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Prof. Seager's current areas of research include: militarism and environment; feminist geography and the comparative international status of women; international environmental policy. Prof. Seager teaches broadly across a human geography and environmental studies curriculum. Since coming to Hunter she has taught two courses, both upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses: War and Environment, and Food and Famine. She has supervised a group of graduate students in an Independent Readings course on Geographies of Violence. Additionally, she is supervising or on committees for four M.A. and two Ph.D. students.

Hayat Imam, a Muslim feminist, is an active member of Dorchester People for Peace and a long-time proponent of renewable energy. In the late 1970's, she participated with Clamshell Alliance in resisting the construction of the Seabrook nuclear power plant and she co-wrote a book called *Watermelons Not War!* Professionally, she has worked internationally on women's development projects with non-government organizations and as a consultant for the United Nations system. Hayat has a deep commitment to promoting the economic and political capacity of women so they can build sustainable change in their lives and the lives of their children. She worked for BRAC, an NGO in Bangladesh that has contributed profoundly to the education and poverty reduction of thousands of women and their families, and which now has affiliates in other South Asian countries, including Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. In the Philippines, Hayat was on the Board of ISIS International-Manila, founded to provide regional and global advocacy on gender issues in media and alternative communications, and to promote dialogues to enhance collaboration within the global women's movement. She is a former executive director of the Boston Women's Fund, which is committed to funding social change projects organized by women and girls, and was instrumental in developing and launching its 2000 Club that helped build an endowment through grassroots fundraising.

Charles Rosen was born in New York in 1927 and left The Juilliard School of Music at the age of eleven to study piano with Moritz Rosenthal, a pupil of Liszt. His New York debut in 1957 was followed in the same year by one of the first complete recordings of Debussys Etudes, which attracted high praise. Since then his career as a piano virtuoso has included many tours of the United States and Europe, playing with leading orchestras and giving recitals. He has made frequent appearances with the BBC and various European and American radio stations, and his television appearances include the presentation of two programmes on Beethovens last years for BBC TV. In September 1999 he broadcast Rosen on Chopin a series of programmes to mark the 150th anniversary of the composers death for BBC Radio 3. His performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra have included the BBC Promenade Concert premiere of Elliott Carters Double Concerto, and the first performance of Boulezs Elats/Mutiples conducted by the composer. The holder of a doctorate in French Literature from Princeton University, Charles Rosen holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Durham. He was appointed to the Charles Eliot Norton Chair at Harvard for 1980/81; this Chair, established in 1925, is offered every year to an outstanding individual in one the arts, alternating between literature and music. In 1988 he was the George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University, and he was Professor of Music and Social Thought at the University of Chicago between 1991 and 1996. He was recently appointed to the International Chair in Performance and Musicology at the Royal Northern College of Music for a period of three years.

Douglas L. Wilson, co-director, with Rodney O. Davis, of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, is the author of *Lincoln before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years* (1997); *Herndon's Informants: Letters and Interviews about Abraham Lincoln* (1998); and *Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln* (1998), which was awarded the Lincoln Prize for 1999, and *Herndon's Lincoln* (2006).

Charles M. Vest is President Emeritus and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Vest earned his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University in 1963 and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1964 and 1967, respectively. He is also the recipient of ten honorary doctoral degrees. Dr. Vest served as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1990 through 2004. During this time, he placed special emphasis on enhancing undergraduate education, exploring new organizational forms to meet emerging directions in research and education, building a stronger international dimension into education and research programs, developing stronger relations with industry, and enhancing racial and cultural diversity at MIT. Dr. Vest has worked to bring issues concerning education and research to broader public attention and to strengthen national policy on science, engineering and education. Vest is the author of two books on higher education and research policy: *Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of the Research University *(2004), and *The American Research University from World War II to World Wide Web* (2007).

More than 50 years after joining CBS News, Don Hewitt continues to influence television journalism, much as he did when he helped develop many of its methods for reporting news, beginning in 1948. His pioneering work in producing and directing many of the broadcasts of the world's major news events during television's infancy provided a blueprint that news producers still rely on today. But Hewitt is best known and most respected for another innovation, *60 Minutes*, the groundbreaking news broadcast he created in 1968 that is the most successful broadcast in television history. After 36 years on *60 Minutes*, Hewitt stepped aside as executive producer in June 2004, but he continues to provide advice and counsel to Jeff Fager as he moves into the executive producer post to ensure a smooth transition of leadership. Hewitt began his journalism career in 1942 as head copyboy for the *New York Herald Tribune* after attending New York University for one year. During World War II, he served as a correspondent in the European and Pacific theaters (1943-45). Hewitt is the author of *Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television* (PublicAffairs, April 2001), in which chronicles his life as a newsman. He is also the author of the book *Minute by Minute* (Random House, 1985).

Eric Reeves is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past ten years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the US and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan's recent history. His book about Darfur, *A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide*, was published in May 2007. He is also at work on a longer-range project surveying the international response to ongoing war and human destruction in Sudan over the past 25 years, *Sudan: Suffering a Long Way Off*.

David Martin grew up on a farm, worked in steel mills, served in the military, wrote for magazines, and for the past 15 years has been a full-time novelist.

Norma Shapiro serves as Legislative Director for the ACLU of Massachusetts. During her 20-year career, Shapiro's work has contributed to some of the most historic civil liberties victories in the country, including equal marriage rights, reproductive freedom, privacy rights, and fair financing of public education.

In July 2005, Mark Roosevelt was appointed superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools, a district with over 32,000 students and 80 schools. Roosevelt began his career in government as a member of President Jimmy Carter's domestic policy staff. He subsequently became the executive director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in Boston before being elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature. During his eight years as a state representative, Roosevelt served as the house chairman of the legislature's committee on education, and co-authored and steered to passage the landmark $40 billion Education Reform Act of 1993, which restructured the way Massachusetts funds and manages its public schools. In 1994, Roosevelt was the Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts. He most recently served as managing director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. Prior to that role he served as president and chief executive officer of Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, a nonprofit economic development corporation that works with government, academic and private institutions to start and attract medical companies in the state. Roosevelt received his Bachelor of Arts in American history from Harvard College and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.