RICHARD CAHILL, SENIOR ADVISOR Before earning his doctorate, Richard spent thirteen months traveling throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and East Africa. He then spent a year studying history, Hebrew and theology at the University of Marburg, Germany. He spent time in Yemen, Jordan, Turkey and Egypt, learning language and visiting various philanthropic works. In 1991/92 Richard received the Paul Harris Graduate Fellowship to study Arabic in Cairo at the American University in Cairo. He also was awarded the prestigious CASA fellowship for Arabic studies. For Westmont College he taught Islamic History for in the fall of 1992 and "Europe Semester" (including 4 weeks in the Middle East) in the fall of 1993. In a doctoral program at UCSB, Richard prepared both European and Middle Eastern fields. In 1994 Richard received a graduate fellowship from the Institute for European Historical Studies, in Mainz Germany where he completed most of his research which lead both his PhD thesis and his first book: Philipp of Hesse and the Reformation. Richard taught full-time in the History Department of Westmont College in 1995 and 1996. Then he was appointed director of the Middle East Studies Program, where he lived and taught in Cairo, Egypt for eight years. Since fall 2002, Richard has worked as Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of Off Campus Programs for Westmont College (www.westmont.edu). Richard has studied the Arab-Israeli conflict in depth and has traveled intensively and led study tours in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. He has been able to establish personal contacts with politicians, human rights advocates, humanitarian workers, academics and others from a great variety of political perspectives. He is fluent in Arabic and German. In the summer of 2002 he was appointed Senior Advisor for Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle East.