Part-time and Adjunct Faculty

For biographies of part-time and adjunct faculty members, click the first letter of the faculty member's last name.

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Najia Badykova: Professorial Lecturer
She may be contacted at nyalak@gwu.edu

John R. Ballard: Professorial Lecturer
John R. Ballard, Ph.D. is Professor of Strategic Studies at the National War College in Washington, DC. Dr. Ballard previously served as Professor of Joint Military Operations at the U.S. Naval War College, the Foundation Professor of Defence Studies at New Zealand���s Massey University and as Professor of History and Director of Curriculum at the Joint Forces Staff College. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the French Command and Staff College in Paris. He earned his masters degree at California State University and received his doctorate from Catholic University. Dr. Ballard is the author of four books: Upholding Democracy (1997), Continuity during the Storm (2000), Fighting for Fallujah (2006), and Triumph of Self-Determination (2008). His professional journal articles have appeared in Small Wars and Insurgencies, Joint Force Quarterly, Military Review, the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, and the Marine Corps Gazette. He is a recipient of the Army Historical Foundation���s Distinguished Writing Award and the Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal.

David Barton:
David Barton has thirty years of professional experience in national security, foreign, and intelligence policy working with the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and the State Department. In 2002 he led an investigation team and developed the final report for the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on the terrorist events of September 11, 2001. From 2003 to 2005 he worked with Senator Joe Lieberman and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee where he had responsibility for policy and legislative matters related to 9/11 and led a bi-partisan team to achieve the intelligence reform legislation that was adopted as public law in 2004. During 2006 and 2007 Mr. Barton directed a project at the National Academy of Public Administration, requested by Congress and the FBI, focused on aspects of the intelligence work of the FBI and its relationship to the rest of the intelligence community and to state and local law enforcement. At the State Department in the 1990s he directed legislative business and participated in senior policymaking for seven years on national security, arms control, and nonproliferation issues. Before that, in two decades of work with the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, his responsibilities included national security, arms control, nonproliferation, European and Middle Eastern affairs. Mr. Barton is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He can be contacted at: davidbarton@verizon.net.

Nancy Bearg:
Nancy Bearg is a national security policy professional with extensive high-level experience in the U.S. executive and legislative branches and the non-profit sector. She recently has been Senior Advisor at the non-profit Search for Common Ground on "US Engagement with the Global Muslim Community." Ms. Bearg was the first woman National Security Advisor to the Vice President of the United States (1981-82). She also has served at the National Security Council (White House) as Director for International Programs and Public Diplomacy; at the Department of Defense as Director of Policy Analysis (Middle East, Africa) and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Personnel; and at the Senate Armed Services Committee and Congressional Budget Office. She has been President/CEO of EnterpriseWorks Worldwide, an international development non-profit organization; and she directed the International Peace, Security and Prosperity program at the Aspen Institute, where her work included editing and writing five books. She serves on the U.S. National Academies of Science Committee on Creation of Science-Based Enterprises in Africa and two non-profit boards, Women in International Security (WIIS) and the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a BA from Willamette University.

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Andrea Bertone: Professorial Lecturer

Brook Hailu Beshah:
Professor Brook Hailu Beshah most recently worked as the deputy permanent representative of Ethiopia to the UN (UNESCO). Prior to that, he was vice president of the Africa Group of countries in UNESCO and the President of the East African Region. He served as the deputy ambassador of Ethiopia to the U.S from 2001 to 2004, representing Ethiopia by promoting its national interest in the bilateral relations with the U.S. government and directing public diplomacy activities of the Ethiopian Embassy.

Dr. Beshah taught international relations, political science and media courses at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He was also the Head of the External Relations Office of Addis Ababa University promoting academic and research collaborations with US, European and African universities, research institutions and supervising international student exchange programs.

He received a Ph.D. from Leipzig University (international political communications); a M.A. Certificate, Ohio University; a M.A., Leipzig University (political science and international relations); and a B.A., Addis Ababa University (political science and international relations).

He speaks, German, French and can be reached at bhbeshah@gwu.edu.

Kamal Beyoghlow: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Kamal A. Beyoghlow is a Professor of Strategic Studies, International Politics, the Middle East, North Africa, and Islamic Studies at the National War College (NWC). He is also the Coordinator of the Arabic Cultural Literacy Program at NWC. Previously he served as Academic Chair and Professor of Terrorism and Counterterrorism (CT) at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) at the National Defense University. Dr. Beyoghlow was Professor of International Relations and National Security at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College from 1992 to 2004 where he also taught and directed courses on Islam and the Middle East and North Africa (including Southwest Asia), International Relations, WMD proliferation and counterproliferation, and terrorism and counterterrorism. He currently teaches Government classes at American University. He started his US Government career as a Political Analyst in 1983 with the US Army 4th Psychological Operations Group at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, where he worked on political issues with focus on the Greater Middle East and Iran. He worked in the Office of the US Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the US Department of State as a Foreign Affairs Officer in 1986. At State, he was responsible for initiating and implementing U.S. counter-terrorism policy for the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean, including Turkey, Greece, Malta, and Cyprus. Dr. Beyoghlow earned his undergraduate degree from San Diego State University, his Master's degree from Tufts University in cooperation with the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests focus on Political Islam and International Terrorism strategy and policy.

William Blacklow: Lecturer
Willie Blacklow served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Communications for over three years at the Pentagon in the Office of Secretary of Defense where he was the Pentagon's designee on the White House Interagency Working Group. Mr. Blacklow spent 19 years on Capitol Hill, the last six of which as Press Secretary to Senator Carl Levin of Michigan and served in that same capacity in Michigan for Levin's successful 1990 reelection campaign. He was Press Secretary to Congressman George Miller of California and prior to that was Administrative Assistant and Press Secretary for Representative Toby Moffett (D-CT). He has also been active in a number of US presidential and senatorial campaigns. Most recently, he worked on Mark Warner's successful gubernatorial bid in Virginia. His expertise in media relations has led him to work for the Natioanl Democratic Intstitute for International Affairs in Northern Ireland, Yemen, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonis, Slovakia, Nigeria and Ghana. Email: wblacklow@aol.com.

Jarrett Blanc:
Mr. Blanc is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and a Guest Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace, where he is researching elections conducted during civil conflict. He has managed IFES technical assistance programs in the Palestinian Authority and Iraq, advising senior national and international policymakers on elections and political processes and then organizing politically and logistically challenging elections, including the January 2005 elections in Iraq. Blanc also has field experience in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Nepal, Georgia, Lebanon, and Guyana.

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Brinton Bohling:
Mr. Bohling is a senior trade and investment program advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) based in Washington D.C. Mr. Bohling focuses on U.S. technical assistance programs to build African nations' capacity to trade internationally and attract foreign investment. Before joining USAID in 2004, Mr. Bohling worked at the U.S. Trade Representative's Office for World Trade Organization and Multilateral Affairs on trade and development-related issues. Mr. Bohling also served as an international economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1998 until 2001, researching developments in global trade and commerce for policymakers in the U.S. Administration and Congress. Mr. Bohling began his career as a labor market economist in 1995 working for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tracking trends in U.S. employment and industry.

Mr. Bohling was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chad, Africa. He taught 6th and 7th grade math in French to 6th and 7th grade level students in Sarh. Mr. Bohling received a Master's of Arts in International Trade and Investment Policy from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.

William B. Bonvillian:
William B. Bonvillian, since January 2006, has been Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Washington, D.C. office, where he supports MIT's strong and historic relations with federal R&D agencies, and its role on national science policy. Prior to that position, he served for 17 years as Legislative Director and Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman working on legislation including science and technology policies and innovation issues. He worked extensively on legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, and more recently on Intelligence Reform and national competitiveness legislation. Prior to his work on Capitol Hill, he was a partner at a large national law firm. Early in his career, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Transportation, working on major transportation deregulation legislation. His recent articles include, "Power Play – The DARPA Model and U.S. Energy Policy" in American Interest, "Meeting the New Challenge to U.S. Economic Competitiveness" and "Organizing Science and Technology for Homeland Security," both published in Issues in Science and Technology, and "Science at a Crossroads," published in Technology in Society and reprinted in the FASEB Journal. Mr.Bonvillian received a B.A. from Columbia University with honors, an M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School in religion; and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he also served on the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to a Federal Judge in New York. He is a member of the Connecticut Bar, the District of Columbia Bar and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and serves on the Board on Science Education of the National Academies of Sciences. He has lectured and given speeches before numerous audiences on science and technology issues, and has taught previously in this area at Georgetown, MIT and George Washington.

M.E. Bowman: Professorial Lecturer
M. E. (Spike) Bowman currently serves in the Senior Executive Service as Senior Counsel (National Security Law), Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is a former intelligence officer and specialist in national security law with extensive experience in espionage and terrorism investigations. In addition to national security experience he is a retired U.S. Navy Captain who has served as Head of International Law at the Naval War College, as a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy and as Chief of Litigation for the U.S. Navy. In his current position he is responsible for legal issues arising from both traditional and economic espionage, international and domestic terrorism, international organized crime and threats to the information and other critical infrastructure of the United States. Mr. Bowman is a graduate of Willamette University (B.A.), the University of Wisconsin (M.A.), the University of Idaho (J.D., Cum Laude) and The George Washington University (LL.M., International and Comparative Law, With Highest Honors). He may be contacted at spikebowman@verizon.net.

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