Experts
Founding Director
Carol
J. Pretlow, M.A., J.D., LL.M
Director
Carol J. Pretlow is a tenured associate professor of Political Science and
founding Director of the Consortium for Strategic and Global Studies in the
Department of Political Science at Norfolk State University in Norfolk,
Virginia. A graduate of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee (B.A. Political Science),
Norfolk State University (M.A., Mass Communications); Professor Pretlow holds both
a Juris Doctor (J.D.) and a Masters of International Legal Studies from The
Washington College of Law of the American University of Washington, D.C. The professor's post graduate studies have included studies in international relations
at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia; studies on the International Criminal
Court at the Irish Center for Human Rights of the National University of Galway, Ireland
and recently studies in national security at Galillee College in Nahalal, Israel (2007) and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (2008).
Professor Pretlow has been an adjunct professor of foreign policy at The
National Defense University Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia,
a visiting professor of International relations at Tongji.Universiy in Shanghai, China and a guest lecturer at The United States
Joint Forces Command for Operational Analysis in Suffolk, Virginia. A former research fellow in national security at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
for African American Studies of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.; Professor Pretlow was previously a research fellow at The Lauterpachet Centre
of International Law of Cambridge University in the United Kingdom
(appointment from 2005-2009).
A traveling scholar under the auspices of
The University of Hawaii East West Center, Professor Pretlow has traveled
to Malaysia and South Korea and has represented Norfolk State
University at the Oxford Round Table, Oxford, UK. and The International
Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in both Cambridge, UK (Summer, 2005) and Paris, France
(Summer, 2007).
As a guest columnist to local newspapers, Professor Pretlow has contributed op-ed pieces to The Smithfield
Times of Smithfield, Virginia and The Spartan Connections of Norfolk State University, and WVEC Channel
13's web magazine; as well as authored an Instructor's Manual on Logic and Critical Thinking published by
Prentice Hall in 2004. The professor’s other publications include Contemporary Issues in Foreign Policy and World Politics 2nd Edition (2004), published as a Foreign Affairs Custom Textbook by Foreign Affairs
Quarterly and Among Nations Readings in International Relations: Foreign Policy and World Politics in a Post 9/11 World (2006), published by Pearson Custom Publications.
Professor Pretlow has also edited three classified publications
for the United States Department of Defense.
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Rudolph Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor, and Chair,
Department of Political Science
Dr. Rudolph Wilson is a professor in the Department of Political Science at
Norfolk State University. Dr. Wilson earned his
B.A. degree in Political Science from Howard University,
1973, his MA degree in Political Science from
SUNY
Binghamton in 1978 and his Ph.D. from Clark Atlanta
University in 1986. He has taught at NSU as a
Political Scientist since 1986 where he is the founding Director of
the University's Center for Applied Research and
Public Policy. The Center specializes in providing
political and social demographic analysis of public
policy issues.
Dr. Wilson's research has extensively focused
on voting rights and redistricting analysis as
well as a number of other studies such as race,
income, poverty, housing, transportation, health
and environmental studies. The Center currently
serves as a Census Information Center of the U.S.
Bureau of Census, and has prepared analyses on
an array of data emanating from the 2000 decennial
census (www.fairdata2000.com).
Dr. Wilson has directed the Norfolk State University
Voting Rights Project since its inception in 1991.
The project has focused upon providing data, information
and educational materials to individuals, organizations
and government agencies throughout America. Since 1991, the NSU Voting
Rights Project has sponsored over 100 voter-information
workshops of forums and conferences throughout
America including over 40 workshops in municipalities
and counties in Virginia. In 2001 and 2002, Dr.
Wilson provided valuable data for a number of
workshops in Miami-Dade, Florida. He is currently
working on a book which he has titled, "The
Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Electorial Structures:
Case Studies on Virginia and Florida."
Prof. Gwendolyn Pharr
Assistant Professor, Department of History
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