Staff
Administration
The Curriculum does not have its own permanent faculty although it does have some fixed-term lecturers, occasionally drawn from the intelligence and practitioner communities. It is administered by the chair, and draws on the expertise of a wide and growing body of faculty in various disciplines across the college. Those faculty with significant and continuing interests in the Curriculum receive adjunct appointments and are listed here. Other faculty in the University with interests in peace and security related topics receive PWAD Affiliate Faculty appointments–also listed here. Finally, the chair is advised by a rotating Advisory Committee, also listed here.
Faculty:
| Name | Position | Research Interests |
| Navin Bapat | Chair of Curriculum, Professor, Political Science | Political competition among non-state actors; American foreign policy and transnational terrorism; the rise of extremism within insurgencies. |
| Dennis C. Blair | Knott Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Practice | US national security Issues, especially in Asia; US intelligence agencies and Department of Defense; East Asia political, energy and security issues; Japanese and Chinese defense developments; American energy security; offensive and defensive cyber operations. |
| Erinn Whitaker | Professor of the Practice | Intelligence analysis and US-Russia relations. |
| Bisa Williams | Professor of the Practice | the Sahel; peace and reconciliation; the Manigault papers. |
PWAD Staff:
| Name | Position | Contact Information |
| Shakierah Clark | Business Services Coordinator | shaclark@ad.unc.edu |
PWAD Adjunct Faculty:
| Name | Position | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Armitage |
Professor, English | Literature, Shakespeare and War |
| Joe Caddell (Bio) | Teaching Associate Professor, History, PWAD | Airpower; Seapower; Nuclear counter-proliferation; History of intelligence |
| Cori Dauber | Professor, Comm. Studies | Communication strategies of terrorist groups, especially their use of visual imagery |
| Stephen Gent | Associate Professor, Political Science | Conflict processes, particularly the role of third parties in international and civil conflicts |
| Joseph Glatthaar | Distinguished Professor, History | American military history; the Civil War |
| Karen Hagemann | Distinguished Professor, History | European military history; War and Gender |
| Klaus Larres | Distinguished Professor, History | U.S. and European foreign relations, globalization and global governance during the Cold War and currently. |
| Miguel La Serna | Associate Professor, History | Culture, memory, and political violence in twentieth-century Latin America; |
| Wayne Lee | Distinguished Professor, in the Department of History | World military history; violence; conquest and sovereignty; tribal war. |
| Hillary Edwards Lithgow | Teaching Associate Professor, English | Victorian and early Modernist British literature, as well as the literature of war from World War I to today. Contemporary literature of war, the military-civilian divide. |
| Michael Morgan | Associate Professor, History | Modern international history, especially the Cold War and human rights |
| Fred Naiden | Professor, History | Ancient military history; especially Greece and Macedonia |
| Patricia Sullivan | Associate Professor, Public Policy | Utility of military force as a policy instrument; the effects of foreign military aid |
PWAD Lecturers
| Name | Position | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| David Delaney | Teaching Assistant Professor, PWAD and UNC Law | International law and US National Security Policy |
| Shai Tamari | Professor of the Practice, PWAD | Conflict management; negotiation and mediation |
PWAD Affiliate Faculty
| Name | Position | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Penelope Abernathy | Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics | Strategy, Business Models and Measurement, Leadership, Women/Minorities in Leadership Roles |
| Peter Coclanis | Distinguished Professor of History; Director of the Global Research Institute | American, Southeast Asian and international economic and business history, especially the creation of integrated world markets for tropical and semi-tropical commodities, with a special emphasis on rice |
| Mark Crescenzi | Professor, Political Science | International Relations, International Conflict Processes and International Conflict Resolution and Management |
| Marisa Escolar | Assistant Professor of Italian | Literary representations of the Allied-Italian encounter in World War II |
| Scott Kirsch | Associate Professor, Geography | US geopolitics, especially in the Philippines and Asia/Pacific; post-conflict reconstruction; geographies of war and peace |
| Charles Kurzman | Professor, Sociology | Islamophobia; domestic extremism; Social Movements, Middle East and Islamic studies |
| Ted Leinbaugh | Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature | Literature and diplomacy, the transatlantic relationship, the EU, the Marshall Plan, and British diplomacy |
| Peter Redfield | Professor, Anthropology | Anthropology of Peace and War; Humanitarianism and Human Rights; Colonial History; Ethics, Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Experts |
| David H. Schanzer | Associate Professor of the Practice, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke |
Domestic Terrorism; International Relations and Terrorism; National Security; Terrorism |
| Yaron Shemer | Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies |
Israeli and Middle Eastern cinema and on Arab-Jews |
| Milada Vachudova | Associate Professor, Political Science |
Democratization of postcommunist Europe, the enlargement of the European Union, and the impact of international actors on domestic politics |
| Brett Whalen | Associate Professor of History | Research on the medieval church, the crusades, apocalypticsm |
| Nadia Yaqub | Professor of Asian Studies & Middle Eastern Studies |
Arab cultural texts, ranging from medieval literature to contemporary poetry, fiction, and cinema, especially Palestinian literature and visual culture |
Advisory Committee
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Major Matthew J. Angel | Executive Officer, North Carolina Piedmont Consortium | 962-3670 |
| Navin Bapat | Associate Professor, Political Science | 962-1438 |
| Peter Coclanis | Professor of History Associate Provost for International Affairs & Director |
843-6300 843-5111 |
| Cori Dauber | Associate Professor, Communication Studies | 962-4938 |
| Stephen Gent | Associate Professor, Political Science | 962-3044 |
| Andrew Hertel | Professor, Naval Science | 962-2074 |
| Dan Hurd | Professor, Military Science |
394-8666 |
| Klaus Larres | Professor, History Department | 962-8079 |
| Wayne Lee | Distinguished Professor, History Department | 962-3973 |
| Hilary Lithgow | Teaching Associate Professor, English | 962-0769 |
| Patricia Sullivan | Assistant Professor, Public Policy | 962-0666 |
| Lt. Col. Brie Vihlen | Professor, Aerospace Studies | 962-2074 |
| Jonathan Weiler | Global Studies | 962-0491 |