Program Committee
The Program Committee, consisting of Stanford faculty and professional journalists, meets each spring to choose the next year's U.S. Fellows.
James Bettinger is the director of the Knight Fellowships. A graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Bettinger is the former A.M. city editor of the San Jose Mercury News and former city editor of the Riverside Press-Enterprise. He was a Fellow at Stanford in 1982-83, and was Deputy Director from 1989-2000.
Eavan Boland is the director of the Creative Writing Program (and the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in English and the Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities) at Stanford. Born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated in London, New York, and Dublin, she has taught at Trinity College, University College, and Bowdoin College. She has received international recognition as a poet and scholar and has published numerous volumes of poetry and a novel. She is on the board of the Irish Arts Council and a member of the Irish Academy of Letters.
Theodore Glasser is a professor of Journalism in the Department of Communication at Stanford. His teaching and research focuses on media practices and performance, with emphasis on questions of press responsibility and accountability. He has served as president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and as a vice president and chair of the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association.
Ardith Hilliard is editor and vice president of The Morning Call, a Tribune newspaper based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She started her career as a reporter for the Atlantic City Press, and went on to work in Florida, Texas and Nebraska before a 12-year stint at the Los Angeles Times. Her last two years at the Times was as associate editor and assistant to the editor. She has covered and directed coverage of fire and flood, earthquakes and tornadoes, government malfeasance, villains of the worst sort and inspiring stories of human strength.
James Mallory is managing editor, initiative & operations, at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in Atlanta, Georgia. Before moving to Atlanta, he worked as a reporter and assistant business editor at The Detroit News and as a business reporter at the Grand Rapids Press and the Lansing State Journal in Michigan. He serves on the membership, convention program and "Best in Business" committees of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Inc. (SABEW) board as well as the board of visitors of the Florida A&M University's School of Journalism and Graphic Communication.
Abbas Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution, the Hamid and Christina Moghadam director of Iranian Studies and a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford. Born in Iran into a Muslim family, Milani was trained by French nuns and Jesuit priests before leaving Iran as a teen for the U.S., where he lived for the next 11 years. After earning his PhD, he returned to Iran in 1976 and taught at Tehran University. He has written numerous books and articles on U.S./Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues.
Margaret Neale is the John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution at Stanford. Her major research interests include bargaining and negotiation, distributed work groups, and team composition, learning, and performance. She has written numerous books and articles on these topics and conducted executive seminars and management development programs in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Holland, Switzerland, Thailand, France, Canada, Nicaragua, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Israel, and Jamaica.
Cathy Panagoulias is a deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. She served as the Journal's national editor, running all U.S. news coverage from 1995 to 2000, and supervised technology coverage before that for five years. On Sept. 11, 2001 she helped put out the edition that won the Pulitzer for breaking news and spent much of the next year managing the logistics involved in running a paper without a permanent newsroom. She is a graduate of Cornell University, where she studied history and Mandarin.
Rita Williams is a reporter at KTVU-TV in Oakland, California. She worked as a writer and press secretary for Texas Congressman George Mahon, as a news reporter in Texas, and for KQED-TV in San Francisco. The recipient of many Emmy nominations, Williams won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Best News Story of 1975 for her in-depth look at Mexican-American discrimination. She also holds an American Bar Association Award as well as multiple Peninsula Press Club Awards. Williams was a Knight Fellow at Stanford in 1985-86.
