Brigitte Bailer, who teaches at the University of Vienna Institute of Contemporary History and serves as the Scientific Director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, has joined the Board of Directors of Scholars For Peace in the Middle East. Prof. Bailer’s appointment comes on the heels of the SPME Board amending its by-laws to include representatives from active chapters of which SPME Austria is one. Prof. Bailer served on its board of directors.

The SPME Board of Directors adopted this new policy in an effort to encourage and stimulate more chapter development and activity to increase the base of contributions and programming to SPME Network members. Eligible chapters to have representation on the board are: San Jose State University, SPME Germany, Stanford University, University of Buffalo, University of California Davis, University of California Irvine, University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-Santa Cruz, University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University and University of Southern California. Columbia University has also named a chapter representative to the board, Prof. Awi Federgruen of the Graduate School of Business which was recently reported.

Currently SPME is exploring the possibility of forming a chapter in the Edinburgh region of Scotland with Professor Howard Kahn of Heriot Watt University offering to coordinate this chapter. Interested professors in Scotland should contact him at h.kahn@hw.ac.uk