Madeleine K. Albright

Madeleine K. Albright served as the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. In 1997 she was named the first female Secretary of State and was at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.  As Secretary of State, Albright reinforced America’s alliances, advocated democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade and business, labor, and environmental standards abroad.  Albright is the chairperson for The Women, Faith and Development Alliance, which aims to end global poverty among women. Albright is also the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Bret Baier ’92

Prior to his current role as FOX News chief White House correspondent, Bret Baier was a national security correspondent and reported on military and national security affairs, as well as on defense, military policy and the intelligence community from the Pentagon.  He provided up-to-the-minute news coverage of the war in Iraq, and he was the only television reporter to travel with then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers on the general’s first trip to Iraq following the capture of Saddam Hussein.

Mona Bhan

Assistant professor of anthropology at DePauw University, Mona Bhan’s research focuses on the interplay between identity politics and state-led development policies in the disputed states of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Since 1999, Bhan has been working extensively with Buddhist and Muslim communities living on the line-of-control between India and Pakistan, documenting their struggles and strategies in the face of years of wars and turmoil in the region. Prior to coming to Rutgers University for her Ph.D, Bhan obtained a Masters in Anthropology from Delhi University. Her research included interviewing Kashmiri insurgents to understand the socioeconomic and political contexts of terrorism in Kashmir. At DePauw, Bhan teaches courses on South Asia, globalization, the cultural politics of development and Wars and Militarization.

Pamela L. Carter

As president of Cummins Distribution, Pamela Carter oversees the company's global distribution network, which is the primary path to market of Cummins products and consists of 500 distributors and more than 5,000 dealers in morethan 160 countries.  Carter joined Cummins in 1997 as vice president and general counsel, after a distinguished legal and political career that included a term as Indiana Attorney General, becoming the first elected African-American female attorney general in U.S. history.

Catherine Collins

Catherine Collins has been a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and she has written for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as well as other publications. She covered Turkey for the Tribune for nearly six years and was an adjunct professor at Istanbul’s Sabanci University. She has written five nonfiction books. Her most recent book, written with her husband, Douglas Frantz, is The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets … and How We Could Have Stopped Him.

Sally Smerz Cowal ’66

Sally Cowal leads Population Services International’s (PSI) Americas Region (Latin America and the Caribbean) and maternal and child health initiatives. She came to PSI following a distinguished career in the U.S. Foreign Service, having served in India, Colombia, Israel, New York, Mexico, Washington, and Trinidad and Tobago, where she served as ambassador under presidents Bush and Clinton.   Deeply committed to combating AIDS, Cowal is one of the founders of UNAIDS and served as its deputy director for four years.

Sharon M. Crary

Assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at DePauw University, Sharon Crary's research emphasis is the Ebola virus. Crary's classes include Structure and Function of Biomolecules; Thermodynamics, Equilibria and Kinetics; Topics in Biochemistry: Viral Select Agents; Biophysical Chemistry; and Saving the World? The Public Health Crisis in Developing Countries. Crary received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Duke University in 1999.

Newton F. Crenshaw '85

Newton F. Crenshaw is vice president of policy, pricing, reimbursement and access, and international corporate affairs for Eli Lilly & Co. Crenshaw recently returned to the United States from his five-year tenure as president and general manager of Lilly Japan. Currently a member of the company's senior management council, Crenshaw has been with Eli Lilly & Co. since joining the company in 1985 as a sales representative in Charlottesville, Va. Crenshaw serves on several boards, including chair of PhRMA's Japan-based executice committee.

McSamuel R. Dixon-Fyle

A.W. Crandall Professor of History at DePauw University, "Mac" Dixon-Fyle was educated at the University of Sierra Leone, and he took his Ph.D. in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He has taught in Sierra Leone, and the University of Port Harcourt, and he joined the DePauw faculty in 1988. His publications are on the nationalist history of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia/Zambia, and on the diasporic contributions of immigrant Sierra Leoneans (the Saro) to the historical growth of the Niger Delta in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Nisreen El-Shamayleh '04

Nisreen El-Shamayleh ia a correspondent for Saudi channel KSA2 in Amman, Jordan. After graduating from DePauw University as a Media Fellow and communications major in 2004, El-Shamayleh worked in Washington as a producer for Abu Dhabi TV and Reuters.  Upon returning to Jordan in May 2005, El-Shamayleh reported for the top Arabic local daily newspaper.  While freelancing for the Boston Globe, El-Shamayleh covered the Salafi Islamists in Maan as well as Abu Musab Al Zarqawi’s funeral in Zarqa.

Vanessa Fox

Assistant professor of biology and Nature Park Program coordinator, Vanessa Fox’s research interests include forest ecology, songbird population dynamics, nesting success and nutrient cycling patterns.  Fox’s courses are Organismal Biology, Introduction to Ecology and Evolution, Biostatistics and Ornithology.  Fox received her Ph.D. in evolution ecology and organismal biology from Ohio State University. 

Douglas Frantz '71

Douglas Frantz is a senior writer at Condé Nast Portfolio, a former editor and reporter at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and the author of nine nonfiction books.  Frantz was part of a New York Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2002, and he is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has won the Worth Bingham investigative reporting prize twice and Harvard’s Goldsmith prize for investigative reporting.  His most recent book, written with his wife, Catherine Collins, is The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets … and How We Could Have Stopped Him.

Lee H. Hamilton ’52

Lee H. Hamilton is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University. Hamilton represented Indiana’s 9th Congressional District for 34 years beginning January 1965.  Hamilton served as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group--created at the urging of Congres-- a forward-looking, bi-partisan assessment of the situation in Iraq. He served as vice chair of the 9/11 Commission and co-chair of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project established to monitor implementation of the Commission’s recommendations. He is also a National War Powers Commission member.

Kathryn Fortune Hubbard '74

Kathryn Fortunte Hubbard is a founder of Bridges of Understanding, a nonpolitical group working to advance understanding between Americans and people in the Arab world. In 2007 President George W. Bush appointed Hubbard to serve on the twelve-member J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Hubbard has also served as deputy chief of staff to vice president Dan Quayle '69, director of the National Council on Competitiveness and director of development for the Hudson Institute.

Saad Eddin Ibrahim

A member of the DePauw University faculty from 1967-1974, Saad Eddin Ibrahim is a professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo and founder of both the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo and the Arab Organization for Human Rights.  Ibrahim is a leading human rights and democracy advocate in Egypt, and he serves on the Board of Advisors for the The Project on Middle East Democracy.  A strong critic of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Ibrahim was imprisoned in 2001 for charges widely criticized by the international community. He was acquitted in 2003.

Jeffrey T. Kenney

Professor of religious studies at DePauw University, Jeff Kenney is the author of Muslim Rebels: Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt. Kenney teaches courses on Islam, Classical Islam, Islam and Modernity, Women in Islam, and Religion and Politics. Kenney earned a Ph.D. in 1991 from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His graduate and post-graduate studies included two years in Cairo, Egypt, and he travels extensively in the Muslim world, including the Middle East, Turkey and Central Asia.

Ernest Loevinsohn

Ernest Loevinsohn is director general of Health and Education for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Loevinsohn's tenure with CIDA includes establishing and leading the Program Against Hunger, Malnutrition and Disease. Loevinsohn also works with the board of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Stop Tuberculosis, WHO, the World Bank, NGOs and others.

Michael P. Mackenzie

Assistant professor of art history at DePauw University, Michael Mackenzie’s core teaching interest is the history of modern art and its relationship to the culture of modernity.  Michael’s teaching interests also include the history and practice of art criticism, as well as the art of India and Southeast Asia.  His research emphasis deals with how the cultural and discursive experiences of Modernity, and especially of urbanization, mechanization, rationalized industrial work, mechanized warfare and sports, is embedded in both the figurative and abstract art of Germany in the period 1910-1930.  Mackenzie earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.

Nafhat Nasr

Senior professor of political science at DePauw University, Nafhat Nasr’s teaching and research spans international and global politics, Middle East politics, political socialization, consociational governance, documentation of the Arab-Israeli conflict and conflict analysis and resolution.  Nasr was instrumental in creating a DePauw University Conflict Studies Program, which he directed for three years.  Nasr was also the recipient of the Tucker Award for a Distinguished Career in Teaching in 2002.  Nasr received his B.A. and M.A. from the American University of Beirut and his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.

Brett R. O'Bannon

Associate professor of political science at DePauw University, Brett O'Bannon's research interests and publications relate to political and economic development in the Third World and in West Africa specifically. O'Bannon's classes include Comparative Politics, African Politics, Women and World Politics, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Humanitarian Intervention. O'Bannon will also coordinate a symposium on Humanitarian Intervention in March 2009 at the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics. O'Bannon received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University.

Jeanette K. Pope

Associate professor of geosciences and coordinator of the Women in Science Program at DePauw University, Jeane Pope has helped develop classes for the Environmental Geoscience major, including Environmental Geology, Introduction to Environmental Science Seminar, Geochemistry, and Applied Hydrogeology.   She has also served as advisor to the Geology Club and The DePauw Environmental Club.  Jeane is passionate about raising awareness of environmental problems and working with a variety of different groups towards their solution.  Jeane Pope’s Virginia Tech Ph.D. dissertation was entitled “Geochemical Reactions in Waste Piles.” 

Stephen W. Sanger '68

Stephen W. Sanger served as the chairman of General Mills, Inc. from May 1995 until his retirement in May 2008. He also was chief executive officer from May 1995 to September 2007. Sanger joined General Mills in 1974 and progressed through a variety of positions in marketing management across the company's consumer food businesses, including president of the Big G Cereal Division and president of Yoplait USA.  Sanger is a director of the Target Corporation, Wells Fargo & Company and a member of the boards of Catalyst, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and Guthrie Theater. In addition, Sanger is a member of the Business Council and the U.S. Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

Robert M. Steele '69

Robert M. Steele returned to DePauw in July 2008 as the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism. Steele’s duties include teaching in the Department of Communication and Theatre as well as service at the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics.  Steele was formerly the Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values and Senior Faculty in Ethics at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla.  Throughout his career, Steele has stayed closely connected to newsrooms through his real-time coaching of journalists, news managers, editors, and media-leaders on ethics and values issues, and by leading ethics workshops for more than 75
newspapers, television stations, and newspaper and broadcast groups.

James B. Stewart Jr. '73

James B. Stewart is an editor-at-large for Smart Money magazine and contributing editor for SmartMoney.com. A former page-one editor of The Wall Street Journal and executive director of American Lawyer Magazine, he is the Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at Columbia University. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author, Stewart has explored the abuse of power and ways to raise ethical standards at the highest levels of government and finance.

John E. Tedstrom III '84

John E. Tedstrom is executive director of the Global Business Coalition, a rapidly expanding alliance of more than 220 international companies dedicated to combating the AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria epidemics by accessing the business sector’s unique skills and expertise. John E. Tedstrom is the founder of Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS and has also served as vice president for policy studies and vice president for global security at the EastWest Institute, and as director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council. He also serves as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative Health Advisory Committee. 

Don W. Wycliff

Don W. Wycliff teaches media criticism in the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. He also writes occasional opinion articles for the The Chicago Tribune and Commonweal magazine.  Wycliff spent 35 years in the newspaper industry as a reporter, editor, editorial writer and columnist. His career included stints of five years as a member of the editorial board of The New York Times, almost 10 years as editorial page editor of the The Chicago Tribune and five years as the Tribune’s public editor. In the last position, he wrote a widely read weekly column about issues in journalism.