Deadlines

March 15, 2010

Applications Due

April 9, 2010

Notification of Acceptance

June 21, 2010

Tuition due

“An intense one-week long institute on how to bridge academia with practitioners in the domain of digital government; oh and it is interdisciplinary! It is an institute that will force you to extend your thoughts of digital government and to think outside the box. It is a portal that will allow you to get a glimpse of the real world in one short week.”

— 2008 Institute Student

2009 Institute Slide Show



Ray Koslowski
Current Position
Dr. Koslowski is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany (SUNY). He holds a joint appointment in the Informatics Department of UAlbany's College of Computing and Information and is director of the Center for Policy Research’s program on Border Control and Homeland Security.

Background
His primary teaching and research interests are in the field of international relations dealing with international organization, European integration, international migration, information technology, homeland security. He has held Fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2003-2004), the Center of International Studies at Princeton University (1999-2000) and the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service (1996-97).

Selected Scholarly Work
He is the author of Real Challenges for Virtual Borders: The Implementation of US-VISIT (Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2005); Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (Cornell University Press, 2000); editor of International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics (Routledge, 2005) and co-editor (with David Kyle) of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (John Hopkins University Press, 2001). He has provided written testimony on the implementation of US-VISIT to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and presented a paper at the United Nations on “Possible Steps Towards an International Regime for Mobility and Security.” His articles have appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, The Cambridge Journal of International Studies and The Brown Journal of World Affairs.

Education
B.A. from Wesleyan University Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
 
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