Boards
- Chip Berlet
- Senior Analyst, Chip Berlet is a veteran freelance writer and photographer who specializes in investigating right-wing social movements, apocalyptic scapegoating and conspiracism, and authoritarianism. A PRA staffer since 1982, he has written, edited and co-authored numerous articles on right-wing activity and government repression for publications as varied as the The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Progressive, The Nation, The Humanist, and The St. Louis Journalism Review.
Mr. Berlet edited Eyes Right! Challenging the Right-wing Backlash, co-published by PRA and South End Press (1995), a popular primer on the right. He is also co-author with Matthew N. Lyons of Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, published by Guilford Press (2000).
- Lilian de Jonge
- Dr. Lilian de Jonge - is a native from the Netherlands. She obtained her MSc in Human Nutrition from the Agricultural University in Wageningen, The Netherlands. In 1990 she moved to Montreal to work on her PhD, again in Human Nutrition. In 1996 she moved to the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge LA, USA as a post-doctoral researcher and in 1997 she took over the leadership of the energy expenditure laboratory, a position she still holds.
Besides her studies and work she has always been interested in cultural differences and especially the images created by the mass media. She was actively involved in the foreign student association of the University of Montreal and was the representative of the foreign students of the Medical Faculty in this association for 2 years.
At the Pennington Center she was instrumental in the development of the ‘guide for international employees’. She is also actively involved in the placing committee for the ‘study abroad’ program at Lousiana State University and has been asked to provide information based on her own experiences in the integration of Europeans in the United States.
- Emmanuelle Le Texier
- PhD in Political Science from the « Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris » and lecturer, Emmanuelle Le Texier, is teaching American Studies at the University of Lille (III), she is also a researcher at the Center for ethnic and migration studies at the University of Liege. Her work deals with migrants and their descendants' transnational activities and political participation in the United States.
She is managing a comparative research on immigration and identities in the United States and the United Kingdom (ANR 2007-2010). She is a member of IMISCOE Cluster B3 and served as a link for the Belgium Migration Dialogue.
- Marc L. Levitan
- Dr. Marc L. Levitan has been actively engaged in wind and hurricane engineering research, practice, and education for 20 years. He is the founding Director of the LSU Hurricane Center, co-founder of the LSU Wind Tunnel Laboratory, and Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is the immediate Past- President of the American Association for Wind Engineering and chaired the 10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering. His areas of research include analysis and design of structures for hurricane resistance, wind and hurricane effects on industrial and petrochemical structures, applications of remote sensing to rapid damage assessment, storm surge damage modeling and storm surge fatality modeling. The LSU Hurricane Center has developed several significant international collaborations, including strong research ties with the Technical University at Delft, The Netherlands.
