Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey 
, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
Emeritus Faculty
Maurice A. East
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
Dean of the Elliott School – 1985-1994
E-mail: meast@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Expertise: International politics, comparative foreign policy studies, foreign policies of small nations
Background: After earning his B.A. in political science at Colgate, Professor East received an M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. Previously he taught at the Graduate School of International Studies at Denver and at the University of Kentucky.
He has served as President of the International Studies Association and was Senior Fellow at the Strategic Concepts Development Center of the US Department of Defense. He received two Fulbright Awards to Norway and spent a year teaching and doing research in Uganda (1971-72) and New Zealand (1994-95). At the Elliott School, East taught courses on international politics theory, comparative foreign policy studies, and introductory world politics. His publications include Diplomacy and Developing Nations, Why Nations Act, The Analysis of International Politics, and numerous articles on small states' foreign policy-making.
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David Gow
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Expertise: Development theory, anthropology of development, culture and politics, politics of development, Latin America
Background: Before joining the Elliott School in September 1996, Professor Gow taught at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Prior to that he worked for FAO, the World Bank, World Resources Institute, and a private consulting company. During that period he was engaged in project design and evaluation, managed a large integrated rural development project in Congo, and conducted applied research on local organizations, project management and administration, and natural resource management.
At the Elliott School, he offered graduate courses on development theory, policy, and practice; and in the Anthropology Department, courses on the anthropology of development and Latin America. From 1996 to 2008, he directed the Elliott School's MA program in International Development Studies.
Charles Herber
Associate Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs
E-mail: cherber@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Germany, Europe, the Reformation
Peter P. Hill
Associate Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs
University Historian
Education: Ph.D., The George Washington University
Expertise: Diplomatic History
Mary A. Holman
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Education: Ph.D., The George Washington University
Expertise: Managerial economics, economic effects of the space program
Background: Professor Holman received her Ph.D. in
economics from The George Washington
University. She has been a Professorialor
Guest Lecturer at the Industrial College
of the Armed Forces, the National War
College, and the Naval School of Health
Sciences. She has been a consultant for
the Cost of Living Council, the National
Aeronautic and Space Administration,
and the Food and Drug Administration.
Her principal publications include: The
Political Economy of the Space Program (1974),
co-author of Price Theory and Its
Uses (1977), and "Demand", "Supply", "Elasticity",
and "Cobweb Theorem" in the Encyclopedia
of Economics (1992).
William R. Johnson
Associate Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Expertise: East Asia
Young C. Kim
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
E-mail: yckim@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Expertise: Japanese and Korean domestic politics and foreign relations, Russian relations with East Asia, and East Asian foreign relations
Ruth Marilyn Krulfeld
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, International Affairs, Human Sciences
E-mail: krulfeld@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise: Refugees, transnationalism, gender, Southeast Asia.
Background: Professor Krulfeld received her Ph.D. in
Anthropology from Yale University in
1974. She has taught at GW since 1964.
She was chair of the department of anthropology
and founder and first director of the
department's specialization in development.
Dr. Krulfeld conducted fieldwork on economic
and religious change on the Sasak of
Lombok, Indonesia (1960-62; 1993) . She
has also conducted fieldwork in Singapore,
Central America, and the Caribbean — and since 1981, on lowland Lao refugees
in the United States. Her current interests
include transnational migration, refugees,
gender, human rights, ethics, and methods.
She teaches courses on comparative values
and economic systems, nationalism and
ethnicity, with a field work component,
if at all possible. Dr. Krulfeld's recent
publications include: "Bridling
Leviathan: New Paradigms of Method and
Theory in Culture Change from Refugee
Studies and Related Issues of Power and
Empowerment" in Selected Papers
on Refugee Issues (II, 1993); Beyond
Boundaries: Selected Papers on Refugees
and Immigrants (1997), D. Baxter
and R. Krulfeld, co-editors.; Reconstructing
Lives, Recapturing Meaning: Refugee Identity,
Gender, and Culture Change (1994),
L.Camino and R. Krulfeld, co-editors; Power,
Ethics, and Human Rights: Anthropological
Studies of Refugee Research and Action (1998),
Ruth Krulfeld and Jeffrey MacDonald,
editors. During GW's commencement ceremony
in May, Dr. Krulfeld received The George
Washington University Award for 2000.
Davis Lin-Chuan Lee
Associate Professor Emeritus of Chinese and International Affairs
E-mail: davisgwu@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Georgetown University
Expertise: Chinese language and linguistics
Background: Professor Lee received his B.A. from Chung-Hsing University in Taiwan and
his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University. Before joining the Elliott
School in 1968, he served on the faculties of Yale University, the University
of Southern California, and summer schools of the NDEA Chinese Institute at
San Francisco State and Middlebury College in Vermont. At the Elliott School,
Lee offers undergraduate courses on Intensive Basic Chinese, Third-Year Chinese,
and Introduction to Chinese Linguistics. He teaches regularly at Chinese Teachers'
Workshops sponsored by the Washington Metropolitan Association of Chinese Schools.
His principal publications include Proverbs: Some Applications to the Teaching
of the Chinese Language; Code-Switching as a Verbal Strategy among Bilingual
Chinese; Readings in Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals (1999-2000); and Readings
in Chinese Newspapers (2001-2002).
John M. Logsdon
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
Address: 1957 E St., NW, Suite 403-O
E-mail: logsdon@gwu.edu
Phone: (202) 994-7248
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Expertise: Space policy and history
Background: John M. Logsdon is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He was the founder and from 1987-2008 Director of the Elliott School's Space Policy Institute. He began his faculty service at GW in 1970. Dr. Logsdon is the author of John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon (2010) and The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest (1970) and is general editor of the eight-volume series Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. He has written numerous articles and reports on space policy and history, and authored the basic article on "Space Exploration" for the most recent edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. Dr. Logsdon is a member of the Exploration Committee of the NASA Advisory Council. In 2003 he served as a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. From September 2008 through August 2009, Dr. Logsdon held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
Dorothy Moore
Professor Emeritus of Education and International Affairs
GSEHD 313
2134 G Street, N.W
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-7138
Fax: (202) 994-7207
E-mail: dmoore@gwu.edu
Education: Ed.D., American University
Expertise: International education
Ronald D.F. Palmer
Professor of the Practice of International Affairs
E-mail: palmer@gwu.edu
Education: M.A., Johns Hopkins University
Expertise: US foreign policy, Southeast Asia
Background: Ambassador Palmer graduated magna cum laude from Howard
University, was a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute
of Political Studies of the University of Bordeaux,
and obtained an M.A. from Johns Hopkins' School of
Advanced International Studies. Prior to coming to
GW, Palmer had a lengthy career in the US Foreign Service.
He was US Ambassador to Malaysia and Mauritius and
also served overseas in Indonesia, Denmark, and the
Philippines. At the Elliott School, he teaches courses
on US foreign policy since 1945 and problems and prospects
of Southeast Asia. He is the author of Building ASEAN:
20 Years of Southeast Asian Cooperation, and contributed "The
Southeast Asian Miracle" and "Southeast
Asia: The Information Age" to the Internet magazine American
Diplomacy.
Peter Reddaway
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
Room 412
1957 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-7099; home: (703) 448-9195
Fax: (202) 994-5436
E-mail: reddaway@gwu.edu
Education: B.A. and M.A., Cambridge University
Expertise: Politics and government of Russia and the other post-Soviet states, human rights, and rights of minorities.
Background: Professor Reddaway received his B.A. and M.A. degrees
from Cambridge University and did graduate work at
Harvard and Moscow Universities and the London School
of Economics and Political Science. Before joining
GW in January 1989, he taught at the London School
of Economics and then directed the Kennan Institute
for Advanced Russian Studies. At GW, he taught — until
his retirement in 2004 — courses on Soviet and post-Soviet
government and politics, and on human rights, and a
multi-disciplinary introduction to Russia and Eastern
Europe. His principal publications include Uncensored
Russia: The Human Rights Movement in the USSR (1972), Psychiatric
Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry is Used to Suppress Dissent (with
S. Bloch, 1977), Soviet Psychiatric Abuse (with
S. Bloch, 1984), Authority, Power and Policy in
the USSR (ed. with T.H. Rigby and A. Brown, 1980), The
Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against
Democracy (with D.Glinski, 2001), and The
Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin's Reform of Federal-Regional
Relations (with R. Orttung, vol. 1, 2003, vol.
2 due in 2004). Reddaway contributes articles and interviews
to the international media, and provides consultation
for government bodies concerned with foreign affairs.
Howard M. Sachar
Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs
9807 Hillridge Drive
Kensington, MD 20895
Telephone: (301) 942-7595
E-mail: sachar@gwu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise: Middle Eastern and European history
Background: Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and reared in Champaign,
Illinois, Professor Sachar received his undergraduate
education at Swarthmore College and took his M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees at Harvard. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, the American Historical Association and several
other learned societies and serves on a dozen scholarly
editorial boards and commissions. From 1961 to 1964,
he served as a founder-director of Brandeis University's
Jacob Hiatt Institute in Jerusalem. Sachar has contributed
to many scholarly journals and is the author of fourteen
books: The Course of Modern Jewish History, Aliyah, From
the Ends of the Earth, The Emergence of the
Middle East, Europe Leaves the Middle East, A
History of Israel, The Man on the Camel, Egypt
and Israel, Diaspora, A History of
Israel since the Yom Kippur War, A History
of the Jews in America, Farewell Espana and
Israel and Europe. He is also the editor-in-chief
of the 39-volume The Rise of Israel: A Documentary
History. Dr. Sachar has twice been the recipient
of the National Jewish Book Award. His writings have
been published in six languages.
Based in Washington, D.C., where he is a Professor of Modern History at The George Washington University, Sachar is a consultant and lecturer on Middle Eastern affairs for the United States Foreign Service Institute. Over the years he has been a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University and has guest lectured at some 150 other universities in the United States, Europe, South Africa, and Egypt. In 1996, Sachar was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion.
Burton Malcolm Sapin
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
George Stambuk
Professor Emeritus of International Affairs
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Jean-Francois Marie Thibault
Professor Emeritus of French and Human Sciences
E-mail: jft@gwu.edu
Education: J.D., University of Maryland
Expertise: French language and literature
Richard Yi-chang Yin
Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Email: yin@gwu.edu