Robin Broad
,Professor
Dr. Robin Broad, Professor of International Development, established the International Development Program’s unique curricular offerings on economic globalization and development and on environment and development with a focus on social, environmenta... [More]
Elizabeth Cohn
,Assistant Professor
Dr. Elizabeth Cohn is an Assistant Professor specializing in U.S. foreign policy and Latin America. Her research interests include the U.S. promotion of democracy and Latin America. She is also deeply interested in pedagogies of teaching and is a fre... [More]
Jeffrey Colgan
,Assistant Professor
Professor Jeff Colgan is interested in the geopolitics of oil, the resource curse, international security, and international political economy. In his new (2013) book, Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War he presents a new theory of why oil is link... [More]
Daniel Esser
,Assistant Professor
Dr. Esser has conducted research in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Mexico. He studies foreign aid and local governance in the Global South, in particular in conflict cities, as well as global health policy emergence and funding. He also purs... [More]
Carl LeVan
,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," and his he has also published articles on the Departm... [More]
Linda Lucia Lubrano
,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]
James Mittelman
,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]
Robert Pastor
,Professor
Dr. Robert Pastor is a professor of international relations and director of the Center for North American Studies and the Center for Democracy and Election Management. From 2002-07, he was Vice President of International Affairs at AU where he transf... [More]
Abdul Aziz Said
,Professor
Dr. Said is the senior ranking professor at American University and the first occupant of the endowed Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace. He founded the university-wide Center for Global Peace, which undertakes a range of activities, both on ... [More]
Cathy Schneider
,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]



