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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Eugene A. Scanlan: Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Scanlan is president of eScanlan Company, a nonprofit management consulting firm that he founded in 2001. Prior to founding the firm, he spent 18 years as vice president and senior vice president of The Alford Group Inc., a national consulting firm. He has also served as a foundation program officer and fiscal manager at The Chicago Community Trust; as the foundation officer for The Brookings Institution; as director of development for Defenders of Wildlife; and as an independent consultant to several organizations. He currently chairs the Association of Fundraising Professionals Research Council, and is a member of the Professional Advancement Division of AFP as well as its Curriculum Development Task Force. Prior to his career in development, he spent 10 years as a college and university administrator and teacher. He is a well-known presenter and trainer, and has taught at the graduate level for many years. He has published a major book on Corporate and Foundation fund raising, and has also published several articles on nonprofit management and fund raising. He received his BA degree from Lafayette College, his M.Ed. from the University of New Hampshire, and his Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago. Dr. Scanlan can be reached at eascan@aol.com.

John R. Schmidt: Professorial Lecturer
John R. Schmidt is a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service who has served in many key positions at the State Department and at the NSC. His expertise covers a diverse range of geographical and functional issues. As one of the leading NATO experts in the U.S. government, he has headed the NATO office at State and served as NATO director at the NSC. He was Chief of the Balkan Conflict Group during the height of the war in Bosnia and founding Deputy Coordinator for Security and Governance in the civilian stabilization and reconstruction office at State. His favorite posting was in Islamabad where he served as Political Counselor during the three years running up to 9/11. He continues to follow developments in Pakistan closely and has organized and moderated high-level roundtables at the State Department on the future of Pakistan and on the radical Islamic threat. He is an expert on the Pakistani political class, the Pakistan Army, the Kashmir dispute, and the rise of radical Islam in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Despite his busy career, he has managed to find time to write articles on topics drawn from his Foreign Service experience in Survival, The Washington Quarterly, Orbis and The World Today. You can contact Mr. Schmidt for course information at jmgradon@hotmail.com.

Richard Seifman: Professorial Lecturer
Richard Seifman is a Senior Advisor to the World Bank's AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), working with ACTafrica since 2002 on all aspects of the Multi-Country Program for Africa. His World Bank experience over 13 years includes serving as Senior Nutrition Advisor for the Africa Region, task management and design of various health, nutrition and population projects. He retired from the US Government as a Senior Foreign Service Officer in 1994, having served overseas in Peru, Indonesia, Egypt, and Italy. He had been the US Executive Director to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (1987-1991), Deputy Director of the President's Task Force on International Private Enterprise (1983-1985), served with the Office of the US Trade Representative and the US Mission to the United Nations. From 1978-1982 he was the Executive Director of the Economic Policy Council of the United Nations Association of the USA. Mr. Seifman holds a BA from the University of Michigan, and respectively, a Juris Doctor and MBA from Columbia University Law School and Graduate Business School. He may be contacted at rseifman@worldbank.org.

Leonard Sekelick: Lecturer
Dr. Sekelick received his PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. In addition to teaching Spanish at the Elliott School of International Affairs, he works as a language specialist in Romance languages for the U.S. government and as a consultant for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. Dr. Sekelick may be contacted at sekelick@gwu.edu.

Christina Sevilla: Lecturer
Christina Sevilla received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1998. Dr. Sevillas is Director for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), Executive Office of the President. She is responsible for USTR's consultations and outreach with states and localities on trade policy issues, including matters pertaining to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other agreements. She also manages USTR's private sector trade advisory committee system established by Congress to advise the USTR, the President, and other Executive Branch agencies on trade issues. In this capacity, she assists in coordinating the activities of 31 advisory committees in conjunction with five federal agencies. Under the Bush Administration in 2002, she was named the United States Head of Delegation for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Civil Society Committee, a committee tasked by Trade Ministers of the 34 FTAA countries with improving communication with business, labor, environment, consumer interests, sub-federal governments, and private citizens throughout the Western Hemisphere regarding the FTAA negotiations. She may be contacted at csevilla@ustr.gov.

Eric Shaw: Professorial Lecturer
He may be contacted at eshaw@msn.com.

David Shinn: Adjunct Professor of International Affairs
Ambassador Shinn received his BA (1963), MA (1964), and PhD (1980) from George Washington University. He has a certificate in African studies from Northwestern University. He served for thirty-seven years in the US Foreign Service with assignments at embassies in Lebanon, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Cameroon, Sudan and as ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. He has been teaching in the Elliott School since 2001 and serves on a number of boards of non-governmental organizations. An expert on the Horn of Africa, Dr. Shinn speaks at events around the world. He is the co-author of An Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia and has authored numerous articles and book chapters. He is working on a book concerning China-Africa relations. His research interests include China-Africa relations, East Africa and the Horn, terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, conflict situations, U.S. policy in Africa, and the African brain drain.
Ambassador Shinn's CV

Rhea Siers: Professorial Lecturer
Rhea Siers has worked in the Intelligence Community for over 20 years in a variety of positions ranging from intelligence analysis to and legal and policy issues. Ms. Siers was named a 2005 Senior Fellow at the GW Homeland Security Policy Institute. Her areas of interest include Information Sharing and Collaboration, Counterterrorism, and Network Analysis. She is also involved in research involving the nexus between crime and terrorism, particularly in the area of Intellectual Property Crime. Ms. Siers is a graduate of Barnard College (Columbia University) and received a Masters degree in International Affairs from the London School of Economics. She was a Deans Fellow in Criminal Law at the Washington College of Law (American University) where she received her law degree. Ms. Siers was an honors graduate fellow at the Elliott School of International Affairs where she received a Masters degree in International Policy and Practice with a concentration in Transnational Security issues. She may be contacted at rdsiers@gwu.edu.

Kathleen E. Smith
Dr. Smith is a scholar specializing in Russian politics. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught comparative politics at Hamilton College and Georgetown University. Dr. Smith is the author of two books on memory and politics in the former Soviet Union, Remembering Stalin's Victims (Cornell, 1996) and Mythmaking in the New Russia (Cornell, 2002). She is currently writing a social, political and cultural history of the year 1956 in Russia.

Samuel Spiwak: Adjunct Professor
Samuel Spiwak is Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Virginia. He has served as an active duty intelligence officer in the United States Air Force, including a tour at the USAF Weapons School. Captain Spiwak is currently writing and preparing to defend his PhD dissertation on hegemonic foreign policy and international relations theory at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. In addition, he holds a Master of Arts in International Studies (focusing on international security) from the University of Denver, a Master of Arts in Security Policy Studies (with concentrations in National Security Policy and Defense Policy Analysis) from the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, and a Bachelor of Science in Multidisciplinary Studies (majoring in National Security and Defense Studies) from North Carolina State University. He has presented scholarly papers and served as a subject matter expert on roundtable discussions at academic and military conferences across North America. Moreover, Mr. Spiwak served as Civilian Instructor in the Department of Military Strategic Studies at the United States Air Force Academy and has presented a series of guest lectures on intelligence and international relations at the University of Arkansas (Little Rock). He can be reached at spiwak@gwu.edu.

Inder Sud: Adjunct Professor of International Affairs
Inder Sud is an economist with extensive background and experience in economic development in developing countries. He joined the Elliott School after a long and distinguished career at the World Bank, where he held a variety of senior management positions dealing with various aspects of development: country program management, development policy, project appraisal and financing, and privatization and private sector development. He has worked in most regions of the world, but most extensively in the Middle East, East Asia and the Pacific and South Asia.

Dr. Sud also consults for a number of governments, and international and bilateral aid organizations on economic and development policies, and aid coordination. He is also a visiting professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He holds a PhD from Stanford University.

Robert Sutter: Adjunct Professor of International Affairs
Dr. Sutter received a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 1975. He has specialized in Asian and Pacific affairs and U.S. foreign policy with the Congressional Research Service and the Library of Congress since 1977. He is currently a senior specialist in International Policy with the Congressional Research Service. Dr. Sutter may be reached at sutterr@georgetown.edu.