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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David Calabrese: Lecturer
Mr. Calabrese is currently Vice President of Government Relations for the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers. Prior to his current position, David practiced export control and general corporate law with the law firm Dewey Ballantine LLP in Washington, D.C. He has also represented the high technology industry as a Director of Government Relations for the Electronic Industries Alliance, and was an Export Administration Specialist with the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security. As a U.S. export control policy expert he served on numerous U.S. government advisory committees. He received his undergraduate degree from the American University's School of International Service, his Masters Degree from the Elliott School of International Affairs and his Law Degree from the George Washington University's National Law Center, where he is an adjunct professor of law. He may be contacted at dcalabrese@aham.org.

Maria Cattaui: Lecturer
Maria Livanos Cattaui was Secretary General of ICC from July 1996 to June 2005. She has championed the role of world business in the global economy. She has been instrumental in establishing a global partnership between business and the United Nations, leading to greater business input into UN economic activities. Mrs Cattaui worked with the World Economic Forum in Geneva from 1977 to 1996, where she became Managing Director, responsible for the celebrated Annual Meeting in Davos, building the public awareness it enjoys today. She is currently a Member of the Board of Directors of Petroplus Holdings AG, Switzerland. She is Vice-Chairman of the International Crisis Group (Brussels), and holds board and advisory board memberships on the EastWest Institute (New York), the Institute of International Education (New York), the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), the International Youth Foundation (Baltimore), the Schulich School of Business (York University, Toronto), and the Elliott School of International Affairs (George Washington University, Washington D.C.). Mrs Cattaui, who is of Swiss nationality and Greek origin, was educated in the United States. She is an Honors graduate of Harvard University. She holds an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from York University, Toronto. She may be contacted at mlc@cattaui.com.

Randy Cheek: Lecturer
Prof. Cheek is a Senior Fellow and African Analyst at the Wargaming and Simulation Center, Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. He recently returned to NDU after spending the summer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, as Regional Director for Central Africa. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Bradley University in History and Geography. He attended Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, with a Master's degree in International Relations and International Economics. Mr. Cheek served in the United States Air Force as an ICBM Minuteman Launch Control Officer. He participated in developing architectural design studies for Phase I and II feasibility studies for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the mid-1980's. Mr. Cheek served 11 years at the Department of State Foreign Service Institute, working on long-range strategic planning, global issues, and policy simulations. He joined the staff at the Wargaming and Simulation Center in 1999, and travels to sub-Saharan Africa several times each year in that capacity conducting research. Mr. Cheek has published articles on non-traditional and transnational threats to security and stability in Africa in several journals, including most recently, "Playing God with HIV - Rationing HIV Treatment in Southern Africa," in African Security Review, and "A Generation at Risk - HIV Orphans and Security in Southern Africa," in Conflict Trends. He may be contacted at cheekr@ndu.edu.

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Derek Chollet: Lecturer
Derek Chollet is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where he works on a variety of issues related to U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy. He is also a non-resident fellow in the Brookings Institution's Global Economy and Development Program and an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University. Previously, he was foreign policy adviser to Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), in his legislative staff and during the 2004 presidential campaign. During the Clinton administration, he served in the U.S. State Department in several capacities, including chief speechwriter for Richard Holbrooke, then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and special adviser to Strobe Talbott, then-deputy secretary of state. He has also assisted former secretaries of state James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher with the research and writing of their memoirs, Holbrooke with his book on the Dayton peace process in Bosnia , and Talbott with his book on U.S.-Russian relations during the 1990s. He has been a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a visiting scholar and adjunct professor at The George Washington University. Educated at Cornell and Columbia Universities, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the Woodrow Wilson House and the Truman National Security Project. He is the author of The Road to the Dayton Accords: A Study of American Statecraft (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He may be contacted at dhchollet@hotmail.com.

James Christy: Professorial Lecturer
Jim Christy has been a federal agent specializing in computer crime investigations for 19 years and is currently the Director of the Defense Cyber Crime Institute. From 1986 to 1996 he was the Director of Computer Crime Investigations for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. In 1996, Mr. Christy was detailed to Sen. Sam Nunn to lead investigation and hearings into "Security in Cyberspace" which initiated significant government reform in both Information Assurance and Infrastructure Protection. He was then detailed to the President's Infrastructure Protection Task Force as the DoD representative in 1998 and then to Office of the Secretary of Defense as the Law Enforcement/Counterintelligence Liaison. In 2001, Agent Christy was assigned as the Director of Operations for the Defense Computer Forensics Lab. In Oct 2003, Jim was awarded the Association of Information Technology Professionals, Distinguished Information Science Award. Previous winners included Adm. Grace Hopper, Bill Gates, Ross Perot, and Dave Packard. He may be contacted at jim.christy@comcast.net.

Frank Cilluffo: Lecturer
As Associate Vice President for Homeland Security at The George Washington University, Frank J. Cilluffo leads the University's homeland security efforts and directs the Homeland Security Policy Institute. Cilluffo joined GW from the White House where he served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. Shortly following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Cilluffo was appointed by President George W. Bush to the newly created Office of Homeland Security. In his capacity as Special Assistant to the President for External Affairs, Cilluffo was responsible for engaging and building partnerships with the private sector, academic, and state and local officials and emergency responders on homeland security policies and initiatives. He was a senior advisor to Governor Tom Ridge and directed the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council and its four Senior Advisory Committees. He may be contacted at cilluffo@gwu.edu.

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Richard Cincotta: Professorial Lecturer
Richard Cincotta is currently the consulting demographer to the Long Range Analysis Unit of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). His research focuses on the course of the demographic transition and on trends in human migration, and he has studied their relationships to natural resource dynamics, to human health, and to the political stability and regime status of states. His most recent work on the relationship between demography and democracy appeared in the March/April 2008 edition of Foreign Policy. Dr. Cincotta formerly held the position of senior research associate at Population Action International (1996-2006), and served as a policy fellow in USAID's Office of Population and Reproductive Health (1992-96). He has more than 5 years of overseas field research experience, including projects in China, India, and Morocco, and worked outside the United States in various positions for another 6 years, including service in an intelligence branch of the US Navy (1969-73) in Europe and East Asia.

Michele Clark: Lecturer

Patricia F.S. Cogswell: Professorial Lecturer
Ms. Cogswell is the Associate Director for Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of Policy (Screening Coordination Office). Ms. Cogswell's portfolio includes setting policy and direction in order to harmonize the many DHS screening programs and investments. These programs include many of DHS' immigration reform efforts, those involving screening to identify known or suspected terrorists, and the integration of biometric technologies and capabilities. In addition to Ms. Cogswell's current position, since the creation of DHS in 2003, Ms. Cogswell also served as the Chief Strategist for DHS' US-VISIT Program, and as the Director, Immigration Services Modernization at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Ms. Cogswell's background prior to the creation of DHS was with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service. Ms. Cogswell is an attorney. Unlike most attorneys, however, Ms. Cogswell has spent her entire government career in program management and operational activities, rather than practicing law. Ms. Cogswell received her J.D. from the College of William and Mary and is a member of the Virginia State Bar. Ms. Cogswell received her B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Emily Cole-Bayer: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Cole-Bayer is the Coordinator of Evaluation for the Charles County Public Schools in LaPlata, Maryland. She has previously served as the Psychometrician/Statistician for the Charles County Public Schools and as a Statistical Consultant to The Amateur Athletic Union and The President's Challenge National Youth Physical Fitness Program at Indiana University. She is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire (B.S.), Oregon State University (M.A.) and Indiana University (PhD). She may be contacted at ecole@ccboe.com.

Irina Collins: Professorial Lecturer in Russian
Dr. Collins earned her PhD in Comparative Linguistics from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages in 1986. She is well established in Russia and in Europe as a specialist in computer-assisted English-Russian translation. She received her Fulbright grant for research in this field in 1994. She was affiliated with the University of Delaware where later she also worked as a visiting professor teaching Introduction to Linguistics. In 1995, she moved to Washington, DC and worked at The George Washington University's Slavic department and Johns Hopkins University before joining the U.S. Department of State. She serves thereas a Russian language and culture instructor and as a learning consultant in the Russian Language Department. Dr. Collins has more than 75 published papers and a book on the translation of English-Russian texts. Dr. Collins may be contacted at irinacollins@usa.net

Barbara Colwell: Lecturer
Barbara is Executive Director of ThinkQuest, New York City, a not-for-profit dedicated to bringing Internet technology into urban classrooms. She is also Chair of Innovation Network, a 15 year old non-profit whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of non-profits by making evaluation tools readily accessible. Barbara previously held a number of senior management positions at priceline.com (VP-Planning; head-hotels), CIGNA (Sr. VP), TWA (VP Marketing), AIG (VP-Transportation) and Indigo (Managing Director). She has served as a director on the corporate boards of Publishers Clearing House, Mutual Trust Life and Indemnity Insurance Companies, and PacerPower. In addition she has been a member of non-profit boards (Wildlife Trust, Innovation Network) and serves on a number of advisory boards/councils (AMEC Americas, Council on Competitiveness, American Management Association). Ms Colwell earned her MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is a member of the Women's Forum (co-chair, program committee). She may be contacted at barbara_colwell@yahoo.com.

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