Mike Otterman

MLitt(PACS) (University of Sydney); BSc(Journalism) (Boston University)

Room 108 Mackie Building K01
phone: +61 2 9036 6288
fax: +61 2 9660 0862

Michael Otterman is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney. He is the author of American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007) and the forthcoming title, Collateral Carnage: The Human Cost of the War in Iraq, with Dr Richard Hil and Dr Paul Wilson.

As a freelance journalist, he has covered crime and culture for an array of publications including New Matilda, Crikey!, and Melbourne's Is Not magazine. His website is www.americantorture.com.

www.americantorture.com

Collateral Carnage: The Human Cost of the War in Iraq, with Dr Richard Hil and Dr Paul Wilson (Forthcoming)

American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007)

• Between Iraq and a Hard Place
  5 Feb 2008, New Matilda
• Why CIA Abuse is Medieval Madness
  22 March 2007, The Australian
• Sensory Deprivation Just Another Name for Torture
  05 March 2007, The Canberra Times

• The Tavis Smiley Show, PBS
  16 October 2007
• JTV, ABC Australia
  15 June 2007
• BBC World News
  22 May 2007

• War on Terror
• American use of torture
• Guantanamo
• Extraordinary Rendition
• Moral Issues Surrounding Torture
• Iraqi Refugee Crisis
• Iraqi Civilian Casualties
• Surveillance State