Organization and Personnel

Peter F. Nardulli
Director of the Cline Center

     Peter F. Nardulli received both a J.D. (1973) and a Ph.D. (1975) from Northwestern University; he has been on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1974. He conceptualized, initiated and is the founding director of the Cline Center for Democracy and was head of the Department of Political Science from 1992 through 1996.  His research interests have included law and society, the study of local courts, political institutions, electoral behavior, and democratic theory.
      He has authored or edited nearly a dozen books that have been published by university presses such as Princeton, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. His articles have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Political Behavior, Political Communications, and Public Choice. He has presented lectures at the University of Michigan, University of California at San Diego, Northwestern University and Michigan State University, as well as at Beijing University, Tam Kang University and Soo-Chow University in China.  He also participated in  a colloquium in the Ninth Criminology Convention, sponsored by the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg.  The United States Supreme Court has cited his empirical work on the exclusionary rule.

Donald E. Greco
Director, Civic Leadership Program

     Donald E. Greco is also an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. From 1997-2004 he was an Assistant Professor at Baylor University in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the American Studies Program. Dr. Greco earned a bachelor degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cum Laude; received a Juris Doctorate from Northwestern University School of Law; and holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Greco was the recipient of the 2002 John Adams Fellowship awarded by the Institute for United States Studies at the University of London.
     Before returning to academia in 1992 Dr. Greco practiced law and, among other positions, served as Assistant Attorney General in the California Attorney General's Office; County Attorney for Arapahoe County, CO; Corporate Counsel for Merrill Lynch Realty Co., and Corporate Counsel for American Express/Shearson Lehman Bros.

Kalev H. Leetaru
Coordinator of Information Technology & Research

     Kalev H. Leetaru co-founded his first company in 1995, Gamacles Software Corporation, becoming one of the early pioneers of the dot-com era before he had even entered high school.  Gamacles’ first product line was a web authoring suite in the days when web pages were still coded by hand in HTML, moving into electronic copyright enforcement after selling off its authoring division.  In 2000, Kalev joined the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where he has developed technologies across numerous disciplines, including a groundbreaking rapid prototyping and design environment that was used by the University of Illinois Department of Architecture continuously for two and a half years and by the United States Army.  His work on web mining, text processing, and content aggregation technologies have been at the forefront of several Fortune 50 corporate intelligence initiatives.
     He has presented at such prestigious conferences as SIGGRAPH and SPIE, served as a paper reviewer for the flagship IEEE VR conference, has four pending patents, and has appeared in such popular press as Fortune Magazine. His work has received widespread recognition, including the NCSA 2003 Industrial Grand Challenge Award and the NCSA Private Sector Program Technology Development Award.  In 2004, Kalev traveled to Sydney as part of a joint US-Australia workshop on increasing collaboration in high performance computing, and the following year was the Featured Student-Entrepreneur of the distinguished Kauffman Foundation Thoughtbook. 
     In addition to being Coordinator of Information Technology and Research at the University of Illinois Cline Center for Democracy, Kalev also serves as Chief Technology Advisor to the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science and is a Center Affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.