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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Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar: Lecturer in International Affairs
Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar is a BBC World Service reporter in Washington, D.C. and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He has previously taught the Contemporary Politics of Iran at Georgetown University and Government and Politics of Middle East and North Africa at George Mason University. He received his B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Tehran in Iran, his M.A. in Sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York City, and his M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago. His article "The Beloved Great Satan: The Portrayal of the US in the Iranian Media since 9/11," appeared in the 2006 winter issue of the Journal of the European Society for Iranian Studies. He may be contacted at mbt22@georgetown.edu.

Sam Tangredi: Professorial Lecturer
Sam J. Tangredi is a captain in the U.S. Navy and a senior military fellow in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, where he also served as a member of the NDU 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review Working Group. His previous assignment was as the head of the Strategy and Concepts Branch, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. His most recent publication is All Possible Wars? Toward a Consensus View of the Future Security Environment, 2001-2025 (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 2000). He can be reached at SamJTangredi@aol.com.

Linda Tawfik: Professorial Lecturer
Linda Tawfik has served as an international health management advisor for HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, TB, and malaria for over 20 years. She has taught at Stanford University in the U.S., Keele University in England, and the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. With Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania, she was Principal Investigator of a behavioral surveillance study in rural Malawi, publishing results in Social Science and Medicine in 2007. Dr. Tawfik has worked with the World Health Organization on the 2006 World Health Report, the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS developing a satellite session for the Barcelona XIV International AIDS Conference, the Asian Development Bank on developing an urban health program design for Bangladesh, as well as with government, private non-profit and for-profit institutions. From 1986-1993, she worked on the design and implementation of the cross-border humanitarian health program for Afghanistan with Management Sciences for Health. In the early 1980's, she worked in Egypt on the National Control of Diarrheal Diseases Project, and she began her career with the Department of Health in Ireland. She has field experience in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and currently works at the Academy for Educational Development. Linda Tawfik earned her PhD at Johns Hopkins University, her MSc at Harvard University, and BA at Brown University. Ms. Tawfik can be reached at ltawfik@aed.org, or ltawfik@comcast.net.

Robert Tomes: Professorial Lecturer

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Anel Townsend: Professorial Lecturer
Anel Townsend is currently a consultant for the Interamerican Commission of Women at the Organization of American States (OAS) and a former consultant of the Unit of Gender and Diversity at the Inter-American Development Bank, in Washington DC. She is a member of the Advisory Council of Vital Voices Global Partnership. She also is part of the Advisory Council of Parlamento Latinoamericano (Latin-American Parliament). Vital Voices is a non profit organization based in Washington DC which encourages women's leadership at a global level. Parlamento Latinoamericano is an international organization which gathers 22 parliaments from Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting regional integration and democracy.

From 1995 to 2006 Anel Townsend was a member of the Peruvian Congress, where she focused on issues of anticorruption, human rights, gender equality, and governance. Between 2001 and 2002 she served as Chair of the Special Investigation Committee into the illegal activities of Alberto Fujimori's administration, which produced more than one hundred accusations against the former president, many of which were included in the extradition request approved by the Chilean Supreme Court. She also chaired the Special Parliamentarian Committee that prepared and approved the first Law of Access to Information in Peru. She is a former Minister of Women's Affairs and Social Development in Peru (2003), period in which she began the decentralization process for the social and food aid programs. During last November she was a Faculty at the Salzburg Seminar's session 447 in Austria.

Mrs. Townsend has published three books: "En nombre de la ley: diario de debates y batallas parlamentarias" (In the name of law: diary of debates and parliamentarian battles) Lima, Peru, 2001; "Reforma de los partidos politicos en America Latina", (Reform of political parties in Latin America), Lima, Peru, 2003; "Por un mundo sin hambre ni pobreza, el rol de los parlamentos en el cumplimiento de las metas del milenio en America Latina", (For a world without hunger and poverty, the role of the Latin-American parliaments in the accomplishment of the Millennium Development Goals), Lima, Peru, 2006. She may be contacted at atwosend@gmail.com.

Elizabeth Turpen: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Turpen is a Senior Associate and co-director of the Cooperative Nonproliferation program at the Henry L. Stimson Center. She also previously served as director of the Security for a New Century program at Stimson. Dr. Turpen brings Senate experience and a background in national security, nuclear weapons and nonproliferation issues to these projects. Dr. Turpen's previous employment was with Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) as a legislative assistant responsible for defense, nonproliferation and foreign affairs. Prior to coming to Washington in 1998, she was a consultant on nonproliferation policy, U.S.-Russia programs, and the national security implications of technological advances for a high tech company in New Mexico. In addition to numerous articles, Dr. Turpen is co-author of Old Plagues, New Threats (Stimson, 2008), Cooperative Nonproliferation: Getting Further, Faster (Stimson, 2007) and Policy Matters: Educating Congress on Peace and Security (Stimson, 2004). Her Ph.D. is from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She can be reached at eturpen@stimson.org.

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