Keynotes

Shelley Armitage

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Clifford G. Christians
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Clifford Christians is a Research Professor of Communications and Media Studies, Professor of Journalism and Professor of Media Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Professor Christians' teaching interests are in the philosophy of technology, dialogic communication theory, and media ethics. He has authored several books, including Responsibility in Mass Communication, Communication Ethics and Universal Values (together with Michael Traber). His Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning with Kim Rotzoll and Mark Fackler is now in its sixth edition. His book with colleagues Glasser, McQuail, Nordenstreng and White, Normative Theories of the Media, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. In 2003 he won the AEJMC Presidential Award for distinguished service to journalism and mass communication education, and in 2004 AEJMC's Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research.

Betsy Erkkila
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Betsy Erkkila is the Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of Literature at Northwestern University.

Her teaching interests include American literature, comparative American cultures, gender studies, and cultural and political theory. She is the author of Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars; The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord; Whitman the Political Poet; and Walt Whitman Among the French: Poet and Myth. She is co-editor (with Jay Grossman) of Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies, and editor of a new Riverside edition of Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Writings. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for 2005-2006 to complete a book entitled Imagining the Revolution: Literature and Politics in Revolutionary America.

Jussi Hanhimäki
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Jussi Hanhimäki is a Professor at Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

The teaching and research of Professor Hanhimäki center on history, politics, and foreign policy of the United States, Cold War studies, American-European relations and Scandinavian international history. He has published and edited several books, including Cold War History (ed.), An Insecure Friendship: the United States and Scandinavia Since 1945 and Understanding the Cold War: A History with Documents and Eye-Witness Accounts, with Odd Arne Westad. In 2002 he was awarded the Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

James G. (Jerry) Hunt
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James G. Hunt is a Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Management and Trinity Company Professor in Leadership at Texas Tech University.

Academic interests of Professor Hunt include leadership, organizational behavior and organizational theory. He has served as the longterm editor of the Journal of Management and recently Leadership Quarterly. He has also published numerous books, including cooperations with Professor Arja Ropo from the University of Tampere: Multi-Level Leadership: Grounded Theory and Mainstream Theory Applied to the Case of General Motors, Leadership and Faculty Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Processes as Virtuous and Vicious Spirals in a Changing Opportunity Structure: A Paradoxical Perspective.

Keith W. Olson
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Keith Olson is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland.

Professor Olson has published two books, including The G.I. Bill, the Veterans, and the Colleges, which was runner-up for the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians. In 1986-1987 and again in 1993-1994 he served as a Fulbright Professor in Finland and is an honorary member of the Finnish Historical Society. Twice he has been the recipient of Outstanding Teaching Awards sponsored by the Panhellenic Association. In May 2000 The University of Tampere, Finland, awarded him an honorary Ph.D.

Katri Sieberg
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Katri Sieberg is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University, New York.

Professor Sieberg's interests include game theory/formal theory, comparative politics with an emphasis on Russia and Eastern Europe, and the study of crime and political conflict. She has published a book Criminal Dilemmas: Understanding and Preventing Crime, in the Studies in Economic Theory series, and she has published articles in the American Political Science Review and in Games and Economic Behavior. Sieberg was granted a Fulbright teaching and research award at the University of Tampere in Finland for the 2002-2003 year.

Mimi White
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Mimi White is a Professor of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. Currently she holds the Bicentennial Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki.

Professor White's research interests include: film, television, media theory; feminist theory and film/television/popular culture; mass culture studies; issues in media historiography. She has published numerous scholarly articles and books, including Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television, and the co-authorship of Media Knowledge: Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Critical Citizenship. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and has visited several Finnish Univesities, including the University of Tampere in 1994.