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Faculty
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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Henry H. Gaffney, Jr.: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Gaffney is the Director of the Strategy and Concepts Team in the Center for
Strategic Studies at The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). He has been at CNA
since 1990, specializing in broad studies of the evolving world security environment.
He recently completed a major study of the American Way of War and its Transformation,
and has done a report for the National Intelligence Council on the Changing
Nature of Warfare Through 2020. Dr. Gaffney served for 28 years in the Office
of the U.S. Secretary of Defense prior to joining The CNA Corporation. He
spent more than twelve years working on NATO matters, particularly NATO nuclear
weapons matters. After two years of working directly on Middle East matters,
he spent most of the 1980's as the Director of Plans in the Defense Security
Assistance Agency, which managed U.S. arms sales and security assistance programs
throughout the world. Dr. Gaffney received his undergraduate degree from Harvard
College and his doctorate from Columbia University, where he specialized in
the politics of the developing areas. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy
from 1956 to 1959, on destroyers in the Pacific. He may be contacted at gaffneyh@cna.org.
Camille Gaskin-Reyes:
Camille Gaskin-Reyes is an urban and regional planner with extensive experience
in development practice in Latin America. She joined the Elliott School after
a long career at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she held a number
of senior management positions, ranging from the IDB's representative in
Panama to manager in charge of development effectiveness and fiduciary management.
She has worked on most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly
in the areas of project appraisal and financing; policy development and country
programming; quality of entry and of supervision of projects; risk management
and the monitoring and evaluation of programs. Dr. Gaskin-Reyes completed
her Ph.D at the University of Bonn in Germany, and also completed a Master's
degree in non-renewable energy and alternative building methods at the Cologne
Polytechnic.
Mark Gaspar:
Mark Gaspar is the Director of Coast Guard Systems with Lockheed Martin's Washington
Operations. He has overall responsibility for developing and implementing
strategy for Coast Guard business development efforts across the Corporation
including supporting the $24 billion Integrated Deepwater System project.
Mark has 30 years of experience in domestic and international business development
and operations with assignments spanning production, engineering, contracting,
marketing and strategic planning.
LTC James Gavrilis:
Lieutenant Colonel Gavrilis is a career US Army Special Forces Officer. He
has commanded the 3rd and 5th Special Forces Groups (Airborne) and in the
US Army Special Operations Command (Airborne). He has served overseas in
Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East, in training, peacekeeping, and
combat operations. His 16 years of military education and service in the
Infantry and Special Forces has focused on low intensity conflict, unconventional
warfare, and counterinsurgency. Over the last four years, he has conducted
extensive area and strategic studies, and has commanded and directed operations
in the field focused on urban unconventional warfare, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency,
and counter-proliferation in Iraq and in other parts of the Middle East.
During his previous assignment he commanded a large special operations force
in Iraq through the initiation of hostilities, major combat operations, and
into the civil administration that followed. He recently returned from his
second tour in Iraq where he was responsible for the planning and execution
of multi-national, multi-agency, and joint counterinsurgency and counter-terrorist
operations, and for directing all US Army Special Forces teams conducting
counterinsurgency operations throughout the country. His most recent assignment
in Iraq enabled Lieutenant Colonel Gavrilis to practice counterinsurgency
on the ground and develop first hand knowledge and experience in combat.
Jean M. Geran:
Jean M. Geran is a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff.
She joined Policy Planning in February 2006 and is responsible for democracy,
human rights, trafficking in persons, women, children, refugees, and international
organization issues. Dr. Geran began work at the State Department as an American
Association for the Advancement of Science Diplomacy Fellow in the Bureau
of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor covering bilateral human rights policy
in Asia. She also has served as the Director for Democracy and Human Rights
on the National Security Council, as Advisor on United Nations Reform at
the State Department and as an Abuse Prevention Officer on USAID's Disaster
Assistance Response Team in southern Iraq. She twice has been awarded the
State Department's Superior Honor Award for outstanding performance and has
extensive professional and academic research experience in developing countries
in Southeast Asia, Africa and Central America. Dr. Geran received her B.A.
in business administration from Georgetown University (1989), her M.S. in
rural development from Michigan State University (1995), and her Ph.D. in
development studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001).
Edmund Ghareeb: Assistant Professorial
Lecturer
He may be contacted at ghareeb@american.edu.
John K. Glenn: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. John K. Glenn is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund
of the United States (GMF) and an expert on foreign policy issues including
the prospects for U.S.-European cooperation on global challenges, the image
of the United States in the world, public opinion and foreign policy, and democracy
promotion. He joined GMF in 2004 as director of foreign policy, responsible
for Transatlantic Trends, an annual survey of foreign policy attitudes in the
United States and Europe, and the primary author of the Key Findings Report
from 2005-08. In this role he also oversaw GMF's foreign policy grantmaking
programs to think tanks and scholars, managed the Transatlantic Fellows program,
and directed numerous policy projects and partnerships. From 2000 to 2004,
Dr. Glenn was executive director of the Council for European Studies, the leading
American professional association for the study of Europe in the social sciences
and humanities, and visiting scholar and adjunct professor at New York University's
Center for European Studies, where he taught a graduate seminar on the European
Union. Previously, he served as a project manager at the Institute of War and
Peace Studies at Columbia University where he directed a project on NGO strategies
for democratization and conflict prevention in formerly communist states. He
is the author of Framing Democracy: Civil society and civic movements in
Eastern Europe (Stanford University Press, 2001) and co-editor of The
Power and Limits of NGOs: A critical look at building democracy in Eastern
Europe and Eurasia (Columbia University Press, 2002), as well as numerous
scholarly articles and policy briefs. He is a frequent commentator on international
affairs, having appeared on CNN International, CNN's Insight, BBC World News,
Bloomberg TV, Reuters Television, BBC World Service, Voice of America's FOCUS,
Deutsche Welle, and NPR's Marketplace. Dr. Glenn holds a Ph.D. and A.M. from
Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College.
Virginia Green: Professorial Lecturer
Professor Green is teaching Strategy and Tactics of International Organizations
with Barbara Colwell. Mrs. Green is Vice President of Investment Policy for
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. She has served as Associate
General Counsel of the Department of Defense and was a partner in the law
firm of Reed Smith. For over a decade, she advised global corporations on
governance, litigation, and regulatory requirements of opening new markets.
She graduated Goucher College with a B.A. in Chemistry and Political Science,
received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an
editor of the law review. She clerked for Judge Spottswood Robinson at the
United State Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and, in 2004,
participated in Georgetown's executive business curriculum on International
Business Finance and Management. She may be contacted at vgree@opic.gov.
Lori Helene Gronich: Lecturer
Lori Helene Gronich is a Professorial Lecturer in International Affairs at
George Washington University, and a Visiting Research Scholar at Georgetown
University. Her scholarship focuses on issues of international peace and
security, American foreign policy, decision-making processes, and the dynamics
of individual and group cognition. She previously served as the Director
of the Office of Education and the Successor Generations at The Atlantic
Council of the United States, and as a Program Officer with the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Committee on International Peace and Security at the
Social Science Research Council.
Dr. Gronich has been a consultant to the International Peace Academy, the US
Department of Defense, the US Department of State, the Rand Corporation, and
the Academy for Educational Development, and she has taught at Haverford College,
Rutgers University, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, Georgetown University, and
the National War College. She has been a research fellow at Harvard University,
Princeton University, The Brookings Institution, USC, and UCLA, and she has
received numerous grants for her scholarship and innovative approaches to teaching.
Dr. Gronich is a recipient of the Best Faculty Paper Award from the Foreign
Policy Analysis Section of the American Political Science Association, and
she has lectured widely in the US and internationally. She has served as a
reviewer for several professional journals and presses, and is currently a
member of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy,
Temple University. She received her MA and PhD in political science from UCLA.
Dr. Gronich may be contacted at gronich@gwu.edu.
Neal Guthrie: Lecturer
Neal Guthrie received his Ph.D. in German from Georgetown University in 1997.
In addition to teaching German at the Elliott School, he works in the Division
of Exhibitions at the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dr. Guthrie
may be contacted at neal_guthrie@yahoo.com.
Lino Gutierrez: Lecturer
Lino Gutierrez is CEO of Gutierrez Global LLC, a consulting firm specializing on strategic advice for corporations interested in investing in Latin America and Europe. A retired Foreign Service Officer, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (2003-2006) and U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua (1996-1999). From 1999 to 2002, he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the State Department, including a stint as Acting Assistant Secretary from 2001-2002. From 2002-2003, Gutierrez occupied the George Kennan chair as International Affairs Advisor at the National War College. Other overseas postings included tours in the Dominican Republic, Portugal, Haiti, France and the Bahamas. Ambassador Gutierrez served as Senior Advisor to Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez on Cuba transition and Latin America from 2007-09. Gutierrez has been the recipient of the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award, Superior Honor Award (twice) and Meritorious Honor Award (three times). He has also earned the U.S. Army's civilian award.
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