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1 Department of Political Science Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy University at Albany State University of New York Milne Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY Phone: ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York Director, Center for Policy Research 2011 to the present. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science to the present. Director, Homeland Security Studies Certificate and Concentration, Department of Public Policy and Administration to the present. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of Maryland, College Park Research Associate, National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center). My focus is on Ethnic Terrorism and Mass Casualty Terrorism to the present. Research Associate, Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) to the present. EDUCATION University of Maryland, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, College Park, MD. Ph.D., Government and Politics. Graduated May Fields of Study: Comparative Politics; Conflict and Conflict Resolution. Comprehensive Examinations Summer Passed with Distinction. Dissertation: The Political Inclusion of Minorities at Risk, Committee: Ted R. Gurr, Mark Lichbach (Chairs), Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Martin Heisler, and William Hodos. University of Maryland, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, College Park, MD. M.A., Government and Politics. Graduated Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL. M.A., International Relations. Graduated June 1996 with honors. Fields of Study: International Relations Theory; International Law. Thesis: A Western Political Security Community. Tufts University, Medford, MA. B.A., Political Science and History. Graduated 1987, Magna Cum Laude

2 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Contentious Politics and Contentious Rights Intrastate and Interstate Conflict Pedagogy RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Harwood, Paul G. and K Thru 12: Educating The First Digital Generation A Comparative Inquiry. Westport, CT: Praeger. Wilkenfeld, Jonathan, Kathleen Young, David Quinn, and Mediating International Crises: NY: Routledge. JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Asal, Victor, Marcus Schulzke and Amy Pate Forthcoming "Why Do Some Organizations Kill While Others Do Not: An Examination of Middle Eastern Organizations" for publication in Foreign Policy Analysis. Foreign Policy Analysis Asal, Victor, Hyun Hee Park, R. Karl Rethemeyer, and Gary Ackerman. Forthcoming With Friends Like These : Why Terrorist Organizations Ally, International Public Management Journal Asal, Victor, H Brinton Milward and Eric Schoon. Forthcoming When Terrorists Go Bad: Terrorist Organizations Involvement in Drug Smuggling. International Studies Quarterly Asal, Victor, Justin Conrad and Peter White. Forthcoming. Going Abroad: Transnational Solicitation and Contention by Ethnopolitical Organizations International Organization Asal, Victor, and Justin Hastings. Forthcoming When Terrorism Goes to Sea: Terrorist Organizations and the Move to Maritime Targets Terrorism and Political Violence Asal, Victor, Lewis K Griffith and Marcus Schulzke. Forthcoming "The Dalig and Vadan Exercise: Teaching Students about Strategy and the Challenges of Friction and Fog" International Studies Perspectives Asal, Victor, Steve Sin, Nolan Fahrenkopf and She, Xiaoye Forthcoming The Comparative Politics Game Show. International Studies Perspectives Early, Bryan and Forthcoming Nuclear Weapons and Existential Threats: Insights from a Comparative Analysis of Nuclear-Armed States, Comparative Strategy Gill, Paul, Jeongyoon Lee, Karl R. Rethemeyer, John Horgan, and Forthcoming, Lethal Connections: The Determinants of Network Connections in the Provisional Irish Republican Army International Interactions Sommer, Udi, and "A Cross-National Analysis of the Guarantees of Rights" International Political Science Review 35 (1)

3 Asal, Victor, Paul Gill, John Horgan and Karl R. Rethemeyer "Killing Range: Explaining lethality variance within a terrorist organization," Journal of Conflict Resolution 58, no. 1. Asal, Victor, and Jayson Kratoville "Constructing International Relations Simulations: Examining the Pedagogy of IR Simulations Through a Constructivist Learning Theory Lens." Journal of Political Science Education 9, (2): Breiger, Ronald, Eric Shoon, David Melamed, Victor H. Asal, and R. Karl Rethemeyer. (2014). Comparative Configurational Analysis as a Two-mode Network Problem: A Study of Terrorist Group Engagement in the Drug Trade. Social Networks, 36(1): Asal, Victor, Richard Legault, Ora Szekely, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld. "Gender ideologies and forms of contentious mobilization in the Middle East." Journal of Peace Research 50, no. 3 (2013): Asal, Victor, Udi Sommer, and Paul G. Harwood "Original Sin: A Cross National Study of the Legality of Homosexual Acts." Comparative Political Studies. 46(3) Sommer, Udi,, Katie Zuber, and Jonathan Parent. "Institutional Paths to Policy Change: Judicial Versus Nonjudicial Repeal of Sodomy Laws." Law & Society Review 47, no. 2 (2013): Quinn, David, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Pelin Eralp, and Theodore McLauchlin Crisis Managers but not Conflict Resolvers: Mediating Ethnic Intrastate Conflict in Africa. Conflict Management and Peace Science 30, (4) Asal, Victor, and Marcus Schulzke "A Shot Not Taken: Teaching About the Ethics of Political Violence." International Studies Perspectives 13 (4) Deloughery, Kathleen, Ryan D. King, and "Close Cousins or Distant Relatives? The Relationship Between Terrorism and Hate Crime." Crime & Delinquency 58(5) Asal, Victor and Joseph Young Battling Abroad: Why Some Organizations are Likely Targets of Foreign Counterterrorism Civil Wars 14 (2) Asal, Victor, Mitchell Brown, and Angela Dalton "Why Split? Organizational Splits among Ethno-Political Organizations in the Middle East." Journal of Conflict Resolution. 56(1) Asal, Victor, Deloughery, Kathleen and Brian Phillips When Politicians Sell Drugs: Examining Why Middle East Ethnopolitical Organizations are Involved in the Drug Trade Terrorism and Political Violence 24: Asal, Victor, Gary Ackerman, and R. Karl Rethemeyer Connections Can Be Toxic: Terrorist Organizational Factors and the Pursuit of CBRN Weapons Studies in Terrorism and Conflict 35: Dalton, Angela and Is It Ideology or Desperation: Why Do Organizations Deploy Women in Violent Terrorist Attacks? Studies in Terrorism and Conflict 34(10): Asal, Victor, and Mitchell Brown "A Cross-National Exploration of the Conditions that Produce Interpersonal Violence." Politics & Policy 38 (2): Lemieux, Anthony.F., and "Grievance, social dominance orientation, and authoritarianism in the choice and justification of terror versus protest." Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 3 (3):

4 Asal, Victor, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Ian Anderson, Jeff Rizzo, Matthew M. Rozea, and Allyson Stein The Softest Of Targets: A Study on Terrorist Target Selection. Journal of Applied Security Research, 4 (3): Beardsley, Kyle and Nuclear Weapons as Shields Conflict Management and Peace Science, 26 (3): Beardsley, Kyle and Winning with the Bomb. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 53 (2): Asal, Victor, and Paul G. Harwood Search Engines: Terrorism s Killer App Studies in Terrorism and Conflict. 31(7): Asal, Victor, and R. Karl Rethemeyer Dilettantes, Ideologues, and the Weak: Terrorists Who Don t Kill. Conflict Management and Peace Science. (3): Asal, Victor, and R. Karl Rethemeyer The Nature of the Beast: Terrorist Organizational Characteristics and Organizational Lethality. Journal of Politics, 70(2): Asal, Victor, C. Christine Fair, and Stephen M. Shellman Consenting to a Child's Jihad. Studies in Terrorism and Conflict. 20 (5): Asal, Victor, Mitchell Brown, and Renee Gibson Figueroa Structure and Empowerment and the Liberalization of Cross-National Abortion Rights. Politics and Gender. 4 (2): Asal, Victor, and Kyle Beardsley Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior. Journal of Peace Research, 44(2): Asal, Victor, and Paul G. Harwood Airing Grievances Online: Search Engine Algorithms and the Fate of Minorities At Risk. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 4(3): Asal, Victor, Brian Nussbaum, and William Harrington Terrorism as Transnational Advocacy. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 30(1): Fordham, Benjamin, and Billiard Balls and Snowflakes: Do the Unitlevel Characteristics of Leading States Influence Systemic Outcomes? International Studies Quarterly, 51(1): Asal, Victor, and Elizabeth L. Blake Creating Simulations for Political Science Education. Journal of Political Science Education, 2(1): Asal, Victor, and R. Karl Rethemeyer Researching Terrorist Networks. Journal of Security Education, 1(4): Quinn, David, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kathleen Smarick, and Power Play: Mediation In Symmetric and Asymmetric International Crises. International Interactions, 32(4): Asal, Victor Playing Games with International Relations. International Studies Perspectives, 6(3): Wilkenfeld, Jonathan, Kathleen Young,, and David Quinn Mediating International Crises: Cross-National and Experimental Perspectives. The Journal of Conflict Resolution 47(3):

5 SHORT ARTICLES Asal, Victor, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld. "Ethnic Conflict: An Organizational Perspective." Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 2, no. 1 (2013): Asal, Victor, Nina A. Kollars, Chad Raymond, and Amanda M. Rosen. "Editors Introduction to the Thematic Issue: Bringing Interactive Simulations into the Political Science Classroom." Journal of Political Science Education 9, no. 2 (2013): Asal, Victor, Kristin Glass, and Richard Colbaugh "Introduction to a special issue on biologically inspired analysis of social systems: a security informatics perspective." Security Informatics Asal, Victor, Luis De la Calle, Michael Findley, and Joseph Young Killing Civilians or Holding Territory? How to Think about Terrorism Conceptualization, Measurement, and Modeling: Introduction" International Studies Review, 14(3): Asal, Victor John Brown, American Revolutionary War Guerillas in the South, the Treblinka Revolt and the Coding of Terrorist Organizations " International Studies Review, 14(3): Asal, Victor, Kathleen Deloughery, Dan Mabrey Country susceptibility to rail infrastructure attacks Journal of Transportation Security 5(4): Asal, Victor, and Andrew Blum Holy Terror and Mass Killings? Reexamining the Motivations and Methods of Mass Casualty Terrorists. International Studies Review, 7(1): Blum, Andrew,, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld Nonstate Actors, Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction. International Studies Review, 7(1): BOOK CHAPTERS Choi, Kihoon,, Jonathan Wilkenfeld and Krishna R. Pattipati 2013 "Forecasting the Use of Violence by Ethno Political Organizations: Middle Eastern Minorities and the Choice of Violence." Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism Subrahmanian, V.S. (Ed.) Springer Press Asal, Victor, Deloughery, Kathleen and Brian Phillips When Politicians Sell Drugs: Examining Why Middle East Ethnopolitical Organizations are Involved in the Drug Trade In Intersections of Crime and Terror ed. James J. F. Forest First appeared in Terrorism and Political Violence 24: Beardsley, Kyle and Victory Asal, Nuclear- Weapons Programs and the Security Dilemma, in The Nuclear Renaissance and International Security, Matt Fuhrmann and Adam Stulberg (eds.), Stanford University Press. Melamed, David, Eric Schoon, Ronald Breiger,, and R. Rethemeyer. "Using organizational similarity to identify statistical interactions for improving situational awareness of CBRN activities." 2012 Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction Edited by S.J. Yang, A.M. Greenberg and M. Endsley (eds.). New York: Springer. Breiger, Ronald L., Gary A. Ackerman,, David Melamed, H. Brinton Milward, R. Karl Rethemeyer and Eric Schoon Application of a Profile - 5 -

6 Similarity Methodology for Identifying Terrorist Groups That Use or Pursue CBRN Weapons, Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction 6589 Edited by J. Salerno, S. Yang, D. Nau, and S. Chai. New York: Springer. Beardsley, Kyle, and "Winning with the Bomb." In Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation ed. R. Rauchhaus, M. Kroenig and E. Gartzke. New York: Routledge - First Appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Anderson, Ian,, and R. Karl Rethemeyer "Lethal Combinations: Studying the Structure of Terrorist Networks." In Advances in Cross-Cultural Decision Making, ed. D. Schmorrow and D. Nicholson. New York CRC Press. Asal,.Victor "Minimal Political Inclusion of Minorities at Risk: The Case of the Americas, " In The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Identity Politics in Twenty-first Century America, ed. D. F. Ericson. New York Routledge. Asal, Victor, Stephen Shellman and Tiffiany Howard Methodological Development in Nationalism, Ethnicity and Migration, In Robert A. Denemark, and Andrea K. Gerlak (Eds.) International Studies Compendia Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Asal, Victor H. and R. Karl Rethemeyer Islamist Use and Pursuit of CBRN Terrorism. In G. Ackerman and J. Tamsett (Eds.), Jihadists & Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Growing Threat. London: Taylor & Francis. Ackerman, Gary and A Historical Overview of Biological Weapons Identification, Characterization, and Attribution. In Anne Clunan, Peter Lavoy, and Susan Martin (Eds.), Terrorism, War or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. Asal, Victor, Carter Johnson, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld Ethnopolitical Violence and Terrorism in the Middle East. In J.J. Hewitt, J. Wilkenfeld, and T. R. Gurr, (Eds.), Peace and Conflict. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. Asal, Victor The ICONS Suite of Negotiation Simulations. In Steve Cohen, Kent E. Portney, Dean Rehberger, and Carolyn Thorsen, (Eds.), Virtual Decisions: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Science and Humanities. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Book Reviews, Reports and Non-Peer review Articles Asal, Victor, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Rose Bellandi, Richard Legault, and Robert Tynes "Making the Wrong Connection: The Determinants of Terrorist Targeting of Airplanes and Airports." Journal of Homeland Security. Asal, Victor Examining the Causes and Effects of Terrorism. International Studies Review, 13. Asal, Victor, and Amy Pate The Decline of Ethnic Political Discrimination In T. R. Gurr and M. G. Marshall (Eds.), Peace and Conflict 2005: A Global Survey of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy. College Park, MD: Center for International Development and Conflict Management. Encyclopedia Entry Asal, Victor Ethnic Cleansing. In C. Neal Tate (Ed.), Governments Of The World. Macmillan Reference Books

7 GRANTS From External Sources (over $3,000,000 received or promised) PI or Co-PI on three projects funded by National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism with R. Karl Rethemeyer, Anthony Lemieux, Joseph Young, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld (START Center, University of Maryland, College Park). Focusing on organizational and individual choices of violence. $933,495 Co-PI with James I. Walsh, Justin Conrad, Michael Findley, James Piazza, and Beth Whitaker (Minerva Research Initiative) Natural Resources and Armed Conflict $148,000 PI on Hot Spots of Hate and Violence With Kathleen Deloughery and Ryan King (U. Albany). National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center), University of Maryland, College Park. $99,903. Co-PI on Research Grant New Analytic Methods for the Exploitation of Open-Source Structured Databases on the Pursuit of WMD Terrorism. Start Date summer funded by Defense Threat Reduction Agency (BRBAA08-Per3-G ). With Ronald Breiger, Gary Ackerman, Brint Milward and R. Karl Rethemeyer $ 443,480 Co-PI on Research Grant Bomb to Bombmaker.. June 1, 2009 December 31, funded by the Office of Naval Research, Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism (BAA ). With John Horgan and R. Karl Rethemeyer $ 255,675 Co-PI on Research Grant An Agent-based Modeling Framework for SSTR Mission Planning and Assessment.. June 1, 2009 December 31, funded by the Office of Naval Research, Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism (BAA ). With SOAR Technologies and R. Karl Rethemeyer John Horgan and Mitchel Abolafia $ 165,000 Co-PI on Research Grant Know Thyself: The Organizational Culture, Networks, and Behavior of Counterinsurgency and Stability Operations,. Phase I: May 1, 2009 January 31, Phase II: February 1, 2010 June 20, 2012 (tentative).. funded by the Office of Naval Research, Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism (BAA ). With R. Karl Rethemeyer John Horgan and Mitchel Abolafia $232,373 Co-PI on Research Grant investigating The Ecology of Terrorist Organizations, funded by the National Science Foundation through its Human Social Dynamics program with Edward M. Crenshaw, Gary LaFree, VS Subrahmanian and Jonathan Wilkenfeld $175,758 Co-PI on Research Grant Investigating Mass Casualty Terrorism (with Gary Ackerman), Ethnic Terrorism (with Jonathan Wilkenfeld) and Social Services and Terrorism (with Eli Berman) National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center, University of Maryland, College Park). $216,656. Co-PI on Research Grant on Domestic Terrorism & Political Violence: Empirical Models of Government & Dissident Tactics and Strategies in South & Southeast - 7 -

8 Asia. September With Stephen Shellman, PI (University of Georgia). National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. $177,408 ($58,918 to U. Albany). Subcontract for BBN Technologies for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Award on Integrated Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS), With R. Karl Rethemeyer (U. Albany) $306,303. PI on Research Grant Investigating Terrorist Networks Terrorism With R. Karl Rethemeyer (U. Albany). National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center), University of Maryland, College Park. $35,000. FROM INTERNAL SOURCES Faculty Research Awards Program A Grant Devastatingly Practical Terrorism: Understanding and Combating Conventional Mass Casualty Terrorism. University at Albany, SUNY. $9,738. Individual Development Awards Program Proposal Building Ethnic Conflict Database. University at Albany, SUNY. $1000. The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning Innovation Grant Bringing Undergraduates Into The Research Institution: The Undergraduate Research Course in Global Politics Project. University at Albany, SUNY. $4,640. Faculty Research Awards Program B Grant The Online Indigenous Mobilization Project. University at Albany, SUNY. $3,995. IT Commons Request for Proposals: Proposal for Interdisciplinary IT Positions on Contentious Politics and Information Technology Grant to fund half of a new line for Associate Professor. Drafted jointly with Professor Thomas Church. University at Albany, SUNY. (Amount not specified.) AWARDS 2007 Article of the Year Award. Journal of Peace Research, For Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior. With Kyle Beardsley (Emory University) in Journal of Peace Research 44(2): Martin Edelman Excellence in Teaching Award Department of Political Science, Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York. Excellence in Teaching Award College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland. Government and Politics Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland. Government and Politics Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland. PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS - 8 -

9 INVITED PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS Asal, Victor H. and R. Karl Rethemeyer. (2013). Terrorist Organizations and Lethality. Invited presentation. National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland START Annual Meeting. Washington, DC: September 11, Asal, Victor and R. Karl Rethemeyer. Big Allied and Dangerous: Organizational Behavior of Terrorist Groups 2010 Brown Bag Talk for The Office of University Programs, Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security. Washington DC Asal, Victor. October 2009, Assessing Organizational Indicators of Terrorist use of WMD Brown Bag Talk for The Office of University Programs, Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security. Washington DC Asal, Victor. October 2009, Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism Indicators Of Radicalization Task Force, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania Asal, Victor. September 2009, Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism Consortium Annual Meeting, College Park MD Asal, Victor. August 2009, Organizations and the Choice of Terrorism Santa Fe Institute Working Group on Terrorism Santa Fe, New Mexico Asal, Victor. July 2009, Reviewer for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the project "Predicting Intent from Real-World Datasets Richland Washington Asal, Victor. June 2009, Social Science Approaches to the Study of Nonstate Violence Sandia National Laboratory Albuquerque, New Mexico Asal, Victor. June 2009, Introduction on WMD Terrorism and Prediction overview (sponsored by the Defense Department, the Department of Energy and others) Asal, Victor. June Targeting and Attacking the United States, for the University of California Development and Conflict Research Conference, University of California San Diego. San Diego CA. Asal, Victor. May The Social Sciences and the Study of Terrorism, Presented at the Biologically Inspired Innovation Workshop organized by the Department of Homeland Security. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. April Organizations and the Choices of Terror, for the Florida Society for Middle East Studies Lecture Series, Florida Atlantic University. Boca Raton, FL Asal, Victor. April Organizations and the Choices of Terror, for the Delmar Humanities Institute for Lifelong Learning. Delmar, NY Asal, Victor. March From Violence to Voting: Organizational Factors, State Behavior and the Organizational Behavior of Minorities at Risk Organizations in the Middle East, At the Department of Homeland Security University Network Research Summit. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. February Social Network Analysis for Disaster Resiliency workshop organized by the National Research Council. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. January 2009 Defining a Deterrence Analytic Construct: Contributions of Social Science Research Areas Workshop sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Bethesda MD

10 Asal, Victor. December 2008 Prevention Working Group Workshop. Organized by the Folke Bernadotte Academy, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia. Asal, Victor. June and July Teaching about Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). Oklahoma University. Asal, Victor. April Organizations and the Choices of Terror: Presented at the Transportation Security Administration Training Program organized by the Studies in Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism Center of Excellence. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. February Strategic Parameters for Teaching Controversies. Organized by the Difficult Dialogues and the Institute for Teaching, Learning, and Academic Leadership at the University at Albany, SUNY. Albany NY Asal, Victor. Kihoon Choi and Krishna Pattipati. January "Forecasting the Use of Violence in Ethnic-political Organizations: Middle Eastern Minorities, At Risk Minorities and the Choice of Violence" At the Modeling and Visualization Symposium organized by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. January Organizations and the Choices of Terror: Big Allied and Deadly. Presented at the Social Science Modeling and Information Visualization Workshop. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. December Terrorist Organizations. Presented as Subject Matter Expert Speaker Series for Strategic Command. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. July Minorities At Risk Organizations and Terrorism. Presented at Department of Homeland Security Training Program. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. July Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). Oklahoma University. Asal, Victor. June Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). University of Maryland/START Center. Asal, Victor. June Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA. Asal, Victor. May Virtual Network Analysis and Terrorism. Presented at the Center for Dynamic Data Analysis (DyDAn). Rutgers, NJ. Asal, Victor and R. Karl Rethemeyer. May Terrorist Lethality. Presented at the NYFBI National Academy Associates Conference. Cooperstown, NY. Asal, Victor. November The Problem of Suicide Terrorism. Presented at School of Natural and Social Sciences Lecture Series, Purchase College, SUNY. Asal, Victor and Gary Ackerman. July Presented at Conference on Identification, Characterization and Attribution, of Biological Weapons. Center for Contemporary Conflict at the US Naval Postgraduate School and King s College London Centre for Science and Security Studies, London. Asal, Victor. July Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). University of Georgia

11 Asal, Victor. June Ethnic Terrorism. Presented at Summer Workshop on Teaching About Terrorism (SWOTT). The College of William and Mary. Williamsburg, VA. Asal, Victor. August Suicide Terrorism. Presented at Terrorism/Countering Terrorism. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor. October Scholar-in-Residence. Ethnic and Suicide Terrorism. Presented at School of Public Administration, Moscow State University. Russia ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES Team Based Learning Workshop. May Organized by the Institute for Teaching, Learning, and Academic Leadership at the University at Albany, SUNY Blackboard Workshop. January Organized by the Institute for Teaching, Learning, and Academic Leadership at the University at Albany, SUNY Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism (SWOTT). July College of William and Mary. Williamsburg, VA. University Teaching and Learning Program Certificate. Completed A Joint Initiative of the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park. Advanced Training Certificate in Conflict Management Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM), University of Maryland, College Park. CONFERENCE PAPERS Asal, Victor H. and R. Karl Rethemeyer. (2013). Dark Choices: The Determinants of Terrorist Organizational Lethality. Refereed conference paper. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. 35 th Annual APPAM Research Conference. Washington, DC. November 9, 2013., R. Karl Rethemeyer and Joseph Young Counter Terrorism and Terrorist Organizations March Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. Montreal, Canada, R. Karl Rethemeyer and Hyun Hee Park Lethality and Terrorist Networks March Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. Montreal, Canada Asal, Victor and R. Karl Rethemeyer, Ronald Breiger, David Melamed, Brinton Milward, and Eric Schoon. When Terrorists Go Bad: Terrorist Organizations Involvement in Drug Smuggling, October 2010 International Security Studies Section/ International Security and Arms Control Conference. Providence Rhode Island Asal, Victor and Mitchell Brown. November 2009 Country Level Factors and the Causes of Private Violence Peace Science Society Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Kurt Rohloff and. Computational Methods to Discover Sets of Patterns of Behaviors that Precede Political Events of Interest. AAAI Spring Symposium on

12 Technosocial Predictive Analytics, March Asal, Victor, Kihoon Choi and Krishna Pattipati. "Forecasting the Use of Violence in Ethnic-political Organizations: Middle Eastern Minorities, At Risk Minorities and the Choice of Violence" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA National Conference New York February 15, 2009 Asal, Victor and Anthony Lemieux. "Opportunity, Grievance, Personality and The Choice of Terrorism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2008 Asal, Victor and Lewis Griffith. March Understanding the Characteristics of Non- State Groups that Choose to Take Direct Action Against the State Security Apparatus. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. Asal, Victor and D. Marc Kilgour. March How Terrorists and Governments Interact Over Time. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. Asal, Victor, Stephen M. Shellman and Brandon M. Stewart. November Regional Sticks: The Effects of President s Rule on Regional Terrorism in India, Paper presented at the annual meeting of Peace Science Society (International). Columbia, SC. Asal, Victor. August Organizational Factors and the Choice of Terrorism: Minorities At Risk Organizational Behavior in the Middle East. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. Asal, Victor and Mitchell Brown. August Culture, Opportunity Structure, and the Politics of Domestic Violence and the Murder of Women. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. Asal, Victor and Paul Harwood. February/March Surfing in Multiple Tongues: Search Engines and Middle East Ethnopolitics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA. Asal, Victor and D. Marc Kilgour. February/March A Simple Game of Terror. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA. Asal, Victor and R. Karl Rethemeyer. October The Nature of the Beast: Organizational Structures and the Lethality of Terrorist Attacks. Paper presented at the annual joint meeting of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association and the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association. Tucson, AZ. Asal, Victor. March The Preconditions for Ethnic Suicide Bombing Campaigns Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA. Asal, Victor and Gary A. Ackerman. March Size Matters: Terrorist Organizational Factors and the Pursuit and Use of CBRN Terrorism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA. Asal, Victor, Paul Harwood, and Naama Nagar. March Ethnopolitical Political Mobilization on the Web. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA

13 Asal, Victor. November Ethno-Nationalist Suicide Terrorism. Paper presented at the Peace Science Society Conference. Iowa City, IA. Asal, Victor and Paul Harwood. August/September Terror and the Web. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, D.C. Asal, Victor and Paul Harwood. March Minority Search: Ethnopolitical Mobilization Online. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. Honolulu, HI. Asal, Victor and Benjamin Fordham. November Billiard Balls and Snowflakes: Do the Unit-level Characteristics of Leading States Influence Systemic Outcomes? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Peace Science Society. Houston, TX. Asal, Victor. October Holy Terror and Mass Killings? Reexamining the Motivations and Methods of Mass Casualty Terrorists. Paper presented at the Center For International Development And Conflict Management of The University of Maryland Conference on Non-State Actors, Terrorism, and Weapons Of Mass Destruction. College Park, MD. Asal, Victor. April The International and Domestic Impact of Democracy: Minimal Political Inclusion of Minorities at Risk Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. Asal, Victor. March Minimally Political Inclusive States: The Case of Minorities at Risk Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec. Asal, Victor, David Quinn, Kathleen Young, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld. March Mediation and the Relative Power of Crisis Actors: An Experimental Analysis. Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec. Asal, Victor and Elizabeth Blake Creating Simulations for Political Science Education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, PA. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2000 to Present Co-Designed and developed the Minorities At Risk Organizational Behavior Database Project to code all organizations claiming to represent MAR groups for their Organizational Behavior, including terrorist actions funded through the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Since Building Political Inclusion Database collecting data on 162 countries, from 1870 to the present, for ethnic groups. University of Maryland. Research Associate for the Crisis and Negotiation Research Group led by Professor Jonathan Wilkenfeld, University of Maryland Project Collection Coordinator of Data for the Minorities At Risk Project, adding a new set of variables on population distribution, University of Maryland

14 COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, SUNY Graduate Classes Political Violence: Terrorism and Insurgency Ethnic Conflict Contentious Politics Comparative Field Seminar Negotiation and Bargaining Political Inclusion Undergraduate Classes Violent Political Conflict Ethnic Conflict Introduction to World Politics Research and Method in Global Politics Research and Method in Political Science Politics of the Developing World RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2001 to 2007 Lecturer and developer of workshops on negotiation and crisis leadership for the ICONS Project for use by the United States Office of Personnel Management, Eastern Management Development Center. Shepherdstown, WV. SERVICE TO THE FIELD Editorial Board of the journal Foreign Policy Analysis Vice-Chair of Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies section of the International Studies Association Member at Large of Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies Members at Large section of the International Studies Association APSA Teaching and Learning Conference Program Committee member 2010, 2011, 2012 Program Chair for the Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies section of the International Studies Association for the International Studies Association Annual Conference Deborah Misty Gerner Innovative Teaching Award committee member ACTED AS REVIEWER FOR FOLLOWING JOURNALS American Journal of Political Science American Political Science Review Biosecurity and Bioterrorism British Journal of Political Science Cambridge Review of International Affairs Civil War Comparative Politics Comparative Political Studies

15 Conflict Management and Peace Science Criminology and Public Policy Foreign Policy Analysis International Journal of Conflict and Violence International Interactions International Migration International Organization International Security International Studies Perspectives International Studies Quarterly International Studies Review Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal of Peace Research Journal of Political Science Education Journal of Politics Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Millennium Public Administration Review Political Psychology Politics & Policy Politics & Society PS: Political Science & Politics Review of International Studies Science Security Studies Terrorism and Political Violence MEMBERSHIPS American Political Science Association International Studies Association Peace Science Society ACADEMIC SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY Director, Homeland Security Studies Certificate in Department of Public Policy and Administration, Nelson A. Rockefeller of College Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY to date Member, Honors College, 2009 to date Member, Faculty and Instructional Development Work Group for Implementation of the Strategic Plan, 2011 to 2013 Member, Strategic Plan Implementation Research Working Group,, 2011 to 2013 Member, Second Year Evaluation Committee for Thomas Walker. Member, Committee to reevaluate graduate student program, Member, Retention Sub-Committee/Teaching & Learning Committee, Member, Faculty International New Experience Awards Committee,

16 Nelson A. Rockefeller of College Public Affairs and Policy Representative, Honors College Board, 2008 to date Served on several hiring and mentoring committees ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY TALKS Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Terrorism. April Presented at the United Jewish Federation Chaim Weizmann Society. Albany, NY. Simulations for Social Science Classes. November Presented at the Center of Excellence of Teaching and Learning. University at Albany, SUNY. Pi Sigma Alpha Graduate School Informational Roundtable, November University at Albany, SUNY. The State of the Union. February A Round Table Discussion organized by the Graduate Association of Political Scientists. University at Albany, SUNY. Ethnopolitical Mobilization Online. March Presented at the SUNY Albany Political Science Colloquium. University at Albany, SUNY. Going on the Job Market April Presented to the Graduate Association of Political Scientists. University at Albany, SUNY. Government Policy and Ethnic Terror March Presented at Rockefeller Policy Lunch Series. University at Albany, SUNY. Israel s Political Realignment February Presented at the Bet Shraga Hebrew Academy of the Capital District Learn-a-thon. Albany, NY. Challenges of Studying Terrorism. December Presented at Decision and Policy Sciences Brownbag Lunch Series. University at Albany, SUNY. Moderated student discussion of Fahrenheit 9/11. October 2004 Shown in Livingston Tower, University at Albany, SUNY. Mass Casualty Terror-The Empirical Record. October Presented at the Public Administration Ph.D. Brownbag Lunch Series. University at Albany, SUNY. The Politics of Israel. Fall Presented at University at Albany Hillel. University at Albany, SUNY