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Participants

Dwayne Eug猫ne Carpenter听is Professor of Hispanic Studies, Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Co-Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Boston College. The author of several books on medieval religious and intellectual history, he has a special interest in the historical role of gambling in society. Among his gambling-related articles are 鈥淔ickle Fortune: Gambling in Medieval Spain鈥� (Studies in Philology) and 鈥溾�楢lea jacta est': At the Gaming Table with Alfonso the Learned鈥� (Journal of Medieval History). Carpenter holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages & Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Ph.D. in Medieval Historical Studies from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.

Charles T. Clotfelter听is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies, Professor of Economics and Law, and Director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. His research interests are the economics of education, the nonprofit sector, public finance, and tax policy. He is the author of听After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation听(Princeton, 2004),听Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education听(Princeton, 1996), and听Federal Tax Policy and Charitable Giving听(Chicago, 1985). He has also co-authored (with R. Ehrenberg, M. Getz, and J. Siegried)听Economic Challenges in Higher Education听(Chicago, 1991) and (with P. Cook)听Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America听(Harvard, 1989).

Philip J. Cook听is ITT/Terry Sanford Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Professor of Economics, Professor of Sociology, and Associate Director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice (Criminal Division) and the U.S. Department of Treasury (Enforcement Division). He has also served in a variety of capacities with the National Academy of Sciences, including membership on expert panels dealing with alcohol abuse prevention, violence, and school shootings. Cook is a member of the Division Committee for the Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. His books include听Gun Violence: The Real Costs听(with J. Ludwig, Oxford, 2000),听The Winner-Take-All Society听(with R. H. Frank, Free Press, 1995), and听Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America听(with C. Clotfelter, Harvard, 1989).

Rachel T.A. Croson听is Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. and A.M. in economics from Harvard University and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. The author of dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters, including several on the 鈥済ambler鈥檚 fallacy,鈥� Croson brings the insights of behavioral economics to bear upon decision-making practices. Her research involves the experimental and empirical study of how individuals make strategic decisions, especially those concerning negotiation/bargaining and contributions to public goods. She is a member of numerous scholarly editorial boards and foundation advisory boards.

John Dombrink听is a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a research assistant on Jerome Skolnick鈥檚 landmark听House of Cards: Legalization and Control of Casino Gambling听(1978). He is the author of several articles on gambling in America, and co-author of a book about gambling legalization,听The Last Resort: Success and Failure in Campaigns for Casinos听(1990, with William N. Thompson). With Daniel Hillyard, he is the author of听Dying Right: The Death With Dignity Movement听(2001), a study of the legal reform of physician assisted suicide. With Daniel Hillyard, he is also the author of a new book,听Sin No More: From Abortion to Stem Cells 鈥� Crime , Law and Morality in America.听(NYU Press, 2007), in which the authors examine current 鈥渕orality contests鈥� in American culture, assess the status of American laws and attitudes toward the sphere of personal morality, and address the issues of the 鈥渧alues voters,鈥澨� polarization, religion,听 ambivalence, and framing strategies.

Matthew Fox is an MBA student at the University of Nevada Reno, and received his B.A. from Colorado College. He is a founding director of Animal House Rescue and Elko County Habitat for Humanity. His research interests include organizational behavior, non-profit management, corporate social responsibility, and more broadly, how organizations make and implement decisions where profit is not the deciding factor.听

William Galston听is Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Cornell University. He is a political theorist who both studies and participates in American politics and domestic policy. Galston was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the first Clinton Administration and Executive Director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal, which was chaired by Sam Nunn and William Bennett. His books include听Public Matters: Essays on Politics, Policy and Religion听(Rowman & Littlefield, 2005);听The Practice of Liberal Pluralism听(Cambridge, 2004); and听Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice听(Cambridge, 2002).

Kenneth Himes, O.F.M.听is an Associate Professor of Theology and the Chairperson of the Theology Department at Boston College.
Prior to joining the faculty at Boston College, Fr. Himes taught at Washington Theological Union. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, Howard University Divinity School and St. John鈥檚 University (NY) where he held the Paul McKeever Chair. A member of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) he has held a number of leadership positions within his religious community.
His research interests are in the history of Catholic social teaching, the role of the U.S. Catholic community in American social reform, the ethics of warfare, and the relationship of religion and politics in the nation鈥檚 public life.

John P. Hoffmann听is Professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University. He earned a B.S. from James Madison University, an M.S. from American University, a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Albany, and an M.P.H. from Emory University. His research interests include criminology, applied statistics, and sociology of religion. Selected publications include 鈥淓xtracurricular Activities, Athletic Participation, and Adolescent Alcohol Use鈥� (Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2006); 鈥淪ocial and Environmental Influences on Endangered Species: A Cross-National Study鈥� (Sociological Perspectives, 2004); 鈥淎 Contextual Analysis of Differential Association, Social Control, and Strain Theories of Delinquency鈥� (Social Forces, 2003); and 鈥淩eligion and Problem Gambling in the United States鈥� (Review of Religious Research, 2000).

T. J. Jackson Lears听is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and Editor-in-Chief of the听Raritan Quarterly Review. He earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. from Yale. His research interests include U.S. cultural and intellectual history, comparative religious history, literature and the visual arts, and folklore and folk beliefs. Selected publications include听Something for Nothing: Luck in America听(Viking Penguin, 2003);听Fables of Abundance: a Cultural History of Advertising in America听(Basic Books, 1994); and听No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920听(Pantheon, 1981; reissued by Chicago, 1994; Japanese translation by Shohakusha Publishing, forthcoming).

Steven Andrew Light听is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration and Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy at the University of North Dakota.听 He received a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.听 Light has published widely on Indian gaming as well as policy implementation, affirmative action, environmental racism, and voting rights.听 He is co-author of three books:听Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise;听Indian Gaming Law and Policy; and听Indian Gaming Law: Cases and Materials; and is writing 鈥�The Law is Good鈥�: The Voting Rights Act, Redistricting, and Black Regime Politics.听 Light has testified on Indian gaming regulation before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and was featured on C-SPAN鈥檚 Book TV.听 He is a member of the International Masters of Gaming Law and writes a regular column on tribal gaming in Casino Lawyer.听

Richard McGowan听is Associate Professor of Operations and Strategic Management at Boston College and Research Associate at the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions. He received a D.B.A. in 1988 from Boston University. His research focuses on the interaction of business and public policy processes, especially as they relate to the gambling, tobacco, and alcohol industries. He has published five books:听State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling: Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage听(Quorum,1994);听Business, Politics and Cigarettes: Multiple Levels, Multiple Agendas听(Greenwood, 1995);听Industry as a Player in the Social and Political Arenas听(Quorum, 1996);听The Search for Revenue and the Common Good: An Analysis of Government Regulation of the Alcohol Industry听(Prager, 1997); and听Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry听(Edward Elgar, 2001). He is currently completing听Dividing the Spoils: States and the Gambling Industry听and is working on a book on the interaction of government with the accounting industry with Gregory Trompeter of Boston College鈥檚 Accounting Department.

R. Shep Melnick听is the Thomas P. O鈥橬eill, Jr. Professor of American Politics. He teaches a variety of courses on American politics, including Courts and Public Policy, Ideas and Institutions in American Politics, Bureaucracy, Democracy in America, Rights in Conflict, and the American politics graduate field seminar. His research and writing focuses on the intersection of law and politics. His first book, Regulation and the Courts, examined judicial influence on the development of environmental policy. His second, Between the Lines, investigated the ways in which statutory interpretation has shaped a variety of entitlement programs. His current research project looks at how the Rehnquist Court is reshaping our governing institutions. Melnick is co-chair of the Harvard Program on Constitutional Government and a past president of the New England Political Science Department. Before coming to Boston College 1997 he had taught at Harvard and at Brandeis, where he served as chair of the Politics Department.

Michael Nelson听is Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College in Memphis. He earned a B.A. from the College of William and Mary and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He teaches courses on U.S. Politics, the American Presidency, and the Constitutional Convention. He also teaches the College鈥檚 humanities course, 鈥淭he Search for Values in the Light of Western History and Religion,鈥� and coauthored a book about the course,听Celebrating the Humanities: A Half Century of the Search Course at Rhodes College听(1996). Nelson has published twenty-one books, the most recent of which are听The Presidency and the Political System,听8th ed. (2006),听The Elections of 2004听(2005),听The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2002听(2003), and (with John Mason Lyman)听Governing Gambling: Politics and Policy in State, Tribe, and Nation听(2000). His newest book,听How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation, will be published in September 2007 by LSU Press.

Marc Potenza听is Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Division of Substance Abuse), Director of the Problem Gambling Clinic, Director of Neuroimaging for the VA MIRECC, and Director of the Women and Addictive Disorders Core of Women's Health Research at Yale University. He holds a Ph.D. in cell biology and an M.D. from Yale University. Potenza investigates the relationship between 鈥渂ehavioral鈥� addictions and drug addictions with particular focus on the etiology and treatment of pathological gambling and the relationship between pathological gambling and drug use disorders. His research group uses a variety of investigative approaches鈥攆MRI neuroimaging, molecular genetic, clinical treatment trials, and epidemiological analyses鈥攖o investigate these areas. He is the co-editor of听Pathological Gambling: A Clinical Guide to Treatment听(American Psychiatric Press, 2004), and the author of many articles on pathological gambling, including 鈥淪hould addictive disorders include non-substance-related conditions,鈥澨�Addiction, 2006; 鈥淪hared Genetic Contributions to Major Depression and Pathological Gambling,鈥� with H. Xian et al. (Archives of General Psychiatry, 2005); and 鈥淧athological Gambling,鈥� with T.R. Kosten and B.J. Rounsaville (Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001).

David Quigley, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History and the Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department at Boston College.听 Currently, Professor Quigley is serving as the Acting Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College.
听Professor Quigley teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses on the nineteenth-century United States and on political and urban history. His research to date has explored the history of race and democracy between the American Revolution and Reconstruction in the local political cultures of New York. He is completing a new synthetic project, 鈥淟ast, Best Hope: International Lives of the American Civil War" (Hill & Wang) and editing 鈥淎 Companion to American Urban History鈥� (Blackwell) and 鈥淏using in Boston: A Brief History with Documents鈥� (Bedford).

Joseph Quinn, Ph.D., is the James P. McIntyre Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Boston College.
听Prof. Quinn has recently returned to a professorship in the Economics Department after his tenure as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College 鈥� a position he held since 1999.听 Prof. Quinn鈥檚 research interests include labor economics, economics of aging and social security reform.听 He is currently teaching on microeconomics and public policy issues.
听Some of Prof. Quinn鈥檚 recent publications include "Comments on 'The Role of Employers in Phased Retirement: Opportunities for Phased Retirement among White-Collar Workers'", in Work Options for Older Americans, Teresa Ghilarducci and John Turner, editors (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007) and "Modeling the Retirement Decision," in Social Structures, Aging, and the Self-Regulation of the Elderly, K. Warner Schaie and Laura L. Carstensen, editors (Springer Publishing Company, 2006).

Kathryn R.L. Rand听is Floyd B. Sperry Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of North Dakota School of Law, and is Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy.听 She received a B.A. from the University of North Dakota and a J.D. from the University of Michigan School of Law.听 Rand has published widely on Indian gaming as well as sex equality, affirmative action, and environmental racism.听 She is co-author of three books:听Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise;听Indian Gaming Law and Policy; and听Indian Gaming Law: Cases and Materials.听 She has testified on Indian gaming regulation before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and was featured on C-SPAN鈥檚 Book TV.听 She is a member of the International Masters of Gaming Law and the Editorial Board of the Gaming Law Review.听 Rand writes a regular column on tribal gaming in Casino Lawyer and with Light, blogs on Indian gaming at听.

David A. Skeel, Jr.听is S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School. Skeel is an expert in bankruptcy and corporate labor law. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina. He has been interviewed on Nightline, Chris Matthews鈥� Hardball (MS-N51茶馆), National Public Radio, and Marketplace, among others, and has been quoted in听The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post,听and many other publications. He is the author of听Icarus in the Boardroom听(Oxford, 2005) and听Debt鈥檚 Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America听(Princeton, 2001), as well as numerous articles and other publications. In addition to corporate law and bankruptcy, Skeel writes on sovereign debt law and religion, and poetry and the law, and is an elder at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.

William Stuntz听is Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law and Vice-Dean for Intellectual Life at Harvard Law School. He received a B.A. from the College of William and Mary and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. His research interests are Christianity and legal theory, crime policy, and criminal law and procedure. Recent publications include 鈥淐hristian Legal Theory,鈥澨�Harvard Law Review听(2003); 鈥淟ocal Policing After the Terror,鈥澨�Yale Law Journal听(2002); and听Comprehensive Criminal Procedure听(with R. J. Allen, J. L. Hoffman, and D. A. Livingston) and听Aspen Law & Business听(2001).

James Sundali听is the Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Nevada, Reno and previously taught at Kent State University. His interests include judgment and decision making, game theory, bargaining and negotiation, experimental economics, and finance. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and both an M.B.A. and B.S. from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He has also worked as a stockbroker and financial planner. His publications include "Biases in casino betting: The hot hand and the gambler's fallacy" with Rachel Croson in the journal, Judgment and Decision Making. He has also published in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Business Strategies.

Kathryn Tanner听is Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Yale University. Tanner is a Christian theologian in the Protestant tradition; she addresses contemporary challenges to belief through the creative use of the history of Christian thought and interdisciplinary methods such as critical, social, and feminist theory. Her books听God and Creation in Christian Theology and The Politics of God听discuss the coherence and practical force of Christian beliefs about God's relation to the world.听Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology听explores the relevance of cultural studies for rethinking theological method. Her brief systematic theology,听Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity, centers on the incarnation. Her latest book,听Economy of Grace, explores the intersections between theology and economics.

Judith Wilt, Ph.D., is the Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture and Professor of English in the English Department at Boston College.
听Professor Wilt specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British fiction, Victorian literature, Women's Studies, religion and literature, and popular-culture genres.
听She is a founding member of the Women's Studies Committee at Boston College and has published essays and given papers on women writers as diverse as Ayn Rand, Toni Morrison, Georgette Heyer and Virginia Woolf.
听Some of Prof. Wilt鈥檚 published works include Behind Her Times: The Novels of Mary Arnold Ward (2005) and an article published in Victorian Literature and Culture titled 鈥淏ronte's Shirley: Reflections on Marrying Moores鈥� in March 2002.

Alan Wolfe听served as the founding director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, and Professor of Political Science, at Boston College from 1999 until his retirement in 2016.听

Widely regarded as one of this coutry's most prominent public intellectuals, he is the author and editor of more than 20 books, including, most recently,听听(2014),听听(2011),听The Future of Liberalism听(2009),听听(co-edited with Erik Owens, 2009),听听(2006),听听(2005),听听(2003),听听(2003),听听(editor, 2002)听听(2001),听听(1999), and听听(1997). Both听One Nation, After All听and听Moral Freedom听were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

Professor Wolfe attended Temple University as an undergraduate and received his doctorate in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. He has honorary degrees from Loyola College in Maryland and St. Joseph鈥檚 University in Philadelphia.

He is a Senior Fellow with the World Policy Institute at the New School University in New York.听 In the fall of 2004, Professor Wolfe was the George H. W. Bush Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

A contributing editor of听The Wilson Quarterly,听Commonwealth Magazine, and听In Character, Professor Wolfe writes often for those publications as well as for听Commonweal,听The New York Times,听Harper's,听The Atlantic Monthly,听The Washington Post, and other magazines and newspapers. He served as an advisor to President Clinton in preparation for his 1995 State of the Union address and has lectured widely at American and European universities.

Professor Wolfe has been the recipient of grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Lilly Endowment. He has twice conducted programs under the auspices of the U.S. State Department that bring Muslim scholars to the United States to learn about separation of church and state. He is listed in听Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America and Contemporary Authors.