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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Caroline S. Wagner:
Dr. Wagner specializes in science and technology and its relationship to innovation, policy, and society. Dr. Wagner is a researcher at the Center for International Science and Technology Policy, George Washington University, Washington DC. Among her current advisory commitments, Dr. Wagner serves on the Advisory Board of Research on Knowledge Systems, a program of the International Development Research Centre of Canada and the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation. She is a founding member of the Washington Science Policy Alliance.

Dr. Wagner joins GWU after 12 years with The RAND Corporation in Washington DC and Leiden, Netherlands. Prior to joining the RAND Corporation, Dr. Wagner was a Professional Staff Member for the United States Congress Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and before that, in the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. She has also served as an analyst for the United States federal government specializing in comparative analysis of global developments in science and technology. This included a 2-year assignment as an analyst at the U.S. Embassy in Korea. Dr. Wagner has consulted to the World Bank, the European Commission, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the U.S. National Science Foundation and a number of governments.

Dr. Wagner holds degrees in science and technology dynamics from the University of Amsterdam; in science, technology, and public policy from GWU; and in philosophy from Trinity University. She is the author of more than 20 reports on science, technology, and innovation, many of which can be found at http://www.rand.org.

Howard Wallack: Lecturer
Mr. Wallack is currently Director, Goodwill Global Inc., an affiliate of Goodwill Industries International, Inc. Wallack is responsible for development of new international enterprise opportunities for the Goodwill movement outside the U.S. and Canada. Prior to joining Goodwill in 2000, Wallack held numerous positions in international development with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; at different times he was responsible for programs and projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, Central & Eastern Europe, and Africa, and ran CIPE's business association management training program in more than 25 countries. He has also been the Associate Peace Corps Director for Small Enterprise Development in the Dominican Republic. A.B., Anthropology/Spanish, Hamilton College; M.A., International Affairs, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University; Certificate in Association Management, Institute for Organization Management (University of Delaware/U.S. Chamber of Commerce). He can be reached at hwallack@lavca.org.

Michael Wasserman: Lecturer
He can be reached at mwasser@gwu.edu

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Paul A. Wee: Professorial Lecturer
Paul Wee received his B.A. from Harvard University, a Masters of Divinity degree from Luther Seminary and a Ph.D., magna cum laude, in Philosophy and Social Science from the University of Berlin. He has worked in eastern and central Europe, primarily with faith-based communities, during the communist period and was a member of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Oxford. From 1986 to 1993 he was assistant general secretary for International Affairs and Human Rights of the Geneva-based Lutheran World Federation. During that period he worked closely with the World Jewish Congress, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. He has been active in the area of conflict resolution, having initiated talks between four armed opposition groups and the Government of Guatemala that resulted in the Oslo Accords of 1990, and was a member of the UN Observer Mission to South Africa (UNOMSA), which provided oversight of the first democratic election in that country. He may be contacted at pwee@gwu.edu.

Carola Weil: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Weil's research addresses questions of international norms of the use of force and global governance with a particular focus on international intervention and the protection of civilians in armed conflicts. She spent nearly two decades in non-profit and research management, most recently with the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) at the University of Maryland where she served as its Executive Director. She previously was Executive Director of Women In International Security, and was a program officer with the Washington office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a German political foundation. She is currently working on a book manuscript on international protection and the use of force in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Sudan. Her research has appeared in the International Migration Review and the Canadian Journal of Politics, among other works. She may be contacted at cweil@gwu.edu.

Marvin G. Weinbaum: Professorial Lecturer
Professor Weinbaum is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC. He is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served for fifteen years as the director of the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Weinbaum served as analyst for Pakistan and Afghanistan in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 1999 to 2003. He was a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 1996-97 and was was awarded Fulbright Research Fellowships for Egypt in 1981-82 and Afghanistan in 1989-90. Professor Weinbaum has his doctorate from Columbia University in 1965. He is the author of six books and many articles. His research, teaching, and consultancies have focused on the issues of national security, state building, democratization, and political economy. He may be contacted at weinbaum@speakeasy.net.

Jon A. Wiant: Professorial Lecturer
Prof. Wiant can be reached at wiantjc@earthlink.net.

Ambassador Ross Wilson: Professorial Lecturer
Ross Wilson completed a nearly thirty-year career as an American Foreign Service officer in December 2008. He was a U.S. ambassador for six years - to the Republic of Turkey in 2005-08 and to the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2000-03. Elsewhere overseas, he served twice at the American embassy in Moscow, at the American embassy in Prague and was U.S. Consul General in Melbourne, Australia.

In Washington, Ambassador Wilson held various posts. He was Executive Assistant and Chief of Staff for Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick in 2005. In 2003-05, he was detailed to the Office of the U.S. Trade Negotiator to lead the U.S. negotiating team in multilateral talks among 34 countries on establishing a Free Trade Area of the Americas. In 1997-2000, he was Principal Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States (of the former Soviet Union). As Deputy Executive Secretary of the State Department in 1992-94, Ambassador Wilson worked for and directly supported Secretaries of State James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger and Warren Christopher. Earlier in his career, he served in the State Department's offices dealing with the Soviet Union and Egypt. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ambassador Wilson received a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and master's degrees from Columbia University and the U.S. National War College. While in the diplomatic service, he won the President's Meritorious Service Award, as well as numerous Department of State awards and honors.

William Wise: Professorial Lecturer
Col. Wise received his M.A. from the University of Hawaii in 1974. He served for 30 years in the USAF, where he held many high-level policy positions, before retiring in 1997. He is presently President of the Sorrento Group, a private consulting firm. He may be contacted at billwise@gwu.edu.

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Lawrence Woocher: Lecturer

John D. Woodward, Jr.:
John D. Woodward, Jr. currently serves as an Intelligence Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. During his career as a CIA officer, Department of Defense official, and public policy researcher, John has gained extensive experience related to intelligence, national security, technology policy, and counterterrorism issues. From July 2005 to November 2006, he was the Associate Director of RAND Corporation's Intelligence Policy Center, where he helped oversee, manage, and develop RAND's work for the nation's intelligence community. From October 2003 to July 2005, John served as Director of the U.S. Department of Defense Biometrics Management Office, and from 2000 to 2003, as a RAND senior policy analyst. Prior to that, he served as an Operations Officer for the Central Intelligence Agency for twelve years. He has testified about national security and technology policy before Congress, the Commission on Online Child Protection, and the Virginia State Crime Commission. His publications include Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age, (McGraw-Hill, 2003), used by several universities, and his articles have appeared in various journals and newspapers. John received his Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He was a Thouron Scholar at the London School of Economics, where he earned an M.S. in Economics. He received his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert O. Work: Professorial Lecturer
Professor Work is a senior defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) in Washington, DC. He is a former United States marine, retiring as a colonel in 2001 after 27 years of service. While in the Marine Corps, he served in a variety of command and staff billets. He was the first director of the Marine Corps's Strategic Initiatives Group, a small analytical cell working directly for the commandant of the Marine Corps, and served as the military assistant and senior aide to Richard Danzig, the 71st secretary of the Navy. At CSBA, he specializes in defense strategy, analysis, transformation, and maritime affairs. He holds a bachelor of science degree (Biology) from the University of Illinois, a master of science degree (Systems Management) from the University of Southern California, a master of science degree (Space Systems Operations) from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a master's in International Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Professor Work can be reached at work@csbaonline.org.

Catherine Woytowicz: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Woytowicz received her PhD in Chemistry from The University of California at Riverside. She has since then taught chemistry, forensic science, policy and writing courses. Additionally, she has served as an American Chemical Society Science Policy Fellow and an AAAS Fellow. Dr. Woytowicz may be contacted at drcat@gwu.edu.

Jessica Wyndham: Professorial Lecturer
Jessica Wyndham is an expert in human rights and humanitarian law. Her main interest is in the practical application of international human rights and humanitarian standards particularly in relation to internal displacement, as well as human rights standards concerning terrorism, torture, and the death penalty. She has worked extensively with governments, NGOs, national human rights institutions and international organizations throughout Asia, the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, including in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Fiji. She has served as Legal Adviser to the Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ecuador, and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions. She is currently Project Director for the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ms. Wyndham holds an LLB (Hons.) (J.D. equivalent) from the Australian National University. She may be contacted at: jessica_wyndham@yahoo.com.au.

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