Director

Aurora Carmichael is the Director of Grant Administration and Program Development at American University Washington College of Law. She joined the staff in 1995 and is responsible for directing the law school's grantseeking efforts in support of rese... [More]

Associate Professor

Dr. Clark has expertise in high performing teams, leadership, diversity, and strategic human capital. He is an active researcher, and his work has been presented at numerous national and international conferences and workshops. He has published in to... [More]

Associate Professor

Derrick Cogburn is Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service at American University. His research and teaching includes: global information and communication technology and socio-economic development; insti... [More]

Dean, School of Education, Teaching and Health

Dr. Irvine Belson's research activities focus on infusing effective components of instructional design with emerging technology across the field of education, particularly for students with exceptionalities. Dr. Irvine Belson has trained pre-service ... [More]

Associate Vice President of Finance and Assistant Treasurer

Director of Projects

Kristi Plahn-Gjersvold is SOC’s Chief of Staff, working with the Dean as well as faculty and staff of the School of Communication in developing initiatives for the School’s centers, institutes, projects and campaigns, as well as providing leadership ... [More]

Associate Dean of Research and Department Chair, Computer Science

Director Of Accounting

Professor

Professor DeLone is an internationally recognized scholar in the measurement of information systems effectiveness. His article, “Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable” was recently determined to be the most cited article a... [More]

Associate Professor

John Douglass is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He has been at American for more than 30 years and through most of this time has served as director of the film and media arts division. His contributions to the Washington, DC media comm... [More]

Associate Professor

Max Paul Friedman specializes in 20th-century U.S. foreign relations. A graduate of Oberlin College and U.C. Berkeley, he was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow and has taught at Boulder, Tallahassee, and Cologne. His first book, Nazis and Good Nei... [More]

Professor

Jeffrey Hakim’s research primarily lies within the broad mathematical areas of representation theory and harmonic analysis. Most recently, he has focused on supercuspidal representations and symmetric spaces over p-adic fields. His papers have also i... [More]

Associate Professor

Mary Eschelbach Hansen is widely published in the fields of child welfare policy and economic history. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Institu... [More]

Assistant Vice President of Risk Management and Safety Services

Distinguished Film Producer in Residence

Chris Palmer is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He is also a speaker, author, and environmental and wildlife film producer. He has swum with dolphins and whales, come face-to-face with sharks and Kodiak bears, camped with wolf packs, an... [More]

Assistant Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Dave Swartz is the Chief Information Officer of American University. Before coming to American University in 2007, he was the CIO at George Washington University for eight years. He was also the Director of Information Systems and Network Services at... [More]

Associate Director, Justice Programs Office

Joseph Trotter, an attorney, is a Research Professor on the faculty of American University's School of Public Affairs, and is the founder, in 1989, and associate director of SPA's Justice Programs Office. He received a BS in International Relations f... [More]

Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research

Dr. Tubman works with departments and Colleges to develop new graduate programs and to ensure excellence in graduate education at AU. He also works with students, faculty, centers, institutes and external research partners to promote a culture of dis... [More]