Elliott School of International School

Emeritus Faculty

Maurice A. East

Charles Elliott

Charles Herber

Peter P. Hill

Mary Holman

William R. Johnson

Young C. Kim

Ruth Marilyn Krulfeld

Carl Linden

James R. Millar

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

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: 08/12/2005

 


Charles Elliott

Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs

 
Stuart Hall S401
2013 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-6978
Fax: (202) 994-5436

Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University

Expertise:
Soviet and Russian foreign policy, military affairs, and domestic politics.

Last update: 06/17/2004

 


Charles Herber

Associate Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs

 
Phillips 312
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-6229
Fax: (202) 994-6231
E-mail: cherber@gwu.edu

Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Expertise:
Germany, Europe, the Reformation

Last update: 06/17/2004

 


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: 06/17/2004

 


Mary A. Holman

Professor of Economics

 
Funger 641
2201 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-6147
Fax: (703) 759-9130
E-mail: Holman@gwu.edu

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: 06/17/2004

 


William R. Johnson

Associate Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs


Education:
Ph.D., University of Washington

Expertise:
East Asia

Last update: 07/22/2000 1:40:36 AM

 


Young C. Kim

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

 
Funger 524G
2201 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-6717
Fax: (202) 994-7743
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: 01/03/2000

 


Ruth Marilyn Krulfeld

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, International Affairs, Human Sciences

 
Building X 101
2112 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-7257
Fax: (202) 994-6097
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: 08/24/2000

 


Carl Linden

Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs

 
Stuart Hall 402D
2013 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-6348
Fax: (202) 994-7743
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: 01/03/2000

 


James R. Millar

Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs

 
1957 E Street, NW Suite 412
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-1645
Fax: (202) 994-5436
E-mail: millar@gwu.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Cornell University

Expertise:
Economic history of the U.S.S.R., transitional economies of the former Soviet Union and East-Central Europe

Background:

Professor Millar received his B.A. from the University of Texas and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Before coming to GW, he was Director of International Programs/Studies and Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois. He was a Wilson Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Millar used to teach undergraduate and graduate courses on Soviet and Post-Soviet economics. Professor Millar's publications include The Soviet Economic Experiment (1990) and The ABCs of Soviet Socialism (1981). In 2004, he published the Encyclopedia of Russian History, a four volume reference work, which was recognized by the American Library Association as an outstanding reference work.

Professor Millar served as Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies in the Elliott School from 1989 to 2001.


Last update: 05/20/2005

 


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: 06/17/2004

 


Benjamin Nimer

Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs


Education:
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Last update: 06/17/2004

 


Yuri Olkhovsky

Professor Emeritus Associate Professor of Slavic and International Affairs

Gelman 628D
2130 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-6336

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: 06/17/2004

 


Ronald D.F. Palmer

Professor of the Practice of International Affairs

 
Stuart Hall 301
2013 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-0563
Fax: (202) 994-9537
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: 01/03/2000

 


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: 06/22/2004

 


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: 06/17/2004

 


Burton Malcolm Sapin

Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs


Education:
Ph.D., Princeton University

Last update: 06/17/2004

 


Henry Solomon

Professor Emeritus of Economics

 
Funger 507B
2201 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-8083
Fax: (202) 994-5844

Education:
Ph.D., New York University

Expertise:
Economics

Last update: 06/17/2004

 


George Stambuk

Professor Emeritus of International Affairs


Education:
Ph.D., Indiana University

Last update: 06/17/2004

 


Richard Yi-chang Yin

Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs

 

Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University

Last update: 06/17/2004

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