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Full-time Faculty

Susan K. Sell

Susan K. Sell

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Director, Institute for Global and International Studies

1957 E Street, NW Suite 501

Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-4896
Fax: (202) 994-5477
E-mail: sellskgw@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Expertise:

International relations theory, international political economy, North-South relations

Background:

Professor Sell received her B.A. in political science from Colorado College, her M.A. in political science from the University of California - Santa Barbara, and her Ph.D. from the University of California - Berkeley.

Professor Sell offers graduate courses in international political economy, and international relations theory. She also offers an undergraduate international political economy course.

Her publications include: "Intellectual Property and the Doha Round" in The WTO after Hong Kong: Progress In, and Prospects For, the Doha Development Agenda, eds. Donna Lee and Rorden Wilkinson (Routledge, 2007); "International Institutions, Intellectual Property an the HIV/AIDS Pandemic" in HIV/AIDS and the Threat to National Security, eds. Robert Ostergaard and Jim Whitman (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2007); Intellectual Property Rights: A Critical History, with Christopher May (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006); "Reframing the Issue: the WTO Coalition on Intellectual Property and Public Health 2001", with John Odell, in Negotiating Trade: Developing Countries in the WTO and NAFTA, ed. John Odell (Cambridge University Press, 2006); and Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2003; published by China Renmin University Press, 2007).

Courses Taught:

PSc 139 International Political Economy
PSc 140 Theories of International Politics
Psc 192 The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights
PSc 239 International Political Economy
PSc 240 Theories of International Politics
PSc 241 Theories of International Politics

Last update: 10.24.07