Howard Tolley, Jr., Project Director
Professor of Political Science, A&S, and Adjunct Professor of Law earned his PhD in Political Science at Columbia University and a J.D. at the U.C. College of Law. His scholarly publications include three books: Children and War, The U.N. Commission on Human Rights, and The International Commission of Jurists. Since joining the U.C. faculty in 1984, he has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies responsible for the International Affairs major and Acting Department Head in 1989-90. Work abroad includes two years of Peace Corps service in Nigeria, frequent research at the U.N. office in Geneva, and appointments on Semester-at-Sea in 1991 and 2000. http://homepages.uc.edu/~tolleyhb Howard.Tolley@uc.edu 513 556-3316
Daniel Wheeler, Associate Director
Associate Professor, Educational Foundations, College of Education, has worked with educational telecommunications since 1990. While he was Director of Educational Services for KIDLINK (http://www.kidlink.org/) he helped create a global dialog of over 100 thousand kids in over 100 countries. Although he remains the North American member of the KIDLINK Board, his efforts are now concentrated on distance education at the university level. His seminar on Technology and the Transformation of Education attracted participants from Iceland and New Zealand. He has recently revised a regular course on Human Learning for asynchronous delivery on the web. With Irving Janis he authored A Practical Guide for Making Decisions (1980) and continues to do research on thinking, problem solving and decision making and educational telecommunications. Dan.Wheeler@uc.edu 513 556-3607
Bert Lockwood, Jr. Director Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
Distinguished Service Professor College of Law is Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights Quarterly and Series Editor, Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. He is a member of the the American Bar Association Subcommittee on the Teaching of International Human Rights Law, the Advisory Council of the Canadian Foundation on Human Rights, the International Advisory Board of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, the Advisory Board of the U.S. Institute for Human Rights, the Human Rights Study Group of the American Society of International Law, the Board of directors of the Hebrew Union College and University of Cincinnati Center for the Study of Professional Ethics. Bert.Lockwood@uc.edu 513 556-0093
Case Writing Associates
Laura Jenkins, Political Science, is developing a problem on women’s rights and Muslim law in India.
Charles Seibert, Philosophy, offered peer review of the Just War problem and is collaborating with the project director on a new child labor case.
Alexi Vital, Law and Women’s studies, is developing an e-Case on prosecution for rape in the Rwanda war crimes tribunal.
Acknowledgements
THRO-Net Coordinator Jon Levy is a Political Science department graduate assistant to the project director for 1999-2000.
Associate Senior Librarian James Hart, U.C. College of Law, has collaborated on project development since THRO was initiated.
UCits Technical Specialist for Instructional Technology Malcolm Montgomery has assisted with distance education tele-video conferencing.
The U.S. Institute of Peace funded a September 1999 professional development workshop, CD-ROM production, and translation of THRO materials into Spanish and French by Santiago Mendoza and Juliette Nelles.
U.C. programmer Dave Solko did multi-media editing and web authoring for initial versions of two prototype exercises. Mark Tolley designed the original THRO web materials and maintained the site through 1998. Ben W. Schuler a student programmer with UCits assumed responsibility for multi-media editing, web site development, and production of a THRO CD-ROM in summer 2000.
Former U.C. Law Librarian Taylor Fitchett helped launch THRO in 1997 after instituting Project DIANA, an electronic archive of human rights documents.
prepared art work and images for the THRO web site and the project’s
CD-ROM disk.
