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.
Professor of Sociology, International Affairs, and Public Policy & Public Administration
Dr. Silver specializes in European Studies, migrant integration & inequality in Europe, social exclusion, homelessness, & poverty, & comparative urban studies.
Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Simsik specializes in international development, diplomacy, leadership, energy, food security, natural resource management, and biodiversity conservation.
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Dr. Sinclair specializes in macroeconomics and econometrics.
Lecturer
Barbara Slavin specializes in journalism with a focus on the Middle East and U.S.-Iran relations.
Professor of Economics and International Affairs; Chair of the Economics Department
Dr. Smith specializes in development economics and poverty, the economics of participation, and the economics of organization.
Professorial Lecturer
Petrach Fellow at IERES. Specializes in political theology, modern Greek and Slavic Orthodoxy, religious nationalism and peacebuilding.
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Snyder specializes in fluid mechanics, thermal science and energy, mechanical engineering, and propulsion.
Research Professor of International Affairs
Dr. Spear specializes in the history of the int'l arms trade, US & UK arms export controls, disarmament, demobilization & reintegration, security & development.
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Spector specializes in Asia, 20th-century United States, the Cold War, and military history.
Professor of International Business and International Affairs
Dr. Spencer specializes in firm strategies, cross-national differences in firms’ capabilities, entrepreneurship, and new industry emergence.
Lecturer
Dan Spokojny is the founder and CEO of fp21, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to transforming the processes and institutions of U.S. foreign policy
Research Professor of International Affairs
Expertise in nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, nuclear proliferation, national security and foreign policy.
Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs
Dr. Steele specializes in the history, ideology & practices of journalism, journalism in Southeast Asia, narrative journalism, & media in the developing world.
Associate Professor of German and International Affairs
Dr. Stein specializes in German studies with a focus on literature and culture, folklore.
Professor of Law and International Affairs; Arthur Selwyn Miller Research Professor of Law
Ralph Steinhardt specializes in international law, human rights, conflicts of laws, international civil litigation, and international business transactions.
Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Straub specializes in U.S. national security, U.S. defense strategy, civil-military and international relations, philosophy, and military & naval science.
Associate Professor of International Education and International Affairs
Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Dr. Streletskiy specializes in climatic variability & change, Arctic environment, permafrost & glaciology, geomorphology, spatial statistics & GIS, and Russia.
Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Dr. Suranovic specializes in international trade, trade fairness, China's economy, and the economics of addiction.
Professor of Practice of International Affairs
Dr. Sutter specializes in US-China relations, Chinese foreign relations, US policy toward Asia & the Pacific, history of China & Japan, and US foreign policy.
Professor and Department Chair of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering
Dr. Szajnfarber specializes in R&D management, space policy, space systems design, innovation and organizations.
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
David Szakonyi is Associate Professor of Political Science at GWU, co-Director of PONARS Eurasia, and co-founder of the Anti-Corruption Data Collective.