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Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Dorothy Moore
Benjamin Nimer
Yuri Olkhovsky
Ronald D. F. Palmer
Peter Reddaway
Howard M. Sachar
Burton Malcolm Sapin
Henry Solomon
George Stambuk
Richard Yi-chang Yin
Maurice A. East
Charles Elliott
Charles Herber
Peter P. Hill
Mary Holman
William R. Johnson
Young C. Kim
Ruth Marilyn Krulfeld
Carl Linden
John M. Logsdon
Maurice A. East
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
Dean of the Elliott School – 1985-1994
E-mail: meast@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Expertise: International politics, comparative foreign policy studies, foreign policies of small nations
Background: After earning his B.A. in political science at Colgate, Professor East received an M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. Previously he taught at the Graduate School of International Studies at Denver and at the University of Kentucky.
He has served as President of the International Studies Association and was Senior Fellow at the Strategic Concepts Development Center of the US Department of Defense. He received two Fulbright Awards to Norway and spent a year teaching and doing research in Uganda (1971-72) and New Zealand (1994-95). At the Elliott School, East taught courses on international politics theory, comparative foreign policy studies, and introductory world politics. His publications include Diplomacy and Developing Nations, Why Nations Act, The Analysis of International Politics, and numerous articles on small states' foreign policy-making.
Last update: 08.12.05
Charles Elliott
Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise: Soviet and Russian foreign policy, military affairs, and domestic politics.
Last update: 06.17.04
Charles Herber
Associate Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs
E-mail: cherber@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Germany, Europe, the Reformation
Last update: 06.17.04
Peter P. Hill
Associate Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs
University Historian
Education: Ph.D., The George Washington University
Expertise: Diplomatic History
Last update: 06.17.04
Mary A. Holman
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Education: Ph.D., The George Washington University
Expertise: Managerial economics, economic effects of the space program
Background: Professor Holman received her Ph.D. in
economics from The George Washington
University. She has been a Professorialor
Guest Lecturer at the Industrial College
of the Armed Forces, the National War
College, and the Naval School of Health
Sciences. She has been a consultant for
the Cost of Living Council, the National
Aeronautic and Space Administration,
and the Food and Drug Administration.
Her principal publications include: The
Political Economy of the Space Program (1974),
co-author of Price Theory and Its
Uses (1977), and "Demand", "Supply", "Elasticity",
and "Cobweb Theorem" in the Encyclopedia
of Economics (1992).
Last update: 06.17.04
William R. Johnson
Associate Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Expertise: East Asia
Last update: 07.22.00
Young C. Kim
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
E-mail: yckim@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Expertise: Japanese and Korean domestic politics and foreign relations, Russian relations with East Asia, and East Asian foreign relations
Last update: 01.03.00
Ruth Marilyn Krulfeld
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, International Affairs, Human Sciences
E-mail: krulfeld@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise: Refugees, transnationalism, gender, Southeast Asia.
Background: Professor Krulfeld received her Ph.D. in
Anthropology from Yale University in
1974. She has taught at GW since 1964.
She was chair of the department of anthropology
and founder and first director of the
department's specialization in development.
Dr. Krulfeld conducted fieldwork on economic
and religious change on the Sasak of
Lombok, Indonesia (1960-62; 1993) . She
has also conducted fieldwork in Singapore,
Central America, and the Caribbean — and since 1981, on lowland Lao refugees
in the United States. Her current interests
include transnational migration, refugees,
gender, human rights, ethics, and methods.
She teaches courses on comparative values
and economic systems, nationalism and
ethnicity, with a field work component,
if at all possible. Dr. Krulfeld's recent
publications include: "Bridling
Leviathan: New Paradigms of Method and
Theory in Culture Change from Refugee
Studies and Related Issues of Power and
Empowerment" in Selected Papers
on Refugee Issues (II, 1993); Beyond
Boundaries: Selected Papers on Refugees
and Immigrants (1997), D. Baxter
and R. Krulfeld, co-editors.; Reconstructing
Lives, Recapturing Meaning: Refugee Identity,
Gender, and Culture Change (1994),
L.Camino and R. Krulfeld, co-editors; Power,
Ethics, and Human Rights: Anthropological
Studies of Refugee Research and Action (1998),
Ruth Krulfeld and Jeffrey MacDonald,
editors. During GW's commencement ceremony
in May, Dr. Krulfeld received The George
Washington University Award for 2000.
Last update: 08.24.00
Carl Linden
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
E-mail: clinden@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., The George Washington University
Expertise: Western political thought, 20th Century
political thought and ideologies, Russian
political thought
Last update: 01.03.00
John M. Logsdon
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
E-mail: logsdon@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Expertise: Space policy and history
Background: John M. Logsdon was the founder and from 1987-2008 Director of
the Elliott School's Space Policy Institute. He began his faculty service at
GW in 1970. Dr. Logsdon is the author of The Decision to Go to the Moon:
Project Apollo and the National Interest and is general editor of the
eight-volume series Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History
of the U.S. Civil Space Program. He has written numerous articles and
reports on space policy and history, and authored the basic article on "Space
Exploration" for the most recent edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. Dr.
Logsdon is a member of the NASA Advisory Council. In 2003 he served as a member
of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. He is a Fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics.
Beginning
in September 2008, Dr. Logsdon will hold a one-year appointment as Charles
A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution's National
Air and Space Museum.
Last update: 08.29.08
Dorothy Moore
Professor Emeritus of Education and International Affairs
GSEHD 313
2134 G Street, N.W
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-7138
Fax: (202) 994-7207
E-mail: dmoore@gwu.edu
Education: Ed.D., American University
Expertise: International education
Last update: 06.17.04
Benjamin Nimer
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
Email: bnimer@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Last update: 06.17.04
Yuri Olkhovsky
Professor Emeritus Associate Professor of Slavic and International Affairs
Gelman 625
2130 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone:
(202) 994-6336
Email: yuriolkh@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Georgetown Univesity
Expertise: Russian culture and language
Background: Yuri Olkhovsky, Professor Emeritus, began teaching at GW in
1962 and served as Chairman of the Department from 1974 to
1980. He earned his Ph.D. in history in 1968 from Georgetown
University with a dissertation on nineteenth-century Russian
music and art critic V.V. Stasov. Besides his interest in
the history of Russian culture, Professor Olkhovsky engages
in editing and simultaneous interpretation from and into
Russian and Ukraininan. He is the author of Vladimir
Stasov and Russian National Culture (1983), co-editor
of the Proceedings of Radio Liberty's Conference on Broadcasting
and Russian National Consciousness, and author of numerous
articles in the Russian emigre press. Professor Olkhovsky
officially retired at the end of the 1997-98 academic year,
but he continues to teach Russian Culture (Slav 161-162).
Last update: 06.17.04
Ronald D.F. Palmer
Professor of the Practice of International Affairs
E-mail: palmer@gwu.edu
Education:
M.A., Johns Hopkins University
Expertise:
US foreign policy, Southeast Asia
Background:
Ambassador Palmer graduated magna cum laude from Howard
University, was a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute
of Political Studies of the University of Bordeaux,
and obtained an M.A. from Johns Hopkins' School of
Advanced International Studies. Prior to coming to
GW, Palmer had a lengthy career in the US Foreign Service.
He was US Ambassador to Malaysia and Mauritius and
also served overseas in Indonesia, Denmark, and the
Philippines. At the Elliott School, he teaches courses
on US foreign policy since 1945 and problems and prospects
of Southeast Asia. He is the author of Building ASEAN:
20 Years of Southeast Asian Cooperation, and contributed "The
Southeast Asian Miracle" and "Southeast
Asia: The Information Age" to the Internet magazine American
Diplomacy at http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat.
Last update: 01.03.00
Peter Reddaway
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
Room 412
1957 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-7099; home: (703) 448-9195
Fax: (202) 994-5436
E-mail: reddaway@gwu.edu
Education: B.A. and M.A., Cambridge University
Expertise: Politics and government of Russia and the other post-Soviet states, human rights, and rights of minorities.
Background: Professor Reddaway received his B.A. and M.A. degrees
from Cambridge University and did graduate work at
Harvard and Moscow Universities and the London School
of Economics and Political Science. Before joining
GW in January 1989, he taught at the London School
of Economics and then directed the Kennan Institute
for Advanced Russian Studies. At GW, he taught — until
his retirement in 2004 — courses on Soviet and post-Soviet
government and politics, and on human rights, and a
multi-disciplinary introduction to Russia and Eastern
Europe. His principal publications include Uncensored
Russia: The Human Rights Movement in the USSR (1972), Psychiatric
Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry is Used to Suppress Dissent (with
S. Bloch, 1977), Soviet Psychiatric Abuse (with
S. Bloch, 1984), Authority, Power and Policy in
the USSR (ed. with T.H. Rigby and A. Brown, 1980), The
Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against
Democracy (with D.Glinski, 2001), and The
Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin's Reform of Federal-Regional
Relations (with R. Orttung, vol. 1, 2003, vol.
2 due in 2004). Reddaway contributes articles and interviews
to the international media, and provides consultation
for government bodies concerned with foreign affairs.
Last update: 06.22.04
Howard M. Sachar
Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs
9807 Hillridge Drive
Kensington, MD 20895
Telephone: (301) 942-7595
E-mail: sachar@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise: Middle Eastern and European history
Background: Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and reared in Champaign,
Illinois, Professor Sachar received his undergraduate
education at Swarthmore College and took his M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees at Harvard. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, the American Historical Association and several
other learned societies and serves on a dozen scholarly
editorial boards and commissions. From 1961 to 1964,
he served as a founder-director of Brandeis University's
Jacob Hiatt Institute in Jerusalem. Sachar has contributed
to many scholarly journals and is the author of fourteen
books: The Course of Modern Jewish History, Aliyah, From
the Ends of the Earth, The Emergence of the
Middle East, Europe Leaves the Middle East, A
History of Israel, The Man on the Camel, Egypt
and Israel, Diaspora, A History of
Israel since the Yom Kippur War, A History
of the Jews in America, Farewell Espana and
Israel and Europe. He is also the editor-in-chief
of the 39-volume The Rise of Israel: A Documentary
History. Dr. Sachar has twice been the recipient
of the National Jewish Book Award. His writings have
been published in six languages.
Based in Washington, D.C., where he is a Professor of Modern History at The George Washington University, Sachar is a consultant and lecturer on Middle Eastern affairs for the United States Foreign Service Institute. Over the years he has been a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University and has guest lectured at some 150 other universities in the United States, Europe, South Africa, and Egypt. In 1996, Sachar was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion.
Last update: 06.17.04
Burton Malcolm Sapin
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Last update: 06.17.04
Henry Solomon
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Email: hsolomon@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Expertise: Economics of defense, economics of higher education
Last update: 09.02.08
George Stambuk
Professor Emeritus of International Affairs
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Last update: 06.17.04
Richard Yi-chang Yin
Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Email: yin@gwu.edu
Last update: 06.17.04
