Faculty Directory
Our distinguished faculty comprises leading scholars and policy practitioners who bring an impressive range of expertise and experience to the study and practice of international affairs. Use this directory to search for an Elliott School faculty member.
Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Matt Jenkins received his doctorate from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., in 2023, where he specialized in space policy.
Professorial Lecturer
Todd Johannessen retired from the Central Intelligence Agency after twenty-six years in analysis and operations where he covered a range of issues from Eastern
Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Joja specializes in European studies, transatlantic relations, and strategic studies.
Professor of English, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Theatre, Intl' Affairs, & East Asian Languages & Literatures; Co-director, Digital Humanities Institute & Taiwan Education & Research Program; affiliate faculty, Institute for Korean Studies
Public Interest Technology Scholar; affiliate, NSF Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society; race, Sinophone diaspora studies, cultural diplomacy
Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Jurkovic specializes in data analysis as part of research methods, as well as social injustice in international relations.
Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Kabra specializes in foreign affairs and diplomacy, public diplomacy and public affairs, Middle East and North Africa studies.
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Dr. Kaminsky specializes in macroeconomics, international finance, and monetary policy.
Professorial Lecturer
Xiaofei teaches courses on religions in East Asia, and her research focuses on gender, ethnicity, and Chinese religions in traditional and modern China.
Assistant Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Dr. Kansanga specializes in agriculture & sustainable food systems, political ecology, natural resource management, environment & health and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Dr. Kaplan specializes in global finance & development, Chinese foreign investment & development finance, and Latin American political economy.
Lecturer
Irina Karmanova is a Public Affairs Officer in the Bureau of Global Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Keidel specializes in economic instability, emerging economies, China, Japan, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Associate Professor of Public Policy & International Affairs
Dr. Kelsey specializes in renewable energy policy, the political economy of the environment, and international environmental negotiations, politics, and policy.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs; Director of the GW Human Services and Social Justice Program
Dr. Kelso specializes in historical and comparative sociology, ethnography, sociology of education, race and ethnicity, health and aging, and visual sociology.
Elmer Louis Kayser Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs
Dr. Kennedy specializes in the British empire, colonialism in Africa and India, and modern Britain.
Professor of Human and Organizational Learning and International Affairs
Dr. Khilji specializes in Asia, cross-cultural management, globalization and change, globalization and learning, gender, and emerging economies.
Professor Emerita of History and International Affairs
Dr. Khoury specializes in the history of the Middle East.
Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Kiamie specializes in political reform, nation-building, (de)liberalization, political retraditionalization, and Islamism in the Arab and Islamic worlds.
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures; Director of the Institute for Korean Studies; Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center
Dr. Kim specializes in Korean and East Asian history, with interests in law, emotions, affect, gender and sex.
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Affairs; Associate Director of the MA program in Security Policy Studies
Min Jung Kim is a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Affairs and the Associate Director of the MA program in Security Policy Studies in Elliott.
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
Dr. Kim specializes in Japanese and Korean domestic politics and foreign relations, Russian relations with East Asia, and East Asian foreign relations.
Professor Emerita of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs
Dr. Kim-Renaud specializes in Korean language and culture.