Experts

Areas of expertise: terrorism, political violence, human rights, dictators, human trafficking, immigration and Latin America. He is the author of the book Middle Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him. Ensalaco is fluent in Spanish.

Areas of expertise: migration in the Americas; myths and facts about immigrants in the U.S., particularly undocumented immigrants from Central and Latin America; violence in Central America that fosters an increase in asylum seekers, how U.S. policies towards El Salvador affect migration patterns; Central American youth gangs, particularly MS-13 and policies to control their activities and movement in El Salvador and in the U.S.; anti-immigrant rhetoric and discourse by politicians in electoral campaigns; forms of immigration status and the history of laws covering immigrants, temporary workers, refugees and asylum seekers; and the history of the "sanctuary movement." Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her. She is fluent in Spanish.

Areas of expertise: gender and international relations, the politics of human rights, human security, and international law and organization. Her book, Gender, Human Security and the UN: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women (Routledge, 2009) examines the organizational dynamics of women's activism in the United Nations system, and how women have come to embrace and have been impacted by the security discourse in their work for rights and equality. Her current research centers on the deployment and impact of female military and police personnel in UN peacekeeping missions. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: human rights and civil liberties, foreign policy and global politics, and social movements. He is the author of The Mass Appeal of Human Rights. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: human trafficking, human rights, global security, nationalism and identity politics, politics of rural and marginalized people, and social movements. Talbott served as a member of the Ohio Attorney General's Human Trafficking Commission and is a credentialed Not For Sale Campaign citizen investigator of human trafficking. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.