# Michael Stohl

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'''Michael Stohl''' (born 1947)<ref name=Gale>Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008</ref>{{full citation needed|date=August 2023}} is Professor and a former Chair of the Department of Communication at the [University of California, Santa Barbara](/source/University_of_California%2C_Santa_Barbara).<ref name=CITS>{{cite web
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}}</ref> He researches organizational and political communication with special focus on [terrorism](/source/terrorism), [human rights](/source/human_rights) and [global relations](/source/global_relations).<ref name=CITS/> He has been a guest commentator on [National Public Radio](/source/National_Public_Radio), [NBC](/source/NBC), and [CBS](/source/CBS) for stories on terrorism and human rights.<ref name=CITS/>   He has been critical of the [George W. Bush administration](/source/George_W._Bush_administration)'s understanding of terrorism networks during the [war on terrorism](/source/war_on_terrorism).<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/press/pressitem.asp?ref=1171
 |title       = Experts say Bush Administration Misunderstands Terror Networks: Dangerous Assumptions Being Made About al-Qaeda Communication and Organization
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 |date        = 2007-03-22
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==Academic career==
Stohl was born in [Brooklyn, New York](/source/Brooklyn%2C_New_York). He attended the [State University of New York at Buffalo](/source/University_at_Buffalo%2C_The_State_University_of_New_York) (A.B., 1969); and [Northwestern University](/source/Northwestern_University) (M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1974).<ref name=Gale/>

He taught political science at [Kendall College](/source/Kendall_College) in [Evanston, Illinois](/source/Evanston%2C_Illinois) in the summer 1971.<ref name=Gale/> He was a visiting research associate and later acting research administrator as the [Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research](/source/Richardson_Institute) in [London, England](/source/London%2C_England) from 1971 to 1972.<ref name=Gale/> He began teaching at [Purdue University](/source/Purdue_University) in [West Lafayette, Indiana](/source/West_Lafayette%2C_Indiana) in 1972, becoming a full professor in 1985.<ref name=Gale/> He was a visiting researcher on terrorism at the [University of Leiden](/source/University_of_Leiden), [The Netherlands](/source/The_Netherlands) in 1989 and 1985.<ref name=CITS/>

He was a member of the Search for Common Ground sponsored [United States-Soviet Union Task Force on International Terrorism](/source/United_States-Soviet_Union_Task_Force_on_International_Terrorism) which met in [Moscow](/source/Moscow) and [Santa Monica, California](/source/Santa_Monica%2C_California) in January and September 1989.<ref name=CITS/>

==Awards==
Stohl received a [Fulbright Fellowship](/source/Fulbright_Fellowship) for International Education Administrators in [Japan](/source/Japan) and [Korea](/source/Korea) in 1989.<ref name=CITS/> He was given a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to lecture at the [University of Canterbury](/source/University_of_Canterbury) in [Christchurch](/source/Christchurch), New Zealand in 1983. In 2009 he was appointed to be the first Erskine Fellow in the department of political science at the University of Canterbury.<ref name=CITS/>  During his tenure at Purdue he completed five Indianapolis Half-Marathons.

==Bibliography==
* War and Domestic Political Violence: The American Capacity for Repression and Reaction, Sage Publications, 1976.
*(Editor and contributor) The Politics of Terrorism, Dekker, 1979, 3rd revised edition, 1988.
*(Editor with Harry R. Targ, and contributor) The Global Political Economy in the 1980s, Schenkman, 1982.
*(Editor with George Lopez, and contributor) The State as Terrorist: The Dynamics of Governmental Violence and Repression, Greenwood Press, 1984.
*(Editor with Lopez, and contributor) Government Violence and Repression: An Agenda for Research, Greenwood Press, 1986.
*(Editor with Lopez, and contributor) Redemocratization and Liberalization in Latin America, Greenwood Press, 1987.
*(Editor with Lopez) Development, Dependence and State Repression, Greenwood Press, 1987.
*(Editor with Lopez) The Foreign Policy of Terror, Greenwood Press, 1987.
*Editor with Robert Slater, and contributor) Current Perspectives on International Terrorism, St. Martin's, 1987.
*(Collaborator with Alex P. Schmid and Albert J. Jongman) Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature, North-Holland Pub. Co., 1988.
*(Co-editor with Chadwick Alger) A Just Peace Through Transformation: Cultural, Economic, and Political Foundations for Change: Proceedings of the International Peace Research Association, Eleventh General Conference, Westview Press, 1988.
*(Co-editor with George A. Lopez) Terrible Beyond Endurance?: The Foreign Policy of State Terrorism, Greenwood Press, 1988.
*(Co-editor with George A. Lopez) International Relations: Contemporary Theory and Practice, CQ Press, 1989.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/michael-stohl Faculty homepage]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150923205733/http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.comm.d7/files/people/cv/CV-MStohl.pdf Curriculum Vitae]

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