Faculty

Eric Abitbol Adjunct Professorial Lect SIS-School of Intl Service

Eric Abitbol is an academic-practitioner in the field of environmental peacebuilding, housed in IPCR (International Peace and Conflict Resolution) and GEP (Global Environmental Politics) at American U…

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Jeff Bachman Associate Professor SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

Jeff Bachman is an Associate Professor with a focus on genocide, political violence, and human rights. He is also the Director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ International Relations Society. Additionally,…

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Robin Broad Research Professor-in-Residence SIS | Finance & Personnel Administration

Dr. Robin Broad, Professor of International Development, established and heads SIS’s International Development Program’s two unique professional tracks: Rethinking Globalization & Development, and Env…

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Ìý (202) 885-1478

Kelso Cratsley Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Philosophy/Religion

Kelso Cratsley teaches courses in bioethics, neuroethics, and logic, and his research focuses on issues in – and often at the intersection of – bioethics, mental health, and global health. He has prev…

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Ìý (202) 885-2981

Daniel Esser Associate Professor SIS | Global Inquiry

Ellen Feder Professor CAS | Philosophy/Religion

Ellen K. Feder is the William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Social Policy. She works at the intersection of contemporary continental philosophy and feminist and critical race theory, par…

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Ìý (202) 885-2931

Gershon Greenberg Professor CAS | Philosophy/Religion

Gershon Greenberg is the author of three definitive bibliographies of religious thought and the Holocaust, and numerous articles on German-Jewish philosophy, history of Jewish thought in America and r…

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Ìý (202) 885-2912

Hrach Gregorian Practitioner-in-Residence SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

Hrach Gregorian is the MA International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program Director at the School of International Service, Â鶹ÊÓƵ. He is a Strategic Partner at the Washington-based IN…

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Julie Mertus Professor SIS-School of Intl Service

Professor Julie Mertus has written widely on human rights and gender, conflict, the Balkans, U.S. foreign policy and U.N. institutions. She is the author or editor of ten books, including Bait and …

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Ìý (202) 885-2215

Shadi Mokhtari Assistant Professor SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

Shadi Mokhtari teaches at the School of International Service at Â鶹ÊÓƵ in Washington D.C., where she focuses on the politics of human rights, political change in the Middle East, and pol…

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Martyn Oliver Faculty Chair, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Core CAS | Critical RGC Studies

Martyn was born and raised in southern Minnesota. In addition to Washington State and Boston, his studies also took him to Scotland, Lebanon, Austria, and Morocco. His work explores the construction o…

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Ìý (202) 885-2943

Amy Oliver Associate Professor Emerita

Professor Oliver's teaching and research on Latin America explore philosophical topics such as marginality, feminism, nepantlismo, and transfronterismo. She works on the Hispanic ess…

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Jin Y Park Professor and Department Chair, Philosophy & Religion CAS | Philosophy/Religion

Jin Y. Park is a Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy and Religion at Â鶹ÊÓƵ. She also served as the Founding Director of the Asian Studies Program from 2013 to 2020. Park special…

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Ìý (202) 885-2919

Mike Schroeder Senior Professorial Lecturer SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics

Michael Schroeder is Senior Professorial Lecturer and Associate Dean for Graduate Education at the School of International Service. He previously served as the director of the school's Global Governan…

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Ìý (202) 885-1664

Susan Shepler Associate Professor SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

Susan Shepler is an anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in conflict-affected West Africa. Her research focus is understanding how local communities engage with international interve…

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Lauren Weis Sr Professorial Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy CAS | Philosophy/Religion

I earned a PhD in Philosophy from Boston College specializing in Continental and History of Philosophy with a focus on ethics, metaphysics and epistemology, gender studies and feminist theory. Since j…

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