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Faculty Profiles


Program Director

Clarence Lusane

Clarence Lusane

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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]

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202-885-1674
SIS - School of International Service


CRS Core Faculty

Akbar Ahmed

Akbar Ahmed

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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]

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202-885-1641
SIS - School of International Service


Maria Cowles

Maria Cowles

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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]

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202-885-1606
SIS - School of International Service


Kristin Diwan

Kristin Diwan

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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]

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202-885-1640
SIS - School of International Service


Michelle Egan

Michelle Egan

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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.

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202-885-1764
SIS - School of International Service


Carolyn Gallaher

Carolyn Gallaher

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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]

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202-885-1827
SIS - School of International Service


Pek Koon Heng-Blackburn

Pek Koon Heng-Blackburn

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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]

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202-885-1688
SIS - School of International Service


Yangmo Ku

Yangmo Ku

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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]

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202-885-6584
SIS - School of International Service


Narendran Kumarakulasingam

Narendran Kumarakulasingam

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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]

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202-885-3149
SIS - School of International Service


Ji-Young Lee

Ji-Young Lee

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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]

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202-885-6561
SIS - School of International Service


Carl LeVan

Carl LeVan

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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]

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202-885-2457
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Linda Lucia Lubrano

Linda Lucia Lubrano

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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]

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202-885-1654
SIS - School of International Service


James Mittelman

James Mittelman

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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]

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202-885-1643
SIS - School of International Service


Randolph Persaud

Randolph Persaud

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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.

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202-885-1757
SIS - School of International Service


Rachel Robinson

Rachel Robinson

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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]

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202-885-1636
SIS - School of International Service


Cathy Schneider

Cathy Schneider

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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]

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202-885-1666
SIS - School of International Service


Mireya Solis

Mireya Solis

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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]

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202-885-1816
SIS - School of International Service


Quansheng Zhao

Quansheng Zhao

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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]

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202-885-1662
SIS - School of International Service


CRS Scholar in Residence

Maina Chawla Singh

Maina Chawla Singh

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Scholar in Residence

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(202) 885-1603


J. Ann Tickner

J. Ann Tickner

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Distinguished Scholar in Residence



SPA Affiliate Faculty

Todd Eisenstadt

Todd Eisenstadt

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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]

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202-885-6493
SPA - Government


Susan Glover

Susan Glover

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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]

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202-885-2674
SPA - Government


Eric Hershberg

Eric Hershberg

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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]

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202-885-6172
Center for Latin American/Latino Studies


Adrienne LeBas

Adrienne LeBas

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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]

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202-885-6229
SPA - Government


Jie Lu

Jie Lu

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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]

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202-885-6281
SPA - Government


Saul Newman

Saul Newman

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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]

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202-885-6240
SPA - Government


Diane Singerman

Diane Singerman

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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]

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202-885-2362
SPA - Government


CAS Affiliate Faculty

Laura Beers

Laura Beers

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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]

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202-885-6379
CAS - History


Eric Lohr

Eric Lohr

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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]

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202-885-2464
CAS - History


Adjunct Faculty

Assem Akram (Afghanistan)

David Armitage (Europe)

Leila Austin (Middle East)

Yolande Bouka (Africa)

David Fowkes (Africa)

Reid Gustafson (Latin America)

Yohannes Haile (Africa)

Karin Johnston (Europe)

Surjit Mansingh (India)

Erika Marat (Eurasia)

Brian Norris (Americas)

Molly O'Neal (Russia)

Matthew Rojansky (Europe, Russia, and Central Eurasia)

Caleb Rossiter (Africa)

Svetlana Savranskaya (Russia and Central Eurasia)

John Shosky (Central and Eastern Europe)

Patrick Ukata (Africa)

Associated SIS Faculty

Amitav Acharya (Asian Security)

Adel Ait-Ghezala (Middle East; Islam)

Aaron Boesenecker (Europe)

Charles Call (Latin America)

Christine Chin (Southeast Asia)

Randall Henning (International Economics; Europe)

Patrick Jackson (Europe; Research Methods)

Thomas Jandl (Asia)

John King (Latin America; Quantitative Methods)

Lynn Kunkle (Islam; Middle East)

Shadi Mokhtari (Islam; Middle East)

Mohamed Alaa A. Moneim (Hassan) (Middle East)

Robert Pastor (Latin America)

Ekaterina Romanova (Eurasia)

Susan Shepler (Africa)

Stephen Silvia (Europe)

Mamuka Tsereteli (Russia and Central Eurasia)

Celeste Wallander (Russia and Central Eurasia)

Jenny Wustenberg (Europe; Comparative Politics)

Guy Ziv (Middle East)

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