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Senior Consultant
C
AMILLE
P
ECASTAING
, P
H
.D.
, is acting director of the Middle
East Studies Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A student of behavioral sciences and his-
torical sociology, Dr. Pecastaing’s research focuses on the cognitive and emotive
foundations of xenophobic political cultures and ethnoreligious violence, using
the Muslim world and its European and Asian peripheries as a case study. He
has written on political Islam, Islamist terrorism, social change, and globaliza-
tion. Pecastaing’s essays have appeared in many journals, including
World
Affairs
and
Policy Review
. He is the author of
Jihad in the Arabian Sea
(Hoover
Institution Press, 2011).
The
F
OREIGN
P
OLICY
R
ESEARCH
I
NSTITUTE
(FPRI)
served as editorial consultants for
the M
AJOR
M
USLIM
N
ATIONS
series. FPRI is one of the nation’s oldest “think tanks.”
The Institute’s Middle East Program focuses on Gulf security, monitors the Arab-
Israeli peace process, and sponsors an annual conference for teachers on the
Middle East, plus periodic briefings on key developments in the region.
Among the FPRI’s trustees is a former Secretary of State and a former
Secretary of the Navy (and among the FPRI’s former trustees and interns, two
current Undersecretaries of Defense), not to mention two university presidents
emeritus, a foundation president, and several active or retired corporate CEOs.
The scholars of FPRI include a former aide to three U.S. Secretaries of State,
a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, a former president of Swarthmore College and
a Bancroft Prize–winning historian, and two former staff members of the National
Security Council. And the FPRI counts among its extended network of
scholars—especially its Inter-University Study Groups—representatives of
diverse disciplines, including political science, history, economics, law, manage-
ment, religion, sociology, and psychology.
B
ILL
T
HOMPSON
graduated from Boston University with a degree in education. After
teaching history in public schools, Mr. Thompson earned a Master of Divinity from
Colgate-Rochester and became a Presbyterian minister. He pastored in New York,
New Jersey, and Florida. He and his wife, Dorcas, now live in Swarthmore,
Pennsylvania.
D
ORCAS
(B
OARDMAN
) T
HOMPSON
graduated from Wheaton College in
Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in history. She taught history and social studies
in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. She has served as librarian in a private
school and worked as an editor for an educational publisher in Massachusetts.
She was named to
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
in 1992. The Thompsons
have one daughter, Rebecca Mandia, who lives in Pennsylvania with her teacher-
husband, Al. Bill and Dorcas have two grandchildren, Rachel and Patrick.