College Contacts
For news-related items on evenings and weekends, or in case of an emergency, contact College News Director Bill Giduz 704-892-1296. The listings immediately below feature faculty members with expertise in particularly timely topics who have agreed to share their time and expertise to answer your questions over the telephone or in person. Further down the page you can access the complete list of faculty members and their areas of expertise. If you cannot reach the party desired, please call the Office of College Communications at 704-894-2240 for assistance in making speaker arrangements. International Affairs/US Foreign Relations. - Russell Crandall, Associate Professor of Political Science. (o) 704-894-2283. Crandall is a frequent consultant to the U.S. government and has written several books on Latin America, including most recently the second edition of Driven By Drugs: United States Policy Toward Columbia (2006). Currenlty a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Crandall has been an advisor to senior officials in the Department of Defense and received a CFR Fellowship in 2004-2005 that led to nine months of service on the National Security Council as Director for the Western Hemisphere.
- Ken Menkhaus, Associate Professor of Political Science. (o) 704-894-2291 (h) 704-892-9570. Menkhaus is a frequent consultant to the U.S. government, U.N. and NGO's on failed states, peacekeeping, and post-war reconstruction in countries like Afghanistan and Somalia. He served as special political advisor in the UN operation in Somalia in 1993-94, was in Somalia during the Black Hawk Down incident, and was a visiting civilian professor at the Peacekeeping Institute of the US Army War College.
- Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science. (o) 704-879-2505. Rigger is an expert on Taiwan, Chinese-Taiwanese-U.S. relations, and emerging democracies in South Asia. She frequently consults the CIA and the U.S. Congress on China and Taiwan, and is often cited in Taiwanese newspapers.
American Politics and Elections. - Susan Roberts(o) 704-894-2458. (h) 704-892-9874. Roberts has been a frequent commentator on radio and television stations about both national and local races.
- Pat Sellers [704-894-2978 (o) 704-655-7485 (h)] offers special expertise in the interdependent relationship between politicians and the media, and is working on a book about how members of Congress attempt to manipulate their media coverage.
- Mary Thornberry [704-894-2282 (o) 704-892-5055 (h)] is watching developments from her point of view as an expert in Southern politics, Constitutional law, civil liberties, and public policy.
Genomics and Synthetic Biology.
A. Malcolm Campbell, Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Martin Genomics Program. (o) 704-894-2692. Campbell was recently awarded by the American Society of Cell Biology with its Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education, and is co-author of the first-ever genomics textbook for undergraduates, Discovering Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics (2004). Medical Ethics.
Lance Stell, Dana Professor of Philosophy. (o) 704-894-2908. Stell holds a faculty appointment in the department of internal medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, and publishes in medical ethics, ethics, and in philosophy of law. He serves as a consultant to hospitals and professional medical associations. The Royal Shakespeare Company Residency at Davidson College.
The Royal Shakespeare Company is in residency at Davidson during the spring semesters 2005-2008. In February 2007 the troupe is staging full productions of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" and "Pericles" in the college's Duke Family Performance Hall, as well as a new play entitled "Days of Significance." In 2006, an RSC educational troupe worked with Davidson students to produce a show of scenes, songs, and sonnets of Shakespeare that they presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Contacts for information about the residency include: Cynthia Lewis, Dana Professor of English. (o) 704-894-2257 (h) 704-892-4330. Lewis is a noted Shakespeare scholar who was invited to moderate a session at the inaugural weekend of the newly established National Council for The Shakespeare Theatre. She also teaches a class in "Performing Shakespeare." The director of the residency is Sherry Malushizky. (o) 704-894-2115 (h) 704-895-7394. Theatre department chair is Ann Marie Costa. (o) 704-894-2578 (h) 704-896-1895. Davidson College Communications liaison is Meg Kimmel. (o) 704-894-2242 (h) 704-892-5584.
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