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.

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; Director of the International Science and Technology Policy (ISTP) MA Program
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; 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.

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.

Associate Research Professor of International Affairs; Associate Director of the Institute for Korean Studies
Dr. Kim specializes in North Korea’s mobile telecommunications and U.S. policy towards North Korea.