PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

• “The Future of the United Nations in the Twenty-First Century: A Panel Discussion on Global Affairs.” With Gillian Sorensen & Laurence Adams. Regent Journal of Law and Public Policy.  2, No.1. Spring 2010.  Pp. 120-141.
• “Collective Bail’s War Against Learning: How an Instructor Can Combat Krugovaya Poruka.” The Journal of Ethnographic and Quantitative Research in Education.  2 (October, 2007).
• “Why Have Donbas Russians Not Ethnically Mobilized Like Crimean Russians Have?  An Institutional and Demographic Approach to the Question.” In State and Nation Building in East Central Europe: Contemporary Perspectives.  Micgiel, John, ed.  (The Institute on East Central Europe:  New York, 1996).
• “The Donbas and Crimea: An Institutional and Demographic Approach to Ethnic Mobilization in Two Ukrainian Regions.” With Dr. Taras Kuzio, in State and Institution Building in the Ukraine.  Kuzio, Taras; Kravchuk, Robert S.; and D’Anieri, Paul; eds.  (St. Martins’ Press: New York, 1999).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning country conditions for the Jewish minority in Ukraine.] Submitted to the offices of John Kuhn Bleimaier, Esq., Princeton, New Jersey.  June 23, 2016.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning country conditions for the Russian minority in Ukraine.] Submitted to the offices of Katona & Mir LLP.  New York, NY. June 2, 2015.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of ecologist activists in Russia.] Submitted to the offices of Berdyev Law PC. Springfield, NJ. March 14, 2015.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of political dissidents in Belarus.] Submitted to the offices of Mayzel Law Group. Springfield, NJ. May, 2013.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the victimization of businessman by organized crime in Lithuania.] Submitted to the offices of Mayzel Law Group. Springfield, NJ. April, 2013.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of political dissidents in Latvia.] Submitted to the offices of Berdyev Law PC. Springfield, NJ. March, 2013.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of the Georgian minority in Russia.] Submitted to the offices of Mayzel Law Group. Springfield, NJ. December, 2012.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of political dissidents in Ukraine.] Submitted to the offices of Berdyev Law PC. Springfield, NJ. November, 2012.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of political dissidents in Ukraine.] Submitted to the offices of Mayzel Law Group. Springfield, NJ. October, 2012.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Tajiks in Russia.] Submitted to the offices of Mayzel Law Group. Springfield, NJ. March, 2012.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Georgians in Russia.] Submitted to the offices of Smotritsky Law Group, PLLC.  Brooklyn, NY. February, 2012.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of political dissidents in Belarus.] Submitted to the offices of Mayzel Law Group. Springfield, NJ. January, 2012.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of political dissidents in Belarus.] Submitted to the offices of Mayzel Law Group. Springfield, NJ. January, 2012.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Roma in Bulgaria.] Submitted to the offices of Shawn Foster, Esq., Salt Lake City, UT.  October, 2011.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Koreans in Russia.] Submitted to the offices of Mayzel Law Group. Springfield, NJ. October, 2011.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Roma in Bulgaria.] Submitted to the offices of Mayzel Law Group. Springfield, NJ. April, 2011.
• “Compassion for Terrorists as Folly and Treason” Web article published by the website of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Lehrman American Studies Institute at Princeton, NJ, in partnership with the Princeton University James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions http://lehrman.isi.org/blog/post/view/id/451  August 11, 2010.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Jews in Ukraine.] Submitted to the offices of Shawn Foster, Esq., Salt Lake City, UT.  September 20, 2010. 
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of ethnic-Russians in Uzbekistan.]  Submitted to the offices of Schimmel & Sammus, Esqs., New York, NY.  May 26, 2004.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness. [Concerning the persecution of ethnic-Russians in Uzbekistan.] Submitted to US Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Board of Immigration Appeals, Falls Church, VA on May 18, 2004.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Baptist military conscripts in Russia]. Submitted to Immigration Court, New York, NY.  Testimony in court was given on November 13, 2003. 
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of ethnic-Russians in Uzbekistan]. Submitted to Immigration Court, New York, NY.  Testimony in court was given on December 3, 2001.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Baptists in Uzbekistan]. Submitted to Immigration Court, New York, NY.  Submitted to court on September 7, 2001. 
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of ethnic-Russians in Uzbekistan]. Submitted to Immigration Court, Hartford, CN.  Testimony in court was given on May 11, 2001 
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Baptists in Tajikistan]. Submitted to Immigration Court, New York, NY.  Testimony in court was given on May 7, 2001. 
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of ethnic-Russians in Uzbekistan]. Acceded unchallenged as evidence in Immigration Court, New York, NY.  December 5, 2000.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Baptists in Uzbekistan]. Submitted to Immigration Court, New York, NY.  May 25, 2000.  Testimony in court was given in October, 2000.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning Anti-Semitism and the Persecution of Jews in St. Petersburg, Russia]. Presented in Immigration Court, New York, NY.  August 11, 2000.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning the persecution of Baptists in Uzbekistan]. Presented in Immigration Court, New York, NY.  December 2, 1999
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning Anti-Semitism in the Russian Federation]. Submitted to Immigration Court, New York, NY.  October 18, 1995.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning Anti-Semitism in the Republic of Georgia].  Presented in Immigration Court, New York, NY.  August 24, 1994.
• Affidavit of Expert Witness [Concerning Anti-Semitism in the Russian Federation]." Presented in Immigration Court, Newark, NJ.  July 19, 1993.
• Two Theoretical Examinations Of The U.S. Intervention In The Kuwait Crisis. Published in Helvidius: The Columbia Undergraduate Journal of Law and Politics.  1, No. 2.  Spring, 1991.

• Ballot Box Salvation? What Are The Prospects For Reform In The Soviet Union, And Is The Soviet System Reformable?  Published in Kultura.  1, No. 2.  Spring, 1990.

PRESENTATIONS, PANEL PARTICIPATION & MEDIA INTERVIEWS:

• Panel Chairman for the panel “Global Security”. Old Dominion University Graduate Research Conference.  February 22^nd, 2013.
• Invited panelist: “Christianity and Democracy in Asia and Latin America.” Christians in Political Science Conference at Gordon College, Wenham, MA. May 31-June 2, 2012.
• Invited panelist: “Christianity and the Field of Comparative Politics.” Christians in Political Science Conference at Gordon College, Wenham, MA. May 31-June 2, 2012.
• “From Kondopoga to Katounitsa: A Comparison of Racial Violence in Russia and Bulgaria. Who is Targeted, and Why?”  17^th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities.  Columbia University. New York, NY.  April 19, 2012.
• By invitation, chairman of the panel “Center-Region Relations in Russia” at the 17^th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. Columbia University. New York, NY.  April 19, 2012.
• “Does Ethnically-Based Federalism Promote Increased Ethnopolitical Mobilization? Updating the Debate by Examining the Newest Evidence.” On the panel “Politics of Rights and Federalism: Ethnicity and Race.”  Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.  Seattle, Washington.  September 4, 2011.
• Hour-long radio interview about the riots in England. The Barry Farber Show.  CRN Digital Radio.  CRNTalk.com. August 12, 2011.
• “The Teaching of Religion in Russian Schools”.  With student Brett Lonadier, co-author.  On the panel, “Religion, Institutional Structures, and Politics”.  The 6^th Biennial Symposium on Religion and Politics.  The Paul Henry Institute.  Calvin College.  Grand Rapids, Michigan.  April 30, 2011.
• Discussant for the panel “Religion and American Foreign Policy.” The 6^th Biennial Symposium on Religion and Politics.  The Paul Henry Institute.  Calvin College.  Grand Rapids, Michigan.  April 28-May 1, 2011.
• Panel chair. “Regional and National Identities in Contemporary Ukraine and Russia”. 16^th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. Columbia University. New York, NY.  April 16, 2011.
• Presented “The Holocaust in Elie Wiesel’s Night.” Speech to the International Holocaust Memorial Day Common Reading Session at Regent University.  January 28, 2011.
• Presented “The Theological and Philosophical Roots of Islamist Terrorism” to the Pell Center for International Relations & Public Policy, Salve Regina University. Newport, Rhode Island.  January 27, 2011.
• Presented “Debates in Islamic Philosophy and Their Relevance to Us Today” to The Pell Honors Program, Salve Regina University. Newport, Rhode Island.  January 26, 2011.
• Radio interview concerning the return of former dictator Baby Doc Duvalier to Haiti. WDRC Radio Hartford, Connecticut.  January 21, 2011.
• Radio interview concerning the return of former dictator Baby Doc Duvalier to Haiti. Andy Caldwell Show. Talk Radio AM1440 and AM1290.  Santa Maria, California.  January 21, 2011.
• Radio interview concerning the New START Treaty ratification. The Paul Edwards Show. December 22, 2010.
• Radio interview concerning the New START Treaty ratification. The Andy Caldwell Show. December 21, 2010.
• Radio interview concerning North Korea’s attack on Yongpyong Island and whether South Korea should retaliate. WDCR-AM.  November 29, 2010.
• Radio interview concerning North Korea’s attack on Yongpyong Island and whether South Korea should retaliate. The Curtis Sliwa Show. November 24, 2010
• Two radio interviews concerning North Korea’s attack on Yongpyong Island. The Rusty Humphries Show and The Peter Kaliner Show. November 23, 2010.
• Radio interview concerning the Obama Administration’s foreign policy towards Israel’s Jerusalem housing developments. American Family Radio. November 16, 2010.
• Radio interview concerning drug-related violence in Mexico and the US response to it. November 15, 2010.
• Radio interview with the Andy Caldwell Show, Station KSMA, Santa Monica, CA, concerning Iran’s release of Sarah Shourd and the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. September 7, 2010.  http://www.regent.edu/news_events/regent_in_the_news.cfm
• By invitation, discussant and panel chairman of the panel “Government, Governance, and the War on Terror” at the pre-seminar “The US and the UK in 2010: Transitions and Transformations” of the British Politics Group at the American Political Science Association Annual World Meeting in Washington, DC. September 1, 2010.
• Television interview with CBN concerning Iran’s startup of the nuclear reactor at Bushehr. August 18, 2010.  http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/August/Iran-Details-Plans-for-New-Nuclear-Plants/
• Five radio interviews with four radio stations; interviews given concerned Scotland’s decision to release Libyan terrorist Abdelbasset al-Megrahi and the involvement of BP, Ltd. in this decision. Radio programs included The Rusty Humphries Show, the #8 talk show in the nation, syndicated on more than 200 stations.  The Pete Kaliner Show on WBT in Charlotte, N.C.; The Andy Caldwell Show, Station KSMA, Santa Barbara, CA; and The Denny Radio Show on WGKA-AM in Atlanta.  August 16-17, 2010.
• Television interview with CBN concerning the status of the War on Terror. July, 2010.
• Radio interview concerning whether there will be a new Cold War between the US and Russia. Mickelson in the Morning on WHO, Des Moines, IA.  July 2010.
• “Romans 13 and Submission to Biblical Authority in Time of Civil War: How to Determine Who is the Divinely Appointed Authority?” Speech presented to the Christians in Political Science Conference at Union College, Memphis, Tennessee.  June 4, 2010.
• Radio interview concerning US-Russian negotiations over nuclear arms reductions. The Andy Caldwell Show on KUHL-AM/KSMA-AM in Santa Monica, CA.  May 2010.
• Radio interview concerning the fall of Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama. Allman in the Morning on KFTK radio in St. Louis, MO.  May 2010.
• Radio interview concerning US-Russian negotiations over nuclear arms reductions. Mickelson in the Morning on WHO, Des Moines, IA.  May 25, 2010.
• Radio interview concerning the political fighting in Bangkok, Thailand. Mickelson in the Morning on WHO 1040 AM, Des Moines, IA.  May 20, 2010.
• Television interview with CBN News concerning North Korea’s sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan. May 2010.
• By invitation, panel discussant on the panel “Language Politics”. Association for the Study of Nationalities.  Columbia University, New York, NY. April 17, 2010
• Television interview with CBN concerning the American military’s liquidation of several of Al-Qaeda in Iraq’s top leaders. April 2010.
• With student Dappen, Frieder. Determining Success or Failure: An Analysis of the Alignment of Local Ethnic Groups and Tribes during the Soviet and United States Invasions of Afghanistan. Paper co-presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in April 2010, Chicago, IL.
• Radio interview with Bill Federer’s American Priorities concerning religious freedom. April 2010.
• Panel speaker on the panel “Iran”, at the Frank Church Symposium on International Affairs, University of Idaho at Pocatello. March 4, 2010.
• Panel speaker on the panel “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, at the Frank Church Symposium on International Affairs, University of Idaho at Pocatello. March 4, 2010.
• Keynote Speech, “Terrorism, Nukes, Land and Peace: The Obama Administration’s Middle East Policy.” Frank Church Symposium on International Affairs, University of Idaho at Pocatello.  March 3, 2010.
• “Russian Foreign Policy Towards Its Neighbors.” Greater Hampton Roads Foreign Affairs Council Great Debates Conference, Virginia Beach, Va.  February 27, 2010.
• Panel speaker, “The Future of the United Nations in the Twenty-First Century: A Panel Discussion on Global Affairs.” Regent University Virginia Beach, Va.  Tuesday, October 13, 2009.
• “International Political Implications of the Global Financial Crisis”, presented at the conference, “The Global Financial Crisis: Where Are We, and Where Do We Go from Here?” at the George Fox University School of Management, Portland, Oregon. Friday, November 14, 2008.
• Three interviews on the Russo-Georgian War given to media, including The Willamette Week, The Newberg Graphic, and KOIN Channel 6 News in August 2008.

• “Non-Federalist Options for Preserving Ethnic Cultural Autonomy in Education.” 20^th Annual Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research, Cedarville University.  June 6^th, 2008.
• Democratization and Its Dilemmas.” Discussant, Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual World Conference.  Columbia University, New York, NY.  April 12, 2008.
• “Regionalism in Ukraine.” Chair, Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual World Conference.  Columbia University, New York, NY.  April 12, 2008.
• Discussant on the panel “Religion and Identity” at the 12^th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. Columbia University, New York, New York.  April 12-14, 2007.

• Discussant on the panel “Managing Ethnic Conflict In/Through the E.U.” at the 11^th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. Columbia University, New York, New York.  March 23-25, 2006.
• Discussant on the panel “Freeze or Flux: Whither the Nagorny Karabakh Peace Process?” at the 11^th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. Columbia University, New York, New York.  March 23-25, 2006.
• Chairman of the Panel “Ideas, Ideology, and Conflict in Chechnya.” Tenth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY.  April 14-16, 2005.
• Discussant of the Panel “Ethnic Mobilization, Conflict, and Institutions.” Tenth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY.  April 14-16, 2005.

• “A Global Comparison of the Effectiveness of Ethnofederal Arrangements for the Amelioration of Ethnic Conflict: Tentative Conclusions About Non-Post Communist Cases from Around the World.” Paper presented at the Ninth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY.  April 15-17, 2004. 

• Chairman of the Panel “Philosophies of Nationalism” at the Ninth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY. April 15-17, 2004. 

• Chairman of two panels, “Nation, Recognition and Self-Determination” and “Old and New Identities in the Pontus: Greek-, Armenian-, and Turkish-speaking Transnational Groups on the Black Sea Coasts” at the Eighth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY.  April 3-5, 2003.  Unable to attend due to serious injury. 

• “U.S. Foreign Policy Toward “The Axis of Evil.” “God, War, and Terrorism”, a conference at The King’s College, New York, NY.  March 3, 2003. 

• “Christian Views of War and Peace: or Why I Am Not a Pacifist.” Guest lecture (by invitation) at “God, War, and Terrorism”, a conference at The King’s College, New York, NY.  March 3, 2003. 

• The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Why are the Russians of Ethnocratic Kazakhstan Quiescent? Paper presented at the Seventh Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University.  April 11-13, 2002.
• Transnistria, “the Cat that Barked.” Why did the Russian Minority of Transnistria Rebel When All Other Russian Minorities Did Not?  Paper presented at the Sixth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University.  April 5, 2001. 
• Guest Lecture (by invitation). The Failure of Autonomy Arrangements in Chechnya and Palestine.  Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.  November 20, 2000.
• Chairman of the Panel (by invitation). “Jewish Minorities in the Post-Communist States”, at the Fifth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, April 14, 2000.
• “A Place of Our Own: Does the Ethnicization of Territorial Control Create Incentives for Elites to Conduct Ethno-Political Mobilization?  Caucasus Case Studies and Regional Comparison.”
• Paper presented at the Fifth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY. April 13, 2000.
• Paper presented at the conference, “Continuing the Conversation: Political Science in the 21^st Century”, The New School University Graduate Faculty, New York, NY.  April 28, 2000
• Discussant (by invitation) of the Panel, “Ethnic Identities in Ukraine: Jewish, Russian, Ukrainian.”  At the Fourth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University.  April 16, 1999.
• Panel Chairman (by invitation), Panel Discussant (by invitation), and Conference Organization Assistant. “The Way Ahead: Choices in Transformation.”  The Civic Education Project’s 5^th International (Graduate and Undergraduate) Student Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.  April 22-27, 1997.
• Panel Discussant (by invitation), Conference Organization Assistant, and Competition Judge. “Problems of Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Social, Economic, and Political Transformations of the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.” The Civic Education Project’s 5^th Regional Student Conference, L’viv State University, L’viv, Ukraine. April 11-13, 1997.
• Yavlyaetsya li Noviy Zavet prichinoi anti-semitizma? (Is the New Testament a Cause of Anti-Semitism?)  Presented at “Anti-Semitism: Its Roots and the Struggle Against It,” a Conference of the American Association of Russian Jews’ Anti-Fascist Council, New York, NY, June 2, 1996.  Paper presented in Russian.
• “Why have Donbas Russians Not Ethnically Mobilized Like Crimean Russians Have?  An Institutional and Demographic Approach to the Question.”

• Presented at "State and Nation Building in East Central Europe: Contemporary Perspectives," an Institute on East-Central Europe Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University.  March 1-2, 1996.
• Presented at the Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University. April 28, 1996.
• “Soviet Welfare Philosophy Concerning Income Distribution in the 1950's and 60's: Altruism or Pragmatism?”  Presented at the Seventh Annual Ivy League Graduate Student's Conference in Russian and Soviet Studies, Cornell University.  May 1992.

HONORS & APPOINTMENTS:

• Fellow of the Summer Institute of Israel Studies, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University. Boston, Massachusetts; Ramallah, Palestinian Authority; and Jerusalem, Beer Sheba, and Tel Aviv, Israel.  June 21-July 15, 2011.
• Director, Major and Minor in International Studies. Regent University.  Spring, 2011.
• Director, Minor in Homeland and International Security. Regent University.  Spring, 2011.
• Fellow of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Lehrman American Studies Institute at Princeton, NJ, in partnership with the Princeton University James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. June 14-26, 2010.
• Academic Fellow of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy Academic Fellow. Tel Aviv and throughout Israel and the West Bank.  Summer, 2009.
• Phi Beta Kappa. Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. 1990.
• Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society. Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. 1990.
• Dean's List all semesters of college. Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. 

GRANTS:

• 2011 Pi Sigma Alpha Chapter Development Grant.
• 2010 Pi Sigma Alpha Chapter Development Grant.
• 2010 Regent University Summer Research Funding Grant.
• 2008 George Fox University Summer Research Funding Grant (declined in order to accept employment at Regent University).
• 1996 Harriman Institute Junior Fellowship.
• 1991 Harriman Institute Summer Language Fellowship.
• 1989 American Council of the Teachers of Russian Scholarship.
• 1986 Youth For Understanding Japan-U.S. Senate Exchange Scholar.