Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru is a professor at Kansai University in Japan. She received her master's from the University of Tokyo and was a Fulbright Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. She will spend her time at the Center collecting data on House floor deliberation for her project "Congress in the Context of Deliberative Democracy." The project examines whether congressional deliberation helps produce optimal policy outcomes when the nation has shown partisan division. She will complete her year-long stay in October 2008.

Robert Saldin is a Patrick Henry Postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in the summer of 2007. While at the Center he will revise his dissertation "War and American Political Development: Parties, State Building, and Democratic Rights Policy" for publication as a book. His project examines the lasting impact of six major wars on domestic U.S. politics. A portion of his stay at the Center was funded by the Warren E. Miller Fellowship in Electoral Politics. He will complete his year-long stay at the Center in September 2008.

Stacie Pettyjohn is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia and an Eisenhower/ Clifford Roberts Fellow. While at the Center she will work on her dissertation titled “Talking with Terrorists: American Policy Toward the ANC, PLO, Sinn Fein and Hamas.” The project examines the questions of when will the U.S. engage nationalist terrorist organizations and under what conditions will the engagement succeed at integrating these groups into a political system. She comes to APSA from a year-long fellowship at the Brookings Institution, and will complete her year-long stay at the Center in August 2008.

Anthony Messina is an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. While at the Center he is working on a book length project titled, “Migration to Europe in an Age of Terror.” The project examines if a state’s traditional role as the guarantor of the physical safety of its citizens is reconcilable with its pursuit of liberal economic policies and inclusive immigrant incorporation policies in an age of terror. He is also the author of The Logistics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe and Race and Party Competition in Britain. He will be in residence at the Center through May 2008.