Prof. Brent Sockness, sockness@stanford.edu
Martha Crenshaw is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, as well as Professor of Political Science by courtesy. She is also Professor of Government Emerita at Wesleyan University, where she taught from 1974 to 2007. She is a lead investigator with the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism (NC-START) at the University of Maryland, funded by the Department of Homeland Security. She is a former President of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2005-2006. Her current research focuses on why the United States is a target of terrorism and the effectiveness of countermeasures against terrorism. In 2009 she received an award from the National Science Foundation for research on “mapping terrorist organizations.” She recently edited The Consequences of Counterterrorism, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2010.
A weekly lecture series - drawing upon experts in various disciplines, departments, and centers on campus and beyond - which seeks to understand and explain religion's renewed, and often violent, public and political relevance for global affairs at the beginning of the 21st century. Stanford undergrads enroll in RELIGST 103 for 2 units of credit.
