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and After Afganistan: Twenty-First Century Challenges for America’s Intelligence Services |
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Where: The Abilene Civic Center Our guest speakers for the night will be Dr. Keith Pavlischek and Rear Admiral Mike Ratliff, and preceding our guests, Dr. Donald Frazier will speak briefly. |
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Dr. Pavlischek is Director of the Civitas Program in Faith and Public Affairs, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Center for Public Justice. In 1990 Dr. Pavlischek obtained a Ph.D. in Religion, Ethics, and Society from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Pavlischek taught at Northeast Missouri State University from 1989 to 1993, and from 1993 to 1998 he was Director of the Crossroads Program on Faith and Public Policy. Dr. Pavlischek's articles and reviews have been published in various national journals, and he is the author of John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Pavlischek served in the United States Marine Corps. Since then, he has served as a Reserve officer and has taught at the Joint Military Intelligence College in Washington, DC Dr. Pavlischek is a Gulf War veteran and holds the rank of Colonel. To learn more about Dr. Pavlischek, visit www.cpjustice.org/centerteam/keith.html |
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Rear Admiral Mike Ratliff served for the United States Navy for thirty years and retired in 2000 as Director of Naval Intelligence. While in the Navy, Rear Admiral Mike Ratliff served in Europe and Asia. Ratliff graduated with honors from Towson University and received his M.A. in communication at the University of Oaklahoma. He studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. Ratliff is currently the Vice President at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. |
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Dr. Donald Frazier is the executive director of the McWhiney Foundation. A native of Big Spring, Texas, he earned his Ph.D. from Texas Christian University and is chairman of the Department of history at McMurry University. A frequent public speaker, he has written two books: Blood and Treasure: confederate Empire in the Southwest and Cottonclads!: The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast. To learn more about Dr. Frazier, visit www.mcm.edu/~frazierd |
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