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Meet the Faculty

Meet the faculty who are taking a philosophical and ethical approach to today’s global challenges.

Department Chair

Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Professorial Lecturer and Department Chair, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

  kuraduse@american.edu

Research interests

  • Human rights
  • Social movements
  • Genocide 

Department Director of Graduate Studies

Research interests

  • U.S. foreign policy
  • Political media and communication
  • Political violence
  • Genocide

SIS Faculty

Research interests

  • Middle East
  • Islam
  • Nonviolence
  • Peace

Research interests

  • Human rights and international law
  • Democracy and democratic backsliding
  • Technology, AI, 헤라카지노 보증, and human rights

Research interests

  • Extractive industries and conflict
  • Countering violent extremism
  • Localizing peace
  • Art and post-war healing

Research interests

  • History of modern Europe
  • Ethnic policies, ethnic conflict, and genocide 

Research interests

  • Transitional justice
  • Refugees and forcible displacement 
  • Gender and conflict and peacebuilding

Research interests

  • Migration and forced displacement 
  • Transnational illicit economies
  • Mass incarceration 

Research interests

  • Human rights
  • Middle East politics
  • Political Islam

Research interests

  • International negotiation

CAS Faculty