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Cathia Bailey, Executive Coordinator
Cathia graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1997 with a B.A. in History and International Area Studies. After graduation she spent time doing volunteer work, most notably for a refugee organization in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Upon her return to the U.S. Cathia worked as a Property Manager for a commercial real estate firm in Lincoln, Nebraska. She managed multiple residential, retail and commercial properties.
In October, 2001 Cathia departed for Togo, West Africa. For two years she worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a rural village, implementing public health programs and raising public awareness of HIV and malaria prevention. She received funding for two large-scale projects: a training of traditional midwives for remote villages, and latrine building in 3 villages and 2 schools.
Cathia began working at Kansas State University in July, 2004, first working at the Graduate School. She joined the Institute for Military History & 20 th Century Studies in May, 2005. She is responsible for the management of grants and federal funding for projects, as well as the day-to-day operations of the Institute.
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Name: David A. Graff 
Department: History
Academic Rank: Associate Professor
Telephone: 532-6730
E-mail: dgraff@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D., History, Princeton University, 1995
Areas of Specialization: Chinese and Japanese History; Military History
Select Publications:
Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
A Military History of China , edited by David A. Graff and Robin Higham. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002.
"The Sword and the Brush: Military Specialization and Career Patterns in Tang China, 618-907." War and Society 18.2 (October 2000), 9-21.
The Battle of Huo-i," Asia Major (3rd Series) 5(1) (1992), 33-54.
"Meritorious Cannibal: Chang Hsun's Defense of Sui-yang and the Exaltation of Loyalty in an Age of Rebellion," Asia Major (3rd Series) 8 (1) (1995), 1-16.
Current Projects:
A book on the founding of the Tang dynasty.
An annotated translation of the surviving fragments of Li Jing's "Art of War," a Chinese tactical manual of the seventh century.
Additional Information:
Research grant, Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taipei (to support   dissertation research in Taiwan), July 1992 to April 1993.
U.S. Government Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for study of Japanese language at Middlebury College, Summer 1990.
Ford Foundation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1984-85 academic year.
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Name: Dale Herspring 
Department: Political Science
Academic Rank: Professor
Telephone: 532-6839
E-mail: falka@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Political Science, University of Southern California, 1972
Areas of Specialization: Russian, American, Polish and German Militaries
Select Publications: The Pentagon and the Presidency, Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush (2005); Putin’s Russia, Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, 3 edition, (2006), Requiem for an Army, The End of the East German Army; (2002) and seven more.
Current Projects:
The Kremlin and the High Command: Presidential Impact from Gorbachev to Putin – October, 2006-04-04
“Understanding Combat Readiness in the Russian Military, 1992-2005,” Armed Forces and Society, September, 2006 and 75 others.
Additional Information:
USN, 32 years. Beginning as E-1 and ending as an 0-6.
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Name: Emizet F. Kisangani 
Department: Political Science
Academic Rank: Associate Professor
Telephone: 532-0447
E-mail: emizetk@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Political Science, University of Iowa, 1994
http://www-personal.k-state.edu/~emizetk/
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Name: Stephen Long 
Department: Political Science
Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
Telephone: 532-0449
E-mail: sblong@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D. Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005
Areas of Specialization: International Relations, International Conflict, Security Studies
Select Peer-Reviewed Publications:
“Time Present and Time Past: Rivalry and the Duration of Interstate Wars, 1846-1985.” 2003. International Interactions 29:3 (July-September), pp. 215-236.
“Democracy and Military Effectiveness: A Deeper Look” (with Stephen D. Biddle). 2004. Journal of Conflict Resolution 48:4 (August), pp. 525-546.
Current Projects:
Under Review:
“Reputation, History and War” (with Mark J.C. Crescenzi and Jacob D. Kathman). 2006. Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Peace Research.
“Enforcement Histories and the Violation of Formal Cease-Fire Agreements,
1948-1998.” 2006. Under review at the American Journal of Political Science.
Working Projects:
“The Bells of Peace and the Drums of War: Integrating Cooperation into a Model
of Interstate Relations” (with Mark J.C. Crescenzi and Andrew J. Enterline).
“An Exploratory Survey of Military Officers’ Attitudes” (with Emizet Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering).
“A Winning Proposition: States’ Military Effectiveness and the Reliability of their Allies.”
Additional Information:
Full CV and information on research projects and courses available at www.ksu.edu/polsci/fac/sblong.
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Name: Donald J. Mrozek 
Department: History
Academic Rank: Professor
Telephone: 532-0377
E-mail: mrozek@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D., History, Rutgers University, 1972
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Name: E. Wayne Nafziger
Department: Economics
Academic Rank: Professor
Telephone: 532-4579
E-mail: nafwayne@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1967
http://www.k-state.edu/economics/nafwayne/
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Name: Mark P. Parillo 
Department: History
Academic Rank: Associate Professor
Telephone: (785) 532-0374
E-mail: parillo@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D., History, The Ohio State University, 1987
Areas of Specialization: U.S. military history; World War II; modern Japan
Select Publications:
“Pearl Harbor and the Fall of the Philippines,” in: Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris, eds., Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat ( Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 2006)
Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of War and American Society, 3 vols. ( New York: MTM Publishing, 2005)
Editor, “We Were in the Big One”: Experiences of the World War II Generation ( Dover, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2002)
The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1993)
Current Projects:
Burma Road (monograph); comparative study of land transportation use in Asia in World War II (monograph)
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Name: Jeffrey Pickering 
Department: Political Science
Academic Rank: Associate Professor
Telephone: 532-0454
E-mail: jjp@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Political Science, Indiana University, 1995
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Name: Michael A. Ramsay 
Department: History
Academic Rank: Associate Professor
Telephone: 532-6733
E-mail: mramsay@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D., History, Queen's University at Kingston, 1997
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Name: Craig Stapley 
Department: Political Science
Academic Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor
Telephone: 532-6333
E-mail: cjstap@ksu.edu
Education: B.A., Japanese, Brigham Young University; Master of Public Administration, University of Oklahoma; Ph.D., Political Science, University of Oklahoma
Areas of Specialization: International Relations, Security Issues, Terrorism, Intelligence, International Organizations, Small Arms Light Weapons
Select Publications:
Suzette R. Grillot, Craig S. Stapley and Molly E. Hanna. Forthcoming: May 2006. Assessing the Small Arms Movement: The Trials and Tribulations of a Transnational Network. Contemporary Security Policy, Special Edition.
Craig Stapley, Steve Sloan, and Suzette Grillot. Forthcoming: May 2006. Corporate Security and Traditional Security Studies. The Handbook of Security. Edited by Martin Gill. London, U.K.: Perpetuity Press, Ltd.
“NGOs in the Crosshairs: Non-Governmental Organizations and the Terrorist Threat” Doctoral Dissertation, Craig S. Stapley, PhD., THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2004, 203 pages. In the ProQuest Digital Dissertations Collection at: wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3148888
Current Projects:
“SARS and Mad Cows: Applying Newtonian Physics to Institutional Change.” How crises overcome institutional inertia for meaningful change.
“Small Arms and Terrorists: What Connection?” with Suzette Grillot. This study explores the connection between terrorist groups and small arms and light weapons.
“Epistemic Communities and Norm Creation.” This research looks at how epistemic communities contribute to the effectiveness of emerging international norms and regimes.
Additional Information:
Research Associate at the Center for Small Arms Research
Academic Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
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Name: David Stone 
Department: History
Academic Rank: Associate Professor
Telephone: 532-6730
E-mail: stone@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D., History, Yale University, 1997
Areas of Specialization: Russia and the Soviet Union; Eastern Europe; South Asia
Select Publications:
A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya ( Westport, CT, 2006).
Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926 1933 ( Lawrence, KS, 2000).
"The First Five-Year Plan and the Geography of Soviet Defence Industry," Europe-Asia Studies 57.7 (November 2005), pp. 1047-1063.
"The Prospect of War? Lev Trotskii, the Soviet Army, and the German Revolution in 1923," International History Review 25.4 (2003), pp. 799-817.
"Mobilization and the Red Army's Move into Civil Administration, 1925-1931," Kritika 4.2 (Spring 2003), pp. 1-25.
Current Projects:
Lev Trotskii and the Red Army
War and Society in Russian History
International Finance and the Collapse of the Soviet Bloc
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Name: Farid Al-Salim
Department: History
Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
Telephone: (785)-532-5044
E-mail: falsalim@ksu.edu
Education: Ph.D., History, University of Arkansas, 2006
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