Associate Professor

Dr. Shoon Murray is the program director for and associate professor of U.S. Foreign Policy. She has written widely on such topics as public reactions to military force and the “rally ‘round the flag phenomenon,” the political consequences of Septemb... [More]

Professor

Dr. Gordon Adams, a professor of U.S. Foreign Policy, has published widely on defense and national security policy, the defense policy process, and national security budgets. He is extensively used by the nation’s media for comment on U.S. national s... [More]

Professor

Dr. Philip Brenner has published widely on U.S./Cuba relations, on U.S. policy towards Central America, and on the Cuban Missile Crisis. His most recent book is A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Elizabeth Cohn is an Assistant Professor specializing in U.S. foreign policy and Latin America. In addition, she is the Co-Coordinator for Undergraduate Research in SIS. Her research interests include the U.S. promotion of democracy and Latin Ame... [More]

Scholar-in-Residence

Assistant Professor

David Bell Mislan joined the SIS faculty in 2011 and is an assistant professor in the U.S. foreign policy program. His teaching and research interests are foreign policy analysis, international security, and qualitative methods. His first book, Enemi... [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]

Distinguished Diplomat in Residence

Ambassador Anthony Quainton is the Diplomat-in-Residence and a professor of U.S. Foreign Policy, having previously served in the United States Foreign Service and held ambassadorships to the Central African Republic, Nicaragua, Kuwait, and Peru.

Diplomat in Residence

Ambassador Sally Shelton-Colby has held a number of senior positions in the public, corporate and non-profit sectors and in international organizations. She has been Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developmen... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Jordan Tama specializes in the U.S. foreign policy making process, presidential-congressional relations, intelligence reform, counterterrorism policy, and blue-ribbon commissions. He is the author of Terrorism and National Security Reform: How Co... [More]

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]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Guy Ziv is an assistant professor in the School of International Service's U.S. Foreign Policy Program. He teaches world politics, U.S. foreign policy analysis, and a variety of both undergraduate and graduate courses on the Middle East. His curr... [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 book, Nazis and Good Neighbors... [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]

Professor

Professor Julie Mertus is the co-director of Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs. She has written widely on human rights and gender, conflict, the Balkans, U.S. foreign policy and U.N. institutions. She is the author or editor of ten books, including Ba... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Daniel Schneider previously served as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs. He is currently the executive director of Probitas International in Washington, D.C., a nonp... [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]