without giving them access to lawyers or courts. Quitting Guantanamo, he says, will help demonstrate the United States' commitment to not be an imperial power. Among the courses Chander teaches is one on public international law. Contact: Anupam Chander, School of Law, (530) 754-5304, achander@ucdavis.edu.

ENEMY COMBATANTS -- Carlton Larson, a professor at the UC Davis School of Law, specializes in constitutional law and its history. He argues that the military detention of U.S. citizens as enemy combatants is unconstitutional. His article, titled "The Forgotten Constitutional Law of Treason and the Enemy Combatant Problem," was published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review this spring. The professor teaches constitutional law and legal history. He is available beginning July 24. Contact: Carlton Larson, School of Law, (530) 754-5731, clarson@ucdavis.edu.

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES -- Tobias B. Wolff, a professor at the UC Davis School of Law can comment on constitutional issues related to Sept. 11 and the War on Terror, including the rights of detainees and U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence on the president's executive power in times of war. He has written broadly on constitutional law, including military law issues and the constitutional rights of soldiers. He is currently visiting at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Contact: Tobias Barrington Wolff, School of Law, (215) 746-8774.

POLITICS, MEDIA AND PUBLIC OPINION

POLITICIANS' ACCOUNTABILITY DURING OCCUPATION -- Increasing numbers of American deaths in Iraq can be expected to shrink political support for the occupation as U.S. public opinion changes, says Scott Sigmund Gartner, associate professor of political science at UC Davis. Gartner can explain how sharp declines in public support for the Bush administration's effort are related to low public expectations of casualties and disinterest in the American occupation. Gartner is an expert in the political relationship of war and casualties, wartime military decision-making, military strategy, and measuring progress in war. He wrote "Strategic Assessment of War," which studies how military progress is evaluated in wartime, and has published many articles on war, strategy, the impact of casualties on public opinion and politics, and U.S. foreign policy. Contact: Scott Gartner, Political Science, (530) 752-3065, ssgartner[at]ucdavis.edu. (Gartner will not be available until Aug. 15.)

MEDIA COVERAGE -- Because it has been more than three years since the U.S. overcame Saddam Hussein's regime, the media is increasingly being challenged by how to cover an ongoing insurgency, says John Theobald, a lecturer in the UC Davis Department of Communication. He can comment on how the public is affected by media coverage of the war as well as the politics that the print and broadcast media encounter in attempting to communicate war news to the public. Television reporters, in particular, are having a difficult time covering Iraq, Theobald says, because wars are generalized and have spread-out activities. "TV lends itself to covering localized events: 9/11 lent itself to TV, as Pearl Harbor would have, but the Iraq War doesn't, as WW II wouldn't have," he explains. Theobald teaches "The Media Industry," "Media Analysis" and "News Policies and Practices." Theobald is a former television news producer. Contact: John Theobald, Communication, (530) 752-4916 MTW office, (707) 942-1132 home, (707) 322-6340 cell, theobald@att.net.

FAILURE TO MEMORIALIZE 9/11 -- "The fifth anniversary of the tragic events of 9/11 reminds us of how the political leaders and other public figures in the United States have failed to find a strong, satisfying cultural narrative that explains to the American people why we have endured that suffering," says American studies professor Jay Mechling of UC Davis. In this particular time of crisis, Americans have nothing approaching Lincoln's second inaugural address or Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio addresses to satisfy a way to memorialize 9/11. "This is partly a failure of rhetorical skill on the part of our leaders, but it also reflects the failure of the traditional national narratives by which the United States understands itself and its role in world history," Mechling says. He can also talk about the construction of masculinity and the socialization of boys in regards to going to war. His book, "On My Honor: The Boy Scouts and American Culture," was published in 2001. Contact: Jay Mechling, American Studies, (510) 882-5639 home, jemechling@ucdavis.edu. (E-mail is the best way to reach Mechling from mid-August until late September).

HISTORY OF WOMEN'S PEACE MOVEMENTS -- UC Davis women's history scholar Lisa Materson can talk about the pivotal role American women have played in protesting wars from the 1830s through the Vietnam War era. She can talk about the origins of the largest peace organization, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, as well as give the history of the Women's Peace Party and the Vietnam-era Women Strike for Peace. Contact: Lisa Materson, History, (530) 752-9991, lgmaterson@ucdavis.edu.

IMMIGRATION

IMMIGRATION POLICY -- Professor Bill Ong Hing, who has appointments in the UC Davis School of Law and Asian American studies, is an expert in race relations, immigration law and history, and Asian American community issues. In "Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy," forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, Hing examines moral issues and immigration policy. "Sept. 11 gave the government license to act in the interest of the nation's security, but the government has abused that," he says. "We forget there are real people involved in the debate." In "Defining America Through Immigration Policy" (2004), Hing explores links between traditional racial concepts of who is a true American and how we enforce federal immigration policies. The professor says we have "de-Americanized" South Asian, Muslim and Arab immigrants. "The message we send to them is, 'You are not welcome.' I think that's a shame given we're a nation of immigrants." His other books include "To Be an American -- Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation" (1997). Contact: Bill Ong Hing, School of Law and Asian American Studies, (530) 754-9377, bhing@ucdavis.edu.

IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT -- "The United States is increasingly criminalizing immigration on national security grounds, but this approach actually results in the misallocation of resources and undermines security," says Professor Jennifer Chacon of the UC Davis School of Law. "The government should be focusing on genuine investigations into security threats instead of on the large-scale removal of people who pose no security risk," she says. Chacon is author of "Crime, Security and Removal: Immigration Enforcement in the United States after Sept. 11," in an edited volume forthcoming from Pittsburgh Press in 2007, and of "Constructing the Threat Within," to be published in the Connecticut Law Review. Chacon teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and immigration law. Please note there is a Spanish accent (from low on the left to high on the right) over the "o" in her last name. Contact: Jennifer Chacon, (530) 754-5700, jmchacon@ucdavis.edu.

EFFECTS ON THE ARTS AND AGRICULTURE

LOSSES TO THE CLASSICS -- Lynn Roller, professor of classics and art history at UC Davis, can speak about the impact of the looting in Iraq's museums and its consequences for scholarship. She is knowledgeable about historic monuments and urban centers in what was once Mesopotamia and is now Iraq and southeastern Turkey. Roller also can talk about the art and archaeological monuments of the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome. An archaeologist with many years of research experience in Turkey, Roller won the Wiseman Prize, given by the Archaeological Institute of America, for the outstanding book of the year in classical archaeology for her book "In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele" (1999). Contact: Lynn Roller, Classics, (530) 752-1062, leroller@ucdavis.edu.

U.S. AGRICULTURE -- Sept. 11 has had significant, although mostly indirect, impacts on agriculture in the United States, says Daniel Sumner, a UC Davis professor of agricultural economics who directs the UC Agricultural Issues Center. Sumner notes that concerns over future attacks by foreign interests have affected both government policies surrounding agriculture and the cost of business for farms as well as processing and marketing firms. For example, increased public pressure on immigration policies affects the agricultural labor force. Additionally, recognition that agriculture is vulnerable to terrorist acts has stimulated farmers, ranchers and marketing firms to develop bio-security technology and procedures for their operations. Larger farming and marketing operations, such as are common in California, may be more likely targets for agroterrorism, but these businesses also have developed more sophisticated approaches to security, Sumner notes. Contact: Daniel Sumner, UC Agricultural Issues Center, (530) 752-1668, dan@primal.ucdavis.edu. (He will be away from campus Aug. 7-19, but can be contacted by e-mail during that time.)