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.

Hossein G. Askari Iran Professor of International Business and International Affairs
Expertise: International trade and finance, Islamic economics, and economic development in the Middle East

Mona Atia Assistant Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Expertise: Islam and the Middle East, International Development, Charity and Philanthropy, Transnationalism, Geopolitics

Muriel A. Atkin Professor of History
Expertise: Russia, Iran, Central Asian history

Jennifer Brinkerhoff Associate Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs
Expertise: Development management, non-profit organizations, inter-sectoral relations, state-society relations, migration and information technology

Nathan J. Brown Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Expertise: Government and politics of the Middle East, democrati-zation and constitutionalism, rule of law in the Arab world

Mohssen Esseesy Assistant Professor of Arabic and Coordinator of the Arabic Program
Expertise: Classics and Semitics

Ilana Feldman Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Relations
Expertise: Historical anthropology, government and bureaucracy, humanitarianism, citizenship, policing and security, Middle East, Palestine

Adina Friedman Assistant Professor of International Affairs
Expertise: Israeli-Palestinian/Arab-Israeli conflict; Conflict Analysis & Resolution; Refugees/Right of Return

Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. Kuwait Chair for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies
Expertise: Middle East politics, international relations of the Persian Gulf

Murhaf Jouejati Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Expertise: Middle East politics, Syrian politics

Dina R. Khoury Associate Professor of History and International Affairs
Expertise: History of the Middle East

Steven L. Livingston Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs
Expertise: Political communications

Marc Lynch Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Expertise: Arab media and public opinion, Islamist movements, constructivism in international relations, public diplomacy

Shoshana Marcus Lecturer in Hebrew
Expertise: Hebrew language and literature

Melani McAlister Associate Professor of American Studies and International Affairs
Expertise: U.S.-Middle East relations, culture and globalization

Yaron Peleg Assistant Professor of Hebrew; Coordinator, Hebrew Program
Expertise: Hebrew language and literature

Kelly Pemberton Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's Studies
Expertise: Mysticism and reform in South Asian and Middle Eastern Islam in relation to gender issues

Scheherazade S. Rehman Professor of International Business/Finance and International Affairs
Expertise: Middle East and Islamic economic and financial development

Bernard Reich Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Expertise: Middle Eastern politics, terrorism, U.S.-Israel relations, Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel and oil politics

Walter Reich Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior
Expertise: Holocaust and genocide studies, terrorism, human rights, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Liesl A. Riddle Assistant Professor of International Business and International Affairs
Expertise: International business in the Middle East and Central Asia

Shira Robinson Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs
Expertise: History of the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries; colonialism, nationalism, and citizenship in the Arab Middle East; the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Robert Weiner, Professor of International Business and International Affairs
Expertise: Oil, International finance

Judith Yaphe Adjunct Professor of Practice of International Affairs
Expertise: Iraq, Iran, Arabian/Persian Gulf security issues, Political Islam/Islamic extremism