SIS Faculty
Fanta Aw
,Assistant Vice President of Campus Life & Director, ISSS
Dr. Fanta Aw is Assistant Vice President of Campus Life and Director of International Student and Scholar Services at American University in Washington D.C. Dr. Aw oversees all administrative, programmatic and personnel operations related to Internat... [More]
Eric Novotny
,Hurst Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Eric J. Novotny has been appointed Senior Advisor, Democracy and Technology, at the U.S. Agency for International Development. In this position, Dr. Novotny will be designing and managing a large portfolio of programs that use advanced information an... [More]
Josef Olmert
,Adjunct Professor
Dr. Josef Olmert's career spans three decades. A native of Israel, he was formerly a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv, Hebrew, and Bar-Ilan Universities in his home country. He has previously taught at Cornell University, City College ... [More]
Alexandra Parrs
,Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Professor Parrs has taught cross-cultural communication at American University since spring 2010. Prior to that, she taught anthropology and cross-cultural communication in Muscat, Oman and led a virtual communication project that allowed Omani and A... [More]



