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Thomas de Waal is a senior associated in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing primarily in the South Caucus region, comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia and their breakaway territories, as well as in the wider Black Sea region. De Waal is an acknowledged expert on the unresolved conflicts of the South Caucasus: Abkhazia, Nagorno_Karabakh, and South Ossetia. From 2002 to 2009, he worked as an analyst and project manager on the conflicts in the South Caucasus for the London-based NGOS conciliation resources and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.

Ellen Mickiewicz is the James R. Shepley professor of public policy studies, professor of political science, and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. A specialist on media and politics, especially in the former Soviet Union and Eastern/Central Europe, she is also a fellow of The Carter Center.  Her most recent book is No Illusions: Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders.  She is also the author of "Changing Channels," a study of the role and impact of television in Russia from 1985-1999. It analyzes the rise of modern, televised campaigning in post-Soviet Russia; the use of free television time for unmediated candidate communication with the public; editorial coverage by news organizations; and political advertising. It examines the volatile media market and the persisting contest for political control of television that has made the institutionalization of pluralism extremely difficult.  Dr. Mickiewicz was the first American to be honored by the 120,000-member Journalists Union of Russia for her contribution to the development of democratic media in the region. Her earlier book, "Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union," was given the Electronic Media Book of the Year award by the National Association of Broadcasters and the Broadcast Education Association, and she is the author or editor of five other books and numerous journal articles.

Confronting the Death Penalty A Tufts University Symposium  November 19, 2104  

Panelists:
John Artis: Exoneree and Co-Defendant with Rubin "Hurricane" Carter; former Counselor, Timber Ridge Residential Center for Boys; former Correctional Officer, White Post Detention Center
Fred W. Hogan: Former Investigator, New Jersey Office of the Public Defender; first person to begin reinvestigating the Rubin "Hurricane" Carter/John Artis case, in which his efforts resulted in the recantation of two eyewitnesses, paving the way for the exonerations
Thom Kidrin: Friend, Executor and Trustee of the Estate of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
John Lemay: Filmmaker and Tufts alumnus chosen to create an archival film on Rubin "Hurricane Carter" and John Artis 

Confronting the Death Penalty A Tufts University Symposium November 19, 2014

The Death of Punishment? A Dialogue

Panelists: 

Sherman Teichman: Founding Director, Institute for Global Leadership

Erin Kelly: Chair, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University; Author, Criminal Justice without Retribution 

Robert Blecker: Professor of Law, New York Law School; Author, The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice Among the Worst of the Worst 

Confronting the Death Penalty A Tufts University Symposium  November 19, 2104  

Panelists:
John Artis: Exoneree and Co-Defendant with Rubin "Hurricane" Carter; former Counselor, Timber Ridge Residential Center for Boys; former Correctional Officer, White Post Detention Center
Fred W. Hogan: Former Investigator, New Jersey Office of the Public Defender; first person to begin reinvestigating the Rubin "Hurricane" Carter/John Artis case, in which his efforts resulted in the recantation of two eyewitnesses, paving the way for the exonerations
Thom Kidrin: Friend, Executor and Trustee of the Estate of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
John Lemay: Filmmaker and Tufts alumnus chosen to create an archival film on Rubin "Hurricane Carter" and John Artis 

Confronting the Death Penalty A Tufts University Symposium November 19, 2014
Panelists:

David J. Harris: Managing Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute of Race and Justice, Harvard Law School

Peniel Joseph: Professor of History and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Tufts University

Sabrina Butler: Exoneree; Assistant Director of Membership and Training, Witness to Innocence

Laurence Ralph: Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Professor Shevel's research and teaching focus on the post-Communist region surrounding Russia and issues such as nation- and state-building, the politics of citizenship and migration, memory politics, and the influence of international institutions on democratization. She is the author of "Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe" (Cambridge 2011), which examines how the politics of national identity and strategies of the UNHCR shape refugee admission policies in the post-Communist region, leading countries to be more or less receptive to refugees. The book received the 2012 American Association of Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) book prize. At present, Professor Shevel is working on a new book project - comparative study of the sources of citizenship policies in new post-Communist states. Articles based on this project were published inComparative Politics in 2009, and in Post-Soviet Affairs in 2012. Oxana Shevel's research has also appeared in the East European Politics and Societies, Europe-Asia Studies, Slavic Review, Political Science Quarterly, Nationality Papers, and in edited volumes.