Mark Pitcavage

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Mark Pitcavage is a historian and analyst of the radical right. He is Director of Fact-Finding at the Anti-Defamation League and creator of the Militia Watchdog website. Pitcavage has a Ph.D in American military and social history from Ohio State University. He was formerly the Research Director of the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program (SLATT Program). Pitcavage is often cited as a terrorism and extremism expert by mainstream media and interviewed to give views regarding related topics.[1][2] Pitcavage has given interviews for radio stations such as KCBS (AM) as well as institutes of higher learning.[3] St. Petersburg College interviewed Pitcavage for an episode "Militia Movement".[4] Pitcavage's work was cited by Michael A. Bellesiles as "invaluable to the development" of his book Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture.[5]

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[edit] Programs

[edit] Militia Watchdog

The Militia Watchdog website was founded by Pitcavage in 1995 following the Oklahoma City bombings and operated until 2000. The site's subscription list, which included a selection of mainly law enforcement professionals and other watchdog groups, still operates. The site also worked alongside other watchdog groups such as The Center for New Community, The Center for Democratic Renewal and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.[6](p34) Pitcavage's Militia Watchdog profiles have been used as a source for writers on militias and their activities.[7][5] It is stated the success of the Militia Watchdog project is what helped establish Pitcavage as the Director of Investigative Research for the SLATT program.[6](p34)

[edit] Anti-Defamation League

Pitcavage is currently "Director of Fact-Finding" in the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) where he "... leads the ADL's efforts to monitor extremist movements, groups, issues, and leaders." The ADL absorbed Pitcavage's Miltia Watchdog group and now maintains the site as an archive of his work between 1995 and 2000.[8]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Academic thesis

  • Unwilling Warriors: The Military Effectiveness of the United States, 1807-12, Ohio State University (1990) (M.A. thesis)
  • An Equitable Burden: The Decline of State Militias 1783-1858, Ohio State University (1995) (Ph.D. thesis)

[edit] Journal articles

  • Ropes of Sand: Territorial Militias, 1801-1812 , Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 13, No. 4, University of Pennsylvania Press (1993) (pp. 481-500)
  • Camouflage and Conspiracy: The Militia Movement From Ruby Ridge to Y2K American Behavioral Scientist, 44, no. 6 (2001): 957-981

[edit] Unpublished reports

  • Common Law and Uncommon Courts: An Overview of the Common Law Movement, Institute for Intergovernmental Research (1997)
  • Calendar of conspiracy: Anti-government extremist criminal activity: a chronology, Institute for Intergovernmental Research (1998)
  • Paper terrorism's forgotten victims : the use of bogus liens against private individuals and businesses, Institute for Intergovernmental Research (1998)
  • Militia movement and modern myth : a primer to the historical and legal issues, Institute for Intergovernmental Research (1999)
  • Old wine, new bottles : paper terrorism, paper scams and paper "redemption", Institute for Intergovernmental Research (1999)
  • The investigator's and prosecutor's guide to common terms used by antigovernment extremists, Institute for Intergovernmental Research (1999)

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Anthrax: Linking al-Qaida: Terrorist cells, exposures overlapped", The Atlanta Journal, October 18, 2001, p. A19. 
  2. ^ John Higgins. "Parents' Custody Complaints Solicited", Akron Beacon Journal, July 18, 2004, p. B1. 
  3. ^ Jane McMillan. "California Prison Gang Trials", KCBS (AM), February 25, 2005. 
  4. ^ St. Petersburg College. "Militia Movement", April 21, 2006. 
  5. ^ a b Michael A. Bellesiles (2003). Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. Soft Skull Press, 582. 
  6. ^ a b George Michael (2003). Confronting Right Wing Extremism and Terrorism in the USA. Routledge, 181, 34. 
  7. ^ Philip H. Melling (2001). Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion. Edinburgh University Press, 155, 157. 
  8. ^ Watchdog Militia Archive. Anti-Defamation League.

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