JOHN G. DALE Assistant Professor of Sociology George Mason University

Sociology & Anthropology Department Fairfax, VA 22030 USA 4400 University Drive Tel. +1.703.993.1444 Robinson Hall B 314, MS 3G5 Fax +1.703.993.1446 E-mail: [email protected]

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Davis, March, 2003. Interdisciplinary designated emphasis, Center for History, Society and Culture: Social Theory and Comparative History

M.A., Sociology, The New School (formerly New School for Social Research), Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, New York, NY, December, 1991.

B.A., Sociology (with Honors), Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, June, 1987. Interdisciplinary designated emphasis, Human Needs and Global Resources Program: Third World Development and Community Politics

DISSERTATION

Transnational Legal Space: Corporations, States, and the Free Burma Movement. Committee: Fred Block, Jack Goldstone, David Kyle, and Michael Peter Smith. Dissertation fieldwork in Burma and Thailand; Archival work in The Netherlands and United States.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

George Mason University, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology Department; and Affiliate Professor, Conflict Analysis & Resolution Program, 2005-present.

California State University, East Bay, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, 1998-2005

San Francisco State University, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, 2000-2001

University of California, Davis, Associate Instructor, Department of Sociology, 1999-2000; and Department of Human & Community Development, 1996-1997

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Transnational social movements; the politics of human rights, globalization, and development; transnational legal conflict; political sociology; comparative/historical sociology; and area expert on Burma/Myanmar Dale, p. 2

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in how social movements influence the politics, law, and morality of globalization through transnational collective action, ranging from terrorist tactics to transnational legal campaigns. I examine how collective actors in civil society create transnational networks, discourses, strategies, legal mechanisms, campaigns, and movements to target corporations and states that engage in abusive human rights practices. I am particularly interested in exploring the transnational legal space that these movements create to promote more humane and democratically institutionalized market arrangements.

I am currently focusing on a new international campaign that democracy and human rights advocates in and outside of Burma (Myanmar) are organizing to initiate a United Nations Commission of Inquiry and to indict on charges of ‘crimes against humanity” General Than Shwe, the effective leader of Burma’s military government, before the International Criminal Court (ICC). I am examining how the various groups and organizations involved in this campaign are negotiating their varied interests, risks, and identities, as well as the specific practices through which they are attempting for the first time to coordinate around a single international campaign. Their previous transnational campaigns have been more loosely coordinated and participation far more delimited. This work builds on my previous decade of research on the Free Burma movements’ transnational legal campaigns targeting the business partnerships between Burma’s military government and foreign transnational corporations. I want to see how this movement builds on the transnationalist discourses and insights from previous campaigns as it now directly engages international institutions like the United Nations and the ICC to address the impunity of Burma’s military government.

I am more generally researching the comparative historical development of internationally recognized Jus Cogens human rights violations (e.g., slavery, torture, piracy, and genocide) to understand why some (and not other) social practices have achieved this status. I am also examining how social movement activists are seeking to expand the canon of international Jus Cogens human rights violations and exploit the legal dimension of a broader structure of transnational political opportunities for reining in abusive corporations and states. I have been demonstrating how social movements affect the creation of legal mechanisms with transnational reach that target states facilitating abusive Jus Cogens human rights practices, such as using the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act to target Unocal Oil Corporation’s use of slave labor in Burma to construct a natural gas pipeline, or to target aviation companies that contracted with the CIA in facilitating the transnational practice of extraordinary rendition.

REFEREED PRESSES AND JOURNALS

Works in Progress Dale, John G. Transnational Legal Action: Global Business, Human Rights, and the Free Burma Movement. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Forthcoming and Under Contract)

Dale, John G. The Transnational Politics of Human Rights. (Political Sociology Series). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. [Invited Book Proposal in Prepartion]

Book Orum, Anthony M. and John G. Dale. 2008. Political Sociology: Power and Participation in the Modern World. 5th Edition. New York: NY: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters Dale, p. 3

Dale, John G. 2007. “Transnational Conflict between Peasants and Corporations in Burma: Human Rights and Discursive Ambivalence under the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act.” In Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry, eds. The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Global and the Local. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 285-319.

Kyle, David and John Dale. 2001. “Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered.” In David J. Kyle and Rey Koslowski, eds., Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspective. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp.29-57. [Also, REVISED second edition forthcoming, 2009]

Dale, John and Dorine Greshof. 1994. “The Residents of Tompkins Square Park.” In Janet L. Abu-Lughod, ed., From Urban Village to East Village: Neighborhood Change in New York's Lower East Side. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Pp. 267-284.

Refereed Research Articles Dale, John G. 2008. “Burma’s Boomerang: Human Rights, Social Movements and Transnational Legal Mechanisms ‘from Below’.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 45: 1 (April), Special Issue on “The New World Order - Global Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century.” Pp. 151-184.

Dale, John G. and Tony Roshan Samara. 2008. “Legal Pluralism within a Transnational Network of Governance: The Extraordinary Case of Rendition .” Law, Social Justice, and Global Development, Vol. 12 , No.2 (Special Issue on “Legal Pluralism”). Available at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/lgd/

INVITED PUBLICATIONS

Encyclopedia Articles Dale, John. 2007. “The Interwar Years.” In William A. Darity, ed. International Encyclopedia for the Social Sciences (Second Edition). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA (Thomson Gale).

Dale, John. 2007. “Karl Polanyi.” In David S. Clark, ed. Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA, London and New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Dale, John. “Doe v. Unocal.” In Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. Encyclopedia of Modern Slavery. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press. (Forthcoming, 2008)

Research Articles Dale, John. 1993. “Anarcho-Graffiti in New York City´s Lower East Side.” In Lift and Separate. New York: Cooper and Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Book Reviews

Dale, John G. (Forthcoming, 2009). “Book Review of Edward Royce’s Poverty & Power: The Problem of Structural Inequality.” Contemporary Sociology.

Dale, John G. (Forthcoming, 2009). “Book Review of Fuyuki Kurasawa’s The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practice.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly Review of Social Movements, Protest, and Contentious Politics.

Dale, John G. 2007. “Book Review of John Foran’s Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly Review of Social Movements, Protest, and Contentious Politics Vol.12, No. 1 (March). Pp.106-107. Dale, p. 4

Dale, John. 2005. “In Dire Straits: Why Big Oil Needs Transnational Regulation.” Book Review of John S. Burnett’s Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas. Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 59, No. 1. Pp. 288-295.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

“Obsolete Collective Cultural Rights? The Human Rights Movement’s Gambit for Cosmopolitan Solidarities and the Problem of Corporate Personhood,” Panelist, and Chair and Organizer: “Alternative Globalizations”; and Chair and Co-Organizer of “Human Rights: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity and Immigration”. Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, CA, August, 2009.

Referred Roundtable Presider, “New Developments in Urban Theory”. American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 2009.

“Beyond the Rogue State Executive: Mapping the Transnational Legal Imaginary of Extraordinary Rendition.” Panelist (with Tony Samara): “The Construction of Legal Justice in an Era of Constitutional Changes.” International Sociological Association, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2008.

“The Rogue State Executive’s Rope-a-Dope Strategy: The Extraordinary Case of Rendition.” Panelist (with Tony Samara): “Human Rights Section, Inaugural Panel.” American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, August, 2008.

Co-Chair and Co-Organizer (with LaDawn Haglund): “North/South Dialogue: Globalization and Human Rights: Contradictions and Opportunities”. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, MA, August, 2008.

Roundtable Participant of the Transnational and Transitional Justice Working Group: "Seeking Accountability after Mass Atrocity: Implications for Victims and Justice"; and Regular Session Panelist: (with Tony Samara): “Mapping the Transnational Legal Imaginary of Extraordinary Rendition.” Law & Society Association, Montreal, Canada, May, 2008.

“Transnational Justice and Legal Discourse in the Making of Extraordinary Rendition.” Invited Special Session Co-Organizer and Co-Panelist (with Tony Samara): “States, Human Rights, and Global Security.” American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August, 2007.

Regular Session Organizer and Chair: “Consumers and Consumption.” American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August, 2007.

Session Organizer and Panel Chair: “Globalization and Transnational Politics; and “Session Co-Organizer (with David Smith) and Panel Chair: “Global Social Problems.” Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY. August, 2007.

“Transnationalizing Torture: Grassroots Movements Using Legal Mechanisms to End the Practice of Extraordinary Rendition.” Panelist: “Grass Roots Movements and Human Rights.” Law & Society Association, Berlin, Germany, July, 2007.

“The Rise of Human Rights-Free Zones: Staging Global State Order Beyond State Borders.” Session Organizer and Panel Chair and Panelist: “Globalization and Transnational Politics.” Society for the Study of Social Dale, p. 5

Problems, Global Division, Montreal, Canada, August, 2006.

Panel Chair and Discussant: “International Legal Norms and Domestic Law: Comparative Perspectives;” and “Human Rights and Transnational Corporations: Discursive Ambivalence in the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act.” Panelist: “Work, Trade and Rights in a Global Context.” Law & Society Association Baltimore, MD, July, 2006. “Embedded Adventure Journalism: Terror, Political Piracy, and Socially Dis-embedded Markets.” Panelist: “Strategic Fictions II: News Culture, ‘The Terrorist’ and Media Activism.” Cultural Studies Association, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, April, 2006.

“Transnational Legal Conflict between Peasants and Corporations: Strengthening and Weakening Support for Human Rights under the Alien Tort Claims Act.” Invited (Double) Session: “Transnationalism and the Anthropology of Rights.” American Anthropological Association, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and AAA Committee for Human Rights, Washington, DC, December, 2006.

“Burmese Peasants and the Politics of Globalization.” Panel Organizer and Panelist: “Human Rights and Economic Development.” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia, PA, August, 2005.

“Transnational Legal Space, Globalization, and the Free Burma Movement.” Panelist: “Globalization and Dissent.” Ninth International Karl Polanyi Conference, Montreal, Canada, November, 2003.

“Transnational Legal Space and Globalization: The Alien Tort Claims Act and the Free Burma Movement.” Panelist: Transnational Social Movements; and Roundtable Referee: “Social Movements and Collective Behavior.” American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August, 2003.

“Globalization and Transnational Collective Action: The Case of the Free Burma Movement.” Panelist: “Technology and Social Change.” Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, April, 2001. “Transnational Spaces of Discursive Contention.” Chair and Panelist: “Social Movements and Mobilization among the Poor.” Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA, March, 2001.

Research Planning Workshop: “Transnational Practices: Future Directions for Theory and Research.” Participant: “Transnational Social Movements.” California Studies Center of the University of California, Berkeley, CA, January, 2001.

“Smuggling the State Back In: The Social Construction of Global Human Trafficking.” Panelist (with David Kyle): “Law & Society: Global Social Problems.” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, IL, August, 1999.

“Burma's Outrage Re-Channeled: Cultural Networks, Mobilizing Strategies, and Symbolic Politics.” Panelist: “Movements, Civil Society, and Democratization.” American Sociological Association Workshop on Social Movements, San Francisco, CA, August, 1998.

“The Transnational Organization of Economic Boycott: The Free Burma Movement.” Panelist: “Transnational Social Movements.” The Crisis of Citizenship? Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Global Ethnic Conflict, Davis, CA, April, 1998.

“The Role of Thailand-Based NGO’s in Burma’s Pro-Democracy Movement.” Committee for Coordination of Services to Displaced Persons in Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, February, 1998.

“Reconfiguring Political Process Models: The Case of the Sacramento Squatter Rebellion, 1850.” Organizer Dale, p. 6

and Presenter, “Reconfiguring Political Process Models: Collective Action, Culture, and Historical Change.” Eastern Sociological Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, April, 1997.

Invited presentation on “Comparing Transnational Organization of ‘Free Burma’ Boycotts in the United States and the Netherlands.” University of Amsterdam, Department of Sociology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March, 1997.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Invited speaker “Human Rights Activism and South-South Relations in Burma.” Center for Global Studies Annual Conference, "Understanding the New South-South Relations: Towards a Research Agenda.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, March 18-19, 2010.

Invited to deliver five, 2-hour lectures on a variety of topics concerning “The Politics of Human Rights.” State University – Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, May 8-12, 2010.

Invited Speaker “Burma, the International Community, and Advocacy.” National “Pledge2Protect” Conference. Sponsored by Genocide Intervention Network, Save Darfur Coalition, and the Enough Project. Washington, DC, November 7, 2009.

Invited speaker “International Engagement” New Strategies from the Free Burma Movement for Redressing State and Corporate Impunity.” Sponsored by the Transitional and Transnational Justice Working Group, Point of View at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and the Conflict Analysis and Resolution Undergraduate Program at George Mason University. Fairfax, VA. September 9, 2009.

Invited moderator and presenter “Burma: Addressing the Challenges Ahead.” Sponsored by Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic and Indiana University Maurer School of Law in conjunction with U.S. Campaign for Burma, Genocide Intervention Network, and American Jewish World Service. U.S. Capitol – Senate Room 6 (SC-6), Washington, DC. May 15, 2009.

Invited seminar participant “Advancing Human Rights and Ending Impunity in Burma: Which External Leverages?” International Federation of Human Rights and the Burma Lawyers’ Council. Bangkok, Thailand. May 4-6, 2009.

Invited commentator “Processing Justice: From Conceptualization to Measurement.” Center for Justice, Law, and Society. Fairfax, VA. May 1, 2009.

Invited moderator and Discussant for “Global Injustice: Human Rights Panel Discussion,” during 2009 Mason Justice Week. Sponsored by Mason International Justice Mission, University Scholars and the Administrative Justice Club. April 14, 2009.

Fenwick Fellows Lecture. “Legal Pluralism within a Transnational Network of Governance: The Extraordinary Case of Rendition .” (with co-fellow Tony Samara). Fairfax, VA. April 6, 2009.

Invited commentator on “An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Oil.” Sponsored by the Ph.D. program in Cultural Studies, Global Affairs, CHSS, and University Life. George Mason University. Fairfax, VA. December 4, 2008. Dale, p. 7

Organized and moderated panel of legal experts to speak on, “Rendering Justice in the War on Terrorism.” Center for Justice, Law, and Society. Fairfax, VA. November 11, 2008.

Invited lecturer on “Human Trafficking and Transnational Smuggling in Burma/Myanmar.” Amnesty International Chapter of George Mason University. Fairfax, VA. October 28, 2008.

Invited discussant of Abdul Karim Bangura’s “The Politics of the Struggle to Resolve the Conflict in Uganda: Westerners Pushing Their Legal Approach versus Ugandans Insisting on Their Mato Oput.” Sponsored by the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, at Point of View Center’s International Conference and Workshop on “The Politics of Conflict Resolution.” Fairfax, VA. June 21, 2008.

“State-Sponsored Global Human Smuggling: The Case of Extraordinary Rendition.” Panelist: “Not for Sale: A Panel Discussion on Human Trafficking,” Co-Sponsored by the University Scholars Program Global Awareness Committee, the ICAR Latin American and Caribbean Working Group and Amnesty International. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, November, 2007.

“What History Tells Us about U.S.- Proposed Sanctions to Oust the Junta in Burma.” Panelist: “Burma: Analyzing & Understanding the Conflict.” Sponsored by South & South East Asia Working Group and the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. George Mason University, Arlington, VA, October, 2007.

“Using the Alien Tort Claims Act to Rein in Corporate Human Rights Violators: Comparing Cases of Slavery and Torture.” Panelist: Transnational & Transitional Justice Workshop. Sponsored by the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University, Arlington, VA, May, 2007.

“What is Public Sociology and Anthropology?” Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, April, 2007.

Invited to present poster exhibit of the national policy significance of my research on transnational legal space. “Congressional Reception Marking the 100th Anniversary of the ASA.” American Sociological Association, Washington, DC (Rayburn House Office Building), October, 2005.

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS

Center for Global Studies Faculty Research Grant, for project titled, “Just Practicing? The Transnational Production of Human Rights in Burma.” The grant is for field research in Burma and Thailand, 2010-2011.

Provost Travel Grant and Stipend, to establish a joint Human Rights Certification Program with the Department of Public Policy, and joint M.A. Program (and student exchange) with the Department of Sociology, at the State University – Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, May, 2010.

U.S. Campaign for Burma Research Travel Grant, to conduct research along the Thai-Burma border relating to emerging transnational campaigns for accountability on international crimes in Burma, including by a referral to International Criminal Court. May, 2009

Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, Inducted in 2009

George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award, Finalist, 2009

Fenwick Fellowship (with Tony Samara)., 2007-2008 Dale, p. 8

Project Title: Transnational Justice and Legal Discourse in the Making of Extraordinary Rendition

Graduate Student Research Assistance Award, 2007-2008

National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2005 Invitation and Grant to participate in seminar on “Human Rights in an Age of Globalization.”

California Council for Humanities (with Brendan Furey), 2004. Project Title: “California Afghan Artists Oral History Project.” ($5,000)

Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 2004. ($5,000)

MacArthur Foundation, Semi-Finalist for a $100,000 grant; invited to resubmit. CSUEB, 2002. Project Title: "Displaced Afghans: Impact of Transnational Networks on Household Relations Among Refugees in the United States, Canada, Germany, Pakistan, and Afghanistan," Principal Investigator.

Dissertation Writing Grant, University of California, Davis, 1999-2000.

Graduate Research Award, Center for History, Society & Culture, U.C. Davis, 1993-1994.

COURSES TAUGHT AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Graduate Globalization and Transnational Social Movements (SOC 851) Sociology of Globalization (SOC 802) Upper Division Politics, Power, and Society (SOCI 340) Global Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CONF 340) Human Rights and Inequalities (SOCI 395/CONF 399) Social Movements and Political Protest (SOCI 307) Armed Conflict and Conflict Resolution (SOCI 326) Social Structure and Globalization (SOCI 320) Identity and Conflict Analysis (CONF 302) Lower Division Globalization and Society (for the University Scholars Program) (SOCI 120) Social Dynamics of Terrorism (CONF 240) Independent Studies: Humanitarian Action (ANTH 499) Social Movements and Political Protest (SOCI 307) History of Sociological Thought (SOCI 399) Individualized Study on “Extraordinary Rendition” (ANTH 499) Global Human Smuggling (SOCI 385)

CURRENT OR RECENT OFFICIAL MENTORING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM Ph.D Dissertation Committees (at GMU): 8  Ismael Muvingi, (ICAR, Ph.D., October, 2007), “Actualizing Human Rights Norms in Distanced Spaces: An Analysis of the Clean Diamonds and the Capital Market Sanctions (Sudan) Campaigns in the United States.”  Jeremy Rinker, (ICAR, Ph.D., April 2009) “JustPeace Prospects for Peace-Building and Worldview Tolerance: A South Asian Movement’s Social Construction of Justice.”  Pamela Creed, (ICAR, Ph.D., August, 2009) “Myth, Memory, and Militancy: Evolution of a War Narrative.”  Ryo Irei, (ICAR) “The Okinawan Anti-U.S. Military Base Movement.” (In progress) Dale, p. 9

 Randy Salm, (Sociology) “Child Soldiers and the Migrant Smuggling Industry in Columbia.” (In progress)  Ramesh Sepehrrad, (ICAR) “Human Rights, Gender, and Conflict Resolution in Iran.” (In progress)  Nicole McCoy (Sociology) “Poor Women’s Movements and the Politics of Culture in Brazil.” (In progress)  Mohammed Cherkaoul, (ICAR) “Why Do Social Movements Split? A Hamas-Fatah Case Study.” (In progress) Invited External Ph.D. Committee Member: 2  Linnea Beatty (George Washington University, Political Science; Dissertation Chair: Dr. Henry Hale) “Motivation for Political Activism Under Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Burma.” (In progress)  Paul Dean (University of Maryland, College Park, Sociology; Dissertation Chair: Dr Patricia Hill Collins) “Social Movements and Corporate Social Responsibility.” (In progress) M.A./M.S. Thesis Committees: 7  Upulee Dasanayake, (ICAR, M.A., December 2008) “Building Local Standards of Justice into the “Do No Harm” Standard among NGO Human Rights Practice.”  Lisa Shaw, (ICAR) “Latino Immigration and the Politics of Work in Herndon, Virginia.”  Shukria Dellawar, (ICAR) “Narco-Terrorism and the Taliban in Post-911 Afghanistan.” (In progress)  Sahar Haigahat, Sociology, (California State University, East Bay, Sociology) “The Transnational Politics of the Veil among Iranian-American Migrants.” (M.A., August, 2009)  Mirolsava Janotka, (GMU Sociology, M.A., July, 2009) “Transformation and Persistence of the Blat System.”  Leo Pierson, (GMU Sociology, M.A., May, 2009) “The Politics of Undocumented Migrant Day-Labor in Northern Virginia.”  Richard Curley. (GMU Sociology) “Losing Ground: Examining the Chances of Older Workers in the New Economy.” (In progress)

Other Academic Mentoring: 23 B.I.S. Faculty Mentorships: 4; Research Assistants: 3; Teaching Assistants: 3; Research Fellow Mentee: 3 (Center for Justice, Law, and Society); Independent studies: 10

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Refereed manuscripts for Oxford University Press, American Sociological Review, Blackwell Publishing, Polity Press, Comparative Studies in Society and History: An International Quarterly, Sociological Perspectives, City & Community, Pine Forge Press, University of Florida Press, Roxbury Publishing Company, Sage Publications, and University of Oxford’s St. Antony's International Review (special issue on “Transnational Firms and Global Governance”).

Chair, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Global Division, 2009-2011

Executive Committee Member, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Global Division, 2005-present

Co-Chair , Award Committee for Best Graduate Student Paper, SSSP, Global Division, 2008-2009

Co-Chair, Award Committee for Best Book on Global Issues, SSSP, Global Division, 2006-2009

Co-Chair, Undergraduate Student Paper Award Committee, Global Division, 2006-2008

Website Editor/Listserv Moderator, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2005-2008

Thematic Session Organizer, American Sociological Association and SSSP, 2005-present

UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE, DEPARTMENTAL & COMMUNITY SERVICE Dale, p. 10

George Mason University

University Curriculum Committee (Serving Provost Peter Stearns) to Develop a Certificate Program on Terrorism Studies, Sociology & Anthropology Department Representative, 2007-present

Center for Global Studies, Associate Faculty (since 2006) and Member of Steering Committee (2009-2011)

Center for Justice, Law, and Society, Associate Faculty, 2006-present

Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Affiliate Faculty, 2005-present

Global Affairs Program Search Committee, Chair (Serving the Dean of CHSS, Jack Censer), 2006

College of Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum Committee and Graduate Curriculum Sub-committee, 2008-2010

Department of Sociology, Graduate Program. Program Committee Member, 2008-present

Conflict Analysis & Resolution, Undergraduate Program, Program Committee Member, 2005-present

Bachelor of Individualized Study Program, Faculty Mentor, 2006-present

International Justice Mission at George Mason University, Faculty Advisor, 2008-2010.

Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society, Committee Member, 2005-present

Student Sociology and Anthropology Club, Faculty Advisor, 2005-2008

California State University, East Bay

Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Cluster Program, Faculty Member, 2000-2005

Student Affairs Strategic Planning Committee, California State University East Bay, Member, 2004-2005

Academic Senate Sub-committee on Graduation and Retention among African and Latino-American Males Member, 2004-2005

Faculty/Student Mentoring Program, Faculty Mentor, 2003-2005

California Faculty Association, Lecturer Representative, 2003-2005

Provided pro bono research consulting on a U.S. Federal grant proposal for the EXCEL Program (Awarded $1,735,764 over 4 years), 2005

The California Afghan Oral History Project for the Regional Oral History Office of the University of California, Berkeley, Humanities Expert, 2004-2005

Undergraduate Honors Program, Department Representative, 2002-2005 Dale, p. 11

Contributed over 200 hours to pro bono community research, charity fund-raising, and organizing speaking engagements to benefit the Afghan Community living in the Bay Area, 2001-2005

MEDIA APPEARANCES AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Served as expert source for news articles, and invited to provide commentary for TV interviews and reports, on politics in Burma (Myanmar) in the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Toronto Star, Christian Science Monitor, the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, The Washington Times, Myanmar Times, Burma’s The Irrawaddy, The Asian Tribune, C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal, PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Leher, BBC London TV News, Al Jazeera (English) TV News, and Japan Broadcasting Corporation’s NHK TV News.

Provided guest interviews on local and nationally syndicated radio talk shows in the United States and Canada discussing politics in Burma (Myanmar): “The Leslie Marshall Show,” (Nationally Syndicated host from WWKB-AM Buffalo, NY, Envision Radio Networks and Tom Athans’ Talk USA Radio); “The Gary Doyle Show,” (AM 570, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada); “The Mike Schikman Show,” (WSVA AM 550, Harrisonburg, VA); “Speaking Of…,” with host Dale Julin, (KRXA, Monterey, CA).

The Nation awarded my Social Movements and Political Protest class (December, 2006) photo of the week for our “Torture Hurts America” protest on George Mason University Campus. We also attracted the participation of external organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International.

PBS “Wide Angle” Series documentary called “Dying to Leave,” which aired September 25, 2003. (see www.pbs.org/wideangle). My co-authored chapter in Global Human Smuggling (with David Kyle) provided the inspiration for this documentary.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

International Sociological Association; American Sociological Association; Society for the Study of Social Problems; Law and Society Association; Collaborative Research Network on International Human Rights; Cultural Studies Association; DC Area Contentious Politics Workshop; Center for Global Studies’ Working Group on Transnational and Transitional Justice; Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution’s South & South East Asia Working Group; Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution’s Terrorism Working Group

OUTSIDE RESEARCH CONSULTING AND EXPERT SERVICES

Foster Quan, LLP, Houston, TX, 2009, Served as expert witness on Burma’s current prison conditions and relation to Convention Against Torture standards since Saffron Revolution and Leading up to 2010 elections in Burmese immigration deportation waiver case, providing telephonic court interview and letter of affidavit.

Silverman, Bikkal & Sandberg, LLP, White Plains, New York 2008, Served as expert witness on conditions in Burma in criminal hearing relating to the Convention Against Torture, providing letter of affidavit.

Simmons & Ungar, LLP, San Francisco, CA 2008, Served as expert witness on the Burmese Government’s monitoring of transnational political activism outside of the county in Burmese immigration deportation waiver case, providing letter of affidavit.

Political Asylum and Documentation Services (PARDS), Princeton, NJ, 2008, Expert Witness on Burmese Political Asylum, Withholding of Removal, Cancellation of Removal, and Deportation Waiver cases. Dale, p. 12

U.S. Department of State, International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) for Russia, Washington, DC, September, 2008 in cooperation with the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg, Russia, invited my expert consultation with the Agency of Social Information - a politically independent opinion polling group.

California State University, East Bay, Office of the Vice President of Student Affairs, Hayward, CA, 2004-2005, Evaluation Research and Program Assessment of all (12) program units of University’s Student Affairs Program.

Microsociety Magnet School, Berkeley, CA, 2001-2002, Principal Investigator in Evaluation Research and Program Assessment.

California Youth Authority, Sacramento, CA, 1996. Research Consultant.

New York City of Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY, 1990-1992, Research Consultant.