Associate Professor

Dr. Clarence Lusane is the program director for Comparative and Regional Studies. He teaches courses in comparative race relations, modern social movements, comparative politics of the Americas and Europe and jazz and international relations. He is a... [More]

Professor

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is currently the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University in Washington DC, the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow a... [More]

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Dr. Maria Green Cowles is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs where she is responsible for all faculty, curricular, and advising matters in SIS.Dr. Cowles' research focuses on the European Union (EU) and global public-private governance. She is a lea... [More]

Assistant Professor

Kristin Smith Diwan is Assistant Professor of Comparative and Regional Studies at the American University School of International Service. She holds regional expertise in the politics and policies of the Arab Gulf, and functional expertise on Islamic... [More]

Associate Professor

Professor Michelle Egan is on sabbatical from Spring 2011 until Spring 2012. Please contact her only through her email address, megan@american.edu.

Associate Professor

Carolyn Gallaher is a broadly trained political geographer. Her work blends insights from political economy and cultural studies and is focused on two substantive areas of inquiry—the role of paramilitaries in irregular warfare and the influence of t... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Pek Koon Heng teaches courses on International Relations and International Political Economy in Southeast and East Asia. She also directs SIS’s summer graduate program on “Globalization and Regionalism in East Asia” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Yangmo Ku’s research and teaching interests include historical reconciliation in East Asia and Europe, East Asian politics, International Relations of East Asia, inter-Korean relations, human rights, and transnational activism. He has been a Kore... [More]

Assistant Professor

Naren Kumarakulasingam teaches in the Comparative and Regional Studies Program. His research interests lie in the areas of critical international relations, Violence, South Asian politics, and postcolonialism. His current research focuses on issues o... [More]

Assistant Professor

Ji-Young Lee is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Service of American University. She is a Korea/Asia expert with training in Security Studies and International Relations. She has taught at Oberlin College and Georgetown Universit... [More]

Assistant Professor

LeVan focuses on comparative political institutions, democratization, and African security. His influential critique of power sharing in Africa appeared in the January 2011 issue of "Governance." He has also published articles on the political econ... [More]

Professor

Linda Lucia Lubrano teaches a wide range of courses that bridge the humanities with the natural and social sciences. Her classes draw upon film, literature, and philosophy, for example, and she combines political theory with the comparative study of ... [More]

University Professor

James Mittelman is University Professor of International Affairs, and was the founding Chair of Comparative and Regional Studies at American University. He has also been named Honorary Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Previously... [More]

Associate Professor

Dr. Persaud is the author and editor of books, articles, and journals, and is currently working on a study of the nuances of American hegemony.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Robinson’s research focuses on the politics of population, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, and she also studies the determinants of birth timing in the United States. Her most recent work on Africa explored the process of... [More]

Associate Professor

Cathy Lisa Schneider writes and teaches on social movements, political violence, criminal justice, race, ethnicity and immigration in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Her publications include, among others, the books Shantytown Protest i... [More]

Associate Professor

Dr. Mireya Solis holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University and is Associate Professor at the School of International Service of American University. She has authored or co-edited several books: Banking on Multinationals: Public Credit ... [More]

Professor

Dr. Quansheng Zhao is Professor of international relations and Director of Center for Asian Studies at American University; serving as Director of the Division of Comparative and Regional Studies for three terms (1999-2008). Zhao received his B.A. fr... [More]

Scholar in Residence

Distinguished Scholar in Residence

Department Chair, Government

Professor Eisenstadt is chair of the Government Department, 2011-2012. Co-editor of Latin America's Multicultural Movements and the Struggle Between Communitarianism, Autonomy, and Human Rights (Oxford University Press forthcoming), he authored Polit... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Glover teaches and does research in the field of comparative politics, with a concentration on Africa. Her past work has focused on democratic transition and consolidation in multi-ethnic states. She has lived and worked in southern Africa,... [More]

Director, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies

Eric Hershberg is Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies and Professor of Government at American University. From 2007-2009 he was Professor of Political Science and Director of Latin American Studies at Simon Fraser University,... [More]

Assistant Professor

Adrienne LeBas (Ph.D., Columbia University) joined the Department of Government in the fall of 2009. Prior to joining AU, LeBas was a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor of Political Science and Af... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Lu studies local governance, the political economy of institutional change, public opinion and political participation. He works extensively with standardized sampling survey data and qualitative evidence compiled following the anthropological tr... [More]

Associate Professor

Saul Newman is an associate professor in the Department of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the Department of Politics, Princeton University. Since then he has tau... [More]

Associate Professor

Dr. Singerman is an Associate Professor and comparativist whose research interests focus on political change from below, particularly in the Middle East, and more specifically Egypt. Her work examines the formal and informal side of politics, gender,... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Beers will be away from AU in academic year 2011-12 as a visiting fellow at Exeter University in the United Kingdom.Professor Beers's research focuses on modern Britain. She is particularly interested in the ways in which politics both infl... [More]

Director of Initiative for Russian Culture and Associate Professor

Eric Lohr is a historian of Russia and East Europe with an affiliate appointment in the School of International Service. He directs the AU Initiative for Russian Culture. He received his M.A. in Russian Studies and Ph.D. in History from Harvard Unive... [More]