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CIAO Editorial Staff
| Robert Sedgwick Editor CIAO Columbia University Press rs2499(at)columbia.edu |
Herbert Plummer Electronic Media Sales Representative Columbia University Press hp2356(at)columbia.edu |
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Stephen H. Sterns Managing Editor for Reference & Electronic Publishing Columbia University Press |
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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:
| Ronald J. Deibert Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science University of Toronto |
Allan Goodman Inst. of Int’l Education (IIE) |
E. Gyimah-Boadi University of Ghana |
| 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 |
| Dr. Thomas Risse Freie Universität Berlin |
Jack Snyder Columbia University |
Etel Solingen |
| Janice Stein University of Toronto |
Anders Stephanson Columbia University |
Hidemi Suganami University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
| Stephen Walt Harvard University |
Steven Weber Univ. of California, Berkeley |
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 |
Sean Costigan |
Leigh Gusts Dir. of Library and Research Services Council on Foreign Relations |
Ben Beecher Programmer Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT) |
| Lincoln S. Ellis Managing Director GROUPE LSE |
Christina Schori Liang Head, Information Resources Geneva Centre for Security Policy |
Kate Wittenberg Project Director, Client and Partnership Development Strategy and Research ITHAKA |
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| Carol Kassel Manager Application System Dev Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT) |
Mark Newton Production Manager Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) |
Eva T. Cunningham Senior Project Manager Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) |
Patrick Force |
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