Edward Friedman



Areas of expertise: International political economy, international relations, poverty, democratization, the countryside, the environment


Regions: East Asia (especially China and Taiwan)


Languages: Chinese, English


Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: friedman@polisci.wisc.edu
Office: 608-263-2272


Willing to appear in: All Media



His teaching and research interests include democratization, Chinese politics, international political economy, revolution, and the comparative study of transitions in Leninist States. He taught China watching for the USG in 1965 and 1966. He served as the China specialist on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs as from 1981-83 and traveled on missions to all parts of the world except Africa. He has gone on speaking tours in South Korea, Burma and Australia for the United States Information Agency, and advised an integrated rural development program in China for the UNDP. He was involved in land reform in Albania for USAID, and has served on numerous missions for executive agencies, including the the U.S. Department of Defense in the Office of the Secretary on peacekeeping and democratization. He is currently involved in multi-year projects in the Himalayas on sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and the melting of glaciers, involving cooperation with numerous NGOs.


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Nadav Shelef



Areas of expertise: nationalism, religion and politics, Israeli politics, Arab-Israeli conflict


Regions: Middle East (especially Israel)


Languages: Hebrew, English


Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: shelef@wisc.edu
Home: 608-233-7240
Cell: 917-386-4097
Prefers not to be contacted after 9 p.m. or before 8 a.m.


Willing to appear in: All Media



Shelef holds the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Chair in Israel Studies. He is currently working on a book explaining the ways in which Israeli nationalist movements have redefined the territorial borders, membership boundaries and national mission of Israel.

Melanie Manion



Areas of expertise: Chinese politics, corruption, democratization


Regions: China


Languages: Mandarin Chinese (spoken), French, English


Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: manion@lafollette.wisc.edu
Office: 608–262–6278 or 608–263–9060
Home: 608-236–4146


Willing to appear in: Newspapers, periodicals. Prefers not to be contacted after 9 p.m.



Melanie Frances Manion is professor of political science and public affairs, with a joint appointment in the La Follette School of Public Affairs. Her research focuses on Chinese politics. She is interested in political institutions, including informal institutions, particularly how these affect representation and policy outcomes. Her current research investigates the role of Chinese local congresses and congress delegates as agents of democratization.


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Paul Hutchcroft



Areas of expertise: : State and society, political economy, corruption


Regions: Southeast Asia (especially the Philippines)


Languages: Tagalog (advanced), Cebuano (adequate), Indonesian (formerly intermediate), English


Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: hutchcroft@polisci.wisc.edu


Willing to appear in: All Media



Hutchcroft has research and teaching interests in comparative politics and Southeast Asian politics. He has written extensively on Philippine politics and political economy, as well as on the politics of corruption. In his current book project,"The Power of Patronage: Capital and Countryside in the Twentieth-Century Philippines," he analyzes central-local relations in the Philippines from the early American colonial period through the Local Government Code of the 1990s. Hutchcroft is also lead organizer/editor for a collaborative research project on issues of political reform in the Philippines, co-sponsored by the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore and the Philippine Social Science Council. A forthcoming edited volume, tentatively entitled “Cha-Cha: New Perspectives on Political Reform and Charter Change in the Philippines,” will provide theoretical, comparative, and historical insights to contribute to the process of constitutional revision in the Philippines.
Hutchcroft has many years of experience examining the politics of Southeast Asia and residing in the region. He is frequently called upon to give talks on Southeast Asian affairs, particularly on issues of Philippine politics. Over the past year, audiences have included fora organized by the U.S. Departmentof State, the Congressional Study Group of the East West Center-Washington, the World Bank, the Presidential Management Staff (Manila), the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Murdoch University (Perth), De la Salle University (Manila), and the University of Asia and the Pacific (Manila). Recent media interviews include Chicago Public Radio, CNBC-Asia (Singapore), and ABS-CBN News (Quezon City). Hutchcroft is currently serving as Program Chair for the Association for Asian Studies, and in this role helps to select and organize panels for a March 2007 annual meeting expected to attract over 3000 participants.


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