UC Davis Experts: Anniversary of Sept. 11, War on Terror.

(From AScribe)

DAVIS, Calif. -- 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.

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