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M.A. Program in International Affairs

A World-Class Faculty

Many of the same experts you see, hear, and read in the national and international news media will be teaching your classes. The following is a partial listing of GW faculty and staff who participate in Elliott School programs. Others not listed include many part-time faculty who work in the Washington policy community.

Karl F. Inderfurth (M.A., Princeton University) Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of International Affairs Program. U.S.-South Asian relations, National Security Affairs.

Hugh L. Agnew (Ph.D., Stanford University) Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, history.

Catherine J. Allen (Ph.D., University of Illinois) Professor of Anthropology. Latin American society.

Hossein Askari (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Professor of International Finance. International business.

Muriel A. Atkin (Ph.D., Yale University) Professor of History. Russian and Central Asian history.

Deborah D. Avant (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego) Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. International relations and security.

William H. Becker (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) Professor of History. American business History, History of business/government relations.

Edward Berkowitz (Ph.D., Northwestern University) Professor of History. Social welfare policy, comparative social policy.

Allida M. Black (Ph.D., The George Washington University) Research Professor of History and International Affairs. Human Rights, Elaanor and Franklin Roosevelt, the early United Nations.

Bryan L. Boulier (Ph.D., Princeton University) Professor of Economics. Economic demography, health and labor economics.

Alasdair Bowie (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Associate Professor of Political Science. Southeast Asian politics.

Michael D. Bradley (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) Professor of Economics. Macroeconomic theory and policy, applied Econometrics, comparative labor market analysis.

Nathan J. Brown (Ph.D., Princeton University) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Comparative politics of the Middle East.

Yvonne Captain (Ph.D., Stanford University) Associate Professor of Spanish. Latin American and Caribbean literature.

Elizabeth Chacko (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs. Medical geography, development and South Asia.

Jonathan Chaves (Ph.D., Columbia University) Professor of Chinese. Chinese and Japanese civilization.

Reid Click (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs. International corporate finance.

Joseph J. Cordes (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Professor of Economics and International Affairs. International technology policy.

Herbert Davis (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) Professor of Strategic Management and International Affairs.

Christopher J. Deering (Ph.D., University of Californai, Santa Barbara) Professor of Political Science. American political System, Congress.

Bruce J. Dickson (Ph.D., University of Michigan) Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Chinese politics, East Asian politics.

Robert M. Dunn, Jr. (Ph.D., Stanford University) Professor of Economics. International trade and finance.

Maurice A. East (Ph.D., Princeton University) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. International politics, comparative foreign policy.

Harvey B. Feigenbaum (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Professor of Political Science. European politics.

Martha Finnemore (Ph.D., Stanford University) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. International organizations.

Leon Fuerth (MPA, Harvard University) Research professor of International Affairs. National Security.

James M. Goldgeier (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. International security politics, Russian foreign policy.

Margaret R. Gonglewski (Ph.D., Georgetown University) Associate Professor of German and International Affairs. Second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, the use of technology in foreign and second language learning and teaching.

David Gow (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Baker Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and Director of the International Development Studies Program. International development.

Roy Grinker (Ph.D., Harvard University) Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs. Modern Korea.

Shoko Hamano (Ph.D., University of Florida) Associate Professor of Japanese. Japanese language and linguistics; semantics, phonology, pragmatics.

I. Leopold Hanami (Ph.D., Stanford University) Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature. Modern and classical Japanese.

Harry Harding (Ph.D., Stanford University) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Chinese politics and foreign policy, international relations of the Asia-Pacific region.

Hope M. Harrison (Ph.D., Columbia University) Associate Professor of History and International Affairs; and Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies ; Director, European and Eurasian Studies Program. International history of the cold war, Russian foreign policy, German foreign policy.

James Hershberg (Ph.D., Harvard University) Associate Professor of History and International Affairs. Cold War History, U.S. foreign policy.

Graciela L. Kaminsky (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Professor of Economics and International Affairs. Macroeconomics, international finance and monetary policy.

Robert Emmet Kennedy, Jr. (Ph.D., Brandeis University) Professor of European History. European History.

Dina Rizk Khoury (Ph.D., Georgetown University) Associate Professor of History. Middle East History.

Young-Key Kim-Renaud (Ph.D., University of Hawaii) Professor of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs. Korean culture, Asian humanities.

Peter Klaren (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Professor of History and International Affairs. Latin American History.

Joel Kuipers (Ph.D., Yale University) Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs. Southeast Asian affairs.

Kirk W. Larsen (Ph.D., Harvard University) Korean Foundation Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs; Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies; and Director, Asian Studies Program. Korean history and culture.

James H. Lebovic (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. International politics.

Davis Lin-Chuan Lee (Ph.D., Georgetown University) Associate Professor of Chinese and International Affairs. Chinese language and linguistics.

Steven L. Livingston (Ph.D., University of Washington) Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs. U.S. foreign policy and political communication.

John M. Logsdon (Ph.D., New York University) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the Center for International Science and Technology Policy and its Space Policy Institute. Space policy, international science and technology policy.

Kristin Lord (Ph.D., Georgetown University) Associate Dean of the Elliott School and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. International relations, international security.

Gregory Ludlow (Ph.D., McGill University) Professor of Romance Languages and International Affairs. French language and culture, Francophone Studies.

Jarol B. Manheim (Ph.D., Northwestern University) Professor of Media and Public Affairs and of Political Science. Strategic political communication.

Michael J. Marquardt (Ph.D., The George Washington University) Associate Professor of Human Resource Development and International Affairs.

Cynthia McClintock (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Latin American politics.

Edward A. McCord (Ph.D., University of Michigan) Associate Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs and Associate Professor of History and International Affairs. Chinese History.

Shawn F. McHale (Ph.D., Cornell University) Associate Professor of History and International Affairs. Southeast Asian History.

Barbara Miller (Ph.D., Syracuse University) Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs. International health and development, cultural anthropology, South Asia.

Mike M. Mochizuki (Ph.D., Harvard University) Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Japanese politics and foreign policy, U.S.-Japan relations, East Asian security.

Michael O. Moore (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Professor of Economics and International Affairs. International trade policy.

Henry R. Nau (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. International political Economy, U.S. foreign policy.

Joseph Pelzman (Ph.D., Boston College) Professor of Economics and International Affairs. European and Russian trade relations, Economies in transition.

Jerrold M. Post (M.D., Yale University) Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, of the Practice of Political Psychology and International Affairs, and of Engineering Management. Political psychology.

Marie D. Price (Ph.D., Syracuse University) Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs, Political and cultural Geography of Latin America.

Scheherazade S. Rehman (Ph.D., George Washington University) Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs. International business and finance.

Bernard Reich (Ph.D., University of Virginia) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Middle East politics, U.S.-Israel relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Walter Reich (MD, New York University) Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior. Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Human Rights; Soviet psychiatry; Israel.

Leo P. Ribuffo (Ph.D., Yale University) Professor of History. Recent U.S. History.

Richard M. Robin (Ph.D., University of Michigan) Associate Professor of Russian and International Affairs. Russian language, linguistics, and methodology.

Fernando Robles (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) Professor of International Marketing and International Affairs. International marketing.

Peter Rollberg (Ph.D., University of Leipzig, Germany) Associate Professor of Slavic Languages. Russian literature, cinema, and culture.

James N. Rosenau (Ph.D., Princeton University) University Professor of International Affairs. International politics.

Robert W. Rycroft (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma) Professor of International Science and Technology Policy and International Affairs. International science and technology policy.

Susan K. Sell (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Associate Professor of Political Science. International political Economy.

David L. Shambaugh (Ph.D., University of Michigan) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program. Chinese politics and foreign policy; international relations of the Asia--Pacific region.

James M. Smith (Ph.D., Stanford University) Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. International trade, international law and organization, international political economy.

Stephen C. Smith (Ph.D., Cornell University) Professor of Economics and International Affairs. Development Economics, Economics of organization.

Michael J. Sodaro (Ph.D., Columbia University) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs.

Ronald H. Spector (Ph.D., Yale University) Professor of History and International Affairs. Military strategy and History.

Mary Beth Stein (Ph.D., Indiana University) Assistant Professor of German and International Affairs. German language and literature.

Ralph Steinhardt (J.D., Harvard University) Professor of Law and International Affairs and Director of the International and Comparative Law Program. International law, human rights.

Steven M. Suranovic (Ph.D., Cornell University) Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs and Director of the International Trade and Investment Policy program. International trade policy.

Hildy Teegen (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin) Associate Professor of International Business. International business.

Jean-Francois Marie Thibault (Ph.D., University of Maryland) Professor of French. French language, culture, and literature.

Richard C. Thornton (Ph.D., University of Washington) Professor of History and International Affairs. U.S. foreign policy, Chinese--Russian relations.

Nicholas S. Vonortas (Ph.D., New York University) Professor of Economics and International Affairs, and Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program. International technology policy.

George C. Y. Wang (M.S., Tokyo University of Education, Advanced Graduate Certificate, University of Tokyo) Associate Professor of Chinese and International Affairs. Chinese language and literature.

William F. Waters (Ph.D., Cornell University) Associate Professor of Global Public Health and International Affairs. Health and development, Latin America.

Robert J. Weiner (Ph.D., Harvard University) Professor of International Business and International Affairs. International finance and international strategy.

James F. Williams (ED, Harvard University) Assistant Professor of International Education and International Affairs, Associate Director, Office of International Activities, GSEHD. International education.

Sharon L. Wolchik (Ph.D., University of Michigan) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Central and Eastern European politics.

Daqing Yang (Ph.D., Harvard University) Associate Professor of History and International Affairs. Japanese History.

Anthony M. Yezer (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Professor of Economics. Regional and urban economics, migration of labor and capital.

Andrew Zimmerman (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego) Assistant Professor of History. German history, imperialism and colonialism, historiography and critical theory.