William Bradford is an MBA student at the University of Florida, and professor. He is married and has two children.
Vita
Bradford graduated summa cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, where he served as project editor of the University of Miami Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. He also received an LL.M. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is Chiricahua Apache Indian and served as Ambassador to the U.N. for the Miami Tribe of Indians of Indiana. He was an all-American swimmer in high school and a letterman on the University of Miami Swimming Team.
His doctoral thesis was "United States foreign policy decision-making in Arab-Israeli crises: The association of United States presidential personality constructs with political and military crisis outcomes", 1995 (AAT 9537394)
Teaching at Indiana University
Bradford joined the faculty of Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis in the fall of 2002 after serving in the Army Reserve. He also served at the War Gaming and Simulation Center, National Defense University, Fort McNair, Virginia, and was an advisor to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Shalikashvili on politico-military affairs during the Bosnian Conflict.
Bradford authored over 16 law review articles on international law, the laws of war, and federal Indian law. One of his articles was published in the Notre Dame Law Review, v. 79, (2004), titled, "The Duty to Defend Them: A Natural Legal Justification of the Bush Doctrine of Preventative War". He was also a frequent commentator in local and national media on laws of war issues regarding Iraq and the War on Terror. For instance, on December 16, 2003, he was the top guest on The Big Story With John Gibson, commenting on the tactics interrogators were likely to use on the just-captured Saddam Hussein.[1] He was named a Dean's Fellow in recognition of scholarly excellence in both 2004-2005 and 2005-2006, was awarded the title of Best New Professor by his students in 2005, and was chosen by the class of 2005 to hood them during their graduation ceremony.
Tenure controversy
In 2005 Bradford accused Professor Florence Roisman of opposing his tenure because of some of his conservative views and out of a racial animus against conservative American Indians. The official reason given by the tenure committee was that Prof. Bradford was "uncollegial." The feud became a national one when Fox News and FrontPage magazine.com, among others, continually reported on the controversy.[2] Bradford claimed that his support of the Iraq War and his refusal to sign a letter in defense of Ward Churchill were contributing factors. "The presumption was that I've got to sign this thing because I'm an Indian, but I can't do that," he said.[3] Roisman has denied most of Bradford's claims[4] and school administrators pointed out that Bradford never actually applied for tenure; however, Bradford did apply for tenure in a letter dated March 24, 2005, and no action was taken upon his application.
Before resigning from Indiana University, he was one of fewer than fifteen tenured or tenure-track academic legal faculty members of American Indian origin in the United States.
Future
In February 2005 Bradford was hired to teach the fall 2005 semester as a visiting professor at the College of William and Mary, where he taught property and the laws of armed conflict from August 2005 to January 2006 to excellent reviews.
Bradford began an MBA at the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida in May 2006 and graduates in May 2007.
References
- ^ "Fox News Channel segment lineup". Retrieved 2007-02-07.
- ^ John Gibson (June 29, 2005). "'Un-Collegial?'". FOX News. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
- ^ Epstein, David (2005-12-06). "Web of Lies". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2007-02-07.
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(help) - ^ Lucas Sayre (June 30, 2005). "Bradford tenure story goes national". IndyLaw Net. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
External links/sources
- Inside Higher Education, Scott Jaschik, June 28, 2005: "‘Not the Right Kind of Indian’"
- Front Page Magazine, August 10, 2005: "Indian Hunt In Indiana"
- Front Page Magazine, August 12, 2005: "Double Standards at Indiana Law: William Bradford and Robin Kundis Craig"
- Chicago Defender News, Darryn Martin, December 19, 2005: "What kind of a Native American is Bill Bradford?"