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.
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Part-time and Adjunct Faculty
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Carlos Manuel Indacochea: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Indacochea is a native of Lima, Peru. Carlos Manuel Indacochea holds a
Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University (1993), an M.A. in
Political Science from GWU (1982), and a BA in the Social Sciences from the
Peruvian Catholic University (1978). Trained as a demographer, Indacochea
has worked some 25 years in policy and programmatic activities in reproductive
health. He has taught theory of development, research techniques, and political
history of Latin America in several US and Peruvian universities, and has
worked as a consultant for governments, NGOs, and international organizations.
Indacochea has also considerable expertise in Latin American military affairs
and the sociology of religion. Dr. Indacochea may be contacted at indacoch@gwu.edu.
Karl F. Inderfurth: Lecturer
Ambassador Inderfurth served as Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs (1997-2001), Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State for Global Humanitarian Demining (1997-98) and U.S. Representative for Special Political Affairs to the United Nations, with ambassadorial rank, where he also served as Deputy U.S. Representative on the U.N. Security Council (1993-1997). Ambassador Inderfurth has worked as a national security and Moscow Correspondent for ABC News (1981-91) and received an Emmy Award in 1983. He has also served on the staffs of the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees and the National Security Council. He co-authored Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council (2004), along with Professor Loch K. Johnson, and is a frequent op/ed contributor and commentator in the national media.
John Iskander: Professorial Lecturer
John Iskander is Chair of Near East and North Africa Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute. He was formerly a professor of Islamic Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. He received his BA from Santa Clara University in History and Political Science, an MA from UCLA in Islamic Studies, and a PhD from UC Santa Barbara in Religious Studies. His research focuses on issues of religious identity, especially on issues of what it means to be saintly and deviant in medieval and modern Islamic societies. He is also deeply interested in ways that modernity is reflected in ideas about proper religious action and identity in contemporary Islamicate societies. He can be reached at jiskander@gmail.com.
Roberto Iunes: Professorial Lecturer
Political Economy of Latin America will be taught by Dr. Roberto Iunes, who
has taught the course the last several years. Roberto Iunes is a Social Programs
Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank, where he has worked on
many topics related to health care and education systems. The course will
focus on the major issues that impact the definition and implementation of
social and economic policies in Latin America. The sessions will review the
theoretical/analytical framework that defines particular Latin social and
economic policies, but will emphasize policy-making and policy implementation.
Dr.Iunes may be contacted at robertoi@iadb.org
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