Philip Merrill College of Journalism | University of Maryland

Carnegie Seminar

The Carnegie Seminar aims to expose journalism students to the university’s leading experts in fields directly related to major issues and events that reporters tackle in print, broadcast and new media. Directed by Carnegie Visiting Professor Deborah Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, this fall’s seminar will focus on global issues. Students will learn about three of the biggest stories they will cover in the decades to come: terrorism, nuclear proliferation and climate change. They will emerge with a deepened understanding of these topics, so they can report on them accurately and intelligently.

The class meets on Wednesdays from 6:30-8:45 p.m. around a conference table to encourage lively discussion. The course is open to graduate students and a limited number of undergraduate students. Graduate students will enroll in the 1-credit Carnegie practicum in spring 2008 to report and write an in-depth story on a related topic.

The Fall 2007 Instructors:

ARIE KRUGLANSKI
Professor of Psychology.
Expertise: The social psychology of terrorism.

He was appointed in 2001 to the National Academies of Science panel on the social and psychological aspects of terrorism, which has produced reports on the cause and prevention of terrorism. He is co-director of the Center of Excellence for Research on the Behavioral and Social Aspects of Terrorism and Counterterrorism, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. They are conducting an unprecedented look into the social and behavioral factors in terrorism aimed at identifying ways to counteract it.
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/main/people/profiles/akruglanski.html

ARMIN ROSENCRANZ
visiting professor from Stanford, where he received three student-nominated teaching awards, including “Teacher of the Year” in 2005.
Expertise: U.S. and global environmental policy and law; energy, environment and development; climate change; South Asia.

He's a lawyer and political scientist, specializing in environmental policy, and co-author of /Climate Change Science and Policy/ (2007). Before Stanford, he founded Pacific Environment, an international environmental NGO. He has had two Fulbright lectureships to India and taught one of India 's first courses on environmental law.
http://www.puaf.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/Rosencranz.htm
Homepage http://www.rosencranz.net

NANCY GALLAGHER
Associate Director for Research, Center for International and Security Studies.
Expertise: arms control and cooperative security, space policy, nuclear weapons and nuclear testing, verification, treaty ratification, and international relations theory.

"Before coming to the University of Maryland, Dr. Gallagher was the Executive Director of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Task Force and worked with the Special Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State on recommendations to build bipartisan support for U.S. ratification. She has been an arms control specialist in the State Department, a Foster Fellow in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and a faculty member at Wesleyan University. Dr. Gallagher is the author of The Politics of Verification (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999) and the editor of Arms Control: New Approaches to Theory and Policy (Frank Cass, 1998). She received her undergraduate degree in history from Carleton College and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana."
http://www.puaf.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/Gallagher.html.