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CIAO Editorial Staff

Kate Wittenberg Project Director Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) kw49(at)columbia.edu	Robert Sedgwick Editor, CIAO Columbia University Press rs2499(at)columbia.edu	Receive monthly updates about new content on CIAO. Simply enter your name and your e-mail address in the form below. We will not use your e-mail address for any purpose other than sending news about CIAO, nor we will provide it to any other organization. Name   Email
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CIAO Editorial Advisory Board

CIAO was developed as a collaborative effort between the Columbia University libraries and Columbia University Press with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. An Editorial Advisory Board approved the material included in this site. The members of this board include:

Thomas M. Callaghy Professor of Political Science and Director, Washington Semester Program University of Pennsylvania	Ronald J. Deibert Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science University of Toronto	Allan Goodman Inst. of Int’l Education (IIE)
Stephan Haggard Univ. of California, San Diego	Christopher Hill Cambridge University	Bruce Jentleson Duke University
Peter Katzenstein Cornell University	R. Ned Lebow Dartmouth College	Helen Milner Princeton University
Bruce Russett Yale University	Jack Snyder Columbia University	Janice Stein University of Toronto
Anders Stephanson Columbia University	Hidemi Suganami University of Wales, Aberystwyth	Stephen Walt Harvard University
Etel Solingen Univ. of California, Irvine	Steven Weber Univ. of California, Berkeley	E. Gyimah-Boadi University of Ghana
Dr. Thomas Risse Freie Universitt Berlin

CIAO's editorial advisors are a part of the general CIAO advisory board which also includes:

Robert Wolven Deputy University Librarian Columbia University	Jane Winland Dir., Social Science Libs. Columbia University	David Magier Director, Area Studies Library Columbia University
David Millman Director, Systems Integration Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT)	Carol Kassel Manager Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT)	Ben Beecher Programmer Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT)
Sean Costigan Director of Strategic Initiatives Center for Security Studies	Leigh Gusts Dir. of Library and Research Services Council on Foreign Relations	Christina Schori Liang Head, Information Resources Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Sarah Mikel Library Director National Defense University	Lincoln S. Ellis Managing Director GROUPE LSE

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