Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows
The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program was established to encourage the flow
of ideas between the academic and non-academic sectors of society, and to connect a
liberal education with the world beyond the campus.
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows are representatives of various professions: business
executives, diplomats, prize-winning journalists, writers, artists, etc. Each year,
Fellows spend a week on the campuses of small liberal arts universities, helping students
and teachers relate education to the needs of American society. Through classes, seminars,
workshops, lectures, and informal discussions, Fellows, students, and faculty create better
understanding between the academic and non-academic worlds.
The colleges and universities participating in the program are primarily small
institutions that are dedicated to the principle that a liberal arts education is the
best preparation for life after graduation.
The Visiting Fellows program began in 1973 with a $1 million grant from the Lilly
Endowment, and has since received funds from more than 60 foundations and corporations.
It is now a self-sustaining program, with colleges contributing a small fee to support
the activities of each fellow.
February 22, 2006
Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. She reports
on the White House, presidential politics, conflicts over economic and domestic policies
and priorities on Capitol Hill. She is a former Deputy Washington Bureau chief and White
House correspondent for Newsweek. Her column, "Capitol Letter," is posted
each week on Newsweek.com and
MSNBC.com.
Clift is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show, The McLaughlin Group,
and a political analyst for Fox News Network. According to Brill's Content, a journalism
review, she is one of the most accurate predictors among the pundits on political talk
shows.
Clift's latest book, Founding Sisters, tell the story of the long struggle for
passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. She and her late husband, Tom
Brazaitis, Washington columnist for the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, are co-authors of two
books, War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics and Madam President: Shattering the
Last Glass Ceiling.
February 21-25, 2005
Ron Allen is an NBC News correspondent based in New York. He recently returned to the
U.S. after many years based in London, covering stories across Europe, the Middle East,
Africa and Central Asia. During a journalism career that spans more than 20 years, For
NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Today and MSNBC, Allen has reported from Baghdad
on the War in Iraq; from Pakistan and Afghanistan on the War on Terror; from Israel,
the West Bank and Gaza on the Middle East peace process and the conflict in Kosovo;
and from Belgrade and inside Kosovo on NATO's war to remove Slobodan Milosevic. Prior
to joining NBC News, he was a London-based correspondent for ABC News and a correspondent
for CBS News, based in Washington, D.C. He has served on reporting teams that have won
numerous awards, including six Overseas Press Club Awards, four Emmys, two Robert F.
Kennedy Awards, and a George Foster Peabody Award. In 1999 he was voted Journalist of
the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Adaora Udoji
February 21-25, 2005
Adaora Udoji is a general news correspondent for the CNN News Group, based in
New York. She joined CNN in 2003 from ABC News, where she served as an international
correspondent based in London. For ABC News, she reported and produced international
stories covering Africa, the Middle East and Europe. She also contributed to Good
Morning America, World News Weekend and ABC Radio. Udoji has covered the War in Iraq
from Qatar and Iraq; the War in Afghanistan from Pakistan; the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict from Israel and Jordon; Pope John Paul II from Vatican City; and several
sporting events including Wimbledon, the British Open and the Tour de France.
Stateside, Udoji covered the 1996 presidential campaign, the crash of TWA Flight
800 over New York, and the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials. She was part
of the team that won a Cine Eagle Award for an ABC primetime documentary about
death row in 1997.
April 2004
Ohio Dominican University hosted Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting
Fellow David Dunford. Dunford is the former U.S. Ambassador to the Sultanate
of Oman, and served as Acting Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War.
Dunford is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, where
he teaches courses on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Middle East Business Environment,
and Globalization and Global Government.
