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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Michael Wasserman: Lecturer
He can be reached at mwasser@gwu.edu.
Paul A. Wee: Professorial Lecturer
Paul Wee received his B.A. from Harvard University, a Masters of Divinity degree from Luther Seminary and a Ph.D., magna cum laude, in Philosophy and Social Science from the University of Berlin. He has worked in eastern and central Europe, primarily with faith-based communities, during the communist period and was a member of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Oxford. From 1986 to 1993 he was assistant general secretary for International Affairs and Human Rights of the Geneva-based Lutheran World Federation. During that period, he worked closely with the World Jewish Congress, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. He has been active in the area of conflict resolution, having initiated talks between four armed opposition groups and the Government of Guatemala that resulted in the Oslo Accords of 1990, and was a member of the UN Observer Mission to South Africa (UNOMSA), which provided oversight of the first democratic election in that country. He may be contacted at pwee@gwu.edu.
Marvin G. Weinbaum: Professorial Lecturer
Professor Weinbaum is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC. He is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served for fifteen years as the director of the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Weinbaum served as an analyst for Pakistan and Afghanistan in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 1999 to 2003. He was a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 1996-97 and was awarded Fulbright Research Fellowships for Egypt in 1981-82 and Afghanistan in 1989-90. Professor Weinbaum has his doctorate from Columbia University in 1965. He is the author of six books and many articles. His research, teaching, and consultancies have focused on the issues of national security, state building, democratization, and political economy. He may be contacted at weinbaum@speakeasy.net.
Cory Welt: Professorial Lecturer
Cory Welt is Associate Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott School of International Affairs.
At IERES, he co-directs the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia) and teaches courses on post-Soviet Eurasian politics and security. He has written several articles on conflict resolution, transborder security, and political change, including for Europe-Asia Studies, Demokratizatsiya, and The Nonproliferation Review, and contributed book chapters to The Birth of Modern Georgia (Jones, forthcoming), Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World (Bunce, McFaul, Stoner-Weiss, eds., Cambridge University Press) and America and the World in the Age of Terror (Benjamin, ed., CSIS Press). Dr. Welt was previously associate director (2007-2009) and director (2009) of the Eurasian Strategy Project at Georgetown University, where he continues to teach as an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Foreign Service, and deputy director and fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (2003-2007). He received his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004) and his B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University (1995). He can be reached at cwelt@gwu.edu
Web: http://home.gwu.edu/~cwelt
Jon A. Wiant: Professorial Lecturer
Prof. Wiant can be reached at wiantjc@earthlink.net.
Amb. Ross Wilson: Lecturer
Ross Wilson is the Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council of the United States. He completed nearly three decades in the US Foreign Service in December 2008, including six years as American ambassador to Turkey in 2005-08 and Azerbaijan in 2000-03. Elsewhere overseas, he served at the US embassies in Moscow and Prague and was American Consul General in Melbourne, Australia.
In Washington, Amb. Wilson served as Chief of Staff for Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick in 2005. He was Chief US Negotiator for the Free Trade Area of the Americas while on detail to the Office of the US Trade Representative in 2003-2005. In 1997-2000, Ambassador Wilson served as Principal Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States (of the former Soviet Union). He was Deputy Executive Secretary of the State Department in 1992-94, managing the policy process for Secretaries of State Lawrence Eagleburger and Warren Christopher, and before that was an aide to State Department Counselor and Undersecretary Zoellick.
A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ambassador Wilson received a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and master's degrees from Columbia University and the US National War College. While in the diplomatic service, he won the President's Meritorious Service Award, as well as numerous Department of State awards and honors. He serves as chairman of the board of the Institute of Turkish Studies and is a member of the Academy of American Diplomacy, the American Foreign Service Association, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) and the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs.
Email: wilsonrl@gwu.edu
Lawrence Woocher: Lecturer
Email: lwoocher@gwu.edu
John D. Woodward, Jr.:
During his years of government service and through his public policy work, John has gained extensive experience related to national security, technology policy, intelligence, and counterterrorism issues. From July 2005 to November 2006, he was the Associate Director of RAND Corporation's Intelligence Policy Center, where he helped oversee, manage, and develop RAND's work for the nation's intelligence community. From October 2003 to July 2005, John served as Director of the U.S. Department of Defense Biometrics Management Office, and from 2000 to 2003, as a RAND senior policy analyst. Prior to that, he clerked for a federal judge, practiced law, and worked at several U.S. embassies. He has testified about national security and technology policy before Congress, the Commission on Online Child Protection, and the Virginia State Crime Commission. His publications include Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age, (McGraw-Hill, 2003), used by several universities, and his many articles have appeared in various journals and newspapers. John received his Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He was a Thouron Scholar at the London School of Economics, where he earned an M.S. in Economics. He received his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Email: woodrdj@gwu.edu
Catherine Woytowicz: Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Woytowicz received her PhD in Chemistry from The University of California at Riverside. She has since then taught chemistry, forensic science, policy and writing courses. Additionally, she has served as an American Chemical Society Science Policy Fellow and an AAAS Fellow. Dr. Woytowicz may be contacted at drcat@gwu.edu.
Jessica Wyndham: Jessica Wyndham is an expert in human rights and humanitarian law. Her main interest is in the practical application of international human rights and humanitarian standards particularly in relation to internal displacement, as well as human rights standards concerning terrorism, torture, and the death penalty. She has worked extensively with governments, NGOs, national human rights institutions and international organizations throughout Asia, the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, including in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Fiji. She has served as Legal Adviser to the Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ecuador, and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions. She is currently Project Director for the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ms. Wyndham holds an LLB (Hons.) (J.D. equivalent) from the Australian National University.
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