Associate Professor

Professor Gutner's research and teaching interests include international organizations, global environmental politics, and international political economy. Her research focuses on the performance and effectiveness of international organizations, part... [More]

Professor

Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Chair of the ASEAN Studies Center. Previously, he was Professor of Global Governance at the University of Bristol, Professor at York University, Toronto, and at Nanyang... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Boaz Atzili is a political scientist who researches and teaches international politics. His interest is in international security with an emphasis on territorial conflicts and the politics of borders, and the international aspects of state weakne... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Adjunct Associate Professor

Susan Benesch is Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York, where she directs the project “Dangerous Speech on the Road to Mass Violence,” funded by grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Fetzer Insti... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Aaron P. Boesenecker joined the SIS faculty in the fall of 2009 and is an Assistant Professor in the International Politics Program. His research interests include European politics, comparative political economy, religion and politics, and qual... [More]

Assistant Professor

David Bosco, assistant professor of International Politics, is a past Fulbright Scholar and senior editor at Foreign Policy magazine. Formerly an attorney at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, he focused on international arbitration, litigation, and... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Dylan Craig is Instructor of International Relations in the School of International Studies. His most recent work is on ‘proxy wars’: the invisible interstate wars which underpin many of today’s intractable civil conflicts. Before joining the SIS com... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Dr. Anders Härdig is a Professorial Lecturer in the International Politics program at SIS. His main fields of expertise are international politics and comparative and regional studies with a special focus on social movements and grassroots netwo... [More]

Director of General Education

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is currently Director of the General Education Program, and Associate Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service, at the American University in Washington, DC. He previously taught at Columbia... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Benjamin Jensen is an Assistant Professor in the International Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy Programs and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Political Sociology and International Security with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Sarah Cleeland Knight conducts multi-method research in the area of international political economy. In particular, she is interested in the winners and losers from globalization and when and how those groups try to influence foreign economic pol... [More]

Director, Inter-American Defense College Master Programs

Dr. Daniel Masis-Iverson returns to the School of International Service from the School of Political Science at the University of Costa Rica. Dr. Masis-Iverson also holds a JD from the University of Costa Rica.

Associate Professor

Christopher Rudolph has expertise in the areas of national security, international political economy, international migration, ethnic conflict, and international law. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Organ... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Dr. Tazreena Sajjad is a Professorial Lecturer in the International Politics program. Prior to this, she served as adjunct faculty for Human Rights and for the Community of Scholars Program at AU. Until 2006, Dr. Sajjad worked as the Global Rights' A... [More]

Assistant Professor

Before coming to American University, Professor Daniel Schneider served as a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He was also the Department of Justice's Resident Legal Advisor to Russia. He later served as a con... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Taylor's research and teaching interests include corruption and organized crime, judicial politics, and Latin American political economy. He has lived and worked extensively in Brazil, most recently as an assistant professor at the Universi... [More]

Associate Professor

Dr. Celeste Wallander is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. Dr. Wallander's interest include Eurasian military issues, Russian foreign p... [More]

Professor

Rebecca Grazier Professor of Law and International RelationsDirector, JD/MA joint degree program. Joint appointment with the Washington College of LawDr. Paul Williams is the founder of the Public International Law & Policy Group, and formerly serve... [More]

Professor

Prof. Henning specializes in the politics and institutions of international economic relations, international and comparative political economy, economic policymaking and regional integration. He has focused specifically on international monetary pol... [More]

Distinguished Economist in Residence

Dr. Arturo Porzecanski, Distinguished Economist-in-Residence, is an expert in international finance, emerging markets and Latin American economics. He previously taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Williams College, but is a late ... [More]

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]

Associate Professor

Dr. Stephen Silvia directs doctoral studies and teaches international economics, international trade relations, and comparative politics.

Associate Professor

Sharon K. Weiner writes about the intersection of organizational politics and U.S. national security policy. Her book Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise (MIT Press 2011) examines the role o... [More]

Adjunct Associate Professor

Susan Benesch is Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York, where she directs the project “Dangerous Speech on the Road to Mass Violence,” funded by grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Fetzer Insti... [More]

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Dr. Zakir Hafez is the winner of the 2011 University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in an Adjunct Appointment. His course, International Law introduces main principles and institutions of international law such as sources and actors of intern... [More]

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Adjunct Instructor

Tom is Chief Technology Officer for AirPatrol Corporation and a Commissioner on The Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency, and he serves on the board of the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance. In addition, he is a member ... [More]

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

John Starrels is a Professorial Lecturer at SIS and Guest Professor at the University of California Washington Program. He lectures on international relations and global change. Prior to joining SIS, Starrels was a senior staff member at The Internat... [More]